1 00:00:00,200 --> 00:00:04,480 Speaker 1: Well back in Veterans Day edition of the program. We 2 00:00:04,559 --> 00:00:07,960 Speaker 1: appreciate all of you hanging out with us as. 3 00:00:07,800 --> 00:00:12,680 Speaker 2: We are rolling through. As we are rolling. 4 00:00:12,520 --> 00:00:17,280 Speaker 1: Through the Tuesday Veterans Day edition of the program, I 5 00:00:17,320 --> 00:00:19,439 Speaker 1: am alive in a new studio and if you just 6 00:00:19,520 --> 00:00:22,000 Speaker 1: were watching on video and saw me turn to the right, 7 00:00:22,040 --> 00:00:25,919 Speaker 1: it's because at any given moment, anything can happen, anything 8 00:00:25,960 --> 00:00:30,680 Speaker 1: can fall in the studio. But all is well, and 9 00:00:30,760 --> 00:00:33,680 Speaker 1: we are getting a ton of fantastic calls from so 10 00:00:33,760 --> 00:00:37,680 Speaker 1: many of you talking about a variety of different topics. 11 00:00:38,320 --> 00:00:41,200 Speaker 1: We've talked about Scott Bessant and the economy. We've talked 12 00:00:41,240 --> 00:00:44,280 Speaker 1: about Schumer and whether or not he's in trouble as 13 00:00:44,320 --> 00:00:47,680 Speaker 1: the shutdown is now over, and I thought we could 14 00:00:47,720 --> 00:00:50,360 Speaker 1: have some fun here in hour three and we'll continue 15 00:00:50,400 --> 00:00:52,479 Speaker 1: to take your calls because you guys are calling in 16 00:00:52,560 --> 00:00:56,600 Speaker 1: with some fantastic takes here on Veterans Day. And we're 17 00:00:56,600 --> 00:00:59,120 Speaker 1: going to be joined by Medal of Honor recipient to 18 00:00:59,240 --> 00:01:03,160 Speaker 1: Cooda Meyer at the bottom of this hour, which should 19 00:01:03,160 --> 00:01:09,759 Speaker 1: be pretty outstanding. But buck Democrats are in such disarray 20 00:01:10,400 --> 00:01:14,920 Speaker 1: that right now Don Lemon and Sonny Houstin are losing 21 00:01:14,959 --> 00:01:19,080 Speaker 1: their minds over the shutdown ending, and I do think 22 00:01:19,120 --> 00:01:24,160 Speaker 1: it's worth mentioning for everybody out there. Remember that they 23 00:01:24,160 --> 00:01:27,560 Speaker 1: were telling us just a couple of days ago, everyone 24 00:01:27,640 --> 00:01:31,199 Speaker 1: is basically gonna die because snap is not going out 25 00:01:31,240 --> 00:01:37,040 Speaker 1: to everyone that is the meals, And oh my goodness, 26 00:01:37,040 --> 00:01:39,840 Speaker 1: how in the world can we deal with the with 27 00:01:40,360 --> 00:01:41,760 Speaker 1: all of this not being back open. 28 00:01:41,760 --> 00:01:43,959 Speaker 2: Remember that was only a couple of days ago. 29 00:01:44,200 --> 00:01:46,360 Speaker 1: So then Democrats decide, you know what, let's go ahead 30 00:01:46,360 --> 00:01:49,360 Speaker 1: and we'll open back up the government. Eight Senate Democrats 31 00:01:49,360 --> 00:01:54,840 Speaker 1: decide that they're willing to support that, and suddenly all 32 00:01:54,880 --> 00:01:58,800 Speaker 1: of the dire consequences from the government being shut down 33 00:01:58,920 --> 00:02:00,559 Speaker 1: are gone, and. 34 00:02:00,720 --> 00:02:03,600 Speaker 2: Instead everybody is just furious. 35 00:02:04,080 --> 00:02:07,480 Speaker 1: And by everybody, I mean even people like Don Lemon 36 00:02:07,560 --> 00:02:10,440 Speaker 1: and Sonny Houston. So let's start with Don Lemon angry 37 00:02:10,480 --> 00:02:14,079 Speaker 1: at the Democrats for bending the knee to King Donald 38 00:02:14,160 --> 00:02:15,600 Speaker 1: and opening back up the government. 39 00:02:19,919 --> 00:02:22,840 Speaker 3: Look, don't let us spend you the Democrats caved. People 40 00:02:22,880 --> 00:02:25,400 Speaker 3: have been asking me with Democrats caved, I want to know, 41 00:02:25,480 --> 00:02:27,640 Speaker 3: we need to know. Okay, So these are the Democrats 42 00:02:27,639 --> 00:02:32,080 Speaker 3: who voted to cave to the Republicans. Eight Democrats senators 43 00:02:32,080 --> 00:02:37,000 Speaker 3: are Dick Durban, Maggie Hassan, Angus King, Catherine Cortez Masco, 44 00:02:37,680 --> 00:02:44,520 Speaker 3: Tim Kaine, Jean Shaheen, Jackie Rosen, and John Fetterman. They 45 00:02:44,639 --> 00:02:49,480 Speaker 3: joined the fifty two Republicans in this procedural vote to 46 00:02:49,520 --> 00:02:54,120 Speaker 3: reopen the government without a guaranteed extension of health care subsidies. 47 00:02:54,600 --> 00:02:58,880 Speaker 3: Just a promise to pick it up and maybe vote 48 00:02:58,919 --> 00:03:01,920 Speaker 3: on it and just come on down. 49 00:03:02,560 --> 00:03:04,920 Speaker 1: All right, don Lemon's unhappy. Let me hit you with 50 00:03:05,080 --> 00:03:07,640 Speaker 1: where those senators are from, because I don't think it's 51 00:03:07,680 --> 00:03:12,760 Speaker 1: a coincidence. Jeene Shaheen and Maggie Hassan, New Hampshire Senator 52 00:03:12,840 --> 00:03:17,359 Speaker 1: Tim Kaine Virginia. Remember Senator Tim Kaine famously buck Hillary 53 00:03:17,400 --> 00:03:20,519 Speaker 1: Clinton's running mate. He is still in the Senate, still 54 00:03:20,520 --> 00:03:22,960 Speaker 1: in Virginia. I know nobody's really talked about him since 55 00:03:23,360 --> 00:03:26,919 Speaker 1: Senate Minority Whip Dick Durman of Illinois, number two Democrat, 56 00:03:27,000 --> 00:03:31,880 Speaker 1: he is retiring. Fetterman and Pennsylvania Cortes Mastow and Jackie 57 00:03:32,000 --> 00:03:35,840 Speaker 1: Rosen of Nevada, a state that Trump won by five points. 58 00:03:35,880 --> 00:03:38,360 Speaker 1: And I don't think it's a surprise that they would 59 00:03:38,400 --> 00:03:41,160 Speaker 1: be nervous about what might be coming down the pike. 60 00:03:41,320 --> 00:03:44,400 Speaker 1: As Nevada looks like maybe a state that is moving 61 00:03:44,480 --> 00:03:50,160 Speaker 1: much more significantly into the red column going forward. Now, also, 62 00:03:50,320 --> 00:03:54,040 Speaker 1: Sonny Houston was angry, and we've got a fun go 63 00:03:54,200 --> 00:03:57,720 Speaker 1: back and forth argument coming up between Sonny Houston and 64 00:03:57,800 --> 00:04:01,120 Speaker 1: John Fetterman in a moment. But first, Sonny high angry 65 00:04:01,200 --> 00:04:03,840 Speaker 1: that Democrats have eight of them that we just named 66 00:04:04,120 --> 00:04:07,040 Speaker 1: have voted to open along with the independent that could 67 00:04:07,280 --> 00:04:10,520 Speaker 1: caucuses with the Democrats, Angus King of Maine, that they 68 00:04:10,560 --> 00:04:12,680 Speaker 1: have voted eight of them did to open back up 69 00:04:12,720 --> 00:04:13,240 Speaker 1: the government. 70 00:04:13,280 --> 00:04:17,080 Speaker 4: Listen, this was a choice by Republicans to cut SNAP benefits. 71 00:04:17,080 --> 00:04:21,320 Speaker 4: This was a choice by Republicans to cut ACA subsidies. 