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Speaker 1: It's that time, time, time, time, luck and look, so

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Speaker 1: Michael Verie Show is on the air.

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Speaker 2: It's important when you follow news stories to put faces

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Speaker 2: to people, to understand who is affected by these sorts

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Speaker 2: of things. I heard from a number of family members

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Speaker 2: of January sixth political prisoners who received a pardon, some

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Speaker 2: of whom have been released from prison where they were serving.

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Speaker 2: I mean, wow, some of whom will now no longer

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Speaker 2: be on parole, some of whom have served their time

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Speaker 2: and are out, but now their name is cleared. It's

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Speaker 2: important to understand who these people are in the fact

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Speaker 2: this has had on their lives, and why they were

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Speaker 2: where they were that day, and what really happened and

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Speaker 2: what happened to them since well. Channel thirteen, to their credit,

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Speaker 2: told the story of a marine from Cleveland, Texas named

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Speaker 2: Darryl Youngers who has been pardoned, and he's our guest. Welcome.

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Speaker 3: Thank you Michael for having me. Hi you doing this morning.

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Speaker 2: You have a great radio voice. I don't know what

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Speaker 2: your I don't know what your career do you know

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Speaker 2: what your career plans are? What are you doing these days?

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Speaker 3: For the last ten years, my primary labor has been roofing, contracting,

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Speaker 3: a lot of insurance work all around Houston, Central Texas

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Speaker 3: and other states as well.

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Speaker 2: Now are you bidding these jobs? Are you doing these jobs?

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Speaker 2: Are you running a crew?

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Speaker 3: Yeah? So my primary thing is I'm a lead producer,

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Speaker 3: so I go mostly door to door talk to homeowners,

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Speaker 3: especially in like storm damaged areas, hail and wind, tornadoes

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Speaker 3: and things. I meet with the homeowners, I kind of

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Speaker 3: tell them who we are who para texted is a company,

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Speaker 3: and then I do inspections. I put reports together, I

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Speaker 3: help them through like the insurance filing process. I meet

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Speaker 3: with adjusters when they come out to assist in their

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Speaker 3: inspection and make sure we catch everything. And then the

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Speaker 3: company does the production side. And then I usually supervise

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Speaker 3: the crews during labor and collect checks and write contracts.

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Speaker 2: Are you good at it?

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Speaker 3: Yes, sir.

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Speaker 2: Do you enjoy it?

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Speaker 3: I do most of the time. Yeah, It's slow, but

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Speaker 3: I do enjoy it. It put me to pay as well, yes, sir,

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Speaker 3: Thank you.

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Speaker 2: So let's start from the beginning. Where were you born.

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Speaker 3: I was born in Conroe, Texas, but I grew up

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Speaker 3: in Splendora, a Cleveland address, but I went to school

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Speaker 3: in Splendora.

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Speaker 2: And you graduated from Flandora High School. Yes, sir, because

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Speaker 2: I think you're about thirty eight, thirty nine, is that right?

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Speaker 3: Thirty five?

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Speaker 2: Thirty five? Okay, so I saw thirty four in an

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Speaker 2: article I read. I thought that was four years. Okay,

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Speaker 2: so thirty four, So seventeen years ago you were, so

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Speaker 2: you came out in about.

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Speaker 3: Eight, that's exactly right.

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Speaker 2: Did you play ball at Splendora?

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Speaker 3: I did. Yeah, I played outside linebacker. Were Unio our

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Speaker 3: best season? I was good. Yeah that wasn't great all county,

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Speaker 3: but I was I was good. Yeah, I was a

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Speaker 3: I was a prime player on the defense. And we

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Speaker 3: went undefeated twice that year. Oh wow, my two seasons.

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Speaker 3: So I know you were in our district.

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Speaker 2: I'm sorry, go ahead, Yeah, go ahead, I'm sorry.

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Speaker 3: Oh no, you're good. Yeah, we we just we went

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Speaker 3: underfeed in our district twice those years. It was a

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Speaker 2: Who did move to.

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Speaker 3: Junior year was Sylvie.

