Speaker 1: All right, news, round up, Information overload hour. Here's a
Speaker 1: toll free telephone number if you want to be a
Speaker 1: part of the program. It is eight hundred ninety four one,
Speaker 1: Shawn if you want to join us. I mean, it
Speaker 1: is so beyond repulsive, especially in light of everything that
Speaker 1: has gone on and everything happened in the assassination of
Speaker 1: Charlie Kirk. But it was a complete Adam shift show.
Speaker 1: At UC Berkeley last night, a bloody brawl broke out
Speaker 1: near the university ahead of the Turning Point USA event
Speaker 1: on campus. The event featured doctor Frank Torek, He's been
Speaker 1: on both my radio and TV show and Rob Schneider
Speaker 1: and marked the end of this is the Turning Point
Speaker 1: tour and they'll be announcing of new events coming up shortly.
Speaker 1: It wasn't that long ago that Charlie Kirk was assassinated
Speaker 1: at a campus event in Utah on September tenth. Now
Speaker 1: this erupted a brawl, two men seen inviting each other,
Speaker 1: and you know, then we see the same thing the
Speaker 1: Antifa crowd, the you know, Palestinian flags, the chanting I
Speaker 1: mean does and then conflicts with the police. On top
Speaker 1: of it, we have some tape of it. Let's play it.
Speaker 2: Und fashion in the man.
Speaker 1: I have been saying that this is nothing but dehumanization incitement.
Speaker 1: I keep going back to the Democrats, the constant refrain.
Speaker 1: It was their closing argument in twenty four Nazi fascist
Speaker 1: racist Hitler Stalin Mzsolini. And it is having an impact.
Speaker 1: I mean, what part of assassination culture have these people
Speaker 1: not gotten the message about? Anyway? Here, he was there
Speaker 1: last night. He's become a friend of the program. Mikey McCoy,
Speaker 1: he's the chief. He was the chief of staff to
Speaker 1: Charlie Kirk, but he's now the chief of staff at
Speaker 1: Turning Point USA. He has a first hand account of
Speaker 1: what happened at UC Berkeley last night. You might recall
Speaker 1: that it's his father, Pastor Rob McCoy, who married Charlie
Speaker 1: and Erica. And I've become pretty close to his dad,
Speaker 1: and I think he is light years ahead of his father.
Speaker 1: And your dad is an israel And you can pass
Speaker 1: on that.
Speaker 3: I said that, Yeah, I must have missed the radical
Speaker 3: memo that went out from Antifa here because there's something
Speaker 3: about doctor Frank Kirk and Rob Schneider, the comedian that
Speaker 3: this doesn't strike me as radical here, and so for
Speaker 3: some reason.
Speaker 4: These two speakers particularly were the reason why these radical
Speaker 4: leftist INTIFA members came out of the woodwork to just protest,
Speaker 4: but also to try to terrify our attendees and attack them.
Speaker 4: You played the clip of the gentleman wearing a freedom
Speaker 4: T shirt, which is the shirt that Charlie was wearing
Speaker 4: the day that he was assassinated, and for some reason
Speaker 4: that's a sign of hate, and so Antifa attacked him,
Speaker 4: flipped over all of his stuff, attacked him. He was
Speaker 4: bleeding on the ground. Police had to get involved, and
Speaker 4: we had our attendees spat on. They were attacked, they
Speaker 4: were flipped off, they were making fun of the assassination
Speaker 4: of Charlie Kirk as for some reason, this is what
Speaker 4: the left does. But this is also just kind of
Speaker 4: a warrant sign for us, just with the radical lefts
Speaker 4: proclivity to violence. Where given the opportunity to pick between
Speaker 4: what we see inside of the building, which was our
Speaker 4: group of people peacefully gathering, reaching across the aisle, celebrating America.
