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Speaker 1: It's Veterans Day, so we're going to talk a little

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Speaker 1: Let's do a nice Veterans Day honoring, shall we.

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Speaker 2: I'm right, it's Veterans Day.

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Speaker 1: And before we get into the politics, I just thought

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Speaker 1: I should open up by saying one, Happy Veterans Day.

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Speaker 1: I know that's pretty cliche at this point in time,

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Speaker 1: Happy Veterans Day. And let me speak to the veterans

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Speaker 3: Obviously, thank you for your service. I got that.

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Speaker 1: I'm with you, and I got all the taxes today too. Hey,

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Speaker 1: thank you for your service. But beyond that, I would

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Speaker 1: remind you, as a veteran that you may not wear

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Speaker 1: And so don't short change yourself by thinking, ah, I'm

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Speaker 1: then later on in life it's Jesse, I'm just a

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Speaker 1: the work, keep fighting for your country in different ways,

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Speaker 1: but keep fighting for your country.

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Speaker 3: All right, All right now.

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Speaker 1: I want to talk really quickly about this FEMA situation

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Speaker 1: We're going to get to all these things. But I

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Speaker 1: wanted to hit this off the top of the Daily Wire.

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Speaker 1: They deserve all the credit in the world. It's their story.

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Speaker 1: confirmed that there was an employee at FEMA, a FEMA

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Speaker 3: They were going around checking.

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Speaker 1: In with these homes, getting people signed up for some

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Speaker 1: Help because some evil witch communists with FEMA told those homes,

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Speaker 3: And so what do I want? I want every other

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Speaker 1: Crimes have been committed against the American people by this government,

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Speaker 1: that brings me perfectly into the Senate leadership.

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Speaker 3: Fight right now.

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Speaker 3: You've known this is coming.

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Speaker 3: So allow me to explain. Let's do it.

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Speaker 1: They believe the American people have given them a mandate

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Speaker 1: That's exactly what we need. Trump looks committed this time

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Speaker 1: with the communists in this. They don't want anything to change.

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Speaker 1: You want everything to change. You want the corruption cleaned out,

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Speaker 1: You're mad about this, matter about it, and you are

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Speaker 3: You're mad about.

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Speaker 1: But if you are in GOP leadership one of these

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Speaker 3: They're mobsters.

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Speaker 3: On the mob. The mob is their entire life.

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Speaker 3: Silent vote on Wednesday.

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Speaker 1: You think John Cornyn John Thune want to rein in

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Speaker 1: kind of sink because he's the only other option I know.

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Speaker 1: But it is a big, big, big, big big deal.

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Speaker 1: Mitch McConnell, let me just explain it this way. You've

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Speaker 1: seen everything Mitch McConnell has done to try to impede Trump.

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Speaker 1: It's not everything he possibly can ITH's John Cornyn or

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Speaker 1: Donald Trump is going to need Senate confirmations. You know,

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Speaker 1: you don't just as president. You don't just get to say, hey,

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Speaker 1: you're attorney general. Oh, you get to choose one you want.

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Speaker 1: But then he has to get an up or down

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Speaker 3: The United States Senate. What if Donald Trump?

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Speaker 1: What if he picked a reformer for AG, a man

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Speaker 1: Well, we'd be remiss if we didn't take a little

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Speaker 1: Renewing America. Wade, why the heck did you go join

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Speaker 1: It's crazy to people who don't get how this happened.

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Speaker 6: And so these senators play the game.

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Speaker 6: Bus in order to attain it.

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Speaker 4: And frankly, it's sad, and that's why we need to

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Speaker 6: Be fired that are responsible for it, no question.

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Speaker 1: We're already getting reports of informal meetings, of course Wade

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Speaker 6: It's a monumental task.

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Speaker 4: If anyone can do it, I think the Trump can,

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Speaker 6: But remember, the Intel state, the.

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Speaker 6: And so, you know, I would just encourage the president.

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Speaker 4: I'm excited that he is going to be the president

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Speaker 4: once again to just plow through all of that nonsense

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Speaker 1: Wait, there's already been a bunch of chatter you never

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Speaker 1: Trump's not going to walk in there and world peace

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Speaker 4: I think it will be light years ahead of where

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Speaker 6: The state of affairs in which the world.

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Speaker 6: And Trump has that.

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Speaker 4: In foreign policy terms, it's called strategic ambiguity. Foreign leaders

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Speaker 4: to the car now, and he can make or break

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Speaker 4: a lot of these nations. He can cut them off.

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Speaker 4: He can impost one hundred percent tariffs, he can cut

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Speaker 4: I think that that's one reason you're starting to see

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Speaker 4: probably not, But the fact that you're already seeing these

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Speaker 6: I don't think that that's a coincidence.

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Speaker 4: I think it's the strategic ambiguity of having a president

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Speaker 6: Of scares him. And that's a great position. That's a

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Speaker 3: I appreciate you man, all right. I don't think we're done.

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Speaker 3: Go look at what they have. Just go look.

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Speaker 1: They have huge discounts on subscriptions chock dot com, slash jessetv.

444
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Speaker 1: Go save yourself some money and feel like a million bucks.

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Speaker 3: We'll be back.

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Speaker 1: Veteran's Day is a special day on the show, always

447
00:24:13,440 --> 00:24:16,439
Speaker 1: has been a special day. We like to try to

448
00:24:16,520 --> 00:24:19,280
Speaker 1: do more than just thank a veteran. We'd like to

449
00:24:19,320 --> 00:24:22,240
Speaker 1: try to have some on Let's hear from them, let's

450
00:24:22,280 --> 00:24:24,199
Speaker 1: talk to them. As you could probably tell, that's going

451
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Speaker 1: to be a theme on today's show. In joining me now,

452
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Speaker 1: somebody's personal friend of mine has been for many years.