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Speaker 3: They had a really good team, really close game. And

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Speaker 3: then my senior year we played Jasper and I think

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Speaker 2: Jasper was a rival of Western Start, which is where

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Speaker 2: I started and then moved out of. But Jasper's had

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Speaker 2: So you went straight into the Marine Remembers start. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: I know you were in the Marines from eight to twelve.

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Speaker 2: So you went straight into the Marines from graduation.

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Speaker 3: That's great. Yeah, I took the summer off, but I

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Speaker 2: Why did you go into the Marines.

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Speaker 3: And then I took off in Doltoga's You know, I

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Speaker 3: honestly feel with Anybouther branch I probably would have just said,

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Speaker 3: He kind of, you know, gave me the whole pitch

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Speaker 3: I can go to college anytime, but you know, the

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Speaker 3: Marine Corps got a time limit on it, so let's

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Speaker 3: And one of the better decisions I've ever made.

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Speaker 2: How long from Pendleton to when you arrived in Afghanistan?

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Speaker 3: I arrived in Afghanistan. So I went through boot camp

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Speaker 3: from August to November in two thousand and eight, and

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Speaker 3: I shipped out to Afghanistan and I believe October October

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Speaker 2: And what were you doing during the interviewing intervening two

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Speaker 3: We had about eight months worth of schooling. I had

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Speaker 3: combat training after a booth camp, and then I went

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Speaker 3: I got stationed in San Diego, which is the Sandy Miramar.

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Speaker 3: I got super blessed to be there and I did

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Speaker 3: drop them in the desert and train. And we did

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Speaker 3: the same thing in Afghanistan, just with mostly a lot

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Speaker 2: I have a good friend who I've known since he

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Speaker 2: was a little kid and watched him grow up and

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Speaker 2: went in the Marines, went to Afghanistan, went to went

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Speaker 2: to I rock in Afghanistan, and he's a recruiter now

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Speaker 2: named David Burton in Katie and he was stationed where

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Speaker 2: you were in San Diego, and he loved it. I mean,

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Speaker 2: we were worried he wouldn't come back to Houston. Fortunately

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Speaker 2: it there. So you arrived in Afghanistan and served how

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Speaker 2: long there?

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Speaker 3: Right around five months? Usually it's a six month deployment.

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Speaker 3: But our plane was actually overbooked by a handful of Marines,

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Speaker 3: so we stayed home for an extra month and then

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Speaker 2: One out And that brought you another month before you

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Speaker 2: were there, that's right.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that bought me a month of litting out of

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Speaker 3: Oh but it was a good time anyway.

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Speaker 2: Oh wow, Okay, I had to bunk.

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Speaker 3: Up with a buddy of mine, so we had a

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Speaker 3: good time anyway. I was kind of on my own

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Speaker 2: Right, hang with me. Daryl Youngers is our guest Marine

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Speaker 2: Afghanistan veteran and now a pardoned J six political prisoner.

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Speaker 2: He'll tell that story coming up.

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Speaker 4: Tracy Bird not dip my hand to the keeper the star.

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Speaker 3: And disolved.

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Speaker 2: Faral.

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Speaker 5: Youngers was honorably discharged as a courtel in the United

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Speaker 5: States Marine Corps in twenty twelve, after having served in Afghanistan.

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Speaker 5: He ended up on January sixth in the Capitol, and

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Speaker 5: he ended up becoming a political prisoner of the left

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Speaker 5: in an attempt to destroy Donald Trump. President Trump has

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Speaker 5: now pardoned him in another fifteen hundred people, and we're

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Speaker 5: talking about that experience that is still very fresh. Tell

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Speaker 5: me what you did in Afghanistan zero.

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Speaker 3: So I was stationed at Kandahar. It was our biggest

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Speaker 3: And I again, the best what I explained it is,

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Speaker 2: And when you came home in twelve how hard was

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Speaker 2: How hard was it for you to reintegrate into civilian society.

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Speaker 3: You know, I didn't notice any difficulty when I first

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Speaker 3: Used to get a lot of rocket attacks. We called

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Speaker 2: Hole and hold right there. Daryl Jungers is our guests.