Speaker 4: Rob Schneider cracking jokes, Frank Turk giving a recount of
Speaker 4: his friend Charlie Kirk Frank is an incredible man. He
Speaker 4: happened to be there that day in Utah. But you
Speaker 4: see inside versus outside, we are team civilization and they
Speaker 4: are team destruction. We reach across the aisle, we invite
Speaker 4: disagreements to the front of the line. Outside, they want
Speaker 4: to beat you up. They have no interest in having
Speaker 4: a conversation with you. They only have interest in the
Speaker 4: destruction of every single American value and anything that has
Speaker 4: American conservatism written on it. But at TPUSA, we like
Speaker 4: to go straight into the line stend. We knew this
Speaker 4: was this was going to be facing us at UC Berkeley,
Speaker 4: but Charlie never let this stuff scare him, and it's
Speaker 4: not going to scare us now. And so we're going
Speaker 4: to continue this work. This happened to be our last
Speaker 4: campus stop of this tour season, but we're going to
Speaker 4: continue it again in our next campus tour, and we're
Speaker 4: going to go to even more radical schools. But this
Speaker 4: is something that we need to just kind of put
Speaker 4: a flag on. Is the left for coluidity to violence.
Speaker 4: And you said it perfectly, Sean. This is it's assassination
Speaker 4: culture and and it's continuing on the left that they
Speaker 4: think that political violence is okay. Political violence is not
Speaker 4: okay ever, period and stop. And this is a big
Speaker 4: confused to me. But what we saw last night is
Speaker 4: just a perfect example of the last in where they're
Speaker 4: headed not only as a party but as a cultural movement.
Speaker 1: Well, you know, one of the things that I said,
Speaker 1: and this is amazing about you. You know, by the way,
Speaker 1: I was kidding about your dad. I've become very fond
Speaker 1: of him, and I know how much he loves you
Speaker 1: and how proud he is of you and.
Speaker 2: Your dad.
Speaker 1: I just I just happen to know is on a
Speaker 1: trip in Israel. I believe he's accepting an award for
Speaker 1: Charlie on Charlie's behalf. But what I love about all
Speaker 1: of you, and you're young to me. I know you
Speaker 1: probably don't look at yourself and say I'm very young. No,
Speaker 1: at least I didn't when I was your age. But
Speaker 1: you know, it takes an enormous amount of courage to
Speaker 1: do what Charlie did and what all of you continued
Speaker 1: to do in light of what happened to Charlie. And
Speaker 1: that is you know you're going into these hostile environments.
Speaker 1: You know you're saying things that sadly are not often
Speaker 1: and uttered on college campuses. You're talking about, Hey, maybe
Speaker 1: you know, you want to recognize that human beings are
Speaker 1: of mind, body, and spirit. Maybe you want to get
Speaker 1: back in church. Maybe you want to reject hook up culture.
Speaker 1: Maybe you don't want to go to prap parties every
Speaker 1: Friday Saturday night, and you know, be the kid throwing
Speaker 1: up in the bushes. And the most amazing part of
Speaker 1: it is you've been able to get young people to
Speaker 1: not only think, but to join in and say, you
Speaker 1: know what, Gee, I feel validated in my views. I
Speaker 1: thank god there's a group that I can now, you know,
Speaker 1: join and be a part of where people share these values. Yeah.
Speaker 4: I think Erica Kirk a couple of weeks ago, at
Speaker 4: her speech at Ole miss named us the courageous generation,
Speaker 4: and I think that that was just it hit the
Speaker 4: nail on the head of what we are as young people,
Speaker 4: as a generation, as a whole is we're facing a
Speaker 4: massive crossroads. And Charlie was our advocate in our hero
Speaker 4: and he oftentimes would just advocate for getting married young,
Speaker 4: having more kids than you can afford, thinking the right
Speaker 4: choice every single time, even though all your friends are
Speaker 4: going out to have frat parties or time and again
Speaker 4: making the wrong decision.
Speaker 5: You can make the right decision.
Speaker 4: You can take accountability for your life. You can go
Speaker 4: to church, you can have more children than you can afford.
