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The H-Train Show The Road Back: Life After the Uniform · Military Broadcast Radio | MBR Talk

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  The station where our veterans voices are heard.
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  MBR talk. Hey, thanks for supporting our
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  the show. It's Red Friday.
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  Remember everyone deployed, We hope you wore red today.
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  Troops. We begin on the tracks, rails
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  stretching beyond the horizon, each tie a memory, each rail a
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  promise of where we might go. In the early years, our first
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  logo appeared, a pioneer stepping onto the platform of
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  possibility. Through seasons of growth,
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  change and challenge, we moved forward.
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  The whistle of opportunity sounded and we boarded the train
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  of time. The view changed with every
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  mile, some stations brief, others lasting.
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  Our logos changed too, not just emblems, but mile markers of
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  evolution. Along the way, seats filled with
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  teammates, mentors, veterans, and friends.
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  Some stayed for the ride, others stepped off, leaving their
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  legacy on the rails behind us. And still, the journey
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  continues. The tracks ahead stretch into
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  the unknown, familiar yet full of new promise.
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  What matters most is how we travel with purpose, with grit,
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  with heart. Because the journey matters, the
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  movement matters. And the legacy of those logos,
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  every year, every show, lives on in the rhythm of these rails.
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  So here we are once again, all aboard.
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  The whistle blows, the tracks call together.
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  We ride. We are the H train show showing
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  veterans programs beyond the VA since 2015.
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  Fighters, is it, gentlemen? Ladies and gentlemen, it is that
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  time. Yes, yes, it is the show that
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  highlights all the nonprofit programs out there beyond the
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  VA. You're listening to the ACE
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  Train show or here. Our own mission is to show all
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  of our veterans and our first responders and all of our men
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  and women all over the world that there are more programs out
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  there beyond the VA. My name's H Train and behind the
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  glass, or I should be a hot say behind the screen is my good
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  friend HG. You'll hear him later in the
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  program with his with his sports report.
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  But first thing we're going to do is it's that time, everybody.
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  It's Thrive minutes. Thrive handles the numbers.
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  Thrive handles the numbers so we can focus on the mission.
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  From all of us at MBR, thank you Thrive.
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  All right, ladies and gentlemen, so this is today's schedule.
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  Just so you kind of kind of understand.
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  I will say that I didn't, I didn't put up a screen, which I
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  should have. But this month military
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  broadcast radio has donated to again, I believe it's a kid
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  again.org. They had a, an event that
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  happened not too long ago, Capes and I forget the name of it, but
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  it's heroes and capes. It's, it's to help kids, you
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  know, fulfill their, their lifelong dreams before they, you
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  know, pass away. So we want to, we want to go
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  ahead and, you know, give a pat on the back for MBR to be able
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  to do that. Also, don't forget that we will
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  be having a demo, a demo of the 27th of this month, I believe,
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  at the Rotary Club and Blooms Bloom.
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  Like I said, I should have had this stuff.
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  But these are just some daily announcements.
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  And of course, we're continuing to teach veterans and 1st
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  responders how to podcast. And don't forget a new show that
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  has just came out and you know, it's it's a lot of fun for a lot
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  of people. So if you, if you like trivia,
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  we have trivia every Wednesday. You all you have to do is go to
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  our Roku channel. We have AQR code, you scan that
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  QR code and you can answer questions.
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  And right now we don't have any cash prizes.
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  But what we do have, and you know, there should have been an
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  e-mail that posted about a few minutes ago before the show came
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  out. We have a newsletter now, HG, we
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  have a newsletter with a comic section, kind of like a
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  newspaper. So if you do the family plan,
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  which is $5 a month, instead of just getting the cartoon
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  character comics every Friday, now you'll be getting a Cliff
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  notes of all the shows all through the week, you know,
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  because HG I, I, I thought about it and I'm like, you know,
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  everybody's really busy these days and a lot, a lot of people
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  can get to a, you know, a, a podcast, but they can always
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  like read, you know, you always have to read something when
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  you're on the toilet, right? So we're well, you know, we, we
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  can't call it, we can't call it toilet stuff, you know, so we'll
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  just call it family package with the with the comics, you know,
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  funny stuff. All right, well, ladies and
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  gentlemen, that is your 5 minutes of thrive.
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  It is that time, ladies and gentlemen, it is mail call.
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  Attention. Mail call.
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  Oh my God. Welcome.
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  To mail. Welcome to Mail Call Your
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  Soldier Spotlight. All right, everybody, man, I
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  tell you what. I'm not sick, but my nose is
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  running worse than a refrigerator.
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  Today's soldier spotlight is none other than Staff Sergeant
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  Jesse Cotter This week. He's a Army Reserve drill
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  Sergeant with the 95th Training Division.
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  Eleven years in last November, driving home near Tahlequah.
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  OK. And that's, that's what really
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  caught my eye issues because I used to live in Tahlequah, OK.
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  You talk about in the sticks that Tahlequah, OK with his wife
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  Emily, they came on a truck wreck on Hwy. 51 and a Hwy. 51 I
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  believe. That's like a it's crazy.
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  There's this big long highway and it goes like Muskogee and
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  everything. And then Tahlequah is just like
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  the the exit, smoke filling the cab, fire under the hood.
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  Jesse ran into it, forced the damaged door open.
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  He pulled an 18 year old Ebony Poppino out then, thinking her
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  child might still be inside, he turned back around towards the
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  flames. His words.
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  I was just going to go right back in.
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  It didn't matter if it was dangerous for me, I laid my life
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  down for someone else, especially a child.
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  Her son was safe elsewhere, and Jesse carried her clear as the
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  truck went up behind them. Here's the kicker, his wife has
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  seen this before. He did this again.
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  He did this earlier. He did this five years earlier
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  actually. Jesse pulled a drowning man from
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  the Illinois River and did CPR until the man breathed again.
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  He is now recommended for the Soldiers Medal, but Jesse says
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  the award isn't the point. I could have lived my life.
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  I couldn't. Or I could have lived my life
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  knowing that I did it. That's the reward itself, you
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  know, and I and I agree with that.
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  You know, every, you know, Magic Mike was talking about this
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  yesterday. No matter what, everybody,
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  everybody's going to die. We're not going to get out of
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  life easily. We just, we're, we're just not.
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  But the most important thing is what impact do you have on this
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  world? What are you doing for your
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  fellow vets? What are you doing for your
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  fellow neighbor? You know, you know, so many
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  times we'll, we'll, we'll bend their back and we'll do anything
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  for you. Maybe somebody that has like
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  celebrity status or something like that.
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  But then the person beside us, that neighbor, they need some
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  help. So I, I, I question and I ask
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  you to chew on that for, for this week, our evidently our
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  TikTok went out. Yeah, it's having a lot of
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  problems. It's just OK I I the live ended,
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  I started it again, but like the live setting now it just shows
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  it buffering. So I.
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  No, no, we're we're we're we're back on TikTok.
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  OK, we got it. We got it, we got it.
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  We'll, we'll get it figured out today.
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  When Quacker was on, she was having a hard time with the with
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  it as well. So not, not, not an issue.
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  All right. Now, ladies and gentlemen, our
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  top story time hold. On stand by.
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  Welcome back to our weekly news broadcast.
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  I'm your host and we have some massive updates today.
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  Let's dive right into our top story.
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  All right, so I, there is some other common tops storylines
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  today, but I, I do want to talk about this because this is
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  something that has came up under the radar that I want everybody
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  to kind of keep in mind. OK, so today's top story, it's
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  two stories that are making the news.
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  And I call this when veterans cross the line.
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  Now together, we, we, we raise one uncomfortable question.
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  What happens when somebody who wore the uniform ends up on the
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  wrong side of the line? You you might ask what, what am
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  I talking about? Well, military.com reports that
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  leaked intelligence memo shared among the Five Eyes country
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  claims with what it calls a strong confidence that Western
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  military veterans have been recruited to train Russian
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  citizens an active duty personnel at a combat camp in
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  Northern Bulgaria. The report says that the
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  instructors may have included veterans from American and
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  allied special operation backgrounds along with the US
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  law enforcement personnel. Now, gloves on.
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  These are allegations, not proven facts. themilitary.com
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  reports says it has not independently verified the memo.
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  Alpha Metal, the company named in the report, categorically
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  denies using Western Special Forces veterans to train
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  Russians for the war in Ukraine. It says it has not trained
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  Russian citizens since the invasion and that material on
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  its website was outdated. OK, Then there is bringing back,
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  you know what, it's been like, maybe five years, OK?
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  Beau Bergadahl In 2009, he walked away from the Army post
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  in Afghanistan, and he was held by Taliban allied fighters for
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  nearly five years. He was considered POW.
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  He returned in the 2014 exchange for five Taliban detainees.
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  In 2017, Berganol pleaded guilty to desertion and misbehavior but
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  before the enemy. His sentence included a
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  dishonorable discharge, reduction to the lowest in the
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  listed rank and $10,000 forfeiture.
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  Federal District Judge, and this is recently a federal District
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  Judge, vacated the conviction in 2023, but on September 1st of
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  this year, a unanimous federal appeals panel ruled that
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  District Court did not have the authority to erase a court
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  martial judgment that reinstated the 2017 judgment.
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  Important distinction. The appeals court ruled on
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  jurisdiction. It did not decide whether
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  Bergdahl's underlying conflict of interest claim had merit.
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  No, these cases are not the same.
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  One remains an unverified and denied allegation.
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  The other involves a guilty plea and a judgment that is back in
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  force. But both force us to confront
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  the same issue. The uniform doesn't stop meaning
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  something when you take it off. Veterans have skills.