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Speaker 2: He's been pardoned by President Trump as a January sixth

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Speaker 2: move to June twenty ninth, twenty twenty one. So six

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Speaker 3: Yeah, So after the fact, as soon as I saw

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Speaker 2: So we're losing you again. We're losing you again. Are

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Speaker 3: Yeah? Okay, there were didn't move that time of let

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Speaker 3: And since I didn't do anything real, didn't do anything dangerous, crazy,

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Speaker 3: Like as soon as I heard that flee deal came across.

437
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Speaker 3: He didn't guide me really either way. I was like,

438
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Speaker 3: let's just let's take it. I got his advice, he

439
00:22:29,400 --> 00:22:33,360
Speaker 3: agreed with me, and he did well on his part. Fortunately,

440
00:22:33,440 --> 00:22:35,240
Speaker 3: there wasn't a whole lot of fighting to do because

441
00:22:35,280 --> 00:22:38,520
Speaker 3: we kind of just held held fat tight as the

442
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Speaker 3: prosecution was doing their thing, and they ended up giving

443
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Speaker 3: me as good a deal as I could have asked for.

444
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Speaker 3: So as soon as I came up, we went with it,

445
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Speaker 3: and I was happy with the work he did.

446
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Speaker 2: And that deal was probation. Did you I saw they

447
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Speaker 2: were trying to get time for you, but you didn't

448
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Speaker 2: actually have to serve time. Is that right?

449
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Speaker 3: That's correct. Yeah, So when it came down to it,

450
00:23:01,119 --> 00:23:03,200
Speaker 3: the sentencing wasn't part of the deal. That was always

451
00:23:03,200 --> 00:23:04,960
Speaker 3: going to be left on the judge. It was just

452
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Speaker 3: the charge that they were dropping everything else. And then

453
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Speaker 3: so my maximum was going to be six months, so

454
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Speaker 3: we looked into it. So the maximum for that particular

455
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Speaker 3: crime was six months, but that was that's an egregious

456
00:23:15,040 --> 00:23:18,439
Speaker 3: punishment for that anyway, and three months of probation was

457
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Speaker 3: the final decision. I know my prosecution was pushing for

458
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Speaker 3: one month in prison plus the probation period, but my

459
00:23:27,440 --> 00:23:30,360
Speaker 3: judge said that you can't get two punishments for one

460
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Speaker 3: crime in this situation, so we had to basically pick one,

461
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Speaker 3: and it was his opinion that I didn't. It wasn't

462
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Speaker 3: going to do anybody any good to have me in prison,

463
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Speaker 3: So he chose the the probation period, and I thought

464
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Speaker 3: about just taking the month and getting it over with,

465
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Speaker 3: but also didn't want to. I didn't want to, you know,

466
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Speaker 3: push on his good graces or anything. So I was

467
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Speaker 3: I was okay with that, And what was going on

468
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Speaker 3: in three months was our three years of prison. Of sorry,

469
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Speaker 3: three three years of probation was about the minimum that

470
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Speaker 3: anybody got for anything. And their their reasoning was that

471
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Speaker 3: they didn't want us to be able to go back

472
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Speaker 3: to d C for the next inauguration, so they made

473
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Speaker 3: sure that they gave me a date that was pushed

474
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Speaker 3: beyond January twenty this year because part of the probation

475
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Speaker 3: restriction is that I was I was barred from Washington,

476
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Speaker 3: d C. For the period of my probation.

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Speaker 6: Right all right, hold right there, Daryl Youngers, is there

478
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Speaker 6: one of those pardoned by President Trump? Fortunately was not

479
00:24:27,880 --> 00:24:29,919
Speaker 6: in prison when the parton came out. Some of these

480
00:24:29,920 --> 00:24:32,320
Speaker 6: guys were serving in prison when that came out.

481
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Speaker 2: Even out by the year out of fast it's the

482
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Speaker 2: Michael Barry's show. Daryl Youngers as our guests. He's a

483
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Speaker 2: marine veteran who served five months in Afghanistan, came home.

484
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Speaker 2: The roofing contractor lives north of Houston, a town called Cleveland.

