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  US. Welcome, welcome, welcome,
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  ladies and gentlemen, you are back at it.
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  We are back at it again here on this grand July 10th, 2025.
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  MJ is still not with us. You know, she she's still
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  licking her wounds from her dog passing away and just just just
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  a lot of things going on. So have Amber, the the beautiful
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  Amber sitting in her place today.
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  And yeah, you know, I told Amber, I'm like, hey, you know,
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  we need to, we need to come up with a what the.
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  And we need to come up with this and we need to come up with that
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  and. A couple of minutes before she.
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  Right. We're we're going to work on it.
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  But yeah, Amber, Amber has been told that she's going to be
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  sued. So we're going to we're going to
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  jump into that, you know, a little later on today.
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  So today is going to be, you know, we usually suggest you
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  drink coffee watching the show. Today we'll be drinking Twisted.
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  Tea so. Top three stories that we need
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  to know and if you didn't know, you're listening to the ACE
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  Train show where since 2015 we've been showing veterans and
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  our men and women in uniform all over the world that there are
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  more programs out there beyond the VA.
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  My name's Ace Train and Amber from the popular show here on
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  MBR into the weeds, which let's not forget, you can meet her,
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  you can talk to her. You can see her September 5th.
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  I I think it's like what? Like con Expo?
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  What, what is it called? Crime Con from 5th Con.
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  Crime con Sammy Swanson I was way off OK, so you can you can
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  meet her and the lovely Alaura. They're going to be here
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  broadcasting September 5th. So circle that date.
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  Don't forget it. You know, since we last left
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  off, we'll we'll go into review and let you know that the
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  skydiving, it was successful. You know, it probably would have
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  because they were big networks that requested, you know, hey,
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  you got, you know, you got media stuff, pictures, videos.
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  Evidently our pictures came out a little bit better than the
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  video. So that's the reason why I
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  didn't run, you know, and we got to remember that, you know,
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  everybody here at this station, it is, is learning.
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  We're not perfect, you know, we, we we've learned how to bandage
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  it by, oh, you can't hardly hear the person talking.
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  OK, well, we're just going to use it as B roll and and use a
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  song. And so that's what we did.
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  But, you know, even though it didn't give the coverage that we
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  wanted it to give it, it changed lives.
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  You can tell that it changed lives once they were done.
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  And let me, let me just say that, you know, here at MBR, we,
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  we really do push the narrative that, you know, we appreciate
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  veterans and we appreciate their service.
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  You know, they need to be proud. But one thing that we don't push
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  enough is firefighters and police and EMTs, paramedics, you
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  know, just remember that those are essential jobs and that if
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  we don't have those going every single day at a high velocity,
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  we will be losing as a society. So including them into something
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  like we did skydiving is really important.
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  Maybe not for us, maybe not for, you know, fundraising because we
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  didn't raise that many funds, but it was important to them.
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  And you know that that that was the impact.
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  That was the impact. You know, we we had some great
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  interviews, you know, that the Heather where she was talking
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  about how, you know, they went into a house.
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  I mean, Can you imagine that you walking into a house, you
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  already got fire, you already got smoke, you know, and the
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  next thing you know, bam, the floor caves in right under you,
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  you fall into the basement. And you know, any one of us
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  would be like, oh, oh, I heard. But you sometimes you can't do
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  that. You have to snap into action.
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  You do where it becomes worse. And I'm glad that we got to spot
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  like that so many times. We we hear about it, we see it,
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  but we don't fully understand the stories and stuff that they
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  go through. That's how we learn to
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  appreciate them. Yeah, I've personally been in a
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  house fire where somebody actually had to come in and
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  rescue me. So I understand the gratitude or
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  the the gravity of the situation, you know, And it was
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  actually my cousin who was staying the night who ran in and
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  saved three of us, actually four of us.
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  Wow. Well, I just know that you know
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  that we was going to we, we, we was going to partner with
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  another organization for the skydiving.
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  And that was the only reason why we did it was because we wanted
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  to include the the first responders and our mission is
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  accomplished. Now our next mission is licking
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  our wounds and and trying to raise some of the phones and
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  stuff back so that we can pay some bills.
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  So if at any time that you'd like to go to MBR and you would
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  donate, feel free to donate the the winner.
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  The winner of the highest donation still gets the the
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  beaker bobblehead. So keep in mind that is still up
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  for grabs. Do you have an example of it?
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  You know, I don't, it's at the studio, it's at the, it's at the
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  MBR studio. Three things that I do want to
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  bring up before we get into the three top stories for the day.
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  This Saturday we will be doing another remote at the Douglas
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  County Fairground for American Military Family.
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  We'll be doing that. Cassie will be selling her, her,
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  her, her coloring books as well. We're going to be playing
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  fifties, 60s music. If you have a bike, if you have
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  a a truck or a car, it is a car show.
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  They're going to be giving lots of prizes out.
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  They're going to be giving lots of trophies out and you know, of
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  course we'll be giving out our little mini uniform ducks.
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  I can assure you, whenever you see the MBR emblem, whenever
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  we're in anywhere, you can be assured that we're going to be
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  giving out ducks. We're going to be giving out
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  ducks. And I want to make, I want to,
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  I, I just want to re emphasize this everybody that, you know,
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  the reason why we get those ducks is so that veterans and
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  other people, they can look at that duck and they can think
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  themselves, OK, I can really weather through the storm.
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  You know, nothing that's so bad that you can't weather through
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  your, your life might feel like it's ending right at that last
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  second. And then you look at that duck
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  and you're like, hold up. You know what the it's going to
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  be better on the week up, you know, let, let that, let that
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  pain, let that crying, let all that bad juju, you know, go over
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  your head like water on a duck's head.
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  OK, water a duck's back. Yeah, Yeah, there we go.
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  That, that sounds better. That sounds better.
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  OK. And then the 19th, we'll be also
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  doing a remote. I'll get that location.
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  It's at a soccer convention. What, what whatever that is.
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  I, I'm not really into soccer, but you know, it's going to be,
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  it's going to be a fun time. Hollywood is going to be there
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  as well. Also on August 6th, we have, we
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  have a golf outing, celebrity golf outing.
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  Some of the selected Colorado veterans are going to be playing
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  golf with the Denver Broncos, the Denver Nuggets and the
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  Avalanche. So that's going to be, that's
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  going to be good times as well. I talked to Stokely last week,
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  the Denver Broncos meet and greet.
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  It's not going to happen this year.
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  And one of the reasons why it's not going to happen this year is
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  because they're doing some kind of construction over at Dove
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  Valley. I think they're anticipating on
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  building a brand new stadium. And because they're building a
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  brand new stadium, it's just going to be really chaotic.
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  So they chose not to do that this year.
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  And that's OK. That's that's that's fine.
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  In the end. Then they're not going to do it
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  this year. We are going to do something in
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  place of that. I don't know what we're going to
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  do. Hell, I don't know, maybe we
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  might go paint, gunning or horseback ride.
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  We're going to do something, damn it.
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  We're going to do something. And just so everybody knows, if
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  you're in the Denver area, you're more than welcome to come
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  by to the studio and join us every Wednesday and every Friday
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  broadcast. You know, it's a, it's a good
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  thing. We had a lot of shows this week
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  that didn't air that didn't go live.
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  And one of the one of those one of the reasons why they didn't
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  go live. And we want to give our hearts
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  and our prayers out to all those folks in Texas with the raising
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  crisis that is going on there. You got a crisis in Texas and
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  then you got a crisis in Philadelphia, which they just,
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  they just briefed everybody that in Philadelphia, the trash will
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  resume starting Monday. You know, so that's, that's,
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  that's what's going around in the neck of the woods.
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  You know what we're going to do? We're going to go on.
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  But before I go on a commercial break, commercial break, I'm
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  sitting here rambling on. Amber, tell us, tell us what
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  what's going on? Anything new, anything that you
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  want to update anybody on? I know that you and Charles just
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  got back from a vacation and. Yeah, we went to Eureka Springs
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  and we took the bike out there, so it was a nice ride and we we
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  hung out at the Crescent Hotel for a little while.
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  It's considered America's most haunted hotel and didn't see
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  anything, although I did have multiple experiences going into
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  the bathroom. When you step up into the
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  women's bathroom, there's this odd smell, and it's not a normal
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  bathroom odd smell. Oh, it's not cookies, OK.
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  And it took me like 4 times going in there to figure out
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  what it was. But when you step up on the step
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  to get into the women's restroom, it smells like a man's
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  breath. You have to walk through the
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  smell of a man's breath. And it took me a long time, you
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  know, four tries going in there to figure out what it was.
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  But yeah, that's the only weird thing I experienced there.
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  A man's breath. Yes.
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  Evidently he wasn't wearing that Cologne on TikTok.
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  Oh my God, you know, I, I tell you what, I, I, I really did.
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  I used to love TikTok. So I guess by I think they said
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  August 9th, by August 9th, there's going to be a new TikTok
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  app. It's going to be US and it's
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  called, you know, and The thing is, is you can't, you can't redo
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  TikTok. The key thing about TikTok was
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  the algorithm. It's been over a year now.
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  And I think we all can agree TikTok is not the same as it
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  used to be before that blackout that, that, that server change
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  that night. So they're, they're really
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  trying to, they're really trying to increase in the TikTok.
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  And you know, every time I look at TikTok, I, I, I feel like I'm
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  QVC, you know, I feel like I'm on my Home Shopping Network
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  because it's literally all it is anymore.
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  But go ahead. I was just going to say for a
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  while I did not like TikTok but recently I've gotten on native
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  TikTok and I'm starting to get all the Native American tik toks
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  and they are so hilarious. I mean, if you understand native
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  humor, it is amazing. Some of these creators are doing
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  a really great job. Well, I tell you what, when we
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  come back, we're going to get into the three top stories
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  today. We're also going to see if we
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  can bring up that video that Amber was talking about.
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  But until then, we're going to go on a music break.
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  And when we come back, we'll, we'll reconvene that music
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  break. Brand new song that just came
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  out Thursday night, 12 midnight on Friday, right before the
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  skydiving. And I tell you what, what a
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  beautiful song to play during the skydiving.
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  Ladies and gentlemen, it is die tired, fall forever.
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  The web at MB radio dot. Welcome back, ladies and
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  gentlemen. Again, you're listening to the
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  show, the highlights, all the nonprofit programs out there
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  beyond the VA. You're listening to the H
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  Strange show. And sitting in for MJ today is a
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  beautiful amber. Amber, I tell you what, we are
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  going to go right into the three things that we need to know
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  today, and then we're going to go into the what the segment.
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  So here we go. Ladies and gentlemen, the three
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  top stories that we need to know is the Ukraine war exhibition.
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  Imagine that so Ukraine president Zelenskyi accused
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  Russia of pure terrorism following recent Russian air
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  strikes targeting military sites near Kaiv.
