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Speaker 1: The Michael Berry Show.

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Speaker 2: Every morning when I wake up, I have a text

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Speaker 2: wedding for me from Marcus Latrell, who is known as

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Speaker 2: the Lone Survivor, which was the name of the book

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Speaker 2: he wrote about his experience in Afghanistan when by all

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Speaker 2: rights he never should have survived. Everyone else involved in

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Speaker 2: that campaign died.

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Speaker 1: He lived to tell the.

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Speaker 2: Story and share the story of the heroism of his mates.

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Speaker 2: Anytime Marcus is on the show, it's a treat, but

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Speaker 2: it's always kind of an odd thing because I feel

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Speaker 2: like I should show him the respect he's due and

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Speaker 2: be formal with him, because that's how most of you

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Speaker 2: expect me to be.

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Speaker 1: But we're buds.

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Speaker 2: We laugh and joke and talk in what President Trump

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Speaker 2: wants called locker room talk, and we goof around together,

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Speaker 2: and so I think there has to be a balance

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Speaker 2: of that. I have not gone back to listen to

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Speaker 2: this interview since it first aired quite some number of

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Speaker 2: years ago, so I'm going to be listening as you

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Speaker 2: do normally. I'll listen to the to the discussion. I

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Speaker 2: don't like the term interview because an interview suggests your

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Speaker 2: passing judgment. I'd like to discuss you think you'd rather

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Speaker 2: hear two people talk, wouldn't you, than someone ask a

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Speaker 2: question and then formally answer a question. But anyway, he's

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Speaker 2: been on several times. But here's our conversation with our

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Speaker 2: dear friend, the Loan Survivor, Marcus Latrell. The movie opens

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Speaker 2: Today's Paul Loan Survivor. It's the story of four Navy seals.

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Speaker 2: The only one to survive was Marcus Latrell. He's our guest.

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Speaker 1: Our guest guest, Mark Marcus Trell, Marcus Marcus.

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Speaker 2: I got to ask you, did you ever expect when

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Speaker 2: you were I have to say a hello to you

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Speaker 2: from your former frat brother at sam Houston State University,

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Speaker 2: Scott Kutaj. Did you ever expect back in ninety nine

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Speaker 2: or at sam Houston State University that you were going

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Speaker 2: to end up being the subject of national talk shows

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Speaker 2: and now a big movie about the life you've lived.

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Speaker 3: Oh no, sir, absolutely not. I mean you know what

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Speaker 3: I mean. You know my attorney brothers the only that

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Speaker 3: you know I'm kind of I'm a quiet guy, country boy.

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Speaker 3: So I never in a million years thought my career

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Speaker 3: as a Navy seal would lead down this road. Absolutely not.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, the movie opens this weekend. It's Loan Survivor Mark

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Speaker 2: Wahlberg as you on screen.

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Speaker 1: What was that like?

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Speaker 3: It was pretty cool, you know, getting to meet him

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Speaker 3: so we kind of when we came on set for

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Speaker 3: not only from me, but other teammates who knew the

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Speaker 3: guys and their family members so they could portray those

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Speaker 3: that done. You know, when it came time to me,

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Speaker 3: I was just one of them deals where I knew

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Speaker 3: I I was like, hey, look man, I'm gonna be

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Speaker 3: for you. Other than that, I'm just going to stand

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Speaker 3: out of your way. I think the only thing we

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Speaker 2: One of the things, Marcus Latrell is our guest, one

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Speaker 2: of the things that was important about this movie, important

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Speaker 2: They actually went through some military training to kind of

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Speaker 3: Absolutely, we showed up to this sept for pre production

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Speaker 3: I mean we worked them from sun up to sundown

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Speaker 2: You have praised Peter Berg and the work he did

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Speaker 2: saw the families of Danny Deet's and Matthew Axelson and

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Speaker 2: Michael Murphy. How much did that mean to you that

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Speaker 3: And that was a surprise to him absolutely. I mean

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Speaker 2: You've said over and over again that this movie is

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Speaker 1: That you did, and you get to tell their story.

