Life Liberty Happiness - 5.21.2025

Broadcasting on Grove Street FM, brought to you by Media Squatch. It's Life Liberty Happiness with your host Brian Schly with Trenth Warner. All Right, everybody, welcome to another episode of Life Liberty Happiness. I'm your host, Brian Slave live in the David Homemaker State Farm Studios. Trent Warner is visiting today. Howdy back in the back in the studio, I'm Elma's back there pushing buttons making everybody happy. Uh huh. You know, I don't like change and not having music to start, it's a little bit different. I know. We're trying to get it true, I know, and when we go through this all the time, don't we He says, I don't like change, and then later he goes, man, that was awesome that we did that. Yeah. I know. I'm a receptive to once I see it, and so that proves I can change my opinion. I can listen, all right, But I was just used to the I always like the music you chose. Oh yeah, you know, but we get kicked off YouTube, so right, that's why we're not going to know. That is Yeah, We're we're getting more and more listeners. So yeah, well when you hit when you make the top twenty five percent of all podcasts. Oh, that's right, short of the top ten. He hates us. I thought we dropped a little bit after last week. No, I'm just kidding. The top ten O jez, Hey, there's a train. Yes, coming on. We got a phenomenal guest coming on later on. Sergeant Brian Keaton will be joining us. Can't wait to talk to him a little later. Yeah, so we need to get through some of our other business so we can spend more time with him. All right, I'll keep quiet. He's yes, I noticed. That you had an extra on this day in history, So we need to get through. I'll do it real quick. Not nearly as bad as last week. All right, back on some forward. Sure. Last weekend we had our minutmun Club banquet. Yeah. This was a nonprofit that I do here locally, just for the high school. It's really cool. Yeah, I considering I have no kids that go there. I just but it was a lot of fun. We ended up with eighty some people. Wow. Was that more than last year? Yes, so we've kind of outcrowned the venue. We've got to move next year to a bigger venue. And you were at the Bedford Country Club. Yes, eighty some people. We honored Jim Cutler, who was the baseball code for eight or forty six years. I think it was maybe you can convince Waddy to add on to the building and you could do it here. No, who was the male athlete of the year. Caleb Williamson. He was a soccer player at Liberty. And of course here Saint John's was the female athlete of the year. And she's heading to Bridgewater. Yes, yeah, that's really cool. Incredible, dude, I had no idea of their stats. He laid out her status. Oh okay, it's way more than I thought it was. Huh So he made the right choice. Yeah, we let the administration choose. Now, what's the guy doing the soccer player. Let's see what I'm going? You know what they didn't say, I don't know and don't that's a great question. I don't know the answer to that. But we had. We had a really good time, enjoyed the heck out of it. This weekend, I think I'm traveling. I'm not sure. My mom said something about a new vehicle, so I've gotten into my mode of. See I well, you just got a movie I know. See, I get the itch. My dad was a car salesman, ran a dealership for twenty five years. Yeah, and you know, I once, I'm different than most people. Most people don't like the. I hate it. Oh, man, I sit in that room. Du There's nothing worse. Oh. I love going at it because I once you learn that you can just get up, walk outa You're in total control. And they can't stand it. And man, when I love that feeling. When I when I have that feeling, Yeah, and I know I'm good to go. And I so I did that last weekend with my wife, and my mom says, Hey, I'm thinking about a new vehicle. That's eving funner because it's other people's money. Oh yes, yes, I already know her budget. Yeah. So I'm getting ready to make that phone call tomorrow and probably we'll be going because I'll travel. I'll go to North Carolina. What kind of car did you get, Ashley? She got a Buick in this Envision Avenue. I think it was a little sportier than the last one. You yeah, really will she lets you ride in it? Yes, But it's funny because she gave the keys to be when we left and I'm like, it's your car. She's like, yeah, but I got to play with all the it's on the way home. It's got all the got the keyboard, don't have a gass. There's no tack anymore. I mean, it's all digital. Yeah, it's ridiculous. Auto stop. What's it? You know? When you stop at a down intersection and the thing cuts off off? Pisces me off. There's nothing worse than that. I mean, if I push it off, it should stay off until I ever want to put it back on again. Works. No, No, it should work. It should work that way. But that's not how it does it. It should work the opposite. Should have to turn it on right if but I'm saying, whatever the setting is, it should just remember how the setting was. I don't want it ever to otter stop, that's right, But every time I crank, I have to cut the button off. I agree. Trump will fix that. That's why you want a diesel, you know, have to worry about that. Oh yours doesn't have an audio. Oh yeah, I guess not Diesel trucks. Now, okay, that's when anyway, That's what I'm doing. You got graduation with Riley. Yep, we had a word that I can't say, so I'm going to mispronounce it now. But she had her back laureate thing. Okay, what is it? Baccalaureate. That is right, Yeah, that's right. Okay, Well, I have two kids older than her. I did not go to their bacalaureate. I didn't even know, like, I just saw the schedule of events. And she came to the house and I was like, hey, this baccalariate thing, are you doing anything? And she said, yeah, I'm actually giving a speech. I was like, oh, I gotta go. So I told the older the older two kids that I love my third most, and so I went to that and dude, she gave a speech and gave a a sermon. I mean, anyway, it is rough. So it was so inspiring. She gave me chills. She's just such a smart kid. I just love it. But we have our graduation this weekend, so we get a little party to get together Friday night and family get together, and so we're excited about it. And she then has t uva awesome from JF. All right, quickly, yeah, I want to get the I want to air some stuff out real quick. Okay, you've thrown out plans to go to a race in North Carolina in two weeks. So I'm trying to figure out one the reasoning for those tracks. Yeah, because here's my only drawback. Okay, I looked at the facilities. Yeah, not very nice. Now, you know how I am. I know we go to short tracks, we even sponsor a car. Yeah, but my ass is sitting in a booth. I don't think there's a booth at No. No, no, there's no booth at either. Well, frankly I don't. I don't, but if you're going to take your camper, we'll be good that we could. Yes, right, So Friday night, Wake County Speedway. Where I got this from is you got me convinced to watch the car's tour awesome Dale Junior and Kevin Harvico. So I watched it. I was like, man, that was such a good race. And then I went to look to see where they were and I saw Wake County and I was like, I dated Marty for four years and Riley and never knew there was a speedway. Of course, you wouldn't have told me there was one in the first place. So I found where it was and I was like, well, man, we could do that. You and they said Friday nights is when they race, right, And then you told me you had never been to Franklin County Speedway. So I said, let's do a doubleheader. We'll do Friday night, Wait County, Saturday night Franklin County. We'll see what the blooey burghers are like at each place. Okay, so I'm not addainst it, but Brad won't go. I can tell because he hasn't committed. You'd let me twist his arm. All right, Well it'll be fun, all right, yeah, move it on. This day in history. Yeah, in nineteen twenty seven, Charles Lindbergh was the first to fly across the Atlantic Ocean. Huh, that's hard to believe. Nineteen twenty seven, just one hundred years ago the technology that did. Yeah, but I mean, who convinces him, Hey, let's try to go across the water. They all thought they could. I mean many thought they could. Well, you know how there's always things like the Ford. How many didn't make it. That's a good boy, try across across the lake. Think that would be me? Yeah, but uh, I thought about it, like you know, you have Ford with Henry Ford and all that, how come we don't have a Lindberg Airlines or something like that? Then he then he kind of later in life have some difficulties. I can't remember the Linburg baby, Charles Lindberg. Maybe that's always. That, the Linburger maybe where there was ransom. Yeah, baby was never found. Yeah, there was something that was. A big trial that was like the number one trial in America. I think we'll have to have we have to have days story. Tell us. We've got a listener that's a know it all and a good in a good way, in a good way. We love them. But he'll actually text us during the show to tell us what we meant all the time. So all right, what do you got? Nineteen seventy two? Speaking of first US, why would you think nineteen seventy two would be the most the first president ever to visit Russia? That's crazy? And now while by Richard Nixon nineteen seventy two, first time one's ever visited Russia, you would think just through World War two and all the ceremonies or War one, somebody would have done it. But I guess we didn't really start traveling a whole lot internationally back in the day. I don't know. You could have called a flight in twenty seven, could have went to you. All right, moving on to the most important part of the show. 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We hope you enjoy this series like we are. If you're a company that wants to sponsor this segment, please contact our staff at four three four four four four eighteen seventy four or email Emma at mediasquatch dot com. Be a part of. Preserving our history for future generations. Stay tuned as Veteran Voices is about to begin. It's pretty good, all right. Welcome to the program, Sergeant Brian Mayor. Thanks brother. It's a pleasure to be here. Man, Man like I was excited when his father came on a couple of weeks ago. But man, I think I have outgrown that. It's sorry, Sarge, but I've outgrown that with having you on the program. Oh man, I don't know why. Well, let's start off with the best part about I think this series is I do zero research because I don't want to know any I want to find out everything here. I want to be as surprised as EVI. I haven't googled, I haven't done anything. Okay, so I want to know all about you. First. Let's start with where were you born and raised? I was born in New Albney, Indiana. My father was a pastor in a little town called New Albney. It's right on the Ohio River, and so I was born there. I was number eight of nine kids. I did have a sister come after me. So I was born into a big, old family and we lived there. My dad ended up being a chancellor of a seminary. He has a doctor of theology and he was so we kind of raised up near Westfield, Indiana, which is just north of Carmel in Indianapolis, maybe thirty minutes from Indianapolis. And so we grew up there and basically stayed in Indiana until I moved out. I couldn't wait to get I hate their winters. I hate winter. And as a little kid, you know, you go out play in the snow and you try to breathe and one noster would stick together. I'm like, no, I'm not living here, so that's not happening that. But my dad was from Virginia, West Virginia and Virginia, OK. So in the summer we came here every summer and that's where dad and mom retired. And so after the military I joined him here. Yeah all right, So what were your inspirations? I mean, how does the when does the military start to become a real focus. I mean, when is that. Oh wow, I didn't really remember. I was probably ten eleven and my dad I might have been nine. My dad had this thing at the college where it was a patriotic event, you know, and we had Walter mondel Oh, I can't remember, Jackson Reagan and they had these masks on it and this is a big thing at the college, you know. But my dad brought in the recruiters, local recruiters, and so when they got there in their dress uniforms. Well, I already had a thing for though, for the military, because both of my grandparents, my grandpa's, were World War Two veterans. One went over, one didn't, but they were both served. So one was killed in the line of duty in nineteen forty five, so seven days before my father was born, he was killed by an MG thirty four in ambush. So this was we were very patriotic, very patriotic family. So I was kind of born into it. But when I saw those guys walk through those doors, I'd never seen them, you know what I mean, And I was just standing there and all like, holy smokes, they're perfect, They're squared away, you know, everything looked sharp. That's what you want from your military. When I had these grander thoughts of military, if they'd have walked in there any less than their dressing forms, I probably wouldn't know. But it's just been a lifelong thing. And my whole family are servants. Dad and Mom taught us to be servants and to give back, and you know, so of course we had preachers and everything come out of the family. There were four boys and five girls, and I just never, you know, got that call or I always felt, you know, I just I don't know, it just worked out weird. But that's kind of how I fell in love with the military, through my father and my mother, and of course my older siblings influenced me because they were already patriotic because my mom and dad and then you know, I didn't even know the truth of everything yet, but I was very patriotic. But that would have got me fired up right there. Day I saw them guys walk through the door, I was like, oh, my goodness, you know. Were you the first in your family? As far as I have, Like I said, eight siblings, all of them are somewhat in the ministry. They do other things from you know, they do all kinds of things, but yeah, I mean it was just a what was the question again? Just you were the first, Yeah, I from both grandparents, from any of my uncles and aunts and my cousins and everybody. Because my grandpa's family lost three out of their thirteen kids in World War two, three boys and our two boys. I'm sorry, but like five went to war, gotcha. So the families just you know, it was World War two, man, and they took a beaten and you know, the family had lost two five had been in there and my mom and dad's mom's side had served as well, her father, and they were just getting away from more, you know what I mean. And so the next generation didn't do it. We've got you know, construction highway builders that owned companies that built the highways around Lake Anna and all that stuff. We've got my dad, who who you know, his passion was to serve Jesus Christ and be