1 00:00:01,000 --> 00:00:06,240 Speaker 1: Bold reverence and occasionally random The Sunday hang with playing 2 00:00:06,360 --> 00:00:08,800 Speaker 1: Fuck podcast and it starts now. 3 00:00:10,400 --> 00:00:10,800 Speaker 2: With the movies. 4 00:00:10,800 --> 00:00:13,320 Speaker 3: Here for a second, I I got to look at 5 00:00:13,320 --> 00:00:15,080 Speaker 3: where the movie theater stocks are because I got a 6 00:00:15,080 --> 00:00:16,720 Speaker 3: figure that it's going to be a tough time for 7 00:00:16,800 --> 00:00:20,560 Speaker 3: movie theaters going forward. It's when you add up all 8 00:00:20,600 --> 00:00:22,439 Speaker 3: that headache. First of all, the notion you have to 9 00:00:22,440 --> 00:00:25,319 Speaker 3: be somewhere at a certain set time even to watch 10 00:00:25,320 --> 00:00:27,479 Speaker 3: a movie. It's not a Broadway play like, it's not 11 00:00:28,080 --> 00:00:32,519 Speaker 3: quite the same kind of event. I remember back in 12 00:00:32,520 --> 00:00:34,720 Speaker 3: the nineties early nineties going to a movie with my 13 00:00:34,800 --> 00:00:37,199 Speaker 3: family when it was first coming out, and it was 14 00:00:37,240 --> 00:00:39,560 Speaker 3: a big movie like the First Remember the the Michael 15 00:00:39,640 --> 00:00:44,959 Speaker 3: Keaton Batman. Oh that that was a huge movie when 16 00:00:45,000 --> 00:00:48,800 Speaker 3: that came out. I remember going to see Jurassic Park 17 00:00:48,880 --> 00:00:51,800 Speaker 3: with my parents and my whole family and seeing that 18 00:00:51,880 --> 00:00:55,360 Speaker 3: the Zigfeld Theater in New York City and the giant speakers, 19 00:00:55,360 --> 00:00:58,080 Speaker 3: and that was so cool. Movies used to be an 20 00:00:58,120 --> 00:01:01,840 Speaker 3: experience that you couldn't replicate at all at home. Now 21 00:01:01,880 --> 00:01:06,120 Speaker 3: you can, and you don't have people talking. What is 22 00:01:06,160 --> 00:01:07,960 Speaker 3: it with people think that when the when the music 23 00:01:08,000 --> 00:01:10,039 Speaker 3: gets loud or the sound gets loud. You you could 24 00:01:10,080 --> 00:01:13,480 Speaker 3: start to do the loud whisper thing no no, no, 25 00:01:13,640 --> 00:01:17,480 Speaker 3: and pulling their phones out, and it's just it's you know, 26 00:01:17,800 --> 00:01:19,320 Speaker 3: I don't know. I don't. I don't go to I 27 00:01:19,360 --> 00:01:21,440 Speaker 3: don't go to movies anymore. I'm kind of out. I 28 00:01:21,480 --> 00:01:24,560 Speaker 3: watch movies. I just don't go to the movie theater anymore. 29 00:01:24,959 --> 00:01:28,959 Speaker 1: I love going to the movie theater. And staff looked 30 00:01:28,959 --> 00:01:31,560 Speaker 1: this up and and and crew confirmed that I'm clearing 31 00:01:31,680 --> 00:01:34,200 Speaker 1: I still do though, you still do still want to 32 00:01:34,280 --> 00:01:37,720 Speaker 1: taking my boys like to go see a movie, love 33 00:01:37,840 --> 00:01:42,800 Speaker 1: the experience. Uh even today, I would still I was 34 00:01:42,840 --> 00:01:45,200 Speaker 1: one of the diehards that would still be willing to 35 00:01:45,200 --> 00:01:47,360 Speaker 1: go to the movie when everybody else was convinced they 36 00:01:47,360 --> 00:01:49,880 Speaker 1: were gonna die of COVID. I couldn't wait for the 37 00:01:49,880 --> 00:01:52,680 Speaker 1: movie theaters to be back open. I think they opened 38 00:01:52,680 --> 00:01:55,280 Speaker 1: back up in like May or June where I am. 39 00:01:55,400 --> 00:01:57,960 Speaker 1: I was right back in the theater as soon as 40 00:01:58,000 --> 00:02:01,360 Speaker 1: I could be, even when they were showing old eighties 41 00:02:01,360 --> 00:02:03,639 Speaker 1: and nineties movies because they didn't have any new movies 42 00:02:03,680 --> 00:02:06,600 Speaker 1: to be able to watch. What was the was what 43 00:02:06,680 --> 00:02:09,320 Speaker 1: was the movie that came out that was like the 44 00:02:09,360 --> 00:02:13,120 Speaker 1: first movie to come back out after COVID. That was 45 00:02:13,160 --> 00:02:15,919 Speaker 1: a I know we had Top Gun Maverick, but the 46 00:02:16,480 --> 00:02:20,680 Speaker 1: the Interstellar guy, Uh didn't he come out with a movie? 47 00:02:21,160 --> 00:02:25,200 Speaker 1: Is an inception? Is that the movie that came out? 48 00:02:25,360 --> 00:02:25,600 Speaker 2: Was it? 49 00:02:25,639 --> 00:02:29,560 Speaker 1: No one who had It's It's Denzel Washington's son, and 50 00:02:29,639 --> 00:02:33,119 Speaker 1: it was about the theater getting taken over and it's 51 00:02:33,240 --> 00:02:36,200 Speaker 1: kind of a thriller and you could change. That was 52 00:02:36,240 --> 00:02:39,760 Speaker 1: the first real new release to come back out after COVID, 53 00:02:39,760 --> 00:02:41,720 Speaker 1: and I feel like that was I don't remember when 54 00:02:41,800 --> 00:02:43,880 Speaker 1: that came out, but I remember being super excited to 55 00:02:43,919 --> 00:02:44,520 Speaker 1: go see it. 56 00:02:45,000 --> 00:02:46,600 Speaker 2: I wanted to go this weekend buck. 57 00:02:47,280 --> 00:02:50,480 Speaker 1: I got my phone out, I pulled up the Fandango app. 58 00:02:53,080 --> 00:02:55,440 Speaker 2: To fail. It's unbelievable how awful they were. 59 00:02:55,639 --> 00:02:58,360 Speaker 3: Tenant is the movie that you're ten of it. I 60 00:02:58,400 --> 00:03:00,040 Speaker 3: never saw. I know nothing about it. It's good, but 61 00:03:00,520 --> 00:03:02,840 Speaker 3: they're not making good movies anymore. But they're not making 62 00:03:02,880 --> 00:03:05,720 Speaker 3: good movies because the whole industry has changed. Because people 63 00:03:05,720 --> 00:03:08,480 Speaker 3: aren't paying twenty bucks a person to go sit in 64 00:03:08,480 --> 00:03:10,000 Speaker 3: the theater the way they used to. They want to 65 00:03:10,000 --> 00:03:12,240 Speaker 3: sit at home and stream it. That's just the reality. 66 00:03:12,280 --> 00:03:14,280 Speaker 3: My couch is so much more comfortable than a movie theater. 67 00:03:15,120 --> 00:03:18,240 Speaker 1: I want to be in the movie theater with really 68 00:03:18,400 --> 00:03:21,760 Speaker 1: good movies out again, like in the eighties and like 69 00:03:21,800 --> 00:03:22,720 Speaker 1: in the nineties. 70 00:03:22,800 --> 00:03:23,560 Speaker 2: And I think that. 71 00:03:23,520 --> 00:03:27,560 Speaker 1: Hollywood has just destroyed itself by being more concerned with 72 00:03:27,680 --> 00:03:31,680 Speaker 1: politics than story. Just get back to telling me good stories. 73 00:03:31,760 --> 00:03:32,600 Speaker 1: That's all I want. 74 00:03:33,280 --> 00:03:36,000 Speaker 2: Sunday hang with Clay and Bucks. 