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The web at MB Radio dot Welcome to Beyond the Headlines with
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MBR giving veterans a voice. Hi and welcome to Beyond the
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Headlines and I'm your host Terry.
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And there's H train there and MJ is not able to join us tonight,
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so it's just going to be US 2 and we're going to break down
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some headlines for you. What you got tonight, H?
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Well, I tell you what, today we're, we're, we're, we will
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definitely in the second part of the show, we will play the, you
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know, as the White House turns, you know, a lot of stuff going
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on in the news right now. And, you know, it's, it's nice
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that you're here to tune in because one thing that we
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promise you is we're gonna, we're gonna talk about this news
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on a neutral, neutral line, neither one of us or the whole
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Democrat or Republican. So don't even worry about that.
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But you know, major headlines today, I don't know if you
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heard. But after three consecutive days
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of missile exchanges, tensions between Israel and Iran have
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sharply intensified after Israel struck Iran's Defense Ministry
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and alleged nuclear related sites, while Iran was responded
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with missiles targeting Israeli population centers, causing at
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least 14 fatalities so far. Notably, photos emerge showing
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Iran's F-14 Tomcat, officially US built, being destroyed near
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Tehran. Ahmed worries this could make a
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turning point when the second part of the show comes in.
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Terry. We're going to watch what
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happened today. It it it really got close to
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home for some people that do the news.
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So now, now I I think something something's going to happen.
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Also, I don't know if you already knew this, but the
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Minnesota lawmaker shooting development.
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Yeah. He's been found.
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So Van Bolter, 57, faces charges for shooting 2 Minnesota
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lawmakers and their spouses in their homes over the weekend.
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The FBI discovered he had visited multiple legislators
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residents that evening. In response to top Democrats,
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they're urging Speaker Johnson to increase House security.
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Interesting how they were fighting that earlier this month
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and now this happens and, and, and now they have a reason to.
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Interesting. All right, now you don't, I
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don't know. I don't know if you remember
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this, but do you remember about about a year and a half ago, Ed
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Sheeran went through the court process of, like, copyright
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music and. Yeah.
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OK, so check this out. The Supreme Court today declined
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to hear a lawsuit claiming Ed Sheeran's Thinking out loud
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Pleasure eyes Marvin Gaye's. Let's Get It on affirming
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previous ruling in Sharon's favor.
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They just like to waste money, don't they?
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It. Kind of sounds like and I I
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don't really think they're that much the same, honestly.
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Not really you know, and I mean it's it's first female M16 chief
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has been appointed a blaze Metro early has been named the first
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woman to lead EU KS M16 set to assume that the role on October
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1st, 2025. Her appointment during rising
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global threats marks a milestone in British intelligence
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leadership. Is it MI 6?
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MI 6. Yeah, yeah.
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That's. Interesting M16.
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Yes, Oops. Yep, yeah, MI 6, I believe.
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But yeah, that's pretty interesting that that now is led
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by a female, I think, like you said, the first time in history.
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So. So that's kind of interesting.
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And you know, you know, Bonds were never females either,
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whenever they had a Bond movie and he, you know, he's British
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intelligence and they never had a female Bond for the longest
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James, there was always James and not another female that was
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an agent like that. But I think they did finally
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come up with or they were going to cast one, weren't they?
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I thought at one time they were going to cast a female into a
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role of an agent. I don't know, but I do know 2
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movies, 2 sequels are coming out.
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There's a lot of people is excited about it.
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I think oh great, another Hangover series.
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But baseball's 2 is coming out. Rick Morris is coming out of
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retirement for this. That's pretty cool.
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And then also Happy Gilmore 2 is on the way.
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Oh my goodness. Yeah, they showed the previews
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of it and honestly, it looks kind of crappy.
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Honestly, it looks like the same plot.
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Why does sequels have to be the same plot?
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I don't know, I think they think the first one works so the
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second one should work too. But that doesn't usually work so
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pretty good. Usually you need something a
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little different to keep people engaged.
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I'm hoping for good things with Spaceballs too though.
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That that was pretty funny back in the day.
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So it. Was.
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And then getting those people to come out of retirement, you
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know, like one of them was like 92, isn't he?
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That's coming back as one of his characters that was cast way
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back in the day. Yeah.
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Yeah. So I mean, I think it'll be
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interesting to say the least. All right, so I'm trying to get
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the damn I I don't know if something's going on with Canva
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today because I'm trying to trying to drag this over and
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it's it is not liking it. Let me tell you.
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What do you got for us? Or yeah.
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Well, I was, I was doing a little bit of investigating and
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it kind of ties into what you were talking about with missiles
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and drones and things like that. And so really the topic was AI
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in the battlefield. And, and the comment is, are we
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ready for autonomous warfare? And you know, I think we are in
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a way, but then in another way, we're not.
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I mean, one of the things that it talked about was, Are you
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ready for AI to be your battle buddy?
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Would you depend on that battle buddy to help you out and to
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always do what, what needed to get done?