485
00:24:51,080 --> 00:24:53,679
Speaker 2: Our Houston folks will know where that is, but beyond

486
00:24:53,800 --> 00:24:56,560
Speaker 2: will not that Cleveland is actually in Texas. The more

487
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Speaker 2: important one he plaied out. He got three years of probation,

488
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Speaker 2: did not have to serve prison time or even jail

489
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Speaker 2: time for that matter, for being inside the capital on

490
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Speaker 2: January sixth. He's a political prisoner. Court appointed lawyer takes

491
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Speaker 2: the case and got him a pretty good deal all

492
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Speaker 2: things considered. Many people will say, well, why don't you

493
00:25:19,640 --> 00:25:22,080
Speaker 2: fight it? On principle, you don't understand what it's like.

494
00:25:22,240 --> 00:25:28,240
Speaker 2: The government has unlimited resources and they will bury you financially.

495
00:25:28,520 --> 00:25:31,879
Speaker 2: It's good to fight. Mary taly Boden has fought the

496
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Speaker 2: medical establishment and she will till the day she does,

497
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Speaker 2: and she doesn't care if it bankrupts her on pure principle.

498
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Speaker 2: But a lot of people just can't do that, Daryl.

499
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Speaker 2: When you hear references by the Liz Cheneys and Adam

500
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Speaker 2: Kinzinger's and the media that nine eleven, that January sixth,

501
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Speaker 2: twenty twenty one was like nine to eleven. As a

502
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Speaker 2: marine who saw war and as a civilian who was

503
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Speaker 2: at the capitol on January sixth, what do you think

504
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Speaker 2: of that comparison.

505
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Speaker 3: I think that's that's that's that's it's it's an insult.

506
00:26:05,960 --> 00:26:08,040
Speaker 3: It's an insult to the entire country. It's an insult

507
00:26:08,040 --> 00:26:11,119
Speaker 3: to anybody who was impacted directly. We were lots of

508
00:26:11,119 --> 00:26:13,680
Speaker 3: their lives in nine to eleven. That's the most absurd,

509
00:26:14,200 --> 00:26:19,320
Speaker 3: most absurd thing. Yeah, that's that's it. It's just completely absurd.

510
00:26:19,359 --> 00:26:21,639
Speaker 3: I don't understand where they're coming up at, but uh,

511
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Speaker 3: you know, they want to say stuff that gets quick.

512
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Speaker 2: I've got about six minutes, GARYL. I would like you

513
00:26:27,000 --> 00:26:29,800
Speaker 2: to dispel any myths that come to mind of things

514
00:26:29,560 --> 00:26:33,080
Speaker 2: that just stick in your crawl when you see news

515
00:26:33,119 --> 00:26:35,840
Speaker 2: coverage or people tell you, hey, I heard this, or

516
00:26:35,880 --> 00:26:39,000
Speaker 2: you hear politicians these What are things about the date

517
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Speaker 2: January sixth? And what did it didn't happen that bother

518
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Speaker 2: you the most?

519
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Speaker 3: You know, the one the big narrative that change I

520
00:26:50,160 --> 00:26:53,199
Speaker 3: think has misled everybody, even a lot of conservatives. You know,

521
00:26:53,880 --> 00:26:55,680
Speaker 3: there's been a lot of noise made about how many

522
00:26:55,680 --> 00:27:00,080
Speaker 3: people attacked officers and and and basically every situation, and

523
00:27:00,320 --> 00:27:02,920
Speaker 3: I think that's wrong, right. I'm not super upset that

524
00:27:03,000 --> 00:27:07,280
Speaker 3: certain people that fought with officers or destroyed property got

525
00:27:07,440 --> 00:27:10,600
Speaker 3: on it, right, that's fair. And what most people haven't

526
00:27:10,600 --> 00:27:13,959
Speaker 3: seen is the videos from the body cameras of the officers,

527
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Speaker 3: which you can find on Twitter. Go look up January

528
00:27:16,400 --> 00:27:19,440
Speaker 3: sixth bodycam footage. Look it up on maybe rumble, probably

