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Speaker 1: Radio Special Operations, military names and straight talk with the

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Speaker 1: guys in the community. Hey guys, welcome back to softwarep Radio.

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Speaker 1: On Brandon web hosted another episode. I wanted to talk

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Speaker 1: about a couple of things today. About the Colin Kaepernick

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Speaker 1: article I wrote, I'm gonna I'll go ahead and give

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Speaker 1: you guys a read through that essentially just my opinion

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Speaker 1: on the whole situation Asian which came from his recent tryout.

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Speaker 1: So I just just wanted to share my opinion on that.

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Speaker 1: Also talk about the other article I wrote about high

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Speaker 1: fashion profiting off the American war machine with camouflage. Just

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Speaker 1: kind of a funny, funny piece I wrote there. And

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Speaker 1: then I wanted to start off and just kind of

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Speaker 1: catching you guys up on on the state of state

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Speaker 1: of the rep. What's to come this year? We got

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Speaker 1: some great, great things happening, and anytime I can give

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Speaker 1: you guys an update, glad to do it. Also personally,

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Speaker 1: skydiving nighttime injury back in I think it was two

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Speaker 1: thousand three where I just I was jumping in Ume, Arizona,

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Speaker 1: probably jump from about fourteen thou feet at night. You

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Speaker 1: formation under canopy. The problem was he was like one

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Speaker 1: As much as I I think that generally the access

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Speaker 1: kind of what it's like for me. So generally business wise,

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Speaker 1: Russian thing is just crazy. I'm almost personally insulted as

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Speaker 1: a citizen of America to think that somebody could kind

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Speaker 1: of say the Russians colluded with Trump. This is like,

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Speaker 1: it's insanity. And the fact that the FBI spied on

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Speaker 1: the President's campaign team, that's a big problem in this

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Speaker 1: country where we're like spying on each other now, like

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Speaker 1: like officially spying. Like I look, politics is not clean

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Speaker 1: a clean arena. And for sure people are digging up

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Speaker 1: competitive intelligence on one other, but to use like the

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Speaker 1: FBI to go tap people's phones and spy like an

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Speaker 1: official taxpayer money being devoted as spy against their own citizens.

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Speaker 1: What kind of a fucking state are we living in?

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Speaker 1: This isn't KGB in the nineteen eighties. And and that

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Speaker 1: that I find also offensive and I'm surprised no one's

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Speaker 1: outraged over that in itself. But anyway, that's my opinion

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Speaker 1: to be elected again in and you know, stand by

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Speaker 1: for the counselors to show up to all the offices

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Speaker 1: where people are crying and dealing with the psychology of that,

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Speaker 1: which again is a whole another crazy thing, just is

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Speaker 1: what it is. Do I wish Trump would act more presidential? Yeah?

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Speaker 1: I do, But he is what he is at least

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Speaker 1: we know that, and he's not afraid to be himself. Um,

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Speaker 1: whether you're a fan of that's that's self or not.

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Speaker 1: But that's that's kind of my opinion of the of

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Speaker 1: the Trump thing. Let's see what do I want to

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Speaker 1: get to And you guys really got to send in

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Speaker 1: your questions to radio at soft rep dot com. Radio

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Speaker 1: at soft rep dot com, I would love to just

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Speaker 1: spend a whole episode answering any question you have about

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Speaker 1: the military, the Navy Seal program. I know I've avoided

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Speaker 1: I've largely kind of come out and talked about my

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Speaker 1: issues with the community and in war calm, including so Calm.