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I mean, do do we have the same level of confidence that we
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would have in a, in a real human being partner battle buddy?
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And then the other thing that the other side of it is once
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something like that is deployed and you know, something's in its
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path and it's, you know, collateral damage, that's,
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that's not expendable. That shouldn't be expendable.
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I mean, that would be a problem too.
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Like there's a human factor involved because it doesn't have
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a way to discern friend or foe necessarily.
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I mean, given certain conditions, yes, it does.
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But I mean, if somebody in in unintentionally stepped in the
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path of one of these AI things, either a drone.
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Or a missile. Or.
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Yeah. So I mean, like, I mean, we're
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already using AI in the military for some things, but are we
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ready for Terminator Part 234? I mean, are we ready for that?
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I mean, you know, are the universal soldiers?
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I mean, because kind of that's kind of the thought behind this
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new AI is that what's gonna eventually be the thing?
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And I mean, really autonomous, you know, AI in the battlefield
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is good because it would save lives.
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You, you know, the, the service members lives, you know, just
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deploy something like that. But is it dependable and is it
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something that's sustainable? I mean, 'cause you've got to,
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you've got to think that all this stuff is so expensive that
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how in the world would we be able to afford enough AI to
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cover all the battles? We are all the places we are in.
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I mean, you know, drones are pretty easy and those are easy
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replicated and and those wouldn't be something that would
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be a lot of trouble to maintain or to keep in or be a huge cost.
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But if we're talking about other enhancements with AI.
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Like flying IEDs, yes, and I saw that.
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That scares the shit out of me. Yeah.
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I mean, so that's where we're kind of at.
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Are we ready for that? I mean, I don't know.
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Not. Sure, I'm asking.
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'Cause I I don't think the question is, are we ready for
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that? I think the question is, is how
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are we going to teach that to our military, OK?
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Because, you know, when we were going to Iraq, we were going to
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like the fundamentals of what engineers do when it comes to,
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you know, detonating, you know, debt cord, land mines, anti
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personnel mines, stuff like that.
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This is different. This is flying, IE D's Like
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that's kind of scary. My heart and my thoughts go to
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every service member. But, you know, like MJ and me
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were talking this morning, you know, and, and my wife and me
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were thinking about having kids. You know, that's one thing we
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got in an argument because she's like, what?
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I don't want my kids ever to join the military.
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And I told her I'm like, you know, some some say there's
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going to be a day where it doesn't matter if kid joins the
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military or not. They're going to be here and the
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fight is going to be here in the United States.
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It's just it's, it's going to be there's sleeper cells and
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everything else. I believe that.
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So we, you know, it's very easy of us as humans to become
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complacent and we really have to be aware of our surroundings.
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I know I do, you know, I mean, you know, my, I, I wasn't
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exactly thinking yesterday. We we went to the the remote to
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do that remote in out about time near Lakewood and we got there
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and my gratitude comes over and says we we got some bad news.
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What's that bad news? The store can't give us power.
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Jeez, I'm like, well, this was a fun idea.
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So me and my wife we went over and and purchased a generator.
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We got the message done. Now it's nice that, you know, we
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have a means to do that in the last second, you know, but
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anybody else, they, they probably won't have that.
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But my, my, my, my, the reason why I bring that up is, you
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know, you got to, you have to, you have to prepare for
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everything Nowadays, nothing is nothing is black and white.
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Everything. There's like a loophole.
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There's, there's something that you have to worry about.
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And I do I, I worry about our sewers members.
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I worry about the work ethic. Cause me and your time man.
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Our work ethic is definitely different than the work ethic of
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the younger generation today. It it's so different because,
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you know, I was telling Travis with OM, he was like, well,
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what's changed? What's different?
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Because you've spent 33 1/2 years in the military.
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So what have you seen change over the course of time?
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And one of the things was, you know, polishing boots and
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ironing uniforms, you know, we took a lot of pride in both.
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You know, our boots were supposed to be super shiny and
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like, you could see yourself and drill Sergeant wanted to see his
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reflection in our boots. And you know, you wanted that
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pressed uniform. You wanted it, you know, just to
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stand up practically by itself. And nowadays, you know, it's a
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wash and wear uniform, it's suede boots.
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So, you know, there's really no maintenance other than keeping
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your patches serviceable and that kind of thing.
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But other than that, they don't really have to spend any time on
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it. So we learned, you know, kind of
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to put our effort in our uniform and in our, our, our mission set
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because that was what we did. But nowadays, you know,
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everything's a little bit different.
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We've got all these cell phones, we've about all these things
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that we didn't have. So we've got all these
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distractions and we and things we don't have to do anymore that
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would tie us to being more regimented in what we do and how
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we do it. And, you know, so that's one of
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the things I think definitely is a big change is the uniforms.
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And then it's not a bad thing. I'm not, I'm not complaining.
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I mean, I didn't mind not having to pay for starch in my uniform
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and, you know, being able to bend my arms when I needed to.