a preacher and to spread the word of the Gospel. So he you know, he came from nothing. He didn't have a father, you know, the military pay because his dad was killed more to send him to God's Bob School where he met my mom. Because my mom's from Columbus, Indiana, they'd never met. So yeah, but I was the first one. Now I have some nephews, and both of my sons or all three of my sons have served. So one this is the ones coast Guard right here, this is when he graduates. He's stationed Honolulu right now, the young The other one was a Navy captain for the Poseidon where he just ground crew. And then my other one was third Ranger Battalion in the Army. So but yeah, since I was the very first one. Sorry, I went off on. That, what made you choose Army over the rest of them. I don't like water and I don't want to go to the Air Force. But both of my grandpa's were Army too, so I was already partial. Walked in, talked to the Marine recruiter one time and he said, and I didn't realize the Marines went out on a ship at the time. I didn't know that. I didn't know the Navy carried him around. And he's like he started talking about him ute and going out and all this stuff, and I was like, you live on a ship. He's like, yeah, dude. I'm like, nah, I ain't even I lost all interest. I just wanted to blow stuff up? Did you do that? Were you thinking that? Like in high school? So as you graduated? No, No, I was going to play baseball. That was kind of my passion. I had thoughts of that, but you know, life happens and babies come along. And when she got pregnant, I went and I signed up and said, you know, it took me a while to get the basic, but I said, I'm going to have a future here, and I love my country. I mean, come on, live in the greatest country in the world. So if you don't believe that, then she'd probably move. Yeah, that's a two thousand is what time went. That was nineteen ninety one, ninety two, ninety three. I went in the army in ninety three. I retired in twenty fifteen. I got you Wow. So you so you were in embedded ten years before nine to eleven hit. I mean you were in the well. I had a little break. Well, I was still irr, but I had a little break and then of course nine to eleven happened, and then I went straight back. You know, I was like, I wasn't even you couldn't have kept me out of that war. Yeah, everything I've gotten for more good and bad. I deserve yeah, because I made a very conscious decision awesome that day driving down ninety five when the twin tiers were hit. Now, I'm like, nah, nope. My grandpa went the war. He lost his life, my other one didn't. They were men. I come from them. This is the greatest country, and you ain't coming over here and killing our people, you know what I mean. I don't care if I have to sweep up after everybody. Just put me on the team. I just want to find my niche so I can be of use to the United States, you know. All right? So where was your basic at Fort Lando Wooden, Missouri, Missouri engineer? I just wanted to bow stuff up? That's what I told my recruiter. And that's you know that qualified for other jobs she tried to give you take us. Nope, where do I blow stuff up? So they sent me to Combat Engineers twelve Bravo to Fort Land wood Missouri in ninety three. Absolutely loved it. And you know, I was already an athlete, so uh, I was in shape, you know. So like I got there and basic was other than gets trapped throat in the first two weeks and still continuing but basically was you know, I mean we stayed with our drill sertants fourteen weeks because we did basic and A I T together. So it's like A I T basically is where you learn your skill. So basic is you know you're gonna go in there, you're gonna leave, You're gonna lose your learn drill, basic, rifle, markmanship, all these different things, all the things to make you a square away solder. And then after that you go to your to what is your mos so mine was twelve bravo. But the way it's set up Winningwood at the time was you just your drill sertants kept you from the day you got there till the day you graduated engineer school, which I thought was awesome, you know, because we had a you know, it was a great school and you're messing with explosives, so you got to have trust, and you know, it was just a good way the Army had to set up. I loved their bit of it. Cool all right, So after you get that where you headed, then. Well I do that, and I do infantry for a little bit, and then I get out, okay to I RR and then still connected, but out a little bit and then nine to eleven happened. So I went and just said, hey, I want to I want to go now, you know. So the only thing I had was an engineer unit was a National Guard unit and from the twenty eighth Infantry Division and three three seventh Engineers. Which is cool about that is it's the oldest unit in the military bend and Franklin's you know what I'm saying. So I have a coin, the last coin that came from that unit. I got coin because I got deployed with them on their last mission ever. We went to Kosovo with EO D and back when they were still wearing flat vests and stuff early on and I was just started everything. Came back, went to nineteen delta school, thirty day school for them. Me and another guy got everything right, did everything right. He got on a grad and the guys told me we're going to coin you, but we want to talk to you afterwards. And the master sergeant and the colonel came up. I was leaving for they said we want to talk to you. I just went back to Barry started packing. They came up and said, hey, you're not going anywhere. So that's back when Ramsey was standing up the Striker brigades. They had one of Fort Lewis and one at the twenty eighth Temptre Division. People don't really know. The twenty eighth Themptterre Division is a monster of It's the second largest by number, I think it used to be. I think California is number one is because of the size, but it has a ton of active duty. They were, I mean, they have a very rich history of just you know, they're deployed all the time. And these were all my guys man, and now talking about some just some awesome people. Of course. Uh so I started teaching and then uh we stood up that Striker brigade that I actually got deployed with. So they took some of us instructors and put us in you know, different places and and is that this was going to rack? Yeah after yeah, I was going to rack. And uh but they were, you know, we train. I'll tell you what all I got to say about citizen soldiers are they're they're amazing, Like because in your active duty, you get up every morning and you have a tune, right and you're gonna peetee together. Yeah, and your battle buddy's gonna make sure you're squared away because you got to show up formation every day twice, right, So these National Guard and guys that because the National Guard got crushed. I mean they lost a lot of people in that war. And uh, but you got to be like all squared away. But yet you got to go home, deal you kids, and you got to go to a civilian job and then you got to pull yourself out. But you got to train. You know, you've got all these requirements you got to keep up with. That's a hard job, man. I got so much respect for those people, and I love the like the twenty ninth. I love the twenty ninth, you know, I love the twenty eighth. There's so many great people in the twenty eighth. My whole career really ended up. I was with one six sixth Regiment, and but I went to combat with rival troop second one or fourth Cave and it was just you know, it was experienced, like I had a whole different world than most guys, you know what I mean, Like I just lived. It just happened, and I was willing to do anything. So that's still combat engineering type roles. Well, No, I got trained, Okay, So I have three MS's infantry leven Bravo, nineteen Delta and twelve Bravo. The reason I rolled so good into the nineteen Deltas was because I had combat. Those are the three Combat and WES is really to start with does that make sense? From basic and ait, So you start with those three. So I had, you know, explosives, and the scouts do everything. I mean the nineteen Dellars they do their their book is huge because you're doing everything from route classification to anything you can think of. We do explosives like engineers. We do all the infantry task. Plus we have all this route reconnaissance, which is you know, is you go out and you know, snoop and poop and get to where you can everything from a radius of a curve to a slope to the running water in case we have to forward something. But you got to do this undercover. So it's a little you know, it's just it's it was so much fun. I mean, I love it. If I wasn't injured, I'd still be active, Yeah, I guarantee it. Yeah, it was just I got paid to do that stuff. War sucked, you know, like there's times that things suck, But like I got this shoot. Dude, I was around fifty calorine. Its mark nineteen, you know, all the two forty Bravos and sixties back in the day, you know, Like. Dude, you know one thing I love about this segment that we're doing, Like you're saying things like he and I have no idea about a third of what you're saying. No, no, no, this is cool. This is what we love. I mean, that's right now. My favorite line is, if we had another caption of veteran voices, is war sucked? I mean you just said it, like I said that that menu was bad, you know what I mean. That's just so cool. Yeah, and you were in the I mean really you were in the heat of everything at that time, right, I mean. Yeah, we were. We weren't like rolling thunder. This was eight so we were trying to nation builds. Yeah, that's a very difficult thing when they're shooting at you. Yeah, you know what I'm saying. So really it got down to where we were just you know, we had a town called Saboor, and our mission obviously was not to take anything off anybody, do a lot of presence patrols to make people safe, and then gather intel, and then we had targets and stuff that we needed to take care of or we need to deal with. But we were you know, like I built this relationship with this one oil guy, okay, and we actually rated the compound and it Stanley three, I think it was in the three big compounds. We had some like fixed wings come down. They got on the air right before we hit it and said you need to show a horse. They came down and raked this compound like you ain't never seen, dude, and they hit them after burners. All the people came out because I've never you know, dust and smoke and you can just it vibrates everything. I'm sure everything on the walls were off anyway, that's it's just. A jet that came down and just to them. And I had black Hawks and apaches. We had we had black Hawks apaches there, and we had this EREC. We were trying to work in the Iraqis with us, of course, you know, but we didn't trust them so like the IP or the you know, the Iraqi army and stuff, but we were doing real mission, so there was no trust. Yeah, whatever, you're staying on the striker. So like we put him in the least, you know, Striker, we could get so that we could not We could talk a little bit, and then I was just crazy, you know. It was It was weird, but we did. We built a lot of relations Oh the story I was gonna say was so this oil guy. So afterwards we built this really good relationship with him. Super dude man. He didn't have He wasn't a bad guy. It was, you know, it was somebody else connected kind of thing. Really good guy. But all he had all eight of his kids come kiss me on the mouth one time, and I was just like, I didn't see my interpreter is staying with me, you know. But I'd built this relationship and I had a picture of me and the kids, the wife and the that I held in my wallet, and it was always on me and it was like an ole thing, you know. So they value family obviously. There's a lot of things I love and respect about them people when it comes to the family and how they there's also a lot something he's stopping immediately, you know what I'm saying. But I was showed him this picture and we built this thing. So one day all eight kids come in and kissed me on them out and he's like, I'm like, oh, and I knew we were friends now, but and the interpreter's like freaking out, and it's like they all lined up straight mine and just boom boom. And then Turper's like, dude, I've never seen anybody. Does this happened? And I'm like, what does this mean? You know? He's like, you could come back here when you're one hundred and you're their family. Wow. He's like they trust you that much now that you know. And and Intel I was good. Yeah, you know, you get intel on the back of you get you know, build trust with the good people. Yeah, and I'll tell you you know what's happening in the in the town. But that was kind of our you know, it was I had the best team ever. I had the best group ever. My LT was a cop so and he was you know, he was just like way more mature than some of the young lts that just come out of college. Not that they're not, but they have to do more work. But when you've already been a Jersey cop, you know, the key leader engagements, interrogating people and. All that stuff. It was like, yeah, he's good to go, man, We're rolling now. I had a great team. So when you're in Iraq that let's see, Hussein has already been dealt with, and so you're you're in a role of just getting intel, but at the same time you're kind of assisting the Iraqis at that point. Oh yeah, there's no at that point. Was there a clear goal set at that point? Well? I think there was. I mean, you got to understand theres levels, you know, and I only I can only take over what my lane is, you know. And I tried to do the best in my lane. And I knew that we weren't there to go and seek and destroy everything. I knew we were going to get hit. I knew we were going to have contact, but our goal was it had wind down. So you know, we want to because Americans don't go over there killing nobody, y'all. I mean we're not. We don't pick a fight. We're not going to go dominate another country, right sure, So when you're fighting us, yeah, we will destroy whoever is fighting. You do not want to do that, it's bad ju ju. But if you're a good person, America is fair man like other countries, ain't, you know. But if you're a fair person, we see that. You know, we're we're about as close as a just country that you can get. When it comes to like, you know, that's right, let's just say life and death, you know what I mean. I still believe that to this day. I know everybody has all the problems and we could all do better, but if we'd have nothing to strive for us, it's perfect. Are you near? Are you near a Baghdad or are you in town? I'm north west of Baghdad a kind of. I think I was just a little bit southeast of Fallujah. It's a it's called Saba. And back in the day when before we got there, it was known as you know, that's where everybody went to get their combat action bat because when you went there, you were going to make contact, you know what