453
00:24:31,200 --> 00:24:36,280
Speaker 1: Sean Parnell Bronze Star, Purple Heart U US Army captain

454
00:24:36,600 --> 00:24:39,040
Speaker 1: and author of the book Outlaw Platoon. If you want

455
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Speaker 1: to hear exactly what he went through in Afghanistan for

456
00:24:41,920 --> 00:24:45,760
Speaker 1: this country, Okay, Sean, first of all, tell us about

457
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Speaker 1: the Army's Tenth Mountain Division.

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Speaker 3: That sounds kind of cool.

459
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Speaker 8: Yeah, well, there are two seasons there and stationed up

460
00:24:53,840 --> 00:24:55,120
Speaker 8: station up at Fort Drum, New York.

461
00:24:55,160 --> 00:24:56,879
Speaker 7: Two seasons there July and winter.

462
00:24:57,440 --> 00:24:59,440
Speaker 8: I found that out the hard way when I was

463
00:24:59,480 --> 00:25:01,960
Speaker 8: a brand new, brand new second lieutenant coming out of

464
00:25:02,040 --> 00:25:02,679
Speaker 8: Ranger School.

465
00:25:02,720 --> 00:25:04,880
Speaker 7: Failed the first time through Ranger School.

466
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Speaker 8: Got probably one of my last choices in duty assignments because,

467
00:25:08,200 --> 00:25:11,520
Speaker 8: come to find out, again, nobody really wanted to go

468
00:25:11,560 --> 00:25:14,360
Speaker 8: to Fort Trum. But when I got there, I realized

469
00:25:14,400 --> 00:25:17,080
Speaker 8: it was the best kept secret in the Army in

470
00:25:17,160 --> 00:25:20,400
Speaker 8: the Tenth Mountain Division was It was a light infantry

471
00:25:20,560 --> 00:25:23,920
Speaker 8: division that had the moniker at least back in the

472
00:25:24,000 --> 00:25:27,359
Speaker 8: day of being the most deployed unit in the Army.

473
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Speaker 8: And back then that's exactly what I wanted.

474
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Speaker 7: I don't know.

475
00:25:30,440 --> 00:25:32,800
Speaker 8: Why I felt that way, but I was just after

476
00:25:32,880 --> 00:25:34,520
Speaker 8: nine to eleven, I was just chomping at the bit

477
00:25:35,080 --> 00:25:37,360
Speaker 8: to get in the fight as fast as humanly possible,

478
00:25:37,480 --> 00:25:41,040
Speaker 8: to take the fight to the enemy. I mean, looking back, stupid,

479
00:25:41,160 --> 00:25:44,199
Speaker 8: naive in so many ways, just a young kid. But

480
00:25:44,240 --> 00:25:46,680
Speaker 8: we had units in the tenth Mountain Division that specialized

481
00:25:46,680 --> 00:25:50,800
Speaker 8: in Iraq and one brigade, the Spartan Brigade, that specialized

482
00:25:50,800 --> 00:25:53,720
Speaker 8: in Afghanistan. And I was in the Spartan Brigade and

483
00:25:53,760 --> 00:25:55,800
Speaker 8: oar motto was with your shield or on it. In

484
00:25:55,800 --> 00:25:59,119
Speaker 8: other words, come home victorious or come home dead again.

485
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Speaker 8: I didn't really understand that back in the day, but

486
00:26:02,240 --> 00:26:04,320
Speaker 8: looking back, you know, I was very proud to be

487
00:26:04,320 --> 00:26:05,480
Speaker 8: associated with that unit.

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Speaker 1: Tell people, because I only did a little bit of

489
00:26:09,480 --> 00:26:10,240
Speaker 1: this in the Marines.

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Speaker 3: Too bad for you, Sean. Tell people what.

491
00:26:12,320 --> 00:26:15,560
Speaker 1: It's like to train in the mountains before we even

492
00:26:15,600 --> 00:26:20,280
Speaker 1: get to Afghanistan. The mountains are just a completely different animal,

493
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Speaker 1: aren't they.

494
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Speaker 7: Well, yeah they are.

495
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Speaker 8: And the crazy thing about that is that leave it

496
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Speaker 8: to the army that station somebody at Fort Drum where

497
00:26:28,600 --> 00:26:31,159
Speaker 8: it's just flat as far as the eye can see.

498
00:26:31,480 --> 00:26:35,000
Speaker 7: But what it was in Fort Drum was freezing cold.

499
00:26:35,200 --> 00:26:37,960
Speaker 8: And so the Tenth Mountain Division was really what really

500
00:26:38,000 --> 00:26:42,159
Speaker 8: helped us was training in extreme cold weather climates, So

501
00:26:42,440 --> 00:26:45,520
Speaker 8: when you're operating at fourteen thousand feet and that's where

502
00:26:45,520 --> 00:26:48,600
Speaker 8: we were in the valleys in Afghanistan at fourteen thousand

503
00:26:48,640 --> 00:26:51,400
Speaker 8: feet and get pretty freaking cold up there. So being

504
00:26:51,400 --> 00:26:54,440
Speaker 8: able to train in that type of environment and learn

505
00:26:54,600 --> 00:26:58,280
Speaker 8: to operate in this in I mean seriously sub like

506
00:26:58,560 --> 00:27:02,800
Speaker 8: fifteen sixteen seventeen degrees blow zero and that type of

507
00:27:02,800 --> 00:27:05,840
Speaker 8: weather in combat environment I mean.

508
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Speaker 7: Jesse, I think it saved lives in combat.

