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Good morning, and welcome to break Through Walls. I'm Ken
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Walls and I'm your host, and today I am super
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excited I have the one and only Colonel Rob Manus
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on the show. This guy is well, he says he's
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not a hero, but he's a hero in my book,
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so I'm just gonna call him a hero. He's really
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incredible guy. If you don't watch his show or listen
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to his show, we're gonna be talking about that because
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it's absolutely spectacular. So do me a favor if you
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would and share this out with everybody that you know.
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Let's get one hundred thousand people on here watching live
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and stay with us. We'll be right back with the
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one and only Colonel Rob Manus. You know, I started
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thinking last night, how do I introduce this guy? I mean,
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he was at the Pentagon on ninety eleven. I mean,
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he's just done so many amazing things. And then I
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found this little intro video that his team did and
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I stole it. So I'm gonna share this little intro
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video of him because it gives a really good rundown
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of who Colonel Maynus is. So check this out. It's
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pretty cool. And then we're gonna bring Colonel Maynis on.
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Colonel Rob Manus says a lifelong record of providing dedicated
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service to this nation. Having worked his way up from
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the enlisted ranks to full colonel, he served our country
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for more than thirty two years. He has served as
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a bomber squadron commander, disposal technician, Joint chiefs of Staff
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operations officer, assisted the National Security team with the campaign
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plan for the Global War on Terrorism. He authored the
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first theater nuclear war plan and served as the vice
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commander of America's largest airborne intelligence winning Colonel Rob Manus
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is a true American hero. This is Rob Mainus Live.
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Well, no it's not. It's actually Breakthrough Walls. But we
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have Colonel Rob Mainus live with us. Let's bring him
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on right now. Colonel, welcome to the show.
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Hey can't thank you very much. My mother loves that
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intro video.
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I tell you, I'm with her. I love it. You're
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so humble, though, You're like, I don't really like that
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intro video. I love it. It's awesome.
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I just don't talk about myself in heroic terms, and
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most people in the military professionals are uncomfortable with that.
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And we should be.
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Humility is one of the rates that we value very highly.
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Service.
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It causes us problems outside of the military, especially if
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you do something like get into politics, because you have
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to learn how to do it right.
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But you know one thing, I've never met a cocky
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Air Force pilot ever.
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Well, that's totally different than being a hero, though. I
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am the best b one backseater that's ever walked the
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face of the earth.
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You know that, right?
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I love that. I love that. What's the I've heard
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the I've heard a joke about like, how do you
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how do you know when an Air Force pilot's the
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best or something? They'll tell you.
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Oh, yeah, yeah, but it's the back seaters you got
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to watch out for.
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Uh.
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You know, you know who the the the greatest ace
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in the Vietnam War is? I do not a lot
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of people say things like Robin Olds, who is who
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is one of my heroes?
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His book?
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I had all of my officers read his book, Fighter Pilot.
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My kids have read his book.
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Uh.
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People might say some of the names, but it's really
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a guy named You're gonna love this name, Chuck de Bellevue.
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Chuck de Bellevue.
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He was a backseater in an F four, got more
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kills than his pilot did, and more in the other
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pilot the Air Force, and he was a weapon system's
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officer like me. So there you have it. You got
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to watch out for those navigator wings on.
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Hey, I told you, that's what my brother in law did.
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He wanted to be front seat, and I think you
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had something to do with vision. I don't remember what
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it was, but he ended up being a back seater
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in the F four.
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So my hands and feet are like rocks at the
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end of my appendages. That's what's wrong with me. But
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I have great eyesight though, and I learned that skill
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pretty well to the point where I could command the
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ninth Bomb Squadron, and the ninth Bomb Squadrons historically is
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the oldest bomber squadron in the United States Air Force,
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and believe mew and I was the first navigator to
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command it as a B one backseater, So wow. I
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don't normally talk about that, but it is. It does
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prove what I said. I'm the best B one weapons
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system officer and walking the face of the earth.
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That's so awesome. So you know, I do like to
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kind of you know, let the audience know.
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Where.
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I mean, You've got a pretty thick New York accent.
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I'm kidding, no, Where did it all start for you?
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Where were you born and raised?
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You're not going to believe this, but I was born
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in Tacoma, Washington, at McCord Air Force Base. It's called
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I think it's called something like Joint based Fort Lewis
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McCord now. The hospital is the Army hospital that's still
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named Madigan General Hospital. My dad was stationed in Washington
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state twice. So I have three brothers. My two older
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brothers were both born and Spokane. I was born in
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Tacoma and then he then they moved back to the
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South where my mom and dad are from West Tennessee,
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and he was stationed in Columbus, Mississippi twice. And on
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the second time, my little brother was born in Columbus, Mississippi.
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And I live in Goport, Mississippi now, and we traveled.
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All over the world. That's a very nice place to live.
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By the way, for anybody that's never been there, don't
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make fun of Mississippi until you've been to golf Port.
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I have a beach lot that the lot lines run
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into the water, and I'm always posting pictures of my
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front yard, which is the Gulf of America.
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Wow, that's so awesome, man, so awesome. So, you know,
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in between living in golf Port and being born in Spokane, Washington, which,
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by the way, I've driven past that air for that
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that army base many many, many times. I used to
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live out there. I lived there for about a year
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or so. I was in Spokane a lot. But you
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did a lot of stuff. I mean, you have done
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a lot of stuff. So growing up it sounds like
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you were raised in a military family.
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Yeah, raised in a military family, in a Southern family,
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and I think that's important. You know, I've got a
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book about to come out. It's titled What You Can
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Do About It? Answers the question to the to any issue.
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When you're thinking about it, the first question you go is, well,
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what can I personally do about it? Why do we
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ask that question as Americans? British people don't ask that question, Europeans,
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Germans don't ask that question, but Americans do because we're
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we see the individual as the pre eminent sovereign over
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everything right under God, and they us are right. So
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the reason why the southern. Thing is important is I
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come from the same place where a guy named David
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Crockett comes from. And I talk about this in my
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book because when I was a little boy, my dad
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would make sure he was in the Air Force, but
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he would make sure he drove us home twice a year,
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once at Christmas and once in the summertime for two
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weeks at a time. And his little brother, my uncle Buddy,
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would take me around when I was a little boy
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and take me under his wing. They didn't have kids,
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him and his wife, my aunt Phyllis. But one of
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the places that he took me once and I distinctly
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remembered it because Davy Crockett's Disney I think it was
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a Disney series or something, you know, King of the
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Wild Frontier was on at the time. And my uncle
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took me to the courthouse steps where they're from and
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then said, Robbie, that's what they called me when I
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was a kid growing up. But my mother still calls
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me that. I do allow my wife Candy to call
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me back, but nobody else is allowed to do. But
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he said, Robbie, I just want you to know that
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right here is where Colonel Crockett told his constituents after
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they voted him out of Congress the second time, that
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y'all can all go to Hell. I'm going to Texas
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and the rest is history. And that's important to note
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because of the characteristics and the trait that you can
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expand on out from that statement at those courthouse steps.
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Those are the kinds of people that raised me. My
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dad has eleven brothers and sisters, my mom has twelve.
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They're all from that part of the world.
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Our military service on my AD's side goes all the
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way back to the American Revolution in western North Carolina,
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a little town called Robins, North Carolina, where William Maynis
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Junior is buried private in the Continental Army, and we
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were spread all you know, migration and everything out to
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the west Tennessee was created. Actually it was part of
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North Carolina originally. That's how we came to be where
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we're at there in Madison County, Tennessee. Now most of
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my family.
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So did you know, like, did you know your whole
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life that you were going to be in the military
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or was it did you ever rebel against that idea
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as a kid.
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The short answer to that question is, I don't know
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if my whole life. But one of my earliest memories
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is my dad giving me a full sized g I
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Joe when I had to go into a hospital when
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I was four to get a hernia operation fixed.
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Ernia fixed as little toddler.
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So maybe my first I knew I wanted to fly
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from the time I was about five or six. When
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I was five or six, my dad was working in
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what's called Black Programs SR seventy one YouTube programs back
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in the day when they were really being operated by
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a non military organization with three letters, and they had
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this private display of aircraft and I remember him distinctly
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the cockpit of the SR seventy one. It was the
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first cockpit I ever touched, because he held me up
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there to look inside of it. That canopy was opened
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at this private display for families of folks that were missions,
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And from that point on, I knew I wanted to
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fly faster than the speed of sound, and I knew
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I wanted to fly aircraft that contributed something to the country.
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Wow. So okay, So I've actually experienced being on the
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ground and witnessing the sound barrier, barrier being broken. It's
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it's it's really something to experience. But did you did
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you get to fly faster than the speed of sound?
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Yes, several times, multiple times. The largest aircraft that I
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flew faster than the speed of sound in is B
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one bomber, the Bone as we call it those of
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us that fly it. And that's a four hundred thousand
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pound class aircraft, so a DC ten for civilians out
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there that want to compare it to something, and getting
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that much weight going that fast is pretty incredible.
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How I didn't know that it would break the sound barrier.
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It's a speed limit. Is a one point two mock.
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The original B one, the B one A, was much faster.
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But when in a Reagan resurrected it from the Jimmy
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Carter cut, when we added about forty five thousand pounds
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to it and made it a low altitude penetrating bomber
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to get into Soviet missile defense system's low altitude put
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about forty thousand pounds ish worth of new equipment on
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it that enabled it to do.
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It's pretty incredible. Though.