529
00:27:19,480 --> 00:27:23,600
Speaker 3: not YouTube, and you'll see officers throwing stingball grenades that

530
00:27:23,720 --> 00:27:26,280
Speaker 3: launch little rubber balls or gas grenades into a crowd

531
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Speaker 3: that's mostly just literally just standing around, and they're throwing

532
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Speaker 3: them at random into hundreds and hundreds of people. Previous

533
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Speaker 3: to that, I haven't seen any footage of violence. It

534
00:27:35,920 --> 00:27:38,439
Speaker 3: seems like it started there. And if if you're in

535
00:27:38,440 --> 00:27:41,359
Speaker 3: a crowd full of people and somebody's throwing stingball grenades

536
00:27:41,400 --> 00:27:44,040
Speaker 3: and gas grenades or concussion grenades into the crowd literally

537
00:27:44,080 --> 00:27:47,720
Speaker 3: at random that people standing around waving flags, you know,

538
00:27:47,800 --> 00:27:51,320
Speaker 3: retaliation is not It's not that surprising. I'm not surprised

539
00:27:51,320 --> 00:27:52,719
Speaker 3: that a lot of people were put in a situation

540
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Speaker 3: and maybe they felt.

541
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Speaker 2: Like they needed to do that.

542
00:27:54,640 --> 00:27:57,800
Speaker 3: I think people all of that number of ages involved.

543
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Speaker 2: I want to explore that there. I want to explore

544
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Speaker 2: that because but I have heard from the folks I've

545
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Speaker 2: talked to, most of them will not come on the

546
00:28:02,760 --> 00:28:05,879
Speaker 2: air with me. Is that there was an attempt to

547
00:28:06,000 --> 00:28:08,720
Speaker 2: incite you guys. There was an attempt to try to

548
00:28:08,760 --> 00:28:12,359
Speaker 2: create fear and drama, intention and violence to try to

549
00:28:12,400 --> 00:28:15,560
Speaker 2: get you guys to do something. And almost to a person,

550
00:28:15,600 --> 00:28:17,879
Speaker 2: it didn't happen, did you, since they were trying to

551
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Speaker 2: escalate this.

552
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Speaker 3: So from where I was when when when that was happening,

553
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Speaker 3: I was actually I wasn't in it. I wasn't actually

554
00:28:27,119 --> 00:28:28,600
Speaker 3: in that section of the crowd, like I said, I

555
00:28:28,640 --> 00:28:30,680
Speaker 3: was actually walking away and until I heard I actually

556
00:28:30,720 --> 00:28:33,320
Speaker 3: didn't until I heard the building was breached. It's when

557
00:28:33,320 --> 00:28:35,800
Speaker 3: I actually made my way to the Capitol building and

558
00:28:36,000 --> 00:28:39,640
Speaker 3: entered the Capitol honestly expecting to find like bodies on

559
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Speaker 3: the ground, because if the US Capital was if attacked

560
00:28:41,840 --> 00:28:45,040
Speaker 3: and infiltrated by a crowd of people, I was assuming

561
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Speaker 3: the security must have put up one hell of a fight,

562
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Speaker 3: and I thought that I might be triaging bodies or

563
00:28:49,440 --> 00:28:51,320
Speaker 3: pulling people out of gas, like I was expecting a

564
00:28:51,320 --> 00:28:54,600
Speaker 3: war zone. But what I found was a you know,

565
00:28:54,840 --> 00:28:56,840
Speaker 3: a rowdy line of people walking into a building and

566
00:28:56,880 --> 00:28:59,360
Speaker 3: almost no officers to be found at that point. But

567
00:28:59,880 --> 00:29:02,040
Speaker 3: for the video, and I've started to go back and

568
00:29:02,080 --> 00:29:04,880
Speaker 3: look at my footage from my day being there and

569
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Speaker 3: comparing it to the time stamps on some of the

570
00:29:06,680 --> 00:29:08,880
Speaker 3: body cameras, and so I can see that I was

571
00:29:08,920 --> 00:29:12,800
Speaker 3: hearing those grenades being thrown around. It's clear. And from