509
00:27:09,080 --> 00:27:11,560
Speaker 8: You train hard, you know, you train like you fight,

510
00:27:11,640 --> 00:27:13,720
Speaker 8: and then when you get to combat, the hope is

511
00:27:13,720 --> 00:27:15,800
Speaker 8: is that it pays off dividends when you get there,

512
00:27:16,160 --> 00:27:17,600
Speaker 8: and in my case, I think it did.

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Speaker 1: Sean. It's hard to explain for those who haven't gone

514
00:27:23,160 --> 00:27:27,680
Speaker 1: through it, and oftentimes women have a harder time understanding

515
00:27:27,720 --> 00:27:31,320
Speaker 1: this who haven't gone through it. How much suffering together

516
00:27:31,800 --> 00:27:36,280
Speaker 1: brings men together, It helps you come together as a unit.

517
00:27:36,280 --> 00:27:39,200
Speaker 1: I've told these stories before on the radio on here

518
00:27:39,240 --> 00:27:42,320
Speaker 1: of various times where you suffer together and you end

519
00:27:42,400 --> 00:27:44,879
Speaker 1: up just getting closer and closer through all that.

520
00:27:45,000 --> 00:27:48,080
Speaker 8: Why you know, what I think it is, Jesse, is

521
00:27:48,080 --> 00:27:50,680
Speaker 8: like when you go into basic training, you go in

522
00:27:51,000 --> 00:27:53,880
Speaker 8: as an individual. You know their shave in everybody's head.

523
00:27:54,359 --> 00:27:56,960
Speaker 8: They're you know, you're only as fast as your slowest person.

524
00:27:56,960 --> 00:27:59,520
Speaker 8: If somebody falls out in the run, the whole platoon stops,

525
00:27:59,520 --> 00:28:01,480
Speaker 8: turns around, puts the guy to the front. You know,

526
00:28:02,040 --> 00:28:06,200
Speaker 8: you become part of a team, something larger than yourself.

527
00:28:06,240 --> 00:28:09,480
Speaker 8: And then you get to your unit and you shoot,

528
00:28:09,560 --> 00:28:12,399
Speaker 8: move and communicate together as a team, and that motto

529
00:28:12,520 --> 00:28:14,760
Speaker 8: being a part of something bigger than yourself, being part

530
00:28:14,800 --> 00:28:18,600
Speaker 8: of something that's a collective is really just beat into you.

531
00:28:18,720 --> 00:28:21,800
Speaker 8: So you you almost you change from just being an

532
00:28:21,800 --> 00:28:25,320
Speaker 8: individual to a part of something bigger than just you.

533
00:28:25,960 --> 00:28:28,080
Speaker 7: So you shoot, move and communicate.

534
00:28:27,480 --> 00:28:29,280
Speaker 8: Together as a team and training, and then you go

535
00:28:29,320 --> 00:28:32,919
Speaker 8: to fight, bleed and die together in combat. It really

536
00:28:32,920 --> 00:28:36,199
Speaker 8: does forge this special bond with people that you have

537
00:28:36,400 --> 00:28:39,880
Speaker 8: there and Jesse, it really is unlike anything that I've

538
00:28:39,920 --> 00:28:43,000
Speaker 8: ever experienced before. I was in combat for sixteen months

539
00:28:43,000 --> 00:28:45,640
Speaker 8: with these guys heavy combat. I was in the light

540
00:28:45,680 --> 00:28:49,680
Speaker 8: infantry too, and we were out number ten to one,

541
00:28:49,720 --> 00:28:52,640
Speaker 8: and almost every single engagement that we were in, we

542
00:28:52,640 --> 00:28:56,480
Speaker 8: were one infantry platoon in almost all of Burmel District

543
00:28:56,520 --> 00:29:00,520
Speaker 8: and Regional Command East Afghanistan. This was before the right,

544
00:29:00,560 --> 00:29:01,960
Speaker 8: This was at the height of the hunt and lot

545
00:29:02,000 --> 00:29:04,120
Speaker 8: and before the surge, before we had tens of thousands

546
00:29:04,160 --> 00:29:07,120
Speaker 8: of troops there, and I could. You know, I'm the

547
00:29:07,160 --> 00:29:11,560
Speaker 8: oldest of four siblings, and in many ways, I'm closer

548
00:29:11,600 --> 00:29:13,480
Speaker 8: with my troops than I am with my own sister

549
00:29:13,560 --> 00:29:15,920
Speaker 8: and brothers. And it's not because I don't love my

550
00:29:15,960 --> 00:29:17,960
Speaker 8: sisters and brothers, but it's just because I went through

551
00:29:18,000 --> 00:29:19,840
Speaker 8: something very, very different with my men.

552
00:29:20,800 --> 00:29:21,080
Speaker 7: Jesse.

553
00:29:21,160 --> 00:29:23,160
Speaker 8: It was so crazy that it got to a point

554
00:29:23,200 --> 00:29:26,480
Speaker 8: where I got to know those men so well. I

555
00:29:26,520 --> 00:29:30,200
Speaker 8: could see them walking away from me under night vision

556
00:29:30,480 --> 00:29:33,280
Speaker 8: in the middle of the night and know exactly who

557
00:29:33,320 --> 00:29:35,680
Speaker 8: it was just by the way that they walked. I mean,

558
00:29:35,760 --> 00:29:39,080
Speaker 8: that's that's how close you get with those people and

559
00:29:39,120 --> 00:29:40,040
Speaker 8: you come to love them.

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Speaker 3: Man.