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It's got a system it's called Sensor Integrated Test, and
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it's got sensors all over the aircraft load hexadecimal codes
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and then the guys in the back seats. That's one
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of the things we operate. It comes out of the
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Space Shuttle. Actually, that system does. There's a lot of
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common parts with the Space Shuttle because Rockwell was the
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original of the of the aircraft and the system. So
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you've got these sensors, speed sensors all over the aircraft.
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You can actually watch the aircraft go supersonic as it
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goes through the shockwave because it's so big, so different
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parts of the airplane goes supersonic at different points as
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you transit through the sound area.
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It's pretty incredible if you're.
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A geek and you like flying fast and killing America's
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enemies with a pretty effective weapon.
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What Yeah, I love that. You're so non to a
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lot about it. I love that. But what's it like
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inside the aircraft? Is it? I mean, it's got a
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is there? Is there? Do you experience anything? Or is
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it just like, oh, I think we just broke the
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down barrier.
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It's actually pretty going through the sound barrier these days,
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and that aircraft is pretty anti climactic. I mean, you
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know that you've sped up if you've been cruising around
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and you decided, hey, we're we're high enough and we've
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got the right conditions, we're gonna go supersonic. And you
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sweep the wings on that aircraft. It's got sweeping wings
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on it.
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barrier or first time is pretty nonchalant, uh, an anticlimactic.
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It's the slowing down part uh that really gets your
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attention because you get thrown forward in the straps. Said,
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it's a very very evident that you've been going really
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fast and now you've got this big monster uh that's
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slowing down and throwing you.
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For Oh my gosh, that's that sounds insane at least.
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So you but you started as a I mean in
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a very unconventional way. I think most people that get
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to the ranks that you you achieved as colonel don't
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probably start as enlisted. You know. I know, my nephew,
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for example, my brother in law, they went I think
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they started as second lieutenant or something because they were
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in their degree or what. I don't know what the
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I'm sure you know what the rules are for that.
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But yeah, so talk about that. You went in as
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an enlisted soldier in the in the in the Air Force,
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not as an officer.
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Yeah, we call them airman in the Air Force. Airman,
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but I appreciate that. Yeah, Yeah, it's a it's an
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interesting story. You know. It gets back to the whole question, Well,
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what can I do about it? I wanted to fly
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fast airplanes. Actually wanted to be a Thunderbird pilot. And wow,
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my dad was in the Air Force, so I'd known
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all this time that I wanted to be in. So
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I actually enlisted three days after I turned seventeen, in
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nineteen November nineteen seventy eight. November eighteenth, nineteen seventy eight.
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So I started young, which means I got to the
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other end at thirty two and.
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I was still fairly young and everything, but the enlisted
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ranks was where my dad was from, you know, and
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we really didn't have money to go to college. I
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didn't qualify for any scholarships. Just a average student. Man,
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I'm ever going to be brilliant. Although I have some
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great degrees from some great schools. They let me sneak
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into Harvard and the Navy War College and.
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That kind of stuff.
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Uh, and I was able to nobody all my way
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through it and passed enough to get a degree in
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both those institutions. But you know, my high school counselor,
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I'll just tell you the story real quick. My high
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school counselor told me that I wasn't college material.
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When I went to her and I said, hey, I
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want to compete for an ROTC scholarship or go to
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the Air Force Academy, and I had I had no idea.
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You know, my mom and dad were high school dropouts,
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so I had I had had no idea. Wasn't raised
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with all the information you have to know that all
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the prep it takes to get an appointment to the
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Air Force Academy or be ready to go to college
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and those kinds of things. So I just kind of
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wandered my way through high school and took what I
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wanted to. I made some a's and b's. I think
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I got one C. But I was I was okay,
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it was average, slightly above average and everything. But she
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looked at me and she said, you're not qualified.
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Said I said, what.
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She goes, Yeah, you you'd probably be better off going to uh,
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you know, go to a gas station to learn how
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to be a mechanic as or something like that.
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Uh. And uh, well, uh that that drove that question.
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I'll take you back to the title of my book
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that's about to come out here, hopefully in a month
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or so. We're waiting on the Pentagon to review it
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because they have to review of the manuscript.
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Uh due to my security They have to review it.
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Yeah, due to my security clearance. And there's stories from
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my military service center. We had to run it through
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uh and everything.
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But uh, it's titled what you Can Do About It?
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But but she drove me to ask that question again, Well,
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what can I do about it?
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Uh?
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Well, so what I did about it was I I
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enlisted in the Air Force three days after I turned seventeen.
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I had to get my mother's permission, uh to do it.
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Uh.
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And I set up goal to first get an associates degree,
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which turned out to be an associates degree in mathematics,
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and I was awarded that degree at the same time
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that I was awarded a Bassador's of Science degree both
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from the University of Tampa and Management Information Systems, which
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was one of the first MIS programs in the country.
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You know, you learn computer systems analysis, design programming, old
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school programming like COBAL and ORTRAN and machine language and
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that kind of stuff. And somehow I was able to
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even graduate with some mild honors from that. So I
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proved her wrong within.
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A few years.
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I love that and I had to get that to
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become an officer, to achieve the goal of wanting to
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fly fast airplanes. And that was the whole reason why
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I enlisted. But along the way, I got the opportunity
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to do a job that I still I get emotional
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when I think about it, because it's still the best
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job I've ever had. It's called Explosive Ordinance disposal. Being seventeen,
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they signed me up in a job. You know how
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you can get a guaranteed job when you sign up
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in the Air Force. I was going to be a
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missile maintenance technician in Mine, not North Dakota. Think about that.
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That's what That's what you wanted as your guaranteed jobs.
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Well, that's all that's what they offered me. They offered
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me like five jobs, and this job EOD. You couldn't
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enlist as that at the time. And in basic training
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boot camp, if you can call it that, in the
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Air Force, in those days. We called it six weeks
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of shaking bake airman making because it was so weak.
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And about a.
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Week into it, they take everybody into a room and
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show you a couple of films.
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One is Pair of Rescue.
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And the other one's Explosive Ordinance Disposal and and Para Rescue.
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You have to be a really strong swimmer. I was
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a lot like slightly below average as a swimmer, even
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though I liked doing it. I was not a very
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strong swimmer at the time. So I was like, hmm,
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missile maintenance technician in North Dakota or bomb squad and say,
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I'm seventeen years old. I think the bomb squad would
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be a hoot, you know, Oh my god.
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And so off.
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I went to the Navy's EOD School of the Army's
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U S Army Chemical School and was led by a
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Marine Corps prior listed lieutenant who had been an artillery
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in Coo in Vietnam and his sergeant, Lieutenant Benjamin Obell
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and Sergeant Garcia. They were a class leaders. The Air
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Force got they were Marines, a little Air Force rob
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manis we.
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Got buster in here? Talking marine crap?
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I love? Butser had any crayons this morning.
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Brother. Uh so, so people think I'm a marine sometimes,
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and I don't know why. I think it's because of
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the way I sometimes I talk and present myself. Because
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their impact on seventeen year old Rob Manus they had
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me for a year after Air Force basic screening must
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have made an impact on the way I behave, talk,
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present myself and those kind of things. But EOD School
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was still it's the best thing that ever happened to me.
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I just fell into it and volunteered. And I still
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if you look at my xbio, you see that it's
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there because you know, some of my old bosses are
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still alive in spite of the hard party that they did.
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Let me ask you, and I stay in touch.
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With them with a lot. So, I mean, it's amazing.
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As I left that job in nineteen eighty five.
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I'm curious why. And I'm not trying to evoke emotion,
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I promise I'm not. I'm just curious what it was
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about that job that evoked that emotion when you when
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you started talking about it. What what was it that
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was so special to you? Or is that private?
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No, there, it's not.
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I'll talk you to through my first response in EO D.
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It was I was stationed permanently at Myrtle Beach Air
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Force Base in South Carolina. I was eighteen by the
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time I graduated from school and got my badge. We
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call it the crab. It looks like a crab, and
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the school was in Charles County, Maryland, Indian Maryland, so
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it's a nicknamed the Charles County Crab, the one I wear.
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They moved the school down to Egland because you know
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the people they graduate nowadays, they just couldn't handle the
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tough weather up in Maryland. I guess I don't know,
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but anyway, friendly rivalry, friendly.
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Rivalry, folks. You know, I love you guys cows.
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But anyway, my first response, I got mission ready about
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three months, two months after I got there, and I'm
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on call my first weekend, and the very first response is, Hey,
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we've got a jolly green helicopter waiting for you on
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the ramp. You need to go down, and there's a
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sea mine that's been washed up on the shore. Uh,
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and we've been assigned responsibility to go safe it, get
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it transported and all that. Well, here's the kicker. Air
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Force kids and men and women there were the first
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women in the field were in my class.
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We were not taught.
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Air Force kids were not taught anything but what we
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would call a shake and bake version of Navy ordnance,
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and the common theme from the Navy instructors was don't worry,
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You're never going to.
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See this stuff. It's all out in the water.
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And the very first call that eighteen year old Rob
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Menus gets on his own is to go hop on
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this jolly green fly down the beach to just north
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of Charleston, South Carolina, and safe the sea. Mine did
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it transport? Think about that as an individual responsibility at
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eighteen years old. There is no other field in the
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United States Air Force in peacetime, especially where you are
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entrusted with things like that. And the men and women
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that brought that essentially raised me.
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My second Daddy's that I.
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Didn't have any women's supervisors in that field, but my
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second father's Jim Palace, is one, my first senior and CEO.