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I was going to say my, I remember my BT us.
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I remember those pants, Tracy. Those things stood up on it.
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They were so caked. And you know what?
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What I did and like, so, so when I got ready to go to the board
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in Iraq, I would I'd take my uniform and I like wet it down
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and I put it in between the mattress and the springs so that
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that would iron it kind of like press it or whatever for the
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board. Yeah.
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That's a good idea. Never thought.
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That's a cool idea, I never thought about that.
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Yeah, well, it didn't get me very far, so you know, but hey,
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it's 1000 counts. You were trying, right?
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I was trying. I was trying damn it.
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Well, I remember trying to put my foot into a pant leg and
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you're like having to bust starch or break the starch just
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to get your foot in there because they were so starched
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heavy. And then you would, you would
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fold them over and it would be just like a temp flap, like it
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would just stay completely over because it was so creased and so
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heavy with starch. So yeah, and, and they were hot.
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They were hot with all that. Stuff they didn't.
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Breathe very well. You don't know hot until you've
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been stationed at Fort Stewart, Georgia.
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Oh my God, that that place is hot.
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You know, it got so hot that the Kiwi would melt off the toe.
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That's how hot it got. It got so hot.
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It got so hot that the next day my BTU's no, that thing starts.
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That's sweat. That's that's, that's white
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sweat on the yeah. Oh, so gross.
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I don't know which one was worse.
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That or in PT formation while the Nats are biting you and you
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have to stay in that position of attention while the Nats are
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biting you. Yeah, that's not fun.
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No it isn't. No.
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Well, you ready for our first break?
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Well, yeah, how about we play Die Tired Open Hearts club?
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How about we? Play all right And then when we
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come back we're going to not only do as the world turns but
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from around the world there's there's three things that's
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going on and we're going to tell you about one of them just so
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happens to be tourist footage from India's show panic at
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Moon's campany falls as a snake was spotted in the water.
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So whatever you do, stay with us.
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Don't go away. You're listening to Beyond the
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headlines with H and Tracer right here on MBR here we.
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Go. The station where our veterans
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voices are heard MBR talk. Hey, thanks.
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For tuning in, welcome are those of the speakers and do not
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necessarily reflect the views or.
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Positions of any entities they represent.
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The web at MB radio dot. Welcome back to Beyond the
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Headlines with H and Terry. And we're breaking down today's
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headlines and putting them into perspective.
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What you got H? Well, I hope you can hear that
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music. I got, we got the, we got the
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the soundboard back. Oh yeah.
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Yeah, so hopefully you heard that music.
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I did. Good.
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I haven't had really a good a solid 30 or 40 minutes to really
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make sure that this mixer works. So this is one of those days
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when we're like really trusting the equipment, if you know what
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I mean. I do.
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Sometimes it works for you and sometimes nothing works.
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So I'm not going to play the video, but right now London and
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the UK are laughing at Trump because apparently during the
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parade, Trump fell asleep. Oh.
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No. Yes, so, Oh my God, you know
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what? If I, if I was 89 years old, I'd
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fall asleep. Two people, you know?
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Well, give him. Give him a break.
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But the thing with Trump and with a lot of people like him,
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they don't sleep very much. They sleep maybe 2-3 hours a
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night, maybe 4 Max, and that's about it.
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So sometimes when they've had a full day, I mean, they, they
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just crash. Like finally they just crash
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because they don't really sleep much.
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Those creative type people, those minds that really just get
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up and work and just keep going all day.
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Like, you give them like a moment of like silence, like to
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sit and they're, they're out. Yeah, well, Trump, now you know
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how the military guys feel when we're standing at attention of
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parade rest. Because if you haven't fell
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asleep at attention of parade rest and you haven't lived in
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the military for long. Right.
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That's true. Yeah, that is true.
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It's it's amazing to think that you can fall asleep standing up,
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but you can. It, it is the thing.
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It happens. You know what?
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When you join the military, there are going to be things
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that you think that your body can't ever do, and the military
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is going to show you how to break those records.
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So don't you worry. Right, that's true, yeah.
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A lot of things you never thought possible are possible.
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Now I'm going to read some of these news clippings from around
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the world and then some local here in here in Denver.
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That's kind of interesting. And then we'll go in right into
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as a white White House turns, unless you have something else
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that you want to talk about. Oh, and before, before I forget,
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I mentioned it today during our our NBR little forum chat.
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Everybody is invited to play this game, but the the question
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of the day to everybody in the in like the NBR chat thing.
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It it was kind of like a family thing.
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People, if you're listening, if you're hearing you, you can also
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join. OK, the NBR logo, the
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embroidering, how many stitches is in the embroidering?
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It's it's crazy. It is crazy how how many
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stitches it is. Put a guess in the comments and
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by the end of the show we will read it or I will read who's the
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closest to those stitches. So we have that.
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We have that all as well. You know there's a.
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It's pretty detailed too. The the logo is pretty detailed
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so look it up if you need to see it but but it's pretty detailed
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logo. Yeah, now I talked about the
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word puzzle. 1458 goes viral, correct?