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Speaker 8: And like, the crazy thing about it is is like,

562
00:29:42,520 --> 00:29:44,800
Speaker 8: you know, you do these platoon reunions or you talk

563
00:29:44,840 --> 00:29:46,400
Speaker 8: to your you know, you talk to people who are

564
00:29:46,400 --> 00:29:48,920
Speaker 8: in your unit from time to time, and it's like,

565
00:29:49,400 --> 00:29:51,240
Speaker 8: you know, it could be years, but it's like you

566
00:29:51,800 --> 00:29:54,719
Speaker 8: just hung out the day before because that bond is

567
00:29:54,800 --> 00:29:56,600
Speaker 8: just so strong it never goes away.

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00:29:58,160 --> 00:30:00,959
Speaker 1: Yeah, we just we just I had a little twenty

569
00:30:01,040 --> 00:30:04,520
Speaker 1: year marine unit for or reunion for my unit, and

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00:30:04,560 --> 00:30:06,800
Speaker 1: we got together and it was exactly like that. It

571
00:30:06,840 --> 00:30:08,640
Speaker 1: was like we we rented a house in the lake

572
00:30:08,720 --> 00:30:10,960
Speaker 1: and we automatically knew who was going to cook, who

573
00:30:11,000 --> 00:30:13,040
Speaker 1: did the dishes, we did like we just we just

574
00:30:13,200 --> 00:30:15,600
Speaker 1: I mean, we've we've been there, we've we've been through.

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Speaker 3: It with each other before. It's exactly like that.

576
00:30:17,920 --> 00:30:20,520
Speaker 1: John, I want you to speak if you don't mind

577
00:30:21,000 --> 00:30:24,480
Speaker 1: two veterans who may be struggling and watching this right now.

578
00:30:24,840 --> 00:30:28,880
Speaker 1: It's harder over the holidays, it's harder with family, it's harder.

579
00:30:28,880 --> 00:30:30,440
Speaker 1: And there are a lot of guys, even though we've

580
00:30:30,440 --> 00:30:32,880
Speaker 1: been back for a long time, who are really really

581
00:30:32,920 --> 00:30:36,320
Speaker 1: still struggling with life and getting by.

582
00:30:36,600 --> 00:30:37,880
Speaker 3: And what do you have to say to them?

583
00:30:38,520 --> 00:30:40,720
Speaker 8: Well, you know what it is if you if we

584
00:30:40,840 --> 00:30:44,800
Speaker 8: believe that the military trains you to shoot, move, communicate together,

585
00:30:45,080 --> 00:30:47,480
Speaker 8: and then you fight, bleed and die together in combat,

586
00:30:47,520 --> 00:30:50,440
Speaker 8: and then you get out and the military is like,

587
00:30:50,480 --> 00:30:53,160
Speaker 8: all right, have a great life, salute Like you're back

588
00:30:53,200 --> 00:30:56,720
Speaker 8: out into the civilian world by yourself, and it runs

589
00:30:56,800 --> 00:30:59,560
Speaker 8: contrary to everything that you'd just been through.

590
00:31:00,120 --> 00:31:02,640
Speaker 7: And I always think, Jesse, when someone asked me this question.

591
00:31:02,760 --> 00:31:05,040
Speaker 8: I struggled with this a lot as well, and I've

592
00:31:05,040 --> 00:31:08,000
Speaker 8: struggled a lot, you know, throughout the years with this.

593
00:31:08,120 --> 00:31:12,120
Speaker 8: I'm no different. But what so many men and women

594
00:31:12,200 --> 00:31:15,720
Speaker 8: struggle with is the next mission coming home. And I

595
00:31:15,720 --> 00:31:19,200
Speaker 8: remember having a conversation with my buddies and from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania,

596
00:31:19,240 --> 00:31:21,600
Speaker 8: sitting around a table in a bar, and they asked

597
00:31:21,640 --> 00:31:23,680
Speaker 8: me what Afghanistan was like. Of course, they asked me

598
00:31:23,680 --> 00:31:27,280
Speaker 8: if I had killed anybody before, and I started telling

599
00:31:27,320 --> 00:31:30,320
Speaker 8: them the stories of my time in combat. You know,

600
00:31:30,920 --> 00:31:33,960
Speaker 8: just they're my friends, people I went to elementary school with,

601
00:31:34,000 --> 00:31:37,640
Speaker 8: high school with in some cases college, And very soon, Jesse,

602
00:31:37,760 --> 00:31:40,080
Speaker 8: I realized I was sitting at the table by myself,

603
00:31:40,840 --> 00:31:44,640
Speaker 8: and you know, I'm nothing against my buddies. These were

604
00:31:44,640 --> 00:31:47,000
Speaker 8: depressing stories, and combat stories can be a bit of

605
00:31:47,040 --> 00:31:48,120
Speaker 8: a buzzkill.

606
00:31:47,680 --> 00:31:48,680
Speaker 7: For people who weren't there.

607
00:31:49,320 --> 00:31:51,680
Speaker 8: But in that moment, I did with every single member

608
00:31:51,680 --> 00:31:54,080
Speaker 8: who served in combat, doesn't matter what war you served in.

609
00:31:54,160 --> 00:31:56,200
Speaker 8: I said to myself, you know what, these civilians will

610
00:31:56,600 --> 00:31:59,200
Speaker 8: never get it. And I took that pain and I

611
00:31:59,240 --> 00:32:02,480
Speaker 8: locked it away side myself and I promised to never

612
00:32:02,560 --> 00:32:05,920
Speaker 8: talk about it again unless I spoke to somebody who

613
00:32:06,560 --> 00:32:10,640
Speaker 8: understood or was there with me. And then I started

614
00:32:10,640 --> 00:32:12,560
Speaker 8: writing out Level Tune, which is my first book that

615
00:32:12,600 --> 00:32:16,400
Speaker 8: you referenced. And what I realized when that book came out,

616
00:32:16,480 --> 00:32:18,720
Speaker 8: I had soldiers and their family members reaching out to

617
00:32:18,760 --> 00:32:21,080
Speaker 8: me and saying, Oh my God, thank you for telling

618
00:32:21,120 --> 00:32:24,200
Speaker 8: this story. You know, my son, my husband would have

619
00:32:24,320 --> 00:32:27,520
Speaker 8: never told me this. But now that I know, you know,

620
00:32:27,560 --> 00:32:28,880
Speaker 8: I can, I can help him.

