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  In in 2 minutes. God damn Jimmy, This is some
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  serious formation. Hey, good morning.
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  Good morning. All right.
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  Good morning. Good morning.
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  I'm going to, I'm going to be like Deon Sanders.
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  Where's my theme music? Yeah, yeah.
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  Where's my theme music? Good morning, brother.
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  How are you today? Morning, morning, morning,
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  everybody. We're doing good.
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  It's a 20. 24 Yes, and I just noticed in that opening intro
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  that you have elitch's in there and that that no longer exists.
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  I know, I know, I know. It's a sad day.
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  It's no longer. It's OK, me and you, we'll get
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  together either today or, you know, sometime this week and
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  we'll create a new, a new entire intro.
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  Yeah, 'cause we have exciting news and and we've already kind
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  of talked about it, we got a new name for the show.
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  We've got a new kind of a new renewed vigor for, you know,
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  proponent for vets, being proponents for vets and you
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  know, trying to get as many nonprofits on the show as
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  possible. You know, put their, have a on
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  our bulletin board put their website on there and and just
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  really, you know dig in deep and and and you know dig our heels
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  in and really help out veterans, you know, 'cause that's what we
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  do that's what we're here for. Right.
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  And and we picked up a new sponsor, All right Ltd Tactical.
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  And so, you know, I I brought in my bulletproof vest.
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  Hey, don't don't judge me. You don't know what kind of
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  neighborhood I live in. So I got this bulletproof vest
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  that you have it for to me, for a really good deal.
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  I mean, it's pretty sturdy. Yeah.
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  I'll show everybody. That is a pretty sweet.
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  That is. Set.
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  Up that is, you know and you know, it's it's kind of funny.
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  It's almost like a a Thunder jacket when there's like
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  fireworks going off 'cause there's a lot of fireworks going
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  off on New Year's. Oh boy, was there fireworks,
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  Gunshots. So.
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  You could just hear a clip. Dude, I I kid you not.
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  Like, I had high anxiety and then when I put this on and I
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  tightened it up, I got anxiety kind of went away, dude.
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  So it's like that. What do they call that for dogs?
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  It's like that Thunder. Shirt.
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  Yeah. The Thunder shirt.
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  Yeah. OK, I got.
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  You. I was really surprised on that
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  and like the one thing I was worried about.
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  So like, even if I touch a uniform, I don't know why, but I
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  I get kind of like shaky with my PTSD.
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  Well, you do know why? Yeah.
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  And then and then when I told her about that, she's like, OK,
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  well, let's, let's put you in black.
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  You know, pure black. She was right, dude.
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  I mean, it sounds so stupid and I look stupid, you know, sitting
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  on the couch with my bulletproof vest.
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  You know, I I'd look stupid, but it works.
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  If somebody broke in at that moment, imagine, imagine how
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  prepared you would have. Been, yes, you'd have been on
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  point. That that's true.
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  That's true. But you know, if I and if I
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  drive from here to Walmart with a bulletproof vest and a Kevlar,
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  I guarantee you I'm getting stopped, you know?
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  I I would agree, yeah, you know, people are going to.
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  Look, I mean, it's one for a bulletproof vest, but for you to
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  have a Kevlar and stuff, yeah, that that that's kind of out of
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  the ordinary. You know, and he's got an AR15
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  sidearm. He's got a turret.
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  Just mounted in the bed of your Tahoe, you're going.
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  To get some, some, some. Eyebrows Dude, I I that I would,
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  I would love that. Just like a vehicle with a
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  turret. Nothing on it, but just like a
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  you know, turret and then you can put like a remote.
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  Control an urban assault vehicle.
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  Yeah. Yeah, that's what you want.
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  Yeah. NBR goes Taliban the Rebel
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  Experience. Yeah, the Rebel experience.
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  We're going all out, folks. Oh boy.
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  So, all right, well, what did you guys do on New Year's?
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  We we didn't talk about that. Yeah, we didn't really talk
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  about I I stayed up, actually, I'm a night owl, so I was up,
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  but I wasn't really paying it. I would drop, you know, watch,
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  drop the ball or any of that stuff.
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  But I heard all the fireworks and gunshots.
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  I was like, oh, it must be midnight.
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  Oh shit, it's today New Year's. That's right.
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  Wow, time goes by fast. Yeah, but that, you know, I
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  haven't gone out celebrated New Year's Eve and couldn't tell you
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  how long. You know, I don't drink or
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  anything and I know that's one of the it's not like required.
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  But you know most people, you know, that's why we didn't call
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  our show The Revelry Experience, because it's a different
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  connotation. But but yeah, how about you
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  guys? I just hung out with my family.
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  I know, yeah. Well, I haven't, I haven't had
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  alcohol in a very, very, very long time.
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  And I had grabbed a cigar and I went out with my wife to, you
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  know, she smokes like a smoke cigar.
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  And we sat out there and we were just drinking for the New
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  Year's, you know, and your patio.
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  Yeah, just on the patio. But I can tell you that I had
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  one glass of rum. Yeah, that won't ever happen
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  again. That's a glass.
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  Of. Rum.
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  Just a glass of rum with a with a splash.
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  Or a bottle or something. I don't know, man, but I was on
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  the toilet forever. Really.
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  Yeah. I ain't doing that stuff ever
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  again. Wow.
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  Yeah, it was. It was you sent.
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  Your system into shock. Literally.
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  Well, I haven't drank in a while.
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  And you know, that's what I I started thinking about it when I
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  stopped smoking and then when I went back to smoking it, it, it
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  did something to me and it was the kind of the same thing.
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  So I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm thinking that everything that you put in
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  your body, it has some kind of effect on your body.
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  You think? Yeah, so.
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  And how profound this guy over. Here, right?
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  I'm learning things every day. Yes, how about you there,
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  Mercury? I went out to dinner with my
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  family. We went to Sierra's.
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  I don't know if anybody here has been there.
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  I wish we had a nice little dinner out there.
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  And then I went over to with my girlfriend.
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  We went over to one of her family's houses and we played
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  some board games over there for a bit.
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  Then me and her came home and just rang in the New year
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  together. We know what that means.
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  Yeah, keep it clean, Diddy, we are alive.
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  Yes. We can't talk about any lists or
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  anything like that. We're we'll, we'll we'll just
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  make people upset. Because I learned that this
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  week. I don't know if I told you about
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  that, but I I posted something on my Facebook, something kind
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  of political, and I offended or I upset one of my friends.
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  And so I not only did I delete the post, but I told her, hey,
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  I'm sorry, you know, I didn't think that it would affect
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  anybody like that. So I I deleted the post.
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  It's not your intention. Right, exactly.
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  Well. That's good.
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  That's good that you're, you know, big enough man to admit
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  fault and. Sometimes.
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  Because some people won't take down the post, they won't
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  apologize. Sometimes, sometimes I I just
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  see it from one point of view and I don't see it from another
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  point of view. And I think when you see both
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  point of views, you understand it a little bit, but.
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  Welcome to my world, I'm. I'm constantly in the doghouse.
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  Dude, I am too. So don't.
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  Don't. I don't think you're alone on
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  that. So you are almost out of here on
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  Colorado Media School. Next Thursday.
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  Next Thursday is your last. Day.
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  So what? We won't see you anymore.
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  I'll still be here. He'll still be here.
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  He's, he's, he's doing a show here.
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  Yeah, I just graduate from CMS next week.
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  So are you going to do this show and your show?
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  Yeah, so the the way it works is I'm his sound guy, OK?
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  And then on Fridays, he's our sound guy.
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  Isn't that special? And then one of these days,
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  we'll get you to be a sound guy for one of the.
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  Shows, yeah, you know, I know I've been avoiding like the
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  plague, but I need to learn and I need to call you like,
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  occasionally, you know, just to check in.
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  Yeah, we are. Friends And you're a dear
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  friend, so I don't have a lot of.
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  Friends. I'll just, I I thought I did but
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  I looked around and how everybody's moved like I have I
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  have 10 friends that I was always hanging around with doing
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  stuff and it's it's almost like it's my ex-girlfriend.
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  I mean they just they're they're they're they're falling away you
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  know I haven't, I haven't heard from them in a while.
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  They moved out of state. Really.
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  Yeah. And I thought they would be here
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  for like the the, the Western What?
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  What is? Oh.
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  The stock show. The stock show, Yeah.
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  And. That's a big deal.
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  Here in Colorado, well, it used to be a big deal.
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  But I'll tell you, the last couple years that I've went
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  there like it, it's very dead, man.
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  I mean, even the motorcycle Expo is more popular than the stock
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  show. I mean, I'm not saying that it's
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  not popular. I'm just saying that when I go
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  there, it's not very hard to find a parking space.
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  Yeah, well, I remember back in the early 90s, I worked at the
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  Denver Country Club and a lot of the members were, you know,
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  Cowboys and they would come in with these stacks, I mean stacks
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  of tickets. So I'm assuming they bought
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  those tickets and then they're you know giving them away and
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  stuff And so you know it's I think they've struggled, they
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  definitely the attendance has gone down, but I think they've
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  struggled for quite a while as far as you know getting it, you
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  know attendance up you know. It was Even so popular at one
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  point, like my family went one year when I was really young and
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  it was packed in there. But now, like, I hardly hear
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  about people even going. I see the ads and stuff, but
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  that's like usually where it ends.
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  And they have it at the Convention Center.
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  Is that where it's at? OK, 'cause I know they used to
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  have it at. Didn't they used to have it at
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  the Merchandise Mart before I? Got.
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  I think so, yeah. Yeah.
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  Before they tore it down. So you know that was a that was
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  a big venue and I've been to many events there, but that's
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  gone. So I don't know if they plan on
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  building something new there or I think they are building there,
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  but I don't know what it is. Yeah, I have.
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  I have no idea. I do know that when I was going
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  around with my father and I'm sure that it's not just in this
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  city. I'm sure it's on every city in
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  in the whole in the in the whole world.
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  But when we were going around my dad's like, I remember when this
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  was nothing but field, and now there's housing development and
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  like he was surprised how much shit changed in like 3 years.
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  And I think sometimes we forget how things change in a year
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  sometimes. Yeah, I mean there's mad
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  building, you know, construction going on for sure.
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  I mean how there's a there's an in and out and a Raising Cane's
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  over there by the bass pro shops in the in the Northfield.
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  Did not know that Stapleton area.
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  Yeah. Well, did you know they just
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  built the Clark's? You ever heard of Clark's, the
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  little supermarket? Yes.
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  It's kind of like City Market, you know, it's a smaller store
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  and they pop up usually in little towns, you know, like
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  there's one in Crested Butte, there's one in, I think,
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  Steamboat, but they built one over here in Lowery.
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  And I'm like my wife and I went and checked that.
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  She, she loved it. She goes, it's priceless.
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  Oh yeah, it's little. I mean they got to, they got to
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  make their money. But it's, you know, it's kind of
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  like that Whole Whole Foods type deal, you know, Trader Joe's,
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  that type stuff. But you know, it was pretty
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  brisk, business was brisk. There was a lot of people in
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  there. So they've got a liquor store
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  attached to it and they've got like a juice bar and and and
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  oven baked pizzas, you know, and a brick oven and right there on
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  site in the center. So it's pretty cool, pretty cool
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  atmosphere and like you said, you you, you don't really like,
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  you know, like it's OK. Larry's been redeveloped for a
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  long, quite a long time. But then you, you don't frequent
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  it and you go back, you're like, wow, that wasn't there.
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  Before wow, you know, you're like they're.
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  Putting new stuff in. Here, Hell, when I went to I, I
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  went to my prosthetic guy yesterday at the VA.
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  When I went to him, I looked at him and I'm like, I don't
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  remember a door being there. And he was like, Nope, there
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  wasn't a door there the last time he was there.
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  There is now. I'm like, OK And then, you know,
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  he looked at me and he's like, who issued your brace?
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  And he's like, oh, never mind. It was me.
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  And I'm like, oh, see, we we, we met each other.
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  We just didn't remember each other.
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  And he just started laughing. I mean gosh.
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  It's true. It's true.
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  You know, we we forget people, or we forget things that
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  happened, or we forget who we are.
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  Yeah, yeah. Well, you know, and I tell you
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  and I'm. I'm only talking how much.
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  Oh, we got to go on our first music break.
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  All right. So ladies and gentlemen, we're
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  going to go on our first music break and when we come back,
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  Don't. Go away, we'll be right.
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  Welcome back, ladies and gentlemen.
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  Thank you for tuning in this cold little crisp morning here
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  in Denver, Co got H Train, we got Rebel.
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  Experience Rebel Experience. So we got Caveman and Mercury in
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  the background, looming kind of. He's kind of creepy back there.
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  Talk about creepers. Sorry guys.
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  Keep staring at me. What's up with that?
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  Who, me, Mercury? I don't know, man.
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  And. He's just he's he's just
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  stuffing his doughnuts. You didn't, you didn't want to
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  bet on on like sports or whatever with him.
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  And he's like looking at you 'cause you owe money, Did you?