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Speaker 2: But I asked our listeners to email in questions, and

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Speaker 2: one of them said, can you ask Marcus Latrell? He

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Speaker 2: Why did they choose to leave that scene out of

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Speaker 3: I think time with the That was the one thing

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Speaker 2: What was your reaction when you got through looking through

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Speaker 3: I would watch the scenes certain certainly, just kind of

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Speaker 2: We'd have to add another dimension to really experience what

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Speaker 1: You were the only of the four to be able

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Speaker 2: You say you laid down to die several times you'd

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Speaker 3: Obviously reverting back to my training and the way I

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Speaker 2: The book was published in two thousand and seven Loan

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Speaker 2: Survivor bestseller. The movie was made, it took years.

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Speaker 1: The director was working on other projects. It opens today

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Speaker 1: Loan Survivor.

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Speaker 2: More of our interview with the Loan Survivor Marcus Latrump

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Speaker 2: coming up next. Michael can please only one liberal per day,

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Speaker 2: and today is not your day.

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Speaker 1: Michael Berry's show.

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Speaker 2: Everybody out there listening, who is between the ages? Of

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Speaker 2: eighteen and forty probably knows somebody who left after high

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Speaker 2: school and went off to war. No doubt, the most

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Speaker 2: riveting story to be told of that was by Navy

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Speaker 2: seal Marcus Latreull.

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Speaker 1: The movie opens today. Loan survivor Marcus Latrell's our guest.

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Speaker 2: You've been training to be a Navy seal since you

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Speaker 2: were twelve years old with Green Beret Billy Shelton. Do

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Speaker 2: you since that this was what you were destined to do.

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Speaker 2: It's almost as if your entire life has prepared you

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Speaker 3: I hope not. I hope this doesn't define me as

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Speaker 3: a man. Obviously, my name is synonymous with the Operation

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Speaker 3: So that's that's both the blessing and a curse because

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Speaker 2: You've written another book, which was released in May of twelve.

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Speaker 2: Are there more books in you?

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Speaker 3: It's funny should bring that up. I was talking to

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Speaker 3: I'm like, all right, give me the scenario of the

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Speaker 3: Yeah, what's going on here? Man? In my head, my

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Speaker 1: That is generally a bad indicator.

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Speaker 2: And I'm as guilty as you are that we were

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Speaker 3: Oh good guy, And I mean everybody always tells us too,

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Speaker 2: You have become I don't want to use the term

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Speaker 1: Tell me about a call that you received.

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Speaker 2: A person that you met, and you said, I've been

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Speaker 3: That's a tough one, man. I mean, I mean, you

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Speaker 3: I've never been starstruck or anything like that. I appreciate

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Speaker 2: It's a great story though, it's a great story. It's

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Speaker 3: Right, Yeah, I was. I was hurt, and now I

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Speaker 1: How are you today, physically? How are you?

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Speaker 3: I'm good. I had my last surgery. Uh, actually it

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Speaker 3: I've kind of beat the sight. Normally, I have a

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Speaker 1: And it's all the back.

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Speaker 3: My back, yes sir, and my knees are gone, and

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Speaker 2: More of our interview with Marcus Latrell coming up next.

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Speaker 2: The movie opens tonight, and my own account is very good.

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Speaker 2: It's Loan Survivor, the movie adaptation of Marcus Latrell's book

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Speaker 2: is harrowing tale of what happened to him and three

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Speaker 1: He's our guest, Marcus Latrell.

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Speaker 2: Marcus Latrell tell us about the Loan Survivor Foundation, something that.

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Speaker 3: I started back when I got out, closer to when

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Speaker 3: Kind of a deal I all spawned from my own experience.

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Speaker 3: to a broken family and they just digress this. So

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Speaker 3: we bring the whole unit out and work with them

439
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Speaker 3: out at the ranch. Let them go fishing, hunting, horseback riding,

440
00:20:55,960 --> 00:20:58,639
Speaker 3: or just sit around and do nothing if they wanted

441
00:21:00,119 --> 00:21:03,640
Speaker 3: something about being out in the country. That's peaceful and therapeutic.

442
00:21:04,160 --> 00:21:06,119
Speaker 3: And it's done a lot of great things for a

443
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Speaker 3: lot of people. I mean, we're just we're moving around along.

444
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Speaker 2: It means something if it comes from your mouth. So

445
00:21:11,119 --> 00:21:13,080
Speaker 2: don't tell folks if you would, about the boot campaign

446
00:21:13,160 --> 00:21:14,120
Speaker 2: with whom you've partnered.