75 00:03:36,960 --> 00:03:40,400 Speaker 3: Our friend Pete Hegseath joins us now. He is an 76 00:03:40,520 --> 00:03:44,840 Speaker 3: army veteran of Iraq and Afghanistan. He is the co 77 00:03:44,880 --> 00:03:47,960 Speaker 3: host of Fox and Friends Weekend, also a Fox Nation host. 78 00:03:48,000 --> 00:03:52,560 Speaker 3: He's got a book out, The War on Warriors, Behind 79 00:03:52,600 --> 00:03:56,160 Speaker 3: the Betrayal of the Men Who Keep Us Free. What's 80 00:03:56,200 --> 00:03:57,520 Speaker 3: going on, Pete, good to talk to you. 81 00:03:57,880 --> 00:03:59,240 Speaker 4: What's up, guys, Thanks for having me. 82 00:03:59,480 --> 00:04:02,040 Speaker 3: Yeah, of course, talk to us a little bit about 83 00:04:02,080 --> 00:04:05,160 Speaker 3: about the book and what what do people need to know? 84 00:04:07,040 --> 00:04:09,080 Speaker 5: Well, folks need to know that, you know, without a 85 00:04:09,120 --> 00:04:12,080 Speaker 5: capable military, we're not free. And I joined and served 86 00:04:12,080 --> 00:04:15,080 Speaker 5: a military that I love, that was lethal, that was 87 00:04:15,120 --> 00:04:19,200 Speaker 5: based on meritocracy, that was existed for twenty years to 88 00:04:19,240 --> 00:04:22,600 Speaker 5: try as best it could to defeat extremism. And now 89 00:04:22,640 --> 00:04:25,159 Speaker 5: that very seem military is identifying people like me, and 90 00:04:25,200 --> 00:04:26,520 Speaker 5: I tell that specific story in. 91 00:04:26,480 --> 00:04:28,520 Speaker 4: The book as extremists. 92 00:04:28,600 --> 00:04:33,240 Speaker 5: So political ideologies have captured the top of our Pentagon, 93 00:04:33,560 --> 00:04:37,200 Speaker 5: and that's proliferated throughout the institution, and it's made our 94 00:04:37,279 --> 00:04:39,279 Speaker 5: ranks less accountable. 95 00:04:39,680 --> 00:04:40,880 Speaker 4: It's lowered the standards. 96 00:04:40,920 --> 00:04:44,240 Speaker 5: They're less prepared, commanders are walking on eggshells, and as 97 00:04:44,240 --> 00:04:46,240 Speaker 5: a result, they're less capable. 98 00:04:46,320 --> 00:04:48,520 Speaker 4: And so it's not a good story book. 99 00:04:49,160 --> 00:04:51,679 Speaker 5: And it's something that's not just a military, it's the CIA, 100 00:04:51,800 --> 00:04:54,680 Speaker 5: it's other institutions are facing this too, But it's something 101 00:04:54,720 --> 00:04:56,440 Speaker 5: that can be reversed, and I wanted to sound the 102 00:04:56,480 --> 00:04:58,480 Speaker 5: alarm on it now in the hopes that we can 103 00:04:58,520 --> 00:04:59,320 Speaker 5: write the ship. 104 00:05:00,920 --> 00:05:03,840 Speaker 1: If we had to pete, thanks for coming on. If 105 00:05:03,839 --> 00:05:07,440 Speaker 1: we had to actually fight, let's say China invaded Taiwan, 106 00:05:08,120 --> 00:05:10,560 Speaker 1: let's say also basically. 107 00:05:10,040 --> 00:05:11,920 Speaker 2: Were into World War three. 108 00:05:11,800 --> 00:05:14,159 Speaker 1: Then, given what's already going on in Europe, what's already 109 00:05:14,160 --> 00:05:16,160 Speaker 1: going on in the Middle East, do you think our 110 00:05:16,160 --> 00:05:19,080 Speaker 1: military is capable of fighting a war like that right now? 111 00:05:20,920 --> 00:05:22,359 Speaker 4: Sad answer is probably no. 112 00:05:22,640 --> 00:05:25,640 Speaker 5: Clay. You know, the Pentagon does war games all the time, 113 00:05:25,880 --> 00:05:28,920 Speaker 5: and they're wargaming against China with all these sophisticated models 114 00:05:29,200 --> 00:05:31,480 Speaker 5: and it has an undefeated record in the last decade 115 00:05:31,520 --> 00:05:35,920 Speaker 5: against China, we lose every time, and it's because China 116 00:05:36,000 --> 00:05:39,120 Speaker 5: is building a military. It's not that China's exceptional or amazing, 117 00:05:39,120 --> 00:05:42,000 Speaker 5: but they're building a military that is intended. 118 00:05:41,360 --> 00:05:43,719 Speaker 4: To defeat US capabilities. 119 00:05:43,960 --> 00:05:46,560 Speaker 5: Whereas the military we have is more or less focused 120 00:05:46,640 --> 00:05:50,280 Speaker 5: on fighting the wars we just left and hasn't navigated back, 121 00:05:50,600 --> 00:05:53,440 Speaker 5: doesn't have the industrial base, doesn't have the forward thinking, 122 00:05:53,880 --> 00:05:55,880 Speaker 5: isn't recruiting sufficiently. 123 00:05:55,600 --> 00:05:57,240 Speaker 4: And then doesn't have the warrior ethos. 124 00:05:57,279 --> 00:05:59,880 Speaker 5: I mean, Clay, it matters what kind of generals you have, 125 00:06:00,080 --> 00:06:03,479 Speaker 5: what kind of tone they set, how those units integrate 126 00:06:03,520 --> 00:06:07,080 Speaker 5: together to become a team. Right now, the ethos is 127 00:06:07,240 --> 00:06:09,520 Speaker 5: inside our military. You hear all the time from these generals. 128 00:06:09,520 --> 00:06:13,160 Speaker 5: It's nonsense. Our diversity is our strength, what a bunch 129 00:06:13,200 --> 00:06:17,520 Speaker 5: of crap like, especially in uniform. Our unity is our strength. 130 00:06:17,560 --> 00:06:20,080 Speaker 5: We all get the same training where camouflage and get 131 00:06:20,120 --> 00:06:21,839 Speaker 5: bad haircuts, and after that. 132 00:06:21,880 --> 00:06:23,159 Speaker 4: You're not an individual anymore. 133 00:06:23,320 --> 00:06:25,360 Speaker 5: You're a part of a unit that's supposed to work 134 00:06:25,440 --> 00:06:28,080 Speaker 5: operate as a team, and your differences are not what matter. 135 00:06:28,520 --> 00:06:31,520 Speaker 5: That is, when I've talked to dozens of guys dozens 136 00:06:31,600 --> 00:06:34,880 Speaker 5: actively serving, and they tell me the same thing. It's 137 00:06:34,960 --> 00:06:37,760 Speaker 5: creeping into units in a serious way that's undermining morale 138 00:06:37,760 --> 00:06:38,600 Speaker 5: and capabilities. 139 00:06:38,680 --> 00:06:40,680 Speaker 3: We're speaking to Pete Hegsath. The book is The War 140 00:06:40,760 --> 00:06:45,880 Speaker 3: on Warriors. It's just out now, and Pete, we know 141 00:06:45,920 --> 00:06:49,440 Speaker 3: that there's this problem, and we've seen some of the wokeness, 142 00:06:49,760 --> 00:06:51,840 Speaker 3: you know, General Millie and all the stuff right, and 143 00:06:51,880 --> 00:06:54,080 Speaker 3: the books that are being assigned, and just lots of 144 00:06:54,080 --> 00:06:57,000 Speaker 3: stuff that's out there. I think our audience here is 145 00:06:59,480 --> 00:07:01,640 Speaker 3: very attune to that. How do we how does it 146 00:07:01,680 --> 00:07:05,320 Speaker 3: get fixed? Right? I mean other than just we wish 147 00:07:05,360 --> 00:07:08,120 Speaker 3: we had generals who didn't buy into this stuff. Well, 148 00:07:08,200 --> 00:07:10,040 Speaker 3: what can be done? I mean, how do you change 149 00:07:10,040 --> 00:07:13,280 Speaker 3: the ethos back to what it used to be of 150 00:07:13,320 --> 00:07:16,080 Speaker 3: an