572
00:29:12,840 --> 00:29:15,360
Speaker 3: the time that I first got close to the Capitol,

573
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Speaker 3: there was no people on the balconies, there weren't people

574
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Speaker 3: on the stairs. But thirty minutes later people are in

575
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Speaker 3: the building and everything happening between that was all these

576
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Speaker 3: gas grenades. So yeah, it seems like there was a

577
00:29:26,320 --> 00:29:28,640
Speaker 3: solid effort. I'm convinced. I have no doubt in my

578
00:29:28,680 --> 00:29:30,960
Speaker 3: mind that there was a real effort, and I don't

579
00:29:30,960 --> 00:29:33,440
Speaker 3: blame the cops on the ground. My biggest thing about

580
00:29:33,480 --> 00:29:36,360
Speaker 3: this whole deal is that, at the very least, without

581
00:29:36,440 --> 00:29:39,440
Speaker 3: any conspiracy thought whatsoever, there was a massive failure in

582
00:29:39,440 --> 00:29:42,440
Speaker 3: security that day which created, at the very least created

583
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Speaker 3: the environment for something like this to happen. I tend

584
00:29:46,160 --> 00:29:48,800
Speaker 3: to think that was intentional, because you know, we've seen

585
00:29:49,080 --> 00:29:52,600
Speaker 3: attacks on Trump from every direction, and this was just

586
00:29:52,640 --> 00:29:56,440
Speaker 3: one more way. There's no lack of history of agent

587
00:29:56,480 --> 00:29:59,560
Speaker 3: provocateurs getting involved in protests causing violence. We saw it

588
00:29:59,600 --> 00:30:03,360
Speaker 3: all through TIS twenty with the VLM riots being infiltrated

589
00:30:03,360 --> 00:30:06,680
Speaker 3: with Antifa guys or informants or whatever it was, starting

590
00:30:06,760 --> 00:30:09,800
Speaker 3: violence and then letting it escalate into something really big.

591
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Speaker 3: And I don't think this is that different except for

592
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Speaker 3: the way that it was covered. The Whales covered was

593
00:30:14,760 --> 00:30:17,800
Speaker 3: very different. But absolutely I think there's a lot of incitement.

594
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Speaker 3: I don't see how it was necessary to start throwing

595
00:30:20,000 --> 00:30:23,040
Speaker 3: grenades into a crowd that was standing there, even if

596
00:30:23,040 --> 00:30:25,200
Speaker 3: they were on grass that they weren't supposed to be on,

597
00:30:25,720 --> 00:30:29,080
Speaker 3: there was still a piece at that point. Nobody was

598
00:30:29,120 --> 00:30:31,640
Speaker 3: going further than that until from what I can tell,

599
00:30:31,680 --> 00:30:35,240
Speaker 3: after the grenades started flying and paintballs like rubber paintballs

600
00:30:35,240 --> 00:30:38,240
Speaker 3: were being shot into people's faces, they were just standing still.

601
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Speaker 2: I'm processing. It's a lot to process. Why was this

602
00:30:47,040 --> 00:30:47,920
Speaker 2: part and important to you?

603
00:30:52,240 --> 00:30:55,000
Speaker 3: It really made a statement. I mean, the real statement

604
00:30:55,040 --> 00:30:57,680
Speaker 3: was made back in November when Donald Trump was re

605
00:30:57,720 --> 00:31:01,000
Speaker 3: elected with the popular vote shifting the entire country, right,

606
00:31:01,360 --> 00:31:03,160
Speaker 3: you know, that was a statement that was a mandate

607
00:31:03,200 --> 00:31:05,320
Speaker 3: that the country is set up with the way the

608
00:31:05,320 --> 00:31:07,560
Speaker 3: administration and really the way the state has been run

609
00:31:07,640 --> 00:31:09,360
Speaker 3: not just for the last four years but also the

610
00:31:09,400 --> 00:31:15,400
Speaker 3: previous twenty my entire life and and but there's been

611
00:31:15,440 --> 00:31:17,960
Speaker 3: a shift, a consciousness shift or a view shift across