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  No, I I'm not a betting man. So I learned.
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  I I used to be, but not anymore. I learned my my lesson.
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  Maybe it's because he's a Wolverine fan and I'm, you know,
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  UW fan and I'm voting for the Huskies and he's voting for the.
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  Man, I've never, I've never bet on any of that stuff.
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  Me neither. I never.
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  I never have a fantasy. Football team or anything like
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  that. I used to have a football
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  fantasy football team. I I did pretty good like two or
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  three years and then after that I'm just going to lost interest.
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  But you know the what I was getting ready to say?
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  Ah, forget it. I forget what I was getting
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  ready to say. Dang it.
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  I hate when. That happens all the time.
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  All the time. Yes, I know.
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  All right. Hey, if you tuning in now.
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  Hello. They came on and then they left.
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  Come on, come on, come on. Hit the screen.
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  Stay awhile. Don't be a douche.
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  Yeah, OK. So what's the what did you guys
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  end up figuring out what the, what the segment was going to
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  be? So let me let me pull up this
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  article really quick. So Pittsburgh couple's dog eats
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  $4000 cash and then says that they were able to recover 3550,
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  but it was some dirty work. Like, how do you have that much
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  cash lying around in the open where your dog is going to?
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  Well, and and now four's ran with peanut butter or what the
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  hell did you? Why would a dog eat that much
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  money? I mean.
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  It was just a it was a $4000 cash in a envelope and the dog
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  just for whatever reason, ate the envelope.
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  What? Type of dog was it?
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  Does it? Say let's see.
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  It had to be a big dog and I'm thinking.
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  Goldendoodle. So it's kind of they're kind of
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  big, they're kind of a medium size.
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  We have we we, well we have a standard put at home but he's
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  got he was bred with a a golden retriever and so he's got you
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  know my my niece has a goldendoodle from his litter.
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  But yeah, you know, I mean I the only thing I can think of is
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  they ate a fucking peanut butter and Jelly sandwich excuse my
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  French, just before they put in that envelope and it was you
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  know the smell was on the envelope.
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  He was like, let me eat this. Honestly, it makes a grease.
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  Just will eat anything. Greasy sausage or, you know,
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  something. Yeah, that's true.
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  Some dogs will eat anything. Maybe it resembled food that the
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  dog dog usually has one of his toys.
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  Yeah, maybe he thought it was a toy or.
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  Fun for them, so they. Could have been mad.
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  You know, dogs are very jealous people.
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  I mean, dogs, yeah, they're very territorial, territorial and
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  they get. Young, especially Siberian
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  Huskies. My dog's at home.
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  They get. If you're on paying attention to
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  one dog, boy, the other dogs are, they really get offended.
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  Like, yeah, you don't be paying attention to him.
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  I'm really like sniffing at you and then sniffing, you know,
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  around and he look at you, oh, you've been cheating on me,
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  you've been petting another. Dog you have.
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  You've been throwing yourself around from town, haven't you?
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  Like our puppy, you have to pet both dogs at once in my house or
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  else you're going to get a puppy in your face.
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  While our older dog, he's so chill, he'll just like, he's
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  just ready for the attention, but whenever the puppy sees him
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  with anything, he's like. On it, it's kind of like our
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  pocket bully. If you're sitting on the couch
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  and you're petting Shaggy the the poodle.
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  And then we have a little My son has a a little rat terrier mix.
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  She's really mellow and he sees it.
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  Bodie will, and her name's Lady and Bodie will jump up on the
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  couch and just muscle his way through.
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  Get on your lap. And no, you're paying attention
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  to me. I get all the attention and you
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  know, everyone's afraid of him, 'cause he looks like Tasmanian
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  Devil. So the other dogs are like, OK,
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  couple steps back as I was coming, dude.
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  The English bulldog is cute. Yeah, it's not an English
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  bulldog. Well.
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  It's a pocket bully. Pocket bully.
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  It's. AI think it's a Terrydale and
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  pit bull mix and it's the miniature one.
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  It's the he's he's little man. He's only about maybe that long.
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  He's he's wide, really wide, but he's only about that long and he
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  only he only about that high. He's he's really small.
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  He's the miniature version of it.
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  And you know those dogs go for a lot of money.
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  We got him for. We got him at the Dumb Friends
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  League. My wife saw him on the website,
• 25:43
  put it, you know, interest form in, forgot all about it.
• 25:47
  All of a sudden six months later we get a call.
• 25:49
  You guys sound like, yeah. And they're like, OK, so we went
• 25:52
  down there. Those dogs sell for $10,000.
• 25:56
  Easy. Some of.
• 25:57
  Them. You know and so we got this
• 26:01
  little and he's a he's a character man he's funny but but
• 26:05
  yeah you know who knows why that dog ate the the money but the
• 26:10
  the the big mystery is though is they only got 3550 back you said
• 26:15
  Yeah. I'm surprised they even got that
• 26:17
  much back. They said they sifted through
• 26:20
  his droppings for two days after, and that same night he
• 26:24
  threw up a couple hundreds, so I don't know how they were even
• 26:30
  able to recover anything. So then the the the rest of the
• 26:33
  night he just broke down and. Yeah, I probably just deep,
• 26:37
  yeah. See, that's why I'm.
• 26:39
  I'm. Sitting here being quiet because
• 26:41
  I don't want to sound stupid, but my thinking is if you
• 26:44
  swallow a dollar bill, what does that digest in your that's.
• 26:49
  What I thought. You know, and I'm sitting here
• 26:52
  thinking I don't want to say anything because, you know, it's
• 26:54
  better to look stupid than you know.
• 26:57
  Maybe it's like corn. Kind of thing.
• 27:00
  Maybe it's like corn, you know? Yeah, just breakdown.
• 27:03
  It comes out, you know, whole which you know, yeah, there's
• 27:07
  certain things aren't good for your digestion, so.
• 27:09
  Yeah, I I I figured that, yeah, but dollar bill is totally
• 27:15
  different than corn. But, but, but it also begs the
• 27:20
  question, why are you leaving? Like you said, why are you
• 27:22
  leaving that much money to land? I mean, don't you think you'd at
• 27:25
  least put it under your pillow or hide it in a drawer?
• 27:27
  Or, you know, I don't know about you, but I don't leave that kind
• 27:31
  of cash laying around on the end just anywhere. 4 grand on the
• 27:34
  counter in an envelope. Yeah, you know, I mean, that's
• 27:38
  just ridiculous. Look, I tell you, I tell you
• 27:40
  what if if if I was getting ready to live off grid and I
• 27:45
  didn't believe in banks or anything like that, I would.
• 27:48
  I would literally cut a hole in the ground, create some kind of
• 27:54
  like like a close trap and then put all that money all in there
• 28:00
  in in that one area. There's a lot of that's.
• 28:03
  That's what I would do. There's a lot of older
• 28:05
  celebrities that like, didn't make the change over to like
• 28:11
  digital banking before. Like they waited a little bit.
• 28:15
  So it's just like they had so much cash lying around because
• 28:18
  they're like rich. They didn't make the change.
• 28:22
  So like, none of it's digital and like, none of it's online.
• 28:24
  They just have all this cash. Like, I don't know.
• 28:29
  I would lose track of it all unless I had something like
• 28:31
  you're saying, a hole in the ground.
• 28:33
  Just be like, here's all my money.
• 28:34
  Right. Well, I mean, because everybody
• 28:37
  knows, all right, you go into a house, you know, it's, it's,
• 28:41
  it's probably behind that picture or behind that wall.
• 28:45
  Very few people are going to say, oh, you got to open up the
• 28:49
  trap door through the floor to get to the money.
• 28:53
  So that's the reason why it's sad.
• 28:55
  That's what I would do. And also, you know I.
• 29:00
  Have a wall safe. I was just thinking about, well,
• 29:02
  yeah, that's what I was talking about.
• 29:04
  You know, most normal people have a wall safe.
• 29:08
  The one thing that I wanted to, I'm trying to find it now.
• 29:13
  No, it was it was like a dad joke or I.
• 29:19
  Can't. Oh, I got some news my my oldest
• 29:22
  granddaughter is. It will be 18 this year and
• 29:24
  she's I got the news yesterday that she's on track to graduate,
• 29:29
  which I am just so pleased. Oh, nice.
• 29:33
  And and I don't want to question, 'cause she failed
• 29:36
  freshman and sophomore and junior year, but hey, she's
• 29:40
  graduating. Yeah.
• 29:43
  Well, congratulations. So I had to contact the VFW
• 29:47
  'cause they want to, they want to rent it out and have the have
• 29:51
  their graduation party there at the still waiting to hear from.
• 29:55
  I figure if I don't hear something by the end, end of
• 29:59
  day, then I'll reach out again on Monday, 'cause you know
• 30:01
  those. You can always have it here.
• 30:03
  They fill it fast, man. People.
• 30:06
  The live graduation. Party.
• 30:08
  Well, I'm just saying you can. You can have it here.
• 30:10
  I don't know how you would put everything in there.
• 30:12
  But so I know where we're going after Thursday.
• 30:15
  Let's go. We're going to the studio.
• 30:19
  OK, so this is a joke that a friend of mine sent me
• 30:23
  yesterday. Nice things to whisper when
• 30:27
  hugging someone. You smell different when you're
• 30:31
  awake. Please help me.
• 30:34
  Then smile as if nothing happened.
• 30:37
  Soon. You have lovely skin.
• 30:41
  I can't wait to wear it. Your hair tastes like
• 30:45
  strawberries tonight. You.
• 30:51
  He knows. Don't go home.
• 30:54
  I always knew you would die in my arms.
• 31:00
  This is great. Every time I poop, I think of
• 31:03
  you. Hell yeah.
• 31:07
  Yeah, that's kind of. That's kind of sweet.
• 31:09
  No one will ever believe you. Yes.
• 31:15
  I wanted to get that Cliffs been there because it said cliffs,
• 31:18
  you know. Yes, yeah, yeah.
• 31:22
  I killed the Mufsa Mufasa. OK, Mufasa, I bet you.
• 31:30
  I'm thinking Mufasa. I bet you didn't feel me lick
• 31:36
  your ear. And then final one is nice
• 31:40
  things to whisper when hugging someone.
• 31:43
  Mother told me it would be like this.
• 31:46
  Jeez, I thought that was funny. I wanted to share that.
• 31:51
  I told my friend. I'm going to, I'm going to share
• 31:54
  that on the air. Very nice.
• 31:56
  Those are solid picks, though. Somebody go test some of those
• 31:59
  out though. So how?
• 32:00
  It goes right, we'll just we'll wait for Penny to get.
• 32:03
  Here, next and and on next week's show, we're going to all
• 32:05
  digest a dollar and do a little experiment, see what happens.
• 32:10
  Yes. Or.
• 32:11
  And whatever you do, don't don't go to a woman that has a guest
• 32:17
  shirt and say double DS because you'll you'll get like, you
• 32:20
  know, you'll you'll get harassment charges for you.
• 32:24
  I, I, I I heard about that too. Really.
• 32:27
  Yeah. Because.
• 32:29
  Because they have a shirt that says guess.
• 32:31
  Like the brand? Yeah, yeah.
• 32:33
  Guess jeans. Yeah.
• 32:34
  And then you say like double DS or BS or CS or something?
• 32:38
  I think that's a pretty valid reason.
• 32:41
  Yeah, that's pretty good, though I could keep that thought to
• 32:45
  yourself. Well.
• 32:46
  Yeah, I guess I could see why you'd get confused, but I mean,
• 32:49
  still, you should just. And it's nothing new.
• 32:52
  That's what maul, you know, back of the day and still today.
• 32:54
  That's what maul watchers do. I mean, there was a buddy like,
• 32:57
  what do you think? I think about it.
• 32:59
  Those look pretty big. I think they're C no, that's a
• 33:01
  double D, man. But they keep it to themselves.
• 33:05
  It reminds me of this video, this guy, it was like way back
• 33:09
  in like 2016, but he's just messing around with this lady.
• 33:14
  She's like, what's your name? He goes Hugh Humongous and she
• 33:21
  gets so mad. She was like, Humongous.
• 33:24
  What, are you sexually harassing me?
• 33:26
  Then? She keeps following him around
• 33:28
  the entire building, recording him because he said his name was
• 33:31
  Humongous. Really.
• 33:34
  That's a classic, yeah. I used to have a friend every
• 33:36
  time we went to the ski registration stuff you would
• 33:40
  always look at and say, hi, my name is Dirk Diggler, you, you,
• 33:44
  they get a kick out of it every time.
• 33:47
  My go to is Oliver clothes off. That's a pretty good one.
• 33:51
  Oliver clothes off. What?
• 33:53
  Was the one in the movie. They had one in the movie back
• 33:57
  in the day. What was that one night?
• 34:00
  It was guy's getting on the loudspeaker.
• 34:03
  I can't remember, but he was looking for his friend and so he
• 34:09
  told the girl, can you, can you announce it on the, you know,
• 34:12
  public system, announcement system?