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He was from Asheville, North Carolina. He was the boss
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at Myrtle Beach and Junior Lad was my last boss.
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Master started senior Master and Junior lad out in Tampa
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Air Force based Florida and he's from western North Carolina,
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the Smoky Mountain Appalachians and everything, and he might like
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fast cars that might be able to carry whiskey illegal whiskey.
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I don't know.
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Both those guys were fantastic as my surrogate dad's in
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that field, and they bracketed my experience in the field
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in the Air Force and all along the way. I
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met these men at every assignment. I had three assignments
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in the U D that were just phenomenal people and
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they and they trusted this kid because I had demonstrated,
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you know, my my professionalism and my abilities in the
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field when you know, I almost failed out of you
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at these school.
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Wow.
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If it hadn't been for the Marines who sent me
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to a Marine warrant officer as a black guy named
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Gunner way had been in Vietnam and everything that took
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me aside and worked with me for a full day,
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I would never have worn the you you know. Uh,
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So I'm very grateful to that and uh was honored
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to get the opportunity to serve in that field. If
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you go watch the movie The hurt Locker, we were
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predicting that kind of war, like what you see in
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that movie was going to happened, and we were preparing
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folks for that when I left the field to go
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be an officer and watch one.
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So that's incredible. So so somebody, somebody whipped you into shape.
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Oh my dad was a master sergeant, so you can imagine.
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Oh my god, he.
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Just refined me to where now some people think I'm
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a marine and I have to tell him to go
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eat some.
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Carryons like like Buck. He said he's had some red
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ones today, so so I love Buck. He's freaking awesome.
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And by the way, Shell's watching commenting as well. Shell,
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thank you. I wouldn't even know you had it not
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been for for Shell hosting your or hosting producing. I
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don't know what she but her official title is but
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with your space every day and and and everybody needs
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to go listen and watch you on your show. And
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it's just it's called the Colonel rob mana Show, right.
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Yeah, just the rob mana Show. We don't use the
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rank in it. But okay, when I ran for US
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Sentate in twenty thirteen twenty fourteen, we branded me is
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Colonel robminus retired. So all my social media still says
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that I don't think I would have done that had
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I just set it up on my own, but since
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the branding is there, we keep it that way. And
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of course then the guys did that great trophy so.
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Well, you got you got to see it from a
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civilian's point of view. I mean, I I you know,
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like I said, one of my only regrets in life
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is I had the opportunity to go into the army
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with my best friend. We were going in on what
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they called the buddy system, and I bailed at the
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last minute and he went and he was so pissed.
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I think he still hates me to his day. But
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you know, it's one of my only regrets. But from
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a civilian standpoint, at least from my standpoint as a civilian,
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I think it's one of the most incredible Like I
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honor our military like it's it's to me, it's one
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of the most important things you could ever do with
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your life, and and so I respect the heck out
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of out of you and anybody that's done what you've done,
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especially climbing the ranks. That the way that you did
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is I mean, I don't know what the percentage is,
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but I would say it's probably fairly rare.
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I think it is, yeah, fairly rare. I don't know
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if I would have made general. I had to retire
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pretty quickly because my wife got diagnosed with breast cancer
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and we needed to get it taken care of. Not
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already thirty two years and I was coming up on
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my primary board. But very few make a colonel and
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get to be commanders, because that's a it's a whole
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other screening system. Making colonel as a screening system, and
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then and then getting to be a wing commander is
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another screening system.
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Very few get the opportunity to do that.
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There's there's and for every general that's promoted, every person
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in X general, they're they're told, hey, there's ten more
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people just as qualified as you whose name didn't come
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out of that hopper, you know, in the lottery. So
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you know, it was an honor to get the chance
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to do that. I mean, things just keep keep happening,
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you know. Just last week, on the Air Force's birthday
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on September eighteenth, I was honored to get the opportunity
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to lay a wreath at the Tube of the Unknowns
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as a retired person, and I was thinking about my
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dad when I was doing that because he would have
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thought that was pretty awesome, pretty cool, you know. But
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it was an honor to get to do that. That
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may be the last actually official, you know, semi military
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function I ever get to do. And that was the
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honor of my life to do that.
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Uh.
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And it's a it's a privilege to get the opportunity
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to serve with young Americans both as a peer as
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an enlisted kid. Uh, and then and then get the
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opportunity to lead them, and then and then on top
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of that, the responsibility to lead them in combat is uh.
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It's an overwhelming uh feeling uh and humbling uh and uh.
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Book were all human beings. We make mistakes. I talk
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about a few of those in the book, especially on
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the military side. UH and uh and we should so
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that we can learn from those people can learn from them.
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UH.
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But watching these young men and women uh sacrifice for
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America UH and being responsible for helping keep them alive
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and getting them back home to loved ones, those kind
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of things, it's just the greatest honor that I will
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ever have achieved. I think, I don't think anything and
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will ever top toe.
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That's that's incredible. I think about you know the name
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of this show's Breakthrough Walls. And I started this seven
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years ago because I was stuck and I thought, you know,
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I'll bet you if I interview enough celebrities and successful people,
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I'll figure my own crap out and get understand it worked,
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you know. But I would love to hear your take
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on because I sent my wife your your I think
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it was your most well, not your most recent. Twelve
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thirteen days ago. You did a show right after the
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assassination of Charlie Kirk, and it was called The War
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has Come to Us, I believe was the title of
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that show. And she goes, do you have anything that
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doesn't have to do with war coming to us that
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you could send me? And she's watching, by the way,
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she's probably gonna start cussing at me. But but you know,
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I would love to hear your take on what you
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think is happening in our not just our country, although
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it is really I mean Charlie Kirk, it's a whole
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other topic. But what do you think is going on?
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What is from a leadership colonel position, if you were
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to look at your what's happening? Why is everything going
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so a miss?
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Well for your wife ma'am. My Monday shows are themed
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more War Monday, and we started doing that when I
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started doing the Daily Show because there was so much
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war going on. It was before President Trump got back
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in office that we started doing this thing daily, and
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I just wanted to get facts and truth out because
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there's so much propaganda about the various conflicts that are
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going on, a lot of it from our side. Unfortunate
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that muddies the waters. So that's why I do that.
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But the reason why that particular show was named that
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is I've been talking about it for some time and
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so have a lot of my peers that are not
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in active service right now that have the experience that
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are watching and making observations with open source intelligence information that,
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especially during the Biden years, there has been a mass
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infiltration of the United States of America by Chinese communists
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over one hundred thousand by some estimates and those are conservative,
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that are here illegally over seventy thousand just Afghanis that
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were unvetted refugees from Afghanistan. And if you don't think
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Afghanis that were wearing the uniforms of the good guys
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kill Americans, go back and see how many, but we
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lost a two star general due to an Afghani soldier
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that we had just trained. So if they're unvetted, I
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mean just those two populations are Communists and islam Us
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have been longest in them. And there's this thing called
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the Red Green Alliance. And I believe that Charlie's assassination,
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the assassination of President Trump, the attempts, both attempts, those
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are all operations. They have all the earmarks of an operation,
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not necessarily of the shooter themselves, who have some ear
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marks of some training and everything, but well resourced, well planned,
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the surveillance required, the site assessment required, the you know,
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the assassination spot, where to shoot from, selecting that position.
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All of that is part of good planning. And then
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the resourcing of these people, you know, four or five
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cell phones encrypted, those kind of things.
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The weapons.
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I mean, the kid that Butler Crooks, he had a
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laser rangefinder. You know that he's walking around getting ranges
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on as he's walking around the facility. So these are
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not things that your average eighteen nineteen, twenty twenty one,
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twenty two. Even this guy down in Florida who is older,
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but he's a Zealot, even that guy. Those are not
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the average things that you would be thinking about.
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I mean, just look at the Florida one.
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He had kevlar vest hanging out on the fence around
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his sniper position that he was looking through and shooting through,
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and those kind of things. So all of those things
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have earmarks of good planning and resourcing well beyond just
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the individuals that pulled the trigger. And I believe that
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there are some foreign influence that's aid and embedding these
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types of operations, and it's likely some conglomeration of Communist
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Chinese and Islamist resourcing and planning of some sort and
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training of some sort that identify these individuals early, especially
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the smart kids like this last guy, Tyler Robinson, build
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them up, get them convinced through all the indoctrination that's
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coming through not just them, but that's being pushed into
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our systems by their program. The Communists are exemplary at
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doing that, and the Islamist are to just look at
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how many people they've gotten convinced that the people to
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support Hamas, which are worse than the German Nazis, they
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are worse than the German Nazis, and tens of thousands
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of American kids are supporting them, and adults too, So
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the propaganda and indoctrination forces that doesn't just come about
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through social media as a natural thing.
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Those aren't natural things.
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So anyway, I did that show because I believe that
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Charlie's death has some earmarks of an operation, and that
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there's likely some foreign influence over it, and that foreign
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influence is probably aided and embedded by the individuals that
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are already here in the country because of the open
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borders especially, but may have been here all along. And
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that's why this happens. And that's what I mean, the
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war has come to us. Look, the National counter Terrorism
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Center director Joe Kent, who I know and I've interviewed
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on my show a couple of times, I think when
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he was running for Congress. He put out a statement
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just the other day saying that al Qaeda is here
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inside the United States. They are planning a massive operation essentially,
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and those of us on the outside, especially Sarah Adams,
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the targeter that you've heard about from the Benghazi event,
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and you see her being interviewed by Sean Ryan and
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those kind of things.
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She has been on that.