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I don't think. So, all right, well, so today's
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Wordle 1358 featured a nod to Tom Petty challenging players
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with a double T and AY, sparking widespread discussion and twice
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ensuring success with clever strategy guides.
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That's, that's, that's interesting.
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And then also from around the world.
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Austin Tice case update A former Syrian general claims that
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American journalist Austin Tice was executed in 2012 under
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Assad's orders. This is the first time Assad has
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been directly implicated, but the report remains unverified.
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Also, trade and diplomatic moves.
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Indiana Prime Minister Modi received Cyprus highest civilian
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honor today. Meanwhile, UK manufacturers are
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pivoting away from the US markets due to the tariff
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concerns. And then entertainment news,
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tourist footage from India shows panic as Mazzaro's Kempty falls
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as a snake was spotted in the water.
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I, I guess there's like they're having some snake troubles in
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the water over there. They also had a plane crash that
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241 people died and there was only one survivor.
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That's terrible, yeah. Yeah, and then the pretty much
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the last set of news Psychedelic Science 2025 conference begins
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here in Denver, Co Convention Center is hosting the five day
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Psychedelic Science 2025 conference from June 16th to
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June 20th, drawing over 7000 attendees and more than 500
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speakers. It highlights Colorado's legal
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psychedelic landscape and includes tours for the state and
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federal lawmakers. In response to the tragic In
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response to the tragic shootings of state lawmakers in Minnesota,
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Colorado Secretary of State has temporarily took down the Tracer
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campaign finance database, which contained personal addresses and
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phone numbers. This move prioritized public
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official safety over transparency.
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And you know, you know what's coming up.
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Tracer is Denver Juneteenth Music Festival shrank from two
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days to 1 after several corporate sponsors and NEA
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grants withdrew, mirroring a national trend of reduced
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corporation. The DEI involvement.
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We we knew that was coming. Yeah, this is going to make
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Bronco fans really happy. Mysterious series of properties
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purchased 10 lots of totalling $146 million by LLCS near
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Lincoln Park has fueled speculation about the plans for
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the Denver Broncos to build a stadium.
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The team confirms that there is no final decision yet to be
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made. Bullshit.
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OK. And then last but not least,
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then, then we'll, we'll go into the stuff now.
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Everybody saw the whole, all the, all the riots and
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everything. Single stair housing legislation
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New Denver housing rules expected by the end of 2025 will
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allow single stair apartments, simplifying construction
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following a 2025 state law. And then finally, no Kings anti
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Trump protests in Denver. Thousands marched on state
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capital as of nationwide No king rallies on June 14th opposing
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Trump's federal military parade. At least 36 arrests occur.
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But Trump made a nice little statement in his in his tweet
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this morning saying, you know what?
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I appreciate everybody coming out and supporting the No Kings
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protest. There was no Kings that was
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brought to the United States yesterday.
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I think that's a weird name for the protest.
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I mean, I think it's fine to protest if that's your if that's
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your desire and that's your calling is to protest because
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you don't like a policy or a law or practice or you don't like
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something that's going on in the government.
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But to call it no kings doesn't make sense to me.
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It really doesn't. I don't understand it, but I
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don't know if I'm supposed to. So we'll just leave that there.
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Well, I, I, you know, and, and I tell you, me and MJ was talking
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this morning. There's just, you know,
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everybody. We just got to be, we just got
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to be patient. We got to let it play out.
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But, you know, don't let the noise of the outside world get
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you down. Don't let the noise of the
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answer get you down, you know, because I guarantee you what's
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happening right now in Washington, DC not going to
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affect us for a while, not going to affect us for a while.
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So don't, don't, don't hang your head down.
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You know, You know, I didn't know if we were going to even
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have a show on Monday because of all this stuff that's going on.
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But like you said, we'll be OK. Yeah, we'll be.
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Yeah. We just got to quit listening to
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the noise. But I tell you what, we'll we'll
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go ahead and play as the White House turn segment since it's
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about that time. And then we can we can talk
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about how, how about that? Sounds good.
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I'm trying not to run the show. You're doing a good job.
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You're doing a good job. I'm letting you because you're,
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you've got this. Here we go.
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So here's some breaking news about the news.
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On June 16th, 2025, Israel bombed the headquarters of the
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Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting in Tehran, which is
35:29
also called the IRIB, during a live broadcast.
35:55
I'm the white man. I'm the white man.
36:05
Now this attack that was reported by multiple sources
36:07
including Al Jazeera, Reuters, BBC, and confirmed by the
36:10
Israeli Defense Force. The strike interrupted a live
36:13
transition with footage showing debris falling in the studio and
36:16
the anchor taking cover. Now, Israel issued a full
36:19
evacuation warning for parts of Tehran prior to the attack,
36:22
claiming full aerial operational control over the city's skies.