72 00:04:21,320 --> 00:04:23,440 Speaker 4: This was a choice by the Republicans to cut the 73 00:04:23,440 --> 00:04:27,080 Speaker 4: federal government and federal employment. Democrats had nothing to do 74 00:04:27,160 --> 00:04:29,760 Speaker 4: with it. I want an opposition party. I think the 75 00:04:29,800 --> 00:04:34,320 Speaker 4: Democrats caved. I think the Democrats let down the American people, 76 00:04:34,839 --> 00:04:38,040 Speaker 4: and like you, you'll be I have absolutely no faith 77 00:04:38,320 --> 00:04:42,200 Speaker 4: that the Republican Party will come to the negotiating table 78 00:04:42,320 --> 00:04:44,000 Speaker 4: in good faith. 79 00:04:46,040 --> 00:04:49,040 Speaker 5: I hope she becomes the chief strategist of the Democrat Party. 80 00:04:49,240 --> 00:04:52,640 Speaker 5: I really would love to see Sonny Houston as the 81 00:04:52,720 --> 00:04:57,160 Speaker 5: person making the big calls for Democrats going forward, because 82 00:04:58,279 --> 00:05:00,880 Speaker 5: I think you have to give credit where it's due. 83 00:05:01,400 --> 00:05:05,039 Speaker 5: She is world class when it comes to bitterness and 84 00:05:05,240 --> 00:05:10,200 Speaker 5: also a complete and utter lack of tactics and wisdom 85 00:05:10,240 --> 00:05:12,920 Speaker 5: when it comes to politics. So yeah, let's let's have 86 00:05:12,960 --> 00:05:16,480 Speaker 5: Sunny Hostin be the one who determines what the Democrat 87 00:05:16,480 --> 00:05:19,320 Speaker 5: Party is going to do. The Democrats caused the shutdown. 88 00:05:19,360 --> 00:05:22,200 Speaker 5: People figured that out this time. Yeah, there was not 89 00:05:22,360 --> 00:05:24,720 Speaker 5: some way they were going to make this the Republican's 90 00:05:24,760 --> 00:05:26,400 Speaker 5: fault the way that they have been able to in 91 00:05:26,440 --> 00:05:30,920 Speaker 5: the past. And so their big enemy here was reality. 92 00:05:31,040 --> 00:05:34,080 Speaker 5: The enemy was just the obvious, and that is often 93 00:05:34,120 --> 00:05:36,120 Speaker 5: the case with Democrats, but this time around they weren't 94 00:05:36,120 --> 00:05:41,960 Speaker 5: able to get around that with just endless propaganda. 95 00:05:40,200 --> 00:05:44,920 Speaker 1: No doubt. And speaking of endless propaganda, are good friend? 96 00:05:45,000 --> 00:05:47,159 Speaker 1: Sunny hoston the woman that Buck would like to be 97 00:05:47,200 --> 00:05:48,839 Speaker 1: in charge of all Democrat messaging. 98 00:05:48,880 --> 00:05:49,760 Speaker 2: Boy, would that be fun. 99 00:05:50,360 --> 00:05:53,960 Speaker 1: John Fetterman was on the view and Sonny Hostin and 100 00:05:54,080 --> 00:05:58,159 Speaker 1: John Fetterman aka the current Sanis Democrat in the country, 101 00:05:58,560 --> 00:06:02,600 Speaker 1: went at it over Federman's consistent votes to reopen the government. 102 00:06:02,680 --> 00:06:04,320 Speaker 2: Here is what that sounded like. 103 00:06:04,560 --> 00:06:08,000 Speaker 4: Poll after poll found more Americans on both sides of 104 00:06:08,040 --> 00:06:12,039 Speaker 4: the aisle blaming Republicans. Even Marjorie Taylor Green blamed the GOP. 105 00:06:12,720 --> 00:06:15,400 Speaker 4: As you mentioned, Democrats have big wins last week, so 106 00:06:15,480 --> 00:06:16,560 Speaker 4: you had momentum. 107 00:06:16,839 --> 00:06:18,159 Speaker 6: Why give in? Now? 108 00:06:18,279 --> 00:06:21,039 Speaker 4: Why bring a butter knife to a gunfight. Are you 109 00:06:21,160 --> 00:06:25,400 Speaker 4: willing to gamble that the golpas will negotiate on healthcare 110 00:06:25,560 --> 00:06:28,480 Speaker 4: in good faith once the government reopens, because if that 111 00:06:28,680 --> 00:06:32,280 Speaker 4: gamble is wrong, half a million Pennsylvanians that you represent, 112 00:06:32,400 --> 00:06:37,039 Speaker 4: their healthcare cost will skyrocket if you are wrong, and 113 00:06:37,200 --> 00:06:38,400 Speaker 4: I believe you are wrong. 114 00:06:39,480 --> 00:06:42,320 Speaker 7: Well, for first of all, MTG is quite literally the 115 00:06:42,400 --> 00:06:44,680 Speaker 7: last person in America that I'm going to take advice 116 00:06:44,760 --> 00:06:47,200 Speaker 7: or to get their kinds of my leadership and values. 117 00:06:47,520 --> 00:06:50,560 Speaker 7: And now if Democrats are celebrating crazy pants like that, 118 00:06:50,600 --> 00:06:52,520 Speaker 7: then that's on them. And I don't need a lecture. 119 00:06:52,560 --> 00:06:55,680 Speaker 7: I don't need a lecture from whether it's Bernie or 120 00:06:55,800 --> 00:06:59,560 Speaker 7: the governor in California, because they are representing very deep 121 00:06:59,640 --> 00:07:03,039 Speaker 7: blue kinds of populations and a lot of those things, 122 00:07:03,120 --> 00:07:05,440 Speaker 7: a lot of those things were part of the extreme. 123 00:07:05,480 --> 00:07:08,320 Speaker 7: And I'll remember what really needs to win. To win, 124 00:07:08,440 --> 00:07:12,320 Speaker 7: the big win is involving my state and other states 125 00:07:12,360 --> 00:07:15,600 Speaker 7: and those things, and why have we arrived here after 126 00:07:15,680 --> 00:07:18,280 Speaker 7: the election a year ago. We want to forget, we 127 00:07:18,400 --> 00:07:20,320 Speaker 7: got to forget. Some of the things that cost us 128 00:07:20,320 --> 00:07:23,120 Speaker 7: that election are now for me. That's why I'm trying 129 00:07:23,160 --> 00:07:26,080 Speaker 7: to remind people that kinds of the extremism, we can't 130 00:07:26,080 --> 00:07:28,480 Speaker 7: return to those kind of things and realize we need 131 00:07:28,520 --> 00:07:29,480 Speaker 7: to find a way forward. 132 00:07:30,960 --> 00:07:33,920 Speaker 1: Would you have ever believed I've said it on the 133 00:07:33,920 --> 00:07:37,080 Speaker 1: program before, but I do think it's worth reiterating. I 134 00:07:37,120 --> 00:07:40,840 Speaker 1: think the thing that I was most wrong about on 135 00:07:40,880 --> 00:07:44,000 Speaker 1: the program in terms of analyzing people, I thought that 136 00:07:44,080 --> 00:07:48,760 Speaker 1: John Fetterman was going to be the most disastrous senator 137 00:07:49,040 --> 00:07:53,800 Speaker 1: in the entire country. After watching that campaign against doctor Oz, 138 00:07:54,280 --> 00:07:57,000 Speaker 1: I still wish Pennsylvania had voted for doctor Oz. I 139 00:07:57,000 --> 00:07:59,000 Speaker 1: still think that would be better if there were a 140 00:07:59,120 --> 00:08:04,120 Speaker 1: Republican in that seat. Having said that, John Fetterman is 141 00:08:04,920 --> 00:08:07,880 Speaker 1: wrong on some things, but he's right on a lot 142 00:08:08,440 --> 00:08:13,080 Speaker 1: and he's actually emerged as an articulate voice for sanity 143 00:08:13,600 --> 00:08:17,320 Speaker 1: on the Democrat side. And there's not even any competition 144 00:08:17,520 --> 00:08:21,000 Speaker 1: that I can see for a sane take. And I 145 00:08:21,000 --> 00:08:22,920 Speaker 1: know we didn't play it, but I give credit to 146 00:08:23,000 --> 00:08:26,520 Speaker 1: Dave McCormick, who we've had on this program a lot, 147 00:08:26,760 --> 00:08:31,040 Speaker 1: for working with Fetterman, and for Fetterman being consistent in 148 00:08:31,080 --> 00:08:34,079 Speaker 1: the belief that shutting down the government didn't make any sense, 149 00:08:34,520 --> 00:08:37,320 Speaker 1: and being one of the same Democrats voting for a 150 00:08:37,360 --> 00:08:41,000 Speaker 1: long time to reopen the government. So, you know, are 151 00:08:41,040 --> 00:08:42,920 Speaker 1: there lots of things that I would disagree with John 152 00:08:42,960 --> 00:08:47,200 Speaker 1: Fetterman on. Yes, But if there were thirty five more 153 00:08:47,280 --> 00:08:50,480 Speaker 1: Sean Fetterman John Fetterman's would the country be in a 154 00:08:50,520 --> 00:08:54,319 Speaker 1: better place? I think yes, because at least they're rational, insane, 155 00:08:54,800 --> 00:08:58,400 Speaker 1: and willing to work through something, as opposed to the 156 00:08:58,440 --> 00:09:01,680 Speaker 1: AOC mom Donnie wing of the Democrat Party, which is 157 00:09:01,840 --> 00:09:06,560 Speaker 1: just broken brained and has no legitimate ideas for rational 158 00:09:06,640 --> 00:09:07,880 Speaker 1: thought on any basis. 