Speaker 4: You can get married young, even though all the rules
Speaker 4: tell you not to do that in society. And so
Speaker 4: Erica hit the nail on the head. We are the
Speaker 4: courageous generation. We're very courageous, but we're also just a
Speaker 4: little bit hopeless. And so there's a lot of challenges
Speaker 4: facing young people. With college debt being at an all
Speaker 4: time high. You see for the first time ever college
Speaker 4: graduates is from fifty eight percent of college graduates are
Speaker 4: unemployed in their first year of graduating. And you see
Speaker 4: the same unemployment rate for young men graduating of the
Speaker 4: same age of graduating seniors. Of young men and non
Speaker 4: graduating seniors have the exact same unemployment rate. Then you
Speaker 4: have crushing student debt, these buy now, pay later programs
Speaker 4: against young people, the labor market shrinking, illegal migration being
Speaker 4: poured in under the Biden administration to take jobs of
Speaker 4: young people, and so they see all these challenges against them.
Speaker 4: First time home buyers in the United States is at
Speaker 4: forty years old. The median purchase of a home buyer
Speaker 4: sixty one years old. And so these young people are
Speaker 4: seeing all these challenges facing them and it's really easy
Speaker 4: to pick, you know, the easy way out, which for
Speaker 4: young people. You saw a couple of weeks ago was
Speaker 4: Mom Donnie in New York. How you saw this massive
Speaker 4: victory for him, and that was because young people heard
Speaker 4: him say and promise solutions. And he can smile and
Speaker 4: he can say a solution. He may not act on it,
Speaker 4: and it may be just socialism with a smile, but
Speaker 4: young people see that and they want to vote for it.
Speaker 4: That's why you saw seven percent of somewhat conservative voters
Speaker 4: in New York City and nine percent of conservative voters
Speaker 4: in New York City that are young vote for Mom
Speaker 4: Donnie because they need some sort of economic reality change
Speaker 4: in the under thirty camp before rat political you know,
Speaker 4: radicalization sets in. And this is also what you're seeing
Speaker 4: with young people. There's a YouGov pull that came out
Speaker 4: recently that said eighteen to thirty six year old think
Speaker 4: that political violence is okay, and we need to push
Speaker 4: back against that. That's where we're doing every single day
Speaker 4: at Turning Point USA. We're trying to give the alternative
Speaker 4: solution to political radicalization. I mean three of the political
Speaker 4: of the political assassins in the United States in the
Speaker 4: past twelve months have been gen z. This is a
Speaker 4: warning sign for our generation. We need to take accountability
Speaker 4: and we need to make the right choices because our
Speaker 4: hero was Trelie Kirk and he always led us the
Speaker 4: right way, and now that he's gone, we need to
Speaker 4: remember what he said and we need to take accountability
Speaker 4: for our life. Show up at Turning Point USA events,
Speaker 4: listen to what your leaders have to say on the right.
Speaker 4: And we are the courageous generation. We need to find
Speaker 4: our hope again. We need to find our meaning in
Speaker 4: life again. And there's nothing that can stop our generation
Speaker 4: from achieving greatness in this country, saving this country if
Speaker 4: we just find the right ways to do it.
Speaker 1: Can I just ask you a personal question for our
Speaker 1: audience's sake, how old are you, Mikey?
Speaker 4: I'm twenty four years old.
Speaker 2: It really takes my breath away.
Speaker 1: And I told you something privately when I saw you
Speaker 1: and you were on the TV show when I was
Speaker 1: in d C. And that was the day that the
Speaker 1: President gave the Medal of Freedom to Charlie Boy, I'm
Speaker 1: tripling down on my bet my prediction about you. You
Speaker 1: are spectacularly wise, beyond your years, incredibly courageous. I know
Speaker 1: how proud your dad is of you, and I listened
Speaker 1: to you in awe. I wish I had the wisdom
Speaker 1: you have when I was your age.
Speaker 2: And I'm sitting on.
Speaker 1: I get to hear from a lot of you at
Speaker 1: Turning Point, and I'm just clapping and cheering the whole
Speaker 1: way and praying for your safety and God's will be
Speaker 1: done through all of you, because it really is God's work.