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  Also, humanitarian crisis in Gaza, multiple overnight Israel
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  strikes in Gaza reportedly killed around 20 people,
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  including children, overwhelming local hospital and aid workers.
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  So much for the ceasefire. Global tariffs tension.
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  Trump has initiated 50% tariffs on the Brazilian copper and
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  other goods, prompting strong push back from trade and popular
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  circle. So those, those tariffs and all
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  that stuff that that's, that's not going away anytime soon.
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  Sports update. Just so you guys know, I mean,
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  Major League Baseball is in the air today.
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  The Mets go against the Orioles, Cubs go against the Twins, Mets
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  go against the Orioles. So it looks like it's a double
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  header Marlin against the Reds and then the Marine the, the,
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  the Mariners against the Yankees.
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  So MLB games underway today. Also catching eyes.
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  Novak Djokovic, I can't pronounce his name.
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  Sorry about that. He has reached the Wimbledon
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  semifinals and Red Bull recently dismissed F1 team principal
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  Christian Horner. So those are just some of the
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  the you know, the news updates that's going on and we are going
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  to we're going to, we're going to let me download this little
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  video thing or whatever so that we can play it.
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  Now before we go into this video when we play it, Amber, how
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  about you kind of explain what what you guys have been doing
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  for the last couple of months and how did this come to play
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  before we play this video? Yeah, so I fell into discussing
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  the Gypsy Rose Blanchard case only because my cousin was
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  incarcerated with her. My cousin is still incarcerated
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  for 25 years for drug charges. And so initially we started, my
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  cousin and I started praying for Gypsy because we thought all of
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  the stuff that had come out about her being medically abused
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  was real. And come to find out she's she's
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  literally sick. She was born with a
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  microdeletion and that's the reason why she had all the
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  surgeries and it took up until 2011 for her to be a diagnosed
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  with this microdeletion. So anyways, I started collecting
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  FOIA requests because I am a history nerd and I I ended up
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  actually. For the typical person that has
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  no idea what the FOIA request is, is basically a police
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  record. Yeah, Freedom of Information
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  Act, So any public records. And then if you go to the DOC,
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  it's called the Sunshine Law. So the Department of
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  Corrections. So depending on what agency
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  you're you're dealing with, it's either the Freedom of
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  Information Act or the Sunshine Law.
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  And in some states, I think New York, it's called FOIL, Freedom
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  of Information law or something like that.
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  So anyways, I started collecting all of this stuff for history
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  purposes because I wanted to actually put together something
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  for the Historical Society for the state of Missouri.
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  So I started collecting all these and I sent them out to a
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  bunch of people and then I eventually created a Google
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  Drive. So if you go to my my channel
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  Into the Weeds podcast and you go to my community tab, there's
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  a whole Google Drive with all of the documents from Gypsy Rose
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  Blanchard case, her DOC file, Nicholas, go to John's DOC file,
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  bunch of stuff. So a woman in Britain actually
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  did her own FOIA request wanting the emails and the phone records
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  for Gypsy while she was incarcerated.
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  So she sent the foyer request in about seven months ago, and
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  they're supposed to get back to you in a timely manner, 30 days,
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  I think. I can't.
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  Don't quote me on on the specifics of the time frame, but
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  they didn't adhere to the time frame.
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  So she started asking questions here in Missouri and she ended
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  up going all the way to Andrew Bailey, who is the attorney
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  general here in Missouri, to get Gypsy's emails released and she
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  sent them over to me to go over. OK.
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  So Alora and I and our friend 1980 millennial commentates, go
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  check her out on YouTube. She we have been going through
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  all of Gypsy's emails from prison the last few days.
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  So there's a lot of Nuggets coming out.
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  But what happened is, is somebody who is a Gypsy Rose
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  supporter got really upset. And while I was live one day,
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  they started spamming the chat saying that I was being sued and
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  that the DOC was going to call me.
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  And I was in big trouble. And the man that I'm dealing
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  with with the DOC had already got his own attorney and
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  everything. He's a public servant.
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  He can't sue me. These are all public records.
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  Gypsy was a warden, a ward of the state when she was
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  incarcerated. So everything she did is public
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  record. So that's that's where this
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  comes from. People are trying to sue me or
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  saying that people are trying to sue me because I'm going over
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  this information. And Charles with his last name
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  is very, very equal to Amber's. I don't know why, but by no
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  means is information free, unfortunately.
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  And that's, that's, that's, that's the honest God truth too.
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  That's the honest God truth. You know, I always say that if
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  it's free, it's a headache. And if you, if you have to pay
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  for it, then it, it's not as much as a headache.
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  Just something to think about, you know, especially when you're
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  going through programs and stuff.
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  But ladies and gentlemen, now that she's explained it, it is
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  that time. It is the what the segment.
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  They're cool tats man. For real thank you bro you.
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  See the cobra And what is this 10?
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  This. That's my credo.
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  No regrets. You have no regrets, Dad.
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  No. Like, not even a single letter.
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  No way. Not me.
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  I love him. I think he's great.
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  I think he's a real winner. Casey, if I were you, I wouldn't
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  use protection. All right in here is the video.
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  Don't see I I don't see any like volume or anything.
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  So whatever I saved it didn't work.
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  Oh yeah, OK, go ahead. That's not.
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  That's not the one. Oh well, shit, OK.
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  No, you're fine. It's fine.
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  So all the video says is it's, it's a screenshot of my chat the
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  other day when people were threatening me to that I was
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  being sued. So, oh, OK, All right.
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  Well, that so it's not really a video, it's just a kind of a
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  screenshot. Yeah, I just, you asked me to
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  find a drop the mic segment and I'm like, well, I mean, I no,
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  no, no, you're you're right. But I've spent months compiling
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  a full archive of emails, prison records, disciplinary reports,
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  I've got it all in a Google Drive.
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  And I've adhered to the the Sunshine Law and the Freedom of
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  Information Act. So that was just my way of
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  saying, you know, you guys are trying to intimidate me, but I,
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  I, I'm already covered. I know what I'm doing.
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  They were. Trying to.
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  They were trying to get me to quit talking about Gypsy, and I
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  don't really talk about Gypsy. I only present information.
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  Have you see you you really need to have Gypsy Rose on your show
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  one time talk about, you know all this to see what what's on
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  her mind. But of all people, she hasn't
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  even reached out to you yet. No, no, I have never been
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  reached out by any of her people.
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  So, you know, I, I'm just bringing the facts out and
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  people run with it, you know, So I don't know, I don't think she
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  would ever want to come on and I don't really feel comfortable
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  asking her to come on because I've already released so much
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  information about her. Yeah, it would be kind of an
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  awkward situation. Yeah, yeah.
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  No, that, that, that, that makes total sense.
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  That makes total sense. Just so everybody knows, not
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  really a great segue, but you know, the weather here in
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  Denver, Co, it's today it's 92°. It's it's hot here in Colorado.
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  Hot hot tub today it's 92, Friday it's 88, Saturday it's
• 33:42
  83. You know, the lowest that we're
• 33:45
  getting to and it's not even that low is 65°.
• 33:50
  So it's, it's pretty warm here in Colorado.
• 33:55
  Also some crisis updates, Middle East conflict, in addition to
• 34:01
  the Gaza situation, there are growing tensions amid Israel,
• 34:07
  Palestina and the violence. And, you know, I've, I've, I've,
• 34:12
  I've, I've seen two or three countries nominate Trump for
• 34:17
  peacekeeping and, or for a Nobel Prize.
• 34:20
  And it's like, what, you, you haven't done anything.
• 34:24
  Yeah. I mean fighting, you know,
• 34:27
  they're still fighting. And, and we're rounding up and
• 34:30
  we're rounding up people that are U.S. citizens.
• 34:34
  Yeah, you know, I mean, the, the, no matter how you feel
• 34:41
  about it, it just it, it, it, it's the current situation that
• 34:46
  there's a lot of people describing ICE as like, you
• 34:50
  know, the whole Nazi thing that happened in Germany with the
• 34:53
  Jews and stuff. Yeah.
• 34:56
  I, I, I think that it's a little, you know, it's a little
• 35:00
  far fetched, but I can also understand where they're coming
• 35:04
  from you. Know well, I mean, if anything
• 35:07
  it might be similar to the the internment camps that we had for
• 35:11
  the Japanese here during World War 2.
• 35:14
  Yeah. And, you know, they they were
• 35:17
  talking to Trump yesterday about, you know, all these
• 35:23
  things that are that are going on.
• 35:26
  You know, and of course, this administration has had a lot of
• 35:29
  wins and has had a lot of losers.
• 35:31
  And, you know, I've never seen like Trump supporters have
• 35:38
  really took a step back after they were asking about the
• 35:44
  Epstein's list. And, you know, they, they, they,
• 35:48
  we've heard about it through the whole campaign.
• 35:51
  Hey, when I become president, I'm going to I'm going to
• 35:54
  release this and I'm going to release that, and I'm going to
• 35:56
  release this. And now, and now Trump even said
• 36:00
  himself yesterday, he's like, I don't know why we're still
• 36:03
  talking about, well, we're still talking about it because there's
• 36:06
  still people upset. Just because it's not a high
• 36:09
  priority on your list doesn't mean that it's not a high
• 36:12
  priority priority on other people's list.
• 36:16
  And that's the thing. It doesn't matter what you think
• 36:19
  as a president on your, you know, your priorities, OK?
• 36:24
  It matters what other people think.
• 36:27
  And you know, this, this isn't going away.
• 36:30
  There's a lot of people outraged.
• 36:32
  And I find that people that have kids are way more outraged than
• 36:38
  people that don't have kids. And I mean, that's just the
• 36:42
  truth of the matter. Because like, I wasn't I, you
• 36:45
  know, I, I didn't care until a, a certain point.
• 36:50
  And then, you know, my, my best friend has a, a daughter that,
• 36:57
  you know, every time she does anything, I, I, I sponsor her.
• 37:00
  But if, if something ever happened to Taylor, I, I, I
• 37:04
  would go to jail. Let me tell you because you
• 37:08
  know, these kids, they deserve, they deserve a, a good child's
• 37:14
  life and they don't need any adults taking that from them.
• 37:19
  And that's, that's where that's where we're at today.
• 37:23
  And it's not going to go away. And there's a lot of people that
• 37:26
  supported Trump and they're, they're kind of backpedaling now
• 37:30
  because of this whole Epstein list.
• 37:33
  You know, like if you're going to, if you're going to release
• 37:37
  the JFK files or the MLK files, you need to, you need to release
• 37:43
  a step even even. And this is a strong statement,
• 37:47
  even if you're implicated in any of that, because that is what
• 37:53
  you, that's what you probably, I don't care if I don't care if
• 37:56
  big names are on it or not. You promised it.
• 38:01
  You said you was going to do it. Now you need to make it on.
• 38:04
  But The thing is, I don't think he's going to do it because you
• 38:07
  know, the one thing Trump has already said that he's he's not
• 38:11
  going to run again. Even though his supporters want
• 38:13
  him to run till 2028, He's not going to run again.