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And has been right all along, and we let things
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slide through the cracks, like the individual the sergeant in
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New Orleans on New Year's Eve he was We let
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that lone wolf tag get put on there by law
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enforcement of some sort, and there's no way that has
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the earmarks of an operation too. The guy, the Green
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Brave Master Sergeant that killed himself in the cyber truck
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at Trump Tower out in Vegas all ear marks. We
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don't know enough about those events or what happened with
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those individuals and why they may have done those things,
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or who they got involved with.
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We don't know. We don't know, and we should know.
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And that's why I did that show, is because we
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need absolute transparency to the maximum extent possible so that
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we can put confidence in ourselves back in our institutions,
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which have been just absolutely degraded over the last ten years.
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My wife is her comments on screen, I hope they
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root out these infiltrators. It's terrifying, I think, you know,
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I look at this and I go because the average
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you know, I see all the these these g I
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Joe wannabes on on social media and Buck and Buck
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and I are really good friends. We've had many conversations
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about this, like you take the average civilian and you say, Okay,
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here's an here's here's a here's a take this ar
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out there and and and good luck. I mean, they're
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not gonna know what to do. And they're not they're
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not trained the way that you are and and other
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military personnel. But what can we do? And I I
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saw your posts in fact, I shared it that you
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know said stay armed America, I think, and you were
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you were sharing what you were just talking about? What
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can the average citizen do? Two? I mean, yes, I understand,
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stay armed, go to the range, do all the things,
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but that's not the average US citizen.
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Well, it needs to become once again the average US citizen.
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Kid.
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That's that's my point. My viewers know that Colonel retired
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Kurt Slickter and I are friends and we use those
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type of phrasing all along. And believe me, we don't
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want a shooting civil war. Nobody that's had to do
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this stuff in real life that I talked to once
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anything like that. It's all the you know, the g
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I Joe wannabes on both sides that and to talk
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that way, and we're always trying to talk them down
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and go, hey, you don't want to go there. But
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here's what I do tell people. We you are an American,
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if you're an adult, especially, you have a responsibility to
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your to your community, your family. It's written in the Constitution,
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in the Second Amendment. By the way, Okay, a well
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regulated militia. They're not talking about some organized uniform thing.
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They're talking about the people that picked up their rifles
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on April nineteenth, seventeen seventy five that we just celebrated
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two hundred and fifty years ago. One of those people
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was like eighty eight years old. I want to be
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that man. I can't remember. I can never remember his
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name off the top of my head. I don't know why.
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I think his first name was Samuel. But I aspire
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to be that man. And what does it take to
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do that. Well, my commonly used rifle is sitting in
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my safe right now with about a thousand rounds of
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five five six ammunition in magazines, ready to go if
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I need it, and I've trained to do it. Yeah,
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I had military training, but you don't have to have
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military training. Get training, go out to the range regularly,
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and exercise your rights but that's not the end of it.
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You'll talk to your five closest neighbors and have a
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community plan to defend yourselves and your homes and your famili's.
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That's the minimum right there to be an American citizen
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and fulfill that responsibility that's described in this Second Amendment,
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in my opinion, and that's all I can tell people
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to do at this point in our history, because they've
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made so many laws in so many states where you
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risk tripping up and becoming a criminal, and those kind
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of are an insurrectionist by accident if you go too
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much further than that. But those are the minimums of
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fulfilling your responsibilities as an American, and it applies to
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men and women. If you don't think women can be warriors,
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you've got another thing coming. My best warriors in the
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V one cockpit, my two best warrior combat co pilots
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were women, and they went on to be fantastic aircraft
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commanders and instructors and squadron commanders and all kinds of
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things after I left Air Force. So so my point
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with all that is fulfill your responsibility. It's a right, yes,
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the Second Amendment is, but it's also a responsibility, and
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it's our responsibility to do that. You don't have to
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be untrained, you don't have to be uncoordinated with your neighbors.
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Uh.
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You should know your five closest neighbors, know what their
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views are, what their capabilities are, and have a plan
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as to who would do what in the event of
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an emergency.
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You never know. I live right here where Kashrina hit
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pretty hard.
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Uh and uh uh. Ask those people that survived that.
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Go have a chat with somebody that's been through something
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like that and you'll understand what I'm talking about.
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My wife is a definitely a warrior. She does stuff.
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I'm like, how does she even do? I don't where
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does that come from? Like, I'm and I'm serious, it's
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I think anybody with a strong woman in their life
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knows what I'm talking about. Do you. It's gonna sound
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like a crazy question. Probably. I'm sitting here listening to
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this and I get sent all these I mean, I
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went down the QAnon hole for a while. I've you know,
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all of the conspiracies, the documentaries all that, I've seen
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it all. And my my I'm I'm very and I'm
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friends with with doctor Jerome Corsi as well, and and
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and you know, he's he's got some interesting theories. But
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you know, have you do you have hope for America?
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And I know that sounds crazy to say that, but
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do you feel like that there's a way out of
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this that that we're we can we we can wrangle
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these people that are just freaking There's some lunatics and
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I'm not going to say even on the left, there's
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just lunatics that have these very unbelievably obscure views of
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what's actually occurring in in our country. I don't get it.
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Of course I have hope.
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But when Davy Crockett those that speech on those courthouse
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steps that I was talking about, Yeah, where.
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Did he go? He went to Texas? All right.
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He didn't go there thinking he was going to die.
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He didn't go there thinking he was even going to
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get shot at uh. He didn't go there to be
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a hero of the Alamo. And you can, I mean,
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the historical records and the facts around it and all that,
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you can debate that all day long, but the bottom
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line is he led a group of men from Tennessee
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go look at the walls of the Alamo. They're the
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largest list of names, guess where it's at, Tennessee. So
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he used his leadership and his experiences to convince many
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of his friends to go there because of the hope
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that freedom could come to anywhere, based on what he
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had learned growing up in his country and as a frontiersman,
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and using that same question that my book is titled
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what can I Do about It? And that's what the
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call those kind of call are all about. So absolutely
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I have hope. You know, twenty it's being said that
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reported that twenty million Americans watched Charlie Kirk's memorial service
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on broadcast television, not live stream, but broadcast television.
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Think about that.
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Now, that's a system that is adamantly opposed to Americans
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who believe, like Davy Crockett and Rob Venus and Ken
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Walls and Ken Walls's wife believe and probably everybody that
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hopefully everybody that's watching, they are anathetical to us. They're
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anathetical to the whole idea. And still twenty million people
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watched it on there. Over one hundred million live streams
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throughout the world were observed of Charlie Kirks memorial. Of course,
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I have hope. I have hope I met Charlie Kirk
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when he I think he was around nineteen, wasn't too
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long after he started Turning Point USA. I was just
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entering the political arena as a US Senate candidate against
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Bill Cassidy and Mary Landry and Louisiana, much to the
817
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chagrin of the establishment Republicans who still hate me so much.
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They hate me so much. Uh they try to prevent
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me from uh getting leadership roles and those kind of
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things even to this day. Uh wow, okay, so uh,
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but I still have hope because those Americans and especially
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those young people, and that that filled that building in
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Arizona the other day last night in the University of Minnesota,
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much to the angst of the of the Marxist folks
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up there. Uh, with that governor and all those people.
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They're yelling and whining and screaming about it. But they
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filled it and they're gonna fill them all. Uh. Before yesterday, Uh,
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there were no chapters for Turning Point us a A
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on any of the major colleges right here on the coast.
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Because I'm in touch with the regional director and I
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asked him right away, told him, Hey, I'll volunteer to
832
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help you build them and those kind of things. I
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just got told by uh, by someone that goes to
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school that we have a chapter meeting today, wow, of
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young people in one of those schools. So yes, of
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course I have hope. I have hope that my five
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children and their children have gotten some of the characteristics
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that I got from my family that came from people
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like Davy Crockett, my ancestor William that fought in the
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Continental Army out of North Carolina, and all of those
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that have come before us. They've passed the stuff down
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to us. It's what drove me to do what I
843
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did in the United States Armed Forces is what drove
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me into the political arena to try to stop establishment
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from politicians from running as one thing and governing like
846
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they're on the other side. It's what drives me today
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this episode today in my show's five hundred and eighty three.
848
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I got my YouTube channel back today for the Rob
849
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Mayna Show. I haven't figured out how to link greenlink
850
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it back. We've been broadcasting to my personal channel since
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they took it aw away for me at episode one
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sixty two, and I'm at five sixty or five eighty
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three today and I got that back this morning. If
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you haven't heard, Google and YouTube it finally relented and
855
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admitted they were wrong for censoring us. And Charlie Kirk
856
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was the only American that would go into college campuses
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and talk to eighteen year olds and nineteen year olds
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and twenty year olds in twenty thirteen because they said,
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and they were telling my folks were telling me this.
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The professionals in the political business. The campaign was rob
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they won't vote for you. There's no reason to waste
862
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your time going and talking to these kids on college campuses.
863
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Charlie Kirle, Charlie Kirk did this, and the eighteen to
864
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thirty five year old demographic went for Donald Trump in
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00:50:48.079 --> 00:50:51.760
this second historic election That's never happened this way before
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in our lifetimes.
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I know Garfield got reelected.
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Once, but he wasn't threatened and tried in court, almost
869
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put in prison for ninety four years for life, and
870
00:51:01.639 --> 00:51:03.360
those kind of things like this man was.
871
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And two assassinations.