159 00:09:08,400 --> 00:09:11,760 Speaker 5: I think we've been very fair in the way that Fetterman, 160 00:09:11,960 --> 00:09:16,600 Speaker 5: after he became a Senator has spoken about things. His 161 00:09:16,800 --> 00:09:20,880 Speaker 5: voting record is a little more of a concern because 162 00:09:20,920 --> 00:09:23,240 Speaker 5: he votes with the crazies a lot of the time, 163 00:09:24,040 --> 00:09:26,800 Speaker 5: not surprising for a Democrat, but he's I think, I 164 00:09:26,840 --> 00:09:28,800 Speaker 5: think we should never lose sight of that. But he 165 00:09:28,880 --> 00:09:36,000 Speaker 5: certainly has said more reasonable things about more issues than 166 00:09:36,800 --> 00:09:39,000 Speaker 5: pretty much any other Senate Democrat I could think of 167 00:09:39,040 --> 00:09:42,520 Speaker 5: I might be leaving somebody out, but he has He 168 00:09:42,559 --> 00:09:45,920 Speaker 5: has been care i say, a voice of reason within 169 00:09:45,960 --> 00:09:49,520 Speaker 5: the Democrat Party on a whole range of things, certainly 170 00:09:49,520 --> 00:09:52,560 Speaker 5: on Israel, but also on the on the border. Uh 171 00:09:52,640 --> 00:09:57,000 Speaker 5: and and he has been somebody who does not play 172 00:09:57,040 --> 00:10:00,160 Speaker 5: the game the way that many anticipated he would, which 173 00:10:00,160 --> 00:10:05,920 Speaker 5: would be to just say the whatever the mandatory maxims 174 00:10:05,960 --> 00:10:08,079 Speaker 5: of the left may be in the moment, he has 175 00:10:08,120 --> 00:10:09,720 Speaker 5: not gone along with that. Now, maybe this is because 176 00:10:09,720 --> 00:10:13,360 Speaker 5: he's in a purple state, a red purple state, and 177 00:10:13,400 --> 00:10:15,559 Speaker 5: he wants to have a long career and doesn't want 178 00:10:15,600 --> 00:10:16,920 Speaker 5: to go to crazy town. 179 00:10:16,960 --> 00:10:19,120 Speaker 8: This is like, you know, I don't want anyone on 180 00:10:19,160 --> 00:10:19,679 Speaker 8: the right. 181 00:10:19,840 --> 00:10:22,800 Speaker 5: Giving us a hard time, for example, about Susan Collins, 182 00:10:22,840 --> 00:10:25,480 Speaker 5: because it's like she's probably the best you're gonna do 183 00:10:25,520 --> 00:10:29,480 Speaker 5: for a main senator, given that you know she's as 184 00:10:29,480 --> 00:10:32,360 Speaker 5: good as Susan Collins for Maine, that's as good as 185 00:10:32,400 --> 00:10:33,920 Speaker 5: you're going to get. I don't think you're going to 186 00:10:34,000 --> 00:10:37,400 Speaker 5: have somebody who is much more reliable as a Republican 187 00:10:37,440 --> 00:10:41,679 Speaker 5: in that state. So Fetterman, in a sense, is also 188 00:10:41,760 --> 00:10:44,240 Speaker 5: reflective of the state that he represents in so far 189 00:10:44,280 --> 00:10:46,240 Speaker 5: as he's not hard left. It's not New York, it's 190 00:10:46,240 --> 00:10:47,560 Speaker 5: not California. 191 00:10:48,320 --> 00:10:52,720 Speaker 1: I think also to your point, yes, he's being rational 192 00:10:52,800 --> 00:10:55,240 Speaker 1: because he is in a toss up state. You know 193 00:10:55,280 --> 00:11:01,480 Speaker 1: who's not Warnock and Assaf in Georgia. So yes, he's 194 00:11:01,520 --> 00:11:04,760 Speaker 1: in a purple state, and that is a rational choice. 195 00:11:04,800 --> 00:11:09,080 Speaker 1: Mark Kelly and Diego in Arizona are both Democrats and 196 00:11:09,120 --> 00:11:12,360 Speaker 1: a state that Trump won by five points, and they. 197 00:11:12,240 --> 00:11:16,640 Speaker 2: Didn't vote to end the shutdown. So even in states. 198 00:11:16,440 --> 00:11:19,560 Speaker 1: Where you would argue it is in the rational self 199 00:11:19,600 --> 00:11:24,600 Speaker 1: interest of Democrats to not be left wingers like Arizona, 200 00:11:25,200 --> 00:11:30,960 Speaker 1: Like Frankly, Georgia states that Trump won in Heck, Michigan 201 00:11:32,200 --> 00:11:36,079 Speaker 1: states that Trump one that still have double Democrat Senate representation. 202 00:11:38,840 --> 00:11:42,440 Speaker 1: It is a sign of progress for Fetterman, but also 203 00:11:42,559 --> 00:11:47,200 Speaker 1: it illuminates the futility of other rational Democrats to join him. 204 00:11:47,679 --> 00:11:51,000 Speaker 1: And just again to your point, he disagrees with the 205 00:11:51,040 --> 00:11:55,319 Speaker 1: Republicans on a ton but on should the government stay open, 206 00:11:55,520 --> 00:11:58,800 Speaker 1: which is kind of a fundamental question. It seems pretty 207 00:11:58,840 --> 00:12:01,240 Speaker 1: significant that we should stay open. And now that this 208 00:12:01,440 --> 00:12:04,600 Speaker 1: shutdown has been resolved, Buck, I do. 209 00:12:04,480 --> 00:12:06,120 Speaker 2: Think we can spin this forward. 210 00:12:06,760 --> 00:12:09,920 Speaker 1: If we have decided that for Supreme Court justices, a 211 00:12:10,000 --> 00:12:13,480 Speaker 1: simple majority can get somebody on the Supreme Court, right, 212 00:12:14,320 --> 00:12:18,080 Speaker 1: why would we not have a conversation about not allowing 213 00:12:18,720 --> 00:12:21,320 Speaker 1: a minority party to shut down the government? 214 00:12:22,120 --> 00:12:22,480 Speaker 2: Should it? 215 00:12:22,640 --> 00:12:25,880 Speaker 1: If you have a majority, you not have to get 216 00:12:25,920 --> 00:12:30,080 Speaker 1: to sixty votes to keep the government open. I understand 217 00:12:30,080 --> 00:12:32,360 Speaker 1: this idea of the filibuster is important, and I think 218 00:12:32,360 --> 00:12:34,840 Speaker 1: it's important when it comes to things like, hey, should 219 00:12:34,840 --> 00:12:37,240 Speaker 1: we make Puerto Rico a state? Should we make Washington 220 00:12:37,320 --> 00:12:37,559 Speaker 1: d C? 221 00:12:37,800 --> 00:12:38,000 Speaker 2: Estate? 