• 34:14
  And so she's over there saying it over and over again.
• 34:18
  We were like, cracking up. She can't figure out why they're
• 34:20
  laughing. That happened to some dude at
• 34:22
  the City Council meeting. Yeah, he's like Dixie Norman's
• 34:29
  one time. You even said Mike Clitoris.
• 34:32
  He's all like, actually. Asking too, it's.
• 34:35
  Getting racy here. Yeah, it's it's a morning show.
• 34:39
  We're getting a little, a little, you know, dark in in
• 34:45
  here. So we yeah, we definitely need
• 34:47
  to turn it to 50 Shades of yellow instead of Gray.
• 34:54
  You know, Mike Rock, I can, I can lighten the mood a little
• 34:57
  bit. So the world's kind of going
• 35:01
  crazy right now for Stanley Cups, and it's not the hockey
• 35:04
  kind. So Target is selling these.
• 35:08
  They're like these giant insulated tumblers is what
• 35:11
  they're called. They're they're kind of like the
• 35:14
  cups you guys got right there, but they're like.
• 35:16
  Massive. Like super big.
• 35:19
  They have a handle on them. I don't know how they're at all
• 35:22
  practical for. Like carrying around with you or
• 35:26
  commuting, Yeah. Apparently they fit in couples.
• 35:31
  Yeah, people are just going wild for them.
• 35:34
  There's videos of like the displays at Targets.
• 35:36
  I just people as soon as they open just swarm those displays
• 35:41
  to grab them. I've even seen there's videos of
• 35:44
  people they're camping outside the Targets so that they can go
• 35:49
  and get these cocks. Guys I don't understand.
• 35:51
  That for a cup. For a cup.
• 35:52
  Freaking Cup. It's like the iPhone release.
• 35:55
  Hey dude, don't you remember Tickle Me Elmo?
• 35:58
  Or or. Or Beanie Babies.
• 36:01
  Oh, I I I think ticker me Elmo is alive.
• 36:04
  There are people that got murdered over the Tickle Me
• 36:07
  Elmo. You remember that craze or do
• 36:11
  you not remember? Yeah, that, that that was craze
• 36:14
  craze. Well dude, I went to the 98 All
• 36:17
  Star Gaming at at Cruise Field and we went, we didn't have
• 36:21
  tickets. We went down there just to take
• 36:23
  it all in and we have our kids there and and my best friend at
• 36:27
  the time and my wife and we're just taking it all in and all of
• 36:31
  a sudden the Clydesdales came by.
• 36:34
  But why's your Clydesdales? And there was a Budweiser
• 36:38
  representative walking behind the the procession and he's in
• 36:43
  his suit. You know, he's smartly dressed
• 36:45
  and we're sitting on the curb just watching everything.
• 36:47
  Wow, this is cool, you know, and getting ready to leave.
• 36:49
  And he's like, how you folks doing today?
• 36:52
  Make a Long story short, he's sort of walking away, turns
• 36:56
  around, comes back and he goes, oh, by the way, go on, join the
• 36:59
  game. Gave him six tickets and they
• 37:01
  were giving every person a beanie baby upon entrance.
• 37:05
  So we all got me. You wouldn't believe, dude,
• 37:08
  people. I made, I think $6000 that day.
• 37:12
  Oh my. Yeah.
• 37:13
  Because people were just going crazy.
• 37:15
  It's that that phenomenon where people are like, Oh my God,
• 37:17
  these are worth a lot of money. And so people are bringing bank
• 37:20
  to the to the game to buy these stupid things.
• 37:22
  I still have. You know, they're probably worth
• 37:24
  nothing now, but I have two or three left in the out the house,
• 37:29
  'cause they're a commemorative issue.
• 37:30
  You know, they had the the red, white and blue with the stars
• 37:33
  and stuff. But yeah, it's crazy, dude.
• 37:37
  People are just going crazy about these stupid Beanie
• 37:39
  Babies. The original NF TS.
• 37:41
  Yeah. Yeah, you know, it's like
• 37:43
  Yu-gi-oh cards, the. Beanie Babies that still have
• 37:47
  the label on that's that's the important.
• 37:49
  Thing the. Label has to be on the The label
• 37:51
  has to be Immaculate. It has to smell like like
• 37:56
  there's people that literally smell it.
• 37:59
  That's my retirement. That's why I kept it.
• 38:02
  Yeah, my grandma in Vegas has a whole glass case just full of
• 38:06
  them. Really.
• 38:07
  Yeah. And they all have the tags on
• 38:09
  them and everything. That was when I, like, first
• 38:12
  found out about stuff like that. Like, my mom always had like, a
• 38:15
  couple of them around the house. Dude, get mad at me when I tried
• 38:19
  to pull the tag off of them. Yeah, Like what is what do you?
• 38:21
  Mean. Can't play with it.
• 38:23
  Remember Cabbage Patch Kids? Those are those are those are
• 38:26
  craze. Oh my gosh, yes.
• 38:29
  I used to get made fun of because I collected Cabbage
• 38:33
  Patch. And.
• 38:34
  And he looked like one. Ouch, Ouch.
• 38:39
  Ouch. But I digress about. 20 minutes
• 38:44
  out, you guys. Know about.
• 38:46
  The Oh yeah, I guess we could go on a break if you guys are.
• 38:51
  No, we have do you guys have the the drop of Mike?
• 38:57
  Well, I mean, we could always. Talk about because.
• 38:59
  Because my only drop the mic was, you know, when you're on
• 39:03
  TikTok or you're on Instagram or when you're on Facebook, you
• 39:10
  know support your people tell yeah, hey, good job, blah, blah,
• 39:14
  blah. Don't be a douche on TikTok.
• 39:17
  OK, there we go. That's my drop the mic.
• 39:21
  I don't know. What do you do you have anything
• 39:23
  for? Drop the mic?
• 39:25
  I do not. I was hoping that you guys would
• 39:27
  come through in the clutch. Yeah, we're we're failing at
• 39:32
  that lately, aren't we? Oh, my gosh.
• 39:36
  Well, you know. We could screen share, share
• 39:40
  with the people who didn't see that game when they're by
• 39:42
  Yokich, that was a. Pretty off.
• 39:43
  The mic moment, yeah. So let's talk about that a
• 39:46
  little bit. So they were down.
• 39:48
  Were they losing, trailing the whole game?
• 39:50
  Yeah, they had the IT was. Pretty back and forth.
• 39:51
  It was just a bad fourth quarter for him.
• 39:54
  It was really the the third quarter like end of the third
• 39:57
  quarter started to get away from them And so with about like 5
• 40:00
  minutes left, they're down by 16 and then they came all the way
• 40:05
  back to win it by three on that game when they they gave up just
• 40:09
  four points and those last five. Minutes in the 4th.
• 40:13
  Quarter. That's awesome.
• 40:15
  That's awesome. Yeah, I know it's exciting
• 40:17
  times, you know, I mean, we we, we don't have anything else
• 40:22
  really to hang our hat on. The Nuggets are it pretty much,
• 40:25
  you know, and the ABS are. Doing good too.
• 40:27
  The ABS are looking pretty, pretty stellar.
• 40:31
  Last night McKinnon, Jerick McKinnon.
• 40:35
  Or. Nathan.
• 40:36
  Nathan McKinnon. Sorry, he hit a overtime goal to
• 40:41
  win the game for the ABS too, alright.
• 40:43
  Sweet two game winners. Two game winners in the same so.
• 40:47
  So the question is, fellas, you guys are sports aficionados.
• 40:51
  Why is it so hard to get local sports in Colorado?
• 40:54
  Why? Why do they make it so
• 40:55
  difficult? You have to have this.
• 40:58
  You have to, you know, altitude. I'm so tired of this monopoly
• 41:01
  with. It's money, yeah.
• 41:02
  Yeah, that's that's. Money.
• 41:04
  Of course it's money. But I don't care about that.
• 41:07
  I want to watch my local teams. Why do they make it?
• 41:09
  When we were growing up, dude, we didn't pay for nothing.
• 41:11
  You didn't have to have pay-per-view.
• 41:13
  You didn't have to have cable. You just watch the games.
• 41:16
  That is what I don't like, The altitude network, like kind of
• 41:20
  cutting off the Nuggets from every other station is kind of
• 41:24
  annoying because there was a while I didn't even have
• 41:27
  altitude. It was like I couldn't watch any
• 41:29
  Nuggets games. Well, I don't have cable, I have
• 41:32
  streaming service. So to watch not all the games,
• 41:36
  but to watch a good chunk of them, you got to have ESPN Plus.
• 41:39
  Yeah. So I got the ESPN Plus, but
• 41:42
  still, even though is it then they have blackout dates where
• 41:44
  you can't even get the game. And it's just so frustrating,
• 41:48
  man. You know?
• 41:49
  That's why, you know, I'm surprised that football hasn't
• 41:51
  gone that route. Well, and it's it's starting to
• 41:55
  go there because you know, Thursday Night Football, you can
• 41:57
  only get that on. Prime.
• 41:58
  That's only on Amazon Prime. That's on Prime Video this.
• 42:01
  Year NBC. They've had at least one.
• 42:03
  One like Sunday Night Football game where it was a Peacock
• 42:06
  exclusive you could only watch. Peacock like the ones on New
• 42:10
  Year's Eve, right? We couldn't even watch it was
• 42:13
  the Bills. I think we were trying to watch
• 42:15
  it on Peacock exclusive. You had to pay the extra
• 42:19
  subscription to watch one football game.
• 42:23
  I told you it was getting to this, though I don't.
• 42:25
  I told you it was getting to this.
• 42:27
  And I also told you that you know how we have Sam's Club, You
• 42:31
  know you have to pay a membership if people keep
• 42:34
  stealing stuff, that's what we're looking at.
• 42:38
  To be able to utilize that store or fast food or grocery store or
• 42:42
  anything, you're going to have to start paying like a a
• 42:46
  membership because that you know that the all that stuff that
• 42:52
  they're stealing, it's going to come down on as sooner or later.
• 42:56
  Yeah. And like you said, I mean
• 42:57
  Walmart has membership now or you get, you know, Walmart Plus
• 43:01
  or you get this, you know, membership hours and you get
• 43:05
  free shipping, whatever, whatever.
• 43:07
  And so yeah, it is going to that, you know, and I think I
• 43:09
  don't know what was it was it you that told me that if you
• 43:12
  order food through Uber or something like that and and you
• 43:15
  know, because they get the tip up front and all that.
• 43:17
  Yeah. If you give a crappy tip,
• 43:19
  they'll put you at the bottom of the list and your food will
• 43:22
  arrive cold. Yeah, they well, how they got
• 43:25
  tick tocks about it, you know, I mean.
• 43:28
  Criminal. I mean, they also got tick tocks
• 43:31
  about this guy bringing these and I don't know, I don't know
• 43:34
  how much of these are staged. I mean, of course it's on
• 43:38
  Tiktok, but it's it's great to sit here and and talk about it,
• 43:42
  you know. But there's people on Tiktok
• 43:44
  that are posting that they deliver these groceries to this
• 43:48
  house and then they don't even give them $10 tip, you know,
• 43:53
  just for the gas alone, you know, And they're like sitting
• 43:57
  there griping about it. And my thought is you know, if
• 44:02
  if you're not if satisfied with the tip, then go out on your own
• 44:10
  and and and do it. You can't expect.
• 44:12
  Get a new gig. Yeah, you can't.
• 44:15
  You cannot expect people to tip $10 when automatically the app
• 44:22
  is charging them $6 for a delivery fee.
• 44:25
  And and you know, H, there are people out there that truly need
• 44:30
  those services. They they're, you know, they're
• 44:32
  housebound or they're better, you know, whatever.
• 44:35
  They can't get out there. They don't have the the ability.
• 44:37
  They don't have a vehicle or whatever they can't drive.
• 44:39
  Agree. I understand.
• 44:40
  But let's face it dude, we're just getting more and more lazy.
• 44:45
  Our our society is all about convenience, people.
• 44:49
  Get jealous. People get jealous.
• 44:51
  They get envy. OK?
• 44:52
  And I was talking to a friend about this the other day.
• 44:55
  Two days ago actually. And like you know you, you'll
• 44:59
  see all their social media posts.
• 45:01
  They're like having a good time, you know, all happy and stuff.
• 45:05
  But like on the other side, they're not, they're not happy.
• 45:09
  They're just, they're just taking pictures of the the, the
• 45:13
  nice things. So we don't know what people are
• 45:16
  going through. Yeah.
• 45:19
  No, we don't. And and and it is sad.
• 45:23
  But that's like my pet peeve dude, Like my son, you know?
• 45:25
  And I'm not going to mention his name Lackey, but he is super
• 45:31
  lazy dude. It just irks me.
• 45:33
  I can't stand liars and I can't stand laziness.
• 45:37
  What is Is he? Is he lazy?
• 45:41
  Or is it that it's hard for him to take the next step when he's
• 45:48
  waiting on like follow-ups like appointments or?