872
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Charlie Kirks leadership because he asked himself the same question
873
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at that book that I'm getting to release, is what
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00:51:13.000 --> 00:51:16.440
can I do about it? And he figured it out
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and that's why we wrote the book. You know, the
876
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incident had not occurred as a matter of fact when
877
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we wrote this book, but we have changed the forward
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in the book and dedicated it to Charlie and his
879
00:51:28.519 --> 00:51:33.239
efforts and free speech, because that's exactly what he was doing,
880
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was answering that question. We try to give people some
881
00:51:35.559 --> 00:51:38.119
tools in the book to do that. I didn't want
882
00:51:38.159 --> 00:51:40.599
to just write a biography that people would read and go, oh,
883
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that's an interesting person and throw it a you know,
884
00:51:42.480 --> 00:51:44.480
put it on the shelf. I wanted to give people
885
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some tools that I've learned to use and ideas that
886
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I've learned about from people like Charlie. Even though I'm
887
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thirty three years older than him, i still learned a
888
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lot from him. And I'm very grateful that he did
889
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what he did, and that gives me hope that the
890
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United States will continue and that we will defeat these people,
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00:52:04.199 --> 00:52:07.920
whether they're American citizens or not, that no longer will
892
00:52:07.920 --> 00:52:10.320
support and defend the Constitution of the United States but
893
00:52:10.400 --> 00:52:12.719
want to burn it down. We will defeat these people,
894
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and we'll do it through free speech in spite of
895
00:52:16.199 --> 00:52:18.039
them killing us one at a time.
896
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Amen, Holy moly, Wow, I can't wait to rewatch that
897
00:52:25.000 --> 00:52:28.920
and put it out in some nice clips. That was unbelievable.
898
00:52:30.480 --> 00:52:33.440
You've spoken at at Amfest, right.
899
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Yes, sir.
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I got the opportunity to speak at MFIs last December. Wow,
901
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and I asked to do it because my pack, Gator Pack.
902
00:52:43.159 --> 00:52:45.880
You can find it at gatorpac dot com. Give us
903
00:52:45.880 --> 00:52:47.920
a five dollars a month donation, folks. This is what
904
00:52:47.960 --> 00:52:49.920
we did. We raised over two and a half million dollars.
905
00:52:49.960 --> 00:52:54.440
Our largest political donation for that presidential cycle was to
906
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two groups, Charlie's Turning Point USA and Cliff Maloney's Pennsylvania Chase.
907
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There really one group.
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They were working together to ballot Chase in the Swing States,
909
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and as you know, Pennsylvania was the first state to
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be announced that Trump won in the Swing States, and
911
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that within five minutes of that it was pronounced he
912
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was going to be president of the United States.
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Again.
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That was Charlie Kirk and Clipaloni and that whole team
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that did that. And I just wanted to say thank you.
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So I spent about five minutes too.
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That's amazing. And that I haven't scrolling is that it
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is that how you spell it G A T O
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R p A C.
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That's correct. That's correct.
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Okay, so everybody, I yeah, I'll definitely go over. I'll
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sign up support you and Robmayanus dot com as well. Correct.
923
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Robminus dot com is my website. You can find me.
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So much, so much on there by the way and.
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My Facebook fan pages at co l Rob Maynus. It's
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got about two hundred thousand followers. It's been suppressed since
927
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October first, twenty twenty. That page you should generate about
928
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nine thousand dollars a month in revenue at its peak
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after only four months in operation, and Facebook has stolen
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the rest of it from us all this time. So
931
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if you can go there and subscribe to that, like it,
932
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follow it, all that stuff, I'd appreciate it. And on
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x at Rob Manus, at getter at Rob Manus. I'm
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on True Social. The show broadcasts on the True Social
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plus channel two, so you can.
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Find us there.
937
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And of course we're on Rumble at Worldviewtube on their
938
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live stream and our channel has the Rob Maina Show
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was live there and soon we will go back to
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the Rob Maina Show page on YouTube.
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On YouTube, it's there, you can find it now. That's
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so awesome. Congratulations, and I knew. I knew it would
943
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come back eventually. The only video that YouTube has ever
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deleted from my show one video, and that was doctor
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Jerome Corsi.
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I like doctor Corsi. I've got to meet him a
947
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couple of times. I have some of his books. I
948
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love the guy. He's a fantastic American. But you know
949
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what they did to us. They went back, they found
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a video they didn't like that was current, and they
951
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went back three years again and found enough videos that
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they could put strikes against based on policies that were
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written after we did the videos.
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It's despicable.
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And if I had the money, I would sue Facebook,
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Google and YouTube for millions of dollars, but it's almost
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impossible to do. So you st to get somebody to
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take that case up, because they think probably over a
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million dollars at least, I'm.
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Sure they do. I'll tell you here's what I think
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is going to happen. Trump's just getting started. II They
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next year or so, we're gonna see some things like WHOA.
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I don't know, we'll see. But Colonel, I know your
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time is. I think you're on a tight schedule, so
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I don't wanna I don't want to go over if
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you can't, but I do wanna. I don't feel like
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I covered hardly anything with you too. I will say this, okay,
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I want to I want to offer this to you.
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I'll do it publicly. I'm an Amazon influencer and and
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I would love to invite you to do we can.
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I'm I'm one of the few people that can live
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stream directly to Amazon's customers. So when your book is released,
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I would love to invite you on to do an
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Amazon live with me and I'll host it and there
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Their only communist rules are you're not allowed to bring
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up outside external websites. That's okay, which which is understandable.
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It's you know, hey, come over here and play and
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sell everybody else's stuff. No.
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Yeah, well I want to sell my book on Amazon too,
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So I mean that's part of our that's part of
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our our process and approach that the team that's that's
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working with me is is doing.
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So it's all ready to go.
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We're just waiting on the final approval from the Pentagon. Uh,
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it should be soon. It's not a very long book,
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and there wasn't that much information in it that I
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would think would be at risk, but I told them
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to just do their job. They said it'd probably be
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a minimum of a couple of months. So we're coming
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up on a couple of months here.
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In about two.
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Can can you like call anybody and go, hey.
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I'll check in with them after I hit their minimums.
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That's awesome that the.
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Guys work at the guys and gals work at that
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office and depending on have been great. So have they
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not everybody in the government to these days is great.
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But I could tell right away that they were They
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were all business and doing good jobs.
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Yeah, I'm I'm a publisher and so I I literally
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I'm I wait on the Library of Congress to send
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me the registration number all the time. And it's like,
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oh my gosh. They don't move fast. They do not
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move fast. So so what what would be some parting words?
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And I'm going to give you full screen out of respect,
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I really would like you to, you know, for the
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people who are watching and listening, they'll listen to this
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later when I upload it. What words of hope do
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you have for people that are just barely hanging on
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to whatever. There's a lot of people struggling, not just emotionally,
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but financially in every other way, what would you say
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to those folks that are that are looking for for
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some hope to continue pushing forward.
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Well, thanks, Ken, I appreciate that. Thanks for having me on. Look, folks,
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00:58:51.719 --> 00:58:57.239
we're Americans. We answer that question individually at that level.
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What can I do about it? So as a Americans,
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you have the hope that you have that ingrained in
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your DNA, that idea that you don't have to put
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up with being broke. You don't have to put up
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with government that takes your tax dollars and then does
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things against you. There are things you can do about it,
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and you know that. I just would encourage you to
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ask yourself that question every single day and follow Charlie
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Kirk's advice. One of the pieces of advice he always
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gave to college students that ask him for it is
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learn something new every single day because it helps us
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answer these questions. If I could do it as a
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seventeen year old and mister Kirk could do it as
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a teenager, every American can do it.
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There are a lot of.
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People whose giant shoulders we stand on, like Colonel Crockett
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that I mentioned in this show today, But there are
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tens of thousands of others, and they've all passed these
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00:59:57.840 --> 01:00:03.320
ideas down to us through our parents and our ancestors.
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And it's up to us to take those ideas and
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run with it. And the great thing about America is
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that we can. We are able to do that because
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even today, we still have enough freedom to change things
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for the better. Get our institutions back to being American first,
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01:00:23.280 --> 01:00:27.159
correct our system of taxation so that the federal government
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and all governments at every level aren't too powerful because
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they are today.
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We can do it.
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The fight coming up after mister Trump leaves office, and
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01:00:37.159 --> 01:00:41.079
especially even now, is in the state houses. That's where
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our culture is being attacked, restricted, and tyranny is rising
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and has been rising all along.
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As we've had these national fights.
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Go find people to run for state house, run for
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01:00:51.679 --> 01:00:56.199
city council, run for county commission. It's not only our
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obligation to have these fights willingly, but to have them
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with a smile on our face and know that even
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if it's an American citizen, if they're a Marxist or
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an Islamist, they're an enemy of the Constitution. It's on
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us to do it. Only three percent did it in
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the American Revolution. That's all it takes. I'm counting on
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you to join me and everybody else in this fight.
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Wow. There you have it. And Shell's announcing your guests
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for today. John Taylor is the Colonel's guest today and
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we're talking about freedom of speech. What time does your
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01:01:35.599 --> 01:01:36.280
show start?
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It starts at three pm Eastern two pm Central time.
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Okay, everybody, make sure that you are following the Colonel
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everywhere like it's so it is on your personal YouTube
1065
01:01:48.840 --> 01:01:50.480
channel because I've seen it there.
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Yes, yes, it is so.
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I haven't had time to link it back up to
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the show channel today yet, but I will figure that out.