organization that's got a couple million people in it. 151 00:07:17,080 --> 00:07:19,680 Speaker 5: There's a lot to that buck, for sure, but it 152 00:07:19,760 --> 00:07:22,080 Speaker 5: starts with a new commander in chief. Donald Trump said 153 00:07:22,080 --> 00:07:24,040 Speaker 5: it in our interview with him last weekend. You know, 154 00:07:24,200 --> 00:07:25,960 Speaker 5: I've got to firewoke generals. You got to have a 155 00:07:25,960 --> 00:07:28,360 Speaker 5: commander in chief that hires a Secretary of State that 156 00:07:28,360 --> 00:07:30,240 Speaker 5: will take or Secretary Defense that will take none of 157 00:07:30,240 --> 00:07:33,520 Speaker 5: this nonsense. A chairman of the joint chiefs. That sets 158 00:07:33,560 --> 00:07:36,920 Speaker 5: the tone some very key targeted firings of those that 159 00:07:36,960 --> 00:07:40,320 Speaker 5: were responsible for the CRT DEI stuff, the gender stuff 160 00:07:40,880 --> 00:07:43,280 Speaker 5: that pushed through women in combat when the evidence showed 161 00:07:43,280 --> 00:07:45,480 Speaker 5: it wasn't going to be helpful. That are pushing the 162 00:07:45,520 --> 00:07:48,800 Speaker 5: green fleets in the electric tanks. You need to fire people, 163 00:07:49,040 --> 00:07:50,680 Speaker 5: and then you need to you need to change the 164 00:07:50,720 --> 00:07:51,640 Speaker 5: way promotions happen. 165 00:07:51,720 --> 00:07:52,520 Speaker 4: Careerism occurs. 166 00:07:52,520 --> 00:07:53,280 Speaker 5: There's a lot of things. 167 00:07:53,520 --> 00:07:55,640 Speaker 4: Then you got to go into the military academies. West 168 00:07:55,640 --> 00:07:58,520 Speaker 4: Point looks a lot more like Berkeley than it used to. 169 00:07:58,800 --> 00:08:01,960 Speaker 5: Civilian professors are everywhere, and their ideologies are similar to 170 00:08:01,960 --> 00:08:03,400 Speaker 5: what you see on civilian campuses. 171 00:08:03,640 --> 00:08:06,240 Speaker 4: All that stuff's being taught to young officers. You have 172 00:08:06,280 --> 00:08:08,960 Speaker 4: to change that too. You have to outlaw CRT and DEI. 173 00:08:09,320 --> 00:08:10,080 Speaker 4: The army is a. 174 00:08:10,080 --> 00:08:13,080 Speaker 5: Top The military is a top down institution. When an 175 00:08:13,200 --> 00:08:16,240 Speaker 5: order goes out that things are going to change, it 176 00:08:16,560 --> 00:08:18,600 Speaker 5: usually gets followed and then you have to follow up 177 00:08:18,600 --> 00:08:21,560 Speaker 5: on it. But it can change more quickly than most institutions. 178 00:08:21,960 --> 00:08:24,000 Speaker 5: It probably will take more than one term. So it 179 00:08:24,040 --> 00:08:26,520 Speaker 5: would be Donald Trump and then his successor that would 180 00:08:26,520 --> 00:08:27,640 Speaker 5: have to be a part of changing it. 181 00:08:28,520 --> 00:08:32,719 Speaker 1: Talking to Pete Heggseth Pete. Tomorrow eightieth anniversary of D Day. 182 00:08:32,760 --> 00:08:37,360 Speaker 1: I believe it's also your forty fourth birthday. I don't 183 00:08:37,360 --> 00:08:40,320 Speaker 1: know if you've ever had I saw Will tweet that 184 00:08:40,360 --> 00:08:41,840 Speaker 1: he had taken his family and he had been able 185 00:08:41,880 --> 00:08:44,959 Speaker 1: to tour Normandy. I'm sure we'll talk about this some tomorrow. 186 00:08:45,040 --> 00:08:46,760 Speaker 1: I took my family. It's one of the most amazing 187 00:08:46,760 --> 00:08:49,560 Speaker 1: trips I've ever been to see that ground. Have you 188 00:08:49,600 --> 00:08:53,240 Speaker 1: ever gotten to go to see the battlefield at Normandy 189 00:08:53,280 --> 00:08:55,960 Speaker 1: to see what it looks like? And if not, there 190 00:08:56,440 --> 00:08:58,720 Speaker 1: is there a place. I know you're a history guy too, 191 00:08:58,840 --> 00:09:02,800 Speaker 1: that you've gone and had an opportunity to visit that 192 00:09:02,960 --> 00:09:07,120 Speaker 1: to you sort of is emblematic of the history of 193 00:09:07,440 --> 00:09:09,120 Speaker 1: American excellence in the military. 194 00:09:10,160 --> 00:09:10,600 Speaker 4: Man, that's a. 195 00:09:10,559 --> 00:09:12,839 Speaker 5: Great question, Clay. I've never been. My wife got me 196 00:09:12,880 --> 00:09:16,360 Speaker 5: a surprise trip to go to Normandy right before COVID, 197 00:09:16,559 --> 00:09:20,080 Speaker 5: so that the whole plan got scrapped because I've always 198 00:09:20,080 --> 00:09:21,960 Speaker 5: wanted to go, and I've always wanted to see it, 199 00:09:22,040 --> 00:09:24,880 Speaker 5: and I saw what Will Kine put out and it's amazing. 200 00:09:25,520 --> 00:09:28,800 Speaker 5: Speak of Normandy, I mean, talk about General Eisenhower, as 201 00:09:29,080 --> 00:09:32,160 Speaker 5: you guys probably know famously wrote two letters, one if 202 00:09:32,200 --> 00:09:34,120 Speaker 5: it succeeded and one if it failed, and if it failed, 203 00:09:34,200 --> 00:09:36,120 Speaker 5: he was prepared to take accountability and resign. 204 00:09:36,400 --> 00:09:39,959 Speaker 4: Where's that ethos in our military today? You know, we 205 00:09:40,320 --> 00:09:41,040 Speaker 4: took our kids. 206 00:09:41,160 --> 00:09:43,400 Speaker 5: You probably know where this is at Clay the Nashville 207 00:09:43,480 --> 00:09:46,160 Speaker 5: National Cemetery, which is oh yeah, it's on I think 208 00:09:46,160 --> 00:09:49,360 Speaker 5: it's East Nashville. They had a ceremony this this past 209 00:09:49,440 --> 00:09:50,720 Speaker 5: Memorial Day weekend. 210 00:09:50,400 --> 00:09:53,880 Speaker 4: And just taking kids any find any. 211 00:09:53,720 --> 00:09:57,120 Speaker 5: Cemetery like that, Few and far between are as large 212 00:09:57,120 --> 00:09:59,560 Speaker 5: as the one in Omaha Beach and at Normandy or 213 00:09:59,600 --> 00:10:02,640 Speaker 5: at Arlington. We just haven't walked through the crosses, walk 214 00:10:02,720 --> 00:10:05,040 Speaker 5: through the markers and look over the horizon and see 215 00:10:05,080 --> 00:10:08,199 Speaker 5: the cost of freedom. That affected me a ton as 216 00:10:08,240 --> 00:10:12,280 Speaker 5: a kid, and I think did the same for my 217 00:10:12,440 --> 00:10:15,560 Speaker 5: young young boys. I went to Gettysburg and that got 218 00:10:15,600 --> 00:10:18,840 Speaker 5: me many years ago. Just pick a battlefield, go there 219 00:10:18,880 --> 00:10:21,400 Speaker 5: with someone that knows how it went down, and then 220 00:10:21,480 --> 00:10:22,640 Speaker 5: share it and it'll change you. 221 00:10:22,960 --> 00:10:25,079 Speaker 3: Pete, did you know that Clay went to Civil War 222 00:10:25,240 --> 00:10:29,559 Speaker 3: sleep away camp? This is true, no real thing. That's amazing. Yeah, 223 00:10:29,600 --> 00:10:31,320 Speaker 3: my wife says that she is. 224 00:10:31,880 --> 00:10:34,000 Speaker 1: She never would have believed that she would have married 225 00:10:34,120 --> 00:10:37,320 Speaker 1: or certainly had kids with anyone who was willing to 226 00:10:37,360 --> 00:10:38,280 Speaker 1: go to Civil War. 227 00:10:38,200 --> 00:10:39,320 Speaker 2: Sleep away camp. I did. 228 00:10:39,360 --> 00:10:42,000 Speaker 1: I was after my junior year of high school at 229 00:10:42,000 --> 00:10:45,199 Speaker 1: Gettysburg College. They have something called the Civil War Institute, 230 00:10:45,280 --> 00:10:48,000 Speaker 1: or they used to, and I got a scholarship and 231 00:10:48,080 --> 00:10:50,400 Speaker 1: went there and stayed for a week. And my wife said, 232 00:10:50,840 --> 00:10:53,480 Speaker 1: you know, they gave scholarships like people actually competed and 233 00:10:53,600 --> 00:10:56,040 Speaker 1: competed for this, and yes, I got one and it 234 00:10:56,120 --> 00:10:57,120 Speaker 1: was amazing. 