222 00:12:38,040 --> 00:12:41,559 Speaker 1: Should we expand the Supreme Court? Those are really significant 223 00:12:41,600 --> 00:12:43,560 Speaker 1: issues that I think you should have to get to 224 00:12:43,640 --> 00:12:47,440 Speaker 1: sixty on. I would say this if Democrats had control 225 00:12:47,600 --> 00:12:50,800 Speaker 1: of the government too. I don't think it's smart to 226 00:12:50,960 --> 00:12:56,839 Speaker 1: allow the government to be shut down until sixty senators 227 00:12:56,880 --> 00:12:59,360 Speaker 1: will vote for the government to be back open. Because 228 00:12:59,360 --> 00:13:02,320 Speaker 1: my concern, and is all we've really seen in this 229 00:13:02,400 --> 00:13:05,600 Speaker 1: forty day test case, is there aren't really very many 230 00:13:05,640 --> 00:13:09,600 Speaker 1: consequences for shutting down the government. Democrats want to keep 231 00:13:09,600 --> 00:13:12,400 Speaker 1: the government shut down, why would they not do this 232 00:13:12,960 --> 00:13:16,480 Speaker 1: during the twenty twenty eight election cycle or during the 233 00:13:16,520 --> 00:13:19,480 Speaker 1: twenty twenty six election cycle. If they have the ability 234 00:13:19,520 --> 00:13:22,560 Speaker 1: to do so, and they see it as politically beneficial 235 00:13:22,679 --> 00:13:25,439 Speaker 1: even if they don't have control of Congress. 236 00:13:25,480 --> 00:13:26,160 Speaker 2: Does that make sense? 237 00:13:26,200 --> 00:13:29,360 Speaker 1: Like if I had to rank the significance of a 238 00:13:29,400 --> 00:13:32,240 Speaker 1: Supreme Court justice or a government shut down, Supreme Court 239 00:13:32,320 --> 00:13:35,040 Speaker 1: justice feels far more significant to me. 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So go check that out, my friends. 285 00:15:52,480 --> 00:15:54,520 Speaker 5: And then Clay, who was it that had that with 286 00:15:54,680 --> 00:15:56,120 Speaker 5: the dad that was driving? 287 00:15:57,240 --> 00:16:01,480 Speaker 1: You've John and yeah, John, And Kim Hockey says, we 288 00:16:01,840 --> 00:16:05,080 Speaker 1: had a caller who said that there's the conspiracy out 289 00:16:05,080 --> 00:16:08,080 Speaker 1: there about exactly what happened. Did Patton die in the 290 00:16:08,120 --> 00:16:12,080 Speaker 1: traffic accident or not? You say your dad was driving 291 00:16:12,120 --> 00:16:14,600 Speaker 1: the car when Patten was killed, When he died in 292 00:16:14,600 --> 00:16:15,000 Speaker 1: the car. 293 00:16:14,880 --> 00:16:19,080 Speaker 2: Accident, yes, he was Okay, Well, what did your dad 294 00:16:19,120 --> 00:16:19,760 Speaker 2: tell you about that? 295 00:16:20,480 --> 00:16:24,920 Speaker 6: He actually died nine days later. He was driving a 296 00:16:24,960 --> 00:16:28,080 Speaker 6: thirty eight Cadillac Lemo and Patton was sitting in the 297 00:16:28,120 --> 00:16:30,920 Speaker 6: back on the edge of the seat as usual, and 298 00:16:31,200 --> 00:16:33,600 Speaker 6: they were waiting for a train to pass, and he 299 00:16:34,280 --> 00:16:35,920 Speaker 6: in a pass. He pulled away, got up to about 300 00:16:35,960 --> 00:16:38,600 Speaker 6: twenty five miles an hour, and there was a personnel 301 00:16:38,640 --> 00:16:41,240 Speaker 6: carrier about a quarter mile down the road that pulled 302 00:16:41,280 --> 00:16:44,280 Speaker 6: out at the same time. And when they got to 303 00:16:44,360 --> 00:16:46,960 Speaker 6: each other, the personnel carrier turned right into the Cadillac, 304 00:16:47,520 --> 00:16:50,880 Speaker 6: and Patton flew forward, hit his forehead on the partition 305 00:16:51,280 --> 00:16:55,360 Speaker 6: between the front and back, scalped his you know, put 306 00:16:55,440 --> 00:16:57,560 Speaker 6: to the scalp himself and broke his neck. 307 00:16:58,720 --> 00:16:59,840 Speaker 2: And so from. 308 00:16:59,680 --> 00:17:04,000 Speaker 1: Europe perspective, your dad told you there is no conspiracy there. 309 00:17:04,040 --> 00:17:06,639 Speaker 1: It's for people out there that have bought not believe 310 00:17:06,720 --> 00:17:09,359 Speaker 1: that this was a traffic accident and it was a 311 00:17:09,400 --> 00:17:11,760 Speaker 1: freak accident in some way based on the speed the 312 00:17:11,840 --> 00:17:12,440 Speaker 1: Patten died. 313 00:17:13,240 --> 00:17:15,840 Speaker 6: Yeah, I did never talked about any conspiracies about it 314 00:17:15,920 --> 00:17:18,200 Speaker 6: or anything like that. But I mean there's three junk 315 00:17:18,240 --> 00:17:21,360 Speaker 6: tis that all disappeared, you know, they were they were 316 00:17:21,359 --> 00:17:25,440 Speaker 6: in the personnel carrier, and uh, you know Patton was 317 00:17:25,520 --> 00:17:27,359 Speaker 6: starting to do a lot better and then he died 318 00:17:28,160 --> 00:17:28,919 Speaker 6: just all of a sudden. 319 00:17:30,119 --> 00:17:32,359 Speaker 1: Well thank you, that's an well, that's thank you for 320 00:17:32,400 --> 00:17:34,000 Speaker 1: the call, and thank for your thank you for your 321 00:17:34,080 --> 00:17:34,800 Speaker 1: dad's service. 322 00:17:35,200 --> 00:17:36,280 Speaker 2: It's kind of crazy, Buck. 323 00:17:36,320 --> 00:17:38,440 Speaker 1: We say, hey, there's a conspiracy out there about how 324 00:17:38,600 --> 00:17:41,440 Speaker 1: Patton died in a car accident, and we're going to 325 00:17:41,480 --> 00:17:44,359 Speaker 1: talk about that with Bill O'Reilly. 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Text 351 00:18:54,600 --> 00:18:56,600 Speaker 5: Buck to ninety eight ninety eight ninety eight. 352 00:18:56,600 --> 00:18:59,680 Speaker 1: Where are joined now by Dakota Meyer, Medal of Honor 353 00:18:59,680 --> 00:19:02,960 Speaker 1: receive recipient, And we're gonna get into a bunch of 354 00:19:03,000 --> 00:19:06,159 Speaker 1: different stories, but we appreciate you making the time and 355 00:19:06,320 --> 00:19:10,000 Speaker 1: appreciate all your service. I thought we would just start. 356 00:19:10,240 --> 00:19:12,480 Speaker 1: I know you've got the Medal of Honor. I haven't 357 00:19:12,520 --> 00:19:16,239 Speaker 1: heard you tell a story about how that Medal of 358 00:19:16,320 --> 00:19:19,159 Speaker 1: Honor came to be. I believe it was in Afghanistan 359 00:19:20,040 --> 00:19:22,760 Speaker 1: about a little bit less than twenty years ago. Can 360 00:19:22,800 --> 00:19:25,680 Speaker 1: you share with us the story of what happened that 361 00:19:25,680 --> 00:19:28,480 Speaker 1: that led to you becoming a Medal of Honor recipient? 362 00:19:29,880 --> 00:19:32,080 Speaker 10: Yeah, no, thanks so much for having me. It's an honor. 363 00:19:32,840 --> 00:19:32,919 Speaker 11: No. 364 00:19:33,040 --> 00:19:35,040 Speaker 10: I was in Afghanistan. I was part of an embedded 365 00:19:35,040 --> 00:19:38,399 Speaker 10: training team in two thousand and nine and basically we 366 00:19:38,400 --> 00:19:41,440 Speaker 10: have this four US Nadie Afghans on a base and 367 00:19:41,720 --> 00:19:46,879 Speaker 10: our job was to mentor to train to and to 368 00:19:47,000 --> 00:19:49,399 Speaker 10: kind of you know, teach them our tactics and things 369 00:19:49,440 --> 00:19:53,000 Speaker 10: like that. And so we gone in. We're going to 370 00:19:53,080 --> 00:19:55,879 Speaker 10: run this mission into a place called the Ganggol Valley. 