621
00:32:28,920 --> 00:32:29,720
Speaker 7: I can. I can.

622
00:32:29,800 --> 00:32:32,040
Speaker 8: I know what he went through, so I'm better suited

623
00:32:32,080 --> 00:32:36,080
Speaker 8: now to be that shoulder that he can lean on.

624
00:32:36,480 --> 00:32:37,920
Speaker 7: And what I realized is.

625
00:32:37,760 --> 00:32:40,320
Speaker 8: Is that's why it's so critical for veterans to tell

626
00:32:40,320 --> 00:32:44,840
Speaker 8: their story, you know. But it's really important, Jesse, to

627
00:32:44,880 --> 00:32:47,000
Speaker 8: ask why I said, Hey, people don't get it. I'm

628
00:32:47,000 --> 00:32:49,120
Speaker 8: never going to talk about this ever again. It's really

629
00:32:49,120 --> 00:32:52,440
Speaker 8: important to ask why I did that. Well, you raise

630
00:32:52,480 --> 00:32:55,840
Speaker 8: your right hand. You volunteer to serve, knowing that you

631
00:32:55,880 --> 00:32:58,760
Speaker 8: go that you're going to war, and you take an

632
00:32:58,760 --> 00:33:01,880
Speaker 8: oath to protect people that you love and your care

633
00:33:01,920 --> 00:33:04,960
Speaker 8: about your friends and your family. And when soldiers or

634
00:33:05,240 --> 00:33:08,200
Speaker 8: marines or anybody who served in the military realizes that

635
00:33:08,240 --> 00:33:11,840
Speaker 8: their story just even listening to it hurts the people

636
00:33:11,880 --> 00:33:14,719
Speaker 8: that they took an oath to protect. Most members of

637
00:33:14,760 --> 00:33:16,880
Speaker 8: the military will just lock that away and say, you

638
00:33:16,880 --> 00:33:19,440
Speaker 8: know what, I'll eat the pain myself because I'm going

639
00:33:19,520 --> 00:33:21,440
Speaker 8: to protect the people that I love and care about.

640
00:33:21,800 --> 00:33:24,400
Speaker 8: But the problem is is that if you lock that

641
00:33:24,480 --> 00:33:27,520
Speaker 8: stuff up inside of you, it can destroy somebody from

642
00:33:27,560 --> 00:33:30,880
Speaker 8: the inside out. And it's really important, living in a

643
00:33:31,000 --> 00:33:35,600
Speaker 8: representative republic that the people who send politicians to Washington

644
00:33:35,680 --> 00:33:38,040
Speaker 8: and then politicians and turn around and centermen and women

645
00:33:38,040 --> 00:33:41,440
Speaker 8: to war. It's really important for the people who sent

646
00:33:41,480 --> 00:33:44,400
Speaker 8: those politicians to Washington, who centermen and women.

647
00:33:44,160 --> 00:33:46,600
Speaker 7: To war, to own that war when we come home

648
00:33:46,640 --> 00:33:48,160
Speaker 7: and help us carry the burden.

649
00:33:48,320 --> 00:33:50,640
Speaker 8: And that's what I realized in publishing my first book

650
00:33:50,680 --> 00:33:54,440
Speaker 8: did is that everybody, every soldier, everybody that's ever served

651
00:33:54,440 --> 00:33:57,120
Speaker 8: as part of these wars should be out there talking

652
00:33:57,160 --> 00:33:59,800
Speaker 8: to civilians and people who never served about what it

653
00:34:00,160 --> 00:34:02,640
Speaker 8: was like. And the reason why that's so important, Jesse,

654
00:34:02,720 --> 00:34:04,480
Speaker 8: and this is the last thing I'll say, is because

655
00:34:04,480 --> 00:34:07,440
Speaker 8: it helps educate our society so we don't find ourselves

656
00:34:07,480 --> 00:34:11,080
Speaker 8: in positions of forever. Wars like Iraq and Afghanistan for

657
00:34:11,160 --> 00:34:13,280
Speaker 8: twenty plus years will almost nothing to show for it.

658
00:34:13,360 --> 00:34:15,799
Speaker 8: We become a smarter society when our men and women

659
00:34:15,840 --> 00:34:18,680
Speaker 8: come home and educate people about war and conflict.

660
00:34:19,880 --> 00:34:22,160
Speaker 3: It's true, it is really true. They are the people

661
00:34:22,160 --> 00:34:23,840
Speaker 3: who should be speaking the loudest.

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00:34:23,880 --> 00:34:27,520
Speaker 1: After all, they have the most invested in this wonderful country.

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00:34:27,640 --> 00:34:30,600
Speaker 1: So Sean, you are the man as always, my brother.

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Speaker 1: I will talk to you soon.

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Speaker 3: That was good.