I'm saying. It was eighty thousand people and broke up in these k's and these we had three We had western villages, which we dealt with those two we had that was under our control, Eastern villages. So we had three major shakes that we dealt with. My commander was cool. He took care of the one shake. When we got there. They all wanted to hit us, you know, make it because they're trying to keep us. You know, they're running their stuff man, and it's crooks, you know. But my commander kat and has he he had a conversation with the with a shake and we didn't get hit by him no more. Yeah, it worked out. But you know, we were there to really take care of the people. You know, when you have a weapon in your hand in war, that's the closest you get to having the power of God in you that you can use, because you can give or you can take life. Yeah, you know, and we all know it happens to anybody who was a war like that. But you know, everybody's going to change some when they come back. But you know, two people definitely change when you pull the trigger, the shooter and the man that dies. So you know, it's just yeah, we had a you know, it was it was overall really good mission. Of course, seeing how they lived was a bigger shock than me. Yeah, than anything. And you know how they treat their women, which is absolutely absurd. Okay, Like one day we were we had to blow up something. We found id somewhere and so we called any OD and they came in. I'm standing up there and you know, they have several wives, you know, and this girl she couldn't have been twenty eighteen, twenty years old, and her husband was like sixty five, and they make them do all the work. But this one was nine actually had to be nine months pregnant, you know. And so I'd had enough that day, you know what I'm saying. So I just sent a couple of boys and I just went up there and just let him know. You know. I was like, cause she was on a hill like this getting sage brush. Yeah, I mean it was and she was down probably fifty yards trying to carry this stuff up the hill. I knew she was like, Wow, I mean, we're gonna have to deliver this baby on the side of this dag on the hill, you know. Yeah. But they were just brutal, you know, they just they're so brutal. So how do you engage in something like that, is that you'd go talk to him that he needs to do it himself. You go just tell him to get out of the way. Official business makes him get her up off that hill. Yeah, that's cool. I ain't I ain't think none of my business, but you ain't gonna do it around me. It's a little justice though, well it was the whole reason that. Yeah, I was like, nah, she ain't working this hill today. Yeah, you know, I appreciate it that sure, Yeah it's good. You know, we weren't trying to make nobody want to come up let's hit us anymore. But it was a different but it was good. It was a great experience, great experience. How are they making their money? I mean, what's there? What are they? Are they selling product? They or is it like this like our economy, it. Is somewhat on a much, much much smaller scale. Like well, if you got a bad day, you're going to see a city. But it's not in New York, you know what I mean, Like it's it's got airports and all that. But in the towns, like I lived in a town of eighty thousand. You know, they have stores and you know, just like everything, but they'll be selling like gas in a two liter bottle. You know, it's just it's And then the one oil gas station down there, it's it's pumping oil out of the ground. They're making it right there. Bro, It's not it wasn't pumped in. It was pumping right there. Wow. And they have massive tanks and that's the dude that made me. All these kids kiss me and uh, but yeah, they make it right. It's just you know, it's just they do have stores and stuff and and but you know, like they're fish. You know, they just throw it on a blanket out there and they heat, you know, and people one hundred thousand flies about it. People picking him up, taking him home. You know they're going to throw up. It was gross. They don't live. They ain't the cleanest people, let's put it that way. So how I did not know? You you have the tough part of this, So you're all through that. And if you don't want to discuss about it, that's cool too. If but I know you're a wounded warrior. And was that in Iraq? And then yeah, it was a very odd thing that happened to me because it wasn't like I was blown up there and got meta backed out. Uh. It was ended up being you know, seizures and I had issues, physical issues that I was hiding because I wasn't leaving my guys, you know what I mean. It wasn't going it was not going to happen. So you know, we went there, but a bomb we had they had hit somebody with an r KG three. U our sister platoon, one of our sisters r KG three that's like the old school grenades. That No, it's actually Russian Russian maid. It's a handheld shape charge. It kind of looks like a great big Campbell's soup can and it's got a stick coming out and when they throw it up. Once it comes down, that parachute deploys and that ignites the igniter and then that shape charge melts through up armor like it's butter. So like you know, you have these plates this size on the side of the striker. But when they hit the driver, you know, it took his leg. I mean, it just went right through to the driver because he's lucky he died. But then they so we deployed. We were QRF. We were just right around the block. We came. I got down with my guys. I ran the ground. I had Alpha Brable team deployed a secure the area, do norm procedures. Soon as we got down, one of my guys, Wicks Saw Saw another RKG that they had thrown didn't go off. This is a serious explosive. Don't just pick it up, you know, Saw, I'm like call you o D and then he had D came Mark bought with their mark Bot puts the four all over, went back to the truck and and I I would already put the ramp up on the striker, and my my lt and my commander was still down. They were trying to figure things out, you know what I mean, because this is a big deal for it. You know, you got to do a lot of crap. And so I just dropped and went over there and said, hey, guys, they're getting ready to blow it. Because it was already you know, i'd done a to the point with the OD I already know and I was inexplosive, so I know what they do with that stuff. And I'm like, they're getting ready to blast, you know, we need to get out of here or button up everybody butting up. It just went off, So it didn't you know, I didn't get no shraping or nothing. But I went back in my truck and I sat down, and Harrison well, he ran my truck our trucks. He was another ey sixth time, and I just told him, I said, hey, take the ground, because I didn't really it shook me so hard. I didn't know I remember all this. Yeah, so I didn't get knocked out or anything. And then I looked at my gunner Hanner, and I'm like, I was like, you got anything, a drink or something, and he gave me a red Gator. I don't know why I remember all this, but I was in such shock, you know, because I was like, well, I was probably thirty feet from him. Wow, and it was just like I couldn't think or something. It was like trying to catch up with my thoughts. Yeah, you know what I mean. And then I realized Harrison. I didn't really want him on the ground. He'd been a war too long. Amazing warrior, amazing person, amazing father, all that stuff. I love him with all my heart, but we didn't want him on the ground. A little trigger happy at this point, so you know, we're trying to keep everything to a minimal here, you know, saying and so I remembered it, and I was like, I just got on the radio and said, no negative, I got the ground. I got the ground. So then it was I don't know how long, but then my brain my I started losing my memory a little bit, and then I fell in a hole we were we thought guys were bearing weapons, so we deployed a rival team, alp A team I was leading off team. We went down and I fell on one of their irrigation ditches, so with nods on, you know, ready to I didn't see it and curbed me real bad and got my neck in my back, which I didn't find out for years. But I lived in paint like through Walter Reed. Never found it and it was broke, you know, like now my next metal wow. But it was like I just you know, I couldn't leave, so I went back to my job in the regiment. That's the point I'd become, well, a guy that could pen and eat things, you know, like as an instructor, which I went to a school to learn how to write tesps, run pilot programs, do all this stuff. But I couldn't keep up. So I'm keeping all these paths and I'm trying and used to I can remember everything. I have no problem at all. So I just I got, you know, one day out I feel that I was training a guy to be an instructor and just went down and then I just had seizure at the seizure and so eventually they got me to walk to read and then they really started working on that part of it and then found out a bunch of other injuries that I've been hiding, you know, and son right now it's it's all good. I'm good to go. But uh, yeah, that's that's what happened to me. It wasn't like you know, it wasn't I was shot up. But it was just a long, difficult story. It's hard to tell people because no, no, in a way having an invisible well, I had other injuries, you know, but like having a real invisible injury that dictates your day to day life. Like when I asked you a question, if I have to reask the questions because it's just I just lost everything. Sure, you know what I mean. I just try to get back on track because that's what happened to you. But yeah, I've had a great life, you know, And that's just what happened in Baghdad. And the rest is just because you know, life happens. You got to either roll with it, pick yourself up, or you're gonna go down with it. You know, you said you had a life, and three sons are you at Walter Reed and you have that because they were in your wallet and you had a picture of them. Is that difficult on them obviously or you? Okay? So yeah, I did. I had my three youngesters five total that I have two bonus children that I've remarried. Yes, Cameron is the one in the Coast Guard right now. But at the time I had five kids. So my oldest was playing baseball in college and my youngest was doing working somewhere else. But the other three lived with us still. So they lived in Walter Reed with us for over three years. Wow. And I tried to die a couple of times in there. I did. One night they had come get me out of the bathroom floors, seized up and lost so much bud that they had to shoot me up with. Like, dude, it is crazy stories. I don't even care about that. But the Lord has been good to me. That's all that matters in this life, you know, And all that stuff just built. He had a mission for me, you know. And when I'm doing the day, I look back over everything, like I lost my wife, you know, we got out and I just thought differently, you know, and then more and then just seeing everything and then just doing everything, and then the pain in which they didn't even know, my neck was you know, and I went through both hands and all my shoulders. I lived in this forever, you know, and my back which is cut and fixed now, but it was just it happened. And around twenty fifteen. Twenty sixteen when she left, yeah, and so I went and lived in the woods for eighteen months. I had no money. I had not So let's get back to the kids. I'll talk about that, lady. I'm telling you right now these stories. I know you don't even want to get that. That's when I meet the dude living down there that holds me gumpoint okay, which we all fixed up a whole nother stord man. But so my kids are living at Walter Reid with me. You know, they don't have any I have an education for him, I'm nothing but living in the hospital, you know, not a stop in and out. And I have a lot of procedures there, and so that was difficult, but you know, we had like like I always talk about the Nationals because like the Learner family and Mike Rizzio and Bob Boon or Bob Boom who's the assistant there. Those people love their veterans. Man at wal three, Bro and like they took me and my family there were three kids, me and my wife almost to every home game in the presidential speak, no kidding. So if you look from like twenty ten to twenty thirteen at a home game, you can see me because I know everybody there. I know the chefs. You know, that's where the chefs are. Like it's like five hundred bucks a ticket, you know what I'm saying, And they get twenty five hundred dollars worth of tickets every home game. Bro. And I'm a baseball and my sons are too. Yeah. It really did help heal me, like America healed me, but not. The sad thing is, I've got these stories, but dude, the guys I run into that have not been taken care of. It will make you lose sleep. It will give you nightmares of You know, America does try, but our standard operating procedures for reaching veterans in trouble it's broken, yes, And you know that's why I dedicate my whole life to this. Now. Luckily you know now this is years ago. In twenty sixteen, I lived in the woods. I was helping veterans. I was running stuff from Texas and went to Texas for six months, started an organization out there called Getting three hundred then, but while I was in because we couldn't get education, we actually started I have another nonprofit which is called Mayor's Military Kids, and we started that. It was twenty thirteen or twenty fourteen. And did was that your nickname? Mayor? That was my call sign? Your call sign mayor? Yeah, Mayor's Military. Let give you your call sign when you earn it. And that's what I earned. You were the mayor. I was the mayor. I would talk to the officers and nobody else would because we lived with a bunch of hardcore guys. You know, we didn't really deal with officers too much. We were always training. We ran our own show. But when we'd break stuff, you know, like. Somebody had talked to him. It's bad because that's literally because we had to teach these scouts how to drive these beasts through the water. You have to ford, you know, it's called forty you checked Bob and all this stuff. I mean, we do whatever it takes. We're America, right, so we're driving through creeks. Who cares build something that'll make it? You know what I mean? We're America, so we'd break famblies because people would tide awave it and it was water come back up on the snap those fani blaies. Well, the chieft didn't like that head and motiple. So all the guys hated Chief hated him, you know. And I was so sick of hearing it one day because I was a new guy. I hadn't earned my call sign yet, and so I was just like, give me the daggown keys man, like, I'll go talk to him, you know. And Laver who gave me my call sign, and he was He's like, do it then, you know. So I went over and I took a sheet. I made a check least because I wanted to check my own vehicles in. I didn't want them guys that's motivle doing it because they