371 00:19:56,160 --> 00:19:58,439 Speaker 10: There's gonna be a big mission, a bunch of teams 372 00:19:58,440 --> 00:20:01,360 Speaker 10: coming together. I was on a team with Lieutenant Johnson, 373 00:20:01,760 --> 00:20:05,560 Speaker 10: Gunny Kennefick, and Doc Layton. And then so we're gone 374 00:20:05,560 --> 00:20:08,199 Speaker 10: in this this We go down this valley, we meet up, 375 00:20:08,200 --> 00:20:10,600 Speaker 10: we get our mission brief, and then the next morning 376 00:20:10,640 --> 00:20:13,720 Speaker 10: we go and start, you know, to perform this patrol. 377 00:20:14,400 --> 00:20:17,600 Speaker 10: And I was left with the vehicles and I was 378 00:20:17,640 --> 00:20:20,679 Speaker 10: replaced with a guy named Gunnery Sarn Johnson. And so, 379 00:20:21,600 --> 00:20:24,360 Speaker 10: as you know, they they entered the village. It's it's 380 00:20:24,359 --> 00:20:27,960 Speaker 10: the typical story of that we'd been set up and so, uh, 381 00:20:28,160 --> 00:20:33,080 Speaker 10: they'd been set up and gunfights started, and my team 382 00:20:33,160 --> 00:20:35,879 Speaker 10: ended up getting cut off by the enemy and separated 383 00:20:35,960 --> 00:20:39,359 Speaker 10: from the rest of the group. And so, after hearing 384 00:20:39,400 --> 00:20:43,439 Speaker 10: the you know over the radio how dire the situation was, 385 00:20:43,920 --> 00:20:46,080 Speaker 10: myself and a driver knew we had to do something. 386 00:20:46,119 --> 00:20:48,200 Speaker 10: So we took the gun truck that we were in 387 00:20:48,840 --> 00:20:51,879 Speaker 10: and we made multiple trips in the valley trying to 388 00:20:51,880 --> 00:20:53,680 Speaker 10: get the team out and then you know, after five 389 00:20:53,760 --> 00:20:57,440 Speaker 10: or six hours, we ended up we lost contact with them, 390 00:20:57,440 --> 00:21:00,680 Speaker 10: and then finally located them and they all being killed. 391 00:21:02,720 --> 00:21:06,080 Speaker 8: Wow, And then could please continue on? So that what 392 00:21:06,119 --> 00:21:09,040 Speaker 8: at that point? What did you? What did you do, Dakota. 393 00:21:10,080 --> 00:21:12,679 Speaker 10: Push recovered the bodies and brought them back out, you know, 394 00:21:12,720 --> 00:21:15,199 Speaker 10: fought our way back out and then uh, yeah, I 395 00:21:15,240 --> 00:21:17,560 Speaker 10: stayed there for another few months and then came home 396 00:21:17,600 --> 00:21:20,400 Speaker 10: after that. 397 00:21:20,400 --> 00:21:24,720 Speaker 5: That's an extraordinary story. I'm wondering, Dakota. There's a few 398 00:21:24,720 --> 00:21:27,200 Speaker 5: things we wanted to talk to you about today, including 399 00:21:27,320 --> 00:21:32,120 Speaker 5: how we're caring for and how we're keeping the sacred 400 00:21:32,119 --> 00:21:34,840 Speaker 5: promise to our veterans after their service, veterans like yourself 401 00:21:34,880 --> 00:21:37,080 Speaker 5: and the millions of others who serve, particularly in the 402 00:21:37,200 --> 00:21:39,600 Speaker 5: in the g Watt era of Iroq and Afghanistan who 403 00:21:39,600 --> 00:21:43,080 Speaker 5: have come out. But were you what was your thought 404 00:21:43,600 --> 00:21:48,600 Speaker 5: when the Biden administration had the pullout from Afghanistan, a 405 00:21:48,640 --> 00:21:53,639 Speaker 5: place where you saw considerable combat and the folded the 406 00:21:53,680 --> 00:21:57,879 Speaker 5: Afghan because you were effectively involved in training Afghan units 407 00:21:57,920 --> 00:22:00,760 Speaker 5: right at one point? Were you surprised and how it 408 00:22:00,800 --> 00:22:04,199 Speaker 5: all ended in Afghanistan? Or was that along with what 409 00:22:04,240 --> 00:22:05,440 Speaker 5: your expectations were. 410 00:22:06,560 --> 00:22:08,400 Speaker 10: Yeah, I mean, we should have pulled out of Afghanistan. 411 00:22:08,520 --> 00:22:11,520 Speaker 10: I mean, you know, we should have pulled Afghanistan a 412 00:22:11,560 --> 00:22:15,080 Speaker 10: long time ago, you know. I mean, the only thing 413 00:22:15,119 --> 00:22:16,960 Speaker 10: I'll say about the pull out of Afghanistan is thank 414 00:22:16,960 --> 00:22:20,000 Speaker 10: God that that somebody did it. Outside of that, you know, 415 00:22:20,040 --> 00:22:23,120 Speaker 10: I definitely we all can have some opinions on how 416 00:22:23,119 --> 00:22:25,040 Speaker 10: it went down and things like that. But I mean, look, 417 00:22:25,080 --> 00:22:26,840 Speaker 10: I mean, how how much longer I look at the 418 00:22:26,920 --> 00:22:28,439 Speaker 10: end of the day. What I am so thankful for 419 00:22:28,640 --> 00:22:31,119 Speaker 10: is that not another service member is dying in that 420 00:22:31,160 --> 00:22:34,240 Speaker 10: country right now. You know, we we've got to change 421 00:22:34,320 --> 00:22:36,080 Speaker 10: up the way that we fight wars. I mean, We've 422 00:22:36,119 --> 00:22:38,280 Speaker 10: got like that's that's the real problem to. 423 00:22:38,240 --> 00:22:40,040 Speaker 8: This whole thing. Uh. 424 00:22:40,080 --> 00:22:41,840 Speaker 10: You know, I don't know. I don't know what would 425 00:22:41,840 --> 00:22:44,000 Speaker 10: have been a great way to pull out of Afghanistan. 426 00:22:44,560 --> 00:22:46,680 Speaker 10: But I'm just thankful that that that we did. 427 00:22:48,400 --> 00:22:50,720 Speaker 8: But I'm all. I was also particularly curse to Coda 428 00:22:50,720 --> 00:22:51,920 Speaker 8: about your assessment. 429 00:22:51,960 --> 00:22:52,000 Speaker 10: No. 430 00:22:52,080 --> 00:22:55,959 Speaker 5: I was in country with the CIA in god two 431 00:22:56,000 --> 00:23:01,119 Speaker 5: thousand and nine or tw ten, sorry two thousand than ten, uh, 432 00:23:01,680 --> 00:23:03,639 Speaker 5: and I was looking at all the assessments that the 433 00:23:03,680 --> 00:23:08,600 Speaker 5: four star was getting and it looked bleak in twenty ten. 434 00:23:08,640 --> 00:23:11,440 Speaker 5: To your point about pulling out sooner, when the Afghans 435 00:23:11,480 --> 00:23:13,560 Speaker 5: that we had trained a mentor for so long just 436 00:23:14,040 --> 00:23:16,160 Speaker 5: didn't fight, I mean they just there was no fight 437 00:23:16,200 --> 00:23:19,760 Speaker 5: against the Taliban. Was that along with your expectations or 438 00:23:19,800 --> 00:23:20,600 Speaker 5: was that a surprise? 439 00:23:20,640 --> 00:23:23,000 Speaker 10: I mean, I mean absolutely, But this is like, this 440 00:23:23,040 --> 00:23:26,440 Speaker 10: is more My frustration part is with you know, everybody 441 00:23:26,480 --> 00:23:29,920 Speaker 10: advocating for Look. I brought my interpreter over, and I 442 00:23:29,960 --> 00:23:32,520 Speaker 10: think that anybody we made a promise to we should 443 00:23:32,520 --> 00:23:35,560 Speaker 10: one hundred percent, you know, fulfill that promise. But here's 444 00:23:35,680 --> 00:23:39,359 Speaker 10: here's where my stance is on this thing. Look, bring 445 00:23:39,400 --> 00:23:41,320 Speaker 10: any of the women and children over, but you're if 446 00:23:41,359 --> 00:23:43,879 Speaker 10: you're a military age male, you don't get to come 447 00:23:43,920 --> 00:23:45,880 Speaker 10: to the United States because you don't get to live 448 00:23:45,880 --> 00:23:49,000 Speaker 10: off the freedom on the backs of our service members. 