447
00:21:15,359 --> 00:21:17,560
Speaker 3: That also came about right kind of close to when

448
00:21:17,560 --> 00:21:20,040
Speaker 3: I got out. It was five Texas women. They had

449
00:21:20,040 --> 00:21:23,359
Speaker 3: heard the story about my team and just decided they

450
00:21:23,400 --> 00:21:25,119
Speaker 3: want to do something. It's probably one of the best

451
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Speaker 3: ways I've ever heard to support the military. So they

452
00:21:27,720 --> 00:21:32,200
Speaker 3: went and they got a deal with some military contractors

453
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Speaker 3: for boots for our military boots, and they put their

454
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Speaker 3: logo on it. And basically the whole gist behind it

455
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Speaker 3: is buy a pair of combat boots, get your picture

456
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Speaker 3: taken in it, and sort of walk a mile in

457
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Speaker 3: our shoes kind of a deal. And man, that thing

458
00:21:47,800 --> 00:21:52,480
Speaker 3: has grown exponentially, like you know, like wildfire. I mean's everybody, celebrities,

459
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Speaker 3: I mean just yeah, everybody is getting on board with

460
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Speaker 3: this thing, and it's it's it's a good deal, man.

461
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Speaker 3: I mean, the money goes where it needs to go to.

462
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Speaker 3: I don't I don't take any some organizations, you know,

463
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Speaker 3: it's they got deep pockets for themselves. I just never

464
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Speaker 3: could understand why you would take money, donated money that

465
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Speaker 3: was supposed to go to the troops. And that's a

466
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Speaker 3: different talk, I guess altogether.

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Speaker 1: But yeah, I can.

468
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Speaker 2: Only imagine how many invitations you must get and how

469
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Speaker 2: hard it must be because you physically cannot do them. Logistically,

470
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Speaker 2: you cannot do them all. And I know that's got

471
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Speaker 2: to be.

472
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Speaker 1: Difficult for you.

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Speaker 3: It is sometimes especially when I when I can't walk

474
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Speaker 3: or I'm having a real uh my, for some reason,

475
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Speaker 3: my pain threshold is not up or something like that,

476
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Speaker 3: and I know I got to go do something. Thanks

477
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Speaker 3: the good Lord. I very rarely miss anything. If I

478
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Speaker 3: tell somebody I'm going to be there, I'll be there.

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Speaker 3: There have been some situations though, where I was in

480
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Speaker 3: the hospital and I just couldn't make it, And for that,

481
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Speaker 3: I'm sorry, but I take it with a grain of salt.

482
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Speaker 3: Kind of the beautiful thing about having a wife now

483
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Speaker 3: and she she covered down on me pretty good. So

484
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Speaker 3: she tick and chooses my battle. And then when something

485
00:23:01,600 --> 00:23:04,159
Speaker 3: comes up and she can, she can be a pit

486
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Speaker 3: bull where she wants to be.

487
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Speaker 2: I had a person asking I promise I would. I

488
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Speaker 2: would bring it up to you the story at your house,

489
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Speaker 2: the four guys that came and and killed Daisy and

490
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Speaker 2: you chased them, And what troubled people the most was

491
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Speaker 2: why were you carrying nine millimeters brettas Why that choice?

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Speaker 3: Uh? I keep those pistols in my truck for like,

493
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Speaker 3: if I run up on a pot of pigs or something,

494
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Speaker 3: truth to be told, I keep in my truck and

495
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Speaker 3: case to get stolen.

496
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Speaker 2: And those are your throw down guns thrown all right?

497
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Speaker 1: Well, a lot of people want to know about your

498
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Speaker 1: favorite gun.

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Speaker 3: All right, now, I'm carrying a predator Predator Tacticle forty five.

500
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Speaker 3: It's kind of a nineteen eleven design. Man, it's a

501
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Speaker 3: it's a great firearm, and that's what I carry.

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Speaker 2: Your brand, your ex bertise, your your endorsement, and particularly

503
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Speaker 2: if you were involved in developing it would be worth

504
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Speaker 2: a lot to a company that made tactical gear.

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Speaker 1: Is that something you would do?

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Speaker 3: Think? So?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, you kidding me? You know that?

508
00:24:12,960 --> 00:24:18,879
Speaker 2: Oh man, the Marcus Latrell official holster, can't you hear it? Now?

509
00:24:20,440 --> 00:24:23,399
Speaker 3: Yeah? Bo, you're probably better at selling something, you know,

510
00:24:23,440 --> 00:24:25,680
Speaker 3: like pool cleaning gear like that.