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  We have experience, credibility that command money anywhere in
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  the world. But where is the line?
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  Is it legal work? Is it loyalty?
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  Is it conscious? And who decides when that line
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  has been crossed? I'm not declaring unnamed
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  veterans guilty from a leaked memo.
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  I'm saying the allegations deserve scrutiny.
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  The denial deserves to be heard and the question deserves an
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  honest answer. Service gives us something
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  valuable. What we do with the afterwards
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  still matters. And ladies and gentlemen, that
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  is the that's that is the main story of the day.
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  Before we go to the sports section, some other things that
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  has happened in the news. And you, you probably are aware
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  already, Christy Pike was on execution in Tennessee.
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  They executed her not once but twice.
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  She lived through the whole execution at that point because
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  evidently it's in the Constitution that you can't
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  execute inhumane. They went from an execution to
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  life savings. So they called 911.
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  She is in the hospital now. It is it's assumed that she's
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  going to be branded. And you know, this is one of
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  those questions I got to ask you, HG, because you, you know,
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  you have a different point of view than I do.
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  Right on, on pretty much everything.
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  My question is if, if you was in charge of an execution like that
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  after that happened, because I know that you're I know that
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  you're a very caring person, ain't she?
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  I know you are. Would you go over there and just
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  like, you know, just snap her neck just just to get it over
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  with, to help her so that she didn't have to deal with the
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  pain? Because sometimes it's easier to
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  ask for forgiveness than for permission.
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  What? What do you think?
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  Well, I don't think I I'm strong enough to break a person's neck,
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  but I don't, I don't think I'd even be in that position.
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  I don't really believe that the that we should have the death
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  penalty. And, and a lot of people, a lot
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  of people do feel that and they feel that we shouldn't have the
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  death penalty because of situations like this.
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  Yeah, well, it's a number of situations it doesn't it?
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  That's just statistically proven that doesn't deter crime.
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  You get these draconian nightmares like this where it's
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  like, and now, I mean, it's going to cost taxpayers people
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  even more money to keep this essentially brain dead woman
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  alive. Oh yeah, and, and let's not even
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  think about how much it cost to to do the execution, which I do
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  think it's funny that when they do the execution, they they wipe
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  the area with alcohol swab before they poke, You know, it's
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  like, why even bother doing that?
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  You know, but. And then also you have it's just
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  expensive, more expensive keeping inmates on death row,
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  taking care of them before their execution.
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  And then you also have the problem that I mean, the
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  government can and has killed people.
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  It doesn't. They don't want alive using the
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  death penalty. Right.
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  And people have been, you know, wrongly executed.
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  So it's, I just think overall it's not a very, there's the,
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  the cons really outweigh any positives that we can have from
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  it, you know? Yeah, yeah, I agree.
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  I agree. And also in other news, it was
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  broken yesterday that Gypsy Rose, her baby daddy, her
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  fiance, her ex fiance, whatever you want to call him, Ken, I
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  guess it's under investigation. But he, he, he, he passed away
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  at age 33. So there's a, there's a lot of,
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  a lot of things going on in the news.
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  And with that being said, ladies and gentlemen, it is time for
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  the sports. It's time for the sports update.
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  I'm Beaker and we have got a massive show for you tonight.
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  From the gridiron to the diamond, we are covering the
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  biggest plays and wildest moments, so let's get right to
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  the action. All right, sports snapshot.
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  We've got a lot of playoff games going on right now across WNBA
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  and the MLB, but I didn't want to cover some housekeeping
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  things first. If you missed it, Joey Porter
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  Junior was traded from the Pittsburgh Steelers to the
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  Dallas Cowboys. I heard that.
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  So the Cowboys got a massive upgrade in their secondary.
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  Joey Porter junior is a true lockdown corner.
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  Was in a contract dispute with the Steelers.
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  They couldn't get a deal done, so they sent him over to Dallas.
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  Gets reunited with his teammate George Pickens over there.
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  Another player that was in the middle of a contract hold out
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  but has finally agreed to sign Jalen Duran, the All Star Center
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  for the Detroit Pistons initially turned down the five
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  year, $200 million supermax, but he I think they just changed
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  some of the language in the contract, removed some of the
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  clauses he didn't like and he has now signed that contract.
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  We also had the NHL regular season started this Tuesday.
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  Some yeah, we had some fun high scoring games between like the
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  Canucks and Oilers. The Canucks actually came in
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  with A65 win. The defending champs, the
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  Carolina Hurricanes, lost in overtime one to nothing to the
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  Florida Panthers. My Colorado Avalanche defeated
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  the Los Angeles Kings 8 to 4. The next day the Penguins shut
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  the Flyers out seven to zero and then last night the Canucks got
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  into another shootout. They might be a fun team where
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  they just they can score a lot, but they are not very good on
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  the defensive end. They lose to the Oilers nine to
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  seven. There was a a goalie goal last
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  night from the Rangers goalie Igor Schisternick.
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  I'm hopefully I pronounced that right.
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  I always struggle with these hockey players names, but
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  there's 167 foot empty and others.
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  So NHL is back. Exciting time of the year and
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  other news. We're going to go to the MLB.
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  We had we're on into the second round.
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  So the MLB playoffs started on Tuesday.
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  We saw the Padres and the Yankees dominate the Cubs and
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  Red Sox respectively. 8 nothing victory for the Padres over the
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  Cubs. 9 Nothing victory for the Yankees over the Red Sox.
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  And in game one of that series, it was 2 Boston, MA area natives
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  that absolutely terrorized the Red Sox.
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  Yeah, Cam Schluttler and Ben Rice were given the Red Sox hell
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  in that one, and then they ended up closing out the Sox with a
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  92V the next day. So if you're a Yankees fan, you
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  just beat knock your bitter rival out of the postseason and
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  dominated them over the course of two games to the tune of 18
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  to 2. The Padres closed out the Cubs
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  with a four to one victory on Wednesday and really bad time
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  for the Cubs bats to run cold. But that's just what happens.
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  NLMVP hopeful Pete Crowe Armstrong had a rough postseason
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  O of seven and all of his at bats across the series.
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  So tough way to go out. And the Chicago White Sox, after
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  their three consecutive seasons of 100 plus raw losses, have
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  advanced to the Division Series. They beat the Houston Astros in
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  two games. They got a six to three victory
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  in game one and A7 to 3V in game two.
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  Our only series to go three games was between the Phillies
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  and the Braves. Game one saw Austin Riley with a
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  three run home run shot in the 8th inning to help complete a
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  comeback for the Braves to get a 5 to 3 victory there.
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  But Game 2, Bryce Harper after an outfield error redeems
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  himself. He homers along with his
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  teammate Alec Baum in the very next inning and the Phillies
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  were able to force a game three. But then last night, last game
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  in Atlanta, the Phillies close it out with a six to two
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  victory. Michael Harris with the home run
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  and Ozzy Albanese, Matt Olsen also picking up home runs for
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  the Braves. Our second round matchups look
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  like this. The White Sox will be heading
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  the Cleveland to play the Guardians and the Yankees will
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  be taking on the Tampa Bay Rays. Those are your matchups on the
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  AL side. On the NL, the Atlanta Braves
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  will take on the Los Angeles Dodgers and the the San Diego
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  Padres will be taking on the Milwaukee Brewers.
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  Over to the WNBA. We're almost through all of our
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  matchups here as well. We'll start with some of the
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  sweeps of the New York. Liberty took care of the one
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  seed Minnesota Lynx. This is actually the first time
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  in WNBA history that a one seed has defeated an 8 seed.
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  And the weakness that I thought might affect the Minnesota Lynx
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  did show its head. Their offense runs a lot through
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  rookie Olivia Miles. She's really the only true point
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  guard on the team. She really struggled in their
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  postseason debut and we saw the Lynx's offense become super
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  ineffective. They didn't score higher than 75
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  points in their their two games. New York won both games handily
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  to advance to the second round. Then the Atlanta Dream took care
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  of a pretty young Washington Mystics team.
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  Game one, we saw the Dream record 16 steals.
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  It was a defensive clinic by them.
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  And then in Game 2, Atlanta took care of business.
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  Jordan Canada was fantastic, 19 points, 7 rebounds, 11 assists.
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  Her play making was just top tier and the dream advance with
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  two blowout victories as well. So they'll actually be taking on
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  the liberty. We had the Indiana Fever and the
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  Las Vegas Aces, a series that did go to three games.
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  You game one, we've got a vintage Asia Wilson performance
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  with a 381638.16 rebound. She recorded like 6 stocks in
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  that game as well. I believe in Game 2, though, it
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  was the front court duo of the Fever that tore it up.
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  Kelsey Mitchell scored 26. Caitlin Clark had 27 points and
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  15 assists. To Caitlin Clark.
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  She had a double double by half time at 14 points and 11
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  assists. But last night it was the Beaver
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  or it was the Aces that closed out the series with a 94 to 83
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  win. Rough night shooting in general
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  for Indiana. And Caitlin had six turnovers.
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  Caitlin had six turnovers. Asia with 36 points.
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  And what our final series, which looked to be a blowout, was the
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  the wings taken on the 2 seeds Valkyries.
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  They lost one O for the 80 in Game 2, but Enrika Goomba Wale
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  put on a historic performance in Game 2A WNBA playoff record 45
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  points, including a last second three pointer the force overtime
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  and keep her team season alive. Game 3 is tonight to determine
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  our final team in the second round.
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  And then the NFL season. Week 4 was got underway last
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  night. The Cleveland Browns defeated
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  the Pittsburgh Steelers 27 to 24.
