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Speaker 1: Kelly Show. Another hour of the Jesse Kelly Show. And

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Speaker 1: I'm so excited about this. Okay, so I should let

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Speaker 1: you know. Obviously we're gearing up to do Medal of

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Speaker 1: all this haggling is happening, some emails, some COVID vaccine reckoning,

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Speaker 1: America's government cleaning up San Francisco before they worry about you.

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Speaker 1: I'm hopefully going to get to those things. But I

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Speaker 1: gotta be honest with you, it's gonna be a little bit. Why. Well,

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Speaker 1: everyone knows every Monday at this time what we normally do.

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Speaker 1: Normally we read a Medal of Honor citation. Everyone who's

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Speaker 1: ever earned a Medal of honor. They do a write

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Speaker 1: up on it called a citation. These are available for

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Speaker 1: every single person. Everyone has access to these for free,

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Speaker 1: multiple different websites. You can sort it by a different

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Speaker 1: branch of the military or whatever. It's awesome. This is

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Speaker 1: a tool we should all be using to help guide

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Speaker 1: our children. They need people to look up to, all right,

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Speaker 1: And normally at this time. What we do is I

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Speaker 1: we move on. Well tonight, there are a couple different

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Speaker 1: things I actually want to do when it comes to this. First,

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Speaker 1: of unit who earned this medal of honor. This one's

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Speaker 1: from Vietnam. I'm also going to give you some background

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Speaker 1: some history talk, and I think at the end of

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Speaker 1: this thing, hopefully you learn something. Hopefully I learned something. Right,

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Speaker 1: We're always learning, but hopefully we both have a renewed

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Speaker 1: Let's discuss something because our recipient was part of this group.

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Speaker 1: Have you ever heard of MACV SOG MACV SOG people

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Speaker 1: who know about Vietnam will have heard of this. Most

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Speaker 1: people have not. Here's what you need to know. In Vietnam.

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Speaker 1: The Green Berets Special Forces, they were one of the

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Speaker 1: first guys over there. Now, what did they do over

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Speaker 1: there in Vietnam? Well, in Southern Vietnam they went there

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Speaker 1: many different parts of the Special Forces, the Green Beret

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Speaker 1: in case you're wondering what it stands for, sounds totally benign.

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Speaker 1: I love this. It stands for Studies and Observation group.

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Speaker 1: Doesn't that sound so nice? It sounds like a college

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Speaker 1: field trip. Hey guys, we're just going out for some

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Speaker 1: studies and some observation. No, these guys were certifiably insane

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Speaker 1: and awesome, so brave. So here's what they did. Obviously,

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Speaker 1: What the SAG boys would do? Okay, pauspase, Sorry, let's

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Speaker 1: describe what a SOG team is. There are generally two

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Speaker 1: but not right now. The yards were very There were

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Speaker 1: the purpose of our very extended Medal of Honor Monday tonight,

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Speaker 1: We're doing a special extended version of Medal of Honor

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Speaker 1: Monday here because of one a store that's in the news.

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Speaker 1: Two it's the connection. Well you're about to see anyway.

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Speaker 1: So I was talking about saw the Studies and Observation

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Speaker 1: enemy struck again in an attempt to overrun and annihilate

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Speaker 1: the beleaguered team members. First Lieutenant Hagen repeatedly exposed himself

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Speaker 1: to the enemy fire directed at him as he constantly

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Speaker 1: moved about the team's perimeter, directing fire, rallying the members,

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Speaker 1: and resupplying the team with ammunition, while courageously returning small

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Speaker 1: arms fire and hand grenade fire in a valorous attempt

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Speaker 1: to repel the advancing enemy force. The courageous actions and

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Speaker 1: expert leadership abilities of First Lieutenant Hagen were a great

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Speaker 1: source of inspiration and instilled confidence in the team members.