449 00:23:49,359 --> 00:23:51,840 Speaker 10: You need to fight for your own. Coming here is 450 00:23:51,960 --> 00:23:53,840 Speaker 10: not going to be what's going to fix your country. 451 00:23:54,160 --> 00:23:56,000 Speaker 10: We need people that are going to fight for what's right. 452 00:23:56,040 --> 00:23:58,320 Speaker 10: We stood over there and our people were dying for 453 00:23:58,440 --> 00:24:02,480 Speaker 10: twenty some years to try to help them build up 454 00:24:02,520 --> 00:24:06,639 Speaker 10: their country, to help build up an infrastructure and you know, 455 00:24:07,280 --> 00:24:08,000 Speaker 10: what are we going to do? 456 00:24:08,080 --> 00:24:08,199 Speaker 12: Right? 457 00:24:08,320 --> 00:24:09,399 Speaker 10: I mean, what are we going to do? 458 00:24:10,280 --> 00:24:12,000 Speaker 5: Yeah, I wanted to ask you one more thing da 459 00:24:12,040 --> 00:24:15,720 Speaker 5: coda before we transition actually into something else, the fight 460 00:24:15,800 --> 00:24:18,200 Speaker 5: for gender rights that I know that you are, or 461 00:24:18,280 --> 00:24:20,600 Speaker 5: rather just for gender which Clay and I definitely want 462 00:24:20,600 --> 00:24:22,159 Speaker 5: to talk to you about because that's something we talk 463 00:24:22,200 --> 00:24:24,560 Speaker 5: about a lot here on the show. But as it 464 00:24:24,600 --> 00:24:28,320 Speaker 5: is Veterans Day, how are we doing in your mind 465 00:24:29,000 --> 00:24:33,880 Speaker 5: of honoring, supporting, and keeping the promise of the American 466 00:24:33,920 --> 00:24:38,160 Speaker 5: people to our veterans given the wars that we've been 467 00:24:38,160 --> 00:24:40,920 Speaker 5: fighting in the operational tempo that many of them have seen. 468 00:24:43,040 --> 00:24:44,920 Speaker 10: Yeah, I mean I think that first off, I don't 469 00:24:44,960 --> 00:24:46,399 Speaker 10: know that there's a country on the face of the 470 00:24:46,400 --> 00:24:48,560 Speaker 10: planet that loves their veterans or takes care of their 471 00:24:48,640 --> 00:24:52,520 Speaker 10: veterans better than the United States of America. You know, Look, 472 00:24:52,760 --> 00:24:56,080 Speaker 10: the Vietnam generation made sure that our generation would never 473 00:24:56,119 --> 00:25:00,439 Speaker 10: deal with that again, right. They fought so hard to 474 00:25:00,520 --> 00:25:03,000 Speaker 10: make sure that that that wasn't going to happen over again. 475 00:25:03,800 --> 00:25:06,320 Speaker 10: You know, I think I think obviously there's more to do. 476 00:25:06,560 --> 00:25:08,440 Speaker 10: I think that we can always do more, We could 477 00:25:08,440 --> 00:25:10,719 Speaker 10: do better. But I'll tell you what I don't I 478 00:25:10,720 --> 00:25:13,000 Speaker 10: don't think is I don't think it's not from the 479 00:25:13,080 --> 00:25:15,760 Speaker 10: lack of trying or effort. I just think that that 480 00:25:15,840 --> 00:25:18,400 Speaker 10: we've got to evolve the way that we're doing things right. 481 00:25:18,440 --> 00:25:21,399 Speaker 10: I think that we've got to evolve the services. You know, 482 00:25:21,440 --> 00:25:26,000 Speaker 10: we've got to make things current as to what the 483 00:25:26,000 --> 00:25:29,440 Speaker 10: needs of today's veterans are and not what they were 484 00:25:29,880 --> 00:25:31,240 Speaker 10: ten years ago, you know what I mean. Like, I 485 00:25:31,240 --> 00:25:33,399 Speaker 10: think that's kind of where we're at right now. I 486 00:25:33,400 --> 00:25:35,840 Speaker 10: do think that there's tons of things out there, but 487 00:25:35,920 --> 00:25:37,320 Speaker 10: I think we could always do better, for. 488 00:25:37,280 --> 00:25:41,119 Speaker 1: Sure, Dakota, I know again, thanks for your service. I 489 00:25:41,119 --> 00:25:44,720 Speaker 1: know you're doing work with our friend Jennifer C. Jennifer Say, 490 00:25:44,920 --> 00:25:49,480 Speaker 1: who has a great company xxx y, and you're motivated 491 00:25:49,560 --> 00:25:52,800 Speaker 1: because you have a couple of daughters. I know the 492 00:25:52,840 --> 00:25:56,480 Speaker 1: Olympic Committee right now is saying, hey, we're going to 493 00:25:56,560 --> 00:26:00,679 Speaker 1: adjust gender policy. Would you have ever believe growing up 494 00:26:00,680 --> 00:26:03,000 Speaker 1: that we'd be in a position where you would have 495 00:26:03,080 --> 00:26:07,119 Speaker 1: to say, hey, men can't compete in women's sports, and 496 00:26:07,160 --> 00:26:10,120 Speaker 1: that that would be considered in any way a controversial 497 00:26:10,119 --> 00:26:10,840 Speaker 1: opinion to have. 498 00:26:12,359 --> 00:26:16,080 Speaker 10: No, it's crazy, I mean, it's absolutely insane. I think 499 00:26:16,119 --> 00:26:19,439 Speaker 10: I think what made me really realize how insane it 500 00:26:19,440 --> 00:26:23,000 Speaker 10: had gotten was whenever President Trump got you know, he 501 00:26:23,240 --> 00:26:26,040 Speaker 10: got sworn in, and his first executive order was that 502 00:26:26,080 --> 00:26:29,480 Speaker 10: there's only two genders. I mean it's crazy. Yeah, it is, right, 503 00:26:29,520 --> 00:26:31,560 Speaker 10: I mean, like like it's it's crazy because we all 504 00:26:31,600 --> 00:26:33,479 Speaker 10: know it, and even the people who are trying to 505 00:26:33,560 --> 00:26:36,560 Speaker 10: pretend that it's not we all know it. We all 506 00:26:36,640 --> 00:26:40,719 Speaker 10: know it. And no, it's absolutely insane. But I'll tell you, 507 00:26:41,080 --> 00:26:44,720 Speaker 10: and obviously you were in Afghanistan. You know, name a 508 00:26:44,800 --> 00:26:48,640 Speaker 10: country that's thriving or that's doing good that doesn't respect 509 00:26:48,640 --> 00:26:49,119 Speaker 10: its women. 510 00:26:50,840 --> 00:26:56,040 Speaker 1: Yeah, it's I mean, I've said Dakota. It's actually interesting 511 00:26:56,080 --> 00:26:59,040 Speaker 1: in that way. You can look at Women's World Cup 512 00:26:59,080 --> 00:27:02,760 Speaker 1: soccer matches and you can almost pick the winner just 513 00:27:02,840 --> 00:27:06,560 Speaker 1: by determining which country has more rights for women. And 514 00:27:06,760 --> 00:27:09,840 Speaker 1: I wish that our soccer team had been more aggressive 515 00:27:09,880 --> 00:27:12,040 Speaker 1: in making that case, because I mean, it's not going 516 00:27:12,119 --> 00:27:15,000 Speaker 1: to shock you, but if you can't wear shorts, you're 517 00:27:15,040 --> 00:27:17,560 Speaker 1: probably gonna have difficulty being one of the best women's 518 00:27:17,560 --> 00:27:20,400 Speaker 1: soccer players of all time. I would just toss out there, 519 00:27:20,640 --> 00:27:22,600 Speaker 1: and sadly that's the case in a bunch of countries. 