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Should The UK Enter Israel's War With Iran? Chris Thrall On GB News · Chris Thrall's Bought the T-Shirt Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Good afternoon. This is a gb News. We are Britain's
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  Speaker 1: news channel. I'm nana a queer. It is fast a
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  Speaker 1: boat doing twenty five minutes after five o'clock. If you
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  Speaker 1: just tuned in, welcome on board three o'clock the next time. Yeah. Right,
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  Speaker 1: So let's do this. It's time for this week's Difficult Conversations,
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  Speaker 1: which is with former Royal Marines commander and fundraiser Chris Thrall.
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  Speaker 1: Now he is after running the length of Britain, crossing
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  Speaker 1: the Sahara and even rowing the Atlantic Ocean. He's set
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  Speaker 1: to take on any challenge by climbing Mount Everest, where
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  Speaker 1: he's aiming to raise money for veteran struggling with ptsp
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  Speaker 1: Well pleas to say that. Chris joins me in the studio. Chris,
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  Speaker 1: thank you very much for coming in. You're a really
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  Speaker 1: good to see what fabulous blue eyes? I always wanted
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  Speaker 1: blue eyes. I might try some contacts. I'll probably look
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  Speaker 1: like the devil. Chris, let's talk about it. So you
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  Speaker 1: are a former Royal Marine. Talk to me about your
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  Speaker 1: life and how you got involved and became a Royal Marine.
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  Speaker 2: So I had the stereotypical challenging childhood I guess you
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  Speaker 2: could say quite a turbulent upbringing. It resulted in me
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  Speaker 2: living in a round of twelve homeless for the second
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  Speaker 2: time when I was seventeen, and my knocks on the
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  Speaker 2: window one day and so I've just joined the Rural Marines.
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  Speaker 2: I bet you couldn't do it. So you say to
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  Speaker 2: that if you say that to a angry young man,
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  Speaker 2: I took him up on the challenge and the rest
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  Speaker 2: his history as really, what.
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  Speaker 1: Was it like being part of the Royal Marines? What
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  Speaker 1: was you What were your favorite bits about it?
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  Speaker 2: Well, it's a phenomenal experience for a young person who
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  Speaker 2: had pretty much no direction in life. The Rual Marines
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  Speaker 2: has a proud history. I was at school when the
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  Speaker 2: Falklands conflict kicked off and later got to know and
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  Speaker 2: work with a lot of the troops that were down there.
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  Speaker 2: And you know the thing those guys were. The things
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  Speaker 2: those guys went through just beyond belief. It makes you
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  Speaker 2: so so proud of our forces. And got to travel
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  Speaker 2: the world, got to serve on the front line in
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  Speaker 2: the Northern Ireland conflict, which was pretty hectic, you could say,
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  Speaker 2: which is a euphemism. Things going back and underwent Arctic
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  Speaker 2: warfare training up in the north of Norway, and then
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  Speaker 2: I was part of a detachment on board an aircraft
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  Speaker 2: carrier doing her security.
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  Speaker 1: Now, of course a lot of people suffer with PTSD.
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  Speaker 1: Is that something that you suffered with, and you know,
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  Speaker 1: without being too graphic, were there moments? You know, tell
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  Speaker 1: us of some of the moments that you know that
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  Speaker 1: you saw in conflict.
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  Speaker 2: So I didn't get traumatized by conflict itself, despite the
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  Speaker 2: fact that the chap behind me on patrol dean, Hello,
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  Speaker 2: if you get to watch this, he got shot three
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  Speaker 2: times and then the gunman turned his sights on me.
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  Speaker 2: He walked away. Believe it or not, the rounds hit
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  Speaker 2: his equipment. But yeah, that wasn't such an issue to me.
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  Speaker 2: That was kind of what I signed up for. But
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  Speaker 2: I think the issue that we're seeing here, there's a
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  Speaker 2: definitely a suicide issue in the forces, and I think
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  Speaker 2: it links with a lot of us joined from damaged childhoods.
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  Speaker 1: And of course this is one of the reasons why
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  Speaker 1: you're doing the fundraising to support people who have gone
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  Speaker 1: through PTSD. Talk to us about what you're doing there.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, So I've done a series of challenges over the years.
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  Speaker 2: I've run the length of the United Kingdom road, across
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  Speaker 2: the Atlantic, as you said, run across the Sahara in
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  Speaker 2: the marathon, disciblers, and the last sort of big challenges.