511
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Speaker 1: Something you know? What would you like to do? What

512
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Speaker 1: have you not done that? You go? Well, this would

513
00:24:29,920 --> 00:24:31,280
Speaker 1: be this would be really neat to do.

514
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Speaker 3: Have a normal life. I'd like to go home and

515
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Speaker 3: be at my house and the only expectations I have

516
00:24:38,840 --> 00:24:40,919
Speaker 3: or to make sure my wife and kids are happy

517
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Speaker 3: and just work, just live out my days however long

518
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Speaker 3: that may be, just peaceful and quiet.

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Speaker 2: Does it exhaust you as all this, especially what you're

520
00:24:50,880 --> 00:24:53,400
Speaker 2: about to go through with the movie hitting and all

521
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Speaker 2: the interviews you're going to be doing.

522
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Speaker 1: Does it mean does it wear you down?

523
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Speaker 3: Sure, I mean my stama is pretty good. It's I

524
00:25:02,160 --> 00:25:04,520
Speaker 3: guess it's more of the thing. It just keeps pulling

525
00:25:04,560 --> 00:25:08,439
Speaker 3: me away from the house. And I don't like that.

526
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Speaker 3: I did that for a career, and I promise that

527
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Speaker 3: I I mean, I would never get married while as

528
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Speaker 3: in a team, since I would never be around. Well,

529
00:25:17,400 --> 00:25:20,240
Speaker 3: I'm married now and I'm I'm hardly ever around and

530
00:25:20,240 --> 00:25:23,760
Speaker 3: it's so far, so good. My wife's good with it,

531
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Speaker 3: but I'm not. I don't like being a wayframer, and

532
00:25:26,800 --> 00:25:30,560
Speaker 3: so it just kind of gets old. I'm heads off

533
00:25:30,600 --> 00:25:33,440
Speaker 3: to everybody who does, who lives that life. I just don't.

534
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Speaker 3: I couldn't do it.

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Speaker 1: Marcus Latrell's our guest.

536
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Speaker 2: I've had a number of parents who emailed in and

537
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Speaker 2: said my kids want to do my son wants to

538
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Speaker 2: do Special Forces, or young people saying I want to

539
00:25:42,560 --> 00:25:45,160
Speaker 2: do Special Forces? How do you know who's cut out

540
00:25:45,160 --> 00:25:46,960
Speaker 2: for that? What should I be doing to prepare for that?

541
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Speaker 2: And we talked about you prepared from the time you

542
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Speaker 2: were twelve. If someone I think a lot of people

543
00:25:51,800 --> 00:25:54,320
Speaker 2: want to, very few can and and the Seals will

544
00:25:54,560 --> 00:25:57,800
Speaker 2: will will weed those out themselves. But when you, what's

545
00:25:57,840 --> 00:25:59,320
Speaker 2: the thing you got to have? You know a lot

546
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Speaker 2: of seals. You've own a lot of seals. He's been

547
00:26:01,119 --> 00:26:04,280
Speaker 2: a seal, Yes, sir, you know.

548
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Speaker 3: To answer that question, you would save the government millions

549
00:26:07,280 --> 00:26:09,200
Speaker 3: of tax bang dollars trying to figure out why one

550
00:26:09,200 --> 00:26:11,640
Speaker 3: guy makes doing one guy doesn't. I think the overall

551
00:26:11,680 --> 00:26:16,120
Speaker 3: concept behind it is the willingness to step outside yourself

552
00:26:16,440 --> 00:26:21,679
Speaker 3: and commit to the kind of team environment, to sacrifice

553
00:26:21,760 --> 00:26:25,040
Speaker 3: yourself for the betterment of the team. Willing, you know,

554
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Speaker 3: being able to give your life for another man, and

555
00:26:28,280 --> 00:26:30,080
Speaker 3: saying to yourself, no matter what happens to me, I'm

556
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Speaker 3: not gonna quit. You're gonna have to kill me to

557
00:26:32,200 --> 00:26:33,760
Speaker 3: get me out of here. That was a mentality I

558
00:26:33,760 --> 00:26:35,960
Speaker 3: had pretty much mentality every one of the guys that

559
00:26:36,000 --> 00:26:39,280
Speaker 3: I went to training had to. And you mean everybody