Speaker 1: You're hopefully going to save this generation. And I couldn't
Speaker 1: be more thankful but what you all do and the
Speaker 1: courage that you all show, and I'm very appreciative of it,
Speaker 1: and I see great things in your future.
Speaker 2: My friend.
Speaker 4: Thank you so much, Sean, thank you for having me
Speaker 4: on and continuing the platform Charlie's life and legacy and
Speaker 4: our mission at Turning Point USA. We're going to fight
Speaker 4: tirelessly to honor Charlie and his life that he lived well.
Speaker 1: Got godspeed, and We'll always be here if we can
Speaker 1: help in any way anyway. Mikey McCoy. Thank you from
Speaker 1: Turning Point USA. Eight hundred and nine four one sean.
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Speaker 1: be a part of the program. David and Alabama, David, Hi,
Speaker 1: how are you? What's going on?
Speaker 2: Sir?
Speaker 6: I'm will Sean, Thank you and Greece from a great
Speaker 6: state of Alabama. Love to have you back anytime. Two
Speaker 6: quick comments and then I'd like I have a possible
Speaker 6: I think a real workable solution to the next government
Speaker 6: shutdown which has gone on happen one. The Democrats don't
Speaker 6: care about constituency. They don't care about them. They care
Speaker 6: because they know they've got that forty percent lockdown.
Speaker 2: The fact that.
Speaker 6: They mcdonmie had a D buy his name. They'd vote
Speaker 6: for Hitler if he had a D by his name,
Speaker 6: And it doesn't matter. They care about their party. Party
Speaker 6: comes first to Democrats, not constituency, not the people back home.
Speaker 6: Then it's the people that donate the money to be
Speaker 6: big insurance companies. But now Schumer is basically mad because
Speaker 6: he's wanting the Republican Party to bail them out of
Speaker 6: the things You've been saying for years, what's going to
Speaker 6: happen with Obamacare? You know, it's going to be over
Speaker 6: for it's not gonna be enough money, it's going to
Speaker 6: cost a fortune, and all those things. Now they're wanting
Speaker 6: the Republicans to bail them out of their short sightedness?
Speaker 7: Is that?
Speaker 2: You know? I keep quoting Marksimonios today.
Speaker 1: It's the Affordable Care Act officially known as the Affordable
Speaker 1: Care Act. If it's so affordable, why do you need
Speaker 1: the subsidies in perpetuity? That affordable? And then OZ gave
Speaker 1: us the real numbers. You know, first of all, there's
Speaker 1: a lot of fraud, waste, fraud and abuse that they've identified.
Speaker 1: They've identified, you know, a ton of illegal immigrants in
Speaker 1: the program. They've identified people that don't even know they
Speaker 1: have it, that never use it. I went through the
Speaker 1: numbers the insurance companies. You know, I have outperformed like
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Speaker 1: over the last you know, since Obamacare was implemented.
Speaker 2: But what did I warn? What happened?
Speaker 1: They would they would make these promises then they would
Speaker 1: never fulfill them.
Speaker 2: And I wish I was wrong. I wish it worked.
Speaker 1: It never was going to work because government doesn't run
Speaker 1: very much efficiently at all. And that's why I urge
Speaker 1: you in this audience don't buy their lie. You know,
Speaker 1: if you think this is bad, the people that rated
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Speaker 2: I'll give you the last.
Speaker 6: Word and a real quick fix, you know, to what
Speaker 6: could happen if the Republicans could get, you know, develop
Speaker 6: some testicular fortitude, just come up with pass the law
Speaker 6: that five months after election day, if they don't have
Speaker 6: a bill passed to run the government, they don't get paid. Congress, Senate,
Speaker 6: none of them get paid, none of their people who
Speaker 6: working there for and they don't get back paid. I
Speaker 6: guarantee they would be incentivized to pass a bill that
Speaker 6: would get the government paid. Then they can do all
Speaker 6: their pedally squabbling the other way. But having them develop
Speaker 6: the testicular fortitude to do it. You know, that's that's
Speaker 6: going to be the kicker. But it came.