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Speaker 1: After observing an enemy rocket make a direct hit on

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Speaker 1: and destroy one of the team's bunkers, First Lieutenant Hagen

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Speaker 1: moved toward the wrect bunker and search for a team member,

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Speaker 1: despite the fact that the enemy force now controlled the

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Speaker 1: bunker area. With total disregard for his own personal safety,

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Speaker 1: he crawled through the enemy fire while we're turning small

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Speaker 1: arms fire upon the enemy force, undaunted by enemy rockets

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00:27:14,960 --> 00:27:19,400
Speaker 1: and grenades impacting all around him. First Lieutenant Hagen desperately

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Speaker 1: advanced upon the destroyed bunker until he was fatally wounded

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Speaker 1: by enemy small arms fire and automatic weapons fire, with

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Speaker 1: complete disregard for his personal safety. First Lieutenant Hagen's courageous gallantry,

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00:27:32,280 --> 00:27:36,040
Speaker 1: extraordinary heroism, and intrepidity above and beyond the call of

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Speaker 1: duty at the cost of his own life. We're in

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Speaker 1: keeping with the highest traditions of military service and reflect

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00:27:42,119 --> 00:27:47,600
Speaker 1: great credit upon himself in the US Army. And right

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00:27:47,640 --> 00:27:52,240
Speaker 1: about now, as you're used to, is when we normally

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Speaker 1: play taps, because when we read one of these and

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Speaker 1: they fall, we play taps for them to honor them.

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Speaker 1: And we are going to do that for First Lieutenant

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Speaker 1: Hagen for Festus, but we're not going to do that

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00:28:05,760 --> 00:28:09,600
Speaker 1: quite yet, because there's a story over the weekend, and

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Speaker 1: there are some others along this same line. They need

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Speaker 1: to be honored as well, and then we'll play taps

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Speaker 1: for all of them, and then we'll get back to

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Speaker 1: the politics. I promise. All right. Just understand when we

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Speaker 1: talk about these things, I read these things, and I

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00:28:28,240 --> 00:28:36,280
Speaker 1: talk about these things because it's easy to quit, isn't it.

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Speaker 1: It's easy to just say screw it, nothing matters. Hey,

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Speaker 1: I'm done. Hey, I don't want to keep fighting for

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Speaker 1: this good thing or that good thing. And then I

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Speaker 1: remember that the country that I was given it was

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Speaker 1: given to me by the previous generation, by men who

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Speaker 1: paid for it with their lives. They paid for it

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Speaker 1: in blood. I look at these guys and they inspire

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Speaker 1: me that what am I am? I gonna stop caring?

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Speaker 1: Didn't didn't didn't first Lieutenant Hagen doesn't. He doesn't he

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Speaker 1: deserve us, keep on, for us to keep on fighting.

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Speaker 1: I say he does. And along those lines, we'll get

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Speaker 1: to honoring a couple more fallen. Then we'll play taps

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00:29:24,760 --> 00:29:26,080
Speaker 1: for them, and we'll get back to this, all right.

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Speaker 1: Hang on, and a no veteran is denied the honor

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Speaker 1: they earned because there was discharge for being LBTQ plus. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it is the Jesse Kelly Show on a Monday and

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Speaker 1: we're gonna get back to politics here in just a minute.

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Speaker 1: I'm almost done with this. I promise finishing up a

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Speaker 1: bit of an extended version of a Medal of Honor Monday.

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Speaker 1: And I wanted to do it for a couple different reasons. One,

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Speaker 1: we got not only the citation, but we had a

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Speaker 1: book story explaining in a bit more detail how it happened.

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Speaker 1: But something else happened over this weekend. There's something called

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Speaker 1: the one hundred and sixtieth Special Operations Aviation Regiment. Don't

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Speaker 1: worry about remembering that. That's just the detail. You might

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Speaker 1: have heard of them from their nickname. They're known as

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Speaker 1: the night Stalkers. Now you just heard about that story

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Speaker 1: I just read you in Vietnam about the SOG guys.