36:25
Now for those of you that don't know, the IRIB is known for
36:29
being the state broadcasting company and it's a government
36:32
run entity that promotes the Islamic Republic's official
36:35
narrative which includes strong anti Israel and anti Western
36:39
rhetoric. As you might guess, there's been
36:40
a few people out there that said that the IRIB is a channel
36:43
that's broadcasting global jihad, terror, incitement and
36:47
deranged lies about the West and Israel.
36:49
Essentially it's the propaganda news of Iran.
36:53
So take that for what you will. So here.
37:00
OK, so he keeps saying MB I I I I?
37:03
I don't think he means the men in black, right?
37:06
No, he was saying that IRB. Some IR, you know, so many,
37:11
there's so many abbreviations. It's crazy.
37:14
But yeah, that's that's good. Hey, honey, how was work today?
37:19
Oh, it was a blast. Yeah, literally.
37:22
Literally, figuratively. Yes, it was a blast.
37:25
No, that's crazy. I mean, I can't imagine being in
37:27
the middle of talking. And I mean, she was very
37:30
impassioned about whatever she was talking about.
37:33
Obviously, I don't know the language, but you could tell she
37:35
was really into it and really like trying to get something
37:39
across. And the next thing you see is,
37:40
and here is this explosion. I can't, I can't even like,
37:44
fathom having something like that happen to me.
37:47
Right. Yeah, definitely would freeze on
37:50
the mic, but you know it. I don't know if it's their
37:52
language, but like it, it sounded like she was yelling at
37:55
me. Like you come to dinner now.
37:57
You come to dinner, you know. I told you.
38:01
I told you and, you know, I tell you, if you've never been
38:05
overseas and you're trying to talk to somebody, raising your
38:10
voice or counting the syllables, you know, how are you?
38:16
Yeah. That's not going to magically
38:18
make them understand it, just so you know.
38:21
Right. Yeah.
38:22
My dad had a hard time with that when we were in Russia.
38:25
You know, I'm like, dad, you can raise your voice all you want,
38:28
you know, playing charades and stuff, you know, just, it just
38:33
doesn't work. Oh, and this like last week I
38:36
went to Walmart and I use my ChatGPT.
38:40
I'm like hey this, this will help me right?
38:43
That thing. That thing set me up for failure
38:46
and I told it to ask for root beer and send me to the beer
38:50
section. So can't trust GPT all the time
38:55
for everything now that. Beer is beer, right?
38:59
Root, pale ale, Apple. Like it's all the same, right?
39:03
It still has a beer in it, right?
39:05
Right. That's funny.
39:09
So what? What, what, what else?
39:11
What else did you want to? What else did you want to cover?
39:15
Tracer. You know 'cause I tell you.
39:21
Well, you know, it talked about in the AI article that I was
39:24
reading, it talked about Project Maven and I, I know I've heard
39:28
about it before, but I didn't really know a lot about it.
39:31
Project Maven is AUS. It's MAVEN and I didn't realize
39:38
how far it went back. It went back.
39:40
It goes back about 8 years. It says Project Maven is AUS.
39:44
Department of Defense initiative launched in 2017 to accelerate
39:47
the adoption of artificial intelligence machine learning
39:50
across the military. It focuses on AI to process
39:54
imagery and video, particularly from surveillance drones to
39:58
automatically detect, tag and track objects or people of
40:01
interest. The project aims to improve
40:04
military's ability to identify potential targets and streamline
40:07
decision making. I'm, I kind of heard about it,
40:09
but I didn't really realize what it was, what it was.
40:12
But I mean, I, we've been some of us that are in the
40:17
intelligence agency, I'm sure would know something about
40:20
Project Maven, me not being in the intelligence lane.
40:24
I don't, I didn't hear about it from that perspective.
40:27
But it's been, it's been a lot around in the military a long
40:30
time. We just are now just really
40:31
realizing some of the outcroppings or the outshoots of
40:36
some of that technology that they've been tracking and
40:39
testing. So here's a little bit about it.
40:42
I put in trending news about this.
40:44
Evidently there's a lot coming up in the news in the last
40:47
couple of weeks because there's a lot here.
40:49
Says as of May 21st, 2025, the Department of Defense raised the
40:54
contract ceiling for Planetors Maven Smart System from 480
41:00
million to nearly 1.3 billion through 2029 to support US
41:05
Combatant commands. NGA Director of Vice Adam Frank
41:10
Whitworth noted that the system now has 20,000 active users
41:15
across more than 35 military and command platforms and has
41:19
dramatically speed up targeting workflows from hours down to
41:23
minutes. Maven now a formal program for
41:27
record. As of November 23rd or November
41:31
2023, the NGA officially designated Project Maven renamed
41:37
NGA Maven as a program of record, solidifying its long
41:44
term status in the federal budget and the acquisition
41:48
pipeline. This paves the way for standard
41:51
software development, whatever I can't pronounce it, pathways and
41:58
future enhancements under NGA oversights.