Speaker 1: Well, there are a lot of Republicans that didn't take
Speaker 1: a check during this period. Some are not gonna get
Speaker 1: back paid for the very reasons you've outlined. But for
Speaker 1: a lot of people in Congress, believe it or not,
Speaker 1: this is the most money we are ever going.
Speaker 2: To make in their life. Which I ought to tell
Speaker 2: you something.
Speaker 6: Well, that is all right, the insider trading.
Speaker 1: Alright, Well, you know, if only we could get a
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Speaker 1: a return on money's invested. If only your net worth
Speaker 1: can go from three million to two hundred and eighty
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Speaker 1: amazing anyway. Eight hundred and nine foot one, Shawn our number.
Speaker 1: If you want to be a part of the program.
Speaker 1: All right, when we come back, we will check in
Speaker 1: with our friend Dakota Meyer, who, by the way, Medal
Speaker 1: of Honor recipient on this Veterans Day Straight Ahead.
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Speaker 1: It is you know today remember of Barack Obama, and
Speaker 1: I see many of you here on this Memorial Day, like, okay,
Speaker 1: that's amazing.
Speaker 2: He had incredible Remember he said that back in the day. Unbelieve,
Speaker 2: but it is.
Speaker 8: I never forget the corpseman, Navy corpseman, No.
Speaker 2: Navy corpseman is definitely my favorite.
Speaker 1: I think I hammered that to death because I just
Speaker 1: couldn't get over the fact that he's the commander in
Speaker 1: chief and doesn't know what a corman is.
Speaker 2: And I just rold me nuts.
Speaker 9: Maybe corpseman Christian Bushark and lying on a gurney aboard
Speaker 9: the USNS comfort a woman asked, Christopher, where do you
Speaker 9: come from?
Speaker 6: What country?
Speaker 2: And in Creole a corpse.
Speaker 9: Member Shard responded in Tanzini the United States of America.
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay.
Speaker 1: If he didn't say it like three times, you would think, oh, okay,
Speaker 1: maybe just miss pronounced that he's reading a teleprompter. But
Speaker 1: he doesn't know the difference that was obvious.
Speaker 5: You know.
Speaker 1: You just think of all of the sacrifice, all of
Speaker 1: the My father four years in the Pacific not the
Speaker 1: four best years in his life.
Speaker 2: Amazing. I used to.
Speaker 1: Ask question after a question, after a question, I want
Speaker 1: to know about, Well, did you see the battle?
Speaker 6: Dad?
Speaker 2: Did you see this? And he never wanted to talk
Speaker 2: about it.
Speaker 1: I had an uncle that if a plane flew over
Speaker 1: his house instinctively because he served in World War Two.
Speaker 1: You know, my family told me I never saw it myself,
Speaker 1: but they told me that he would literally just roll
Speaker 1: out of his bed and roll underneath the bed. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's unbelievable. And think of World War one, World War two,
Speaker 1: you know, Vietnam, you think of the War on Terror.
Speaker 1: I mean, it just is the sacrifice that so many
Speaker 1: have made for liberties and freedoms that we all take
Speaker 1: for granted. We don't wake up every morning and say ah,
Speaker 1: ah another day. I live in freedom and liberty, and
Speaker 1: I want to give thanks. We don't, but we take.
Speaker 1: There are introspective, quieter moments when you realize how much,
Speaker 1: how much, how high the cost has been, and how
Speaker 1: many people have paid that cost so we can pursue
Speaker 1: our dreams and live out the life that God intended
Speaker 1: us to live out in freedom. And freedom's not free.
Speaker 1: Our friend, to Coda Meyer, writing on Substack, you know,
Speaker 1: put out a statement for today Veterans day. What makes
Speaker 1: our veterans different is the oath they take. They put
Speaker 1: on the nation's cloth and make a promise all the
Speaker 1: way up, you know, to the cost of their lives,
Speaker 1: to stand for people, not politics, not one party, not
Speaker 1: one ideology. Every veteran raised their hand knowing they might
Speaker 1: have to walk toward danger so others wouldn't have to
Speaker 1: no one I serve with that wore the uniform, you know,
Speaker 1: for Republicans and Democrats. They fought for good over evil,
Speaker 1: they fought for freedom over fear. They fought to protect
Speaker 1: those who couldn't protect themselves. That's the heart of service.