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It's three days that it'll go there too. And I
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will say that the one hour live stream television show
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we simulcast to our ex audience. We actually turn the
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X Space on about thirty minutes before and I try
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to stay for thirty minutes after to talk in the
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X Space if folks want to join us there and
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01:02:17.559 --> 01:02:19.920
they can't watch the full show. And I take questions
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during the show from the Space audience.
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Yeah, and that's where I got to know you is
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through your doing the Space so very grateful for that.
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I'm grateful for you coming on today. Thank you, and
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let's let's make some noise. Let's get everybody over to
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gatorpack dot com and to Robmaynus dot com. Those are
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01:02:42.719 --> 01:02:45.440
scrolling across the bottom of the screen. They will be
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in the show notes as well. So, Colonel, thank you.
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If you would stay with me, I am gonna I'm
1085
01:02:52.039 --> 01:02:54.079
going to close the show down, but if you'd stay
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01:02:54.119 --> 01:02:56.920
with me for a minute and just to chat about
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01:02:56.960 --> 01:03:01.599
the Amazon thing. And I want to say thank you
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to everybody who's shared this out. If you have not
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shared this out yet, there is time to redeem yourself,
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go ahead and click that share button and share this
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out to everybody you know on every social media platform.
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01:03:15.639 --> 01:03:20.280
Because even Zuckerberg was begging for his freedom when Trump won.
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That's great.
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I wish he'd give me mine. He still hasn't given
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01:03:25.599 --> 01:03:29.840
me mine back. Oh, ro Venus at col Rob Minus,
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send him a note.
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Oh I might be able to help you with that.
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Let me let me see what I can do. But
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all right, so listen, everybody, have a wonderful day. Thank
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you so much. Make sure you're following the Colonel on
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x and on Facebook. Everywhere and share this out. Thank
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you all so much, Colonel, thank you very much for
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being here, sir.
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Thank you, God bless you.
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You too, Thank you, sir.
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Another
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Good morning, and welcome to break Through Walls. I'm Ken
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Walls and I'm your host, and today I am super
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excited I have the one and only Colonel Rob Manus
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on the show. This guy is well, he says he's
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not a hero, but he's a hero in my book,
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so I'm just gonna call him a hero. He's really
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incredible guy. If you don't watch his show or listen
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to his show, we're gonna be talking about that because
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it's absolutely spectacular. So do me a favor if you
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would and share this out with everybody that you know.
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Let's get one hundred thousand people on here watching live
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and stay with us. We'll be right back with the
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one and only Colonel Rob Manus. You know, I started
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thinking last night, how do I introduce this guy? I mean,
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he was at the Pentagon on ninety eleven. I mean,
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he's just done so many amazing things. And then I
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found this little intro video that his team did and
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I stole it. So I'm gonna share this little intro
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video of him because it gives a really good rundown
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of who Colonel Maynus is. So check this out. It's
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pretty cool. And then we're gonna bring Colonel Maynis on.
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Colonel Rob Manus says a lifelong record of providing dedicated
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service to this nation. Having worked his way up from
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the enlisted ranks to full colonel, he served our country
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for more than thirty two years. He has served as
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a bomber squadron commander, disposal technician, Joint chiefs of Staff
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operations officer, assisted the National Security team with the campaign
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plan for the Global War on Terrorism. He authored the
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first theater nuclear war plan and served as the vice
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commander of America's largest airborne intelligence winning Colonel Rob Manus
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is a true American hero. This is Rob Mainus Live.
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Well, no it's not. It's actually Breakthrough Walls. But we
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have Colonel Rob Mainus live with us. Let's bring him
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on right now. Colonel, welcome to the show.
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Hey can't thank you very much. My mother loves that
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intro video.
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I tell you, I'm with her. I love it. You're
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so humble, though, You're like, I don't really like that
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intro video. I love it. It's awesome.
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I just don't talk about myself in heroic terms, and
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most people in the military professionals are uncomfortable with that.
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And we should be.
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Humility is one of the rates that we value very highly.
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Service.
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It causes us problems outside of the military, especially if
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you do something like get into politics, because you have
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to learn how to do it right.
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But you know one thing, I've never met a cocky
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Air Force pilot ever.
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Well, that's totally different than being a hero, though. I
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am the best b one backseater that's ever walked the
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face of the earth.
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You know that, right?
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I love that. I love that. What's the I've heard
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the I've heard a joke about like, how do you
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how do you know when an Air Force pilot's the
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best or something? They'll tell you.
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Oh, yeah, yeah, but it's the back seaters you got
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to watch out for.
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Uh.
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You know, you know who the the the greatest ace
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in the Vietnam War is? I do not a lot
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of people say things like Robin Olds, who is who
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is one of my heroes?
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His book?
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I had all of my officers read his book, Fighter Pilot.
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My kids have read his book.
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Uh.
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People might say some of the names, but it's really
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a guy named You're gonna love this name, Chuck de Bellevue.
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Chuck de Bellevue.
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He was a backseater in an F four, got more
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kills than his pilot did, and more in the other
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pilot the Air Force, and he was a weapon system's
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officer like me. So there you have it. You got
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to watch out for those navigator wings on.
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Hey, I told you, that's what my brother in law did.
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He wanted to be front seat, and I think you
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had something to do with vision. I don't remember what
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it was, but he ended up being a back seater
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in the F four.
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So my hands and feet are like rocks at the
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end of my appendages. That's what's wrong with me. But
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I have great eyesight though, and I learned that skill
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pretty well to the point where I could command the
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ninth Bomb Squadron, and the ninth Bomb Squadrons historically is
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the oldest bomber squadron in the United States Air Force,
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and believe mew and I was the first navigator to
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command it as a B one backseater, So wow. I
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don't normally talk about that, but it is. It does
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prove what I said. I'm the best B one weapons
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system officer and walking the face of the earth.
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That's so awesome. So you know, I do like to
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kind of you know, let the audience know.
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Where.
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I mean, You've got a pretty thick New York accent.
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I'm kidding, no, Where did it all start for you?
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Where were you born and raised?
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You're not going to believe this, but I was born
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in Tacoma, Washington, at McCord Air Force Base. It's called
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I think it's called something like Joint based Fort Lewis
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McCord now. The hospital is the Army hospital that's still
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named Madigan General Hospital. My dad was stationed in Washington
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state twice. So I have three brothers. My two older
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brothers were both born and Spokane. I was born in
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Tacoma and then he then they moved back to the
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the second time, my little brother was born in Columbus, Mississippi.
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And I live in Goport, Mississippi now, and we traveled.
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All over the world. That's a very nice place to live.
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By the way, for anybody that's never been there, don't
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make fun of Mississippi until you've been to golf Port.
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I have a beach lot that the lot lines run
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into the water, and I'm always posting pictures of my
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front yard, which is the Gulf of America.
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Wow, that's so awesome, man, so awesome. So, you know,
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in between living in golf Port and being born in Spokane, Washington, which,
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by the way, I've driven past that air for that
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that army base many many, many times. I used to
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live out there. I lived there for about a year
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or so. I was in Spokane a lot. But you
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did a lot of stuff. I mean, you have done
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a lot of stuff. So growing up it sounds like
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you were raised in a military family.
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and I think that's important. You know, I've got a
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book about to come out. It's titled What You Can
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Do About It? Answers the question to the to any issue.
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When you're thinking about it, the first question you go is, well,
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what can I personally do about it? Why do we
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ask that question as Americans? British people don't ask that question, Europeans,
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Germans don't ask that question, but Americans do because we're
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we see the individual as the pre eminent sovereign over
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everything right under God, and they us are right. So
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the reason why the southern. Thing is important is I
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come from the same place where a guy named David
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Crockett comes from. And I talk about this in my
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book because when I was a little boy, my dad
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would make sure he was in the Air Force, but
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he would make sure he drove us home twice a year,
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once at Christmas and once in the summertime for two
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weeks at a time. And his little brother, my uncle Buddy,
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would take me around when I was a little boy
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and take me under his wing. They didn't have kids,
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him and his wife, my aunt Phyllis. But one of
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the places that he took me once and I distinctly
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remembered it because Davy Crockett's Disney I think it was
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a Disney series or something, you know, King of the
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Wild Frontier was on at the time. And my uncle
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took me to the courthouse steps where they're from and
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then said, Robbie, that's what they called me when I
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was a kid growing up. But my mother still calls
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me that. I do allow my wife Candy to call
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me back, but nobody else is allowed to do. But
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he said, Robbie, I just want you to know that
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right here is where Colonel Crockett told his constituents after
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they voted him out of Congress the second time, that
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y'all can all go to Hell. I'm going to Texas
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and the rest is history. And that's important to note
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because of the characteristics and the trait that you can
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expand on out from that statement at those courthouse steps.
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Those are the kinds of people that raised me. My
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dad has eleven brothers and sisters, my mom has twelve.
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They're all from that part of the world.
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Our military service on my AD's side goes all the
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way back to the American Revolution in western North Carolina,
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a little town called Robins, North Carolina, where William Maynis
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Junior is buried private in the Continental Army, and we
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were spread all you know, migration and everything out to
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the west Tennessee was created. Actually it was part of
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North Carolina originally. That's how we came to be where
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we're at there in Madison County, Tennessee. Now most of
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my family.