• 45:53
  Well, you know, thank thankfully he works.
• 45:55
  He does have a good strong work ethic, 'cause he does work, he
• 45:57
  works full time. He's electrician.
• 45:59
  But the minute he gets home it's you know, change my clothes, get
• 46:05
  into comfortable clothes and then he's smoking the weed and
• 46:10
  and I I believe he's drinking every day.
• 46:12
  He's an alcoholic but he he's on ankle monitor and all this
• 46:14
  stuff. So and you know probation these
• 46:16
  days, I don't even get into that.
• 46:17
  But probation's a joke. It's a freaking joke.
• 46:20
  But he just just want he just wants to lay around, dude.
• 46:24
  He wants to eat, sleep, eat, sleep.
• 46:26
  And he's got kids. Dude, when your kids aren't
• 46:29
  here, that's fine. Whatever.
• 46:30
  I'm. We're not expecting you to lift
• 46:31
  a finger around this household. OK.
• 46:33
  But when your kids are here you you can't afford to be snoozing.
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  You know. I just want to take a little
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  quick nap. No, dude, you got kids here.
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  You got to take the eye out of the equation.
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  And that's just the way I was raised.
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  You know, you don't, you know, we all make mistakes as parents.
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  We all leave, you know, things left to be desired.
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  But I can't stand that, dude. I can't stand when you're just,
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  you know. And then so we kind of got into
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  it last night and he's like, I think I do a pretty good job and
• 46:58
  I'm like, OK, So what? Tell me this last week what What
• 47:02
  are the things you've done with your your kids.
• 47:04
  He named about three things he he spends more time with the
• 47:06
  little one which is good. But his fifth grade son, you
• 47:11
  know he's at that age where he thinks he's a Billy badass and
• 47:13
  all that but you don't interact with him at all.
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  And that's not cool, dude. He he, you know after my harping
• 47:19
  he did go to his practice last night.
• 47:20
  It was a basketball practice so that was good.
• 47:22
  But but yeah, laziness, man. Laziness is a pet peeve of mine
• 47:26
  and and we our society has gotten so lazy.
• 47:29
  It's just it's criminal, dude. It really is how lazy we've
• 47:34
  gotten. Oh order this and order that and
• 47:36
  get in. You know my groceries delivered
• 47:37
  and my food delivered and you know and and you ever notice how
• 47:42
  the drive through is always packed.
• 47:44
  You go into the lobby the. Empty in there.
• 47:46
  Empty dude. You get your food, quick boy,
• 47:48
  you get. It.
• 47:49
  Now, man, nobody's in there. I haven't eight hour in a long,
• 47:54
  long time. I haven't either.
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  I think the last time I went out was the one with TGIF, which
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  incidentally is closed. That TGIF is closed in Colorado.
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  Oh, we we were like. Dead it wasn't.
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  We were like the last survivors. Yeah.
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  Remember how dead it was? Dead.
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  It was when we went in there, and it's been like that for a
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  long time. So yeah, I I just read the
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  article the other day. Oh wow.
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  They. Closed all.
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  Colorado stores. They closed all of them.
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  All of them. Dang all TGIF.
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  In Colorado, yeah. Wow.
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  Yeah, wow. You know, I'm telling you, man,
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  I'm telling you, no matter what, if if crap hits a fan, we're
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  Welcome back. Welcome back.
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  Welcome back. Yeah.
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  Oh. We had a little bit of a.
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  Technical Oh, we were live. Technical difficulties today.
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  Whoops, whoops. All right, you know what?
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  We have an incredible interview coming up.
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  Play the Play the beautiful bean footage.
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  Yes. Ladies and gentlemen, Vietnam
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  veteran and book author Mike Nelson, thank you for joining us
• 54:24
  today. Hey there.
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  How you doing? Good, good.
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  So, Mike, tell us a little bit about you.
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  You know what? Why?
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  We're having on Tell everybody about your story and you know.
• 54:41
  Oh jeez. Well, I don't know what to tell
• 54:45
  you. I'm basically just a normal guy.
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  I got, we did my military service in the early 70s and
• 54:54
  after getting kind of busted up, came home and did my time.
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  But you know, it's a bit different, Different world.
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  Back then we didn't get welcomed home very often.
• 55:10
  Most of the time people didn't want anything to do with us.
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  And I bought into that for a while, had some trouble, got
• 55:18
  into a lot of trouble and ended up having to work my way out of
• 55:23
  it my own way. There wasn't anybody else around
• 55:25
  that was going to help me. So after a number of years in
• 55:30
  getting my shit back together and I decided to write a book
• 55:35
  about it, and I ended up writing a couple of books about it.
• 55:39
  And that's pretty much my story. Well, that sounds pretty
• 55:45
  awesome, man. You used it in a constructive
• 55:48
  manner. That's awesome.
• 55:52
  Talk more about your books, the titles and and and what they're
• 55:55
  about and. Oh, sure.
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  Well, the first book that I wrote was called Bless Me
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  Father. I'm a Irish Catholic boy, so I
• 56:06
  was raised in the church. And so when you go to
• 56:09
  confession, you open up your confession by saying bless me
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  Father, for I have said it has been the X number of weeks since
• 56:18
  the last confession. So my first book is called Bless
• 56:23
  Me Father because it's the beginning of my confession and I
• 56:26
  tell a story. It starts the story out with
• 56:30
  where I came from which was the mean streets of Chicago inner
• 56:35
  city and my folks were poor. We had a we lived in A1 room
• 56:42
  apartment that didn't have a window when I was little.
• 56:47
  So I grew up through there, and when I went into the service, I
• 56:50
  thought things would get a little better, but they didn't
• 56:52
  get better because I ended up going where there was trouble.
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  And I got, I learned all about trouble while I was there.
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  And so I told a story about that, told a story about coming
• 57:08
  out of Chicago and learning how to get along in mean streets.
• 57:12
  And then I told a story about learning how to get along in the
• 57:15
  service and how to get my way when I needed to get my way and
• 57:18
  how to stay out of trouble. Wasn't very good at that part,
• 57:22
  but I got better at it after a while, and I learned my way
• 57:27
  around. And then I came home and found
• 57:30
  out that the world hadn't changed all that much.
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  And so that's what the first book is about, how I came
• 57:36
  through it all and learned my lesson.
• 57:41
  Excellent. And where and where?
• 57:46
  So are you on Audible? Can we get it on Amazon or you
• 57:51
  do you sell your book at where can we get your book?
• 57:54
  Well, my books are available on Amazon.
• 57:57
  I'm actually right in the process of of getting them on
• 58:03
  audiobook. We just started.
• 58:05
  We actually just started that process here not too long ago.
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  They're available on Amazon and Barnes and Noble and their
• 58:16
  Kindle books as well. And like I said, they'll be
• 58:19
  audiobooks fairly soon and well and whatever fairly soon is in
• 58:26
  the book world fairly soon. It's kind of set like talking
• 58:31
  about the government. You know, they say they're going
• 58:34
  to get to it and it'll be a quick process and we'll be
• 58:38
  talking about it this time next year and it still won't be done.
• 58:41
  Right, right. True statement.
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  And So what about your second book?
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  2nd book picks up where the first one left off.
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  I I didn't have the best relationship with my dad when I
• 58:56
  was younger because he couldn't figure out how I couldn't stay
• 59:00
  out of trouble and and he didn't have much to say.
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  My dad was a man of very very few words.
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  If he could say 3 words when most people would take 10, he'd
• 59:13
  use two. He didn't like people, he didn't
• 59:17
  like to meet people, he didn't even want to get some of the
• 59:19
  neighbors. Well, after all that, when he
• 59:23
  got older and he started getting a little bit feeble, he came to
• 59:27
  live with me for a while and gave me his diary.
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  And he had never wanted to talk about his time in the Army.
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  He never. We'd ask him about it.
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  He fought in World War 2 and we knew that he had been a tail
• 59:43
  gunner on AB17 Bomber. But we didn't know anything
• 59:47
  about it. We'd ask him, Hey, Dad, what did
• 59:49
  you do? Did you kill Nazis?
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  Did you? You know, were you a hero?
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  And he'd always say if you have to talk about it, then you
• 59:57
  weren't there. And so he wouldn't talk about
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  it. And then at the end he gave me
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  his diary. And what his diary was, was it
• 1:00:05
  was a journal of every mission that he had flown as a tail
• 1:00:10
  gunner on AB17 bomber. And after I did a little
• 1:00:14
  research on it, I found out that the life expectancy of a tail
• 1:00:18
  gunner was five missions and he and he flew 26.
• 1:00:23
  Wow. So it was hair raising.
• 1:00:29
  It was, you know, just awful stuff came in dead stick landing
• 1:00:35
  gear wouldn't go down. Lost the waste Gunners, lost the
• 1:00:39
  navigator. One engine now.
• 1:00:43
  No hydraulics, stuff like that. So it No, that's all right.
• 1:00:52
  So if I had known those kinds of things, I might have had a
• 1:00:55
  better understanding of him when I was younger.
• 1:00:58
  Right? All of a sudden, here, it turned
• 1:01:01
  out that he and I were same people.
• 1:01:05
  He'd had the same kind of experience in the service that
• 1:01:08
  I'd had, and we'd never been able to talk about it.
• 1:01:12
  And if I had known that, I could have been friends with him a lot
• 1:01:15
  sooner. And so I learned what a hero my
• 1:01:19
  dad was and he would never talk about.
• 1:01:24
  So in the second book I used chapters from his journal to
• 1:01:31
  write the story that brings him into it in his World War 2
• 1:01:37
  times. And I brought the two together,
• 1:01:41
  his his experience and my experience.
• 1:01:45
  And then I kind of branched off into a frictional account of
• 1:01:48
  what it would be like if a father and son suddenly realized
• 1:01:52
  that they were both very accomplished felons.
• 1:01:58
  Forgive me, but that was a that that that was that was awesome.
• 1:02:04
  Well said, Well said. Sir.
• 1:02:06
  Yeah, so. So it turns into a bit of a
• 1:02:10
  crime novel at the end there, but the first half of the book
• 1:02:14
  is all very factual and it it details what it was like for him
• 1:02:21
  and and how that dovetailed into what it was like for me.
• 1:02:26
  And it's a fun book. It's just a fun book.
• 1:02:30
  Awesome. So do you think that was his
• 1:02:32
  way, you know, in his last years to introduce himself to you?
• 1:02:39
  I mean he gave you the journal and you know and I'm assuming
• 1:02:45
  that he gave it to you because he wanted you to know about his
• 1:02:48
  past and some something about his identity as as a man and and
• 1:02:53
  and maybe he wasn't you know able to articulate that you know
• 1:02:58
  while you guys were both like he was while he was of sound mind.
• 1:03:02
  So you think that's kind of his way of kind of, you know,
• 1:03:05
  sharing himself with you? Yeah.
• 1:03:08
  And and, you know, there was so many explanations in that diary.
• 1:03:11
  You know why? Why it was hard for him to make
• 1:03:13
  friends? Well, he, every friend that he
• 1:03:16
  made when he was in the service got killed.
• 1:03:19
  And so he wasn't, you know, he was, he wasn't friendly, but he
• 1:03:23
  wasn't friendly by necessity. And, you know, and I recognize
• 1:03:29
  now, I'm 72 years old now. And when I look back at my
• 1:03:33
  escapades when I was in the service, stuff that I wasn't
• 1:03:36
  very proud of 40 years ago or 30 years ago, is suddenly you start
• 1:03:42
  looking back on and you realize, hey, you know what?
• 1:03:45
  I did it right. I did pretty good as a matter.
• 1:03:49
  Of fact. And I think that it that's kind
• 1:03:52
  of what happened with him too, was, as he got older, the terror
• 1:03:57
  of it. I mean, I can't imagine being 19
• 1:04:00
  years old and strapping myself into the ass end of AB17 Bomber
• 1:04:06
  where if the plane went down, there was only one guy that was
• 1:04:09
  guaranteed dead and that was a tail gunner because there's no
• 1:04:12
  way out and I can't imagine doing that.
• 1:04:16
  And it like in his diary, it'll say, you know came in plane so
• 1:04:23
  full of holes we can't hear each other on the on the intercom
• 1:04:28
  landing gear wouldn't go down. Lost the waste gunner, lost the
• 1:04:31
  navigator. We go again tomorrow.
• 1:04:33
  Wow. Crazy.
• 1:04:37
  And you know, a contrast different.
• 1:04:39
  A huge contrast difference to their welcome home to compared
• 1:04:46
  to yours. I.
• 1:04:47
  Mean. Oh, yeah, absolutely.
• 1:04:49
  You know, you guys, I don't know how old you guys are, but, you
• 1:04:53
  know, back in the in the 60s and 70s, I walked through the
• 1:04:58
  airport. Back then you had to travel.
• 1:05:00
  You flew military standby, so you had to wear your uniform.
• 1:05:05
  And walking through the airports back then in your uniform was a
• 1:05:09
  harrowing experience. People yelling at you, throwing
• 1:05:13
  cokes at you, you know, calling you a baby killer.