Speaker 1: It is in theory, it isn't talk. It's real men
Speaker 1: and women who left their families, their comfort, sometimes their lives.
Speaker 1: They did it out of duty, out of honor, and
Speaker 1: out of belief in the worth of every American life.
Speaker 1: And Veteran's Day reminds us of that promise, the courage
Speaker 1: to stand in the gap for others, the conviction that
Speaker 1: service is bigger than self, and the principle that people
Speaker 1: will always matter more than politics. That's what a veteran is.
Speaker 1: That's why this day is sacred now. Yesterday, by the way,
Speaker 1: it was the two hundred and fiftieth birthday, honoring our
Speaker 1: anniversary of the Marine Corps simplified my buddy Ali North
Speaker 1: for one my other buddy, Captain Howie, I gave him
Speaker 1: a shout out last night on TV. But Dakota Meyer,
Speaker 1: US Marine in his own right, Medal of Honor recipient
Speaker 1: honored for his heroism for a battle in Afghanistan going
Speaker 1: back to two thousand and nine. One of the youngest
Speaker 1: school trained snipers in Marine Corps history, he deployed to
Speaker 1: Iraq in two thousand and seven, Afghanistan two thousand and nine,
Speaker 1: and ten this year. Fifteen years after leaving active duty,
Speaker 1: he re enlisted in the Marine Corps and he continues
Speaker 1: his commitment to service as a firefighter, first responder, and
Speaker 1: father of two. You know, we don't wake up every day.
Speaker 1: We're all wrapped up and I got a shovel, coffee
Speaker 1: down my throat, Get my kids off the school, pack
Speaker 1: of lunch, give them money, drive them, you know, go
Speaker 1: put in my twelve fourteen hours, come home, do homework,
Speaker 1: cook dinner. You know it's everyone has busy lives, but
Speaker 1: when we get reflective and quiet and introspective, none of
Speaker 1: this is possible without all of you.
Speaker 2: Anyway, welcome back to CODA.
Speaker 5: Thank you, sir, Thank you for having me.
Speaker 1: Well talk about what made you write this, because it
Speaker 1: really touched me.
Speaker 5: You know, I I for a long time, I've tried
Speaker 5: to just lead through my actions, and I've tried to
Speaker 5: get out there and put these words in this perspective
Speaker 5: out there. You know, you try to be silent professionals, right,
Speaker 5: I mean as a veteran, I didn't do it because
Speaker 5: I needed people to thank me or I didn't do it.
Speaker 5: I did it because I love people, and I love
Speaker 5: this country and I love everything about it. And you know,
Speaker 5: but I owe it to the world to also give
Speaker 5: a perspective that comes from, you know, a place of knowing, right,
Speaker 5: a place of I have. I have the sacred knowledge
Speaker 5: I went to combat. I got to see truly the
Speaker 5: possibility of what the potential and every human being out there,
Speaker 5: and so you know, to be able to write it
Speaker 5: and to be able to remind people what veterans are,
Speaker 5: you know, I think we we've gotten away from it
Speaker 5: because there's not a ton of veterans out there. You
Speaker 5: only know the military, you only know the nation's cost.
Speaker 5: You only know what people that serve this country do
Speaker 5: if you have them in the vicinity of your family,
Speaker 5: right and there's not an a ton of them out
Speaker 5: there right now, and so we've got to go out
Speaker 5: there and remind people of what veterans are. What it is.
Speaker 5: It's not just a day of discounts, you know, it's
Speaker 5: a day of recognizing the most valuable population of people
Speaker 5: that we have in this country.
Speaker 1: You're a Medal of Honor recipient. What happened back in
Speaker 1: two thousand and nine in Afghanistan.