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So did you know, like, did you know your whole
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life that you were going to be in the military
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or was it did you ever rebel against that idea
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if my whole life. But one of my earliest memories
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is my dad giving me a full sized g I
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Joe when I had to go into a hospital when
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what's called Black Programs SR seventy one YouTube programs back
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in the day when they were really being operated by
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a non military organization with three letters, and they had
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this private display of aircraft and I remember him distinctly
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the cockpit of the SR seventy one. It was the
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first cockpit I ever touched, because he held me up
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there to look inside of it. That canopy was opened
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at this private display for families of folks that were missions,
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fly faster than the speed of sound, and I knew
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I wanted to fly aircraft that contributed something to the country.
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ground and witnessing the sound barrier, barrier being broken. It's
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it's it's really something to experience. But did you did
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you get to fly faster than the speed of sound?
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flew faster than the speed of sound in is B
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one bomber, the Bone as we call it those of
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us that fly it. And that's a four hundred thousand
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pound class aircraft, so a DC ten for civilians out
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there that want to compare it to something, and getting
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that much weight going that fast is pretty incredible.
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It's a speed limit. Is a one point two mock.
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Carter cut, when we added about forty five thousand pounds
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to it and made it a low altitude penetrating bomber
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to get into Soviet missile defense system's low altitude put
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about forty thousand pounds ish worth of new equipment on
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it that enabled it to do.
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It's pretty incredible. Though.
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it's got sensors all over the aircraft load hexadecimal codes
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and then the guys in the back seats. That's one
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of the things we operate. It comes out of the
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Space Shuttle. Actually, that system does. There's a lot of
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common parts with the Space Shuttle because Rockwell was the
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original of the of the aircraft and the system. So
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you've got these sensors, speed sensors all over the aircraft.
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goes through the shockwave because it's so big, so different
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parts of the airplane goes supersonic at different points as
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you transit through the sound area.
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enemies with a pretty effective weapon.
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What Yeah, I love that. You're so non to a
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lot about it. I love that. But what's it like
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inside the aircraft? Is it? I mean, it's got a
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is there? Is there? Do you experience anything? Or is
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it just like, oh, I think we just broke the
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down barrier.
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and that aircraft is pretty anti climactic. I mean, you
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know that you've sped up if you've been cruising around
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and you decided, hey, we're we're high enough and we've
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got the right conditions, we're gonna go supersonic. And you
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sweep the wings on that aircraft. It's got sweeping wings
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on it.
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barrier or first time is pretty nonchalant, uh, an anticlimactic.
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attention because you get thrown forward in the straps. Said,
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it's a very very evident that you've been going really
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fast and now you've got this big monster uh that's
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slowing down and throwing you.
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For Oh my gosh, that's that sounds insane at least.
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So you but you started as a I mean in
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a very unconventional way. I think most people that get
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to the ranks that you you achieved as colonel don't
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probably start as enlisted. You know. I know, my nephew,
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for example, my brother in law, they went I think
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they started as second lieutenant or something because they were
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in their degree or what. I don't know what the
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I'm sure you know what the rules are for that.
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But yeah, so talk about that. You went in as
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an enlisted soldier in the in the in the Air Force,
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not as an officer.
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Yeah, we call them airman in the Air Force. Airman,
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but I appreciate that. Yeah, Yeah, it's a it's an
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interesting story. You know. It gets back to the whole question, Well,
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what can I do about it? I wanted to fly
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fast airplanes. Actually wanted to be a Thunderbird pilot. And wow,
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my dad was in the Air Force, so I'd known
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all this time that I wanted to be in. So
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I actually enlisted three days after I turned seventeen, in
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nineteen November nineteen seventy eight. November eighteenth, nineteen seventy eight.
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So I started young, which means I got to the
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other end at thirty two and.
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I was still fairly young and everything, but the enlisted
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ranks was where my dad was from, you know, and
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we really didn't have money to go to college. I
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didn't qualify for any scholarships. Just a average student. Man,
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I'm ever going to be brilliant. Although I have some
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great degrees from some great schools. They let me sneak
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into Harvard and the Navy War College and.
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That kind of stuff.
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Uh, and I was able to nobody all my way
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through it and passed enough to get a degree in
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both those institutions. But you know, my high school counselor,
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I'll just tell you the story real quick. My high
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school counselor told me that I wasn't college material.
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When I went to her and I said, hey, I
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want to compete for an ROTC scholarship or go to
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the Air Force Academy, and I had I had no idea.
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so I had I had had no idea. Wasn't raised
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with all the information you have to know that all
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the prep it takes to get an appointment to the
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Air Force Academy or be ready to go to college
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and those kinds of things. So I just kind of
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wandered my way through high school and took what I
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wanted to. I made some a's and b's. I think
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I got one C. But I was I was okay,
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it was average, slightly above average and everything. But she
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looked at me and she said, you're not qualified.
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Said I said, what.
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She goes, Yeah, you you'd probably be better off going to uh,
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you know, go to a gas station to learn how
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to be a mechanic as or something like that.
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Uh. And uh, well, uh that that drove that question.
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I'll take you back to the title of my book
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that's about to come out here, hopefully in a month
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or so. We're waiting on the Pentagon to review it
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because they have to review of the manuscript.
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Uh due to my security They have to review it.
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Yeah, due to my security clearance. And there's stories from
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my military service center. We had to run it through
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uh and everything.
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But uh, it's titled what you Can Do About It?
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But but she drove me to ask that question again, Well,
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what can I do about it?
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Well, so what I did about it was I I
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enlisted in the Air Force three days after I turned seventeen.
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I had to get my mother's permission, uh to do it.
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which turned out to be an associates degree in mathematics,
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and I was awarded that degree at the same time
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that I was awarded a Bassador's of Science degree both
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from the University of Tampa and Management Information Systems, which
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was one of the first MIS programs in the country.
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You know, you learn computer systems analysis, design programming, old
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school programming like COBAL and ORTRAN and machine language and
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that kind of stuff. And somehow I was able to
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even graduate with some mild honors from that. So I
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proved her wrong within.
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I love that and I had to get that to
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become an officer, to achieve the goal of wanting to
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fly fast airplanes. And that was the whole reason why
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I enlisted. But along the way, I got the opportunity
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to do a job that I still I get emotional
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when I think about it, because it's still the best
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job I've ever had. It's called Explosive Ordinance disposal. Being seventeen,
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they signed me up in a job. You know how
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you can get a guaranteed job when you sign up
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in the Air Force. I was going to be a
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missile maintenance technician in Mine, not North Dakota. Think about that.
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That's what That's what you wanted as your guaranteed jobs.
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Well, that's all that's what they offered me. They offered
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me like five jobs, and this job EOD. You couldn't
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enlist as that at the time. And in basic training
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boot camp, if you can call it that, in the
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Air Force, in those days. We called it six weeks
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of shaking bake airman making because it was so weak.
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And about a.
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Week into it, they take everybody into a room and
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show you a couple of films.
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One is Pair of Rescue.
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And the other one's Explosive Ordinance Disposal and and Para Rescue.
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You have to be a really strong swimmer. I was
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a lot like slightly below average as a swimmer, even
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though I liked doing it. I was not a very
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strong swimmer at the time. So I was like, hmm,
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missile maintenance technician in North Dakota or bomb squad and say,
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I'm seventeen years old. I think the bomb squad would
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be a hoot, you know, Oh my god.
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And so off.
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I went to the Navy's EOD School of the Army's
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U S Army Chemical School and was led by a
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Marine Corps prior listed lieutenant who had been an artillery
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in Coo in Vietnam and his sergeant, Lieutenant Benjamin Obell
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and Sergeant Garcia. They were a class leaders. The Air
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Force got they were Marines, a little Air Force rob
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manis we.
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Got buster in here? Talking marine crap?
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I love? Butser had any crayons this morning.
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Brother. Uh so, so people think I'm a marine sometimes,
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and I don't know why. I think it's because of
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the way I sometimes I talk and present myself. Because
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their impact on seventeen year old Rob Manus they had
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me for a year after Air Force basic screening must
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have made an impact on the way I behave, talk,
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present myself and those kind of things. But EOD School
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was still it's the best thing that ever happened to me.
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I just fell into it and volunteered. And I still
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if you look at my xbio, you see that it's
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there because you know, some of my old bosses are
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still alive in spite of the hard party that they did.
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Let me ask you, and I stay in touch.
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With them with a lot. So, I mean, it's amazing.
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As I left that job in nineteen eighty five.
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I'm curious why. And I'm not trying to evoke emotion,
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I promise I'm not. I'm just curious what it was
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about that job that evoked that emotion when you when
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you started talking about it. What what was it that
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was so special to you? Or is that private?
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No, there, it's not.
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I'll talk you to through my first response in EO D.
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It was I was stationed permanently at Myrtle Beach Air
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Force Base in South Carolina. I was eighteen by the
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time I graduated from school and got my badge. We
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call it the crab. It looks like a crab, and
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the school was in Charles County, Maryland, Indian Maryland, so
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it's a nicknamed the Charles County Crab, the one I wear.
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They moved the school down to Egland because you know
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the people they graduate nowadays, they just couldn't handle the
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tough weather up in Maryland. I guess I don't know,
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but anyway, friendly rivalry, friendly.
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Rivalry, folks. You know, I love you guys cows.
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But anyway, my first response, I got mission ready about
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three months, two months after I got there, and I'm
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on call my first weekend, and the very first response is, Hey,
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we've got a jolly green helicopter waiting for you on
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the ramp. You need to go down, and there's a
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sea mine that's been washed up on the shore. Uh,
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and we've been assigned responsibility to go safe it, get
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it transported and all that. Well, here's the kicker. Air
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Force kids and men and women there were the first
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women in the field were in my class.
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We were not taught.