235 00:10:57,600 --> 00:11:00,600 Speaker 5: Clay, I want that scholarship from my kids. Send me 236 00:11:00,679 --> 00:11:02,920 Speaker 5: the info I want wid. 237 00:11:03,040 --> 00:11:03,720 Speaker 2: It was awesome. 238 00:11:03,720 --> 00:11:06,720 Speaker 1: We did the Shenandoah Valley Campaign of eighteen sixty four. 239 00:11:06,840 --> 00:11:09,960 Speaker 1: They have a different Civil War focus every year. It's 240 00:11:09,960 --> 00:11:12,640 Speaker 1: not just Gettysburg. And they took us on the bus 241 00:11:12,720 --> 00:11:13,040 Speaker 1: to it. 242 00:11:13,040 --> 00:11:15,640 Speaker 6: Like like going to this is like going to tuba 243 00:11:15,760 --> 00:11:20,400 Speaker 6: camp or something. It was super superhistory. They went to 244 00:11:20,480 --> 00:11:25,040 Speaker 6: a six week clarinet intensive. Hey, by the way, two 245 00:11:25,160 --> 00:11:27,720 Speaker 6: cute girls were also on. This was maybe the bigger 246 00:11:27,800 --> 00:11:30,560 Speaker 6: upset that there were too cute. I had an advantage 247 00:11:30,559 --> 00:11:32,920 Speaker 6: because I think the guys that were at Civil Wars 248 00:11:33,840 --> 00:11:34,240 Speaker 6: play was. 249 00:11:34,960 --> 00:11:37,040 Speaker 2: Not a high not a high level of competition. 250 00:11:37,120 --> 00:11:39,160 Speaker 1: That's to be sure speaking by the way of competition, 251 00:11:39,200 --> 00:11:43,040 Speaker 1: should we ask him? That's a perfect segue, Clay, Uh, 252 00:11:43,200 --> 00:11:45,280 Speaker 1: talk to me about this right before he came on, Pete, 253 00:11:45,800 --> 00:11:47,400 Speaker 1: has this challenge already been laid out? 254 00:11:47,480 --> 00:11:49,000 Speaker 3: Clay, I don't want to misrepresent. 255 00:11:49,080 --> 00:11:49,440 Speaker 2: I don't know. 256 00:11:49,520 --> 00:11:52,400 Speaker 1: I don't know the exact details. You and so you 257 00:11:52,440 --> 00:11:55,080 Speaker 1: played basketball at Princeton, right, let's set the table here. 258 00:11:55,880 --> 00:11:58,760 Speaker 3: Yes, yep, Okay, you played basketball prince in which is 259 00:11:58,800 --> 00:12:01,760 Speaker 3: D one school IVY League, A D one school audience 260 00:12:01,800 --> 00:12:05,199 Speaker 3: is not gonna hold that against you. But uh, Clay 261 00:12:05,240 --> 00:12:08,080 Speaker 3: asked me, I'm just gonna say on your behalf, Pete. 262 00:12:08,120 --> 00:12:10,800 Speaker 3: He asked me, do you think that Pete right now 263 00:12:11,320 --> 00:12:14,960 Speaker 3: could could beat Caitlin Clark in one on one basketball? 264 00:12:15,160 --> 00:12:15,360 Speaker 2: Now? 265 00:12:16,559 --> 00:12:19,000 Speaker 3: I initially said, oh, yeah, no, I think I think 266 00:12:19,000 --> 00:12:21,400 Speaker 3: Pete will probably smoke her. But then Clay said, hold 267 00:12:21,440 --> 00:12:25,720 Speaker 3: on a second. If they're using the female sized ball, 268 00:12:25,840 --> 00:12:28,720 Speaker 3: which is a different size, and I didn't know Caitlin 269 00:12:28,800 --> 00:12:31,480 Speaker 3: Clark is six feet tall, she's about your size. Give 270 00:12:31,480 --> 00:12:35,360 Speaker 3: her take. Are you confident that Pete you could with 271 00:12:35,600 --> 00:12:38,040 Speaker 3: no training, no nothing. I mean we're talking. You take 272 00:12:38,080 --> 00:12:40,360 Speaker 3: your Fox and Friends suit off and you put on 273 00:12:40,760 --> 00:12:43,680 Speaker 3: a basketball jersey. Do you think you could take Caitlin 274 00:12:43,720 --> 00:12:45,640 Speaker 3: Clark and all of America is listening right now? 275 00:12:46,760 --> 00:12:47,800 Speaker 4: Okay, in a. 276 00:12:47,760 --> 00:12:51,600 Speaker 5: Three point contest right now? No, in a three point 277 00:12:51,640 --> 00:12:55,480 Speaker 5: contest in my prime, it's a wash. Okay, one on 278 00:12:55,480 --> 00:12:59,360 Speaker 5: one in my prime, I smoker one on one right now, 279 00:13:00,400 --> 00:13:04,040 Speaker 5: it's it's a push. I don't know, but I'm using callig. 280 00:13:05,880 --> 00:13:06,280 Speaker 2: How much? 281 00:13:06,320 --> 00:13:10,600 Speaker 1: Okay, let's pretend, all right, I let's say that I pete. 282 00:13:10,679 --> 00:13:14,000 Speaker 1: I said, Hey, I'm gonna put fifty thousand. 283 00:13:13,520 --> 00:13:14,760 Speaker 2: Dollars on this game. 284 00:13:14,960 --> 00:13:18,719 Speaker 1: All right, you get fifty thousand dollars and you can 285 00:13:18,840 --> 00:13:23,760 Speaker 1: walk away, or you get one hundred thousand if you 286 00:13:23,880 --> 00:13:25,200 Speaker 1: beat her one on one? 287 00:13:26,040 --> 00:13:27,240 Speaker 2: Are you playing the game? 288 00:13:27,280 --> 00:13:29,120 Speaker 3: To go for a hundred is a wret to so 289 00:13:29,160 --> 00:13:29,720 Speaker 3: no elbows? 290 00:13:29,760 --> 00:13:32,520 Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, there's a wret. We got to legit one 291 00:13:32,559 --> 00:13:33,000 Speaker 2: on one. 292 00:13:33,400 --> 00:13:37,760 Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm playing the game, but I'm prepared to lose. 293 00:13:38,080 --> 00:13:39,800 Speaker 5: You know, I'm playing the game because I think I 294 00:13:39,880 --> 00:13:42,200 Speaker 5: have a shot, But I'm prepared. She is so good 295 00:13:42,280 --> 00:13:45,080 Speaker 5: and such a different kind of player. Those shots she 296 00:13:45,200 --> 00:13:47,000 Speaker 5: hits from that far out. How do you guard that 297 00:13:47,040 --> 00:13:49,400 Speaker 5: and guard the drive? You gotta get physical. You got 298 00:13:49,400 --> 00:13:51,400 Speaker 5: a body up. That would be I would be old 299 00:13:51,400 --> 00:13:51,960 Speaker 5: man's stress. 300 00:13:52,080 --> 00:13:53,880 Speaker 3: I said, he's got a box, he's got to box out, 301 00:13:53,920 --> 00:13:54,679 Speaker 3: he's got to go older. 