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Speaker 1: They're pilots, co pilots, store gunners, the people, the air

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Speaker 1: crews in the helicopters. They were there everything. They needed

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Speaker 1: these guys to fly through hell to drop them off,

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Speaker 1: and oftentimes they needed these guys to fly back through

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Speaker 1: hell to save them to pick them up. Why did

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Speaker 1: why did anyone from that team from that story I

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Speaker 1: just read? Why did anyone live? Why? Why did why

497
00:30:52,520 --> 00:30:55,080
Speaker 1: did Tony live? Remember Tony was He's the green Bray

498
00:30:55,080 --> 00:30:58,200
Speaker 1: who survived and went back. Why did he live because

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00:30:58,280 --> 00:31:03,840
Speaker 1: guys in cobra gun ships and heloes flew into a

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00:31:03,880 --> 00:31:09,280
Speaker 1: living hell and provided enough covering fire while taking fire

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Speaker 1: themselves to get him and what was left of his

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Speaker 1: team out. And these helicopter crews died all the time

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Speaker 1: over there, flying in through hell. Now we have this

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Speaker 1: one hundred and sixtieth today, the night Stalkers. Let me see,

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Speaker 1: have you seen the movie black Hawk down? At least

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Speaker 1: you've seen the guys who were flying various not only

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Speaker 1: the black Hawk, not only the black Hawks, but the

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Speaker 1: little the small ones that had the miniguns on, the

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Speaker 1: smaller heroes, whatever, all the pilots, the air crew, those

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Speaker 1: would all be night Stalkers. The amount of training these

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Speaker 1: guys have to go through to become part of the

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Speaker 1: night Stalkers is absurd. You don't just show up one

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Speaker 1: day I'd like to be a night Stalker. No, you

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Speaker 1: have to be the best, absurdly good, absurdly brave, and yeah,

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Speaker 1: I read you a story from Vietnam. But today are

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00:32:08,840 --> 00:32:12,040
Speaker 1: guys who are the tip of the spear. Guys they

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00:32:12,120 --> 00:32:16,840
Speaker 1: live or die based on the night Stalkers, and you

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00:32:16,840 --> 00:32:19,560
Speaker 1: know black Hawk down. I already mentioned that. What about

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00:32:19,760 --> 00:32:21,760
Speaker 1: the hunt for Bin Laden? Who you think was flying

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00:32:21,800 --> 00:32:24,520
Speaker 1: those hels night Stalkers. In fact, I could go through

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00:32:24,560 --> 00:32:27,760
Speaker 1: mission after mission after mission Delta Force Seals. It doesn't matter.

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00:32:28,000 --> 00:32:32,520
Speaker 1: The guys inserting and being extracted are being inserted and

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00:32:32,680 --> 00:32:37,440
Speaker 1: extracted almost always buy the night Stalkers and once the Seals,

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00:32:37,480 --> 00:32:39,560
Speaker 1: once the Green Brace once whoever, once they go in

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00:32:39,880 --> 00:32:43,040
Speaker 1: and they need help. The night Stalkers, unlike every other

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00:32:43,080 --> 00:32:46,280
Speaker 1: pilot on the planet, they can't say sorry, the weather's bad,

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00:32:46,600 --> 00:32:49,400
Speaker 1: Oh there's too much of this. They're coming to get you,

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Speaker 1: and they die lots of times in the process. Over

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Speaker 1: the weekend, there was a training accident over the Mediterranean.

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Speaker 1: A Blackhawk went down with five night Stalkers on board,

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Speaker 1: and they all died, every single one of these men,

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Speaker 1: every single one of them. And I'm about to read

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Speaker 1: their names because the DoD released their names. They all

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Speaker 1: are heroes in the same way those Green Berets dying

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Speaker 1: on that hilltop in Vietnam or heroes. And they died

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Speaker 1: so others may live. This is how hard training lessons

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Speaker 1: are learned. And hear their names. Chief warn Officer Steven

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Speaker 1: Dwyer of Tennessee, Chief warn Off, Sir Shane Barnes, California,

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Speaker 1: Staff Sergeant Tanner Grown, New Hampshire, Sergeant Andrew Southard, Arizona,

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Speaker 1: Sergeant Cade Wolf, Minnesota. And the reason I didn't play

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Speaker 1: taps for First Lieutenant Hagen in Vietnam was I thought

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Speaker 1: these men deserved it. And in fact, we're just going

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00:33:49,200 --> 00:33:52,680
Speaker 1: to play it once for everyone involved. But take a moment.