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  Don't look now. Cleveland is 3 and one with one
• 31:23
  of the best records in the AFC and currently in first place in
• 31:28
  the AFC North. Largely important thanks to that
• 31:31
  great defense. So shocking, shocking things
• 31:36
  going on in the world of the NFL, but that is your sports
• 31:39
  snapshot. All right, awesome.
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  Ladies and gentlemen, that is time, but we're going to go on
• 31:44
  our music break, first music break, and when we come back off
• 31:48
  our first music break, the what? The moment is something that has
• 31:55
  happened to me that I've been trying to fight for the last two
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  years. Let's just say it it it's kind
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  of fraud. And since no news carrier is
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  going to carry it, well, we're going to carry it here.
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  So whatever you do, stay with us.
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  Don't go away. You're listening to the show,
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  the highlights, all the non private programs out there
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  beyond the VA. You're listening to the ACE
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  train show right here on the station, letting our voices be
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  heard. And BR stay with us now.
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  The station where our veterans voices are heard.
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  MBR talk. Hey, thanks for supporting our
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  channel by watching and listening.
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  Welcome back, ladies and gentlemen.
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  It's Red Friday. Here it is, October 2nd.
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  Can you believe it's October already?
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  Holy crap. Holy crap.
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  This year has went by fast, bro. This year has went by fast.
• 37:33
  Hell, you know, I was, I was driving a motorcycle this
• 37:37
  morning. I actually had to put gloves on
• 37:40
  'cause it, it's a little nippy at 4:00 in the morning.
• 37:44
  Yeah, it. Was really.
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  Cool. All right, ladies and gentlemen.
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  Well. Shorts.
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  I was like, I looked up the weather.
• 37:52
  I was like, you know what, maybe not.
• 37:55
  Well, ladies and gentlemen, thank you for returning.
• 37:58
  And once again, you're listening to the show, the highlights, all
• 38:01
  the nonprofit programs out there beyond the VA, you're listening
• 38:04
  to the H Train show, been doing this since 2015, 2016.
• 38:13
  And our, our mission here is to show veterans and 1st responders
• 38:18
  all the programs that are out beyond the VA.
• 38:23
  I'm not going to like spotlight, excuse me, I'm not going to
• 38:25
  spotlight them because I don't have a lot of information.
• 38:30
  But if you are a veteran and you like gaming, Google and look up
• 38:36
  Stack It Up. It's a nonprofit that buys you a
• 38:41
  game console. Now, what are the regulations or
• 38:45
  what are the guideline, Guidelines on who qualifies
• 38:49
  that? I don't know.
• 38:50
  But we'll have them on very soon in the near future so that you
• 38:55
  and me can learn about what this amazing nonprofit is doing for
• 39:00
  our veterans today and what they continue to do for today.
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  It is that time, ladies and gentlemen, and this one is
• 39:08
  personal because it's happened to me.
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  So if you're watching this and you're listening to this,
• 39:15
  please, please feel free to chime in because I don't know
• 39:21
  what to do from here. And ladies and gentlemen, this
• 39:24
  is the what the segment. What the WTF?
• 39:30
  This is going completely off the rails strain.
• 39:33
  Help me out here. All right, I'm not a creator of
• 39:38
  anything, but I can use TikTok tell because I have no idea what
• 39:43
  to do. I've been giving these letters
• 39:49
  in the mail for the last almost two years and they just keep
• 39:55
  piling it up and it's my address, but that's not my
• 40:03
  company. So I went to the Colorado
• 40:06
  Secretary of State and I reported a fraud rotten thing.
• 40:24
  to what's going on in that whole building.
• 40:28
  But I'm still getting this. I've even emailed and called
• 40:32
  custom Border Protection because I still keep on giving all these
• 40:38
  letters that I don't really know what to do now.
• 40:42
  I did do the no no thing. I did open one of the letters a
• 40:46
  while back and we're talking like an invoice says hundreds of
• 40:51
  thousands of dollars. Like I think it's, it's, I think
• 40:56
  it's a money liner to be honest with you.
• 40:59
  And they're using my address as a as a probe.
• 41:03
  I don't know. What do you think?
• 41:08
  Give me some guidance where, where should I go from here?
• 41:15
  All right, let's get into it. Let's get into it.
• 41:17
  Now the reason why I would just return, you know what?
• 41:21
  Thanks, Blackhawk. Great point.
• 41:23
  So that's what I've been doing for the last two years.
• 41:26
  I've been doing 10 to sender and they keep coming up.
• 41:30
  I've called Customs and Border control, I've emailed them, I
• 41:36
  have a paper trail. I've emailed 5 different people
• 41:40
  now. The only thing I haven't done
• 41:41
  and you know, I got this letter in the mail from bar credit
• 41:48
  services. They're out of Tungsten, Arizona
• 41:54
  and I'm waiting. I, I, I left them a message.
• 41:57
  They have not commented on it, but you know, we're going to get
• 42:02
  we're going to get to the bottom of this.
• 42:04
  I mean this, this alone from bar credit that I got this alone
• 42:09
  says that their balance due is $50,000.
• 42:13
  This the Border Patrol when I opened that one we're we're
• 42:18
  we're talking, we're talking in like the the millions, OK.
• 42:21
  So this this is this is kind of serious.
• 42:26
  And the reason why I say this is serious, OK, is I don't know the
• 42:31
  law. I don't suggest that I know the
• 42:35
  law. But you know, who's to say that
• 42:39
  this situation couldn't put like a lien on my house because it's
• 42:44
  assigned to the address. You know, like if you don't pay
• 42:49
  HOA or anything like that, even though it really doesn't have
• 42:52
  anything to do with your house payment, they can put a lien on
• 42:55
  your house if you don't pay your HOA.
• 42:58
  So is that going to happen here? I don't know.
• 43:02
  Just pay the pill and they won't send any more letters.
• 43:05
  Oh, you know what, right. Yeah, I'm not going to pay that.
• 43:10
  Hell, we're, we're we barely make enough rent for the NBR
• 43:15
  studio. I I don't have an extra 50,000
• 43:18
  in in the bank, let me tell you. But you know what?
• 43:21
  What do I do, people? What do I do?
• 43:24
  You know, that's the question. You know, I, I've said this and
• 43:29
  you know, thank you. Are they saying they did
• 43:32
  something to upgrade your property?
• 43:33
  No, no, no. It's just a, it's a company that
• 43:39
  I'm not in charge of and they are using my home address as
• 43:43
  their business address. That's what it is.
• 43:45
  It's, it's weird. And I know of some, I know some
• 43:50
  influencers that I've talked to, they said that they've been
• 43:54
  getting the same kind of thing, but it hasn't been mail.
• 43:58
  They've been getting like spam calls and stuff like that.
• 44:01
  And ladies and gentlemen, if you know, if you don't know, let me
• 44:05
  explain it to you. But when, when it comes to like
• 44:07
  the spam calls and stuff, the biggest thing that you can do is
• 44:11
  a spam call. Like if they call you and they
• 44:13
  don't say anything, you know they're just waiting for you
• 44:16
  instead of just hanging up or, or or buying that cloak bull
• 44:21
  crap. Did you realize that if you
• 44:23
  press 9 in the hashtag, it will take you off of the call list?
• 44:29
  It will it will basically install your name in the do not
• 44:34
  call list on their system. And it does work because that
• 44:37
  has has started. They can't lean your property
• 44:41
  unless they did work on your property.
• 44:43
  OK, well, that's good to know because they they haven't, but
• 44:47
  that's what I what I'm telling you the my e-mail is manager at
• 44:52
  MB radio dot US. And by chance, if at any time
• 44:56
  anybody has any answers, I would really appreciate some
• 45:00
  suggestions because like I said, veterans aren't lazy.
• 45:04
  We just need navigation and I need navigation on what I need
• 45:08
  to do here. It it really startles me that I
• 45:11
  wrote the color as Secretary of State and nothing has been done
• 45:15
  me and tracer did that last summer HG and I've even called a
• 45:21
  message of the Colorado Secretary of State.
• 45:24
  I'm starting to think Colorado's just corrupt up in that
• 45:27
  building. But that's that's that's just
• 45:29
  me. I don't know, but I, I left a
• 45:32
  message with this bar credit services and I asked them to
• 45:37
  comment. They haven't commented.
• 45:39
  So I'm waiting. So maybe, maybe we'll have an
• 45:42
  update next week. I, I, I don't know, but that is
• 45:46
  our what the segment. So if you're if you're getting
• 45:51
  stuff like that in the mail, let's join forces, let's fix
• 45:55
  this. OK, so with that being said, it
• 45:59
  is that time, it's the important time.
• 46:01
  I'm really excited about this. It is drop the date.
• 46:04
  Today in history. Ladies and gentlemen, today's
• 46:16
  dropping the day. This is interesting.
• 46:19
  I like these Drop the dates. This dates back to October 2nd,
• 46:25
  1950, the day a little comic strip called Peanuts made its
• 46:32
  News Day newspaper debut. Today, almost everybody
• 46:35
  recognizes Charlie Brown, Snoopy, Lucy, Lioness and the
• 46:41
  rest of the game. But the man behind them, Charles
• 46:46
  M Schultz, he didn't begin his story anywhere near the top.
• 46:52
  Hell, before his fame, he knew rejection, grief, uncertainly
• 46:58
  and feeling of trying again. And there was absolutely no
• 47:02
  guarantee that anything would work out.
• 47:05
  Schultz grew up in Minnesota and loved drawing from an early age.
• 47:11
  His family even encouraged that interest.
• 47:15
  But loving something and succeeding at it are two
• 47:19
  different things. As a teenager, Schultz submitted
• 47:23
  drawings for his high school yearbook.