302 00:13:54,679 --> 00:13:57,240 Speaker 1: So you would you would go like old school NBA, 303 00:13:57,480 --> 00:14:00,520 Speaker 1: like Patrick Ewing and just slowly back back, or like 304 00:14:00,559 --> 00:14:02,679 Speaker 1: it might take ten seconds for you to take a shot, 305 00:14:02,720 --> 00:14:04,959 Speaker 1: but you're just gonna work your way inside. 306 00:14:05,520 --> 00:14:09,240 Speaker 4: Whatever it takes, whatever it takes. Clay, I just did. 307 00:14:10,600 --> 00:14:13,719 Speaker 5: It's I don't know. I just I would try to 308 00:14:13,760 --> 00:14:15,440 Speaker 5: make some moves. But I feel like that would you. 309 00:14:15,679 --> 00:14:17,160 Speaker 4: Would you be a play body? 310 00:14:18,400 --> 00:14:18,800 Speaker 3: You? 311 00:14:18,800 --> 00:14:19,120 Speaker 4: You? 312 00:14:19,120 --> 00:14:20,440 Speaker 2: You? So here's my thing. 313 00:14:21,320 --> 00:14:24,040 Speaker 1: I would be so afraid if I were you, not 314 00:14:24,200 --> 00:14:26,920 Speaker 1: of losing, because I think if you lost, people be like, hey, 315 00:14:26,960 --> 00:14:29,200 Speaker 1: Pete's you know, he's in his forties, she's twenty one 316 00:14:29,320 --> 00:14:31,800 Speaker 1: or twenty two, she's six feet she's the best women's 317 00:14:31,840 --> 00:14:32,640 Speaker 1: shooter in the game. 318 00:14:32,720 --> 00:14:33,160 Speaker 2: Right now. 319 00:14:33,280 --> 00:14:35,840 Speaker 1: Here's what I'd be afraid of. I'd be afraid of 320 00:14:36,000 --> 00:14:39,240 Speaker 1: injuring myself, like tearing your acl. 321 00:14:38,880 --> 00:14:41,120 Speaker 3: Like that you tried to dunk, yeah. 322 00:14:42,040 --> 00:14:44,200 Speaker 1: Yeah, and you don't even get to finish the game, 323 00:14:44,520 --> 00:14:46,240 Speaker 1: and then it's like what doesn't even matter what the 324 00:14:46,240 --> 00:14:50,320 Speaker 1: score was at the time. It would go mega viral 325 00:14:50,520 --> 00:14:52,600 Speaker 1: if you, even if you just had a bad ankle 326 00:14:52,680 --> 00:14:54,760 Speaker 1: sprain or something, if you weren't able to finish the game. 327 00:14:54,800 --> 00:14:56,520 Speaker 2: That's what I would be afraid, although I would. 328 00:14:56,360 --> 00:14:58,920 Speaker 3: Say can Park dunked on Pete, He'd never be able 329 00:14:58,920 --> 00:14:59,520 Speaker 3: to live it down. 330 00:15:01,160 --> 00:15:03,600 Speaker 5: I recently played my thirty year old brother because he 331 00:15:03,680 --> 00:15:06,000 Speaker 5: declared it was the first time he thought he could 332 00:15:06,000 --> 00:15:07,840 Speaker 5: beat me finally, and he's never beat me. And I 333 00:15:07,840 --> 00:15:10,320 Speaker 5: beat him, but I almost died trying, and that would 334 00:15:10,320 --> 00:15:11,320 Speaker 5: be the case here. 335 00:15:11,560 --> 00:15:13,080 Speaker 3: I would die trying to play. 336 00:15:13,160 --> 00:15:16,400 Speaker 1: This is funny you mentioned that because my middle son 337 00:15:16,640 --> 00:15:20,120 Speaker 1: is thirteen now. He's going to be fourteen in September, 338 00:15:20,160 --> 00:15:22,720 Speaker 1: but he's playing middle school basketball. He's pretty good. He's 339 00:15:22,720 --> 00:15:24,760 Speaker 1: not listening, so I say he's pretty good at bad basketball. 340 00:15:24,760 --> 00:15:27,920 Speaker 1: He's played travel, all this stuff. I played him recently 341 00:15:27,960 --> 00:15:32,360 Speaker 1: in the backyard and he got up like ten to nothing, 342 00:15:32,840 --> 00:15:33,600 Speaker 1: and you. 343 00:15:33,560 --> 00:15:34,520 Speaker 2: Played by basketball. 344 00:15:34,520 --> 00:15:37,040 Speaker 1: I'm curious, buck, I understand that this is going to 345 00:15:37,080 --> 00:15:40,480 Speaker 1: be borderline trash talk. He was talking trash to me 346 00:15:41,040 --> 00:15:43,560 Speaker 1: and I said, you need to shut up. 347 00:15:43,640 --> 00:15:45,760 Speaker 2: I slept with your mom, and I. 348 00:15:45,760 --> 00:15:49,080 Speaker 1: Felt bad that I had to legit play the I 349 00:15:49,120 --> 00:15:51,960 Speaker 1: slept with your mom line on my kid. But that's 350 00:15:51,960 --> 00:15:55,400 Speaker 1: an ultimate trash talk line. It's actually true in this case. 351 00:15:55,960 --> 00:15:58,680 Speaker 1: But he was running me, and I don't know how 352 00:15:58,720 --> 00:16:00,280 Speaker 1: much more time I have or I. 353 00:16:00,280 --> 00:16:01,000 Speaker 2: Can win the game. 354 00:16:01,080 --> 00:16:04,760 Speaker 1: So do you get beat or do you just gallantly retire? 355 00:16:05,640 --> 00:16:07,560 Speaker 1: If your kids are starting to get better than you 356 00:16:07,600 --> 00:16:11,120 Speaker 1: at one on one basketball, you have. 357 00:16:11,040 --> 00:16:12,520 Speaker 4: To play until they can beat you. 358 00:16:12,680 --> 00:16:15,240 Speaker 5: Legitimately, I will play as hard as I can to 359 00:16:15,360 --> 00:16:17,440 Speaker 5: the very end and take great pride in the day 360 00:16:17,440 --> 00:16:19,320 Speaker 5: when my kids beat me, and I will be okay 361 00:16:19,360 --> 00:16:20,040 Speaker 5: with that, but they. 362 00:16:19,920 --> 00:16:21,760 Speaker 4: Will have to earn it for sure. 363 00:16:22,360 --> 00:16:26,040 Speaker 3: The book write a passage is the War on Warriors, 364 00:16:26,640 --> 00:16:29,600 Speaker 3: and Pete hegg Seth did not did not say that 365 00:16:29,680 --> 00:16:32,120 Speaker 3: he could necessarily beat Caitlin Clark. We thought we're gonna 366 00:16:32,160 --> 00:16:34,280 Speaker 3: bait you into saying you could smoke Caitlyn Clark one 367 00:16:34,320 --> 00:16:34,720 Speaker 3: on one. 368 00:16:35,040 --> 00:16:38,560 Speaker 2: I thought you told me that you could beat I. 369 00:16:38,720 --> 00:16:41,320 Speaker 4: That was the three point contest. In three point contests, 370 00:16:41,320 --> 00:16:42,680 Speaker 4: I feel a boat in one on one. 371 00:16:42,680 --> 00:16:42,960 Speaker 5: Listen. 372 00:16:43,000 --> 00:16:43,720 Speaker 2: I want to be very. 373 00:16:43,640 --> 00:16:44,560 Speaker 4: Clear about this book. 374 00:16:44,840 --> 00:16:48,920 Speaker 5: I think I could. Maybe I'm not saying I would okay. 375 00:16:48,760 --> 00:16:50,240 Speaker 2: To me because of the physicality. 376 00:16:50,320 --> 00:16:54,640 Speaker 3: Absolutely, yeah, oh man, oh that's all I like where 377 00:16:54,640 --> 00:16:55,080 Speaker 3: your head's at. 378 00:16:55,160 --> 00:16:55,400 Speaker 2: Pete. 379 00:16:55,440 --> 00:16:57,880 Speaker 3: Everybody go check out Pete's book, The War On Warriors 380 00:16:57,880 --> 00:16:59,520 Speaker 3: Behind the Betrail of the Men to Keep Us Free. 381 00:16:59,560 --> 00:17:01,960 Speaker 3: Great book out now, Pete egg Seth. Come back and 382 00:17:02,000 --> 00:17:02,760 Speaker 3: hang out with us soon. 383 00:17:03,560 --> 00:17:05,200 Speaker 4: Thanks guys. 384 00:17:05,240 --> 00:17:09,520 Speaker 1: Sundays with Clay and Buck. We're gonna go to the Alamo. 