• 1:05:16
  And, you know, all kinds of nasty things that they would say
• 1:05:22
  to you. But, you know, we were just
• 1:05:24
  guys. We were just we.
• 1:05:27
  I didn't really think that we'd done anything really wrong, but
• 1:05:31
  everybody else seemed to. Right.
• 1:05:33
  And you know, we're, we are a nation of bandwagon jumpers.
• 1:05:38
  I mean, you know, you don't jump on the old bandwagon.
• 1:05:40
  Oh, well, that's what we're doing.
• 1:05:41
  That's. Yeah.
• 1:05:42
  And we, you know, and we seem to be a nation of like we listen to
• 1:05:47
  people talk and we don't like, try to find out on ourselves
• 1:05:52
  like what are the facts, you know, I I find that out a lot
• 1:05:57
  with like news media. They're like, really on it to
• 1:06:01
  jump, hey, this is going on. And then next thing you know,
• 1:06:05
  they don't like, they don't fulfill the whole story.
• 1:06:09
  Because once they fulfill the whole story, it's like, Oh well,
• 1:06:13
  that happens every day. So that was so yesterday, Yeah.
• 1:06:17
  Well, yeah, and. And I find nowadays that you get
• 1:06:21
  about this much news and then you get the rest of the hours
• 1:06:26
  filled up with how you should think about that news.
• 1:06:29
  Exactly. Well, I don't watch the news.
• 1:06:34
  So Mike, it's kind of a a side question.
• 1:06:37
  But so based on your experience, I play on a softball to senior
• 1:06:42
  softball league and I've got a bunch of guys that are Vietnam
• 1:06:45
  vets. And I've I, you know, kind of
• 1:06:48
  found out through that those experiences that a lot of them
• 1:06:52
  don't use VA healthcare or even have applied for benefits.
• 1:06:57
  And so I've kind of been they're you know champion that cause
• 1:07:01
  trying to help them. You know the guys that are
• 1:07:03
  willing. Some guys are like, you know,
• 1:07:04
  leave me alone, don't, don't, I don't want to.
• 1:07:06
  But do you, do you, are you involved in that?
• 1:07:09
  Do you have a disability rating? Do you, you know, do you utilize
• 1:07:13
  VA healthcare? Yes, yes, good, good.
• 1:07:20
  And yes, when I got home from the service, I got home in
• 1:07:28
  January of 73 and in June of that year I had my first
• 1:07:35
  orthopedic surgery to correct stuff that had happened to me
• 1:07:40
  while I was in the service. That was the first one.
• 1:07:44
  And since then I'm about to go in for my 22nd surgery in March.
• 1:07:54
  It's already scheduled, but I had had 12 or 13 procedures
• 1:08:04
  already. I've had four surgeries on my
• 1:08:08
  left knee before they replaced it, and three surgeries on my
• 1:08:13
  right knee before they replaced that.
• 1:08:15
  I've had my left elbow completely reconstructed.
• 1:08:19
  I've had my right shoulder replaced and it's worn out now.
• 1:08:22
  So I got to have it replaced again.
• 1:08:25
  And I've had my left shoulder operated on three times and so I
• 1:08:30
  paid for that out of pocket from the time I got out in 73 until
• 1:08:36
  2008 when I finally said I can't cover this anymore, it's just
• 1:08:42
  going down worse and worse and worse.
• 1:08:46
  So I filed for disability and it's it's one thing to advise
• 1:08:50
  people to apply for the disability and stuff with the
• 1:08:53
  VA, but you got to know that you're in it, you're going to,
• 1:08:56
  you're in for a fight. And for a fight, definitely.
• 1:09:00
  You know, I always tell people you know, it's it's it's a
• 1:09:03
  dismal outlook, but they either want you to die or give up or
• 1:09:06
  both. Well, that's what they do.
• 1:09:08
  And and you know, and I've joked about it and then I've said, you
• 1:09:11
  know, they're just stalling you until you die.
• 1:09:15
  Sooner or later, You know, just through attrition they're going
• 1:09:18
  to reduce their obligation. But I filed in 2008 and fought
• 1:09:25
  my way through until 2013, when they gave me 10% and and then
• 1:09:33
  from then on I've gone 10 percent, 30%, Sixty percent,
• 1:09:38
  80%. And finally, just last month I
• 1:09:44
  got 100%. Oh, congratulations.
• 1:09:47
  I've got three artificial joints, two that are completely
• 1:09:51
  rebuilt and and every day hurts, and all because I was in the
• 1:09:57
  wrong place at the right time for about 15 minutes.
• 1:10:01
  Really. You're like RoboCop.
• 1:10:06
  Got a lot of spare parts my the one of the surgeons told my
• 1:10:10
  daughter that when I die, if they melt me down, she'll have
• 1:10:15
  enough titanium to pay for a college degree.
• 1:10:22
  And and he was dead serious. Actually, yeah, he was kind of
• 1:10:27
  dead serious about. That that's awesome, Mike.
• 1:10:32
  It's awesome. So you know long time from you
• 1:10:38
  know the 70s till now and and it's I applaud you for, for, you
• 1:10:44
  know, figuring your way through all that mess you know?
• 1:10:48
  Being resilient. Yeah, being resilient and.
• 1:10:51
  New word for me this week. Resilience.
• 1:10:53
  I just had it. I haven't pronounced.
• 1:10:55
  It correctly. And he used it correctly.
• 1:10:59
  Yeah, he used it in the proper context.
• 1:11:01
  Can you believe that? I'm from charter.
• 1:11:03
  I take field trips. Yeah, but yeah, our hat's off to
• 1:11:08
  you. I mean, not only did you
• 1:11:09
  survive, but you thrived. You you wrote a couple books.
• 1:11:13
  That's totally inspirational. You have definitely got me
• 1:11:15
  intrigued. I'm going to have to go home and
• 1:11:18
  order those books and then check them out, 'cause I really like
• 1:11:20
  the fact that you I love fiction, but I absolutely adore
• 1:11:26
  non fiction because to me when I watch documentaries or I watch a
• 1:11:32
  a movie that's based on fact, I love it.
• 1:11:34
  So I love the fact that you've combined kind of the two worlds.
• 1:11:37
  That's intriguing to me. So I'm eager to to to peruse
• 1:11:43
  your your two books. I think it's going to be great.
• 1:11:45
  The question that I have is a question that came up this week
• 1:11:52
  on DV radio barracks talk that we we do every Saturday.
• 1:11:56
  And the question was do you benefit more self-publishing or
• 1:12:03
  do you benefit more going through a publisher?
• 1:12:08
  Wow, that's a good question. It's kind of a deep one, to tell
• 1:12:12
  you the truth. The thing.
• 1:12:13
  Is is that there are 1,000,000 and millions and millions of
• 1:12:17
  books out there and it's hard to get a publisher to pay attention
• 1:12:25
  you, you know, you can write, you can write the great, the
• 1:12:28
  Great American novel and if they're not in the mood and if
• 1:12:32
  that's not what they're looking for, they're just not
• 1:12:35
  interested. You can go ahead and self
• 1:12:37
  publish and then get into the marketing stream and see how you
• 1:12:44
  do there, take your chances and etcetera.
• 1:12:50
  Both of them are a good way to go.
• 1:12:51
  But you're gonna it's gonna be awfully frustrating because you
• 1:12:56
  get a lot more turn down letters from the publisher than you do
• 1:13:00
  if you get it and they also have to take a look.
• 1:13:03
  I think you know you're you're asking me for my opinion, so I'm
• 1:13:07
  giving it to you, right? Well, you have experience.
• 1:13:11
  I don't have any experience at all.
• 1:13:13
  And that's the one benefit of having a show like this is that
• 1:13:18
  you know? Get a lot of tidbits.
• 1:13:19
  We can ask somebody that you know you has a lot of
• 1:13:24
  experience. With the trenches.
• 1:13:25
  Yeah, that you can help other veterans.
• 1:13:29
  You know, they're they're trying to do the same thing, so.
• 1:13:32
  Sure. Well, here's, here's what the
• 1:13:34
  one thing that I think you got to you got to know.
• 1:13:37
  And I think you got to know it right away is what are you
• 1:13:41
  writing the book for in the 1st place?
• 1:13:43
  You know, if you're trying to write the Great American novel
• 1:13:45
  that's going to be on the New York Times bestseller list, you
• 1:13:49
  got a tough hill to climb. But if you're writing the book,
• 1:13:52
  because for me writing especially the first book and
• 1:13:58
  and the second book, I've got 5 now that I've written.
• 1:14:04
  But especially with the 1st and the 2nd book, I had a lot of
• 1:14:09
  anger that I was carrying around with me for a really long time.
• 1:14:14
  And when it was the quiet times and the, you know, the the quiet
• 1:14:19
  hours in the middle of the night when you wake up with a
• 1:14:22
  nightmare and you walk around and you got all this stuff just
• 1:14:26
  churning inside of you and stuff.
• 1:14:28
  And I found that when I started writing, I didn't write a thing
• 1:14:32
  until I was 68 years old. And when I sat down and started
• 1:14:38
  writing this stuff, it was cathartic for me.
• 1:14:41
  And it was a release. And I got an awful lot of stuff
• 1:14:45
  out on paper that I didn't even know that I'd been feeling.
• 1:14:49
  And when it was done, I actually felt a lot better and a lot felt
• 1:14:57
  a lot better about myself, my situation.
• 1:15:00
  And so I wrote it. Turns out I wrote those books
• 1:15:04
  for me. I didn't write them for
• 1:15:06
  everybody else. And so I tell people all the
• 1:15:08
  time, they're the greatest stories.
• 1:15:10
  Never read. Yeah, that's powerful stuff,
• 1:15:16
  Mike. That's powerful stuff.
• 1:15:18
  And I know we appreciate your candor, you know, 'cause it's
• 1:15:23
  not easy to talk about this stuff.
• 1:15:24
  You know, this is some tough stuff and and you know, we're
• 1:15:27
  guys, you know, guys like to put up a facade.
• 1:15:29
  We're we're taught to be you know throw some dirt on it and
• 1:15:32
  rub it and and get back on the horse and so we really
• 1:15:36
  appreciate you sharing and and and your your complete honesty
• 1:15:41
  that's awesome. And so your other three books,
• 1:15:43
  are they same? Kind of along the same lines,
• 1:15:47
  are they different? No.
• 1:15:51
  No. Yes and no.
• 1:15:53
  No, I mean, they're all the same because they're all from me.
• 1:15:57
  You know the first book and the second book, if you're if you're
• 1:16:01
  a gung ho army guy, you're you're going to find some things
• 1:16:05
  in there that you don't really like very much.
• 1:16:07
  I mean, there's a there's a quite a bit in the first book of
• 1:16:11
  how how I accidentally went AWOL for four months. 4.
• 1:16:25
  Months. OK, I tell the story of those
• 1:16:28
  four months and you know, that's an experience that I'm
• 1:16:33
  guaranteeing that there isn't. There's not another military
• 1:16:37
  person on the planet that had that experience.
• 1:16:41
  I, excuse me. I got to Seattle, to Seatac Air
• 1:16:48
  Base and we flew in from Chicago and it was pouring down rain.
• 1:16:55
  And they marched us out and they put us on these school buses and
• 1:16:59
  they told me to take the bags and throw them in the back of
• 1:17:02
  the bus. And everybody's had their little
• 1:17:06
  AWOL bags and took and walked around the back of the bus,
• 1:17:10
  threw in all the bags, shut the door, slapped the door, walked
• 1:17:14
  around. Before I could get to the door
• 1:17:16
  to get on the bus, the doors closed and the bus drove away,
• 1:17:20
  left me standing there on the sidewalk.
• 1:17:23
  So that was in Seattle. So I got picked up for vagrancy
• 1:17:30
  in Fresno, CA. Four months later, I had walked
• 1:17:36
  from Seattle all the way to LA and then back out to Fresno, and
• 1:17:44
  I had a lot of experiences along the way.
• 1:17:46
  Yeah, that's a book in and of itself.
• 1:17:51
  Right. So that doesn't appeal to people
• 1:17:55
  that are pro military and stuff like that because I was having a
• 1:18:00
  good time and I I I forgot to let them know that they left me
• 1:18:04
  behind. So I paid for it though.
• 1:18:08
  Yeah. So I was going to say what was
• 1:18:10
  the outcome of that? Did they?
• 1:18:12
  I got some stockade time and because I hadn't really been in
• 1:18:16
  the service yet, I still hadn't. I hadn't even made it to basic
• 1:18:19
  training yet. And so they definitely weren't
• 1:18:24
  going to let me out because I, you know, that would have they.
• 1:18:29
  They thought I was a hippie. And so they thought that the
• 1:18:33
  reason that I had done that was because I was a protester and
• 1:18:37
  stuff like that. So they used the stockade and
• 1:18:41
  the basic training to get my mind right.
• 1:18:43
  As they said in Cool Hand Luke and I got my mind right.