• 47:26
  They weren't published. They may sound small compared to
• 47:31
  what came later. But imagine, Imagine being a
• 47:35
  young artist, putting your work out there and getting your
• 47:39
  final. You're getting your first taste
• 47:42
  of somebody saying, no, it wouldn't be the last time.
• 47:47
  Then life becomes much more serious.
• 47:50
  Schultz was drafted in the United States Army during World
• 47:53
  War 2. While he was in basic training,
• 47:57
  his mother died after battling cancer.
• 47:59
  Sounds familiar? Schultz had to carry that loss
• 48:03
  with him while continuing his military service.
• 48:06
  And when you, when you lose a significant other or a parent,
• 48:11
  you change. Just so you know, you change if
• 48:14
  you've never been there. His mother died after violating
• 48:17
  cancer, and with his service, he later served overseas in Europe
• 48:23
  as an infantry man. Long before he created a kid who
• 48:29
  seemed to have the worst luck in the neighborhood.
• 48:32
  Schultz already understood that life can knock somebody down
• 48:38
  without asking permission. Well, I've learned that with The
• 48:41
  Walt Disney Story, too. When the war ended and Schultz
• 48:46
  returned home, success wasn't waiting at the front door.
• 48:49
  No, there wasn't. There wasn't a giant newspaper
• 48:53
  contract or a television dealer or somebody handling him a
• 48:58
  career. He went back to work.
• 49:00
  He taught an art, the National, or he taught an art school and
• 49:06
  kept drawing. He developed a comic feature
• 49:10
  called Little Folks, which appeared locally, but it didn't
• 49:16
  become the national breakthrough that he wanted.
• 49:19
  Schultz kept submitting his work and kept hearing rejection.
• 49:24
  At one point, even the company that had employed him had an art
• 49:29
  instructor turned down some of his cartoon work.
• 49:35
  There were plenty of reasons to quit.
• 49:39
  There was plenty of opportunities to decide that
• 49:42
  maybe everybody else was right and the dream just simply wasn't
• 49:48
  going to happen. The Schultz kept drawing.
• 49:52
  Eventually, United Features Syndicate saw something in his
• 49:56
  work and offered him an opportunity.
• 50:00
  The syndicate changed the name to Peanuts, a title Schultz
• 50:05
  himself never particularly liked.
• 50:09
  And on October 2nd, 1950, the strip officially debuted.
• 50:16
  It didn't launch 100 of newspapers.
• 50:19
  It didn't launch 50. It appeared in only 7
• 50:26
  newspapers. And here is the connection close
• 50:29
  to home for us here in Colorado. One of those original 7
• 50:33
  newspapers was the Denver Post. Those reportedly earned about
• 50:39
  $90.00 for the first month. Think about that.
• 50:43
  Years of practicing rejection, losing his mother, going to war,
• 50:50
  coming home and continuing to chase his dream, then finally
• 50:55
  getting the opportunity. 7 newspapers and 90 bucks.
• 50:59
  A lot of people would have looked at that moment and
• 51:02
  thought, after everything I've been through, this is all I get.
• 51:08
  Schultz didn't know on October 2nd, 1950, what peanuts would
• 51:13
  eventually become. Nobody handed him a guarantee.
• 51:18
  All he really was, all he really had, was an opportunity and the
• 51:22
  decision about what to do with it.
• 51:25
  So he did what he had been doing for years.
• 51:29
  He kept showing up, and maybe that's why Charlie Brown became
• 51:34
  the perfect character for him to create.
• 51:37
  Charlie Brown isn't a Superman. He doesn't win every game.
• 51:41
  Actually, he seems to lose most of them.
• 51:45
  His baseball team gets beaten. Lucy pulls the football away
• 51:49
  from him, thinks this time might finally be different.
• 51:54
  His kite gets stuck in the tree. He gets embarrassed.
• 51:58
  He gets disappointed. He doubts himself.
• 52:01
  Sometimes it seems like the whole world is telling Charlie
• 52:05
  Brown that he just can't win. But here's the important part.
• 52:10
  Charlie Brown comes back. He walks back onto the baseball
• 52:14
  field. He tries to kick the football
• 52:18
  again. He he flies another kite.
• 52:21
  He gives people another chance. He keeps believing that maybe
• 52:25
  tomorrow will be different. This isn't the story of somebody
• 52:30
  who never fails. That's the story of somebody who
• 52:33
  refuses to let failure make the final decision.
• 52:39
  And Schultz did that same thing. The little comic strip that
• 52:43
  began in seven newspapers grew into an international
• 52:48
  phenomenon. Peanuts eventually appeared in
• 52:51
  more than 2600 newspapers around the world.
• 52:55
  Charlie Brown, Snoopy and the game became part of Americans
• 53:00
  culture and then Glover culture. There were books, there were
• 53:05
  television specials, merchandise, movies, generations
• 53:09
  of kids and adults who saw a little bit of themselves in
• 53:13
  those characters. That's why October 2nd is worth
• 53:17
  dropping the date on. We usually see successful people
• 53:21
  after they've made it. We see the finished product.
• 53:26
  We see the name everybody recognizes.
• 53:29
  We don't always see the rejection letters, the grief,
• 53:34
  the bad days, the $90.00 beginning at the moments when
• 53:38
  walking away probably would have been easier than continuing.
• 53:43
  Sometimes somebody can be sitting near the bottom and
• 53:47
  honestly believe that's where the story ends.
• 53:51
  But the bottom isn't necessarily an ending now.
• 53:56
  Sometimes it's simply the place where you have decided whether
• 54:00
  you're going to stay there or you're going to start climbing.
• 54:05
  Where you are today doesn't determine where your story ends.
• 54:10
  Being knocked down doesn't mean you're finished.
• 54:15
  Being rejected doesn't mean that you're worthless, and needing
• 54:20
  somebody to help you find the next step doesn't make the steps
• 54:24
  you take afterwards mean any less.
• 54:27
  Charlie Schultz couldn't have known what was coming when those
• 54:32
  7 newspapers printed peanuts on October 2nd, 1950.
• 54:41
  He just kept moving forward, and later in today's show, you're
• 54:46
  going to meet somebody who knows a little something about being
• 54:51
  down on his luck, getting connected with the right help
• 54:57
  and continuing to move forward when the story could have been a
• 55:01
  very different direction. Sometimes the comeback starts
• 55:06
  with the one more step and that today is drop the dates.
• 55:13
  All right, everybody, it is that time we're going to go on our
• 55:16
  music break and when we come back off of that music break 2
• 55:21
  music breaks, we have a fantastic story, a story that
• 55:27
  shows resilience, a story that shows patience.
• 55:32
  I remember those days when, you know, he was answering me after
• 55:36
  he found a, a, a, a place to charge his phone.
• 55:40
  I've he'll tell us about sleeping under the tree, nowhere
• 55:45
  to go, Everybody turning their back on.
• 55:49
  That story comes up next, as we have Timothy Hendricks, a
• 55:56
  veteran Marine who's going to tell you about his struggles,
• 56:01
  his journey. So whatever you do, stay with
• 56:04
  us. Don't go away, everybody.
• 56:06
  You're listening to show the highlights on the nonprofit
• 56:08
  programs out there beyond the VA.
• 56:10
  You're listening to the H Trend show on the station that's led
• 56:13
  to our veterans beat heard MBR. So stay with us.
• 56:19
  Timothy Herrinage, up next. The station where our veterans
• 1:02:42
  voices are heard. MBR talk.
• 1:02:45
  Hey, thanks for supporting our channel by watching and
• 1:02:47
  listening. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome
• 1:02:59
  back. You're listening to the 8th
• 1:03:00
  Trade Show right here on Red Friday, October 2nd.
• 1:03:05
  It is 3 minutes past the top of the hour and that comes to our
• 1:03:11
  time, our grand time Laser Drone, today's interview of the
• 1:03:17
  week. The interview of the week is
• 1:03:20
  brought to you by Jersey Mike's A Sub.
• 1:03:24
  Above. Ladies and gentlemen, I would
• 1:03:29
  love for everybody to welcome Timothy Hendricks.
• 1:03:37
  Tim, thank you so much for joining me.
• 1:03:39
  How are you, bud? I'm great, bro.
• 1:03:43
  Thanks for having me. Hey, it's good to have you, man.
• 1:03:48
  It's good to have you. You know, HG was like, hey, I
• 1:03:51
  see a picture, but I don't see his face.
• 1:03:53
  You know, I, I even any desk and helped him get on the on the
• 1:03:58
  computer yesterday and like his webcam was showing and then it
• 1:04:02
  just stopped working. So I'm like, all right, well,
• 1:04:04
  we'll, we'll just put up a picture.
• 1:04:06
  You know, it, it, it, it's, it's, it's good anyways, and
• 1:04:11
  once again I want to say real quick, hey, Joy, thank you for
• 1:04:15
  joining in. I I've missed you, Joy, I've
• 1:04:17
  missed you. We haven't seen you in a while.
• 1:04:20
  And thank you, Jacob sweaty for for stopping in.
• 1:04:25
  I appreciate it, appreciate it. Tim, thank you for having coffee
• 1:04:31
  with me this morning. I really appreciate it.
• 1:04:33
  I know with all your stuff that you're doing to, to get better,
• 1:04:39
  like the PTSD and you know, the TBI stuff, you're doing some,
• 1:04:44
  you know, therapy and you're taking the time out this
• 1:04:46
  morning. So I appreciate you doing that
• 1:04:48
  for me today because I think you're, I think your story is I,
• 1:04:52
  I think it's incredible. I, I, I and I, I think that it
• 1:04:57
  will really highlight another veteran to, to, to follow your
• 1:05:03
  footsteps that for him to get help.