• 38:18
  There are ways loopholes that he could run again.
• 38:23
  So don't say, well, he can't run again because it was an
• 38:26
  unconstitutional. You know, one thing that I found
• 38:30
  out, especially during the Biden administration, if, if they can
• 38:36
  be done and it can help you, they'll find a way.
• 38:43
  Remember, Kamala Harris is never nominated.
• 38:46
  She was placed in in that role. So just keep everybody snow.
• 38:52
  And I don't want to get too political, but that's just the
• 38:56
  that's just the honest to God truth.
• 38:59
  Go ahead. No, I was just going to say I'm
• 39:01
  pretty much in the middle. I don't, I mean, I would
• 39:05
  probably gravitate more towards the Republican side, but I've
• 39:09
  just gotten to the point now and at my age that I just, there's
• 39:14
  so much crap going on on both sides that.
• 39:17
  Yeah, there's no difference between Republican and Democrat.
• 39:20
  They're all they're all crusty. They all don't Grippy socks.
• 39:26
  All right, Global extremists. The International Crisis Group
• 39:31
  reports the that ow Shabab is reclaiming towns in Somalia and
• 39:39
  complicating the region's stability.
• 39:43
  You know, I don't know what to believe anymore when it comes to
• 39:47
  the overseas stuff. You know, 'cause when you think,
• 39:51
  oh, we, we got to take care of something happens.
• 39:56
  It's, it's never taken care of. And I, I honestly think that
• 40:00
  we're never going to be free from a war.
• 40:03
  We're never going to be free from a war because politicians
• 40:07
  have figured out a way to make it routinely to where they're
• 40:11
  giving money somewhere. And that's the reason why
• 40:15
  they're just going to keep on going.
• 40:17
  So did. You see the TikTok I sent you of
• 40:20
  the Taliban inviting US over to Afghanistan?
• 40:28
  To like live and stuff. Yeah, it's like from the Daily
• 40:31
  Mail, the the Taliban did a whole like, Oh my gosh, that was
• 40:37
  crazy. Yes.
• 40:41
  Well, you know, they're doing, they're, they're they, they're
• 40:43
  doing that in Ireland too. Like right now in Ireland,
• 40:46
  there's a Pacific town that they're telling Americans, hey,
• 40:50
  if you move here, you know, we, we guarantee you $48,000 a year,
• 40:57
  we're going to pay you to, to, to, to move here.
• 41:02
  Now in a small print, you have to have a skill like you have to
• 41:07
  be a plumber or you have to be an embroidery or you have to be
• 41:11
  an electrician or even like you know, a person that you know
• 41:18
  fixes roofs and stuff. You have to have some kind of a
• 41:22
  skill. Somebody who's going to be an
• 41:24
  asset to the community. Exactly, exactly and and.
• 41:27
  You know, anywhere you go, you're going to have to be an
• 41:30
  asset to the community. If there's an apocalypse, you,
• 41:34
  you, they have to be some kind of an asset to, you know, I need
• 41:38
  to learn a skill because I don't think that Internet is going to
• 41:42
  get me anywhere. But you know, I, I tell you one
• 41:48
  thing that I am pretty proud of that we accomplished Friday was
• 41:55
  the first time ever in MBR history.
• 41:59
  We did an off grid remote. We had our own Internet, we had
• 42:04
  our own power. And you know, to some that might
• 42:09
  not be a feat. But let me tell you, that's
• 42:12
  hard. That is very hard to do and you
• 42:15
  have to you have to be very exact.
• 42:18
  You, you, you have to know how many, you have to know how many
• 42:24
  gigabytes each piece of equipment is pulling.
• 42:29
  You have to know how much wattage, you know, like the
• 42:33
  generator and stuff is going to take.
• 42:35
  So I mean, I had to do some math on that.
• 42:40
  Let me tell you, but it, it, it came out good.
• 42:44
  Just so everybody knows, at the top of the hour, because we're
• 42:48
  almost there at the top of the hour, we're supposed to have War
• 42:53
  Dog on as a interview. He's coming back to MBR.
• 42:58
  He's originally from the DV radio station.
• 43:04
  He has a show called War Dog. And, you know, he, he talks
• 43:09
  about like the hunting and the fishing and he, he introduces
• 43:17
  hunting nonprofits for veterans, especially for veterans that
• 43:22
  really, you know, like the hunting and the gun scene and
• 43:26
  stuff. He's like, really into that.
• 43:28
  So we're going to have him on and he's going to talk about,
• 43:32
  you know, his future projects coming up.
• 43:35
  He's also going to talk about some of the, some of the
• 43:38
  struggles that he went through. You know, everybody knows,
• 43:43
  everybody goes through something every single day.
• 43:46
  But what everybody doesn't know, because you don't usually post
• 43:49
  it on Facebook, is, you know, his is I, I believe his
• 43:54
  father-in-law, you know, died or, you know, he, he was going
• 43:59
  through like a person in his family was going through a
• 44:02
  cancer scares. You know, cancer is a, a scary
• 44:06
  time, especially right now, you know, because with all the, with
• 44:12
  all the possible remedies out there and how much it costs and
• 44:16
  with the way the economy is going, with the way that the,
• 44:22
  you know, United Healthcare and stuff's going, I mean, health
• 44:28
  Healthcare is not getting easier.
• 44:30
  It's just getting, it's just getting a lot harder.
• 44:34
  Yeah, I just, I met a man through my next door neighbor
• 44:38
  who's going through cancer treatment and because of the
• 44:41
  switch up in United Healthcare, his treatment is being switched
• 44:46
  to another facility and he's really worried about it.
• 44:50
  So that happens a lot to people. And I mean, and today I found
• 44:57
  out that there's a lot of stores, a lot of places that are
• 45:02
  closing, you know, Kroger's is closing 60 locations.
• 45:08
  I mean, you know, there's just I'll, I'll, I'll bring up, I'll
• 45:13
  bring up that a little bit later.
• 45:15
  All the like, the numbers and stuff.
• 45:17
  I'll get it from ChatGPT. Local Denver news.
• 45:21
  Just so you now know, through the weekend, Colorado Black
• 45:25
  Artist Festival, the City Park. It is July 11th of July 13th,
• 45:31
  celebration of African American culture, food, music, art and a
• 45:36
  parade. Also a Cirque de Sala echo.
• 45:42
  Yeah, I can't pronounce that. It has to be Spanish.
• 45:45
  It is at the Pepsi Center. Yeah, maybe that's it.
• 45:52
  Amy Swanson. I was way off, you know, I I
• 45:57
  don't know. Here, I'll, I'll, I'll put it
• 45:59
  through the chat so that Amber can be my decoder because she's
• 46:03
  pretty good at that. I don't know how to pronounce
• 46:05
  that shit. All right, So, yeah.
• 46:09
  OK. What she said.
• 46:11
  All right, so that's going on. Family event series this
• 46:15
  weekend. Colorado Burskyo Festival
• 46:21
  Ofelia's Electric Soapbox July 10th to 12th features drag and
• 46:27
  aerial performance and variety acts.
• 46:32
  There's AI Saw this today, this isn't really news and there's
• 46:39
  people flipping out about this and you know, this would be kind
• 46:43
  of my like my drop the mic without putting the whole logo
• 46:47
  thing in. So a veteran spotlight, a
• 46:50
  notable veteran story is making the headlines.
• 46:53
  Green Beret influencer Tim Kennedy has publicly admitted to
• 46:57
  exaggerating his combat record, mistaking the non valor
• 47:02
  commendation for Bronze Star with valor.
• 47:04
  His apology has sparked broader conversations about integrity
• 47:09
  and veteran representatives and the pressure of social media
• 47:12
  cred. You know, all I'm going to say
• 47:14
  about that is, look, you know, what if everybody put as much
• 47:19
  effort into this, trying to catch people and freaking lies
• 47:24
  and help veterans get their resources, get their, you know,
• 47:31
  stuff done, you know, help them navigation, this world would be
• 47:38
  in a lot better place. You know, I had a conversation
• 47:42
  with somebody, I'm not going to mention their name, but I had a
• 47:45
  conversation a couple of days ago and, you know, he was
• 47:51
  talking about how I, I, I blocked him and how we totally
• 47:58
  disregarded him from like the chat forum.
• 48:02
  And I told him I'm like, OK, well, let me ask you this.
• 48:06
  Why did you, why, why did you make it public?
• 48:09
  Why, why did you go in the chat for him and like call somebody
• 48:13
  out? Well, because I'm about who the
• 48:16
  hell makes you the judge? Who the hell gives you that,
• 48:21
  that that power to sit there and ruffle up somebody's feathers?
• 48:28
  You won't want somebody to ruffle up your feathers.
• 48:31
  And before you go and say, well, I didn't do that bullshit.
• 48:35
  Everybody in this world has done something.
• 48:38
  They have skeletons in the closet.
• 48:40
  Just because you didn't get, just because you didn't get
• 48:45
  caught, doesn't mean that it's not there.
• 48:48
  You know, if you have a problem with somebody, you, you reach
• 48:53
  out them directly and individually and you talk to
• 48:57
  them and you make it right. You know, as soon as you make it
• 49:02
  public, you've lost my support. I don't give a shit about you no
• 49:06
  more. I don't I don't because you
• 49:10
  aren't wanting to fix it. You're wanting attention and I
• 49:14
  don't want to help anybody that wants attention.
• 49:17
  You know, so I, I, I don't like that.
• 49:20
  So before you go and and rat somebody out or before you go
• 49:26
  and make it public, just know that whenever you're pointing at
• 49:30
  somebody, there's always three fingers pointing back at you.
• 49:34
  And that is my dropping the mic. And we are way past the time to
• 49:41
  go on break and we're going to go on break.
• 49:44
  And then when we come back, hope.
• 49:47
  Oh, also, two announcements real quick.
• 49:51
  OK, we got time. 2 announcements #1 our own Tracer is graduating
• 49:58
  college. She left for New York.
• 50:00
  She's getting her, I think, her master's degree.
• 50:03
  Congratulations. Congratulations.
• 50:05
  OK, Also, we had an interview with a young lady about a week
• 50:11
  ago. Amber, if you remember Emily
• 50:14
  Myers, guess what? She just got nominated for a
• 50:18
  Josie Award. Imagine that.
• 50:21
  That's awesome. With that being said, we're
• 50:23
  going to play one of her songs. And when we come back, you know,
• 50:29
  hopefully, hopefully we'll we'll be on the horn with War Dog and
• 50:35
  we won't be, you know, scraping for for content.
• 50:40
  So whatever you do, stay with us.
• 50:42
  Don't go away. You are listening to the show,
• 50:45
  the highlight all the non profit programs out there beyond the
• 50:49
  VA. You're listening to the H screen
• 50:51
  show here on MBR and we're getting ready to watch Lost by
• 50:57
  another Josie nominator, Emily Myers and Joe Lawson.