didn't even check the proper stuff. They just look for dirt. I want certain things cleaning, you know, I'm picky. So I went up the Chief and had this and I said, dude, why don't you let us check it in. He's like, why are you going to do that? And I handed him down this list. He's like, that's awesome. It was more than what they did you know. And I had to do this and I personally had to sign each one and then he would never check anything. So I walked back down and he gave me my own set of keys. I walk in doing this with the keys and Laver was like, how'd you get Well, didn't you give him the keys? I said, no, man, he just gave him to me because we have a deal now we don't have to deal with anymore. He's like, you're the freaking mayor. And that's how Mayor's Military Kid is. That's the name. Well, Mary's Military Kids. Yeah, that all came from our kids not having options while we were at Walter Reed. And we are a Christian family. So my brother, one of my brothers, owns a company called renew a Nation and they're all over the country and they're a big part of why we have tax credit and all that stuff. His name's Jeffrey Keaton and he uh so I called him and I said, Jeff, you know, this is the problem I have. And jeff said, I said, I want to do something for active duty and when the warriors at first, now it's veterans as well, but I said, I want to take care of their kids because some of these schools aren't you know, I'm not bashing their schools, but some of these schools aren't where you want your kids, you know, and at least me, and I feel like I earned the right to put them where I want to. And uh, but so we started Mary's Military Kids. It's free Christian education. Uh. We we have on line. We have people all over the whole country. Uh. We take care of people that aren't near military bases that are still active, they don't have any support. Uh. We have homeschooling with like computers where they are actually taught by a teacher. We have you know, we pay for actual bricks and mortar schools. Now, is this only for like military. Kids military military duty and warriors, but the military war active duty, WINDO warriors and veterans. But they get a Christian education kind of online remote across. No, no, no, we pay. We pay for bricks and mortars too. We just adapt to whatever military situation there is because we have a standard of what a military base looks like in the education that's there. And it's good. You know, they have good, good schools on these big bases. But a lot of guys don't live on big bases, you know what I mean, and and and the schoolings on them, and they might be in a city. I don't want to be downtown d C And kids there. I mean, I don't. That's just I'm a country boy. There's too much stuff going on over there. You know. I don't want to deal with that with my children. And my children are my prize possession. So what else was I going to do? Just say, oh no, you know, but my brother in his group, I don't do anything like. They're a great company and they have the right they do everything for the right reasons. And it's been going. We average between thirty thirty five scholarships a year. Wow, so and that's a lot of money. We don't even have actually very many homescororers on that, but we do some guys that are still active that are through remote places and stuff. We do whatever we got to do, you know, to do that because I'm a firm believer. If you know, you can't make us go to a public school and then dominate what we're going to teach. That's not happening, bro. You know, it's not the America I would die for, you know what I'm saying. It's not happening, and these are my kids, and I love you America, but there's some things that need a little bit of fixing. And so renew a Nation has done phenomenal job. I mean, the people they you know, I don't even know. I just came up with a good idea. That's about it. I tried to raise money here and there, and that's about it. Yeah, you know, I mean, I stay in contact, but it's so a little so what I was talking to you a little bit about too. You also do something down at Mariner's Landing. Is a sound going on down there. This is my passion. Yeah. So I got out of Texas and my wife had left me. Twenty seventeen. My brother passes a church here called Eastlake Community. I helped brother Troy. Yeah, we're two years of parties. He's been my guy my whole life, you know. And uh so we came back and I called him, and you know, I was just no money at this time, nothing was settled. I didn't even want to take the money because she had the kids. Of course, they were already my one son graduated high school, so she really had the two younger girls, which were already in high school as well, and uh got back here and and I didn't have my VA benefits. I didn't even know I qualified for him. So that's a whole nother story, you know what I'm saying. And I came back here and Troy Sailist lived the next thirty years together, you know, And so I said, all right, and we're you know, we're polar obsence and a lot of like if that makes sense. I'm military, he's a preacher, but he's competitive. Yeah, you know, he would have been a Green Breay officer or something. You know, he's an athlete and everything. But so I did and then I met my wife here and we just you know, I I would have never written this story from my life, but you know, I've been blessed so much that it's like, you know, you can't be anything but thankful for everything. And where I'm here right now, man, I seem here. Yeah, yeah, I mean this is a blessing. Yeah, so yeah, that's a I'm a blessed man. But it's it's been good Smith Mountain Lake has embraced me. And then Charlie Jones, who's a remax realter. She's like I call her the female Donald Trumpet. Of the lake because she's a businesswoman, you know what I'm saying. And we got to know each other, and so she kept bugging me, get into something, get into something, you know. And Troy told me, He's like, don't lead anything for a year, because it was the best advice, you know, because he knows I'm going to do stuff because I've been helping veterans and all this stuff. And I was in zero place to lead anything. And I told him, I said, Troy, I can't leave myself, and he just laughed out, you know, I said, but you know, and I actually waited three or four I started in twenty twenty one, you know, got home, got back in church, got my all my benefits, which I should have walked out of. A lot to read with was a whole nother story, but that was a big reason my wife left me. Financial stress with young kids. I had one son, a four KU military academy, which was paid for from somebody. I guess that I had done something for. I don't know what exactly what it was, but I don't even know what it was. But so we lived in Palm Ayra and I had a beautiful, you know, brand new cape caught home on five acres, and and I went to make a little extra money with my best friend from Indiana. I got two best friends we grew up together since we were seven, Aaron and Dave. I came back to an empty house and but it was, you know, the money, not understanding my injuries, not having clear enough guidance on that stuff, and help was it was just too much to bear because before all this happened to me, you know, I, you know, it was a different person, you know, I was you know, I never you know, I slept for hours a night and everything got done. Yeah you know what I'm saying. But it was just it was different. And so but to think I come back here and then we were setting around the American Legion that was here from twenty ten. Me and another I had found out where their meetings were, and actually Troy had always let him just have a place because they didn't have a building to meet at East League, and so I went over there too. Nobody showed up. I thought, well, what's going on? You know, So another guy meet was there. So the next meeting we go, he wasn't there. The other guy's actually there. I'm running there and he called me nobody's here, and I'm like, start it back up. So we called the state find out that they had already turned the chapter and everybody had resigned turned the chapter in. And so only reason, so let's make this very clear. The only reason I used the American Legion is for two reasons. Secondly, or you know, not the most important, but it is important, is our voice on Capitol Hill. We have an office up there and we get to be the voice of almost two million veterans in our database. But the most important thing was the Service Department. So it's we get a VSO veteran service officer trained through the VA, certified, and then we can actually when I find them. So I'm usually one that's in the dirt, right That's where I like to be. But now I have the I mean, the most amazing team you ever heard of, this legion. But let's start back. So we called them. We got it. Five guys swore in our wait, two ladies, three or four guys, two ladies we swore. In August of twenty twenty one, we had our first meeting at Drifters Ryan and Jacqueline the US. They let us tall he's a veteran as well, so they let us in and we meet there. We start, you know, with like ten or eleven guys and it just started running. But the premises on which we run it is this. So we don't wear their hats, we don't wear their metals, we don't wear seat cats. Okay, I could care less. I'm gonna be honest, not that it wasn't important and didn't have its time. I don't want to be disrespectful anybody that went before us, because they've done this at the Legion. But our generation we just you know, that's just dude, come on, well, flip flop shorts and tank top when we're on the lake and but you need help, Yeah, we're in you know what I'm saying. So we we just we don't do any of that stuff, but we build a team. We run all of our programs are our meetings like S one through US six Shop in the military, which is all the different shops that have to report to the general. Does that make sense? And we run it just like that. We don't run it per the American Legion. But we went from five and at last meeting this month, we're at one hundred and seventy two members. Wow. We have so many we have admirals, generals, we have so our majors we have they're all special, but you usually don't get like the special ops guys to come and play a lot. But seeing that we're under the radar and this lake is very special. Yeah, so we have a lot of great people around this lake and it's just blown up. But like since we started report to date this past two or the second Tuesday this month, we've brought in twenty point six million dollars to our veterans pockets from the Service Department, okay, And that means lifetime benefit value. So if you say the life expectancy of a manner now seventy nine years old, okay, So if he gets four thousand dollars a month at fifty years old, so take that time his lifetime and that's called the lifetime benefit value. So because it's permanent, once we get it for you get the rest of your life. So we've had you know. So that's how much money we've brought in just from our Service department really in the last two and a half years is when it started with the Service Department. This is our fourth year, but we didn't have that before and doctor Kristen Swinson my favorite person in the world now. I love her to death. She came in. She was a colonel in the Air Force, medical physicist. Her dad was a ward to prisoner of war, married to her mom till they were seventy five. Then he passes away and her mom marries another buddy of his that was a prisoner of war and they were married for twenty years till they were ninety five. And Kristin loves both her dad and her stepdad. He loves So she's on a mission to get all these veterans their benefits. And she's talking about a sharp woman. Oh my goodness, she is a you got to be on your toes bro. She is so good and she does not play games. She's got a lot of clout. She doesn't cheat the system, but she gives everybody a fair shake. So that's the whole reason we wanted the Legion. You know, this is our mission. Our mission statement is two words, and we don't have anything else. And help veterans. We don't care. Like we've been working with this owne scout. We just got to play. Used to live, had him in a hotel. You know, I almost say somebody worked with us. We got him a place. He'd been in his car Vietnam vet seventy some years old, doesn't drink or smoke or nothing. Living in his car for six weeks. Took us two days for him to stand up straight in the hotel because you know, we did health warfare, we check and everything. Great guy, you know, But this is the community we live in. H The lake is so supportive of our legion, and we just you know, like right now we have an event going on all week. Matter of fact, when I leave here, I have to go pay a bill because we have nine people in right now using the lake. This is just one avenue of what we're doing, you know, and that's the active duty side. So we're not just you know, we're also using Smith Mountain Lake to help the people that are doing real missions now to you know, get away, take a breath, tacticle palls and relax. So but yeah, it's been a it's been a wild ride with this all this and and the Legion, And like Jeff Prows is our commander, he's the owner of Mitchell's Point Marina. He didn't need to be I had to begging because he turned me down three times. I'm the XO. I don't ever become the commander, you know what I mean, because I'm an operations guy. I know my lane, you know, and we have some I mean I got admirals and all these other people. I'm like, no, just sit in the seat. Make sure the meetings. He set us up. I'm like, we need to set up s one, three or six. And I mean he he changed the face of us, you know. And then but yeah, we have a lot of fun. Do we work? I literally work it outside. Like if I don't have if I'm on vacation, the only time I'm not working something. You know, it's crazy. Man. You just you keep serving, I mean, really, just keep serving. I think once you're a servant, I don't think you can get away from. Even when I thought I was hiding in the woods and I'm at you know, I met Andrew and he had his dog tags, you know, tattooed around his neck. He's marine in combat boots and shorts. Living off the Ohio River and a little blue right there at the mouth, living in a nineteen seventy one a Bago with woodstove in it, no engine and no outhouse and no electricity and he just killed deers and make fish. Oh well, you know what I'm saying. But he was on meth. Yeah, so he couldn't live with his demons. Because it's like a month after he got back from his last tour, he was on three. He stayed on because he couldn't come home, you know, after Felujah freaked him out, and then they put him, put him on mortar fairs and work. Why should do that man? Like get a kid a break, you know, But he just he was off and then we built this whole relationship the whole time I lived in that woods. So looking back, it has to be the Lord given him to me. Not to get personal