Speaker 5: You know, we were going into a valley. We were
Speaker 5: in a place called the Kunar Province, and I was
Speaker 5: in I was east of the Cornwall Valley, a very
Speaker 5: notorious valley, and we were going into Ganjagal and I
Speaker 5: was on an embedded training team. So we had four
Speaker 5: US and eighty Afghans that you know, we were basically
Speaker 5: training the Afghan National Army and embedded with them. We'd
Speaker 5: gone into this village. The village elders had said they
Speaker 5: wanted to renounce themselves from the Taliban. I got left
Speaker 5: back with my truck and with another driver, and then
Speaker 5: my team had gone in. I'd been replaced that day
Speaker 5: with another guy, Gunnery Sarn Johnson. It was the first
Speaker 5: day that I had ever not been with my team,
Speaker 5: and they ran that mission, went in and I mean
Speaker 5: it was just the enemy always gets say and so
Speaker 5: you know, over six hours, my team had ended up
Speaker 5: being trapped inside this we call it a kill sack,
Speaker 5: inside this valley, and I couldn't just sit back and
Speaker 5: not do anything. And so me and my driver, you know,
Speaker 5: we made five, four or five trips. I don't know
Speaker 5: the exact number, but I was kept making trip after
Speaker 5: trip in trying to find the team and to get
Speaker 5: everybody out because they were all stuck in there. And
Speaker 5: so then you know, after five or six hours, my
Speaker 5: team had ultimately had had been killed and overran by
Speaker 5: by the Taliban.
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, the moments like that, you just
Speaker 1: you know, you're seeing your life flash before your eyes
Speaker 1: and you're thinking that this could be it.
Speaker 2: I assume.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean I didn't. I get asked all the time,
Speaker 5: you know, did you think you were going to die? No,
Speaker 5: I knew I was. I never thought. But but you know,
Speaker 5: like Sean, I'm so lucky because every day for me
Speaker 5: is a bonus day. I get to wake up every
Speaker 5: day and I get to go do it again, and
Speaker 5: I get to go out and I get to try
Speaker 5: to make the world a better place and whatever perspective
Speaker 5: that I could or whatever, you know, wherever I'm at,
Speaker 5: I get to do that again. And so and I
Speaker 5: got to serve this country. So yeah, I mean it
Speaker 5: was it was definitely a day that I never thought
Speaker 5: I would have made it out of that valley.
Speaker 2: Well, thank god you did. And why did you re enlist? Now?
Speaker 5: You know, I re enlisted because you know I had
Speaker 5: more to give. I had more to give. I was.
Speaker 5: I was talking to this group of Marines out at
Speaker 5: Camp Pendleton one day and this sergeant stood up and
Speaker 5: he said, he said, and he said to code, you know,
Speaker 5: knowing what you know now, is it still worth serving?
Speaker 5: And I'm going to tell you, if we ever make
Speaker 5: it to where people don't believe that this country is
Speaker 5: worth serving, we're going to have a huge issue. And
Speaker 5: for me, I looked at him and I said, absolutely, absolutely,
Speaker 5: it's worth serving. And I could tell that after that.
Speaker 5: I believe the only thing that we owe the world
Speaker 5: is to be who we say we are. And so
Speaker 5: after that, I started to answer the next question they
Speaker 5: had for me, and I stopped because I could feel
Speaker 5: that they didn't feel that that was genuine. You know,
Speaker 5: they were all thinking, well, then why aren't you? And
Speaker 5: so I told them I made a promise to them.
Speaker 5: I said, you know what, it's not right for me
Speaker 5: to tell you it's worth serving. As I go home
Speaker 5: and live in the comfort of my house, I'm not
Speaker 5: making any sacrifices. You know, you're out here living this
Speaker 5: every single day. And I said, so, what I'm going
Speaker 5: to do is to show you. Now I just tell
Speaker 5: you it's worth serving. I'm going to show you this
Speaker 5: country is still worth serving. I'm going to do everything
Speaker 5: I can to re enlist. And so I re enlisted,
Speaker 5: you know, and it took me a while. I got
Speaker 5: back in. And then the other thing is, Sean, is
Speaker 5: my daughters. You know, as a parent, we're always fighting
Speaker 5: for influence of our kids. And I knew that my
Speaker 5: daughters would either grow up reading about people like that
Speaker 5: that were in the uniform, or they could grow up
Speaker 5: knowing them. And I knew that me going back in,
Speaker 5: that my daughters would grow up surrounded by those types
Speaker 5: of people.