385 00:17:09,600 --> 00:17:10,360 Speaker 1: We got invited. 386 00:17:10,480 --> 00:17:13,160 Speaker 3: We're going. We're gonna go to the Alamo. We've we've 387 00:17:13,320 --> 00:17:15,119 Speaker 3: were in touch with some people that are gonna help 388 00:17:15,200 --> 00:17:17,440 Speaker 3: make that happen. We're gonna have an Alamo visit. I 389 00:17:17,440 --> 00:17:19,840 Speaker 3: don't know, maybe we would do like a meet up 390 00:17:19,880 --> 00:17:22,119 Speaker 3: in a barbecue place nearby at the Alamo or something. 391 00:17:22,160 --> 00:17:25,000 Speaker 3: But anyway, we're gonna go down. Gotta go see. I've 392 00:17:25,000 --> 00:17:26,639 Speaker 3: never been, so I gotta go check it out. But 393 00:17:26,760 --> 00:17:29,400 Speaker 3: Crockett Coffee is the best. It's absolutely delicious. If you're 394 00:17:29,400 --> 00:17:30,920 Speaker 3: on the watching us on the video, you can see we 395 00:17:31,000 --> 00:17:33,880 Speaker 3: got our Crocket mugs here in the spirit of Davy Crockett. 396 00:17:33,880 --> 00:17:36,639 Speaker 3: It's absolutely delicious. 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Oh man, instant coffee 405 00:17:59,640 --> 00:18:01,000 Speaker 3: is gonna be amazing, and. 406 00:18:00,920 --> 00:18:04,200 Speaker 1: A light roast for people out there, and an organic blend. 407 00:18:04,520 --> 00:18:07,240 Speaker 1: We basically, I think I said this the Oday with 408 00:18:07,280 --> 00:18:09,760 Speaker 1: two hundred and fifty thousand dollars in coffee sales in 409 00:18:09,800 --> 00:18:12,640 Speaker 1: the first two months is unprecedented just by us saying hey, 410 00:18:12,680 --> 00:18:15,720 Speaker 1: go to Crocketcoffee dot com. But I think if you're 411 00:18:15,760 --> 00:18:18,760 Speaker 1: a subscriber, what we should do is when we visit 412 00:18:18,800 --> 00:18:20,919 Speaker 1: the Alamo, we should give people a couple of months 413 00:18:20,920 --> 00:18:24,600 Speaker 1: notice and say, hey, if you're a subscriber to Crockett Coffee, 414 00:18:24,640 --> 00:18:28,000 Speaker 1: you can come to San Antonio and you can check 415 00:18:28,000 --> 00:18:31,199 Speaker 1: out the Alamo with us and turn it into a 416 00:18:31,920 --> 00:18:34,920 Speaker 1: you know, the first meetup of Krockett Coffee subscribers at 417 00:18:34,920 --> 00:18:36,480 Speaker 1: the Alamo would make a lot of sense. 418 00:18:36,560 --> 00:18:40,560 Speaker 3: I love when when Clay they plans like large public 419 00:18:40,560 --> 00:18:44,200 Speaker 3: events in real time on radio with millions of people listening. Okay, 420 00:18:44,560 --> 00:18:47,520 Speaker 3: so we'll have to now we will pull the logistics together. 421 00:18:47,520 --> 00:18:47,879 Speaker 3: I love it. 422 00:18:48,119 --> 00:18:50,160 Speaker 2: I just think I mean, look, we can all have coffee. 423 00:18:50,200 --> 00:18:53,080 Speaker 1: We can go. San Antonio is a beautiful place. I 424 00:18:53,080 --> 00:18:55,359 Speaker 1: haven't been there in a very, very long time, but 425 00:18:55,400 --> 00:18:57,040 Speaker 1: I've been wanting to go back to the Alamo for 426 00:18:57,080 --> 00:18:59,200 Speaker 1: a while. So we could have a Clay and Buck 427 00:18:59,320 --> 00:19:03,600 Speaker 1: Alamo feel trip for our Crockett Coffee subscribers. I think 428 00:19:03,600 --> 00:19:04,679 Speaker 1: a lot of people would enjoy that. 429 00:19:05,200 --> 00:19:07,840 Speaker 3: I think it sounds great. We've got emails coming in, 430 00:19:07,920 --> 00:19:11,639 Speaker 3: so our subscribers at claimbuck dot com are fired up. Today. 431 00:19:11,680 --> 00:19:14,320 Speaker 3: Matt writes, Hey, fellas, keep up the great work. First 432 00:19:14,359 --> 00:19:18,280 Speaker 3: of all, Buck, Brats is not pronounced brats like cats. 433 00:19:18,359 --> 00:19:22,399 Speaker 3: It is pronounced brats. I did not know this. You 434 00:19:22,520 --> 00:19:25,520 Speaker 3: are so it's like Brontwurst. I suppose. Yeah, that's where 435 00:19:25,600 --> 00:19:28,960 Speaker 3: it's German. You are correct about Madison, Wisconsin. It is 436 00:19:29,000 --> 00:19:32,719 Speaker 3: the Berkeley of the Midwest. Ninety nine point nine percent 437 00:19:32,800 --> 00:19:38,119 Speaker 3: of the donations from UW Madison went to Democrats. Perhaps 438 00:19:38,200 --> 00:19:41,160 Speaker 3: the only conservative professor at the university is leaving. Wow. 439 00:19:41,240 --> 00:19:43,080 Speaker 3: This guy's twenty six years old. By the way, Matt. 440 00:19:43,440 --> 00:19:47,159 Speaker 3: He says that it's just like a commie enclave UW Madison, 441 00:19:47,200 --> 00:19:49,200 Speaker 3: which people say is a beautiful town. 442 00:19:49,480 --> 00:19:52,800 Speaker 1: But we're gonna be there for the Alabama Wisconsin game, 443 00:19:52,960 --> 00:19:55,879 Speaker 1: So I don't know what the Wisconsin fanbase is like. 444 00:19:56,119 --> 00:19:59,280 Speaker 1: I think that certainly the Alabama fan base is voting 445 00:19:59,320 --> 00:20:01,920 Speaker 1: for Trump over whelmingly. And I think our friend Derek 446 00:20:02,000 --> 00:20:06,080 Speaker 1: Hubdy is going to do a Senate related event surrounding 447 00:20:06,119 --> 00:20:07,080 Speaker 1: that game the. 448 00:20:07,080 --> 00:20:09,880 Speaker 3: Next campaign enator from Wisconsin. We hope joining our guy 449 00:20:09,960 --> 00:20:12,400 Speaker 3: Ron John. That would be like in basketball, they say 450 00:20:12,440 --> 00:20:14,840 Speaker 3: they've got an amazing backcourt. You know, that'd be at 451 00:20:15,119 --> 00:20:17,240 Speaker 3: a great duo for Wisconsin. 452 00:20:17,280 --> 00:20:19,480 Speaker 2: Sunday drop with Clay and Buck. 453 00:20:20,880 --> 00:20:24,280 Speaker 3: Christy in Colorado. What have you got first, Christy. 454 00:20:25,160 --> 00:20:28,080 Speaker 7: Well, I wanted to let you know, first of all, 455 00:20:28,200 --> 00:20:31,960 Speaker 7: I have so much respect for the entire greatest generation, 456 00:20:33,840 --> 00:20:38,120 Speaker 7: no matter which theater they fought in. Now that said, 457 00:20:39,200 --> 00:20:42,199 Speaker 7: I do think it's really important to talk about the 458 00:20:42,280 --> 00:20:47,720 Speaker 7: men that came in on the beaches. But the paratroopers 459 00:20:48,320 --> 00:20:51,880 Speaker 7: that my grandfather was in the eighty second and Hunter 460 00:20:51,920 --> 00:20:55,399 Speaker 7: and First they all jumped at the same time a 461 00:20:55,480 --> 00:21:00,920 Speaker 7: little after midnight on D Day, and I feel that's 462 00:21:00,960 --> 00:21:05,360 Speaker 7: really important to mention them because they're not always mentioned. 