560
00:26:39,280 --> 00:26:42,439
Speaker 3: can tell themselves that they're like, oh, I'll do that, Okay,

561
00:26:42,800 --> 00:26:47,040
Speaker 3: we'll see. And then the beauty about our training pipeline

562
00:26:47,119 --> 00:26:49,639
Speaker 3: is it finds everybody's weakness. I don't care what your

563
00:26:49,640 --> 00:26:51,240
Speaker 3: strengths are and how strong you are, and if you

564
00:26:51,240 --> 00:26:53,959
Speaker 3: think you're strong and everything, eventually it's going to find it,

565
00:26:54,080 --> 00:26:56,480
Speaker 3: and it's going to exploit it the entire time you're there.

566
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Speaker 3: Once they find it, and you've got to be able

567
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Speaker 3: to accept that you're gonna get beat down, You're not

568
00:27:02,200 --> 00:27:05,560
Speaker 3: gonna pass everything, You're not gonna be the best at everything.

569
00:27:05,600 --> 00:27:07,680
Speaker 3: And a lot of guys who have never had any defeat,

570
00:27:07,800 --> 00:27:09,959
Speaker 3: you know, they've never been tested. They don't know how

571
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Speaker 3: to deal with that.

572
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Speaker 1: More of our interview with Marcus Latrell coming up next,

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Speaker 1: Proud to Be a Barry Brigader.

574
00:27:20,960 --> 00:27:24,920
Speaker 2: A Marvel display of poison leadership, The Michael.

575
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Speaker 1: Barry Show, Astonishingly Liberal.

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Speaker 2: The last part of our interview with Marcus Latrell. The

577
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Speaker 2: movie opens tonight Loan Survivor. Marcus Latrell, what's your greatest regret?

578
00:27:42,960 --> 00:27:47,920
Speaker 3: Not being able to finish what I started? I didn't

579
00:27:47,960 --> 00:27:49,480
Speaker 3: get a chance to finish out in my career like

580
00:27:49,520 --> 00:27:50,040
Speaker 3: I wanted to.

581
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Speaker 1: What are you most proud of.

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Speaker 3: My family?

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Speaker 1: When people go and see this.

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Speaker 2: Movie Movie Long Survivor, which opens this weekend, what do

585
00:28:02,800 --> 00:28:03,919
Speaker 2: you hope they take away from it?

586
00:28:05,800 --> 00:28:08,000
Speaker 3: I've been asking that question before him. I guess the

587
00:28:08,000 --> 00:28:11,840
Speaker 3: same reply would be that that it's not a movie

588
00:28:11,840 --> 00:28:14,520
Speaker 3: that tries to throw something in your face. And I

589
00:28:14,520 --> 00:28:15,960
Speaker 3: don't know if I think we talked about it, not

590
00:28:16,280 --> 00:28:19,080
Speaker 3: religion of politics, no pro war, anti war, hind this,

591
00:28:19,160 --> 00:28:21,560
Speaker 3: that and the other. I think people go in with

592
00:28:22,000 --> 00:28:25,800
Speaker 3: thinking one thing and hopefully they come out they pull

593
00:28:25,880 --> 00:28:27,720
Speaker 3: something from it. Whether it's no matter how hard it

594
00:28:27,760 --> 00:28:29,439
Speaker 3: an gets, I'm not going to quit. Whether it's that

595
00:28:29,560 --> 00:28:32,480
Speaker 3: there's good people in every part of this world, whether

596
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Speaker 3: that it's you know, American men and women are willing

597
00:28:35,840 --> 00:28:38,840
Speaker 3: to fight to the death because they said they would.

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Speaker 3: I mean, you keep going on and on.

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Speaker 2: You're a man of incredible intestinal fortitude. You you responded

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Speaker 2: to getting knocked down literally in life in a way

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Speaker 2: that I think most of us we really gravitate to that.

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Speaker 1: We don't know you personally.

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00:28:54,160 --> 00:28:56,640
Speaker 2: We know a guy who is is this sort of

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Speaker 2: you know, this dream that we live out, this amazing

605
00:28:59,800 --> 00:29:02,240
Speaker 2: thing that you've done, and you represent what we all

606
00:29:02,520 --> 00:29:05,120
Speaker 2: I think, want to be. When you look back on

607
00:29:05,200 --> 00:29:09,280
Speaker 2: your life, who made the most difference? Who is the reason,

608
00:29:09,280 --> 00:29:11,400
Speaker 2: Marcus Latrelle is that Who is that person.

