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Behind the Badge · Clay & Buck Recommendations

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  Speaker 1: Important thing for me to talk about right now. It
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  Speaker 1: is this book because it's something that's so important to me.
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  Speaker 1: It's not to say that war and the other things
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  Speaker 1: that that we're discussing aren't just as important more so,
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  Speaker 1: but before we can worry about where we have to
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  Speaker 1: get out of our house, go do the things we
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  Speaker 1: do in our lives and try to stay safe doing them.
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  Speaker 1: And there are people out there called first responders that
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  Speaker 1: keep us, really keep us alive. And I wish it
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  Speaker 1: were just personal experience in the sense of I got
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  Speaker 1: pulled over one time, but it's not. It's people that
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  Speaker 1: are really close to me in my life. My brother
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  Speaker 1: in law is somebody that's been an uncle to mey
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  Speaker 1: since I was three years old, a guy that I
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  Speaker 1: went to war with. And these are Indiana State Trooper Fireman.
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  Speaker 1: These are a game warden in the state of Maine,
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  Speaker 1: a SWAT team member near Baltimore LAPD bomb squad, and
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  Speaker 1: their stories are just they're inspiring from a position of
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  Speaker 1: how do you keep doing this every day? How do
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  Speaker 1: you get out of your house every day and drive
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  Speaker 1: your kids to school through an intersection where someone was
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  Speaker 1: killed there last night? Responded to it? How do you
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  Speaker 1: you know, how do you drive by an apartment building
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  Speaker 1: that you've gone through so many times for a drug
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  Speaker 1: overdose or domestic violence or a fire, And how do
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  Speaker 1: you live in your battlefield and get up every morning
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  Speaker 1: and you're happy to go to work and you carry
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  Speaker 1: that weight, not just the weight of your gear, but
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  Speaker 1: the memories of all the things you've treated in your
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  Speaker 1: own community and still function as a dad or a
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  Speaker 1: wife or or a son. And I got to sit
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  Speaker 1: down with none of those people and ask those questions.
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  Speaker 1: We made this book from it, and it's just an amazing,
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  Speaker 1: an amazing piece of history, really,