42:03
Now then, we're talking about Planter's growing contract in
42:08
May 2024. Planter security $480 million
42:14
expansion contract to roll out maintenance capabilities to five
42:18
combinant commands. CENTCOM, Ucom.
42:24
Indo Pacom. Indo pacom yeah.
42:27
They're all coms, that's right. They're all coms, yes.
42:31
Commands, yes. Yeah.
42:32
And the Joint Staff, this move supports integration into the
42:36
CJAD C2 that's joint all domain command control framework
42:42
connecting geospatial AI with broader military intelligence
42:48
functions. And then the final breakdown.
42:52
This this is what all this means.
42:55
The highlight the scale budget is nearly tripled in 2025.
43:00
Contract value now at 1.3 billion uses 20,000 users across
43:06
combatant and command networks. Speed targeting workflows cut
43:12
from hours to minutes, institutionalization official
43:19
program of record as of 2023 and then the mission still core to
43:25
USGO special AI strategies and CJAD C2 architecture.
43:32
So that's, I mean that's, that's some weird stuff right there.
43:36
I don't know which one's scarier that or I yeah, I, I got to say
43:42
the, the flying, IE D's when I saw when I saw a video picture
43:48
of and they, they took it off. Of course, it was gruesome.
43:52
They the the soldier evidently had a GoPro and it showed the
43:57
drone right in front of him and it showed it exploding and then
44:03
the screen just went black. Oh, wow, yeah.
44:08
I mean, there's that all that with Project Maven.
44:12
Sounds like, you know, it's very something that's very beneficial
44:17
to the military to map out things to find targets to do all
44:21
that. I mean, so that would take
44:23
someone at a computer station a long time to do, you know, if
44:29
they're doing it hands, hands on type input, instead of having AI
44:34
kind of filter all this data quickly and make decisions.
44:38
And that's the other thing is it would help on the battlefield
44:40
with decision making because it'd be split second.
44:43
Do we do this or not? And like, it would go.
44:45
But the other thing I thought about too, and I know that
44:47
there's some out there in the civilian world, is those robotic
44:51
dogs that do guarding. So you know how we have the dogs
44:54
in the military that do different things.
44:56
Yeah. They have robots, that's all
44:58
that. Yeah, so I've seen those too.
45:01
So I mean like, is that the next generation soldier too is the
45:04
robot dogs? And then maybe maybe you know
45:07
some of the the robot suits or something for soldiers.
45:13
I mean, the whole thing is going to, you know, artificial
45:16
intelligence and weapons systems that are like mind driven versus
45:22
like, you know, somebody's going to pull a trigger or somebody's
45:25
going to, you know, roll out wire and and do a claymore mine
45:30
or something. I mean it's all going to be AI
45:34
and artificial robot type intelligence.
45:37
I think it's definitely going to be Drunk Warfare.
45:40
I agree with you on that. It's like if, if, if I can, if I
45:45
can put what I need in a soldier and a drone and take a chance of
45:51
sending the drunk because I mean, a drone, you, you can
45:54
probably make a drone for less than 200 bucks, OK?
45:57
A person's life is way more than there's more than that.
46:00
You know, I can see them doing the drones just like Ukraine did
46:07
to Russia, you know, kind of kind of kind of embezzle those
46:12
drones as they get to that location and then they unmask
46:16
it. Yeah, I I can see that
46:18
happening. I I can see that happening.
46:20
And you know, have we seen the last of boots on the ground?
46:27
I don't think so. We still need real thinkers and
46:30
real doers because somebody's got to deploy all this
46:33
technology or ensure that it's going in the right direction.
46:37
Wouldn't that be amazing if the, like the, the Lieutenant has a
46:43
program, kind of like ChatGPT tells the drone where to go,
46:48
what to do and stuff, and then it survives?
46:50
I personally think that I'm, I'm pretty sure we've, we've seen
46:56
the last of boots on the ground that it's going to be more
47:01
artillery, it's going to be more air driven.
47:05
I I at least that's at least that's what I think, you know,
47:09
'cause I mean, in the long run, it's cheaper to replace a drone
47:13
than it is a soldier. Oh, that's 100% true.
47:17
And I'd rather I'd rather sacrifice a drone than a person
47:20
any old time. So I agree with you, but I still
47:23
think we need boots on the ground for extractions and
47:26
things like that, because I still don't think that, you
47:29
know, our technology is capable of those types of things.
47:32
Or if there's a search and destroy mission, you know, I
47:35
think there's still got to be some human intelligence that
47:37
goes along with that because at some point in time, those
47:40
artificial intelligence things, they think, but they, they can't
47:43
reason and it needs reasoning. So I agree with maybe they are
47:48
the force, the robots and, and those drones and things like
47:52
that are the force, but there's got to be some human element
47:56
that's in charge of that force. Because I just don't think it's
48:00
going to just go go without I. Love MJ.
48:04
What did she say? MJ.
48:08
Hold on, I got to say. Wait, how many stitches was it?