• 1:05:05
  So before we get started, since I know Tim and everybody here at
• 1:05:09
  MBR knows Tim, Tim, for everybody else meeting you for
• 1:05:13
  the first time, tell us a little bit about yourself.
• 1:05:22
  See, I was born in Birmingham, AL.
• 1:05:25
  That's the beginning of the story.
• 1:05:26
  OK, OK. I soon moved to Louisiana.
• 1:05:31
  My dad died when I was six of a heart attack.
• 1:05:34
  Her mom died of seven with cancer.
• 1:05:37
  She survived it for 13 months, but it spread through lymph
• 1:05:39
  nodes and and I went through foster care for a while and I
• 1:05:45
  was adopted when I was 12 to my fantastic parents.
• 1:05:51
  Jordan Jr. introduced and went through high school with them
• 1:05:56
  and a year of college, University of Tennessee.
• 1:06:01
  And then 9/11 happened and kind of, you know, changed me just
• 1:06:07
  like it changed everyone else. And I ended up going to Marine
• 1:06:14
  Corps the summer after my freshman year at University of
• 1:06:18
  Tennessee. Went out to recruit training at
• 1:06:25
  Paris Island then. Yeah.
• 1:06:30
  Where do we go from there? Well, I didn't even know he was
• 1:06:33
  a recruiter that. So that's something that I
• 1:06:35
  learned. No recruit training.
• 1:06:38
  Oh, recruit training. OK.
• 1:06:40
  All right. What what what motivated you to
• 1:06:45
  to join the Marines, though? Yeah, I actually, I went.
• 1:06:52
  I had gone to the Navy and they wanted me to be a Navy and the
• 1:06:59
  nuclear technician on submarines.
• 1:07:01
  And then the Army wanted me to be a Warrant Officer pilot and
• 1:07:11
  the Marine Corps just wanted me to join.
• 1:07:14
  So but they had those Blues and I knew that they stood up tall
• 1:07:20
  and had the pride. So I went for it and proud I
• 1:07:26
  did. So before everything started
• 1:07:31
  happening, what was life kind of looking like for you?
• 1:07:36
  You know, now that you're out of the now that you're out of the
• 1:07:39
  Marines, kind of walk us through that.
• 1:07:45
  Wow. I went to Ramadi in 2005,
• 1:07:51
  Ramadi, Iraq and I had shoulder problems.
• 1:07:56
  So I ended up the MO The medical officer who was a former Navy
• 1:08:04
  SEAL medic said to me, you know, it's like you're kind of you're
• 1:08:08
  almost you've recommended that I that I should go home and get
• 1:08:16
  get my shoulders taken care of, have surgery on my shoulders.
• 1:08:21
  I was a pre-existing addition, but I kept having multiple
• 1:08:24
  dislocations and breaking bones in there and tearing tendons and
• 1:08:28
  stuff. So spending of going home after
• 1:08:32
  a month in combat and it was weird going home was it was
• 1:08:40
  lonely as a matter of like, you know, I it's as as you know, but
• 1:08:49
  yeah, it's you go home and it's it's just like it's over and
• 1:08:53
  there's no like no closure, you know, but so I ended up doing.
• 1:09:05
  Thanks Josh. Love you too, bro.
• 1:09:09
  I am. So I ended up, we were actually
• 1:09:15
  out there with 1/5. I was Speaking of which the our
• 1:09:18
  commander is now the coming down of the Marine Corps, which is
• 1:09:21
  pretty cool. But yeah, coming home was down
• 1:09:26
  the closure. I was just going for surgery and
• 1:09:30
  when I came to surgery, I ended up on the 21 gun salute for
• 1:09:38
  Marine deaths in our, in our battalion.
• 1:09:43
  And that was, that was a strange time.
• 1:09:50
  But I ended up getting out in 2006.
• 1:09:57
  I had already been valeting. I was, I was working part time
• 1:10:02
  on the weekends and I, I was valeting at the Saint Regis in
• 1:10:09
  the Orange County, California. And I worked there for another
• 1:10:14
  couple years and then I started a full service company.
• 1:10:18
  And so I was, I, I kind of carried on by my strong forward
• 1:10:27
  progression for a while there, but I ended up having we, my
• 1:10:35
  ex-wife got pregnant my senior year of college right before I
• 1:10:39
  graduated. And the way it worked out, it
• 1:10:43
  was best for me to stay home because I just graduated and it
• 1:10:48
  was better for me to stay home because she was making good
• 1:10:50
  money at the time. So I ended up staying home,
• 1:10:52
  taking care of my son as an infant all the way up.
• 1:10:59
  I ended up starting an handyman company, but I worked around
• 1:11:04
  this schedule, you know, and, but I got my degree in physics
• 1:11:11
  with a concentration in Alaska engineering and Computer science
• 1:11:14
  at University of Irvine, University of California,
• 1:11:17
  Irvine. And I I went in, let's see,
• 1:11:27
  2016. I started working for Micronics
• 1:11:34
  USI finally had gotten to where my son was in school a regular
• 1:11:38
  amount of time and I started working for Micronics US and I
• 1:11:44
  was doing nano nanotechnology, nanoscale positioning systems.
• 1:11:47
  I was a lead test engineer and manufacturing supervisor and I
• 1:11:56
  did well at that. But then my wife kept pregnant
• 1:11:59
  again. So my daughter was born.
• 1:12:02
  And then once my daughter was born at being the one to stay
• 1:12:05
  home again. So I took off from from work.
• 1:12:08
  But I still had the handyman service going up until COVID
• 1:12:14
  when my main hydration rounds and when my main contractor died
• 1:12:22
  of COVID, I had to set it down. It was, I mean, it was
• 1:12:27
  impossible to do business at that time anyways, unless you
• 1:12:29
  have a really good, really good, you know, relationship with the
• 1:12:34
  person you're doing in person business with like that, right.
• 1:12:39
  And then I moved out to Florida from California and then I met
• 1:12:44
  you and we've been rolling ever since.
• 1:12:49
  Yes, yes. So our, so our, our, our mutual
• 1:12:52
  friend that I that I skied with and the Paralympics, Josh
• 1:12:56
  Elliott. You know, it's, it's funny
• 1:12:58
  because I remember we were, we were in Stowe, Vt and we was at
• 1:13:03
  a, a ski teaching thing and came up to me and he's like, Hey, I
• 1:13:09
  got this buddy that he has a TBI too.
• 1:13:11
  He's like, and you know, he, he kind of, he kind of needs some
• 1:13:16
  help. He's been struggling a little
• 1:13:17
  bit and since you've been in that area and you know, you,
• 1:13:22
  you, you have a little bit more network when it comes to TBI as
• 1:13:26
  compared to him because his, his network is more, you know,
• 1:13:29
  amputees and stuff. He, he linked me with him, with
• 1:13:34
  you and me. And you have been talking ever
• 1:13:37
  since then, you know, and yeah, we've, we've been good friends.
• 1:13:41
  And you know, I remember the times when I was like calling
• 1:13:45
  and checking up on you and you're like, hey, man, I forgot
• 1:13:47
  to, you know, charge my phone last night sleeping under trees
• 1:13:52
  and stuff. Like I, I, I thought you was
• 1:13:54
  making that up. But I'm like, oh shit, he's,
• 1:13:56
  he's really serious about that, you know, So I called or I
• 1:14:02
  called Tracer, my VP and she, she called our, our, our hidden
• 1:14:09
  gem. Jane and Jane.
• 1:14:12
  Jane called some people and set up time and we got some people
• 1:14:16
  in Florida to connect with you. And, well, you know, let me ask
• 1:14:22
  you this. When did you know that you
• 1:14:26
  needed help? That you can't keep doing this
• 1:14:29
  by yourself? That that's, that's the
• 1:14:32
  question. Like when was the turning pit?
• 1:14:35
  What was the turning point for you?
• 1:14:36
  Yeah, it's funny. I, I went off the grid basically
• 1:14:42
  around the time my son was born. I didn't have a phone for a
• 1:14:46
  couple of years. I didn't, I was just taking care
• 1:14:49
  of my son. I had a computer, but all I used
• 1:14:51
  it for was, you know, streaming videos on Netflix and stuff like
• 1:14:55
  that. But I didn't, I didn't talk to
• 1:15:00
  anyone really for years. And thanks, Lee, my buddy from
• 1:15:07
  Chattanooga. Yeah.
• 1:15:11
  So I, I was off the grid mostly for probably almost 10 years
• 1:15:16
  because after my son was born, I I started going deep into this
• 1:15:21
  darkness. And it was, it turned out to be
• 1:15:26
  psychosis and what they, they were eventually I, well, I
• 1:15:34
  hadn't, I didn't talk to anyone about it because I was afraid
• 1:15:36
  that whoever was in charge of this psychosis was the CIA or
• 1:15:42
  demons or angels or whatever it was, was going to hurt my, the
• 1:15:46
  people I love. And so I couldn't tell anyone
• 1:15:49
  about it, which is fairly common for psychosis.
• 1:15:52
  People don't want to talk about, you know, but so that was 2011.
• 1:15:58
  I pretty much started and then in 2017, I finally went and got
• 1:16:02
  help for it at the, I finally started going through the
• 1:16:05
  process and finally made to the first person around was a nurse
• 1:16:09
  there at The Walking, walking in my health clinic along each way
• 1:16:14
  in the, I admitted to him that I was hearing voices and getting
• 1:16:18
  messages from all kinds of things.
• 1:16:22
  And, you know, everything talks to me.