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00:34:34,360 --> 00:34:36,520
Speaker 1: I knew Sean would be good there. I wasn't even

667
00:34:36,560 --> 00:34:37,880
Speaker 1: I was going to go talk to him about some

668
00:34:37,920 --> 00:34:40,000
Speaker 1: political things. But I just thought maybe we should talk

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00:34:40,040 --> 00:34:44,960
Speaker 1: to the vets for a minute. All right, Speaking of veterans,

670
00:34:46,360 --> 00:34:50,080
Speaker 1: Pure Talk, you know their ceo. You know what mac

671
00:34:50,200 --> 00:34:52,640
Speaker 1: v Saal is, right, you've heard of it. Maybe you've

672
00:34:52,640 --> 00:34:55,680
Speaker 1: read about it, seen it in the movies, the super

673
00:34:55,760 --> 00:35:00,920
Speaker 1: duper special Forces ninja types from Vietnam, hind enemy lines,

674
00:35:00,960 --> 00:35:04,080
Speaker 1: those type guys. You know, the CEO of Pure Talk

675
00:35:05,200 --> 00:35:10,640
Speaker 1: two tours mac Visa and Vietnam. Why would Puretalk hire Americans?

676
00:35:10,640 --> 00:35:12,640
Speaker 1: Nobody does that? What you call it pure talk? You

677
00:35:12,719 --> 00:35:15,000
Speaker 1: speak to an American who speaks English. Why would they

678
00:35:15,000 --> 00:35:15,319
Speaker 1: do that?

679
00:35:15,520 --> 00:35:15,680
Speaker 3: Oh?

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00:35:15,719 --> 00:35:19,800
Speaker 1: Pure Talk is all about America, all about America. Pure

681
00:35:19,800 --> 00:35:22,680
Speaker 1: Talk gives back to veterans. Pure Talk doesn't give the

682
00:35:22,760 --> 00:35:27,080
Speaker 1: communists filth causes. You don't need Verizon AT and TT Mobile.

683
00:35:27,560 --> 00:35:29,480
Speaker 1: Take a couple of minutes and switch to pure Talk.

684
00:35:29,760 --> 00:35:32,240
Speaker 1: You keep your phone, you keep your phone number. It's easy.

685
00:35:32,520 --> 00:35:36,240
Speaker 1: You just switch your provider. You save money. Switch to Puretalk,

686
00:35:36,440 --> 00:35:40,000
Speaker 1: Puretalk dot com slash jessetv.

687
00:35:40,719 --> 00:35:47,279
Speaker 3: We'll be back. Well.

688
00:35:47,320 --> 00:35:50,280
Speaker 1: Obviously, it is Veterans Day, as we mentioned over the top,

689
00:35:50,360 --> 00:35:52,560
Speaker 1: and it's more than a day where we just say

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00:35:52,840 --> 00:35:54,240
Speaker 1: thank you for your service.

691
00:35:54,280 --> 00:35:56,319
Speaker 3: It's more than a day where people like me try

692
00:35:56,400 --> 00:35:56,840
Speaker 3: to get.

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00:35:56,640 --> 00:35:59,080
Speaker 1: Ten percent off in waffle house. I'm just kidding out

694
00:35:59,080 --> 00:36:00,600
Speaker 1: of know whether a waffle house is doing that, but

695
00:36:00,640 --> 00:36:01,319
Speaker 1: I bet they are.

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Speaker 3: Let's also remember that.

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00:36:03,640 --> 00:36:08,040
Speaker 1: People have given up significant parts of themselves, their lives,

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00:36:08,120 --> 00:36:13,040
Speaker 1: their bodies for this country, and they deserve an extra thanks,

699
00:36:13,120 --> 00:36:14,399
Speaker 1: at least from us today.

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Speaker 3: Joining me now.

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00:36:15,600 --> 00:36:20,520
Speaker 1: Marine Corps Veteran Bronze Star recipients and simper. He's also

702
00:36:20,560 --> 00:36:23,960
Speaker 1: a Simplify in America's Fund. His name is Eddie Wright.

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00:36:24,160 --> 00:36:28,440
Speaker 1: Eddie Semplify my marine brother. First of all, what happened

704
00:36:28,440 --> 00:36:30,360
Speaker 1: to you twenty years ago? Tell us your story. We

705
00:36:30,400 --> 00:36:31,200
Speaker 1: don't know your story.

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Speaker 5: Well, five brother, Happy birthday twenty years ago. I was

707
00:36:36,680 --> 00:36:40,040
Speaker 5: serving as an assistant team leader with First Reconnaissance Battalion

708
00:36:40,160 --> 00:36:45,880
Speaker 5: in Flujah, Iraq, and during an ambush, I was struck

709
00:36:45,880 --> 00:36:49,319
Speaker 5: by a rock of propelled grenade and that resulted in

710
00:36:49,400 --> 00:36:54,239
Speaker 5: the immediate amputation of both of my hands. And it

711
00:36:54,360 --> 00:36:57,799
Speaker 5: was a catastrophic injury and into my dream career as

712
00:36:57,840 --> 00:37:03,400
Speaker 5: a reconnaissance marine. But you know, a long road of

713
00:37:03,440 --> 00:37:07,560
Speaker 5: recovery and a blessed life. Twenty years later, here I

714
00:37:07,600 --> 00:37:08,560
Speaker 5: am still standing.

715
00:37:10,440 --> 00:37:13,719
Speaker 1: It's amazing how many blessings God still pours down on us. Okay,

716
00:37:13,800 --> 00:37:16,719
Speaker 1: let's rewind a little bit for those who don't know.

717
00:37:17,239 --> 00:37:21,759
Speaker 1: Recon marines are kind above. It's it's our elite if

718
00:37:21,800 --> 00:37:25,200
Speaker 1: you will. Why recon was Zoho grows up thinking about

719
00:37:25,200 --> 00:37:26,600
Speaker 1: being recon Tell me about it.

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00:37:28,320 --> 00:37:30,880
Speaker 5: Well, Ever since I was a child, I wanted to

721
00:37:30,880 --> 00:37:35,360
Speaker 5: be a marine, and around middle school I started to

722
00:37:35,400 --> 00:37:38,200
Speaker 5: read all kinds of books on the Marine corps. But

723
00:37:39,080 --> 00:37:43,480
Speaker 5: I stumbled upon reconnaissance marines books written by marines who

724
00:37:43,480 --> 00:37:47,279
Speaker 5: you served in Vietnam, and I just fell in love.