• 1:18:47
  All right, I was the honor graduate out of BASIC and a out
• 1:18:51
  of AIT. And so I went to the head of the
• 1:18:54
  class, believe me, and now I'm 100% disabled.
• 1:19:01
  Exactly. Wow, that is so awesome.
• 1:19:05
  So, so tell us a little bit more about that.
• 1:19:07
  So you missed the bus. You're standing there.
• 1:19:09
  The bus is driving away. You're so it's the bus to take
• 1:19:12
  you to boot camp. Yes.
• 1:19:13
  Yes. Yeah.
• 1:19:15
  And So what happened next? You're like, well, I'm, I'm sure
• 1:19:19
  you went some there on the base. You went and talked to him and
• 1:19:22
  said, you know, hey, I missed my bus.
• 1:19:23
  Or do you just say, Nope, I'm exiting exiting stage left and
• 1:19:27
  I'm going to, you know, leave myself to my own devices?
• 1:19:30
  Or how'd that transpire? Well, I was 18 years old, so my
• 1:19:35
  level of intelligence was probably about the same.
• 1:19:44
  And so I was standing there in the rain.
• 1:19:46
  I'm telling you what it was raining.
• 1:19:49
  Chickens drown in that kind of rain.
• 1:19:51
  It was really coming down. And it was about, it was about
• 1:19:55
  2:00 in the morning. And so the airport was closed.
• 1:19:58
  There wasn't any USO office or anything else.
• 1:20:02
  There wasn't anybody around. And so the bus, bus went that
• 1:20:07
  way. So I started walking that way.
• 1:20:10
  And. When I got to the gate, I just
• 1:20:14
  went on out, walked into well, I walked into a a a ways.
• 1:20:20
  I got picked up and I got taken into Seattle and that's where
• 1:20:23
  the adventure began. Was in Seattle and slowly, you
• 1:20:28
  know just met somebody. Ended up going down the coast
• 1:20:32
  aways and met somebody else and went down the coast a little
• 1:20:36
  farther and went to a wedding. Went panhandling.
• 1:20:43
  Learned all kinds of stuff that were pretty good life skills if
• 1:20:49
  you if you ask me, but I wouldn't recommend it because
• 1:20:52
  you sleep under a lot of underpasses when you're
• 1:20:55
  hitchhiking down the highway. And yeah, were you drafted or
• 1:20:59
  did you enlist? Yep.
• 1:21:02
  Yep. My number was the only lottery
• 1:21:07
  I've ever won in my life. My number was 2.
• 1:21:12
  That's the same thing my dad said.
• 1:21:13
  My dad was a Vietnam vet and I didn't find out until I joined
• 1:21:18
  the military. So I told you yet what you mean
• 1:21:22
  by back then. You guys just didn't talk about
• 1:21:24
  it. No, they didn't talk about it.
• 1:21:27
  In fact, I'll tell you a story. The day that I went in the
• 1:21:30
  service, I was going downtown in Chicago.
• 1:21:38
  They have the a fee station, which is the intake Center for
• 1:21:41
  all the branches. It's a big place, so I had to
• 1:21:46
  take the train into town and I had to be there at 6:00 AM or
• 1:21:51
  whatever it is. So I was up before dark,
• 1:21:53
  daylight, and I got my stuff ready and got my bag ready.
• 1:21:58
  And I came downstairs and my dad was waiting for me by the door
• 1:22:02
  and he said I'm going to go with you.
• 1:22:06
  And so he and I rode the train into town all the way.
• 1:22:10
  And as usual, he didn't say Jack shit about anything.
• 1:22:15
  He just sat there next to me on the train.
• 1:22:17
  We went all the way into town. We walked all the way to the AP
• 1:22:20
  center, which is long ways for the train station, didn't have
• 1:22:23
  anything to say, got to the steps and got ready to walk up
• 1:22:28
  the steps. I turned around and say goodbye
• 1:22:30
  to him and he put his hand on my shoulder and he said if you want
• 1:22:34
  to go to Canada, I'll drive you and.
• 1:22:41
  He was serious. He was dead serious.
• 1:22:43
  Yes, that's fine, man. That's that's wild.
• 1:22:48
  But I didn't know what his history was at that time.
• 1:22:51
  Right. Right.
• 1:22:53
  You know, the only people that went to Canada were the, you
• 1:22:56
  know, the conscientious objectors and and the people
• 1:23:00
  that were avoiding the draft. And so I didn't.
• 1:23:02
  I was shocked that my dad even knew that you could go to Canada
• 1:23:06
  and get out of it, let alone that he was willing to take me.
• 1:23:09
  Wow. That's amazing.
• 1:23:13
  Well, before we go to our last question for the for the day, I
• 1:23:19
  didn't know if there was anything that you know before
• 1:23:23
  before we let you go, if there was a new book or a a new
• 1:23:29
  project that you're you're kind of working on that you wanted to
• 1:23:33
  tell us about before we go to the the the last question which
• 1:23:38
  is the time of Shine. So I I wanted to give you that
• 1:23:43
  opportunity. Maybe we maybe we just didn't
• 1:23:46
  cover something that you know, you wanted to push out.
• 1:23:50
  Oh well, that's my generous of you.
• 1:23:52
  I appreciate that the first two books that we've talked about
• 1:23:56
  that. The first one is bless me,
• 1:23:59
  Father. The second one is for I have
• 1:24:01
  sinned and they they speak for themselves.
• 1:24:07
  The third book is called The Heretic.
• 1:24:09
  And one of the things I did when I finally did get my shit
• 1:24:14
  together was I went back and went to Med school and got my
• 1:24:17
  doctorate, and I practiced for 40 years as a rural physician
• 1:24:25
  doing house calls three days a week in the Amish community.
• 1:24:29
  So the Heretic is about, they're just true stories about me
• 1:24:36
  practicing medicine and a horse and buggy kind of medicine where
• 1:24:41
  you walk into a house and you don't know what you're walking
• 1:24:43
  into and maybe you have a baby to deliver and maybe you have
• 1:24:48
  somebody that needs stitches or casting or things like that.
• 1:24:52
  So the third book is The Heretic, and that's what it's
• 1:24:55
  about. It's all pretty true stories
• 1:25:00
  about what what it's like to do a rural practice.
• 1:25:06
  And the last two books that I've written are fantasy books, young
• 1:25:11
  adult fantasy books that I wrote with my daughter.
• 1:25:15
  And she's a, she's a school teacher and teaches ESL.
• 1:25:22
  And so we started when I was writing these other books, I
• 1:25:27
  finished them and I said I'm done.
• 1:25:28
  I'm empty. I don't, I don't think I need to
• 1:25:31
  write anything else. I don't really consider myself
• 1:25:34
  to be an author. I was just telling the story and
• 1:25:37
  she said no, you got to keep writing books.
• 1:25:39
  And I said I don't have anything to write about.
• 1:25:42
  And she said, write about us. And so since she was 8 years
• 1:25:46
  old, every year I would take her out of school for two weeks and
• 1:25:51
  we would go on an adventure. And we would go someplace, the
• 1:25:56
  Apostle Islands, look at shipwrecks.
• 1:25:58
  Or we would go to San Diego and go to the Oceanography Center or
• 1:26:07
  Nashville or the Florida Keys and we would do turtle rescue
• 1:26:14
  every year. A different adventure for her,
• 1:26:16
  just her and I. She said right about us, take
• 1:26:21
  those adventures and turn them into a story and make it about
• 1:26:26
  magic. And so that's what I did.
• 1:26:30
  And so now there's two, and there'll be another one coming
• 1:26:33
  out in the spring. That is absolutely awesome.
• 1:26:37
  I mean, I I I applaud you. You know, like I said earlier,
• 1:26:42
  not only did you survive, but you thrived.
• 1:26:44
  I mean, every time I turn around, Mike, you're surprised
• 1:26:47
  in the hell out of me. I I I didn't think you had it in
• 1:26:49
  yet. Neither did my father.
• 1:26:55
  But yeah, that that is awesome. I I'm just so intrigued.
• 1:26:58
  I can't wait to get home and and order some books and and I got
• 1:27:02
  new reading because I I I can't call myself a voracious reader.
• 1:27:06
  But I like I said, I really absolutely just AM intrigued and
• 1:27:13
  adore a non fiction writing because to me it's real life.
• 1:27:17
  It's about things I can relate to.
• 1:27:19
  You know, military. You know, our whole show is
• 1:27:21
  based on helping vets, helping vets get their benefits, help
• 1:27:27
  them with understanding new VA law, helping them learn about
• 1:27:32
  nonprofits out there that are available to them.
• 1:27:34
  And so this is just right down our alley.
• 1:27:36
  We we really are honored that you're on our show.
• 1:27:38
  We'd love to have you back sometime.
• 1:27:40
  Maybe talk about your new books. And we applaud you for your
• 1:27:45
  accomplishments in life because like you said, you were like
• 1:27:47
  most kids at that age, you know, 18, you get in trouble, you
• 1:27:50
  don't care about nothing, and then you finally get your head
• 1:27:53
  on straight and you start doing things with your life.
• 1:27:54
  So. People tell me the first two
• 1:27:59
  books are real page Turner, so I I would throw that in there, my
• 1:28:04
  partner now who is a retired attorney, she said.
• 1:28:11
  I read those two books and I cannot believe you've never been
• 1:28:15
  convicted of a felony. I love you to death, you know,
• 1:28:21
  and and by the way, Mike, I'm a I'm a retired educator myself.
• 1:28:25
  So my hat's off to your daughter.
• 1:28:26
  And you know, I, I, I, I think she could write a book, 'cause I
• 1:28:31
  know I could, with all the experiences and and and things
• 1:28:36
  that we witnessed and were part of, you know, in the public
• 1:28:39
  education system. Through that, yeah.
• 1:28:45
  So anything else there you want to do, your time to shine.
• 1:28:47
  I think it's that time. It's the time to shine.
• 1:28:49
  This is your time to shine. Baby, it's your time to shine.
• 1:28:58
  All right, Mike, this is your time to shine.
• 1:29:01
  I think you pretty much covered everything, but this is just
• 1:29:04
  your time to talk about anything that we didn't cover, possibly
• 1:29:08
  didn't cover or something that's just you're just itching to to
• 1:29:12
  to put out there on the air, on the airwaves.
• 1:29:15
  The one thing I'd like to circle back to is the question of VA
• 1:29:22
  care. And I have to say my VA care has
• 1:29:27
  been great. It really has.
• 1:29:29
  Once I started getting my care at the VA hospital, I go to the
• 1:29:35
  VA hospital in Madison, WI and it is amazing just it's it's
• 1:29:43
  most excellent. It's tied into the University of
• 1:29:46
  Wisconsin Medical school and So what I would tell people that
• 1:29:52
  are vets and and getting into the pipeline is don't give up.
• 1:29:58
  Make sure that you keep working at it.
• 1:30:01
  Being turned down the first time should be a challenge, not
• 1:30:04
  defeat and definitely continue on.
• 1:30:09
  Sooner or later you're gonna get somebody to listen to you and
• 1:30:13
  make sure that they pay attention.
• 1:30:15
  So I'm gonna ask you this, 'cause I have a feeling that you
• 1:30:18
  have a really good one. Is there a quote that you go by
• 1:30:22
  that that thrives for you to, you know, to continue tomorrow
• 1:30:28
  that maybe one of us that's haven't heard before?
• 1:30:34
  My dad used to say you're not the dumbest person on the
• 1:30:37
  planet, but you better hope he doesn't die.
• 1:30:39
  I love it. I love it.
• 1:30:49
  That was a term of endearment. Mike, thank you so much for
• 1:30:57
  being on the show. We really have it.
• 1:31:00
  Yeah, it was a big pleasure. I haven't laughed so hard in my
• 1:31:03
  life. That's awesome.
• 1:31:07
  Thank you so much Mike, for being on the show.
• 1:31:09
  Yes, Sir. We'll we'll we'll we'll touch
• 1:31:11
  base on on updates. All righty then.
• 1:31:15
  Thank you guys. Have a great day.
• 1:31:17
  You bet. Thank you.
• 1:31:19
  Thank you. Well, that was a fantastic
• 1:31:21
  interview and once again ladies and gentlemen that was sponsored
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  Like APR Person Yeah. Yeah.
• 1:31:46
  Public relations? Yes, yes.
• 1:31:47
  Public relations? Yes, Yes, Sorry about that.
• 1:31:50
  I had a brain. I had a brain fart.
• 1:31:52
  We get a we get a lot of interviews from them.
• 1:31:56
  So I'm going to figure. Out of these books man.
• 1:31:58
  I'm intrigued man. They they sound great.
• 1:32:00
  I especially the first two you know that he talked about the
• 1:32:04
  the forgive me father and then the other thrives in that's
• 1:32:08
  awesome that's. Awesome.