on how you do that, but how does someone that's meth and had all that in their head? How do you get them back to the civilization? I love them? How do you build them all? That's awesome? Due, come on, we greet all of our veterans, this is our mono, with a love and acceptance, and do our best to leave them with hope and confidence. Love is the greatest healer of all. Judgment is the fight starter. Yeah you understand I'm saying, Like they know when they're right and wrong. I'm not God. Yeah, I'm not judging. You know, I don't care if I don't care who you are, I don't care what you've done, you know what I mean. My Jesus tells us the love right. Yeah. Like I'm not a preacher. I'll never be a preacher. But I'm just saying, like I live, I try to be like Christ even in combat, you know, with pulling the trigger, not pulling the trigger. You know, there's you know, you just don't carry that kind of with me everywhere, you know, because love always wins day. You might seem like you're losing, but just give us some time, you know, if it's real love, who's gonna whoop you? You're an amazing guy, Brian, Yeah. The grace of God. Well you're listening to life, Libery Happiness. We're here with Sergeant Brian Keaton. Hopefully you'll come back on the show. This is just a snippet for the fans to I would absolutely be honored. Okay, great, well we'll definitely have you back on. But before you leave today, Yeah, we always finish our guests with a question. Okay, if you could choose anybody, whether it's present, past, anybody in history. If you could choose one person to hang out with one day, you get twenty four hours with him. Who is it and where are you hanging out with him at? Oh? I'm going with Jesus. I want to see some miracles. I want to see the time he stood out there and got so tired, went to the tent and nobody paid attention and Mother Mary finally went over. I want to hang with Jesus. I want to see something. I want to see those lives changed. Well, think about that, dude. You think if you had it like you were crippled. Yeah, and all of a sudden, I mean you know, I went to Rack to keep peace. I want to Rack to fix things. Yeah, he's the ultimate fixtion. Like I'd love to sell Man, no doubt, in not even a question if it was a person other than Jesus Christ. I want to hang with Abe Lincoln man, you know, because I think he he had more pressure on him from a nation and he was the first white dude to actually stand up for African Americans. And I know he wasn't the first. There was people that loved him and helped him in all this, but in that setting, correct, in that setting, and with that amount of power and with the nation divided, you know, I think it's probably that's a pretty godly thing to do, don't you think I love him instead of treating like slaves. I mean, you know, it's a terrible sin of our nation. But the thing about you know, God is a youth sin be forgiven. You know, none of us are perfect. But yeah, if it was a person that has to be a Lincoln, if it was if just anybody that's been on the serves of Jesus, that's awesome. 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But we're showing him around and he's excited, and he said, look, I'm not gonna be able to tell you everything basically, but you know, i'd love to come back on. And obviously we're definitely going to have him back on. We didn't even we didn't talk about. The Nationals, which is which is probably the most famous thing, right. Yeah, but. It's just so neat because he said, you just let me know, I'll get I'll get anybody you want, and it's this, you know, there was nothing. Can I say something? I felt bad because I felt like I was dominating in questions and you let it go and I was like, man, I thought, but I was just I just got a hooked vibe. That was just did you. Watch Sean Ryan on Tucker Crossing. I have seen half of it, and Tucker had asked Sean a question I think about his interviewing skills or whatever. I did see that point, and it's really good, and that's what Sean does it. It's not he's not doing this for Sean. We're not you texted and this whole thing became just us talking. It wasn't hey, we can make money if we do this. It was just tell you I want to hear the story. Yeah, because I grew up. You know a lot of them don't like to talk right, right, And I'm like you, if it's when it's gone, it's gone. And you know, well, it's a treat that we get to ask, yeah, questions. I mean, just even those stories there, and after we went to commercial, he told us another story going to Fox News. I mean like, hey, let's sit back down, let's just do another hour. Yeah. So anyway, we got another show to do here, yea. And if I can just promote the next one, so we've got Man, it's so cool. We have people now sending me messages about hey, you know, we're already I think we're out into July with the number of Wednesdays that we have, right, it's getting to the point where we might have to think about. No, yeah, we've got to do maybe in a separate studio and piece it all together. Yeah, this is what happens when you have a show that's growing. So the next veteran voice we have is a two time Purple Heart recipient from Vietnam. His name is Steve Boseman, who served in the Marine Corps, and I did a little reading on him. Man, if you just pictured in your mind, who were the baddest m efforts in Vietnam? If you just had this picture, and I know I'm just hitting this with you, but when you look at those movies, I guess where I'm going. I'll just say what it is to me. The guys that were in those helicopters with the fifty cows, that are in the doorways, you know when they show Vietnam and they're in those helicopters and the Yeah, the guys with the Okay, that's what he was. He was one of the guys in the doorway of the hell yeah, and that was him. I can't wait, cool Sky, I cannot wait to each tell us a story. That's all yeah, all right, Well, let's uh mosey through our agenda real quick. You just made me think. Coming up a little later on our top ten is top ten war movies. Yeah, I saw that. That's cool man. That is an argument, because dude, I got through it three times, meaning I had to go back and take things out with think then yeah, because when I first started, I'm like, I can't name ten war movies. And then I'm like I left that out. Yeah that's really how can I leave anyway, We'll get some of them I hadn't seen. Okay, all right, so we'll a little touch base on drama real quick. Yeah, we don't need it. N PR. Yeah I told you this the other day. NPR is now entertaining to me, National Public Radio. Are they struggling? They are dying? Yeah, like just you wouldn't like before they would give you bs right now. It's what's the word I'm looking for. It's it's BS on steroids. Like it's desperate. Yeah, like you can't believe how desperate they've gotten. And it's it makes you sick to your stomach. I picture clawing, like they're just clawing out or trying to claw out of their hole. Right. Yeah. And I thought about this the other day. You know, they always do these commercials where they say m PR is you know, sponsored by such and such with with without this, we wouldn't be able to exist. We think our spots, you know you know who? They never think the government, the government who's been funding you, subsidizing talking anyway, what you got hunt for Osemo. Oh Man, and so it's really cool because I mean he was on the Iraqi side, right, but in Afghanistan, and we had Captain Walla's last man. It's making some of these things clear when I'm watching it, just by the interviews that we've had, you know where they've been. The best documentary that I think I've seen in a long time was The Hunt for Osama. Yes, and it starts with the it's three episodes. I think once you start one. I ended up watching the first one. It was so late at night, I was like, oh, I cannot believe, I'm not going to watch the other two. But then the next night I watched the other two. But it goes from the planes hitting the buildings, the Pentagon, the ground bush being at the elementary school, and then the Intel, the intelligence agencies and how it went through and the inner workings of the politics that you know goes on. They tell it all. They tell what Rumsfield's doing, what the CIA is doing, and how they're button heads, and oh, it's just so good. All the way up to the kill. I mean it's and then a little bit beyond it is so well done. I can't wait yeah, especially because we're doing this kind of interview. Now, you know the guy that kind of met shawing around really hit the stage. You love that bigger, the guy from Butte, Montana. Yeah, he's in this and he tells the story that he's told Shawn. But it's so good man, Yeah, it's so good. All right, Moving onto sports, It's time for sports. It's one of my favorite. We need to cut more good bumpers like that. Am I. Now, I mean that's am I. By the way, I'm going to prop you give you props YouTube now and videos. We are moving this thing up big time. You're not going to have to look for a job. All the video presents. It was like job, It was like I have four of them. Yeah, Jesus, you need to get rid of the other crap. But Danny, all the TikTok clips you're doing, you're doing a fantastic job. Really good stuff. All right, NBA playoffs quickly, you got. My order of rooting is Minnesota, Okay, see the Pacers and then New York. I won't even be upset if New York wins, because I'm just glad if somebody knew. Yeah, but who do you. Like Emma, I'll. Tell you what Logan and I did last night. We actually watched over the Minnesota and Oklahoma City game. We actually watched Indiana Fever play the Atlanta Dream or whatever they're called, dude, because Caitlin Clark is a watchable thing. Yeah, Like I can't get over like they said, like into the first quarter maybe it was I think it was twelve points, five rebounds, five assists. Did you see she's like the most player with twenty five points per game. Now, the one that blew my mind was her triple doubles. It's like nine she has already more triple doubles than ninety five percent of the NBA or a WNBA combined. Wow, in just her first year and a quarter. We're just starting. Yeah, can we talk about the Reese thing, you know, the big controversy. I don't know that it's I mean, I know the media makes it a controversy, but. Well, I'm less so even. I mean, the play is the play. Okay, that hard voulu You can watch in any college game, absolutely, anybody that's at the end of a game or whatever. But what I don't like is is how the first clips started coming out to make it look like she had shoved Angel Reese. Oh yeah, and Karate chopped her correct, which she did, and there was some flailing. But what they never showed you was the foul that Angel Reese did before that. Exactly, she two. Hands the other black girl. That's big, right, She throws her under the basket to get her own rebound. That gives her all the hate. She even points, hey, she just shoved her and now she gets the ball back. Of course, I'm fouling the hell out of her. She just shoved my teammate. Yeah, I think it was uh Whitlock. Maybe that was discussing it and he's like, I think the difference is we don't get to see it in college anymore because go one and done's where's the girls game? They do have rivalries and it morphs into the WNBA and it should be celebrated, not looked on as a negative. Well, I don't know how it's going to survive because I mean literally, Caitlin Dark is the only one to watch. Maybe pagebackers not because they're white. I will say more people, more games are being broadcasted now. Oh yeah, like Page, I didn't know that other teams are moving from their home facilities to bigger arenas when she's on the schedule. Yeah, like it's still a thing with her, Dude, I'm sorry. When she walks across half court and Jack's the three and switches in your face, it's still watchable. As long as she isn't spouting the That's what bothers me. That's why I had lost interest in watching it. Again. That was an off season thing. And we do have to remember, Trent, she is just graduated. Okay, so that's a lot of pressure. I agree with all of that. And they were murdering her on the court, correct, every time she went down the floor. That's right. What I'll say about the play is okay, the black on black foul didn't get anything. The white on black foul and the reaction by the black girl got reaction. But the thing that also bothered me with the racism card about that WHI shouldn't be any of it, was when Ryan Clark, the guy that's on ESPN, has figured out the only reason he's on ESPN is to talk about racism. Did you see who he attacked? No? No, yes, I did it. He talked he attacked RG three. But the way he attacked RG three was to talk about him being married to a white white woman. Okay, let's just go in reverse. If someone had said something where a black person had been found by the white girl or the in reverse and then said that that guy can't make a statement because he's married to the If a white person had said he's married to a white girl and can't do that, he'd have been run off. If Colin Cowherd had said that, he would have been run off. Yeah. I think the difference now Trent that I've enjoyed is they lose, they lose their viewership and they look stupid. Like I don't think people look at Ryan Clark today and go, man, he had a good point. No, I think they look at him and. Go, god, you're an idiot. He should be fired. He should be fired. But think about what network he's on. Network is gone to shit? Yeah, and it's not. I mean, they had to pay Baseball to get out of a contract because they can't produce ratings anymore. I know, but it doesn't change. No one has come in and say this is how we saved Good Day. They haven't changed anything. And for him to be able to say that is infuriating to me because, like I said, if Colin Cowherd had said it, sure he'd be fired and rights rightfully, so they shouldn't have anything to do with it. Correct that guy should not have a job. I'm one hundred percent agreeing with you there. I just you know, ESPN's not going to change, just like CBS is not going to change until until that they literally don't have a company anymore. Yeah, and that's that's the road that ESPN's heading down. It's not I mean, they don't what's sports do they even have anymore? Man? I think I texted you last night, which you didn't reply back to anything I texted you. But the thing that I saw last night was Nissan. For years and years, the last four to six years, all we have seen is electric vehicles, the mixed couple. What was the thing the obituary? You can't have a white family on a commercial anymore. Last night, it wasn't anything like that, and it was we Nissan have three American made companies, cars that are made in America, so we don't have to pay tariffs. I was like, man, that is marketing capitalism. One oh one is finally coming back to common sense. Yeah, make an ad that says your car is cheaper because it's made in America. I saw one for Hyundai that they