463 00:21:06,000 --> 00:21:09,280 Speaker 7: But the reason they went in first was to try 464 00:21:09,280 --> 00:21:14,119 Speaker 7: to secure the area because the Nazis were already occupying 465 00:21:14,720 --> 00:21:20,639 Speaker 7: Saint Mary Gleice and some other French towns and bridges 466 00:21:20,720 --> 00:21:26,240 Speaker 7: and stuff. So long story short, my grandfather, Major of 467 00:21:26,240 --> 00:21:33,399 Speaker 7: Frederick Kellum, first Battalion a Company five o fifth PR. 468 00:21:34,240 --> 00:21:37,359 Speaker 7: He and his men were the only ones that landed 469 00:21:37,359 --> 00:21:41,439 Speaker 7: on their DZ, which is the landing zone because of 470 00:21:41,480 --> 00:21:45,680 Speaker 7: the bad weather. Now it was not their objective, however, 471 00:21:45,720 --> 00:21:51,000 Speaker 7: they went to Saint Mary Greece and took that town first, 472 00:21:52,440 --> 00:21:56,040 Speaker 7: and my granddad picked one of his troops that spoke 473 00:21:56,160 --> 00:21:59,840 Speaker 7: French to go through the town and let the townspeople 474 00:21:59,880 --> 00:22:03,120 Speaker 7: know that the Americans were there, but be very very 475 00:22:03,200 --> 00:22:08,320 Speaker 7: quiet since the Germans were I should say Nazis were 476 00:22:08,359 --> 00:22:11,840 Speaker 7: all around, which they were quiet. 477 00:22:12,640 --> 00:22:13,400 Speaker 2: Yeah. 478 00:22:13,480 --> 00:22:19,760 Speaker 7: So anyway, my granddad and his men are the first 479 00:22:19,880 --> 00:22:23,159 Speaker 7: ones that took Saint Mary Glice. 480 00:22:25,720 --> 00:22:28,439 Speaker 1: Yes, yeah, one hundred and first, Sorry cut you off 481 00:22:28,480 --> 00:22:29,080 Speaker 1: there a little bit. 482 00:22:30,600 --> 00:22:32,920 Speaker 7: No, No, he was eighty second. 483 00:22:33,440 --> 00:22:35,200 Speaker 1: Yeah, right, but you sounded like you were about to 484 00:22:35,200 --> 00:22:37,560 Speaker 1: say one hundred first. I would encourage thank you for 485 00:22:37,600 --> 00:22:43,159 Speaker 1: the call everybody out there. Band of Brothers is a 486 00:22:43,280 --> 00:22:46,199 Speaker 1: not very long book. I know they turned it into 487 00:22:46,400 --> 00:22:50,200 Speaker 1: a mini series on HBO. If you have the time 488 00:22:50,320 --> 00:22:54,400 Speaker 1: Steven Ambrose's book Band of Brothers. What she is talking 489 00:22:54,480 --> 00:22:59,359 Speaker 1: about her grandfather. This is one of the most remarkable 490 00:22:59,359 --> 00:23:01,199 Speaker 1: things when they the Band of Brothers, I believe one 491 00:23:01,240 --> 00:23:04,080 Speaker 1: hundred and first airborne. I'm not an expert on this 492 00:23:04,119 --> 00:23:05,320 Speaker 1: particular part of history, but. 493 00:23:05,280 --> 00:23:07,560 Speaker 2: I have read the book. Buck. 494 00:23:07,880 --> 00:23:11,200 Speaker 1: Most of those guys had never been in an airplane. 495 00:23:11,280 --> 00:23:13,520 Speaker 1: The very first time they went in an airplane, they 496 00:23:13,600 --> 00:23:18,200 Speaker 1: jumped out of it. Well, whoever you are right now 497 00:23:18,280 --> 00:23:22,520 Speaker 1: listening to us, think about how brave you have to 498 00:23:22,600 --> 00:23:24,760 Speaker 1: the first time you ever walked on an airplane when 499 00:23:24,760 --> 00:23:26,680 Speaker 1: you were five or six years old, or fifty or 500 00:23:26,720 --> 00:23:30,680 Speaker 1: sixty or however old you were. Can you imagine the 501 00:23:30,760 --> 00:23:32,600 Speaker 1: very first time you went up in the sky jumping 502 00:23:32,640 --> 00:23:36,680 Speaker 1: out of it. That's what those guys did and the story. 503 00:23:36,760 --> 00:23:38,560 Speaker 1: I mean again, i'd encourage you to read the book, 504 00:23:38,600 --> 00:23:41,360 Speaker 1: but if you watch the movie or the television series, 505 00:23:41,840 --> 00:23:45,159 Speaker 1: you see what all those men were jumping into. In 506 00:23:45,240 --> 00:23:47,600 Speaker 1: the Band of Brothers television show, which I think did 507 00:23:47,640 --> 00:23:49,640 Speaker 1: a really good job of kind of giving you an 508 00:23:49,680 --> 00:23:53,000 Speaker 1: idea of what that visual would have been like for 509 00:23:53,080 --> 00:23:54,879 Speaker 1: so many of those guys, and they landed in very 510 00:23:54,920 --> 00:23:57,200 Speaker 1: different places because so many people were getting shot at 511 00:23:57,359 --> 00:24:00,800 Speaker 1: weather was rough, they were jumping with a minse amounts 512 00:24:00,840 --> 00:24:05,160 Speaker 1: of weight in their in their packs. If you had buck, 513 00:24:05,200 --> 00:24:07,000 Speaker 1: given that it's the eightieth anniversary, if you had to 514 00:24:07,040 --> 00:24:12,680 Speaker 1: tell one suggested book or television show for maybe kids 515 00:24:12,760 --> 00:24:16,320 Speaker 1: or grandkids out there that aren't that familiar with World 516 00:24:16,359 --> 00:24:18,639 Speaker 1: War Two, what would you suggest to the audience or 517 00:24:18,640 --> 00:24:20,479 Speaker 1: maybe some of the audience that just hasn't read. 518 00:24:20,720 --> 00:24:23,000 Speaker 3: I think, I mean, there's there's so many and and 519 00:24:23,119 --> 00:24:25,600 Speaker 3: you know, I think that a really good place to 520 00:24:25,600 --> 00:24:29,360 Speaker 3: start would be Keegan's one volume of the Second World War. 521 00:24:29,840 --> 00:24:32,560 Speaker 3: If you just want an overview, I think Hegan's First 522 00:24:32,560 --> 00:24:36,640 Speaker 3: World War and his Second World War histories are really excellent. 523 00:24:36,880 --> 00:24:40,200 Speaker 3: If you're talking about a show now in the Pacific Theater, 524 00:24:40,280 --> 00:24:42,560 Speaker 3: I feel like I've actually read more about the Pacific 525 00:24:42,640 --> 00:24:46,960 Speaker 3: Theater all in than I have the European Theater. Obviously, 526 00:24:47,000 --> 00:24:50,399 Speaker 3: you have with the Old Breed, which is phenomenal, and 527 00:24:50,520 --> 00:24:56,360 Speaker 3: also what's the there's there's Eugene Sledge, his autobiography there's 528 00:24:56,359 --> 00:24:58,159 Speaker 3: with the Old Breed and there's Oh Helmet from My 529 00:24:58,240 --> 00:25:01,560 Speaker 3: Pillow is the other one, and they kind of combined 530 00:25:01,640 --> 00:25:04,480 Speaker 3: those for The Pacific. The HBO show The Pacific, they 531 00:25:04,520 --> 00:25:09,200 Speaker 3: had elements of both of those autobiographies, if memory serves, 532 00:25:09,200 --> 00:25:11,960 Speaker 3: so those are really good. I actually think Letters from 533 00:25:12,040 --> 00:25:15,720 Speaker 3: Ewa Jima is very interesting that Clint Eastwood. I know 534 00:25:15,800 --> 00:25:19,280 Speaker 3: it's from the Japanese perspective, but it doesn't hold anything 535 00:25:19,320 --> 00:25:22,720 Speaker 3: back and it's I think that's a very interesting and 