48:18
Right right now, right now I'm I'm, I'm letting everybody from
48:23
the group pick. So Tony has had given his gifts.
48:29
Yeah, yeah. Believe it or not.
48:31
Yeah, that's way over that number, way over that number.
48:37
That's crazy. You know, I saw, I didn't see
48:41
any of those military dogs that I've seen on the, you know, on
48:47
the feeds, whatever feeds you, social feeds you watch.
48:50
But I, I did see one of the robotic dogs at Falcon Stadium
48:56
in Atlanta when we were there. And that Falcons Stadium dog, he
49:02
has his own dog house and he, he guards the perimeter of Falcons
49:07
Stadium and he walks back and forth and you're not to mess
49:10
with the dog and he has his own dog house to, to go into when
49:14
he's kind of trying to reset or recharge.
49:18
But it was kind of cool to see him.
49:20
I took some pictures of him and he, he stands like guard and if
49:25
you get too close, he looks at you like he would tear your leg
49:28
off, even though even though he don't, he doesn't have a mouth
49:32
to do so. But I would be a little
49:34
intimidated by those dogs. Honestly.
49:36
I thought they were really interesting.
49:39
My, my, I think my Internet might be going funky Tracer.
49:43
I think that's, I think that's what happened because it looks
49:47
like we lost Facebook. Yeah, it does look like we lost.
49:51
Facebook. That's OK.
49:52
It's not like anybody watches it.
49:54
Also on Facebook. We got Roku, baby.
49:57
We got Roku. We got this, we got this, we're.
49:59
All right, OK, so before we, before we leave, before I tell
50:02
everybody, you know, like the green flag because I'm trying to
50:06
buy some time so every host and every DJ can can participate in
50:13
this crazy number. But Father's Day was you busy
50:19
yesterday? What what, what did you guys
50:21
have going on for that holiday? Just a bunch of family over and
50:26
I mowed grass. I mowed the grass.
50:28
You mowed the grass. I did it.
50:30
It took me a couple hours, but it's alright.
50:32
It started to rain, but then it started like really cooling off.
50:36
So I really appreciated it. I really appreciated the rain.
50:39
What'd you do? You know, after I get done with
50:43
the remote, I felt like I played a game of flag football.
50:46
I mean, my body was aching the whole day.
50:51
Like I, I, I slept a lot, you know, It's like, wow, I know.
50:56
But I, I refuse, I refuse to say that I'm old.
51:00
I have old tendencies. I have old knowledge, but I
51:07
refuse to. Say you have wisdom.
51:09
You have wisdom. Yeah.
51:11
Yeah, you're not old. Yeah, if you don't remember your
51:15
birthday and you don't remember how old you are, you can never
51:18
get old. That's that's my saying you can
51:20
never get. Old I always say if nobody says
51:21
happy birthday to me or I don't get a present, I get a stay that
51:26
I guess stay 46, see. That that's what we need to do.
51:30
Then don't say happy birthday. Don't say it.
51:33
Don't say it everybody, because. I didn't have a birthday then,
51:35
so then, yeah. We're done.
51:40
Don't say it. So I, I was, I was hoping all
51:48
the DJs would get on in on this. I will tell you that skydiving,
51:55
we're still looking for nominations, veterans and 1st
52:00
responders. If you're a firefighter or
52:03
police officer, this is your chance.
52:05
If you're military, this is your chance.
52:08
OK, if you're in another state, you know, we'll, we'll, we'll,
52:12
we'll figure something out, but at least get those nominations
52:16
in and let us know. But whoever is the highest donor
52:21
for the skydiving will get this neat little Baba doll.
52:32
It's a bobble head. Bobble head with with the corn
52:36
holes with with the little. Corn roast.
52:43
Super cute. Yeah.
52:45
Oh, well, I mean, you know, and like they sent me one bobble
52:48
head and I'm like, jeez, this is a lot of money.
52:54
Now I know why is a lot of money.
52:56
This thing is huge trace huge, huge.
53:03
But yeah, with that, with that being said, well, I'll, I will
53:08
tell everybody. I'm going to give a number if if
53:11
you guessed anything under 14,000, you're you're already
53:18
out of the game. OK, I'm going.
53:20
I'm going to give the final number later tonight so that
53:23
everybody gets a chance. But I can tell you it's over
53:27
14,000. Oh wow.
53:30
Yeah. My my first guess was under but
53:32
my second guess was over that. Right.
53:34
Yeah, you got close on the second when I saw that well.
53:39
When I saw the ice cubes, I'm like, OK, we're really, really
53:42
cold. We need that.
53:43
We need to step up our game here.
53:45
It's got to be a lot more. Well, I have the bat computer,
53:50
unless you want to end it early tonight.
53:54
If you have a question to ask that computer, you know, that
53:59
computer, whatever you want to call it, you know, I, I looked
54:02
up to, you know, the trending news, what you were talking
54:05
about with the, the, the mayors. I've never even heard of it.
54:09
That's the first I've heard of it.