said the same thing. Uh good, But I'm sitting here going why do I have Hondai and Nissan. Yeah, we can't freaking make a Foord to Chevy thoughts the same thing. But that's what you want, right fighting exactly. Yeah, that's right. Perfect capitalism to a t. Which, by the way, capitalism works here in Bedford as well. Bill's Breweries closing, Oh, I got what you saying. Have your train shows? This is what you get to make bad decisions? Yes, what's the old thing? And plays stupid games. You didn't end up with stupid prizes. Yeah, well there you go. F one back in action, all right for stapping and a big win this weekend. Did you ever get to see the pass at the beginning? I did. That's amazing. Yeah, that was gutsy to say the least, but yeah, he uh he got a big win. I think mid race or into the race. It was a little bit of a controversy, I think with the clearing on letting one pass and then you know they weren't because I think Oscar Piastre was second because he chose not to pit, and then Lando pitted, and then there was are they going to pass quickly or is it going to wait? And I think, you know, I don't think they waited too late. I just Lando didn't go off like they thought he would with new tires. But anyway, F one is by the way, Emma, do you know what this weekend is? My sister's wedding, Ann Riley's graduation. Sunday is the biggest day in motorsports. Oh obviously I don't know that, all right. So you start off the day with Monaco and F one yep, and then you trickle over to the n D five hundred yep, and then you finish the day off with the Coca Cola six hundred. It is literally the greatest day in motorsports. Still a Ryan Pinske did a day I still were ro Roger Yeah. Fired Cedric, Yeah, wow, that's got to affect his son. So the thing that so they fired him for cheating essentially, or being a scapegoat for cheating, And they sent the two people that would have been on the poll, I guess in second place. They sent them to the rear of the field. So Penske's two drivers. But the guy that was sent to the rear of the field is the guy that won last year. And they were saying the part that he has that was illegal was on that same car last year. That's kind of crazy. I look at that as who owns the speedway. Yeah, Roger Penske does. I look at him. Hey, squash it, save face, gotta go. Oh, of course you'll end up in NASCAR somewhere probably, I mean, you gotta do something. Is it was definitely a black eye. Well he had also been suspended before, gotcha. So this is the second time, and apparently the last time was worse than this time. So yeah, maybe maybe if NASCAR had done that with Chad Canals, yeah, instead of nothing. Yeah, I mean they never did anything to Chad. I don't know if Roger Penskey did it as the head of IndyCar. I think he did it. Is the Hey did Penske? That's right, right? But I think it just saving face that this race. It would have been Rick Hendrick should have got rid of Canals for cheating many times. Should have, yeah, because he got caught a lot. Yep, all right, how about man in the middle of the night. I saw this. Wait a minute, you put F one moving Monaco. Yeah, they've got a contract through twenty thirty six. They go to June next year. Oh, they're moving them on the schedule. Yeah, they're still Monica. I know they're not. Only so the greatest day on the greatest day in racing is not going to be Monico on Sunday. So what are they going to put there? I don't know. Now, wait a minute, Now, if they come here and race Vegas or Miami, we might be onto something. Now that would be amazing. Yeah, they would make everything America. Yeah, Memorial Day weekend, Miami, Indy, Charlotte. Yeah, now that is a game changer. All right, quickly, let's one up that. What if Kyle Larson races in all three Miami, it goes to Andy, and then comes to Charlotte. That would be phenomenal. Yeah, all right, lu Man knocking off the number one seed Texas A and M. That was amazing, dude, I literally listen, this is so funny that the first All right, so it's double elimination. Lu had just beaten Texas A and M the day before, so they're playing Texas A and M with a chance to move on. In the first game of the elimination championship game, Texas A and. M is up? What am eleven to seven. In the second one? In the first. Rise, Yes, the second time they played them. Yeah, the second time was like the end was like fourteen to. Eleven, right, so it's eleven to seven. And I cut it off because I mean, of course Texas A and M is gonna win. Yeah. And my nephew, who's policemen, text me. He's like, I cannot believe that the girl swung And I had no idea what he was talking about. I go back and look, and I'm like, oh my god. They had tied it up eleven to eleven with bases loaded, two outs, three to two count, and she swings at ball four that would have won the game, That would have won the game, and the game's over. But and you and I both know watching sports long enough, of course the number one team in the nation goes on to win the second game. It's like, yes, you had your chance, now just go home. Correct. And that didn't happen. No, it did not happen. They found a way and they pitched a girl who hadn't pitched in the whole tournament. Wow, did you see who they played? The next? Oregon? Or they're in there a bracket ten o'clock at night? I know who do they play? Though? Oregon? Oh so it's I just write Super Regional is ahead to head. That's two out of three. Swhear. Liberty always gets stuck with Oregon. I know I did think about that too. Hey, it's time to pay back for football. It's right. Hey, while we're talking about college, shout out to Jackson Cherry and Virginia Tech winning yesterday too. They did they play today? They did play And as a matter of fact, just before I came over to do the show, I was watching Jackson Cherry at bat but I think they were losing three to one to Clemson. Huh, but I don't know what the final was. I'll check that here. While you're on to the next. One quickly, a little baseball nugget for you. Nugget Max Schurzer. By the way, Dallas Baptist is up three to nothing on LU and Baseball. Okay, Okay, Max Schurzer, yeap, Max Schurzer. Yeah. The brown eye blue eye. All right? You know, you know how we always talk about Bobby Bonie and his contract. Yes, how about Max Schurzer? This year alone, we'll get seventy million dollars from four different baseball teams. Wow. So he's still getting paid by the Nats, like four million dollars this year. He's still getting paid by what other is? Three other team? That's Rangers. Yeah, so it totals up to be seventy million just this. Year, Donna, Donna, Just to give you no date, Clemson beat Virginia Tech six to one, and Tennessee beat Alabama fifteen to ten. Wow. Man, the SEC is the tournament to watch. Yes for sure, I can't wait. Yes, VAM I lost fifteen to one. All right, what's happening? It's time for news? All right? Do you have a Carolina Kevin to I? Yeah, yeah, okay, but I told him we were going to be late, and he said. As usual, we can. We're can skip half at it if you want, or let him participate in it. I don't know what. But he can't hear my clips. He said, He said. I said, we're running late. He said, yeah, I always are. I said, well, we're doing veterans now, and he said, so does Fox News stick to your post? What does that mean he's hurt God, all right, District court judges, yeah, using you know, the power to stop a president, right, we elect them? Right, Well, this is this is what's being argued at the Supreme Court level. Right. And I found that. I literally read the article and I went, what a jerk? So, I mean, I've listened to Supreme Court judges talk to the people arguing the cases. Right, I've never really heard a Supreme Court justice be a jerk to a person talking. Huh, But I hear I did in Kagan, right. She literally this is what she said, and I quote she said this to the guy who is arguing on the Trump administration that judges have too much power to try to stop agendas for the president. Right. And she says, if I were in your shoes and there's no way out approach the court with this case. That's what she told him, and she's lecturing him. Okay, Well guess what I found. I found a clip of her in twenty twenty one talking about this or excuse me, twenty twenty two, when a district court judge was stopping the Biden administration, like this is the same judge saying this, all right, go ahead, cut one just can't. Be right that one district judge can stop the nationwide policy in its tracks and leave it stopped for the years that it takes to go through normal process. So she literally said that, right, and yet she literally is telling this guy this exact opposite. She said, shouldn't it have to work its way through the courts? Shouldn't it take a long time, so you don't just put policy in place without thinking of ramifications. I think the biggest story from the Supreme Court in the last ten years, if you want to say, is those three are always together, correct, they always vote on the liberal side without regard to what the law is. Where we get pissed that Thomas Coney, Barrett or sometimes even Justice Roberts. Oh, definitely Justice Roberts. But sometimes the guys that you think would be on your side sometimes and they base it on law. Those three never do correct. They just do whatever Obama would want them to vote. That's essentially what I picture every time. Yeah, it's just it's crazy, man. You know what tacks me off about that stuff, any of this is it's okay for the illegals to come across without any due process. Right, we didn't detain them. We did at one time, but we don't detain them now. They just go out into the country, and now we say they have to have due process before they can go back. Did the J sixers get due process or did they sit in a shit sell until they were heard in court? If they were heard in court. How many times do we hear this? During the J six debate they were pushing officers, assaulting them. Yeah, and yet we got these idiots up there doing that in New Jersey and nobody says a word. Oh my god, I cannot wait to play this. Have at it for you? Do you have her singing? Oh? I didn't even know it until what he sent it to me. I had to play it. I don't what do they get out of singing? What do they think? Cannot wait to play this? It's the lass so hard. Last night at jesse Waters telling that stupid Jessica on the five, she said, the public opinion polls are changing, like and he just laughs, like, are you that like? Are they that oblivious now? Because they're not. They're actually still getting worse for Democrats. Literally, a poll came out this week that said people do not want resistance now, they want Democrats to figure out a way to work with Republicans. No way anybody is saying that on the Democrat side. So it's the same liars that would lie about a poll would have lied to us about Biden. That's right, it's the same people, oh speaking to that. Yes, Biden's cancer. We all know now that we know one. He slipped up and said it in the speech. We remember that. We covered that here, We actually talked about it. Correct. But the vantage point that I had is how he always tries to put himself in with other people, right. But I mean, he probably did have cancer. I'm starting to think Trent, that he had it back in twenty fifteen. Yeah, it's definitely a possibility. I'm thinking that he was diagnosed with it and he's just lost his son, right because remember that's what he blamed it on, was bo. Yeah. I think he probably was diagnosed and got scared and decided not to run. But then they came afterwards and it's like, Joe, you're the only one that can win cancer. It doesn't matter, we'll hide that. Yeah, I mean he didn't just find. Out, dude. It's even more infuriating to know that they let him run again, Like with all of his faculties gone, they let him run again. Which tells you everyone knew. Yeah, and they they signed him up because they could just keep pushing their agenda. By the way, did Obama not say that he wanted someone that yes, could do it so he could still run the country. Yeah, as long as he didn't have to be the front man. Correct. Yeah, that's what they did. Jesus anyway, all right, but we've got Trump in office, which gives us all a boost, right, we love that. So let's get a little win win, win. Win win, and we're gonna make America great again. Who do you work for it? I don't know what tell that is. He's get yourself a real job. Hey, but what by the way, that would be us? Yeah, life, their rappiness, Get yourself a real job. He's just adding her. What if he's on their side? Do you hear that time when you and I went to the campaign event for it was Bob Good and the guy we love, Ram Paul. Yes, And the first thing they started talking about was the people in the front road, the media, and you and I were sitting there, your hands like, hey, dude, we're on your side. You guys not us suck. Yeah, we're pointing to w s E. Yeah, where's Andre White aad? Oh lord? All right? Yeah? Moving on top ten? Yeah, now your top ten for the week, she's more like a five. All right? What what, Emma? Nothing? Emma did uh? Just curious? What did you have going on this week? Anything? Oh? Yeah you did, Gail? Just text you. Yeah no, but it just dawned on me that we didn't ask you. My sister's getting married. I'm in a wedding. Oh yeah, excited. Where's she getting married at? It's called Spring Grove. It's not an appomatics, Yeah, familiar with that. And her rehearsal dinner is downtown Tresca on eighth. Already done the bachelorette. Yep, Nashville. So just rehearsal dinner and then the shebang. Who's her husband? His name is Tanner. She's marrying rich. She did good smart? Oh yeah, she did very smart. I failed rich. You do realize, Emma, I have to I have to educate Trent. When you roll your eyes at Emma, she has a camera that she can see. You now and she ds some busted she sees it. Oh God, because you said he's rich. What makes a guy rich that pisses me off, that should not have a factory. Grandma gave him a good trust fun man. Listen, Emma, it's. He's also very sweet. I love him. Okay, what if he wasn't rich? Emma, would you still love someone? Yes, my boyfriend's not rich and I love him. So I'm marrying. Poor, poor fellow. And there's a reason he's poor, but not money yours. That's too far. Jar was too far? Alright, Sorry, I'm kidding. Moving on top teen, I love you. We've got top ten war movies. Yeah, so these are movies that have some type of war. Yeah, god, y'all. Number ten, it's Platoon. Good movie. You've seen it? Yeah, yeah, Emma, I've not seen anything. Oh my god, whoa, whoa, whoa whoa. We'll get to that. I've only seen one war movie and it's not. Jeez, all right. Gettysburg is number two. I never saw Gettysburg is really good. It is. It's obviously civil war, but I mean it was very well done, very well done. I have a hard time with history. Well, all of these are history, I know, but it was like my likes mostly in my life until recently, has been Vietnam forward. I