612
00:31:17,960 --> 00:31:20,880
Speaker 3: the country where people are one not as susceptible as

613
00:31:20,880 --> 00:31:23,480
Speaker 3: they used to be to the nonsense that's spouted all

614
00:31:23,520 --> 00:31:27,360
Speaker 3: over media and social media and you know, directed by

615
00:31:27,360 --> 00:31:29,920
Speaker 3: the FBI on the internet. You know, like people have

616
00:31:30,040 --> 00:31:34,480
Speaker 3: seen that it's it's been exposed in whoever's in power

617
00:31:34,520 --> 00:31:37,040
Speaker 3: that doesn't want this to happen, has just been thrashing

618
00:31:37,120 --> 00:31:39,960
Speaker 3: and fighting against it. But like it or not, Donald

619
00:31:39,960 --> 00:31:42,160
Speaker 3: Trump's the president. So that was really the day that

620
00:31:42,480 --> 00:31:45,120
Speaker 3: was like that was that was the big relief. I

621
00:31:45,160 --> 00:31:46,840
Speaker 3: was excited. I was hoping that who's going to pard

622
00:31:46,880 --> 00:31:48,720
Speaker 3: and keep his word? And when he did, it's a

623
00:31:48,800 --> 00:31:52,040
Speaker 3: huge relief for me, more for the people who've been

624
00:31:52,080 --> 00:31:54,160
Speaker 3: in prison, because there's people who did less than I

625
00:31:54,200 --> 00:31:57,760
Speaker 3: did and ended up in prison somehow, right, So I'm

626
00:31:57,840 --> 00:31:59,920
Speaker 3: more concerned that those people are free. And that's off

627
00:32:00,320 --> 00:32:02,480
Speaker 3: and I got off, you know, eight months of probation.

628
00:32:02,560 --> 00:32:04,360
Speaker 3: That means that I get to go. I get to

629
00:32:04,360 --> 00:32:07,000
Speaker 3: stop having a babyfitter. I get to go. I can

630
00:32:07,080 --> 00:32:09,960
Speaker 3: I can carry a weapon again. Like there's little things

631
00:32:10,000 --> 00:32:11,280
Speaker 3: like that are going to make a big difference. I

632
00:32:11,320 --> 00:32:14,200
Speaker 3: can travel freely. I don't need permission. That's all really good,

633
00:32:14,280 --> 00:32:18,360
Speaker 3: but really an inciting that interesting in the sunny.

634
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Speaker 2: Are Darryl Jungers. Thank you for sharing your story and

635
00:32:23,160 --> 00:32:25,040
Speaker 2: thank you for your service to this country as a

636
00:32:25,160 --> 00:32:28,160
Speaker 2: United States Marine. I appreciate it very much. We will

637
00:32:28,200 --> 00:32:31,200
Speaker 2: be talking to more folks who have been pardoned as

638
00:32:31,240 --> 00:32:34,560
Speaker 2: political prisoners by President Trump in the coming days. Big

639
00:32:34,560 --> 00:32:38,880
Speaker 2: show this evening the President. As you know, with a

640
00:32:38,920 --> 00:32:41,880
Speaker 2: lot of things happening, I've put no pressure on us

641
00:32:41,920 --> 00:32:43,880
Speaker 2: to try to get all of it. We're not a

642
00:32:43,920 --> 00:32:45,719
Speaker 2: news show, so we're not going to list off the

643
00:32:45,760 --> 00:32:49,280
Speaker 2: fifty five things they've done since Friday alone. But boy,

644
00:32:49,480 --> 00:32:51,680
Speaker 2: is this ever an exciting time, and in time we

645
00:32:51,800 --> 00:32:55,560
Speaker 2: will get to most, if not all of those. It is.

646
00:32:57,200 --> 00:32:59,520
Speaker 2: It is a very exciting time. It feels like you know,

647
00:32:59,560 --> 00:33:01,200
Speaker 2: with krimp the water hose, and all of a sudden

648
00:33:01,200 --> 00:33:03,640
Speaker 2: we've opened it and it is just spewing out goodness.

649
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Speaker 2: All over the fruited plains, in this wonderful country,