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  Speaker 3: Climbing Everest, I mean Everest. Yeah. So it's been a
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  Speaker 3: dream since I was very young.
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  Speaker 1: And so you're currently fundraising to do that. How much
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  Speaker 1: do you need to get there?
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  Speaker 3: So we're talking about thirty five pounds?
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  Speaker 1: And have you got to go fund me or fundme
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  Speaker 1: page that people can try and help you with, and
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  Speaker 1: how do you get there?
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  Speaker 2: Yes, go fundme is gofund me dot com, Forward Slash
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  Speaker 2: Challenge Everest or. You can just go to my website
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  Speaker 2: Chris Thrill dot com and the links are there.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I have you as a usually very very generous
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  Speaker 1: and they would obviously love to help you. I'm sure
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  Speaker 1: they would. It's purely for charity and to help others. So, Chris,
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  Speaker 1: what do you do in your day to day life?
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  Speaker 3: What are you doing good? Questions?
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  Speaker 2: So I'm a YouTuber, got a very popular YouTube channel,
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  Speaker 2: some wonderful subscribers.
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  Speaker 3: I do life coaching.
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  Speaker 2: I like to keep myself fit and I've written I
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  Speaker 2: think six six books now about my three of which
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  Speaker 2: were memoirs about my experience of ending updown and out
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  Speaker 2: in Hong Kong, and then the Erney the journey from there.
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  Speaker 1: What do you think about today's conflict and all the
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  Speaker 1: things that are going on in the world as you
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  Speaker 1: see Israel and Iran at war, because I would say
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  Speaker 1: they're at war looking at that, obviously there'll be people
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  Speaker 1: on the front line fighting in Kaza and all so
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  Speaker 1: on and so forth. What do you think about the
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  Speaker 1: men and people who are fighting in those wars?
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  Speaker 2: I think was it George Carlin summed it up best.
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  Speaker 2: It's a big club and we're not in it. The
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  Speaker 2: notion that you can send our teenagers to massacre other
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  Speaker 2: teenagers and there's going to be no, you know, no
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  Speaker 2: pushback from that.
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  Speaker 1: Is.
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  Speaker 3: Some would argue is pretty ludicrous.
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  Speaker 2: And we know our politicians won't be the ones watching
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  Speaker 2: the coffins come back, will they? And this is a
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  Speaker 2: different level this kind of warfare. Isn't you know, running
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  Speaker 2: around the desert chasing people with flip flops and rusty
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  Speaker 2: ak forty sevens. This is a situation where you or
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  Speaker 2: I and our family you could literally hear a buzz
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  Speaker 2: and at the window and you open the curtains and
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  Speaker 2: there's a drone staring at you, operated by a teenager
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  Speaker 2: in Moscow or Tehran or wherever it might be.
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  Speaker 3: And that's the last thing you're going to see it.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, well it's frightening if we continue to let the
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  Speaker 2: wall get pulled over our eyes about conflict.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, this is Chris, fascinating, really good to talk to you.
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  Speaker 1: I could actually sit here and talk to you phrases
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  Speaker 1: with a cup of tea in a cake. Sadly we
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  Speaker 1: haven't got time, because I love to hear all the stories. Chris.
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  Speaker 1: Just remind us of Ken about your go fund be paid.
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  Speaker 1: Where can people support you on your next expedition, which
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  Speaker 1: will be.
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  Speaker 2: Climbing Everest, So climbing out Everest next April. I'm looking
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  Speaker 2: for sponsors always. Traditionally my endeavors have cost myself and
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  Speaker 2: my girlfriend quite a significant amount of money. If someone
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  Speaker 2: can step forward and support me, that would be absolutely brilliant.
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  Speaker 1: If you're raising money for charity to help.
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  Speaker 2: Them, Yes, if the good people of the public can
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  Speaker 2: also chuck in, if it's only a fiver, that's absolutely wonderful.
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  Speaker 2: Gofund me dot com forward Slash Challenge Everest.
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  Speaker 1: All right, Chris, thank you very much, really good to
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  Speaker 1: talk to you. That is Chris Thrall. He's a former
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  Speaker 1: Royal Marine Command and he's fundraising for his next expedition
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  Speaker 1: to support people with PTSD.