never liked the World War two back discussions and the Civil War stuff. I never was my favorite. Yeah, I like the Civil War was always interesting to me, only a lot because of who my friends were earlier on. But slave owners, no, no, So that did shape me a little bit, was visiting civil battlefields, but learning the intricacies of that. And I was terrible to go on these trips with trust me, because I was the smarting. Oh that's right, used to go to the Yeah. Emma, we would we would be standing at these cannons and I've got these older gentlemen just just at awe of the cannons, right, and they're just man, could you imagine the soldiers walking through the woods and you've got these big cannons and people are starving and they've been barefoot, it's cold, and we're literally standing at these cannons that are up on top of these steps, right, yeah, And I just look and I go hew, they get these things up these steps. Man. They would get so angry at me. And then a car would go by, right, because the cannons are always beside the highway, and I'm like, do you think they waited for the car? To pass before they lit the can they just they hated my gut? Yeah, I wonder why. I can understand, all right, But anyway, I loved Gettysburg. Gettysburg was really good. Number eight Dunkirk. I remember you telling didn't you see this at the theater? You no? Was that something like nineteen twenty, nineteen seventeen, nineteen seventeen, Yeah, I got him mixed up. Dunkirk was was pretty good. I didn't know was that the Ocean Navy? Okay, yep, yep. Number seven obviously is Full Metal Jacket. Can we can we get it out in the open? That Full Metal Jacket is two parts of the movie. It's a good part and a bad part. The first part is top five material absolutely, second. Part all right, it was like two different movies. Yeah, it's crazy, but I I got a great fact about Full Metal Jacket, right. The first part was phenomenal. Yeah. Umber six Gods in Generals another great movie. Never heard of it? Yeah, like I haven't even heard of that phenomenal Civil war. That's why. Number five Yeah, Hamburger hill Man. I swore to remember it, but I'm not one hundred percent. Sure that's Vietnam. Yeah, I never remember that phenomenal. Yeah, is it William Dafoe? So I thought he was in platoon. Willem Dafoe. He might have been in that Hamburger? Are you googling that? What? I'm googling these? You see what they are? Because I don't know. I got Hamburger, Helper, Hamburger Hill. Hey, I tessed Brian. He should start catering food to us, like dinner. It wasn't any I hear you, am? I think you should. I don't know, it wasn't. I just I love the movie. Man, it was good like cater dinner for what? For this show? Yeah? Because you got to work so late? Yeah, I bring you a snack? No, I know I need a midnight snacker. I need a snack. No, let's way to after the show, all right? Uh number four, Good Morning Vietnam. I wouldn't even put that in my top twenty. Okay, I loved it, all right. It was funny all these it was. It was it was a it was a comedy, right, Yeah, Am I wrong? Why can't Why do they always have to be saying okay. No, I got you all right? The Loan Survivor, that was that guy that was kind of popular right from Iraq or Afghanistan. The loan survivor, the lone survivor would have been the Marcus Slow Trail story. I believe in Afghanistan, Yes, or he escaped from the hillside or yes? Yeah, Mark Wahlberg, Yeah, yep, yep, that's pretty good. Number two yes, and number two and number one could have easily been back and forth. I can agree with this American Sniper unbelievable. Uh look, listen to me, Emma. If you don't do anything over the next two weeks, which she won't, I'm begging you to watch An American Sniper. It is one of the best movies ever. Chris Kyle was an American hero. Probably I'll never forget. I don't remember it being violent, I remember being intense. Yes. Yeah. The thing I remember the most about that movie was leaving the movie because it was a completely packed theater, completely packed. There was not one word said by anybody. They just left. It was the quietest theater I've ever left in. Not not one person said what'd you think about the movie? It was just it was so good. Yeah. And the way they ended it, yeah, with the real life. Oh, it was so cool. Geez man, I mean I'm not a teary guy. Yeah. That movie tears you, whether you like it or not. I tear up it. Find Finding Nemo if they found him yet, well, when he lost his dad? Number one, Number one, Saving Private Ryan, Saving Priate Ryan was really good. Another movie where it felt like it had two parts. The beginning where it was in so intense and you literally felt like you were on the beaches. Yeah, and then the second part was, you know, finding your thing. Yeah, I tell you. I think I'm getting it confused a little bit. With Band of Brothers. I think that is what in my mind is The Band of Brothers was so good? Does that qualify? I haven't seen it. Oh, so it's a series, so it's like ten episodes. I want to say, I can't remember, but dude, everyone is a movie. It is like and it kind of goes through the history of following an army unit. Yeah. Oh it is so good. So my list is a little bit going to be a little bit different years because I agree with you as a lot. But is this a war movie? Black Hawk Down? Yes, you would call that a war movie. Yeah, that's top five for me. I can watch its every time. It comes on. It is so intense. The actually Captain Wallace talked about this last week. Leaving the military was tough for him when he remember he got out of war and he had that kind of discussion about how it was tough. You're a band of brothers man leaving them and trying to go do something in the civilian world. It's very difficult. The black Hawk Downs. One is Crimson Tide, a war movie. I guess it is because it was of submarine marines and Russians. I don't know, man, I'm gonna I'm gonna tell you two movies that you need to write down that you will watch and go How did how do we not know? These two movies? One is mel Gibson called We Were Soldiers. He is with who's the guy that goes beef? It's what's for dinner? Sam Ellie? Sam Ellitt? Okay, Sam Elliott has a mustache, but he doesn't have the beard. But he's just a They were so young at this time. I don't think we knew Sam Elliott was Sam Elliot. It was it was that young. But we were soldiers. The story of that is your boots are hitting the ground of Vietnam and you're in the army and you think you're the army. You think we're going over to this little country called Vietnam. We're the army. Yeah, and they hit the ground and it is like, how in the hell are we going to survive? Oh, it is so intense, so good. And then the movie that made me join the military, The. Little Rascals. Breakback Mountain. There was a there was something called Boys in Company c Boys in Company see and it's probably from the nineteen seventies era movie. Oh it is so good. See. This is what and I mean this in all sincerity. Trip the generation. Now, when we grew up, movies were a thing. Yeah, like you, it was a tree, like what is what is your generation? What is a motivational what is it? But no, I mean like when my mom's done, When my mom came home with Little Caesar's pizza, which was the double pizza pizza right in the paper, Yeah, and sat it down. You knew what was coming beside it, yeah, which was a VHS tape. Yeah, and dude, you couldn't wait the Great times man? Yes, what what is? It's all streaming? Now, That's what I'm saying. What do they What do you want for I'm asking a serious question, like a. I mean, I still like going to see movies, especially big ones like when Avengers came out. So the movie theater is that? Because for us it was more of the. We we I raised my kids. We had Saturday night movies. I mean we just so we we purposely watched something on. This because I would watch because it wasn't a lot going on. So that's how I watched, at least at Hamburger Hill. I remember that, watching it in the basement. Yeah, just how intense it was and learning about Vietnam through that, And I mean that's how I ended up watching freaking westerns? Is do we rented those sackets? And I couldn't wait to watch all of them? Does that mean that that we were the only one on the block that had a vc R? Rich kids? Hey? Did you did you ever see the tank movie called Fury with Brad Pitt? No? But I've heard, dude, it's good. Those three movies I gave you, you will put them in your top five. Each of those three will go in your top five. We were Soldiers, Boys in Company, CE and Fury Fury now Boys in Company Cee. I saw when I was in high school. It made me enlist, just like he was talking about. It motivated me. I enlisted in the Marine Corps. I was going to the Marines instead of VM I and my mom talked me out of it. But that movie is why? What is Top Gun a war movie? That's a good question, I would say so. I saw that in theaters twice. I really it's just it's a combat but it's more like a combat war. I wouldn't say a war movie. I'd say a military movie. It's it's yeah, it's not based on real yeah stuff. Can Wonder Woman be a war movie? No? And then the only two war movies? It was another one similar to top I think Wonder Woman is a war movie. I think it was called Iron Eagle. That was a war uh Air Force sort of? Do you with Superman? I have nothing. I haven't seen nothing. It was a genuine question. All right, moving on, are you gonna watch the Superman movie when it comes out? No? I love the Superman stuff. I'm sorry, I'm just asking. I just I want them to do something other than remakes. Or Marvel or Man. I can't get enough those DC comments. Although I went to watch Wolverine again recently, and it was lame. I was like, once you've gotten over to a certain age, razor blades coming out of your knuckles. I've seen it exactly. You mean you haven't seen Wiverine? Thank God, pick up this show. Make it quick, Kevin. Stuck? God, what do you want to do? What? It's your show? Uh? Just get the highlights? All right? Do you don't know klutzuckt he has like ninety all right, well I'll jump, I'll jump, I said, get to your highlights. Okay, they're all hollow. All right, I'm gonna give you. This is just a memory of the guy that's got cancer. Top five interview of all time? Cut fifteen? Can you find cut fifteen? Mister President, you are the oldest president ever. Pretty good shape, which leads to. My next question. You are more aware of this than anyone. Some people ask whether you are fit for the job. And when you hear that, I wonder what you think? Watch me? Maybe, honest to God, that's all I think. Watch me. If you think it on the energy. Level of mental acuity, then acuity. It's another thing of just watching. And you know, keep my schedule, do what I'm doing. I think that, you know, I don't want to sit down with our NATO allies and keep them together. I don't have them saying howl, what do you want to say? You know? I mean it's a matter of you know that old expression, the proof of the puddings in the eating. I mean, I respect the fact, but I think it relates to how much energy you have and whether or not the job you're doing is one consistent with what any person many. My favorite part, how would you say your mental focus is? It's focused? Says I think it's I haven't. Look, I have trouble even mentioning even saying to myself my own head to the number of years I know, no more think of myself as being as old as I am than fly. I mean, it's just not. You can cut it there, like in all honesty. Yeah, when you see that clip, there's no way you can watch that clip and not immediately go to TikTok and all the people that made fun of that. Yes, like that woman that's putting stuff in the oven doesn't belong there, and just oh dude, they're hilarious, Like sixty minutes is shameful. Okay, So here's what's crazy about that the guy from sixty minutes got fired for cutting up Kamala Harris's right, correct? Imagine what I mean? They had to have a sixty minutes interview. Imagine what Imagine what they took out? Oh could you imagine if we actually got the full and version of this? Do you know what year this was? This was twenty twenty two. First of all, when you ask the question, you say, some people, yeah, No, everybody wants to know. Yeah, not some people. Hey, can you go back to cut ten? Emma? Is it too late? Listen? Listen to CNN defend him. Listen. While I think the worst part of today for the president was the political optics, I don't think there's. Really any uh. This is not some sort of ominous talisman about his medical condition. I fell in the hallway because I was wearing high heels and walking too fast recently, well it was actually about three years ago now come to think of that. And it's so startling as an adult when you fall, it just like it knocks the. Windo out of you and you can't believe. That you just fell. And he got up a lot faster than I did. Are you encouraged that you saw him back in the White House in. The air for pretty spry. Listen to that. Yeah. Look otherwise, the president, you know, appears to be in a pretty good physical condition. I'll note that even more startling. This week, Bruce Springsteen took a fall. On stage, and he was on his back for quite a bit longer than the president today. Jesus, that is excellent context. Dude. By the way, did you see who fell this week? Bruce Springsteen? Yeah? Did you see what Trump posted? Trump posted the videos where he hits the golf ball and the golf ball hits the back of Bruce Springsteen then he falls down. Trump actually posted You want to hear a liar? This is graduation time cut twenty. Donald Trump's modern dagascopo is scooping folks up off the streets. They're in unmarked vans, wearing masks, being shipped off to foreign torture dungeons, no chance to amount of defense, not even a chance to kiss the loved one and goodbye, just grabbed up by mass agents, shoved into those vans and disappeared. That's a lie, dude, he's making. He's I had a graduation ceremony. Tim Waltz is saying that the government is just picking up random people off the street, masks in masks and sending them to camps concentration. This is why I love that we have people that didn't have balls before that now at least do have. And I know we're skeptical, but dude, watching Marco Rubio tear every one of them senators a new one. I know you like that stuff. It annoys me. Why is he even up there? Why is because he is required? It is oversight. They are required to go testify. I mean, the Republicans are in the lead. I don't understand. Just go, keep going to do your work. I get what you're saying. I'm just saying it is required. They do have to go in front of Congress. Just stop with the shows and just go to work. Don't stop giving in to these people. All right, listen to the next liar. This guy ran the FBI. You we're back in the middle of a called firestorm. Yeah for walking on the beach with my wife. So stop, just pause up here, ourred to me. That guy lied right from the start. Yeah, what