• 1:32:10
  So and people that have told me so many times that I should
• 1:32:14
  write a book and like there for a while I was thinking about
• 1:32:21
  writing a book and then after I've got like, you know,
• 1:32:24
  everything, now I've kind of lost motivation to write that
• 1:32:29
  book. Well, you know, and I don't want
• 1:32:30
  to offend anybody and this is just my personal opinion and
• 1:32:33
  I'm, I'm a newbie, but that's why I write songs, because to
• 1:32:37
  me, it's a lot, lot, lot, lot, lot easier for me.
• 1:32:41
  I'm not going to. And again, there's some great
• 1:32:43
  outstanding songwriters. Obviously we all know songs that
• 1:32:47
  we love and and and the ones that I know personally are just
• 1:32:50
  incredible people. But I just don't think I have
• 1:32:53
  the stamina to write a Popo book.
• 1:32:56
  I can write, you know, 6-3 or four verses in a chorus and
• 1:33:00
  maybe a bridge, but. Oh, look at me, man.
• 1:33:02
  I text you and you have to sit there and Dakota for 1/2 an
• 1:33:06
  hour. I mean, Can you imagine me
• 1:33:08
  writing? A code, a ring when you need it.
• 1:33:12
  The title will be 2% of Americans Can Decode.
• 1:33:15
  Where's my Enigma machine? I need to use my Enigma machine.
• 1:33:20
  Read this. Yeah, I'm terrible at writing.
• 1:33:26
  I I need an automatic decoder when it comes to me writing.
• 1:33:30
  And yeah, it's sad. Like I got Grammarly the other
• 1:33:34
  day. It was like.
• 1:33:35
  You do voice to text. That's the.
• 1:33:36
  Big part of it. Well, maybe you're.
• 1:33:39
  Like talking like this all the time, of course.
• 1:33:40
  It's going to make maybe. But when Grammarly tells me,
• 1:33:44
  hey, congratulations, you graduated in the ninth grade, I
• 1:33:46
  don't think that's a positive, you know, explanation.
• 1:33:50
  Try to find some positivity in there, so come on.
• 1:33:54
  Dude, hey, last week I was six. Yeah, last time I was 6th grade,
• 1:33:58
  so. You're making progress.
• 1:33:59
  Oh man, oh dude. I got to tell you before we go
• 1:34:03
  to break, I I am. I hope I don't say this wrong
• 1:34:08
  and you know, ruin the punchline, but I I heard of the
• 1:34:12
  best dad joke two days ago. How does a pirate know that
• 1:34:19
  they're a pirate? They are just are.
• 1:34:29
  I have a feeling I I screwed up that punch line, but it was
• 1:34:34
  worth a shot. And So what was it supposed to
• 1:34:36
  be saying? They are who they are.
• 1:34:38
  Yeah, they are. They are who they are.
• 1:34:41
  Gotcha. No, you didn't mess it.
• 1:34:43
  Up. OK, All right.
• 1:34:45
  And then there was one that I read today that it's it's, it's
• 1:34:52
  nice being left-handed because they're always right.
• 1:34:58
  Or it is something like a joke or whatever.
• 1:35:00
  So maybe it was See, This is why I don't tell jokes.
• 1:35:06
  This is why I don't tell jokes. So now what?
• 1:35:09
  I always. Got.
• 1:35:11
  To write it down, you don't have your mic on, yeah, yeah.
• 1:35:17
  How about now? OK, that's the one with the
• 1:35:19
  stuck button. That's the one with the stuck
• 1:35:22
  button. He's got to have a note card
• 1:35:25
  because I always forget, oh man, I have to write it down or else
• 1:35:28
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• 1:35:31
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• 1:35:39
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• 1:35:56
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• 1:36:00
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  be able to do is the sponsorship every month is going to help
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  facilitate I believe an interface and a microphone for
• 1:37:29
  each veteran so that you know they have sound equipment and
• 1:37:32
  stuff. So that's a big, huge thing when
• 1:37:36
  we get these sponsors. That's where we're heading with
• 1:37:38
  it. And then if you don't know
• 1:37:41
  Justin, dangerly look him up on TikTok.
• 1:37:45
  It was very hilarious. He did a bet against I, I forget
• 1:37:51
  his name, Scott something that the Wolverines was going to
• 1:37:56
  lose. If you didn't check out the what
• 1:37:59
  was it, the Rose Bowl. If you didn't check it out,
• 1:38:02
  Michigan won. And now Michigan goes to the
• 1:38:06
  national championship, right? OK.
• 1:38:09
  All right. So it was on Monday at ESPN at.
• 1:38:16
  Like 615th. Yeah, something like that.
• 1:38:18
  OK, All right. And so it was funny, if you look
• 1:38:22
  at a TikTok Justin, which is he's active duty Air Force.
• 1:38:28
  That's the reason why I want to bring it up.
• 1:38:31
  Have a great scene of him with the Michigan jersey on singing
• 1:38:36
  victory with Depends diapers on with and.
• 1:38:40
  He soiled himself. No, no, he didn't soil himself.
• 1:38:44
  But you know, look, if anybody ever does a bet and you wear
• 1:38:51
  diapers, you have to wear the white diapers.
• 1:38:54
  OK, that. Depends.
• 1:38:57
  The graze doesn't cut it. That doesn't cut it.
• 1:38:59
  No, I want cloth. Right, exactly with.
• 1:39:02
  The big you know. Right.
• 1:39:05
  What do they call those Bobby pin in the front?
• 1:39:07
  Eight mile style. Yeah, eight mile style.
• 1:39:11
  There you go. Yeah, exactly.
• 1:39:13
  You know, and you can you can put a wife beater on for you
• 1:39:18
  know, extra measure, but yeah, for sure funny moment.
• 1:39:22
  If you want a good laugh check it out on Tiktok.
• 1:39:26
  Other than that, before we go tribute to troop, do you have
• 1:39:30
  anything that you wanted to? Bring out.
• 1:39:33
  I want to say that you know that wife Peter comment you just
• 1:39:35
  made. Wife beaters are offended by
• 1:39:37
  that. So, you know, you might want to
• 1:39:38
  think. Oh, no, that's true.
• 1:39:41
  See, This is why it's just don't talk.
• 1:39:46
  This is why you guys show Wednesday will be really good.
• 1:39:49
  I don't talk. I'm just a sound guy.
• 1:39:55
  The fans love hearing Joel. Don't worry, yeah.
• 1:39:59
  Oh yeah, all. Right.
• 1:40:00
  Well, well, we What are we doing?
• 1:40:02
  Again. All right.
• 1:40:02
  Well, ladies and gentlemen, we're it's that time then we're
• 1:40:06
  going to go to Tribute to the Troops.
• 1:40:08
  Let's try to. Speak in a bit.
• 1:40:12
  I don't know how to tell the story.
• 1:40:14
  Well, you got to Joe. He's telling their people what
• 1:40:18
  these men do here. You tell them how my troopers
• 1:40:20
  died. Friends and family, thank you
• 1:40:42
  for tuning in today as MBR pays tribute to Army Staff Sergeant
• 1:40:46
  Matthew Q Mcclintock, 30, of Albuquerque, NM, who died
• 1:40:51
  January 5th, 2016 in Afghanistan.
• 1:40:54
  Mcclintock was assigned to 1st Battalion, 19th Special Forces
• 1:40:58
  Group in Buckley, WA. Mcclintock joined the Army in
• 1:41:02
  2006 and deployed to Iraq in 2007.
• 1:41:06
  He was also deployed to Afghanistan from August 2012 to
• 1:41:09
  May 2013. In 2014, he left active duty and
• 1:41:14
  became part of the Washington Guard.
• 1:41:16
  Mcclintock is survived by his wife, son and parents at the
• 1:41:19
  time of his death. On behalf of everyone here at
• 1:41:23
  MBR, we want to thank you Staff Sergeant Matthew Hugh
• 1:41:26
  Mcclintock, for your service and dedication to this country.
• 1:41:30
  Our thoughts and prayers are with your friends and family.
• 1:46:02
  Hey, there we go. We finally got it.
• 1:46:06
  That was, that was a great one, that.
• 1:46:07
  Was a great one on point on point, Mike.
• 1:46:12
  That was nice. We're so proud of you.
• 1:46:13
  Oh man. OK so I wouldn't say it is kind
• 1:46:18
  of like a drop of my I I I want to ask you guys because you guys
• 1:46:22
  are sports guys. This last Sunday, this last
• 1:46:28
  Sunday, the Ravens welcomed Hall of Fame legend did a whole
• 1:46:34
  promotion thing. It was Ray Rice.
• 1:46:39
  Now Ray Lewis. Ray Ray Rice.
• 1:46:45
  They who's? The worst villain?
• 1:46:47
  Well, I was going to say is both of them.
• 1:46:49
  Technically they are never convicted, but society has
• 1:46:53
  already convict them. I think Ray Lewis is a little
• 1:46:57
  different than the Ray Rice thing, but.
• 1:47:00
  Yeah, Ray Rice is kind of cut and drowned when you.
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  Got a? Video Yeah, Yeah, it's kind of
• 1:47:06
  hard. To tell you.
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  True to to to deny that, you know, But I don't really even
• 1:47:11
  know that that. Do you guys know the details of
• 1:47:13
  Ray Lewis? I know.
• 1:47:14
  You I don't. Charge a double murder or
• 1:47:16
  something like that, but I don't remember.
• 1:47:17
  What Something about a white suit?
• 1:47:22
  I need to try and remember the story, 'cause it was the same
• 1:47:24
  season that they were going to the Super Bowl.
• 1:47:26
  Yes. Was like when it was getting
• 1:47:28
  like, big, yeah. Dang.
• 1:47:31
  And he went out with a bang, 'cause he had already announced
• 1:47:33
  his retirement. Yeah, so that was his last year.
• 1:47:36
  And they're gonna go for the gusto and.
• 1:47:38
  And you know what A way to go out.
• 1:47:39
  You know, beat a double murderer app, announce your retirement
• 1:47:43
  and win the Super Bowl. I'm going to Disney World.
• 1:47:47
  Look it up really quick actually.
• 1:47:50
  Right. Well, you know, I was just
• 1:47:52
  wondering because, you know, again, whenever you post
• 1:47:56
  something on Facebook, you have that 80% chance that everybody's
• 1:48:00
  going to agree with you and you have that 40% chance you're
• 1:48:03
  going to be trolled for the next month and 1/2.
• 1:48:06
  Well, let's table that if, if, unless he can find it.
• 1:48:09
  But while he's doing that, I want to ask you guys about
• 1:48:12
  current day Ravens. So they played three top tier
• 1:48:16
  teams last three weeks and killed them.
• 1:48:20
  So that being said, do we think the Ravens are going to be in
• 1:48:24
  the Super Bowl for the AFC? It looks like it just because
• 1:48:27
  they're one of the more consistent teams this season,
• 1:48:31
  but the way that it's been turning out, like any, it's up
• 1:48:35
  for grabs for any team that's in it right now.
• 1:48:37
  Mark the date right now. I'm telling you right now, he's
• 1:48:43
  not real. No, I'm telling you right now
• 1:48:46
  that for the Super Bowl, it's going to be the Ravens against
• 1:48:50
  the Browns. No, dude, they're in the same
• 1:48:52
  division. They can't.
• 1:48:53
  That could be the AFC Championship.
• 1:48:55
  You said this like, damn TBI, but that would be a good AFC
• 1:49:03
  championship. That would.
• 1:49:04
  What would be great about that? Joe Flacco going back to the
• 1:49:09
  Yeah, that would be crazy. Crazy, crazy, crazy.
• 1:49:14
  And and and then the NFC. What are your you know?
• 1:49:16
  What are your thoughts on the NFC?
• 1:49:18
  They, the 49ers look like they're the most consistent.
• 1:49:21
  I think they just need to stay healthy and they'll be in it
• 1:49:24
  you. Think Purdy's got it in them?
• 1:49:26
  I mean, they did it with the backup that one year, so I mean
• 1:49:31
  can't put out anyone honestly. No, like you said, I I agree
• 1:49:34
  with you. Your analysis your your analysis
• 1:49:36
  of the it's basically up for grabs.
• 1:49:38
  There's no one that really comes to the 4th.
• 1:49:40
  I mean, yeah, there's teams that are like, man, this guy's really
• 1:49:43
  good. They did this, but it it anybody
• 1:49:46
  could take it if if they truly want you know, like you you,
• 1:49:49
  you, Dallas comes out and they look unbeatable and then the
• 1:49:51
  next and then they lose to a you know a A2 and 11 team or
• 1:49:54
  something. They're like what the?
• 1:49:56
  How's the difference This season?
• 1:49:57
  For me, it just seemed like every team is competitive.
• 1:50:01
  Like every team didn't want to have a bad record.
• 1:50:04
  Well, I mean, if the Broncos are any indication, they were what
• 1:50:07
  they were seven and seven and and still on the hunt.
• 1:50:11
  And then they went 7:00 and 8:00 and had last week they won.
• 1:50:15
  You know, which is right. If Pittsburgh had lost and oh,
• 1:50:20
  forget about Pittsburgh. That was our playoff host.
• 1:50:22
  But. Kansas City had.