725
00:37:47,480 --> 00:37:49,920
Speaker 5: And from then on I knew that my goal in

726
00:37:49,960 --> 00:37:52,520
Speaker 5: life was to become a reconnaissance marine.

727
00:37:54,640 --> 00:37:58,320
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's that's not an easy slog either I respect

728
00:37:58,320 --> 00:38:04,040
Speaker 1: it and message okay. So recovery obviously cannot possibly be pleasant.

729
00:38:04,680 --> 00:38:08,440
Speaker 1: Tell me about your treatments. I'm assuming it was VA treatment.

730
00:38:08,480 --> 00:38:10,719
Speaker 1: Did you feel like you had everything you needed? And

731
00:38:10,719 --> 00:38:14,160
Speaker 1: what's it like afterwards? How do you adjust to not

732
00:38:14,320 --> 00:38:15,720
Speaker 1: having hands all of a sudden?

733
00:38:15,760 --> 00:38:17,600
Speaker 3: What do you do from there? Tell us about it.

734
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Speaker 5: Well, when my recovery took quite some time, I was

735
00:38:22,400 --> 00:38:26,320
Speaker 5: an impatient for four months at the National Naval Medical

736
00:38:26,360 --> 00:38:31,160
Speaker 5: Center in Bethesda, Maryland, and then followed on at Walter

737
00:38:31,239 --> 00:38:34,160
Speaker 5: Reed So a combination of both hospitals four months, and

738
00:38:34,200 --> 00:38:37,320
Speaker 5: then about a year I was at the Malone House

739
00:38:37,400 --> 00:38:41,040
Speaker 5: and doing physical therapy occupational therapy. But I never lost

740
00:38:41,080 --> 00:38:43,200
Speaker 5: my drive to be a marine. I just didn't know

741
00:38:43,239 --> 00:38:46,560
Speaker 5: how I was going to continue in that service. Fortunately,

742
00:38:46,600 --> 00:38:48,840
Speaker 5: the Marine Corps saw some value in my service and

743
00:38:48,880 --> 00:38:50,719
Speaker 5: I was able to spend my last year in the

744
00:38:50,760 --> 00:38:54,399
Speaker 5: Marine Corps at the Basic School in Quantico, Virginia as

745
00:38:54,400 --> 00:38:58,160
Speaker 5: an instructor at the Martial Arts Center of Excellence training Marines.

746
00:38:58,840 --> 00:39:00,960
Speaker 5: And that was offen asked the way to go out

747
00:39:00,960 --> 00:39:06,759
Speaker 5: with my boots on. But then I was a civilian

748
00:39:07,400 --> 00:39:09,360
Speaker 5: and that world to me was a little bit of

749
00:39:09,400 --> 00:39:14,160
Speaker 5: a shock. You know, the VA system, for everything that

750
00:39:14,239 --> 00:39:16,760
Speaker 5: they do wonderful for us, there our gaps in the system.

751
00:39:16,800 --> 00:39:22,120
Speaker 5: It is a bureaucratic agency, and so sometimes many times

752
00:39:22,480 --> 00:39:25,560
Speaker 5: it was very frustrating that, you know, my needs could

753
00:39:25,600 --> 00:39:31,200
Speaker 5: be prosthetics, my needs could be maybe counseling things like that,

754
00:39:31,360 --> 00:39:36,160
Speaker 5: or just regular medical care, and there are gaps in

755
00:39:36,200 --> 00:39:40,600
Speaker 5: the system, and that can be tiring and frustrating, and

756
00:39:41,719 --> 00:39:44,440
Speaker 5: unfortunately sometimes you have to be your own advocate and

757
00:39:44,680 --> 00:39:50,400
Speaker 5: it gets a little old. And that's where organizations like

758
00:39:50,440 --> 00:39:55,040
Speaker 5: to Simplify in America's fund come through and they fill

759
00:39:55,080 --> 00:39:58,440
Speaker 5: in those gaps and they support us not just with.

760
00:40:00,120 --> 00:40:06,080
Speaker 3: Transition, but they do support for the service.

761
00:40:05,840 --> 00:40:10,880
Speaker 5: Members, for our families, and they have a holistic approach

762
00:40:11,000 --> 00:40:15,960
Speaker 5: integrative wellness, and it's a continued service to us and myself.

763
00:40:16,280 --> 00:40:19,680
Speaker 5: Twenty years later, things come up, Life happens, and then

764
00:40:20,080 --> 00:40:23,640
Speaker 5: when you're a veteran and you have a physical disability,

765
00:40:23,719 --> 00:40:27,799
Speaker 5: you know, a severe injury that limits you, you know,

766
00:40:28,080 --> 00:40:31,360
Speaker 5: unless you can find some workarounds, it can be tiring

767
00:40:31,400 --> 00:40:35,319
Speaker 5: and just that much harder than say, if you had

768
00:40:35,400 --> 00:40:38,480
Speaker 5: all your health and all your fingers and your limbs

769
00:40:38,800 --> 00:40:42,840
Speaker 5: and so they've really come through. It's like a family.

770
00:40:43,719 --> 00:40:47,279
Speaker 5: They understand that it's not just one time involvement, that

771
00:40:47,320 --> 00:40:50,839
Speaker 5: it's a lifetime of involvement and have a commitment. There

772
00:40:50,840 --> 00:40:54,799
Speaker 5: are military spouses that started the organization, that run the organization,

773
00:40:55,480 --> 00:41:00,440
Speaker 5: dedicated staff and volunteers all over the country, and they

774
00:41:00,719 --> 00:41:04,279
Speaker 5: not only support marines, they support all service branches and

775
00:41:04,400 --> 00:41:06,080
Speaker 5: our families and our children.