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Speaker 1: That invested in you?

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00:29:19,280 --> 00:29:22,560
Speaker 3: I'd have to say, you know, God, my face pretty strong.

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00:29:22,600 --> 00:29:26,040
Speaker 3: And then after that, it's my brother. He's been with

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00:29:26,120 --> 00:29:29,800
Speaker 3: me since the womb and he's never left my son.

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00:29:31,400 --> 00:29:35,280
Speaker 3: And because of that, I mean, he's been with me

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00:29:35,360 --> 00:29:38,840
Speaker 3: through every up, through every down, and never once wavered

615
00:29:38,920 --> 00:29:43,880
Speaker 3: in his love for me. That's probably why we're best

616
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Speaker 3: friends to this day.

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Speaker 1: That's a great story. It's a great story.

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Speaker 2: I know you have a busy day. I know you

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Speaker 2: have a lot going on. I really appreciate you giving

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00:29:53,360 --> 00:29:55,959
Speaker 2: us the time. But more importantly, I really appreciate that

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Speaker 2: throughout everything you've done, I've always since that.

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Speaker 1: It was not for you.

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Speaker 2: It was for Danny Deet's and Matthew Axelson and Michael

624
00:30:03,600 --> 00:30:06,000
Speaker 2: Murphy and a lot of folks out there whose names

625
00:30:06,040 --> 00:30:09,840
Speaker 2: will never be splashed across the scene and across the screen.

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Speaker 2: And I really sense that you have such a love

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Speaker 2: and respect for those people, and you have turned that

628
00:30:16,120 --> 00:30:19,160
Speaker 2: it has become your ministry. And for that and for

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Speaker 2: all of those that was the one thing people said

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00:30:21,400 --> 00:30:23,800
Speaker 2: more than anything else when I asked for questions to

631
00:30:23,840 --> 00:30:26,040
Speaker 2: give to you, was I don't have a question. Just

632
00:30:26,080 --> 00:30:28,680
Speaker 2: tell him, thank you, thank you for the son that

633
00:30:28,720 --> 00:30:31,680
Speaker 2: didn't come home, thank you for the guys that are suffering,

634
00:30:31,760 --> 00:30:34,360
Speaker 2: thank you for everything he does and continues to do.

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Speaker 1: So that's my message from all of us. Thank you,

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Speaker 1: Marcus la Trew.

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Speaker 3: I appreciate it, and tell all your listeners that thank

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Speaker 3: you for having me on the program and listening to

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Speaker 3: my story. All right, Bud, thanks for the commitment, and

640
00:30:47,240 --> 00:30:49,040
Speaker 3: not ever forgetting about my teammates.

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Speaker 2: You got a big voice. Continue to use it, yes, sir,

642
00:30:51,800 --> 00:30:54,840
Speaker 2: all right, looking forward to seeing that be good. I'm

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Speaker 2: gonna see that this weekend. I'm going to head out

644
00:30:57,680 --> 00:31:01,560
Speaker 2: and see that this weekend. Loaned the movie adaptation of

645
00:31:01,560 --> 00:31:06,840
Speaker 2: Marcus Latrell's book about what he and his fellow Navy

646
00:31:06,880 --> 00:31:11,520
Speaker 2: seals went through in Afghanistan in two thousand and five.

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Speaker 2: Executive producer is Chad Nakanishi. Jim Mudd is the creative director.

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Speaker 2: Voices Jingles, Tom Voolery and Shenanigans are provided by Chance MacLean.

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Speaker 2: Director of Research is Sandy Peterson.

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Speaker 1: Emily Bull is.

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Speaker 2: Our assistant listener and superfan. Contributions are appreciated and often

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Speaker 2: incorporated into our production. Where possible, we give credit, where not,

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Speaker 2: we take all the credit for ourselves. God bless the

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Speaker 2: memory of Rush Limbaugh. Long live Elvis, be a simple

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Speaker 2: man like Leonard Skinnard told you, and God bless America. Finally,

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Speaker 2: if you know a veteran suffering from PTSD, call Camp

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Speaker 2: Hope at eight seven seven seven one seven PTSD and

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Speaker 2: a combat veteran will answer the phone to provide free

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Speaker 2: counseling