• 55:23
  The station where our veterans voices are heard MBR talk.
• 55:26
  Hey, thanks. For tuning.
• 55:31
  In Welcome Back are those of the speakers and do not necessarily
• 55:35
  reflect the views or positions of any entities they represent.
• 55:40
  The web at MB radio dot. We are back, ladies and
• 55:45
  gentlemen. You're listening to the show
• 55:47
  that highlights all the non private programs out there
• 55:50
  beyond the VA. You're listening to the H train
• 55:53
  show. MJ is away until July 21st and
• 55:59
  Amber is sitting in her spot. We, we really appreciate that.
• 56:04
  Ladies and gentlemen welcome it. We, we have our interview of the
• 56:10
  weekend and before we bring him up, this guy really doesn't need
• 56:15
  an introduction that this guy has done so much for other
• 56:20
  veterans. Not only does he run a show
• 56:24
  called War Dog, he he brings these nonprofits to the
• 56:31
  forefront for veterans so that they can contribute and use
• 56:37
  hunting and fishing as a way of rehabilitation.
• 56:42
  He has been gone for a while. He took about, I would say at
• 56:47
  least a two year thing. And he wrote me and he's like,
• 56:50
  hey man, I'm ready to come back. And I'm like, hell yeah, I'm
• 56:55
  super excited. Ladies and gentlemen, today's
• 56:58
  Interview of the Week and DV Radio's very own War Dog.
• 57:08
  The interview of the week is brought to you by Jersey Mike's,
• 57:13
  a sub above. Ladies and gentlemen, War Dog.
• 57:19
  War Dog is so good to see you man.
• 57:22
  Look at that smile, all all happy and stuff.
• 57:25
  How are you? Doing all right.
• 57:28
  Hi, I'm, I'm, I'm happy to see you.
• 57:31
  Happy to see both of you be on the show.
• 57:34
  I got to admit though, I don't feel like I've helped any
• 57:38
  veteran yet. No, that's that's.
• 57:41
  That's, that's normal though. We, you know, we, we always feel
• 57:46
  that we don't make an impact because unfortunately there's a
• 57:49
  lot more people that gripe than there are people that give
• 57:53
  gratitude. And I know, I know for sure that
• 57:58
  you helped a lot of veterans. You know, you even when you guys
• 58:03
  are on barracks talk, you know, you, you, you key in and you let
• 58:08
  everybody know, you know, hey, it's OK to ask for help.
• 58:12
  You know, you, you, you, you, you, you talk about, you know,
• 58:18
  the things that you're going through so that veterans can
• 58:23
  relate to it, you know, and you know, you got some projects
• 58:29
  coming up and we want to hear about it, too.
• 58:34
  All right. I want to be honest.
• 58:36
  It's just like you said, I was down for about 10 months, man.
• 58:41
  And you know, as veterans, I'm pretty sure they can all relate.
• 58:46
  You know, with us we can be down 2 hours, 10 hours, 2 weeks, 10
• 58:53
  weeks, two months, 10 months, two years, 10 years.
• 58:59
  I've now I've done though I've been down for 10 years before I,
• 59:05
  I felt I didn't fit into society.
• 59:07
  I was having a road rage. I wasn't getting in along with
• 59:10
  civilians. So I kind of removed myself to
• 59:13
  my man cave and I was like a part of my therapy.
• 59:16
  But yeah, these last 10 months, I don't know, I just like every
• 59:21
  other veteran, I lost the will to do a lot of things.
• 59:23
  So it wasn't until recently, though, one of my battle
• 59:29
  buddies, the Marine, got into some trouble and we needed to
• 59:33
  spread the word to try to help him and get him some legal
• 59:36
  defense. So, you know, the guys kind of
• 59:40
  rallied me and got me out of my sleep and slumber and trying to
• 59:46
  get things back rolling, you know?
• 59:48
  Isn't that? Funny how it seems that we can
• 59:55
  help other people a lot faster and a lot easier than it is that
• 1:00:00
  we can help ourselves. A. 100.
• 1:00:03
  Percent. You know, like if somebody told
• 1:00:06
  me that they needed $1000 tomorrow, like I can totally
• 1:00:10
  help them raise it a lot more successful than I can raise
• 1:00:14
  $1000 for my own nonprofit. You know.
• 1:00:18
  I don't know why that is, but that that's what it seems.
• 1:00:21
  But you know, the, like the, the struggles that you went through,
• 1:00:26
  you know, because you was telling me that, you know, it
• 1:00:29
  has cancer in your family that you was dealing with, you was
• 1:00:33
  dealing with some deaths, dude. Like it hasn't been two weeks
• 1:00:39
  yet. I my, my, I had to put my
• 1:00:42
  service dog down, you know, and yeah, and everybody's like,
• 1:00:47
  well, you know, you should get another service.
• 1:00:49
  No, I'm not going to get another service dog because if I get
• 1:00:51
  another service dog, I'm going to, you know, just like that
• 1:00:54
  girlfriend, ex-girlfriend thing. No matter what, you're going to
• 1:00:57
  sit there and you're going to compare them.
• 1:01:00
  And I, I don't, I don't think that's fair to the other dog.
• 1:01:04
  But one thing that my service dog did teach me, and this is
• 1:01:10
  this, this, this goes for everybody.
• 1:01:13
  It's the impact that you have in life is the way you make other
• 1:01:18
  people feel about themselves. And one thing that my service
• 1:01:23
  dog taught me is no matter who it was, whenever I sit there,
• 1:01:28
  who is that? Who is that?
• 1:01:29
  She would run right to them, you know, and oh, it was good, you
• 1:01:34
  know, and he didn't do that, you know, he would always be
• 1:01:37
  excited. He was always, you know, you saw
• 1:01:40
  the smile on his, you know, the grin.
• 1:01:44
  I mean, he was, he was a happy service dog and he taught me
• 1:01:51
  that's how you need to embrace everybody.
• 1:01:55
  Because whenever, whenever you're not with somebody for
• 1:02:01
  long periods of time and then you kind of, you know, reconvene
• 1:02:06
  that that relationship in your back, no matter what, it's, it's
• 1:02:10
  somewhat awkward. It really is.
• 1:02:14
  And COVID really didn't help with that.
• 1:02:18
  So my service dog, that's one thing that he, he really helped.
• 1:02:23
  He was a buffer. He really broke that zone.
• 1:02:26
  And I'm still struggling with that.
• 1:02:29
  I'm still dealing with that. I'm still dealing.
• 1:02:32
  Oh now now Amber brings out the dog.
• 1:02:36
  Make me jealous and stuff. Sorry, he jumped in my lap.
• 1:02:44
  So we're going tell us about your, your upcoming projects
• 1:02:49
  that you that you've got going on.
• 1:02:52
  You're still living in Florida and I'm sure that you guys are
• 1:02:56
  still cleaning up the aftermath, 'cause you know, once a
• 1:02:59
  hurricane happens, I mean things, things don't go back to
• 1:03:04
  normal. Things change.
• 1:03:05
  It's a new norm for everybody. Exactly, Exactly.
• 1:03:11
  But I have to be honest, man, we weren't in my area.
• 1:03:14
  I'm about half hour West of Orlando.
• 1:03:17
  We weren't affected anywhere near as as bad as other parts of
• 1:03:22
  the state. So our recovery has been, you
• 1:03:25
  know, minimum, minimum. Well, that's good.
• 1:03:30
  Can I add one thing real quick? Yeah, when I said, well, it's
• 1:03:34
  two, it's twofold. I'm the kind of guy who feels
• 1:03:37
  like everyone else's story is probably is probably much worse
• 1:03:42
  than mine. What other people go through is
• 1:03:46
  probably much worse than I've been through.
• 1:03:49
  And that's just the way you know, I don't know that's the
• 1:03:51
  way my head is. But what you went through with
• 1:03:53
  losing your service, though, bro, I'm a known child, right?
• 1:03:59
  And you know, I, I don't, you know, I'm not used to the
• 1:04:02
  brothers sisters. So, you know, getting to the
• 1:04:05
  military, I wasn't used to brothers or sisters or ever
• 1:04:09
  having a lease on. So I have a tendency to cling,
• 1:04:13
  cling to a service dog, cling to fellow veterans as brothers, as
• 1:04:19
  sisters, but I don't handle so much so well as when I cling to
• 1:04:27
  people or things and then they have to leave, disappear, be
• 1:04:33
  gone for whatever circumstance. I just want you to know I can't
• 1:04:43
  put words to how much your relationship and closeness was
• 1:04:48
  with your service thought no one really understand that except
• 1:04:51
  you and your service thought. No, I understand totally about
• 1:04:57
  you clinging to that for love, therapy, friendship, everything.
• 1:05:01
  Man, I just want to let you know I apologize and I'm sorry you're
• 1:05:07
  going through that. And I'm pretty sure you know
• 1:05:11
  your service dog helped you along the way like you said.
• 1:05:14
  So salute. Yeah, he, he definitely did.
• 1:05:17
  You know, with, with other dogs, he was kind of a bully.
• 1:05:22
  And it's. Called that I saw that even more
• 1:05:26
  as he was getting older because, you know it doesn't matter if it
• 1:05:29
  was daylight savings time when when that clock hit 7:00 you
• 1:05:34
  know used to he used to like grab the covers and and, and
• 1:05:38
  pull them off of me and you know it's really time you know and
• 1:05:42
  this time like he had this he had this natural ability to like
• 1:05:49
  right in my nuts so. I'm.
• 1:05:53
  Going, you know, that's how he would wake me up so.
• 1:05:58
  Yeah. He had that natural ability.
• 1:06:02
  I'm like, dude, what the hell, you know?
• 1:06:08
  But everybody, everybody goes through that, you know, and just
• 1:06:15
  just because a service dog is there to, you know, help, you
• 1:06:20
  know, work for you and stuff, you don't truly appreciate what
• 1:06:26
  they taught you until they're gone, until after they're gone.
• 1:06:30
  And unfortunately, that's the that's a bad thing in society is
• 1:06:36
  I honestly think that you're more popular when you're dead
• 1:06:42
  compared to when you're alive. Like people, people cherish your
• 1:06:48
  memory or they talk about you more when you're dead compared
• 1:06:52
  to, oh, look at all this stuff, you know, they're doing and
• 1:06:56
  stuff like that. I mean, you know, he hasn't died
• 1:06:59
  yet, but he's getting ready to like Ozzy Osbourne, you know,
• 1:07:04
  like that really put everybody on notice.
• 1:07:10
  Like this, this Prince of darkness, this, this man of
• 1:07:13
  great talents, this, this legend, like he's is, is, is
• 1:07:18
  going, you know, people that we did stuff with events,
• 1:07:25
  nonprofits, businesses, you know, things change, people
• 1:07:31
  leave. And you know, when you was
• 1:07:34
  talking about like, you know, closest with people and then,
• 1:07:39
  you know, suddenly, you know, there's like no closure and they
• 1:07:43
  they walk away because of either something that they're dealing
• 1:07:47
  with in their life or, you know, something that happened between
• 1:07:52
  you and them. You know, that, that that
• 1:07:55
  closure, it really bothers people.