536 00:25:22,800 --> 00:25:27,280 Speaker 3: kind of under watched World War two movie. I found 537 00:25:27,280 --> 00:25:29,879 Speaker 3: the Thin ren Line kind of meandering and disappointing and 538 00:25:29,920 --> 00:25:32,000 Speaker 3: a little self important just to be totally frank, so 539 00:25:32,040 --> 00:25:36,920 Speaker 3: I'm not a thin red line person. Stalingrad is excellent 540 00:25:36,960 --> 00:25:38,520 Speaker 3: an Enemy at the Gates. I think they do a 541 00:25:38,560 --> 00:25:41,639 Speaker 3: pretty good job in that movie of showing just the 542 00:25:41,840 --> 00:25:44,679 Speaker 3: scale and just the human carnage and everything that was 543 00:25:44,680 --> 00:25:47,440 Speaker 3: going on. Now, I know that's Nazis fighting the Soviets, 544 00:25:47,480 --> 00:25:49,600 Speaker 3: but I'm just talking World War two stuff. How about you? 545 00:25:49,680 --> 00:25:52,240 Speaker 3: What's top of the World War two? Saving Private Ryan 546 00:25:52,359 --> 00:25:54,479 Speaker 3: is the best movie of all time. I think of 547 00:25:54,560 --> 00:25:58,439 Speaker 3: War probably period, and Band of Brothers is probably the 548 00:25:58,440 --> 00:25:59,800 Speaker 3: best show right. 549 00:26:00,240 --> 00:26:03,040 Speaker 1: War yeah, but I would say two books that are 550 00:26:03,080 --> 00:26:07,920 Speaker 1: relatively easy reads, both by Steven Ambrose. I mentioned Band 551 00:26:07,960 --> 00:26:10,119 Speaker 1: of Brothers, which is what the show is based on. 552 00:26:10,200 --> 00:26:12,800 Speaker 1: If your kids are not great readers, maybe you can 553 00:26:12,800 --> 00:26:16,680 Speaker 1: get them in through the television show. But D Day 554 00:26:16,880 --> 00:26:20,160 Speaker 1: June sixth, nineteen forty four, which I believe came out 555 00:26:20,200 --> 00:26:24,000 Speaker 1: on the fiftieth anniversary basically of D Day, also by 556 00:26:24,000 --> 00:26:28,600 Speaker 1: Steven Ambrose, is a pretty incredible read as well. I'm 557 00:26:28,600 --> 00:26:31,119 Speaker 1: well versed in Civil War. I read both of those, 558 00:26:31,280 --> 00:26:34,720 Speaker 1: really enjoyed them. They were not complicated, they were not overwhelming, 559 00:26:35,720 --> 00:26:38,240 Speaker 1: and most ages I think could read. 560 00:26:38,119 --> 00:26:41,240 Speaker 3: Them if you want something that Again, we're talking World 561 00:26:41,240 --> 00:26:45,840 Speaker 3: War two genre and not necessarily the specifics of America 562 00:26:45,840 --> 00:26:49,040 Speaker 3: and the European theater. It's in German, but it actually 563 00:26:49,040 --> 00:26:53,399 Speaker 3: makes it far more. It kind of hits harder because 564 00:26:53,400 --> 00:26:57,480 Speaker 3: of that downfall. It's a German language movie about Hitler 565 00:26:57,560 --> 00:26:59,639 Speaker 3: in the Bunker. Now many of you will have seen 566 00:27:00,160 --> 00:27:03,240 Speaker 3: there are memes that are made based on a very 567 00:27:03,359 --> 00:27:07,479 Speaker 3: famous scene in the movie where essentially Hitler's top generals 568 00:27:07,480 --> 00:27:10,040 Speaker 3: are like it's over, dude, like we've lost you know, 569 00:27:10,200 --> 00:27:12,320 Speaker 3: and he goes completely nuts and people do this with 570 00:27:12,400 --> 00:27:14,760 Speaker 3: like their sports team that they're upset about or whatever. 571 00:27:15,160 --> 00:27:19,040 Speaker 3: But that comes from the movie Downfall, which is an 572 00:27:19,040 --> 00:27:21,960 Speaker 3: excellent World War two movie. For what it is, I 573 00:27:22,080 --> 00:27:25,040 Speaker 3: can highly recommend. I mean, it's it's bleak. You know, 574 00:27:25,080 --> 00:27:28,240 Speaker 3: it's Hitler in the bunker. But the guy who plays Hitler, 575 00:27:28,880 --> 00:27:30,679 Speaker 3: I mean he looks and sounds just like Hitler. I mean, 576 00:27:30,880 --> 00:27:32,199 Speaker 3: the whole thing is pretty Do you know what I'm 577 00:27:32,200 --> 00:27:32,600 Speaker 3: talking about? 578 00:27:32,840 --> 00:27:34,320 Speaker 1: Yeah, I know, I know one hundred percent. The meme 579 00:27:34,320 --> 00:27:37,160 Speaker 1: you're talking about is everywhere anytime something goes bad, they 580 00:27:37,440 --> 00:27:39,920 Speaker 1: like meme it with Hitler, like throwing a fit from 581 00:27:39,920 --> 00:27:43,960 Speaker 1: that movie. The other one I was gonna recommend Patten. 582 00:27:45,000 --> 00:27:48,080 Speaker 1: Patten is a you know, sort of an old George C. 583 00:27:48,240 --> 00:27:51,240 Speaker 1: Scott plays Patten. Comes out at the opening of the 584 00:27:51,280 --> 00:27:54,720 Speaker 1: movie with a huge American flag behind him. I don't 585 00:27:54,800 --> 00:27:58,440 Speaker 1: know Patten's life well enough to know how historically accurate 586 00:27:58,480 --> 00:28:00,720 Speaker 1: it is, so sometimes we get blown people like that's 587 00:28:00,760 --> 00:28:04,879 Speaker 1: not so. The movie itself is incredibly entertaining. I'm not 588 00:28:04,920 --> 00:28:07,640 Speaker 1: an expert enough on George Patten's career to be able 589 00:28:07,680 --> 00:28:10,160 Speaker 1: to tell you, hey, it does a really great job 590 00:28:10,200 --> 00:28:14,280 Speaker 1: of capturing everything that happened in World War Two. But 591 00:28:14,400 --> 00:28:17,320 Speaker 1: I will tell you that that movie is so well done. 592 00:28:17,600 --> 00:28:21,440 Speaker 3: You know another one that I think is underappreciated for 593 00:28:21,520 --> 00:28:26,960 Speaker 3: what it was, Defiance with Daniel Craig, I thought was good. 594 00:28:28,119 --> 00:28:32,960 Speaker 3: And another one I thought Hacksaw Ridge was incredible. I 595 00:28:33,000 --> 00:28:36,080 Speaker 3: thought Hacksaw Ridge was an A plus movie and I 596 00:28:36,119 --> 00:28:38,719 Speaker 3: didn't think I was going to like it, and I 597 00:28:38,800 --> 00:28:41,440 Speaker 3: was skeptical up until about thirty minutes into the movie. 598 00:28:41,920 --> 00:28:43,320 Speaker 3: And then you've seen it, right. 599 00:28:43,240 --> 00:28:43,960 Speaker 2: I've not seen it. 600 00:28:44,520 --> 00:28:48,520 Speaker 3: That is crazy. You and the boys should watch. 601 00:28:48,280 --> 00:28:51,560 Speaker 1: Saw I'm literally writing it down right now, Hacksaw. 602 00:28:51,200 --> 00:28:55,520 Speaker 3: Hacksaw Ridge, and just trust me, don't bail in the beginning. 603 00:28:55,520 --> 00:28:57,120 Speaker 3: It's a little weird. You're like, what am I even 604 00:28:57,640 --> 00:29:00,200 Speaker 3: watch Hacksaw Ridge. It is one of the best World 605 00:29:00,200 --> 00:29:02,920 Speaker 3: War two movies I have ever seen. So check that 606 00:29:03,000 --> 00:29:03,280 Speaker 3: one out. 607 00:29:03,280 --> 00:29:04,720 Speaker 2: I just wrote it down. I'm going to check it out.