776
00:41:06,120 --> 00:41:07,120
Speaker 3: And that's wonderful.

777
00:41:08,360 --> 00:41:10,960
Speaker 5: That brings life, Like when when you get tired and

778
00:41:11,000 --> 00:41:12,960
Speaker 5: you're carrying out you know, you're a marine, you're carrying

779
00:41:12,960 --> 00:41:15,520
Speaker 5: your rock and you're like, man, I've been rocking for

780
00:41:15,600 --> 00:41:17,800
Speaker 5: so long, and you know, for I guess for people listening,

781
00:41:17,920 --> 00:41:20,960
Speaker 5: that's you big old backpack. It's heavy, and you get tired,

782
00:41:21,000 --> 00:41:22,160
Speaker 5: and it's life.

783
00:41:22,200 --> 00:41:22,440
Speaker 3: You know.

784
00:41:22,480 --> 00:41:26,799
Speaker 5: You you're marching on, you're rocking, and you just sometimes

785
00:41:27,280 --> 00:41:29,399
Speaker 5: you need to drink the water. You need to sit down,

786
00:41:29,520 --> 00:41:32,840
Speaker 5: change your socks, take a knee, catch your breath. The

787
00:41:32,920 --> 00:41:36,960
Speaker 5: Simplifying America's Fund is an organization that understands that, and

788
00:41:37,000 --> 00:41:40,920
Speaker 5: they're there for us and sometimes you don't even you

789
00:41:40,960 --> 00:41:43,960
Speaker 5: don't even have to reach out because they're committed and

790
00:41:44,000 --> 00:41:47,000
Speaker 5: they care about us and they'll reach out and it's

791
00:41:47,040 --> 00:41:49,680
Speaker 5: like to have esp that can. It happens when you

792
00:41:49,680 --> 00:41:50,960
Speaker 5: when you, when you.

793
00:41:51,000 --> 00:41:51,799
Speaker 3: Least expect it.

794
00:41:51,880 --> 00:41:55,000
Speaker 5: And I just am very grateful for an organization like that,

795
00:41:55,080 --> 00:41:58,040
Speaker 5: and for the Americans in our country that support that organization.

796
00:41:59,520 --> 00:42:03,399
Speaker 1: All you veterans watching right now, something touched your heart.

797
00:42:03,480 --> 00:42:04,600
Speaker 3: Maybe you're struggling.

798
00:42:05,400 --> 00:42:08,520
Speaker 1: Reach out Simpifying America's fun reach out see if they

799
00:42:08,560 --> 00:42:10,839
Speaker 1: can help you. Anyone else who wants to support an

800
00:42:10,960 --> 00:42:13,759
Speaker 1: organization like that, I would highly encourage you to do so,

801
00:42:14,120 --> 00:42:17,240
Speaker 1: Eddie writes, Simpify, my brother, and happy birthday once again.

802
00:42:17,400 --> 00:42:20,960
Speaker 1: Good to talk to you. All right, it's time for

803
00:42:21,080 --> 00:42:32,760
Speaker 1: lightning mood next. All right, it is time to lighten

804
00:42:32,800 --> 00:42:35,040
Speaker 1: the mood. And before we get to the video, I

805
00:42:35,040 --> 00:42:37,680
Speaker 1: can't ren decide if it's light it's funny, but we'll

806
00:42:37,680 --> 00:42:39,279
Speaker 1: get to that in a second. Before we do that,

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Speaker 3: Go subscribe to it.

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Speaker 1: We do some extra things on there, things you won't

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813
00:42:59,680 --> 00:43:04,479
Speaker 1: And oh yet all right, you know there are things

814
00:43:04,560 --> 00:43:06,720
Speaker 1: that we get used to. We've talked about this before,

815
00:43:06,800 --> 00:43:11,840
Speaker 1: you and I. We we grow accustomed to certain things,

816
00:43:12,600 --> 00:43:15,279
Speaker 1: even terrible things. It's part of the human condition. It's

817
00:43:15,320 --> 00:43:19,440
Speaker 1: how adaptable we are. We've kind of accepted you and me.

818
00:43:19,560 --> 00:43:21,840
Speaker 1: We accepted a while ago that the president of the

819
00:43:22,000 --> 00:43:26,400
Speaker 1: United States of America is not a fully functional adult,

820
00:43:27,120 --> 00:43:29,600
Speaker 1: and that his witch wife was going to run him

821
00:43:30,040 --> 00:43:34,560
Speaker 1: for re election again knowing he wasn't a functional adult.

822
00:43:34,920 --> 00:43:37,759
Speaker 3: Like, those two things are both horrible, and.

823
00:43:37,680 --> 00:43:39,399
Speaker 1: We've just kind of like baked it into the cake.

824
00:43:39,560 --> 00:43:41,480
Speaker 1: And now Trump once or we're all happy, but we

825
00:43:41,520 --> 00:43:42,960
Speaker 1: don't even think about it anymore.

826
00:43:43,120 --> 00:43:45,320
Speaker 3: Did you see Joe Biden walking through the sand?

827
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Speaker 1: And did you see Joe Biden when Joe started to stumble.

828
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Speaker 7: He's playing.

829
00:44:02,160 --> 00:44:07,120
Speaker 1: He's playing, Yeah, he's playing the lord.

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Speaker 3: H he's playing.

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Speaker 1: That man has been commander in chief for the last

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Speaker 1: four years. I can't believe we're all still alive anyway,

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Speaker 1: I see them all h