• 1:07:59
  They say that it doesn't, you know, people say, Oh, it doesn't
• 1:08:03
  matter. I don't care what people think,
• 1:08:05
  but you do, you do. And we, we, we need to, we
• 1:08:11
  really need to realize that I, I think sometimes we tend to bring
• 1:08:18
  up stuff or say things and, you know, we've, we've, we've never
• 1:08:24
  been in their shoes before. For example, like for the
• 1:08:28
  longest time, I, I had this ultimate rule in my life that I
• 1:08:33
  would never bail anybody out of jail.
• 1:08:36
  Well, never say never because it's happened before.
• 1:08:39
  You know, that possession until you're in that position, don't
• 1:08:43
  say never. It happens, let me tell you.
• 1:08:49
  But you know, I, I, I saw, I think it was a past video.
• 1:08:53
  I don't think it was recent. I saw a past video that just
• 1:08:57
  reminded me of your, your, your continuous effort, your, your,
• 1:09:04
  your will to fight to help others.
• 1:09:08
  I saw you, you know, going into Creek bed, you know, grabbing
• 1:09:12
  mud and putting it all over your face.
• 1:09:15
  I mean, that's what I'm talking about.
• 1:09:17
  War dog. Like he, he, he does a lot of,
• 1:09:21
  he does a lot of things and you know it, it's, it's incredible.
• 1:09:27
  It's incredible what you have done.
• 1:09:29
  And you know, believe it or not, even though you took the time
• 1:09:32
  off, aren't you, you know, you've, you've made a huge
• 1:09:38
  impact on DV radio. You and Bo have both made a huge
• 1:09:44
  impact on on DV radio. You know, for, for DV radio is
• 1:09:49
  now like 20 years old. You know, it's, it's about as
• 1:09:52
  old as MBR And you know, those that legacy doesn't die, that
• 1:09:57
  continues and it continues to help veterans.
• 1:10:02
  You know, unfortunately people always they, they, you know,
• 1:10:11
  they, they, they always see the, the good.
• 1:10:14
  They never see the bad. I've, I, I know that you and Bo
• 1:10:19
  and DV radio. I know that you guys have, you
• 1:10:23
  know, seen your history in the past, But what's important is
• 1:10:28
  you guys resilience. It, it, it keeps driving.
• 1:10:32
  And that's one of the reasons why MBR is successful is because
• 1:10:36
  DV Radio is a yeah, he's sponsor for us, you know, and whenever
• 1:10:41
  I, whenever I have a bad day or, or someone's judging me upon
• 1:10:47
  skeletons in the closet, you know, I always reach out to you
• 1:10:52
  or Beau, you know, to feel a little bit better because people
• 1:10:55
  have to understand that people have feelings and hold on.
• 1:10:59
  Hold on, hold on. Yeah, No, no shit.
• 1:11:05
  You remember I've been in the psych ward five Times Now.
• 1:11:08
  So. Right.
• 1:11:10
  Just say that again. You look to me for and.
• 1:11:13
  You look to me for what? I look, hey, I look to you and
• 1:11:17
  bone resilience, you know, because you're yeah, dude,
• 1:11:20
  you're still here. What else?
• 1:11:21
  What people don't understand is you take your shittiest days,
• 1:11:26
  you take the, the, the hardest tribulations that you've been
• 1:11:31
  through. And guess what?
• 1:11:32
  We have survived. We're still here.
• 1:11:35
  We are still here out of deaths, out of breakups, out of
• 1:11:40
  divorces. Everybody has a divorce, you
• 1:11:43
  know, especially if you got duty. 2:14 We call it a beginner
• 1:11:47
  marriage, you know. I don't have one.
• 1:11:51
  Yes, hey, don't even. But I don't want you.
• 1:12:00
  Go ahead. I was wanting to know War Dog.
• 1:12:03
  So Joel was talking about how you do hunting and fishing and
• 1:12:07
  everything and you live in Florida.
• 1:12:09
  What is that like? Because I know I've been hunting
• 1:12:12
  in Florida and it sucks. OK.
• 1:12:18
  I try to view every single thing from like this infantry grunt
• 1:12:22
  perspective, right? OK.
• 1:12:24
  And when I do, it's like I feel like every single place in the
• 1:12:30
  world, no matter what the terrain and from what we've seen
• 1:12:34
  in history, everywhere can be a a war zone, a battle zone fight.
• 1:12:40
  I look at, you know, well, you know, from history, fight can
• 1:12:43
  happen at this bridge, that river.
• 1:12:46
  So I don't know, everywhere I look at in the world, I wonder
• 1:12:50
  as the grunt, like, can I walk there on foot with a backpack in
• 1:12:54
  the rifle? So hunting for me in Florida.
• 1:13:00
  Yeah, the situations are what they are in terms of the
• 1:13:03
  terrain. But in my mind I still look at
• 1:13:06
  it like, actually man, in reality war still could happen
• 1:13:12
  in this type of terrain. So.
• 1:13:16
  I need to get out there and I'm sorry.
• 1:13:18
  The species I hunt most though, I'm a predator hunter.
• 1:13:23
  The same way they like to go into, you know, use their, I
• 1:13:28
  don't know, bulliness, aggressiveness to harm other
• 1:13:32
  species, to damage the farm, damage crops.
• 1:13:36
  I love to go after wild hogs. Oh my God.
• 1:13:41
  In Florida they're considered a nuisance.
• 1:13:43
  It is one of the few legal times since the war where I can use
• 1:13:49
  thermal imaging and night vision on a legal target.
• 1:13:54
  So I feel anyone that resonates with that feeling where you know
• 1:14:00
  you have that skill set, but you haven't been able to use it in
• 1:14:04
  any way. If you hunt, especially hunt at
• 1:14:08
  night, especially hunt a species as hated as wild hogs are in the
• 1:14:14
  South, oh man, it's free range. It's it's therapy on a different
• 1:14:20
  level. Yeah, with all those Palmetto
• 1:14:23
  bushes. Oh my goodness, I cannot stand
• 1:14:25
  those Palmetto bushes. With the ghillie suit you can
• 1:14:32
  blend right in. Now, war Dog, did you, did you
• 1:14:36
  get a chance to go to that, that that wild hog hunt that they do
• 1:14:41
  in Alabama that I sent you that information that one time?
• 1:14:46
  No, I'm sorry I didn't you know like every other veteran.
• 1:14:50
  Some days I deal with, you know, post war injuries got some metal
• 1:14:54
  in the body. So I'm sorry, but I did want to.
• 1:14:57
  I got excited. Don't get me hey, only a few
• 1:15:00
  things make me Bush and get me excited.
• 1:15:03
  One of them is you know, hunting other ones, you know, military
• 1:15:07
  and guns, but that makes me Bush.
• 1:15:10
  I won't let. OK, so now what is the what is
• 1:15:15
  the biggest creature that you get have have you ever killed an
• 1:15:19
  alligator or wrestled an alligator before?
• 1:15:23
  No, bro, But I do have the license to not be the driver,
• 1:15:29
  not be the boat driver while you're, you know, trying to
• 1:15:32
  harvest alligators. But I do have the license to be
• 1:15:35
  the shooter. Oh.
• 1:15:37
  Nice. That makes sense.
• 1:15:38
  Yeah. Nice.
• 1:15:39
  So I can't drive the boat, but as long as I can be the one to
• 1:15:44
  find that quarter spot behind the ears or excuse me, behind
• 1:15:47
  the eyes. Yeah.
• 1:15:49
  I'm allowed to be that guy. Awesome.
• 1:15:52
  I've always now now I say this as I always once I get put in
• 1:15:57
  that position, watch, I'll I'll be in a little chicken shit and
• 1:16:00
  walk away. But I've always, I've always
• 1:16:04
  wanted to like go and like hunt alligators.
• 1:16:07
  But then again, like, once I get in the water, that, that that'll
• 1:16:11
  probably change, you know, kind of like skydive.
• 1:16:13
  Oh yeah, yeah, we're gonna skydive.
• 1:16:16
  I didn't know it was far up, you know, kind of thing.
• 1:16:20
  So yeah, I just wondered if you ever haunted alligators because,
• 1:16:26
  you know, I don't know why, but alligators seem to be very
• 1:16:30
  popular here here lately, you know, people trying to hunt them
• 1:16:37
  and and stuff like that. You know I see tik toks of guys
• 1:16:41
  in the water penning them and like what the hell.
• 1:16:45
  We had six of them in our backyard when we lived in
• 1:16:48
  Florida one time. Oh.
• 1:16:51
  Wow. Oh wow, wait, can may I ask what
• 1:16:55
  city are we talking about? So that was Saint Cloud.
• 1:17:00
  Really. OK, the place where I off grid.
• 1:17:06
  Have you ever heard of Holo Paul?
• 1:17:07
  Right near Saint Cloud. No, I don't think so.
• 1:17:11
  Oh my gosh. OK.
• 1:17:13
  My husband might know about it. He's Charles Dietz in the
• 1:17:15
  comments. OK, maybe Charles knows.
• 1:17:19
  Charles just made one of the greatest comments I think I
• 1:17:23
  might have heard in my life, man, especially right now to, to
• 1:17:26
  clear my head and pick me up. But just past Saint Cloud, we,
• 1:17:31
  we have a land where I'm trying to rebuild what I call camp
• 1:17:36
  doghouse or not rebuild, build, have a couple parcels of land
• 1:17:40
  out there. That is where all my off grading
• 1:17:43
  takes place. So any video you ever saw begins
• 1:17:48
  and ends in Holopol. I've been through all those
• 1:17:52
  years of therapy like every other veteran, you know, whether
• 1:17:56
  it's the Vet Center, whether it's group therapy and visual
• 1:17:59
  therapy, you know, I've had things attached to my head for,
• 1:18:05
  you know, that biorhythm feedback.
• 1:18:07
  But the only thing that truly, truly seeped in 20 years was
• 1:18:16
  when I decided to go camping with a tent.
• 1:18:19
  And then I bought some Mr. ES from Amazon.
• 1:18:22
  I bought some concertina wire from Amazon.
• 1:18:27
  And I went out to Holopol, which is just past St.
• 1:18:29
  Cloud, FL. And I camped.
• 1:18:35
  And there was so much that I forgot about that I was good at.
• 1:18:39
  I forgot I knew how to put together a tent, forgot I knew
• 1:18:42
  how to string up that concertina wire around my perimeter, forgot
• 1:18:49
  how good it felt to have my, you know, my guns on me and be
• 1:18:53
  outdoors. But I got to admit, I was only
• 1:18:57
  used to and taught like tactical camping.