• 1:16:24
  Even when I was in, when I was working on the menoscale
• 1:16:30
  positioning systems, each one had its own voice and each one
• 1:16:34
  was talking to me and I had hundreds of them in the test
• 1:16:36
  room all at the same time. But yeah.
• 1:16:41
  So I finally started getting help in 2017 and I'll, and I
• 1:16:48
  hand it to my family, they, they supported me.
• 1:16:51
  They, they worked hard to stick it out.
• 1:16:55
  But I finally, whenever my, my ex-wife ended up filing for
• 1:17:07
  divorce and I ended up out on the street, I didn't have a
• 1:17:12
  phone. So I had to wait for, I can only
• 1:17:15
  remember 1 phone number really. And that was one of my, my best
• 1:17:20
  friends in California, one of my best friends from college at
• 1:17:24
  Saddleback College before I went to UC.
• 1:17:27
  And he, you know, gave me a phone and got me some canned
• 1:17:30
  goods delivered to Walmart because I didn't have an ID or
• 1:17:32
  anything like that. So I, I just had to depend on
• 1:17:38
  whatever I could do, but you know, and so I was on the street
• 1:17:41
  for almost two months and I was living in a, in an empty lot.
• 1:17:50
  I was like a, some basically a swamp behind Wendy's in Alcoa,
• 1:17:54
  Florida, which is out towards the country.
• 1:17:57
  But, and then I finally gave in. So I was scared of the VAI was
• 1:18:06
  scared to go, you know, going through psychosis and you think
• 1:18:09
  the government's might be in charge of it.
• 1:18:12
  It's scary to go to the government and say, hey, I need
• 1:18:14
  help. Are you guys talking to me or
• 1:18:16
  are you, are you sending me messages?
• 1:18:18
  You know? But I finally went to the VA and
• 1:18:22
  they finally got me on a medication that would work.
• 1:18:27
  Thank goodness I get an injection now once a month and
• 1:18:30
  so I don't have to worry about taking my medication and taking
• 1:18:32
  my pills. I just have to be available in.
• 1:18:36
  But I went through 1st. When I went through it I was
• 1:18:43
  severely depressed and anxious and I had SI suicidal ideation.
• 1:18:51
  I was severely suicidal. So they started me on electric
• 1:18:55
  impulsive therapy, which is basically put you on a, he's
• 1:18:59
  going to shock your brain to give you a seizure and it
• 1:19:06
  basically gives you a brain seizure because they give you a
• 1:19:09
  muscle relaxant to keep your body from seizing.
• 1:19:12
  So I went through, it was 60 or 70 rounds of electroconvulsive
• 1:19:19
  therapy before I finally, they, they kept him, you know, more
• 1:19:25
  and more intense, more and more intense.
• 1:19:26
  So at the last two years, I've spent almost a year and a half
• 1:19:29
  in the hospital and thank God they have their issues.
• 1:19:34
  I know everyone sees it. But in the last 20 years,
• 1:19:38
  they've really stepped up and taken care of veterans in a, in
• 1:19:42
  a whole different way, you know, So I appreciate them so much.
• 1:19:48
  And, and then I got out of the hospital the last time I had
• 1:19:53
  gone in because of a suicide attack.
• 1:19:55
  But I got out of the hospital this last time and ended up
• 1:19:59
  going through RTMS, which is a repetitive transcranial magnetic
• 1:20:04
  stimulation, which is where they shock your brain with a magnet
• 1:20:09
  electromagnet. And I did 55 treatments a day
• 1:20:16
  for eight days, so 40 treatments of RTMS. And I really saw an
• 1:20:22
  improvement in my anxiety and my depression.
• 1:20:27
  So just knowing, just knowing that the, the, the VS available
• 1:20:34
  and that they can take care of you.
• 1:20:36
  You got to push on some things. But they are there for, you
• 1:20:40
  know, you know, you, you bring up a good point.
• 1:20:44
  You got to push on things. I, I like to call that word
• 1:20:48
  proactive. You have to be proactive.
• 1:20:51
  They're they're they're not just going to, they're not going to
• 1:20:53
  call up and and remind you and stuff you, you have to literally
• 1:20:56
  be proactive. And you know, that brings me to
• 1:20:59
  my next question, which, you know, the there's a lot of
• 1:21:06
  veterans who get who get frustrated with the system and
• 1:21:09
  eventually stop asking for help. Were, was you ever, was there
• 1:21:14
  ever times that you was at that point where you're like, you
• 1:21:18
  know what, I'm, I'm, I'm over this shit?
• 1:21:25
  Absolutely. Sometimes even when you're going
• 1:21:32
  through the, the treatment that you need, sometimes you feel
• 1:21:35
  like they're just trying to fill a bed with and make the number.
• 1:21:38
  You know, that's probably with healthcare as a whole, I'd
• 1:21:43
  imagine, but especially with the VA, you know, you're under the
• 1:21:46
  government's umbrella and so you question him more than you do
• 1:21:51
  private practice. But there was several times I
• 1:21:57
  just, I, I just wanted to quit dealing with the VA, you know,
• 1:22:03
  several times during my cycles that I did saw dealing with the
• 1:22:06
  VA and it probably prolonged the suffering of me and my family
• 1:22:13
  and the people around me because I did that.
• 1:22:15
  I would just, they would try to help and the, the medication
• 1:22:19
  they gave me was the wrong one. And you say, OK, well, not I
• 1:22:23
  give up. I'm just going to stop taking it
• 1:22:25
  and try to deal with myself. And then then you try another
• 1:22:28
  medication and it's a little closer, but it's not quite
• 1:22:31
  right, You know, where you try a, a therapy and and yeah, I
• 1:22:38
  just, it's so easy to look around and say, you know,
• 1:22:45
  they're not doing, they're not fixing.
• 1:22:48
  This is not, I'm not fixed yet. Why am I not fixed yet?
• 1:22:51
  But it's such a process. And I look back on each
• 1:22:53
  individual and I'm finally at a place where I feel capable.
• 1:22:57
  Now I'm starting to work again. I'm getting back to work and I'm
• 1:23:02
  finally feeling capable. I'm not, I'm not talking to the
• 1:23:05
  CIA or angels or demons. I'm not that that doesn't
• 1:23:11
  actually happen, you know, but I, yeah, I look back on all of
• 1:23:17
  the individual. If I look at anyone
• 1:23:19
  individually, it didn't help me that much, you know, any
• 1:23:22
  individual therapy or, or medication, but all of it
• 1:23:27
  cumulatively, I look back, I'm like, wow, I'm, it's amazing how
• 1:23:31
  different of a person I am that I was two years ago, two years
• 1:23:34
  ago I was living on this living. I don't know, you know, buying
• 1:23:39
  Wendy's and charging my phone whenever I could and trying to
• 1:23:45
  reach out to people that I hardly had any phone numbers of.
• 1:23:48
  But I was trying to get connected to Facebook and things
• 1:23:51
  like that, just doing whatever I could to find people, you know,
• 1:23:54
  and I ended up finding tons of people and they really people
• 1:23:59
  like you supported me. And, and then getting hooked
• 1:24:03
  into, you know, MBR and, and watching the, the podcast and
• 1:24:08
  the radio shows and things, really just knowing that there's
• 1:24:12
  help out there, just seeing that there's something solid you can
• 1:24:16
  grab onto, even if it's not definitely what you need.
• 1:24:19
  Just knowing if there's options is huge, you know, and you bring
• 1:24:25
  up a good question. You bring up a good point that
• 1:24:30
  you know, I know that you have A and we're going to have you talk
• 1:24:34
  a little bit about you got a, a new job venture that you're
• 1:24:38
  getting ready to start. But before we get that, Tim, I'd
• 1:24:42
  like to know if if somebody listening to this broadcast,
• 1:24:46
  listening to you talk, if somebody remembers only one
• 1:24:50
  thing from your story today, what, what do you want them to
• 1:24:54
  take from it? I say reach out.
• 1:25:01
  Reach out because people don't know you're hurting unless
• 1:25:06
  people can think that maybe you're hurting that.
• 1:25:10
  But just reach out to people. You know, if, if you need to
• 1:25:15
  talk to someone, if you need to, to get something off your chest,
• 1:25:19
  if you need to get connected with something, you've got to
• 1:25:22
  reach out. And as scary as it is, as as as
• 1:25:27
  hard as it is to face the possibility that it's not the
• 1:25:31
  right avenue that you're going down and then you'll have to do
• 1:25:33
  something different, still reach out and keep reaching out.
• 1:25:39
  And yeah, I wouldn't have made it if I hadn't kept reaching out
• 1:25:45
  to friends that didn't realize I was hurting, you know?
• 1:25:49
  Right. All right.
• 1:25:51
  Now. So for the good part, because
• 1:25:54
  we, we, we definitely want to end this on high note before we
• 1:25:58
  go to the time to shine. Tell us about your new job
• 1:26:01
  venture that you're getting ready to start.
• 1:26:03
  Are you, are you opening up the, the handyman business again?
• 1:26:10
  No, maybe someday, I don't know. At this point, I'm working on,
• 1:26:17
  I'm actually cleaning houses and I'm working to expand it to, you
• 1:26:26
  know, garages, barns, sheds, things like that, organized and
• 1:26:32
  clean. It's, you know, I came across an
• 1:26:37
  opportunity and it was something that I could do.
• 1:26:39
  And so I got, and I'm really just trying to get back into
• 1:26:45
  that mindset of working and possibly running a company and
• 1:26:50
  again and just get me, get me some of, you know, a normal
• 1:26:58
  contributor to society. And before, before I go to the
• 1:27:08
  time of shine, Tim, you, you, you've got the microphone.