520 00:27:22,640 --> 00:27:25,200 Speaker 8: It's tough to play soccer and a burker for sure, Yeah, 521 00:27:25,240 --> 00:27:25,680 Speaker 8: for sure. 522 00:27:25,880 --> 00:27:29,399 Speaker 10: Yeah I've never tried, but yeah, it definitely looks tough, 523 00:27:30,480 --> 00:27:32,919 Speaker 10: you know. But but I just think, you know, but 524 00:27:33,000 --> 00:27:35,000 Speaker 10: I do want to like put the blame where the 525 00:27:35,000 --> 00:27:40,440 Speaker 10: blame goes, right, So the blame is absolutely men, right, 526 00:27:40,520 --> 00:27:42,639 Speaker 10: we have weak men. Every problem we have in this 527 00:27:42,680 --> 00:27:47,800 Speaker 10: country is because of weak men. Period, part stop, every 528 00:27:47,880 --> 00:27:50,399 Speaker 10: problem we have is because of weak men. And until 529 00:27:50,480 --> 00:27:53,760 Speaker 10: we start policing our own until until we stop and 530 00:27:53,800 --> 00:27:57,919 Speaker 10: we start fighting this idea of toxic masculinity. Masculinity is 531 00:27:57,960 --> 00:28:02,040 Speaker 10: desperately needed right now. Mat toxic, but masculinity is for sure. 532 00:28:02,040 --> 00:28:04,119 Speaker 10: And look, there's no bigger feminists on the face of 533 00:28:04,160 --> 00:28:06,960 Speaker 10: the planet than a father of daughters, Like I want 534 00:28:07,000 --> 00:28:09,360 Speaker 10: my daughters to be able to have any experience they 535 00:28:09,400 --> 00:28:13,000 Speaker 10: want to be as equal. They have equal rights to 536 00:28:13,119 --> 00:28:15,600 Speaker 10: any other human being on the face of the planet. 537 00:28:16,560 --> 00:28:18,480 Speaker 10: But what I don't want them to be is I 538 00:28:18,480 --> 00:28:21,639 Speaker 10: don't want them to be equally valued as man. They 539 00:28:21,680 --> 00:28:24,639 Speaker 10: should be held up at a higher value because they 540 00:28:24,640 --> 00:28:29,560 Speaker 10: are sacred. They are sacred. Women are sacred. That's the 541 00:28:29,600 --> 00:28:32,879 Speaker 10: reason they carry kids, the reason they reproduced right, like 542 00:28:33,000 --> 00:28:36,119 Speaker 10: they are sacred and very very valuable, and we must 543 00:28:36,240 --> 00:28:36,840 Speaker 10: protect that. 544 00:28:38,200 --> 00:28:42,680 Speaker 5: These individuals who are making this argument that I don't 545 00:28:42,720 --> 00:28:45,320 Speaker 5: know how many of these you've seen, for example, Dakota, 546 00:28:45,400 --> 00:28:50,960 Speaker 5: but you even had esteemed scientists Clay what was his name, 547 00:28:51,760 --> 00:28:55,960 Speaker 5: Neil the Grass Tyson, thank you, who went on Bill 548 00:28:56,000 --> 00:28:58,760 Speaker 5: Mahers show. And when Bill Maher looked at him and said, 549 00:28:59,600 --> 00:29:02,400 Speaker 5: we all know that men have a biological a physical 550 00:29:02,440 --> 00:29:06,440 Speaker 5: advantage in size, strength, speed over women. Right, this scientist, 551 00:29:06,560 --> 00:29:08,840 Speaker 5: this man of science, said why I do not know that? 552 00:29:10,040 --> 00:29:13,120 Speaker 8: What? What is that? How does that happen in society? 553 00:29:14,320 --> 00:29:17,440 Speaker 10: Well, I mean you have to think about this. Everything 554 00:29:17,480 --> 00:29:21,120 Speaker 10: has been weaponized, right Like, it's not about facts. Everything 555 00:29:21,120 --> 00:29:23,720 Speaker 10: has become when when you take and this is this 556 00:29:23,760 --> 00:29:26,480 Speaker 10: is where it starts to come in. You know, have 557 00:29:26,560 --> 00:29:30,400 Speaker 10: you heard this concept where people think, well, everything's gray. No, 558 00:29:30,480 --> 00:29:32,960 Speaker 10: it's not, because you know what happens in the gray. 559 00:29:33,400 --> 00:29:37,600 Speaker 10: There is nothing everything is. Everything is subjective, it's not objective. 560 00:29:37,600 --> 00:29:40,320 Speaker 10: There's no right and wrong, there's no accountability, there's no 561 00:29:40,440 --> 00:29:43,240 Speaker 10: win or lass. I mean, and that's what's happened. Is 562 00:29:42,520 --> 00:29:45,560 Speaker 10: is is you know how you change the truth one 563 00:29:45,560 --> 00:29:48,719 Speaker 10: word at a time, one word at a time. And 564 00:29:48,760 --> 00:29:52,120 Speaker 10: that's what they're doing. And in this gray areas where depression, 565 00:29:52,280 --> 00:29:54,480 Speaker 10: where anxiety live. And you know how you get gray. 566 00:29:54,560 --> 00:29:56,760 Speaker 10: Let's go back to art class. You take black and 567 00:29:56,800 --> 00:29:59,560 Speaker 10: white and you mix it together until there's no definitive 568 00:29:59,560 --> 00:30:03,040 Speaker 10: color but between the two and you get gray. Everything 569 00:30:03,080 --> 00:30:05,959 Speaker 10: in the world is black and white everything. That's the 570 00:30:05,960 --> 00:30:08,160 Speaker 10: only way you get better. It's the only way that 571 00:30:08,240 --> 00:30:12,680 Speaker 10: there is there is empowerment is when there is right 572 00:30:12,760 --> 00:30:16,320 Speaker 10: and wrong, good and evil like, and that is the way. 573 00:30:16,480 --> 00:30:18,640 Speaker 10: That's the only way to get through things like that's 574 00:30:18,640 --> 00:30:20,560 Speaker 10: the only way to become better people. That's the only 575 00:30:20,600 --> 00:30:24,960 Speaker 10: way for a civilization to still thrive, for societies to exist, 576 00:30:25,680 --> 00:30:29,240 Speaker 10: is if there are those lines so that the parameters 577 00:30:29,240 --> 00:30:30,320 Speaker 10: that people can live in. 578 00:30:30,480 --> 00:30:30,720 Speaker 11: Right. 579 00:30:30,760 --> 00:30:33,520 Speaker 10: And so you know, these people that don't want to 580 00:30:33,520 --> 00:30:34,960 Speaker 10: do this, and that's what they're doing is now they 581 00:30:34,960 --> 00:30:37,239 Speaker 10: have gone at and they're going at everything. I mean, 582 00:30:37,280 --> 00:30:40,760 Speaker 10: it's going at at everything that we have. There's no 583 00:30:40,920 --> 00:30:42,920 Speaker 10: I mean, they started in sports, right, And you know 584 00:30:43,000 --> 00:30:45,240 Speaker 10: what the worst part of it is, the worst part 585 00:30:45,240 --> 00:30:48,480 Speaker 10: of it is this is that how many women name 586 00:30:48,680 --> 00:30:51,320 Speaker 10: name the women that have called came to men's sports 587 00:30:52,840 --> 00:30:54,719 Speaker 10: and that are there that are trying to take titles 588 00:30:54,720 --> 00:30:55,080 Speaker 10: from men. 589 00:30:55,800 --> 00:30:57,480 Speaker 2: Yeah, it doesn't exist, of course. 