channel is he on? Seeing MSNBC? MSNBC, right, what's he getting ready? To start selling a book, a book Jesus. So he puts an image of of all the things. You're going to walk across the beach and you just see these four numbers, eighty six forty seven, two different colors. Let me ask you something. If it had just said maga, would he have posted maga is the shelves. He's a liar, of course he is. And he is part of those in DC. Yeah that were there for decades. Yep, that corrupted everything about our system. They're outside looking in. They don't have the power, that's right. So here's a lady that did do some vandalism. She went in and attacked as Kevin waiteanhes no, go ahead, Okay, this is a this is a bonus. So this woman gets arrested for what do they try to do? The senators try to run in and. Yeah, she was the one that got literally charged because she pushed and smacked and did other stuff to officers. Yeah, who they claim were inciting it. First of all, did officers just show up and incite it? No, they were looking for him, Yeah, right, like an officer had nothing else to do, so go hit a senator? Was she a senator of congresswoman, congress congressman. Okay, no, the best part, real quick was Megan Kelly's take on all this. Yeah, no one knows her name, that's right, until she had to do this. Well, I don't know her name yet, but I guess I can read it. Hey, Emma, I want you to watch this one because I want you to see. I want you to answer. Have you ever seen an answer to a question like this before? On TV cut thirty facing. A federal charge? Though? Are you afraid of what's going to transpire? Now? You fight? You fight all, You fed all, You fight all when your government is doing you wrong? You fed on? Oh, you fight all. When I saw this, I swear to god, I thought it was Ai that was so democrats do that? What does she think she's leading? Can we please have them continue to lead? No, I know what you're saying. That is absolutely exactly right. I mean they are they are who was leading? Correct? By the way, these are the people that had a damn secretary that was my favorite. So I had this for Kevin if he came on, or it was going to be a segue to Kevin. But this is Emma a sad day, and Emma will never know who this guy is. Norm was a hero. Norm. I used to man, there was nothing better than when Norm would come in the bar and the whole bar would yell Norm, and the bartender would say, hey, Norm, what's up? Norm would respond always with a quib. That's what I got? Oh perfect? So that's that. This was him. So is Kevin coming on? Or do we? Yes? He's coming on? Okay, so go ahead hit it. But he can't? Can I for your draft? Mister Peterson? A little early? Isn't nobody for a beer? No for stupid questions? If you hear the beginning of that, this is in the morning. He's going into Cheers in the morning, like they're open, open bar in the morning. He said, Norm, what's up? He said, my nipples? Pour me a beer, it's cold outside. Yeah, let's talk about what's going down. Kevin? No, Kevin, Oh god, I love that preacher. I watched him again the other night. You sent it to me. This. I ended the show you sent me this. I thought this was great. No, Kevin, No, let me see what's going on. It's seven anyways, he can go, he won't be on. We got to get his Coca Cola six hunder picks. Yeah, joke's calm down there. Okay, you get paid overtime, no tax on that. I don't get paid over. I think that bill is passing. I think they've come up to an agreement. Although Chip always says they have it good. He says, but he also voted to move it forward. So if you're really hold out, why wouldn't you hold out? Then just let Ship do his thing. Are they passing the bill that taxes aren't going to be I meant that tips aren't going to be taxed. That's what I'm hoping, yep. But we've got to get a few things settled first. That's the I'm telling you. That's what is My man in Kentucky, Tom Massey is one hundred percent right. You can you can keep complaining and bitching, but until you change it, it's still going to be the same thing. So change it, I know. I just I don't think it's gonna change. It's my I mean, I I think some concessions are made, but like the salt deductions, obviously they just raised that yesterday. Yeah, so hanging around like a loose why are like Gingers and the ice tray Kevin. In stereo. All right, Kevin, we have like two minutes, so I. Have a al sailable story for media squats because the podcast is over. Oh what are you doing this Memorial Day weekend? Kevin? A man. Sitting at home. You're not going to go to the six hundred. No, I don't understand. Like when you lived in Virginia, you would go to the six hundred every year. Now that you live down there, you don't go to the six hundred. No, because the six hundred is like it was ten years ago. What do you miss? What's what's the difference? Tell us what's wrong now? Well, the same as All Star Racial reason they changed it from Charlotte to North Wilkesboro. It's just six hundred miles of this new gin Car thing. That's all this craziness. You know how nas car has Briann It's done dropped nearly half percent. I will say, I like, you know what I liked Wilmington. I like how it's going. Oh, North Wilkesboro, I'm sorry, North soh. The racing has become really good with that. It's the best short track right now. It was that was pretty exciting. Although I think if you put forty cars out there, it might not be as exciting because you would just be getting into that traffic and be harder to get the lead. Side by side like they did last weekend. I mean there was Joey Logano and Chris Bell were side by side for like yeah ten laughs. It reminds you of the car store and stuff, right, you had to work to pass a guy. I mean, I think if NASCAR went and they did heats, heats and then finished with the heat and would be the way to do it. If they did twenty twenty and twenty yeah, something like that, that would be a way to do it. Kind of changed a little bit because forty cars I think too many out there. But I thought it was exciting. I mean, was that was as good as short track racing I've seen in a while. So, Kevin, who are your picks for the Cook Cola six hundred? Chase Eliot, You're just gonna ride that wagon like I've been riding Busher and Bush? All right? Who else? Chase and who else? Hm? I'll probably go. My second driver probably be little old guy. Red Aler. You're pretty good. Chris good old d Chris lax. So who did hold on? It looks like Chris Lax with long hair ish. All right, So the six hundred, he's got Kyler Reddick, which is the second best odds, and you've got Chase Elliott. Now who's your dark horse? Oh boy, you probably go with mm hmm Austin Dylan. Oh that is dark horse. Yeah, guy, I swear. Man, that guy thinks a lot of them, don't, dude, I sent you that clip. I just what are you saying? Well, I'm just gonna stick around to help the organization. Shut the hell up. Yeah, all right, Austin Dill got Brian Boucher. Uh. I haven't really put a lot of thought to this, but here's the thing with the six hundred, it's hard to have a first time winner because it is such a demanding track. Yeah a race. So I'm gonna go five dollars on Hun William Byron. Oh that's a good picture. That is his home track. Let's not forget that he is from Charlotte. Uh. That that gone, and I'm gonna go Chris Busher. Now wait a minute, mile and a half penskes have been good. I'll go Blanie. Blanie's due man, Yeah, I'll go Blanie. And then my last is let's see Jimmy Johnson. That would be something, wouldn't it. Good grief? That's that's not even long shot, that's but you know, what, the hell with it? They might as well get Morgan Shepherd. Dude, that is a three thousand, two hundred dollars win on a two on a ten dollar bet. Got you, Jimmy, I'll take Denny Hamlin. I'm gonna take Bowman. Showman and Keselowski. He's due, isn't he. He just keeps crashing. He's like in the thirties. He's awful. He's got pretty cars, though, So let's do Uh, who's your indy five hundred guy? Do you have one? Kevin? No, he has no idea. Helio Cash. I believe it's gonna be I believe it's gonna be the guy who want it. I think he's going three t. Oh the guy. Yeah, Joseph. You know, I keep thinking he's a foreigner because the way his name's written in everything. Yeah, but he's from Tennessee. Huh, Joseph old blonde heeded boy, New Garden. Here you got Brian. I'm gonna go with sting Ray Robb. I'm not Oh, I just I was gonna put money on him just because I love the name. I do love the name too, but I will go You know what I'm gonna go with Christian lund I don't you know who? That is? Ten dollars? No, five dollars, will be five dollars. This wins me one hundred and twenty five. Okay? Done? And Kyle Larson, Oh man, I god, I completely forgot about him. Kyle Larson would be freaking awesome. Who's the guy just go with? Would m not a bad pick either? Alex Pollo? Oh jesus what. Who's the guy that's won like all of them this show? Alex Pelo? No, you know who. I'm gonna go for the best looking car by hands down? How do you know who drives for him? Aj Foyd's car? That red, white and blue with the stars on it. That guy is incredible? Is he Santino for Rucci? Yeahino for Ruccie. I'm gonna put aj Foyd? But you know who I'm talking about? Yeahs Pad old Ward? Who did you pick? I put Stingray? But who was your guy? Lung Car? Christian Linguard? God is Roman even racing anymore? Grosjean? Oh no, I haven't seen him. He's not. How great would it be for Kyle Larson to finish in the top ten? Mm hmmm, that would be awesome? Rinas VK. Should rain? Should it? Hopefully he's got both days coming. That sucked last year when he could the Rainow is it supposed to rain Sunday in Charlotte? Do you know we only got like a. Okay, good? What about Indianapolis? By the way, there's nothing prettier than a good day of racing at Indianapolis and a good day at Charlotte. You know, let's hope. We have that and you don't have to work on Monday. And you got Monico. You know what, screw it, I'm not doing anything. Let's just get in the motor home and go to Charlotte Graduate. You know. The largest venue is Indianapolis. The more fans that's every Wow. Yeah, no, you got how much? Did you say? Four hundred thousand? Connor d Ahole? Lot of people who do. You got in Monaco? Will go to Trifecta? Oh? Is that even on here? That one? If you does he even know? You don't even know any drivers in that one? Do you. Remember my favorite one? God blame. I knew you were going to say that. I swear I knew you were going to say that. You remember him hitting the drive the driver? Yeah, they still they got that car. Somebody's got it in their fall on their farm. Yeah, the car that actually split up me. That's hilarious. Well, see, how are you taking Brian? They don't do We don't see them both there. It is the Monaco Grand Prix outright betting. Yeah on Pablo Monthala, I. Don't take Max for stepping wins me twenty bucks on a five dollar bet. You got her stapping. You can't believe y'all didn't even know the horse race last weekend. Y'all both forgot that I did. I forgot all about it. Now you're wrong. Marty won twenty bucks. I put ten dollars on journalism. Nice. I lost. Kevin Bett on the sand Man. Kevin didn't bring those dreams. Are we rolling this up? I got a I don't know. Just if you want to take it, fold it, I don't care. It was helpful today's interview. Thank you. I never looked at him, Yes you did, but of course you would down it. I will take I will take piastre. Wait to God on limb. Well, I mean it's his year. Mm hmmm, so you just threw to the wolves. Huh? Who Lando? It was one or the other. Who's in second? Lando, who's in third? First happened? Okay, unless that's changed since last week. I don't know, Yes, sir. I wad done good good. Good stressing a little bit. We got graduation parted. Yeah. Uh, she does duck going. She does flowers all over our deck. I'm gonna give a shout out to my cowork, the old Crystal. She's turned fifty two. She's been my side kick for five years now being here. If it wasn't for her, I'd be back in Virginia. Oh man, I'm glad for her. Yeah. Her birthday will be on Saturday. Very cool. Happy birthday, Crystal. Yep, all right, we're wrapping good, sorry. Because I got electric fence around it. Nice. Keep out the rabbits or the deer. Or Crystal both, all of them people trying to steal al my vegetable tea kid. All right, few little things for you for a leave. Wow. Undertake is such good triples. Mm hmm. Undertakers are good tippers because I don't know. They played on the legs. My god, what kind of tea is hard to swallow? Capital tea? I don't know. T bone reality clouds least favorite exercise. What is a cloud's favorite exercise? Yoga? That's right, it's struggles to feel grounded. Good job, trick. Jesus. All right, we'll pick up next week. Here is Brian's favorite Jesus. I want to seafood back, I seafood made at all? Oh, you could edit that whole thing out now. All right, We'll send everybody off on a really fun note here. This is Bishop wouldn't He is one of my favorites. So I term you know how we have Black lives matter? Yeah? What I think he talks about is black lives matter, Yes, and he's the black community has been lied to. This is a really good preaching. All right, We'll see you next week, folks. Don't forget. We have another veteran on next week. Again. If you are interested in sponsoring the show, contact Emma at Emma at mediasquatch dot com, em m A at mediasquatch dot com. Yep, see you next week. This is part of the problem I have with some of the so called civil rights leaders. You guys flying in their personal jets. They live in gated community. I'm out. I guess that praise. They are rich, they are doing well. And then they're stand up and tell you a black man can't make it a miracle if you're blocking that country to call country working against you because a black man can't make it, and he's blacker than you are, and rich have gotten rich off of feeding you that kind of garbage. And now you go, you the fool, You sit down and you buy it. All right, all right, I'm black. I can't do it. I can't do anything because I'm black. But he's. He's just as black as you are. And yet he's doing cool, convincing you that you can't get anywhere, and you're dumb enough to buy the devil is a liar? You are? Now, I said, well, why you're doing so good, Rev? Why you're firing some Well? I see you on seeing in MSNBC, hall, on TV and everywhere, and when they have the big movie stars and when they have that great big parties, I see you with them and they invite you in and oh my lord, you're sitting at the table and all of y'all are having a ball. And you're docker than me. You're Docker down the ham Is it that you got to that table with your backself, but you're telling me with my back shelf that I can't. You'll being fed a bill of good. They're lying to you. If the Lord delight in you, if you do what is right. God will bless you. Praise the Lord. Now, somebody's mad. I can imagine what the comments are. Make them who cares