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Speaker 1: But look, if you guys ask an intelligent, thoughtful question,

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Speaker 1: I'll answer anything. I'm an open book. I I really

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Speaker 1: do believe in transparency. So please send in your questions

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Speaker 1: to radio at soft up dot com. Let's see what

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Speaker 1: else we got coming. This year did a major partnership

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Speaker 1: with I Heart Radio. I Heart owned of the radio

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Speaker 1: stations in the US. We are going to have a

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Speaker 1: big presence Soft Rap and Craig Club at the Country

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Speaker 1: Music Festival in Austin this year. Um So be on

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Speaker 1: the lookout for giveaways. We're gonna do like v I

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Speaker 1: P ticket packages giveaways. We're gonna be donating some money

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Speaker 1: to military charities, donating tickets to military families. So we're

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Speaker 1: excited about this I Heart partnership and the fact that

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Speaker 1: it opens up some amazing opportunity to tunities for us

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Speaker 1: to kind of get involved with these big concerts that

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Speaker 1: I Heart does as well as advertising across the their

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Speaker 1: radio platform. Our partnership with iHeart culminates into the Veterans

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Speaker 1: Day Concert in Nashville, Tennessee, and again amazing artists, amazing

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Speaker 1: music venue. Another opportunity for us to bring our software

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Speaker 1: up and create club community, which largely is the Team

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Speaker 1: Room Nashville and have an amazing experience, will throw an event.

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Speaker 1: There are both places ourselves but also at the venue

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Speaker 1: to have our group. There are community engaging with each

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Speaker 1: other and getting to experiences. So these amazing music performances.

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Speaker 1: Really excited about that. This year also we are partnering

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Speaker 1: with the Chive to do a one off specialty box

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Speaker 1: for the Craig Club. Essentially that's coming. I'll explain more

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Speaker 1: once we get that up on the site. But the

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Speaker 1: guys that the Chive are are amazing. They do it.

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Speaker 1: I love the Chive because they give, They put their

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Speaker 1: money where their mouth is. They give a ton of

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Speaker 1: money to military charities and they care greatly about the

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Speaker 1: military and first responder community, which again this we haven't

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Speaker 1: done a great job communicating our giving efforts, but we've donated,

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Speaker 1: you know, hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash and

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Speaker 1: media over the years to charities like the Glenn Doherty

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Speaker 1: Memorial Foundation, the Red Circle Foundation, which I started, and

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Speaker 1: a bunch of other nonprofits. And this year is our

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Speaker 1: our kind of like year to really push UH to

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Speaker 1: give back to the military and first responder community. And

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Speaker 1: that's why we were excited a partner with the Child

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Speaker 1: because they have the similar philosophy. So look for that

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Speaker 1: coming in. You've got any questions about anything I talked about,

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Speaker 1: please right in. I have been traveling quite a bit

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Speaker 1: this year. I plan on getting some some guests when

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Speaker 1: I get back into our New York studio or our

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Speaker 1: Puerto Rico studio. Those you don't know, Um, the company

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Speaker 1: between Puerto Rico and New York. But we got big

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Speaker 1: things on the horizon. Kind of got our ass kicked

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Speaker 1: in two thousand nineteen, rebuilding we you know, the re

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Speaker 1: rebirth of software as a site, the team room at

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Speaker 1: the Great Club, and really investing in our community. I

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Speaker 1: did want to mention they also the academy this year

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Speaker 1: is is pretty extensive. We have you know, we have

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Speaker 1: the Academy in October. Now, you know, we have Advanced Shooting,

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Speaker 1: Urban Tactical Driving, Urban Survival, We're doing an air Soft

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Speaker 1: Big air Soft war game, and a Navy Seal Sniper experience. UM.

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Speaker 1: All those things happening at Virginia International Raceway at the

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Speaker 1: at the Software Academy. So we're getting close to selling out.

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Speaker 1: So if you're interested in that, it's an amazing experience.

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Speaker 1: We're gonna have a big party on Saturday for everybody there.

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Speaker 1: Great training, it's great camaraderie. So if you're thinking about it,

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Speaker 1: definitely go sign up because those spots are gonna go quick.

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Speaker 1: Let's see. The last thing I'll cover is the article

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Speaker 1: I wrote about fashion. I look, I'm a huge Camo guy.