590 00:30:57,840 --> 00:31:01,640 Speaker 11: Yeah, yeah, because it's weak men who can't copeede against men, 591 00:31:02,720 --> 00:31:06,760 Speaker 11: They're going over to women and getting in their sports 592 00:31:06,800 --> 00:31:10,680 Speaker 11: and competing against women. We is absolutely insane and the 593 00:31:10,760 --> 00:31:12,440 Speaker 11: sheer fact. And so when you go back to the 594 00:31:12,480 --> 00:31:15,000 Speaker 11: original question you ask me, I mean, it's kind of 595 00:31:15,040 --> 00:31:17,200 Speaker 11: like our doctors, right, Like when the people who are 596 00:31:17,200 --> 00:31:19,880 Speaker 11: writing who are who are you know, selling the prescriptions, 597 00:31:20,440 --> 00:31:21,680 Speaker 11: are writing. 598 00:31:21,960 --> 00:31:27,040 Speaker 10: The the protocols for the doctors, Well, guess what you're 599 00:31:27,080 --> 00:31:28,760 Speaker 10: guess what you're gonna have. You're not going to have 600 00:31:28,840 --> 00:31:31,760 Speaker 10: doctors who are free thinking and who are making medical 601 00:31:31,760 --> 00:31:33,920 Speaker 10: treatments better and who are going out and trying to 602 00:31:33,960 --> 00:31:36,280 Speaker 10: make people better. They're going to have people who are 603 00:31:36,280 --> 00:31:43,320 Speaker 10: just managing, managing the you know, the the protocols. You 604 00:31:43,320 --> 00:31:46,600 Speaker 10: don't have doctors. You have people managing the protocols, scientists. 605 00:31:46,640 --> 00:31:49,880 Speaker 10: Like everything is agenda, it's all it's all subjective. And 606 00:31:49,920 --> 00:31:52,560 Speaker 10: so yeah, I mean, look, this guy is standing back 607 00:31:52,600 --> 00:31:54,600 Speaker 10: because he doesn't want to take a stance, because at 608 00:31:54,640 --> 00:31:56,960 Speaker 10: any point in time that he takes a stance or 609 00:31:57,080 --> 00:32:00,160 Speaker 10: makes a statement of something, of what something is or 610 00:32:00,240 --> 00:32:02,520 Speaker 10: what something isn't, then he has to be prepared to 611 00:32:02,520 --> 00:32:04,640 Speaker 10: defend it, and we don't have people who are willing 612 00:32:04,640 --> 00:32:07,000 Speaker 10: to stand up and defend things like that. 613 00:32:08,080 --> 00:32:10,680 Speaker 1: Well said, thank you for your service, Dakota, Thank you 614 00:32:10,720 --> 00:32:14,440 Speaker 1: for continuing to speak out for truth, honesty, and frankly 615 00:32:14,800 --> 00:32:18,320 Speaker 1: basic human sanity. 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We have 650 00:34:01,520 --> 00:34:03,080 Speaker 5: so many of you who listened to this show. It 651 00:34:03,160 --> 00:34:06,320 Speaker 5: is a great honor that you spend your time with us, 652 00:34:06,640 --> 00:34:10,000 Speaker 5: and that you trust us to speak honestly about issues, 653 00:34:10,040 --> 00:34:13,920 Speaker 5: including of war and peace and national security. We have 654 00:34:14,000 --> 00:34:16,480 Speaker 5: so many write again, Clay and call again with their 655 00:34:16,560 --> 00:34:22,359 Speaker 5: own stories of family service. Just there's so many of them. 656 00:34:22,520 --> 00:34:23,680 Speaker 5: We wish you to get them all. Here we go 657 00:34:23,880 --> 00:34:26,600 Speaker 5: VIP email from Jessica. My grandfather was one of the 658 00:34:26,640 --> 00:34:30,880 Speaker 5: cormen that pulled the former President Bush out of the 659 00:34:30,920 --> 00:34:32,920 Speaker 5: water when his plane went down. He served on nine 660 00:34:32,920 --> 00:34:38,080 Speaker 5: different ships. William Hersey of New Hampshire. So very cool. 661 00:34:38,880 --> 00:34:43,640 Speaker 5: We're getting so many of these, Syracuse. This is Talkback 662 00:34:44,160 --> 00:34:47,759 Speaker 5: d D play this one. 663 00:34:47,640 --> 00:34:50,800 Speaker 8: Clay and Buck. Before it was Veterans Day, it was 664 00:34:51,000 --> 00:34:51,759 Speaker 8: Armisless Day. 665 00:34:52,719 --> 00:34:56,400 Speaker 10: And my great great aunt was the one that carried 666 00:34:56,400 --> 00:35:00,920 Speaker 10: the flag through Paris when the surrender happened at the 667 00:35:01,000 --> 00:35:02,000 Speaker 10: end of World War One. 668 00:35:03,760 --> 00:35:04,239 Speaker 2: Very cool. 669 00:35:05,800 --> 00:35:08,520 Speaker 1: I should mention we were talking about Patton, my great uncle, 670 00:35:09,120 --> 00:35:10,840 Speaker 1: So my grandmother's brothers. 671 00:35:10,960 --> 00:35:12,560 Speaker 2: They served, and. 672 00:35:13,000 --> 00:35:15,880 Speaker 1: Patton once stopped in front of him Buck and asked 673 00:35:15,920 --> 00:35:18,680 Speaker 1: if he had gotten to kill any Germans yet, And 674 00:35:18,800 --> 00:35:20,520 Speaker 1: when he said no, he was a young guy who 675 00:35:20,600 --> 00:35:23,359 Speaker 1: had just gotten overseas into Europe, he said, you're gonna 676 00:35:23,360 --> 00:35:26,240 Speaker 1: get your chance, which he loved telling that story. 677 00:35:27,320 --> 00:35:29,280 Speaker 2: And that is a pretty cool story. 678 00:35:29,760 --> 00:35:34,240 Speaker 1: Let's see, Margaret, Let's go, Teresa and san Antonio fire away. 679 00:35:36,480 --> 00:35:38,239 Speaker 12: I'm going to give a shout out and a thank 680 00:35:38,280 --> 00:35:40,360 Speaker 12: you to the veteran who called in and with the 681 00:35:40,400 --> 00:35:43,800 Speaker 12: story about Omar Bradley at Fort Bliss, and I'm wondering 682 00:35:43,840 --> 00:35:46,360 Speaker 12: if he ever met my dad. I grew up around 683 00:35:46,400 --> 00:35:48,840 Speaker 12: Fort Bliss because my dad was a retired Air Force 684 00:35:48,920 --> 00:35:51,759 Speaker 12: colonel and then moved to El Paso. We were at 685 00:35:51,760 --> 00:35:54,200 Speaker 12: Fort Bliss all the time, and my dad became friends 686 00:35:54,760 --> 00:35:58,640 Speaker 12: with General Bradley. And I was a little girl, but 687 00:35:58,840 --> 00:36:00,960 Speaker 12: I would go to lunch with because during the summer, 688 00:36:01,000 --> 00:36:02,879 Speaker 12: my dad would take me to the pool. We'd meet 689 00:36:02,880 --> 00:36:06,520 Speaker 12: General Bradley at the Officers Club, eat lunch, and then 690 00:36:06,560 --> 00:36:10,319 Speaker 12: I'd go swimming with my dad. And I wish I 691 00:36:10,360 --> 00:36:13,560 Speaker 12: had understood then who he was, but I remember my 692 00:36:13,680 --> 00:36:17,400 Speaker 12: dad talking to him. General Bradley was so sweet to me. 693 00:36:17,640 --> 00:36:19,839 Speaker 12: He would hold my hand. I could still picture him 694 00:36:19,840 --> 00:36:22,759 Speaker 12: in his wheelchair and he would hold my hand and 695 00:36:22,880 --> 00:36:25,960 Speaker 12: talk to me and ask me questions about school. And 696 00:36:26,000 --> 00:36:28,759 Speaker 12: if I'd only known, you know what questions to ask him, 697 00:36:28,920 --> 00:36:32,400 Speaker 12: But I heard the gentleman call in that he had 698 00:36:32,440 --> 00:36:34,359 Speaker 12: had lunch with him at Fort Bliss. I wonder if 699 00:36:34,360 --> 00:36:36,960 Speaker 12: he ever knew my dad, but it was acazing experience. 700 00:36:37,080 --> 00:36:39,680 Speaker 12: My dad ended up getting close to her. 701 00:36:39,760 --> 00:36:42,840 Speaker 1: Thank you, Thank you for that story, so many amazing stories. 702 00:36:42,840 --> 00:36:43,960 Speaker 1: Thank you to all the veterans we