54:11
I've heard of it, but I really didn't know what it was, what it
54:14
encompassed, so I was curious to to hear more about it 'cause I
54:18
didn't realize all the commands were actually using it.
54:20
The command and commands were using it so.
54:24
You know, it's, it's funny, I don't know if people realize
54:27
this or not, but so to get Internet, you have to take like
54:35
a satellite dish, like DIRECTV or something like that.
54:38
Yeah. And you have to learn how to
54:41
point it to the satellite. It's kind of like you do cable
54:44
instead of the when the signal comes back, instead of feeding
54:49
that, you know, signal, what it does is it it feeds it kind of
54:55
like a signal for Internet. And then you have to have like a
54:59
decoder machine, like a program that basically converts that
55:04
signal into the Internet. Same kind of thing for cable,
55:08
except that signal is, you know, cable watching.
55:11
It's not Internet and yeah, I'm, I'm trying to get one of those
55:17
decoders because hey, we got a generator.
55:19
Now MBR can travel. Right have generator will
55:22
travel. Yeah, yeah.
55:26
Is there anything that you wanted to check up on?
55:29
No, I think that's it. But when we used to deploy with
55:33
the DC, the defense coordinating element, we generated our own
55:37
Internet. We had our own satellite dish.
55:41
And so we would create our own Internet source and we would use
55:46
Sling TV and everything to get the local, local and
55:48
international news so we could hear what was going on.
55:51
And we could set up that the inside talk and the outside to
55:57
get Internet in less than an hour.
55:59
Right, all of it. That I would.
56:01
Have to use the decoder. Did you guys just use like a
56:03
sling box? Well, we, I don't think we had a
56:07
decoder we had, we had a modem and we had switches and I think
56:14
it was all in the switches, but we we could set it up in an hour
56:17
and it was amazing. I was like, I was impressed with
56:20
the team, like we unloaded a trailer and had everything
56:23
functional within an hour. We jumped talk from one location
56:27
to the other and we'd have it set up so that we could, you
56:30
know, weather was coming or anything we can move out and
56:32
move to a new location. So having, you know, you're
56:35
talking about setting up Internet and you know, being
56:38
mobile. So I mean you truly can be
56:41
self-sustaining if you have the right equipment.
56:43
That's I think that's the message there.
56:45
You know, and and talking about right equipment.
56:48
I've been reading on TikTok and a lot of social media people,
56:53
you know, it's, it's, it's one of those it's, it's kind of
56:56
funny. I think it's a conspiracy that
56:59
they're like, all right, everybody that marched in the
57:03
parade yesterday, were they really military or were they
57:07
paid actors? I mean, look at their steps.
57:10
Their marching is terrible. Ladies and gentlemen, it's
57:14
called route step. Are you going to expect us to
57:18
March for like 8-9 blocks? We route step most of the walk
57:24
and then when we get closer then you just get everybody on step
57:31
black on stink. Yep.
57:32
And then bam, right and cross some people, I tell you,
57:38
creating a conspiracy because they've never been in the
57:40
military. Well, I mean, you know,
57:43
everyone's hypercritical, like they just be 1 little thing and
57:46
they go, oh, and it's this and you know, they don't see the
57:49
whole experience. They see one little piece and
57:52
then they make a judgment on what's happening or what's not
57:56
happening. So that's The thing is, I mean,
57:58
and I think we all do that too, is like we all make a snap
58:01
judgment just based on a snippet of information and we don't, we
58:04
don't, you know, drill down and see really what's going on.
58:09
I agree with you. I agree with you.
58:12
I agree with you. Well, ladies and gentlemen, I, I
58:15
think it's that time for us to get out of here.
58:19
We do want to say that we missed MJMJMJ is our spirit flower.
58:26
It's just not the same here. But when you're not here.
58:29
So let's make sure that we make it happen next Monday.
58:38
Remember everybody skydiving. July 4th, we need to get
58:42
donations and we need to get nominations and veterans names
58:47
and 1st responders. And July 12th at Douglas
58:52
Fairground, we'll be doing a car and bike show just like we did
58:57
Saturday. We'll be broadcasting on a Roku
59:00
channel and we'll be streaming and we'll probably give some
59:04
ducks away as well. Then July 19th, then we go to
59:10
the Cynics Complex soccer complex for the same thing.
59:15
We've got 6 remotes coming up more chances for you to win and
59:21
for you to for you to tune in. I got breaking news real quick.
59:29
Hold on. OK, This comes from this is like
59:34
this is from OK, breaking news. Trump says right now everybody
59:42
should immediately evacuate Tehran.
59:47
So I guess you know what, Remember I told you guys all the
59:53
wars and all that shit was going to happen over the weekend.
59:56
Now now it's now it's falling into the weekday.
59:59
So I, I think we're going to have a steadfast on this war,
1:00:04
maybe. By Friday, it's it's fast, it's
1:00:07
fast attacking. So our prayers and our hearts
1:00:10
are with the military families. Absolutely.
1:00:15
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1:00:28
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