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Speaker 1: I love camo, but like the jit authentic camouflage, and

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Speaker 1: I just walking around New York City it's just finally,

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Speaker 1: I don't know, I reached my snapping point seeing the

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Speaker 1: last like, you know, skinny, unhealthy model wearing her camouflage

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Speaker 1: jacket with all these unit patches, and and I just

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Speaker 1: thought how ironic it is. The fashion industry is kind

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Speaker 1: of totally against war UM and probably considers anybody that's

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Speaker 1: in the military, you know, must be a certain way

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Speaker 1: or vote a certain way. There's like a ton of

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Speaker 1: discrimination I've seen in certain business sectors like media advertising

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Speaker 1: towards the military. My friend in advertising literally said, any

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Speaker 1: veteran resume goes to the him the pile, which I

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Speaker 1: find just shocking and sad. But essentially, you know, and

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Speaker 1: then there's this fashion hypocrisy where these global fashion brands

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Speaker 1: and designers are using camo, and it's like, essentially like

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Speaker 1: I stood back and looked at it and said, they're

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Speaker 1: just profiting off the war machine. And it's like as

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Speaker 1: silly as getting rid of plastic straws and and swapping

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Speaker 1: him out for paper straws and putting this paper straws

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Speaker 1: in the plastic coffee cups. It's just crazy. So when reality,

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Speaker 1: the plastic is the real cause. So I just I

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Speaker 1: wrote a funny piece for Software Up about how fashion

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Speaker 1: it's kind of like hijacked camouflage and are profiting off

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Speaker 1: the war machine. If you guys want to go check

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Speaker 1: that out. I've really started to kind of contribute to

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Speaker 1: the site again, which which I really enjoyed writing. It's

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Speaker 1: tough to kind of balance, you know, running a business

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Speaker 1: hosting the podcast being a dad and and you know

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Speaker 1: you guys will where I I write a lot of

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Speaker 1: books on the side, but anyway, I'm I'm happy to

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Speaker 1: pieces to to the softwarep community. And that's it. I

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Speaker 1: would only add my John and I John Mann and

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Speaker 1: I finished our Serial Killer on Aircraft Care novel. We

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Speaker 1: expect to sell that in January. Hope that St. Martin's

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Speaker 1: Press will we'll pick it up because I love working

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Speaker 1: with those guys over there. Mark Resnick, my editor, and

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Speaker 1: Steve Cohen, the CFO. Just great people. Um. They care, um,

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Speaker 1: and they care about putting out a quality book. So

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Speaker 1: demand that you're seeing now, whether it's Disney plus, Apple Plus.

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Speaker 1: But just like gritty, real heavy ship, you know, like

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Speaker 1: you start to see some of these movies like Full

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Speaker 1: Metal Jack a Platoon after Vietnam to really showcase like

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Speaker 1: some of the fucked up ship that went on over there,

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Speaker 1: which nobody's doing in television right now in the scripted format.

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Speaker 1: So I'm excited like some of the opportunities we're doing there.

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Speaker 1: And I'll give a shout out to our new VP

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Speaker 1: of marketing all the all this from Iceland, and she

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Speaker 1: is just a badass um and she's got a ton

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Speaker 1: of relationships because you worked in the film industry in

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Speaker 1: Iceland and work with the Bond franchise when they shot

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Speaker 1: in Iceland, Game of Thrones, you name it. So lots

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Speaker 1: of good stuff coming. I do want to, you know,

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Speaker 1: from our family at soft Wrap, wish your family Merry

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Speaker 1: Christmas and happy Holidays. Really appreciate you guys sticking with

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Speaker 1: us throughout the years. The show and the site wouldn't

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Speaker 1: be what it is today if it wasn't for folks

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Speaker 1: like you that listen in and support us and through

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Speaker 1: all the ups and downs. Right, we've been around seven years.

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Speaker 1: Hard to believe, but I do, you know, from the

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Speaker 1: bottom my heart from my family years. Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays,

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Speaker 1: and look forward to having a great year with all

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Speaker 1: of you out here. You've been listening to Self Red Radio.

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Speaker 1: New episodes up every Wednesday and Friday. Follow the show

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