• 1:50:23
  Kansas City had lost the last two games and we won the last.
• 1:50:26
  We would have won the division, yeah.
• 1:50:28
  It's so crazy to think about that.
• 1:50:31
  It's crazy to think about that, about the.
• 1:50:34
  Beauty of the sport, there's, yeah, any given Sunday.
• 1:50:36
  Because, yeah, yeah. It's just ridiculous to think
• 1:50:38
  that one game can make a difference.
• 1:50:40
  Yeah, 'cause that's ultimately that's what it was.
• 1:50:44
  Was one game, you know, I mean do you think they would have if
• 1:50:49
  they even even Russell Wilson said that he kind of overlooked
• 1:50:54
  the the the Detroit Lion. Was it the Detroit Lions or was
• 1:51:00
  it the team after that Patriots. Yeah, he said that he even
• 1:51:04
  overlooks the Patriots. But even if they won that game I
• 1:51:07
  I I still think they would have been.
• 1:51:11
  I don't know. Because Kansas City, I mean,
• 1:51:16
  hell, they won. So we would sit here questioning
• 1:51:21
  ifs and wins if Kansas City had lost, But since they didn't, I
• 1:51:27
  don't think anybody's talking about it.
• 1:51:29
  And see, more than the the Browns, I'm looking at like the
• 1:51:32
  Buffalo Bills. I think they're they're a strong
• 1:51:34
  contender for AFC champion you know chip game or the Super Bowl
• 1:51:39
  and they got. To make the.
• 1:51:41
  Playoffs still? Yeah.
• 1:51:42
  They're still in the bubble, yeah.
• 1:51:43
  Well, I I know there are a lot of people pissed off that
• 1:51:46
  Mahomes made the Pro Bowl and Josh Allen didn't, right?
• 1:51:50
  Yeah, I. Think it's just being the NFL
• 1:51:54
  Golden Boy? That's why Mahomes.
• 1:51:56
  And I was surprised that Denver had any Pro Bowlers.
• 1:51:59
  Honestly, I was really surprised because.
• 1:52:02
  The Denver defense deserves Pro Bowl.
• 1:52:04
  They deserve their praise. They do.
• 1:52:06
  They did some incredible things this year and and they they kept
• 1:52:10
  us in it this season. Yeah, without without those
• 1:52:14
  close, like good defensive possessions, like being able to
• 1:52:17
  get stops in games, there wouldn't be no, there would be
• 1:52:21
  no chance of like a one point victory or like getting those
• 1:52:24
  game-winning field goals. But I thought the only people
• 1:52:27
  that made the Pro Bowl for the Broncos, it was 3.
• 1:52:31
  Wide receivers? No, it was Patrick.
• 1:52:33
  Sir Tanner, our cornerback. OK, free safety Justin Simmons.
• 1:52:38
  OK and. That rookie wide receiver?
• 1:52:39
  Marvin Mintz? He made it as a return special.
• 1:52:42
  OK. And I know, man.
• 1:52:44
  Are you? Kidding me.
• 1:52:45
  The guy that can't hold on to the ball.
• 1:52:47
  What game was that? Was that New England where he
• 1:52:49
  fumble the ball, then he recovered it, then he fumble it
• 1:52:53
  again and they scored a touchdown.
• 1:52:54
  I'm like, Oh my God, this guy. Yeah, I mean, I'm not taking
• 1:52:57
  anything from his world class speed, but the guy cannot own on
• 1:52:59
  the ball, get a lot of ball. Maybe the vote was before that
• 1:53:02
  game, yeah. I.
• 1:53:08
  Did I did? Think trouble voting was closed
• 1:53:10
  when that game occurred? Probably.
• 1:53:12
  Oh, shit. I'm glad I didn't screw up this
• 1:53:13
  this week. You know, kind of thing.
• 1:53:16
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  You can. Yeah, sorry about that, folks
• 1:53:56
  got a little eager, but we were talking about it earlier TikTok
• 1:54:00
  time about the weather and about the mild winter.
• 1:54:04
  And if you're a sports, winter, sports enthusiast, you're up in
• 1:54:07
  arms right now, 'cause it's like, you know, I I like I'd
• 1:54:11
  plan at least three to four trips a a season to go to
• 1:54:15
  another town and ski for the week.
• 1:54:17
  And and you know, it's I've gone, I I went one, I've gone up
• 1:54:22
  one time. Usually by end of the year I've
• 1:54:25
  got at least eight, eight to 10 visits in.
• 1:54:28
  Well, you know why you're so upset about it, right, is
• 1:54:31
  because you you're a hunter. You paid for A tag, went
• 1:54:36
  hunting, and if I'm not mistaken, you didn't.
• 1:54:39
  You didn't catch anything, so you felt like you wasted time.
• 1:54:42
  You don't catch a deer. And I did get a buck this year,
• 1:54:47
  thank you very much. OK.
• 1:54:49
  And actually you enjoyed it at the football game anyway.
• 1:54:55
  I'm talking about skiing. I, I ride a ski bike and you
• 1:54:59
  know it's just been a dismal year.
• 1:55:00
  I I'm, I'm, I'm, you know, and they kept saying, Oh well you
• 1:55:04
  know December is going to be a great winter, snowy month, you
• 1:55:07
  know, oh, in the new year, still waiting, still waiting.
• 1:55:12
  I talked to my buddy last night losing Crested Butte and he's
• 1:55:14
  like, dude, I've still got bare ground.
• 1:55:17
  He goes because I was planning on going up in a couple weeks,
• 1:55:21
  spend a week in Crested Butte. He's like, you're going to come,
• 1:55:24
  dude, but you're going to be spending a lot of time by the
• 1:55:26
  fire, 'cause it's just not, there's no snow, so.
• 1:55:30
  How that sucks. And that's incredible.
• 1:55:31
  You. Yeah.
• 1:55:32
  Usually they get. Yeah, usually they get hit
• 1:55:35
  harder than all the Well, here's the here's the test.
• 1:55:39
  Have you went up to copper yet? No, I haven't.
• 1:55:42
  I can tell you I've had one. I've had one trip.
• 1:55:45
  I went to Keystone and it was, to be honest with you that day,
• 1:55:48
  It was probably 2 weeks ago in December.
• 1:55:52
  I was pleasantly surprised. It was.
• 1:55:54
  There was some icy spots, but no bare ground, no rocks and very
• 1:55:58
  little open though. I mean there was only a few runs
• 1:56:00
  open, but, but I mean, it was a good day.
• 1:56:02
  I had a good day. I was.
• 1:56:03
  I was pleasantly surprised. Do me a favor.
• 1:56:06
  Google. Google the, the, the hill bases
• 1:56:12
  for first. Oh, you got it right there.
• 1:56:15
  I was just gonna say, 'cause I guarantee you, if we look it up,
• 1:56:20
  that copper's going to be the most, I don't know why.
• 1:56:24
  I think my view is because copper is the highest mountain
• 1:56:29
  out of all the other ski resorts other than Aspen.
• 1:56:33
  I think Aspen's higher. So Crested Butte got one inch
• 1:56:36
  last night. Beaver Creek got 3.
• 1:56:39
  Right. But what's their base?
• 1:56:40
  That's the thing that we're worried.
• 1:56:41
  About 3 inches. Queso got two.
• 1:56:44
  It's so picky. This guy knows our base.
• 1:56:48
  All right, hold on. I got to bring up a different.
• 1:56:50
  Well, you know, because. Info on the Ray Lewis.
• 1:56:54
  Oh, good, good, good. And we'll cover that in just a
• 1:56:56
  SEC. So, so Winter Park has, which
• 1:56:59
  makes no sense, a 35 to 32 inch base.
• 1:57:02
  It's 5 inches New snow Breck. It's got 27 inch base, 3 inches
• 1:57:08
  copper, 28 to 29 inch base, three new 3-3 inches of new
• 1:57:13
  snow. Yeah, Vale's got 37 inch base
• 1:57:17
  two inches, Beavercreek 35, three inches, Crested Butte 31
• 1:57:22
  one inch and Keystone 26 and two inches.
• 1:57:26
  Now you would not believe, but there's a lot of people that
• 1:57:29
  would listen to the show just to hear the bases.
• 1:57:33
  Yeah. So we need to start including
• 1:57:34
  that more often. Yeah, probably.
• 1:57:36
  You know, I was just thinking about that like, yeah, because
• 1:57:39
  you know, when I used to, before I skied competitively, I used to
• 1:57:44
  look at which mountain I had. I had Copper and Winter Park and
• 1:57:48
  then I had the the five veil. Back then.
• 1:57:53
  It was like a a traumatic brain injury program.
• 1:57:57
  And you got all those for for nothing.
• 1:58:00
  I don't know if they still do that.
• 1:58:04
  I got mine through Brain Injuries Association of
• 1:58:07
  Colorado. So if you have a traumatic brain
• 1:58:10
  injury in your military or you or you're a civilian, it's a
• 1:58:15
  really good nonprofit organization that will help you
• 1:58:19
  advocate different avenues, you know?
• 1:58:23
  Well, you just finished your hyperbaric chamber treatment
• 1:58:26
  now, is there option for you to continue that or is it out of
• 1:58:29
  pocket? From what I understand, they
• 1:58:34
  basically Tricare and then told me don't worry about it.
• 1:58:37
  Oh OK, so I have no idea. I I got to be honest, I have no
• 1:58:40
  idea. Keep us posted.
• 1:58:41
  I know that I'm supposed to wait for like two or three months and
• 1:58:45
  then they want me to go to another 20 to 30 sessions and
• 1:58:52
  then. Right, right.
• 1:58:53
  So it's community care. Yeah.
• 1:58:55
  So real quick, Caveman, what'd you find?
• 1:58:58
  Yes. So initially he was charged with
• 1:59:02
  the murder of two people, but was eventually a witness in the
• 1:59:08
  case along with two of his companions.
• 1:59:13
  OK. So I actually don't know who was
• 1:59:16
  actually charged with the murder, but he was a witness in
• 1:59:19
  the case. It's like the Tupac case.
• 1:59:21
  So they kind of jumped the gun and and and pinned it on him or
• 1:59:25
  or named him in the indictment and then they realized further
• 1:59:28
  investigation revealed that oh, and he was he was there, but he
• 1:59:31
  didn't. Doesn't that make him an
• 1:59:33
  accomplice? It could.
• 1:59:35
  I mean, it could. Yeah, yeah.
• 1:59:39
  Sign some autographs. The.
• 1:59:43
  Judges. Use them in Darth.
• 1:59:44
  Hard raising span. Yeah.
• 1:59:49
  All right. Before we go, anything that you
• 1:59:51
  guys learned today, I. Guess Didn't really learn it,
• 1:59:55
  but it's just like a reminder of how people treated the people
• 1:59:59
  coming back from Vietnam. Oh my God, very different time.
• 2:00:02
  Very different cause like when they you know they they say that
• 2:00:05
  the World War Two was the greatest heroes in the history
• 2:00:08
  of our nation and they rolled out the red carpet for those
• 2:00:12
  guys which deservedly so they did.
• 2:00:14
  They deserved it just like our Vietnam vets.
• 2:00:16
  But they didn't get that and that's why a lot of Vietnam vets
• 2:00:19
  are so bitter to this day And and and it's it's nice to hear
• 2:00:22
  stories like Mike that you know he found a way to work through
• 2:00:25
  that. Yeah, yeah, yes.
• 2:00:27
  It's a true, true example of resilience.
• 2:00:30
  Well, I'll tell you to talk about resilience.
• 2:00:32
  We're going to be back next Friday.
• 2:00:34
  I don't know why, but we're going to be back next Friday and
• 2:00:37
  we're going to be talking with. Nico Marcolongo from CAF
• 2:00:41
  Challenge Athlete Foundation that love this organization been
• 2:00:45
  low. So looking forward to this
• 2:00:46
  interview. You know, Nico and I go way
• 2:00:48
  back, but I've never met the guy, so oh, really, I call him
• 2:00:52
  and you know, we got our phones in our, you know, we got our
• 2:00:54
  phones, you know, program in our our numbers program in our
• 2:00:57
  phones. And he's like me and I'm like,
• 2:00:58
  Nico, what's up? You know I'm here.
• 2:01:00
  We're like, you know, Italian, Italian paisans and but I'm I'm
• 2:01:05
  eager to put a a face to the name.
• 2:01:07
  Yeah. Well, he he was at, he was at my
• 2:01:10
  wedding, so that. Yeah, that's how close me and
• 2:01:13
  Nico are. So that's good.
• 2:01:15
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  and we'll see you next week. That's the show for today
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  everyone. Thanks for listening.
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  We'll be back next week with an all new show.
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  And remember, you can listen to us again and again.
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  The podcast of this radio show is available right after we go
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  off the air tonight, anywhere that you can get your podcast
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  episodes. And thanks for joining us.
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  Today I'd like to take a moment to talk about something close to
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  my heart. Military broadcast radio isn't
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  doing incredible work to support our veterans and.