• 1:27:16
  It's there anything that I didn't ask you that you think
• 1:27:21
  people should hear? It's it's, it's that time, HG.
• 1:27:30
  It's the time of shine. Now, maybe, like I said, maybe
• 1:27:43
  there's something that I didn't ask you that really you want to,
• 1:27:47
  you know, get off your chest the next two minutes, Tim is your it
• 1:27:54
  is is your time. You know, you can say whatever
• 1:27:58
  you want. Put anything out there.
• 1:28:02
  I'm going to let you have the the platform and just just go
• 1:28:07
  with it. You know, coming on today, I was
• 1:28:14
  so nervous and I was hoping it would just be a conversation
• 1:28:20
  with my old buddy a string. And it kind of ended up that way
• 1:28:24
  and I had some people turning in and stuff like that.
• 1:28:31
  I really appreciate your family and friends and friends, baby
• 1:28:35
  are my family. I'm growing up in foster care.
• 1:28:36
  I didn't, I didn't really have contact with biological family
• 1:28:40
  much. So I really got used to adopting
• 1:28:48
  my own family into my family, you know, so you know, I was
• 1:28:54
  stressing the importance of reaching out and I I wouldn't be
• 1:29:00
  in a healthy state at the moment.
• 1:29:02
  And I'm finally can say I'm in a healthy state and moving forward
• 1:29:07
  and really seeing progress. I just wouldn't be here if it
• 1:29:11
  wasn't for so many people that picked me up along the way that
• 1:29:14
  I said, hey, I just can't do it right now.
• 1:29:16
  I can't mean they were, they were nice.
• 1:29:19
  I remember that you H and you, you set up with me at, you know,
• 1:29:24
  2 in the morning, 3:00 in the morning, when I was, you know,
• 1:29:27
  borderline suicidal and psychotic and just kept me from
• 1:29:32
  doing something that I would regret.
• 1:29:36
  And, and I know some of my close friends have crossed that line
• 1:29:41
  and done, done the unthinkable. And, and, and I just can't
• 1:29:49
  imagine not being able to reach out, you know, not being able to
• 1:29:55
  find someone that can get your mind into a place where you can
• 1:30:01
  make live another day, you know, and that's very horrible
• 1:30:07
  feeling. And I really appreciate my
• 1:30:12
  friends and family. I know a lot of them showed up
• 1:30:15
  today to say hi and support me. And I absolutely appreciate you
• 1:30:19
  having me on the show. I had no clue what I would fill
• 1:30:24
  up 20 minutes with. But thank you for the guidance
• 1:30:29
  and I hope, I hope it was worth tuning in.
• 1:30:35
  You know what? I don't know if they think so,
• 1:30:38
  but I, I, I totally think it is, you know, and in closing, I will
• 1:30:45
  say this, me and Tim have been in the same space before, you
• 1:30:51
  know, he's been homeless. I, I remember eating that half
• 1:30:56
  eaten cheeseburger in the trash outside of Hardee's.
• 1:31:03
  And when you Robin Williams said it best, when, when you have no
• 1:31:08
  money, when you have no friends and no support, you learn about
• 1:31:12
  life real, real, real quick. And he's so right.
• 1:31:17
  And you know, the moment that me and Tim both have those ideas of
• 1:31:24
  just, you know, turning it off, just, you know, going away from
• 1:31:28
  it, we find out that we made the issue bigger than it was.
• 1:31:38
  And unfortunately, you never know that until the next day.
• 1:31:44
  So for those that are in the same protective event as Tim and
• 1:31:50
  I was a long time ago, remember that even though you're, you're,
• 1:31:54
  you're, you're down and out right now, Just hold on for one
• 1:31:59
  more day because it always gets better on the wake up.
• 1:32:03
  Don't know why, but it always gets better on the week up.
• 1:32:06
  And if you were in the same position as Tim was or me, make
• 1:32:12
  sure that you reach out, get connected with MBR.
• 1:32:16
  We, we don't care if you went to combat.
• 1:32:18
  We don't care if you were National Guard.
• 1:32:20
  We don't even care if you got kicked out of basic.
• 1:32:23
  We don't care. What we do care is that you
• 1:32:26
  raise that right hand. You made a blank check payable
• 1:32:32
  to the president to give your life for this country.
• 1:32:35
  That that is what we recognize. And we're going to do our
• 1:32:41
  damnedest. We're going to do our best to
• 1:32:44
  help you get the services need because you supported us.
• 1:32:50
  Now it's our turn. We, we support you.
• 1:32:53
  Tim. Thank you so much for being on
• 1:32:56
  the program today and for drinking coffee with me.
• 1:32:59
  I treasured your friendship. We've been through some highs
• 1:33:03
  and lows and I look forward to the highs coming up in the very,
• 1:33:09
  very near future. I love you brother.
• 1:33:12
  And you, you, you always have my phone number, your brother.
• 1:33:20
  Thank you. You're welcome, ladies and
• 1:33:22
  gentlemen, Marine veteran Timothy Hedrick, a true a true
• 1:33:30
  story of resilience and on the road to come back.
• 1:33:37
  Thank you, Tim. I appreciate it.
• 1:33:41
  All right, everybody. So now it is that time.
• 1:33:45
  We're going to, we're going to, we're going to take a little bit
• 1:33:49
  of a break. What we're going to do is we're
• 1:33:51
  going to go to our next segment, which is Tribute to the Troops.
• 1:33:57
  So whatever you do, stay with us.
• 1:34:02
  Don't go away. You're listening to the show
• 1:34:03
  that highlights all the nonprofit programs out there
• 1:34:06
  beyond the VA. You're listening to the ACE
• 1:34:09
  Train show right here on the station.
• 1:34:11
  That's letting our veterans be heard.
• 1:34:14
  MBR stay with us. Detail attention.
• 1:34:27
  First, call, the service member's name is called out loud
• 1:34:31
  in the context of a unit. This is meant to ensure all are
• 1:34:34
  present and accounted for. Second call, the name is called
• 1:34:39
  out again, louder to confirm that the service member is
• 1:34:42
  indeed absent. 3rd call, the name is called out for a final
• 1:34:47
  time, followed by a statement indicating that the service
• 1:34:50
  member is not present and accounted for, signifying their
• 1:34:53
  death. The final roll call serves as a
• 1:34:56
  symbolic gesture to respect and remember their service.
• 1:35:05
  Sir, I don't. I'm not.
• 1:35:07
  Tell the story. Well, you got the joke.
• 1:35:09
  You tell the people what they can do here.
• 1:35:12
  You tell them how much troopers died.
• 1:35:36
  Hey everyone, thank you for tuning in to MBR today as we pay
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  tribute to your first class Cody James, Vegan, age 37 of Colorado
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  Springs, Co Cody was born on February 2nd, 1989 to Patrick
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  Gibbon and Kelly Bennigan in Madison, WI.
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  Cody grew up in Edgerton, WI where he graduated from Edgerton
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  High School in 2007. Cody enlisted in the Army on
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  April 13th, 2010. Entering the Army Special
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  Forces. He was assigned to the 10th
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  Special Forces Group Airborne at Fort Carson, the Army's oldest
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  Special forces group, known as the Originals.
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  Within his operational Detachment Alpha, Cody served as
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  a weapon Sergeant, responsible for not only the team's arsenal
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  of weapons, but for training partner forces around the world.
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  The skill set went far beyond weapons.
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  Cody spoke English, Farsi, Russian, French and was learning
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  Spanish, a testament to the cultural depth required of a
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  Green Beret. Outside the uniform, Coney was
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  known for his relentless Dr. and his love of fitness.
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  He was competitive and he was steady in difficult situations.
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  Cody held himself to higher standards than others.
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  He loved to read and was devoted to the German Shepherd he
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  rescued, named Arwen, and the joy he found and time spent with
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  family at the cabin in Portage. On September 18th, 2026, Cody
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  passed away at his home in Colorado Springs.
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  His teammates described him as a man who gave everything he had
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  to the mission, someone who could be counted on in the most
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  difficult moments. Sergeant Major Brian Lewis said
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  Cody was a phenomenal Green Beret.
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  He will forever be remembered as a warrior, teammate and brother.
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  Cody is survived by his parents, Patrick and Kelly, his brother
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  Joe extended family, and his brothers and sisters in arms.
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  We here at NBR would like to thank you, Sergeant First Class
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  Cody James Deegan, for your service and dedication to our
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  country. You leave a legacy of love and
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  courage. Our prayers are with your
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  family, friends, and those who served alongside you.
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  But it is that time because the the show is coming to a close.
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  HG. It is that time, you know,
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  everybody uses the term hitting rock bottom.
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  And I think that I think that goes together today with today's
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  interview, it's storyline, especially with, you know,
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  Charles Schultz. So that being said, ladies and
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  gentlemen, the last part of the segment, that's the story
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  behind. It every item has a story.
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  Every story connects us to a legacy that must never be
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  forgotten. Discover the story behind it.
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  Ladies and gentlemen, so you've heard the expression hitting
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  rock bottom, Rock bottom. But what does it actually mean?
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  Where did it come from? Well, I'm here to tell you,
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  maybe they lost their job. Maybe their marriage fell apart.
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  Maybe they were battling addiction.
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  They lost everything financially.
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  Maybe they lost friendships, their home, their confidence, or
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  simply it has reached the point where going through another day
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  felt like a victor. Or maybe life just kept knocking
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  them down until they honestly couldn't imagine things getting
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  any worse. But have you ever wondered why
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  we call that rock bottom? Originally, the words were
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  pretty literal. We dug far enough through dirt,
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  sand, mud or sediment, and eventually you reach rock solid,
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  the bedrock underneath everything else.