Speaker 1: Well, I got to tell you something on this Veterans Day.
Speaker 1: We're honored to have you on this program. We're honored
Speaker 1: to be able to call you a friend of this program.
Speaker 1: You are a true American hero, and I hope people
Speaker 1: will reflect and be thankful when you see veterans. Thank
Speaker 1: them people, you know, because your life is easier, much easier,
Speaker 1: because they sacrificed everything and put it all on the line.
Speaker 1: For you the code of Meyer. We think the world you,
Speaker 1: my friend. God bless you. Happy Happy Veterans Day to
Speaker 1: you and all our great vets out there and simplify.
Speaker 1: Happy two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the Marine Corps.
Speaker 5: Thank you, Sean.
Speaker 1: Eight hundred nine four one. Shawn is a number if
Speaker 1: you want to be a part of the program. Ray
Speaker 1: in my free state of Florida. Ray, how are you.
Speaker 7: I'm fine, Sean. Thank you so much for taking my
Speaker 7: call them Before I get into my point, God bless
Speaker 7: Dakota and all our veterans. Is I'm the son of them.
Speaker 2: Guys are amazing. It's so good.
Speaker 1: I just want to take a minute and just thank them.
Speaker 1: I mean, they don't get enough credit for what they've done.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I serve. I'm not a veteran. I serve in
Speaker 7: the sons of the American Legion to my father's service,
Speaker 7: and it's a wonderful thing. Just making sure that everyone
Speaker 7: knows that our freedoms exist because there are men and
Speaker 7: women that will put their lives on the line for
Speaker 7: what we stand for in this country and part of
Speaker 7: the brother threat right now. I left New York City
Speaker 7: in nineteen ninety six, during the middle of Rudy's heyday,
Speaker 7: when New York was actually getting much better. But the
Speaker 7: problem we're going to have under this communists Over fifty
Speaker 7: percent I read, sixty one percent of New York State's
Speaker 7: budget comes from the taxes out of New York City.
Speaker 7: And when, as you rightly say, all of the Wall
Speaker 7: Street firms are fleeing to Texas and Florida, that tax
Speaker 7: base is going to go away. Those people who can't
Speaker 7: afford to leave are going to be smothered. And I
Speaker 7: hate that we let the devil get a foothold in
Speaker 7: my former home city.
Speaker 1: But I hope a foothold they dominated. You know, it's
Speaker 1: funny you said this as an article in Today's New
Speaker 1: York Post and it talks about bost income and how
Speaker 1: many people have migrated out of New York. Over two
Speaker 1: million New Yorkers have fled in the last decade. Now
Speaker 1: get this, The accumulative adjusted gross income lost in New
Speaker 1: York is five one hundred and seventeen point five billion
Speaker 1: dollars that left. And I think that's a low estimate,
Speaker 1: but I'm going with the estimate they put in there.
Speaker 1: New Jersey's lost income is one hundred and seventy point
Speaker 1: one billion and five hundred thousand people have left, and
Speaker 1: just nearly a quarter of a million in the last
Speaker 1: three years alone. And if you look at income losers
Speaker 1: and winners, you know, the biggest losers are states like
Speaker 1: New York, California, Minnesota, Illinois, and other Northeastern states New Jersey.
Speaker 1: The biggest gainer is Florida, where we live. Next biggest
Speaker 1: gainer is Texas. You know, I mean, I can't help stupid.
Speaker 1: Now there's some people say, are you've given up? I
Speaker 1: haven't given I I just realized, you know that stupid prevails,
Speaker 1: and I'm not going to be stupid with you. Eight
Speaker 1: hundred nine four one shot on number. If you want
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