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Speaker 1: We'll get back to politics when the music stops. Honor

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Speaker 1: the fallen, A m rest in peace, brothers. All right, now,

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00:34:52,480 --> 00:34:56,200
Speaker 1: there are two huge things I want to tackle. One

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Speaker 1: thing I'm going to do well. Two huge things I'm

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00:34:58,680 --> 00:35:00,840
Speaker 1: going to tackle on one I want tackle. Plus some

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00:35:00,920 --> 00:35:04,160
Speaker 1: emails still left on the show. All right. People were

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00:35:04,160 --> 00:35:09,200
Speaker 1: making a lot over the fact that San Francisco started

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00:35:09,280 --> 00:35:15,439
Speaker 1: cleaning up its streets in preparation for jijin Ping. San

552
00:35:15,440 --> 00:35:20,759
Speaker 1: Francisco has been notorious, especially in recent years, for being disgusting.

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00:35:21,400 --> 00:35:26,239
Speaker 1: How disgusting? Well, I haven't visited. I've been told by

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00:35:26,280 --> 00:35:29,800
Speaker 1: my friends who live there that you have to step

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00:35:29,840 --> 00:35:33,640
Speaker 1: over poop just walking down the sidewalk. I don't mean

556
00:35:33,680 --> 00:35:36,880
Speaker 1: once in a while. That's the norm. Actually, my buddy

557
00:35:36,960 --> 00:35:38,719
Speaker 1: was complaining to me, I youed at him about this

558
00:35:38,760 --> 00:35:40,920
Speaker 1: because he said it sucks. You can't even be on

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00:35:40,960 --> 00:35:42,960
Speaker 1: your phone when you walk around. And I yelled at

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00:35:43,000 --> 00:35:44,440
Speaker 1: him and I said, yeah, you should never be on

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00:35:44,440 --> 00:35:46,520
Speaker 1: your phone while you walk around. But he was explaining

562
00:35:46,560 --> 00:35:48,799
Speaker 1: to me, you can't be on your phone while you

563
00:35:48,880 --> 00:35:52,520
Speaker 1: walk around because there's so much human poop to step

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Speaker 1: over and heroin needles. Yeah, Chris, Chris, let me know.

565
00:35:55,760 --> 00:35:58,640
Speaker 1: He reminded me there's an app. There's actually an app

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Speaker 1: that will track the human poop in San Francisco. That's

567
00:36:02,320 --> 00:36:08,640
Speaker 1: how disgusting this progressive city has become. Homeless crime, How

568
00:36:08,680 --> 00:36:12,840
Speaker 1: bad's the crime people have. People will leave their cars

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Speaker 1: unlocked and put signs in the window saying I've left

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00:36:18,520 --> 00:36:22,920
Speaker 1: my car unlocked, Please don't break my window. I have

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Speaker 1: nothing valuable in here. You can see for yourself. That's

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Speaker 1: how common break ins are in San Francisco. So that

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Speaker 1: was the state of San Francisco. Like yesterday today, Man,

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00:36:34,640 --> 00:36:39,000
Speaker 1: those streets are all cleaned up. But why, what's the

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00:36:39,080 --> 00:36:42,960
Speaker 1: overall reason why? Yeah, the Jijinping is visiting, we know that,

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Speaker 1: But why talk about the wy in a moment. Before

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Speaker 1: we get to the why, Let's get to this. Let's

578
00:36:49,760 --> 00:36:53,560
Speaker 1: get to something much more important than San Francisco. Let's

579
00:36:53,600 --> 00:36:55,680
Speaker 1: get to how dirty you probably feel right now now

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00:36:55,680 --> 00:36:57,960
Speaker 1: that we just talked about all that human poop. It's gross,

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Speaker 1: isn't It's disgusting. I don't know about you. I need

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Speaker 1: a shower, and I'll probably take a shower when I

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Speaker 1: get home. Now, I don't know that you should take

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