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  You can keep digging through the softer material, but sooner or
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  later you hit something solid. You've reached the bottom.
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  There isn't another layer of loose ground waiting underneath.
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  That's where the image behind the expression begins.
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  Back in the 1800s, people were using the term rock bottom to
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  describe more than the ground beneath their feet.
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  It became a way of describing the absolute lowest possible
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  level of something. Prices could reach rock bottom,
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  a person's finances, or the way we started saying that a person
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  had hit rock bottom. It became a simple way to
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  describe a complicated moment, the point where somebody
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  believes that there's nowhere farther down to go.
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  During the 20th century, that idea became especially connected
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  with alcoholism, addiction and recovery.
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  You still hear people today say someday somebody has to hit rock
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  bottom before they'll finally change.
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  The phrase became so familiar that we almost stopped
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  questioning it. But there's a problem with that
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  idea. How far down is rock bottom?
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  For one person, maybe it's losing a job.
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  For somebody else losing their family.
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  Someone else might be sleeping in the car.
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  Another person, they still have a house, a paycheck, and people
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  around them while privately feeling completely destroyed.
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  And there's a line painted on the ground that says this is it.
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  What feels survivable to one person may not feel completely
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  hopeless to another. This is it.
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  What feels survivable to well, let's just put it this way.
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  We don't have to wait until the situation becomes catastrophic.
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  Sometimes the best time to reach somebody is while they're still
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  falling. More importantly, we don't have
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  to wait for somebody to to get there before we reach out at
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  hand. Sometimes we get too focused on
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  watching somebody fall that we forget that there's another
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  option. Catch them, make the phone call,
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  answer the text, knock on the door, connect them with somebody
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  who knows how to help. Give them a ride, help them make
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  an appointment still beside them, stand beside them, sit
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  with them when they don't have the slightest clue of what's
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  going on or while they're looking for it.
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  And sometimes a person during the help, well, they can't help
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  connect the dots. One phone call leads to another.
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  One introduction leads to a resource.
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  One person saying, let me see what I can do can become the
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  first link in the chain that changes somebody's direction.
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  Now, before I go on, let me tell you because you know, I've had
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  personal experiences in the last couple of weeks, you know,
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  social media, tribes, family, you, you've been there, you've
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  you, you know what I'm talking about.
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  You know, if you see something going on like somebody just
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  attacking somebody to bullying, if you don't stand up for them
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  or you know, just just don't say, hey, wait a minute, let's,
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  let's, let's talk about this. If, if, if there really is an
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  issue, then you need to, you need to talk to them privately.
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  Because once you broadcast or air out that do the laundry,
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  you're not asking for help anymore.
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  You're asking for attention and friends that are friends with
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  you that sit there and back up the story of, oh, let me get the
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  popcorn. Oh, you know, and just
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  instigate. Just eggs on ladies and
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  gentlemen. That's not a that's not a
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  friend. That is a conductor.
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  Continuing on, because here's the part about the expression of
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  rock bottom that I think we sometimes forget.
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  If you're standing on solid rock, there's finally something
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  underneath your feet, something you can push against, something
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  you can build on, something you can use to start climbing.
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  The same thing we describe as the lowest point can also become
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  the foundation for whatever comes next.
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  Think about that for a second. We normally describe rock bottom
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  as the worst possible place somebody can be, but maybe it
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  also can be that first solid ground that they fell underneath
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  them in a long time yesterday might be gone.
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  Some things might never be repaired exactly the way they
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  were. And you have to let it go.
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  You have to, because you're not missing the person or the
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  situation. You're missing memories of what
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  used to be. And sometimes there's just some
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  things that you can't take back. Words, things, anything.
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  But being at the bottom doesn't mean there isn't anywhere else
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  to go. But they're still up.
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  And sometimes that first step upward isn't dramatic.
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  There's no movie soundtrack. Nobody gives a speech that might
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  be admitting hey, I need help. And if a person can swallow up
• 1:52:49
  their pride and say hey, I need help, you need to connect.
• 1:52:54
  It might be answering a phone call you've ignored 3 times,
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  walking through a door, accepting a meal, going to an
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  appointment, getting sober for one day, filling out a
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  paperwork, asking somebody for another chance of simply waking
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  up and deciding, you know what, I'm going to make it through
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  today. Then tomorrow you make that
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  decision again. We love comeback stories because
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  we get to see where somebody eventually ended up.
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  We've seen the successful person, the survival, the
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  veteran helping other veterans, the the person, the years in the
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  recovery, or somebody who's built a life that they once
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  thought was gone forever. What we don't always see is the
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  first tiny decision that they made while they were still
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  standing at the bottom. Nobody applauded it, and maybe
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  nobody even knew about it, but the decision may have been where
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  the real comeback began. That's why somebody's lowest
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  moment shouldn't automatically become the way we define them.
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  A chapter isn't the entire book. A failure isn't the entire life.
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  A terrible year doesn't determine every year that
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  follows it. People can rebuild.
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  People can recover. People can find purpose again,
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  and sometimes a person who once needed somebody to throw them a
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  rope before the person holding that rope for somebody else.
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  Well, so maybe hitting rock bottom doesn't have to mean the
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  end of somebody's story. Maybe it's simply the place
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  where the next chapter begins. Maybe the real story isn't how
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  far somebody fell. Maybe it's what happened when
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  they decided to stand back up and who's willing to stand
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  beside them while they did it. Because when somebody at their
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  Lewis point, they may not need a lecture about how they got
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  there. They may not need somebody
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  reminding them of every mistake that they've made on the way
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  down. Sometimes they just need to know
• 1:55:18
  that there's still a way forward and somebody believes that
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  they're worth helping find it. And sometimes that comeback
• 1:55:29
  begins with four simple words. I'm here, let's go.
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  Or maybe it begins because one person finally decides you're
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  not climbing out of this thing alone.
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  And before we go to our final thoughts, I'm going to tell you
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  that in life, you could do 199 things, right?
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  And then that one thing, people will judge you on it.
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  That's OK People forget, People forget.
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  Time goes by. And what might have upset you
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  with somebody three years ago or five years ago, it's water under
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  the bridge. So don't let your emotions burn
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  that bridge because sooner or later, one day in your life, you
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  may have to cross that bridge once again.
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  And ladies and gentlemen, that is the story behind Rock Bottom.
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  And now it's time for the final thoughts.
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  At Project ML, our mission is simple, to give motorcycles to
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  veterans who need the kind of peace and freedom that only a
• 1:56:58
  ride can give. We sponsor charity events and
• 1:57:01
  rides to generate donations on the acquisition of the likes.
• 1:57:04
  While direct donations make up the rest, we seek to provide a
• 1:57:08
  little motorcycle healing to capable vets.
• 1:57:12
  And once again, if you know a veteran that's deserving or that
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  just needs an outlet, wind therapy, trust me, it's a thing.
• 1:57:23
  Help them out. Go to their website.
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  They award my motorcycle to a veteran every single year here.
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  Lately it's been every two months.
• 1:57:31
  I think they're like on everything, like 42 or
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  something. I mean, that's, that's, that's
• 1:57:36
  ungodly. So ML project gratitude.
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  We salute you once again, HG, before I get into my before I
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  get into my, you know, family, you know, full house Final
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  thought episode. What did you learn today?
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  I learned a lot about the phrase hitting rock bottom and I just,
• 1:58:05
  I think it's just cool how the English language transforms and
• 1:58:10
  evolves to how it, it kind of became, well, it meant something
• 1:58:17
  literally for a while. It, it also kind of became, I
• 1:58:22
  don't know, not like a, you know, maybe I don't know if
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  metaphor is the right word, but you know, like it, it also
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  became something like that where it wasn't, you weren't using it
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  in a literal sense. Right.
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  That was more so I thought that was really cool.
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  Well, from what I learned today, we heard the Timothy Hendricks
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  story. A reminder of what can happen
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  when somebody refuses to give up and when people are are willing
• 1:58:51
  to step in and help connect the dots.
• 1:58:53
  Tim Journey. It shows why advocacy matters
• 1:58:57
  and why no veteran should ever feel alone.
• 1:59:03
  Sometimes all it takes is one person listening, one connection
• 1:59:07
  and one door finally opening. Tim, thank you for trusting us
• 1:59:12
  with your story today. And this is what military
• 1:59:15
  broadcast is all about is giving veterans a voice.
• 1:59:20
  And you know, I've said it before and I'll say it again
• 1:59:23
  this weekend as you go on your weekend festivities and, and
• 1:59:28
  have a good old rested, you know, lazy day and stuff and
• 1:59:32
  watch football, just remember this.
• 1:59:36
  If you don't have any friends, that's OK.
• 1:59:40
  Be a friend and go find a friend and be a friend to that friend.
• 1:59:47
  That is how you make friends and you never know where that
• 1:59:53
  relationship can end. This is me and HG on behalf of
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  the HG Show on military broadcast radio, letting you
• 2:00:04
  guys know that we're here for you, not for us.
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  We're giving a voice. And before we end, Beaker has
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  something to say. Go ahead and play the safety
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  briefing if you have that. All right, team brief time,
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  don't drink and drive, don't beat on anyone and wrap it up.
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  Now listen, put out your fires completely.
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  Have a great weekend and be safe.
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  See you next Friday. See you next Friday, everybody.
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  And you know, I don't know, I don't think we have a let me
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  look here, but I don't think we have a confirmed interview next
• 2:00:45
  week yet. So keep your keep your eyes on
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  the Facebook page and watch for updated guest information for
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  next Friday. And with that being said, we all
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  say thank you giving our veterans a voice.
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