• 1:19:00
  You know what I'm saying? Like, that's the only
• 1:19:02
  environment I've ever been in. Being a city kid from Orlando
• 1:19:05
  was like when I was in it, we were under war circumstances.
• 1:19:08
  So light discipline, noise discipline, all of that.
• 1:19:11
  So I'm quiet as hell while I'm out there and out of nowhere
• 1:19:15
  someone with a four Wheeler rose by and they're banging Tupac
• 1:19:18
  talk with all things and I'm like.
• 1:19:22
  Oh. Wow, I did not know what's going
• 1:19:25
  on like this right here. Right.
• 1:19:27
  So then they hit me, man. Like, I got to open my eyes to
• 1:19:30
  actually have fun. Yeah.
• 1:19:33
  Why you camp? Like, like there's a whole
• 1:19:35
  lifestyle outside of war where you can do these things and have
• 1:19:39
  fun. Yeah.
• 1:19:42
  Yeah, Isn't that funny? Isn't it funny that, you know,
• 1:19:45
  in the military, they, they, they go over like 8 weeks
• 1:19:51
  depending on which branch of service you go, you go through
• 1:19:54
  eight weeks of, you know, zeroing in and shooting your
• 1:19:58
  M16, but they only give you a, a week to clear, go through like a
• 1:20:03
  cap and stuff. It's, it's, it's very funny.
• 1:20:07
  And you know, and you bring up a good point, you know, we're,
• 1:20:10
  we're taught how to camp, but we're not taught how to.
• 1:20:14
  To camp for fun. And I think that's the the
• 1:20:19
  biggest thing, like when somebody was like, hey, hey, you
• 1:20:22
  want to go camping? No, I'm good, I'm good.
• 1:20:25
  Bought the T-shirt, you know, and they're like keeping with
• 1:20:29
  me. OK, All right, You know, because
• 1:20:34
  I remember the first time me and my wife went camping, we're you
• 1:20:37
  know, we got the fire going, we got breakfast, you know, all
• 1:20:40
  that stuff, you know, it's like 11 and 12:00 and and it's like,
• 1:20:47
  OK, now what? Oh, I guess we just wait till
• 1:20:52
  lunch. So we're just sitting there
• 1:20:54
  camping and, and, and, and cooking, you know, I'm like, you
• 1:20:59
  want to go fishing? No, not really.
• 1:21:01
  Oh well, I'm glad that we went camping.
• 1:21:03
  You know, it's just like it is it?
• 1:21:11
  It's it's tough to go camping if you're not with somebody that
• 1:21:17
  knows how to make it fun exactly because.
• 1:21:22
  We're we're all stuck on tactical.
• 1:21:24
  Stuff, Man yeah, we are, we are dude, that is no joke.
• 1:21:31
  But you know, we, we talked about a little bit about, you
• 1:21:35
  know, the struggles and stuff that you went through and stuff.
• 1:21:38
  We, I'd like to know about your upcoming show.
• 1:21:42
  When have you have you decided when your debut day is and like
• 1:21:48
  do you have some upcoming things that is coming up for your show
• 1:21:52
  that you can kind of tease us with?
• 1:21:57
  Yeah, sure. But like I said, I mentioned
• 1:22:02
  mentioned that land just past Saint Cloud where we're trying
• 1:22:06
  to build a camp doghouse. Yes, I've had the land man for
• 1:22:11
  six years, but also have a family of four.
• 1:22:14
  So it's trying to build it so that I can eventually get the
• 1:22:18
  homeless, the RV's and all that. I want to take care of homeless
• 1:22:23
  vets. That's on the way.
• 1:22:25
  But the outdoors part I was much better at six years ago.
• 1:22:31
  Obviously younger, less injuries now though.
• 1:22:36
  I don't have an exact date but I'm ready to get back off grid.
• 1:22:40
  Bro. I have not been off grid to my
• 1:22:42
  property in three years, mostly because I haven't been able to
• 1:22:49
  acquire Tough Enough 4 Wheel Drive to Get Me Out there to,
• 1:22:56
  you know, do what I've done. And, you know, you saw the
• 1:22:58
  videos and whatnot. But yeah, as soon as I can get
• 1:23:02
  that back up, man, that's been the only thing that's held me
• 1:23:05
  back. That's the only reason I started
• 1:23:07
  podcasting, wrote the book, is because I couldn't get off grid,
• 1:23:12
  man. And I was still trying to, you
• 1:23:15
  know, do some things. But yeah, I'm trying to get back
• 1:23:19
  out there. In my, my opinion, there's this
• 1:23:24
  certain level of job satisfaction that everyone's
• 1:23:28
  allowed to feel, right. It's like, yeah, I did my job
• 1:23:31
  there. The boss, the owner, everyone
• 1:23:33
  said a good job. I feel like for those of us
• 1:23:36
  who've served in war, though, that feeling, I'm sorry, war,
• 1:23:40
  the military, period, that feeling of job satisfaction will
• 1:23:47
  never be there or the same as the way you felt it in the
• 1:23:51
  military, if that makes sense. It does.
• 1:23:55
  It does. You know, I, I've seen several
• 1:23:57
  Tik Toks with one guy talking about this week how you know,
• 1:24:02
  he's had a house for three years, you know, and three years
• 1:24:07
  is he makes his mortgage and everything.
• 1:24:10
  And he's like, but I don't feel it's my house.
• 1:24:14
  He's like, I don't know why, but I don't feel like it's my house.
• 1:24:16
  And you know, that's the thing about the military is in the
• 1:24:20
  military, they made you, they motivated and made you feel like
• 1:24:25
  it was never enough. You had to you just had to keep
• 1:24:29
  grabbing. You had to keep driving forward.
• 1:24:32
  You had to keep improving you, you know, and then when you get
• 1:24:37
  out in life, you know, unless, unless you're getting, you know,
• 1:24:42
  unless you're like on front page of a newspaper or unless you're
• 1:24:47
  on like a, a news story or people are making commotions
• 1:24:51
  about it, Like you don't really feel that you're making an
• 1:24:56
  impact on life. And I think that's because of
• 1:25:00
  how the military, you know, the military makes it, it it just
• 1:25:07
  you're never sufficient. You're never satisfied with what
• 1:25:13
  you have. And I think all veterans go
• 1:25:17
  through that. You know, like the biggest one
• 1:25:22
  with with veterans is, well, what's your percentage?
• 1:25:26
  It's almost like people compare their percentages with other
• 1:25:30
  veterans. And I'm going to tell you as a
• 1:25:33
  veteran, your percentage, the for the VA is nobody damn
• 1:25:37
  business. OK, You just when, when, when
• 1:25:40
  you, you ever do an event or whatever, all you need to tell
• 1:25:43
  them is, hey, you know what? I, I, I served my time.
• 1:25:48
  You know, I'm, I'm pretty broken, but I'm, I'm, I'm here
• 1:25:53
  for, you know, the possible healing for this event.
• 1:25:56
  You know, I don't know if you know War Dog, but this past this
• 1:26:01
  past week, this past weekend, we had the pleasure of sending 3
• 1:26:07
  veterans and three firefighters skydiving.
• 1:26:12
  And yeah, all right, man, that's what's up.
• 1:26:15
  Yeah. And congratulations.
• 1:26:17
  Thank. You and win it and when those 3
• 1:26:20
  vets and those 3 firefighters came down like they were they
• 1:26:25
  were exhilarated like they were ready for that next that next
• 1:26:30
  challenge and you know the the skydiving I mean, you know and
• 1:26:35
  there was one time we were talking about indoor skydiving
• 1:26:38
  and, and. Indoor.
• 1:26:41
  Yeah, there's an indoor skydiving and I said some
• 1:26:46
  Charles and he's like, well, it's fun, but it's not really as
• 1:26:49
  impactful as my life will not die, you know?
• 1:26:53
  Oh yeah, that's true. But it's it when you skydive,
• 1:27:01
  it's it makes you take all what? What's wrong in your life?
• 1:27:08
  And it, it puts it in a back seat and you're like, I can do
• 1:27:14
  this, I can do this. You know, I, I think one of the
• 1:27:18
  biggest things that veterans face today is why am I still
• 1:27:24
  alive? Why am I still alive?
• 1:27:28
  Since, you know, I have brothers and sisters that that didn't
• 1:27:32
  make it, you know, why, why the hell am I so special?
• 1:27:36
  You know, and I find that after like skydiving after, after you,
• 1:27:43
  you possibly almost take your life and you know, you got,
• 1:27:46
  you're kind of like reborn. You're like, God has something
• 1:27:52
  for me. He has a he has a purpose.
• 1:27:54
  And once you once you find that purpose and you work on that
• 1:28:03
  purpose, man, no, nothing can beat you.
• 1:28:07
  That's very true, right? On right.
• 1:28:11
  On, that's very true. But War Dog, it is that time.
• 1:28:16
  I mean, I tell you what, I enjoyed you being here, dude.
• 1:28:18
  I've missed you so much. And you know what?
• 1:28:23
  I do look up to you and Bo. I do look up to you and Bo
• 1:28:27
  because you guys have always been there for me whenever I
• 1:28:31
  felt down or felt like shit. You have always, always been
• 1:28:37
  there for me and I can't express enough.
• 1:28:39
  So you talk about you don't see an impact.
• 1:28:44
  You've made an impact on my life, believe it or not.
• 1:28:46
  Whether or not you you choose to believe that or not, you have.
• 1:28:51
  You and Bo have both made an impact.
• 1:28:54
  Remember when I came to DV radio before, before the cartoons came
• 1:28:59
  in, NB radio and all this other stuff, you guys have made a huge
• 1:29:04
  impact and I want you guys to know that.
• 1:29:07
  So with that being said, with that being said, it is that
• 1:29:11
  time. It's your time to shine.
• 1:29:14
  Today's Time to Shine is brought to you by Dunkin' Donuts
• 1:29:20
  veterans and 1st responders runs on Dunkin.
• 1:29:25
  This is your time. To shine.
• 1:29:34
  This is the first time I think that you've been on the program
• 1:29:37
  in a long time. So this is that time.
• 1:29:41
  Maybe I didn't ask you for that right question or set you up for
• 1:29:44
  that right answer. And there's something that you
• 1:29:47
  want to get off of your chest, something that you want other
• 1:29:51
  veterans to kind of think about, you know, and we talked a lot
• 1:29:54
  about stuff, how we feel and how other veterans feel.
• 1:29:59
  And it's my hope that after this program that at the very least
• 1:30:06
  they feel normal, feel normal. And that's the key of it.
• 1:30:11
  If you feel normal, it you, you, you don't feel bad.
• 1:30:15
  But you know, if you know, if you're like, you know, pissing
• 1:30:18
  out of your butt or something, that's not normal, you're
• 1:30:23
  you're. So with that being said,
• 1:30:25
  anything you want to talk about the next two minutes is your
• 1:30:29
  two-minute platform. And I really appreciate you
• 1:30:32
  coming on the show today. Right on AH train.
• 1:30:36
  You've always got the most amazing sense of humor for me,
• 1:30:40
  you know? Hey, this goes both ways.
• 1:30:43
  You've helped pick me up on days and maybe you didn't know rap
• 1:30:48
  and don't for any reason downplay MBR and its
• 1:30:54
  significance. Man, everything you set up is
• 1:30:59
  very very professional bro. I honestly felt like might not
• 1:31:03
  have met the requirements to. Meet such a.
• 1:31:06
  Professional outfit, but yeah, I just I'd like you know, any, any
• 1:31:12
  outlet you receive the the information from or yeah, just
• 1:31:16
  know there aren't you aren't alone.
• 1:31:19
  Obviously others feel it. Obviously I can't be a
• 1:31:22
  hypocrite. All right.
• 1:31:23
  As much as I say and have dealt with my own issues with things,
• 1:31:28
  I can't be a hypocrite. There could be a day 1020 years
• 1:31:32
  from now where I'm doing all this speaking now and for
• 1:31:36
  whatever reason I fail and end up checking out.
• 1:31:38
  So you know, I pray it never gets there for myself or for
• 1:31:43
  others. But as long as we keep getting
• 1:31:46
  the right help, resources and from what I find and feel is the
• 1:31:52
  outdoors is for some people, man, outdoors opens up something
• 1:31:56
  that a lot of doctors won't go with you or to tell you about.
• 1:32:01
  But yeah, no slouch here at all. NBA radio.
• 1:32:05
  NBA radio has always been top quality still is amazing shows
• 1:32:11
  you get out the message from men and women in different
• 1:32:14
  perspectives around the world, bro.
• 1:32:17
  So please don't ever downplay all the amazing accomplishments
• 1:32:20
  that you had because I appreciate I look up to you in
• 1:32:23
  that way. You didn't just create a
• 1:32:24
  podcast. You created a network bro and.
• 1:32:28
  That's the reason he did. Especially after all you've been
• 1:32:31
  through and those that know your military history and injuries,
• 1:32:34
  man. Yeah.
• 1:32:36
  Yeah, I appreciate that brother. I appreciate that.
• 1:32:39
  And hey, hey, when you, when you get back online, man, I've got
• 1:32:44
  13 hunting and fishing nonprofits that I have all lined
• 1:32:51
  up for, for you to like write them and set up and coordinate
• 1:32:56
  interviews. So you're not in this alone,
• 1:32:59
  man. I we, we, we, we, we, we.
• 1:33:01
  We've got your 6. Right, Roger that.
• 1:33:04
  I've always known that and I appreciate.
• 1:33:06
  And yeah, look for me to get back here real soon I'm.
• 1:33:11
  I'm excited about that. Yeah.
• 1:33:14
  And, and before we let you go, go ahead and do one more plug
• 1:33:18
  for Barracks, Barracks Talk. It's, it's on every Saturday at
• 1:33:25
  8:00 PM Eastern Standard Time. It, it has you and Bo and I, I,
• 1:33:34
  I believe I, I, I believe Bender's still on there.
• 1:33:38
  Yep, Yep. And yeah, we have post from each
• 1:33:43
  service of the branch. I'm sorry, each branch of the
• 1:33:47
  service. I apologize.
• 1:33:49
  And yeah, it's just that the way you should speak in the
• 1:33:52
  barracks, man, Open, carefree, dark humor.
• 1:33:58
  You know, it's it's very, I'll admit you're going to need to be
• 1:34:03
  like I said, back in the barracks and not so sensitive.
• 1:34:07
  But yeah, that's that's that environment.
• 1:34:10
  And then if you're looking for a different refined but equally as
• 1:34:18
  effective resource and VR radio has several podcasts and
• 1:34:25
  stations and you see with the music and sponsors, they get it
• 1:34:30
  done too, man, it's absolute bad.
• 1:34:33
  These resources help us all to you know, not check out and
• 1:34:37
  improve man hold on. Yep, I love it, Amber.
• 1:34:41
  I've been asking him all the questions you have.
• 1:34:43
  Anything to ask him before we before we let him go?
• 1:34:49
  No, I just, I'm, I'm excited that you're starting to get back
• 1:34:53
  on the train again. And you know, I am new to MBR,
• 1:34:59
  so I have never actually met you before.
• 1:35:01
  I've watched a couple of your shows in the past and I really
• 1:35:05
  like them. And really, yeah, I do.
• 1:35:09
  As long as you can tell I don't actually know what I'm doing,
• 1:35:12
  but I'm trying to, you know, I don't either.
• 1:35:18
  But you can come on my show anytime and we can talk all
• 1:35:22
  kinds of stuff, right? On, right on.
• 1:35:25
  I appreciate that number. Right on.
• 1:35:27
  Yeah. You're welcome.
• 1:35:28
  Well, War Dog, let me leave you with this.
• 1:35:32
  Whenever you ever doubt yourself or whenever you go throughout
• 1:35:38
  your day and something you know, just that just kind of like
• 1:35:42
  turns you off, just remember that you know the impact that
• 1:35:48
  you have made has has made waves over the year and that you've
• 1:35:55
  done a lot of stuff for veterans.
• 1:35:58
  Just know that. Damn bro I I never really
• 1:36:03
  thought I heard that but so I I really appreciate it man.
• 1:36:06
  Just as long as one other vet gets something positive out of
• 1:36:11
  about, you know that that's all I asked for.
• 1:36:15
  I appreciate that man. I don't.
• 1:36:17
  I don't hear that often. I appreciate you man.
• 1:36:21
  And with that being said, I'm going to go ahead and we're
• 1:36:25
  getting ready to go to Tribute to the Troops.
• 1:36:27
  And Sergeant Wardog. Thank you so much for being on
• 1:36:30
  the show. I'm I'm sure you'll be on here
• 1:36:33
  again in the near future And take care my friend.
• 1:36:36
  OK, I'll I'll text you later. All right, guys.
• 1:36:39
  Thank you for having me on the show.
• 1:36:41
  Love you. Salute.
• 1:36:42
  Have a blessed day. All right.
• 1:36:46
  All right, ladies and gentlemen, once again, that is War Dog.
• 1:36:49
  He has a fantastic show that, you know, that introduces
• 1:36:55
  veterans to hunting and fishing, especially, you know, the, the
• 1:37:00
  gun Expo. They had gun Expo in Las Vegas
• 1:37:03
  and, and he went there and he was showing all like, you know,
• 1:37:08
  stuff for, for people that can't make it to those things.
• 1:37:15
  You know, it, it taught a lot of people stuff.
• 1:37:19
  It helped a lot of people. So with that being said, we're
• 1:37:22
  going to go to the tribute to the troops and when we come back
• 1:37:26
  from the tribute to troops, it is final thoughts.
• 1:37:29
  So whatever it is, stay with us. Don't go away.
• 1:37:32
  You're listening to the show that highlights all the
• 1:37:34
  nonprofit programs. You're beyond the VA.
• 1:37:38
  You're listening to the AIDS trains trail with Amber sitting
• 1:37:40
  in for MJ in my face, but I keep on pushing through dreams in my
• 1:37:42
  mind and another. 1 First call. The service member's name is
• 1:37:53
  called out loud in the context of a unit.
• 1:37:55
  This is meant to ensure all are present and accounted for.
• 1:37:59
  Second call, the name is called out again, louder to confirm
• 1:38:03
  that the service member is indeed absent.
• 1:38:07
  Third call. The name is called out for a
• 1:38:09
  final time, followed by a statement indicating that the
• 1:38:12
  service member is not present and accounted for, signifying
• 1:38:16
  their death. The final roll call serves as a
• 1:38:19
  symbolic gesture to respect and remember their service.
• 1:38:28
  Sir, I don't. I don't know how to tell this
• 1:38:31
  story. Well, you got the joke.
• 1:38:34
  You tell the nerd people with these men did here.
• 1:38:38
  You tell them how my troopers died.
• 1:39:02
  Hey everyone, thank you for tuning in to MBR today as we pay
• 1:39:05
  tribute to U.S. Army Specialist Lorianne
• 1:39:08
  Paestua, 23, Tuba City, AZ Laurie was born on December
• 1:39:15
  14th, 1979 in Tuba City, AZ to Terry Paistua and Priscilla's
• 1:39:20
  Percy Baca. Orianne Paista enlisted in the
• 1:39:24
  Army in October of 2001 as a single mom raising a four year
• 1:39:29
  old boy and a three-year old girl.
• 1:39:31
  She was the daughter of a Vietnam veteran and the
• 1:39:33
  granddaughter of World War 2 veteran.
• 1:39:36
  Serving her country was her colleague.
• 1:39:38
  She even served as a commanding officer of the Junior ROTC in
• 1:39:43
  high school. On March 30th, 2001, Paista left
• 1:39:47
  her basic training at Fort Sill, OK.
• 1:39:50
  After basic training, she continued on to advance
• 1:39:52
  individual training at Fort Lee, Virginia before being promoted
• 1:39:57
  to Pfc. She was then assigned to the
• 1:40:00
  Five O 7th Maintenance Company in Fort Bliss, TX for the Five O
• 1:40:04
  7th by Eastuwa. Did clerical work and kept track
• 1:40:07
  of supplies at Fort Bliss by Eastuwa roomed with Pfc Jessica
• 1:40:12
  Lynch. The two became close friends and
• 1:40:14
  often refer to each other as roommate or roomie.
• 1:40:18
  In January of 2003, the five O 7th received war that they were
• 1:40:22
  be deployed to Iraq. Paistawa was still recovering
• 1:40:26
  from shoulder surgery, so she was supposed to remain at Fort
• 1:40:29
  Bliss. Knowing her roommate was anxious
• 1:40:32
  about the upcoming deployment and wanting to stay with her
• 1:40:36
  unit, Paistawa petitioned to be deployed as well.
• 1:40:42
  She told her brother that she wanted to be in a position where
• 1:40:47
  she could help. On February 17th, Ayastava's
• 1:40:51
  parents drove down to see their daughter off to Iraq.
• 1:40:55
  On that day she did a television interview with her family where
• 1:41:00
  she said it's very important knowing that my family is well
• 1:41:04
  taken care of and said with a smile that she was ready to go.
• 1:41:11
  On March 23rd, 2003, the Five O 7th was on a convoy carrying
• 1:41:17
  supplies and they made a wrong turn and missed their
• 1:41:20
  checkpoint. Paista was driving a Humvee in
• 1:41:23
  the back of the convoy. Along the way Lynch's truck
• 1:41:28
  broke down Paista unnoticed and drove over to her colleague.
• 1:41:33
  Get in roommate. As the convoy continued on, they
• 1:41:38
  were ambushed in the city of Nazara in Iraq.
• 1:41:42
  The left tire of Paista was Humvee was hit by a rock at the
• 1:41:46
  balcony. The explosion sent her vehicle
• 1:41:49
  into the rear of a disabled tractor trail.
• 1:41:53
  Paista, Johnson, Lynch all survived the crash with
• 1:41:58
  injuries, while three other soldiers in the Hamdi died.
• 1:42:03
  They were taken prisoner along with four others, with Paista
• 1:42:08
  dying of her wounds soon after. She was 23 years old.
• 1:42:13
  Initially, it was believed that all of the members of the Congo
• 1:42:16
  were missing in action. While being held prisoner in a
• 1:42:21
  hospital in Missouri on April 1st March, the only survivor
• 1:42:28
  from the Humvee was rescued by Special Forces.
• 1:42:31
  The Special Forces team also recovered Price of his body from
• 1:42:36
  a mass grave behind the. Hospital.
• 1:42:40
  Laurie sacrifice for the nation made historic waves in 2008.
• 1:42:45
  Squaw Peak, a mountain in Phoenix, was officially renamed
• 1:42:50
  after Laura Laurie Paista as a was a freeway near the mountain
• 1:42:56
  now known as Paista Peak. The prominent desert mountain
• 1:43:01
  honors Laurie sacrifice for her nation while also acknowledging
• 1:43:05
  her roots and upbringing in Tuba City on the Navajo Reservation
• 1:43:10
  in Arizona. the US Army posthumously promoted her from
• 1:43:16
  Pfc to specialists and awarded her the Purple Heart and
• 1:43:19
  Prisoner of War Medal. She became the first female
• 1:43:23
  service member to die in Iraq and the first Native American
• 1:43:28
  female service member to die in combat.
• 1:43:32
  Lori is survived by her son Brandon and her daughter Carla,
• 1:43:36
  her mother and father, a brother, as well as extended
• 1:43:40
  family and friends. We here at MBR would like to
• 1:43:44
  thank you, Specialist Lori Paistawa for your service and
• 1:43:48
  dedication to our country. You leave a legacy of love and
• 1:43:52
  courage. Our prayers are with your
• 1:43:55
  family, friends, and those who served alongside you.
• 1:43:59
  You are truly missed. Belly cow.
• 1:44:40
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• 1:48:30
  The station where our veterans voices are heard.
• 1:48:33
  MBR talk. Thanks.
• 1:48:39
  For tuning in are those of the speakers and do not necessarily
• 1:48:43
  reflect the views or positions of any entities they represent.
• 1:48:53
  Every scar, every tear got so much more to give.
• 1:48:55
  No pain, No pain. We rise above the flames,
• 1:48:56
  through the fire, through the rain.
• 1:49:00
  We embrace the change. No pain, no pain.
• 1:49:04
  We conquer every change with the struggle.
• 1:49:06
  Cause of strength. We.
• 1:49:08
  Will never. Be the same.
• 1:49:10
  I got to unmute us. We're back, ladies and
• 1:49:12
  gentlemen. Once again, you're listening to.
• 1:49:14
  The trailer highlights all the nonprofit programs up there
• 1:49:18
  beyond the VA. You're listening to the ACE
• 1:49:21
  train show. We had a really great interview
• 1:49:24
  with War Dog, you know, and you know, the key thing out of that
• 1:49:28
  whole interview is resilience. You know, everybody can,
• 1:49:36
  everybody goes through shit. Everybody goes through a hard
• 1:49:40
  time. No matter how much of a punch
• 1:49:46
  you get knocked down. It's, it's, it's resilience.
• 1:49:51
  You know, I, I remember and I don't remember a lot, but I
• 1:49:55
  remember when I first met you, Amber, we were, we were on that,
• 1:49:59
  that futon couch and I showed you what I had sent to, you
• 1:50:05
  know, one of the people that we were trying to get the sponsor
• 1:50:09
  that that didn't work out, but we were trying to get, I was
• 1:50:12
  trying to get a sponsor. And you read that story.
• 1:50:16
  You looked at me and you know, you know what I see, I see a
• 1:50:20
  story of resilience and people, people forget that until
• 1:50:27
  somebody else points it out. And that's, that's, that's not
• 1:50:33
  just me. That's, that's, I think that's
• 1:50:35
  everybody. You know, war dog even brought
• 1:50:38
  up that he doesn't feel that he's impacted other veterans
• 1:50:44
  where he's held veterans, but he has, he has just letting
• 1:50:51
  everybody know, Hey, look, I've, I've went through pain, I went
• 1:50:55
  through struggles. I've I went through my, my own
• 1:51:00
  war in my head. And sometimes people just forget
• 1:51:04
  that. I'm trying to think there was
• 1:51:10
  one thing that taped me and said to me a long time ago, People
• 1:51:17
  will always see you happy, but they never question why you're
• 1:51:26
  happy. The only time that they question
• 1:51:29
  you is when they see you crying. And you know, that's that that
• 1:51:38
  goes, that goes a long way that that that kind of spoke to me.
• 1:51:43
  You know, even even the most successful people, they go
• 1:51:48
  through their tribes trials and and tribulations.
• 1:51:52
  And we have to understand that. You know, one thing that we
• 1:51:55
  didn't bring up is, and I'm not going to mention her name.
• 1:52:00
  Everybody knows who she is. There was an Olympic star that
• 1:52:05
  was recently stopped for a for a DUI.
• 1:52:09
  And the one thing that I don't like with the media is the media
• 1:52:15
  has really been like posting her mug shot.
• 1:52:18
  You know, I mean, they're, they're covering her traffic
• 1:52:23
  stop like they would that like they would cover a, a shooter.
• 1:52:30
  And we need to understand that just because they have gold
• 1:52:35
  medals or they've been on TV or, you know, all this other stuff
• 1:52:40
  like they're, they're, they're human beings too.
• 1:52:43
  They're normal. They're, they're going through
• 1:52:46
  the same thing that they, they are not, you know, stress and
• 1:52:56
  struggles. And I mean all that cancer,
• 1:53:00
  everything it, it, it, it doesn't pick and choose
• 1:53:05
  everybody. Everybody can go through it.
• 1:53:11
  Yeah, they can. And I, I think sometimes we, we
• 1:53:16
  forget that as a society. So it is that time where we're
• 1:53:22
  going to, if I can find it, we're going to play.
• 1:53:24
  Our final thoughts, ladies and gentlemen, the two-minute
• 1:53:28
  warning. 554433211 We have ignition stripping.
• 1:53:38
  It's the two-minute warning, minute warning.
• 1:53:39
  What we learn today, are you not?
• 1:53:41
  Entertained. At Project ML Gratitude, our
• 1:53:52
  mission is simple, to give motorcycles to veterans who need
• 1:53:54
  the kind of peace and freedom that only a ride can give.
• 1:53:59
  And just so you know, if if you didn't know MO grad 2, they give
• 1:54:05
  a motorcycle away every year to a, you know, deserving veteran,
• 1:54:11
  some somebody that you know that has done something in the
• 1:54:15
  community and it's a way to give back.
• 1:54:20
  They, you know, ever since Kim got the hometown hero award,
• 1:54:25
  things have been going great for ML gratitude.
• 1:54:29
  They they received 5 gently used motorcycles here recently.
• 1:54:36
  So they'll be giving those motorcycles away now as well.
• 1:54:41
  Also before I, before I end on this note, I want to put it out
• 1:54:48
  there some feelers that MBR is looking for an RV.
• 1:54:56
  They're looking for an RV so that we can do these shows
• 1:55:01
  mobile. And right now, right now we have
• 1:55:07
  a studio and instead of paying that monthly thing for the
• 1:55:11
  studio, we would rather pay that monthly thing for an RV,
• 1:55:17
  something that's mobile. Because then we're able to go
• 1:55:22
  off grid. We're able to go to other
• 1:55:25
  nonprofit fundraisers. We're able to go to not other
• 1:55:30
  nonprofit events and broadcast. Because I guarantee you that
• 1:55:35
  you're going to have a better chance of us coming and covering
• 1:55:39
  the event then you will like Channel 31 or Channel 9 news or
• 1:55:44
  any other. And that's the ultimate reason
• 1:55:48
  why MBR was created, so that the military community knows what's
• 1:55:54
  going on. You know, I don't know if you
• 1:55:57
  guys have that same issue in Missouri, but here in Denver,
• 1:56:01
  you could be doing something spectacular and it could really
• 1:56:04
  be swallowed with everything that's going in just because
• 1:56:07
  there's so much to do here in Denver.
• 1:56:10
  And when when nonprofits do the fundraiser in the events, you
• 1:56:16
  know, or skydiving or something like that, I think it's
• 1:56:19
  important to show that because you're you're seeing veterans
• 1:56:27
  doing something for the community, a second chance, you
• 1:56:32
  know. So I guess the first thing I
• 1:56:37
  would say is, Amber, what did you learn today?
• 1:56:41
  So I think the one thing I did learn today is, is that MBR is a
• 1:56:46
  very special place and I am extremely grateful that I have
• 1:56:51
  connected with you and become a part of MBR and that a kind word
• 1:57:00
  and telling somebody that they're loved is can go a long
• 1:57:07
  way. Yes.
• 1:57:09
  And so I think that's what I've learned today is, is that
• 1:57:12
  sometimes going out of our comfort zone to tell people how
• 1:57:17
  much we appreciate them is more important than our comfort.
• 1:57:26
  Yep, because sometimes, sometimes everybody, including
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  myself, sometimes we second guess ourselves.
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  And it's really important for you to be that friend that can
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  reconfirm to them that they don't need to second guess
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  ourselves. What they're doing is making an
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  impact. And making an impact can be as
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  little as holding the door for somebody or giving them a smile.
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  You do not know what they're going through.
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  And yeah, so I, you know, today I, I learned that war dog looks
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  great with the earphones on like that.
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  That's what he's meant to do, you know, and I'm kind of hoping
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  that the little, the little presence today kind of started a
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  a fire under his ass and he'll get that stuff going.
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  Me too, because he's got a lot to contribute.
• 1:58:30
  Yeah, most definitely he does. But it is that time, everybody,
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  it is our time to get off here. So whatever you do and keep on
• 1:58:39
  watching, we have some great shows still, still come.
• 1:58:44
  We have veterans talk later on. We also have OM radio that will
• 1:58:52
  be on as well. And I don't know yet, but I
• 1:58:56
  think money in the military, he's going to be debut and
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  coming back on today. Okay, dog tag diva is supposed
• 1:59:03
  to be on today, right? Dog tag diva was on Tuesday, I
• 1:59:08
  thought. I thought I was supposed to be
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  on Never never mind. Wrong, wrong day.
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  All right, why everybody, would that be a sad Until we see you
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  next Thursday, remember, keep your feet on the ground and your
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  hands reaching up for the sky because the Sky's the limit.
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  And they all say we're here for you, not for us.
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  Giving our. Veterans, the Voice.
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  God bless. Ladies and gentlemen, thank you
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  for tuning in to Military Broadcast Radio.
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