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Air Force kids were not taught anything but what we
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would call a shake and bake version of Navy ordnance,
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and the common theme from the Navy instructors was don't worry,
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You're never going to.
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See this stuff. It's all out in the water.
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And the very first call that eighteen year old Rob
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Menus gets on his own is to go hop on
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this jolly green fly down the beach to just north
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of Charleston, South Carolina, and safe the sea. Mine did
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it transport? Think about that as an individual responsibility at
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eighteen years old. There is no other field in the
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United States Air Force in peacetime, especially where you are
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entrusted with things like that. And the men and women
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that brought that essentially raised me.
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My second Daddy's that I.
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Didn't have any women's supervisors in that field, but my
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second father's Jim Palace, is one, my first senior and CEO.
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He was from Asheville, North Carolina. He was the boss
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at Myrtle Beach and Junior Lad was my last boss.
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Master started senior Master and Junior lad out in Tampa
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Air Force based Florida and he's from western North Carolina,
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the Smoky Mountain Appalachians and everything, and he might like
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fast cars that might be able to carry whiskey illegal whiskey.
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I don't know.
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Both those guys were fantastic as my surrogate dad's in
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that field, and they bracketed my experience in the field
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in the Air Force and all along the way. I
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met these men at every assignment. I had three assignments
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in the U D that were just phenomenal people and
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they and they trusted this kid because I had demonstrated,
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you know, my my professionalism and my abilities in the
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field when you know, I almost failed out of you
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at these school.
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Wow.
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If it hadn't been for the Marines who sent me
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to a Marine warrant officer as a black guy named
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Gunner way had been in Vietnam and everything that took
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me aside and worked with me for a full day,
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I would never have worn the you you know. Uh,
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So I'm very grateful to that and uh was honored
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to get the opportunity to serve in that field. If
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you go watch the movie The hurt Locker, we were
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predicting that kind of war, like what you see in
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that movie was going to happened, and we were preparing
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folks for that when I left the field to go
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be an officer and watch one.
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So that's incredible. So so somebody, somebody whipped you into shape.
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Oh my dad was a master sergeant, so you can imagine.
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Oh my god, he.
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Just refined me to where now some people think I'm
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a marine and I have to tell him to go
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eat some.
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Carryons like like Buck. He said he's had some red
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ones today, so so I love Buck. He's freaking awesome.
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And by the way, Shell's watching commenting as well. Shell,
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thank you. I wouldn't even know you had it not
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been for for Shell hosting your or hosting producing. I
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don't know what she but her official title is but
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with your space every day and and and everybody needs
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to go listen and watch you on your show. And
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it's just it's called the Colonel rob mana Show, right.
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Yeah, just the rob mana Show. We don't use the
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rank in it. But okay, when I ran for US
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Sentate in twenty thirteen twenty fourteen, we branded me is
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Colonel robminus retired. So all my social media still says
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that I don't think I would have done that had
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I just set it up on my own, but since
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the branding is there, we keep it that way. And
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of course then the guys did that great trophy so.
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Well, you got you got to see it from a
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civilian's point of view. I mean, I I you know,
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like I said, one of my only regrets in life
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is I had the opportunity to go into the army
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with my best friend. We were going in on what
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they called the buddy system, and I bailed at the
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last minute and he went and he was so pissed.
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I think he still hates me to his day. But
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you know, it's one of my only regrets. But from
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a civilian standpoint, at least from my standpoint as a civilian,
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I think it's one of the most incredible Like I
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honor our military like it's it's to me, it's one
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of the most important things you could ever do with
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your life, and and so I respect the heck out
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of out of you and anybody that's done what you've done,
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especially climbing the ranks. That the way that you did
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is I mean, I don't know what the percentage is,
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but I would say it's probably fairly rare.
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I think it is, yeah, fairly rare. I don't know
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if I would have made general. I had to retire
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pretty quickly because my wife got diagnosed with breast cancer
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and we needed to get it taken care of. Not
519
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already thirty two years and I was coming up on
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my primary board. But very few make a colonel and
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get to be commanders, because that's a it's a whole
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other screening system. Making colonel as a screening system, and
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then and then getting to be a wing commander is
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another screening system.
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Very few get the opportunity to do that.
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There's there's and for every general that's promoted, every person
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in X general, they're they're told, hey, there's ten more
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people just as qualified as you whose name didn't come
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out of that hopper, you know, in the lottery. So
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you know, it was an honor to get the chance
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to do that. I mean, things just keep keep happening,
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you know. Just last week, on the Air Force's birthday
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on September eighteenth, I was honored to get the opportunity
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to lay a wreath at the Tube of the Unknowns
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as a retired person, and I was thinking about my
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dad when I was doing that because he would have
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thought that was pretty awesome, pretty cool, you know. But
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it was an honor to get to do that. That
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may be the last actually official, you know, semi military
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function I ever get to do. And that was the
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honor of my life to do that.
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Uh.
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And it's a it's a privilege to get the opportunity
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to serve with young Americans both as a peer as
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an enlisted kid. Uh, and then and then get the
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opportunity to lead them, and then and then on top
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of that, the responsibility to lead them in combat is uh.
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It's an overwhelming uh feeling uh and humbling uh and uh.
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Book were all human beings. We make mistakes. I talk
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about a few of those in the book, especially on
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the military side. UH and uh and we should so
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that we can learn from those people can learn from them.
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UH.
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But watching these young men and women uh sacrifice for
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America UH and being responsible for helping keep them alive
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and getting them back home to loved ones, those kind
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of things, it's just the greatest honor that I will
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ever have achieved. I think, I don't think anything and
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will ever top toe.
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That's that's incredible. I think about you know the name
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of this show's Breakthrough Walls. And I started this seven
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years ago because I was stuck and I thought, you know,
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I'll bet you if I interview enough celebrities and successful people,
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I'll figure my own crap out and get understand it worked,
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you know. But I would love to hear your take
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on because I sent my wife your your I think
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it was your most well, not your most recent. Twelve
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thirteen days ago. You did a show right after the
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assassination of Charlie Kirk, and it was called The War
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has Come to Us, I believe was the title of
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that show. And she goes, do you have anything that
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doesn't have to do with war coming to us that
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you could send me? And she's watching, by the way,
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she's probably gonna start cussing at me. But but you know,
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I would love to hear your take on what you
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think is happening in our not just our country, although
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it is really I mean Charlie Kirk, it's a whole
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other topic. But what do you think is going on?
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What is from a leadership colonel position, if you were
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to look at your what's happening? Why is everything going
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so a miss?
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Well for your wife ma'am. My Monday shows are themed
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more War Monday, and we started doing that when I
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started doing the Daily Show because there was so much
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war going on. It was before President Trump got back
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in office that we started doing this thing daily, and
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I just wanted to get facts and truth out because
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there's so much propaganda about the various conflicts that are
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going on, a lot of it from our side. Unfortunate
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that muddies the waters. So that's why I do that.
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But the reason why that particular show was named that
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is I've been talking about it for some time and
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so have a lot of my peers that are not
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in active service right now that have the experience that
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are watching and making observations with open source intelligence information that,
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especially during the Biden years, there has been a mass
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infiltration of the United States of America by Chinese communists
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over one hundred thousand by some estimates and those are conservative,
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that are here illegally over seventy thousand just Afghanis that
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were unvetted refugees from Afghanistan. And if you don't think
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Afghanis that were wearing the uniforms of the good guys
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kill Americans, go back and see how many, but we
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lost a two star general due to an Afghani soldier
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that we had just trained. So if they're unvetted, I
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mean just those two populations are Communists and islam Us
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have been longest in them. And there's this thing called
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the Red Green Alliance. And I believe that Charlie's assassination,
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the assassination of President Trump, the attempts, both attempts, those
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are all operations. They have all the earmarks of an operation,
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not necessarily of the shooter themselves, who have some ear
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marks of some training and everything, but well resourced, well planned,
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the surveillance required, the site assessment required, the you know,
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the assassination spot, where to shoot from, selecting that position.
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All of that is part of good planning. And then
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the resourcing of these people, you know, four or five
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cell phones encrypted, those kind of things.
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The weapons.
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I mean, the kid that Butler Crooks, he had a
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laser rangefinder. You know that he's walking around getting ranges
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on as he's walking around the facility. So these are
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not things that your average eighteen nineteen, twenty twenty one,
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twenty two. Even this guy down in Florida who is older,
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but he's a Zealot, even that guy. Those are not
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the average things that you would be thinking about.
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I mean, just look at the Florida one.
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He had kevlar vest hanging out on the fence around
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his sniper position that he was looking through and shooting through,
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and those kind of things. So all of those things
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have earmarks of good planning and resourcing well beyond just
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the individuals that pulled the trigger. And I believe that
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there are some foreign influence that's aid and embedding these
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types of operations, and it's likely some conglomeration of Communist
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Chinese and Islamist resourcing and planning of some sort and
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training of some sort that identify these individuals early, especially
635
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the smart kids like this last guy, Tyler Robinson, build
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them up, get them convinced through all the indoctrination that's
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coming through not just them, but that's being pushed into
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our systems by their program. The Communists are exemplary at
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doing that, and the Islamist are to just look at
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how many people they've gotten convinced that the people to
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support Hamas, which are worse than the German Nazis, they
642
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are worse than the German Nazis, and tens of thousands
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of American kids are supporting them, and adults too, So
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the propaganda and indoctrination forces that doesn't just come about
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through social media as a natural thing.
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Those aren't natural things.
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So anyway, I did that show because I believe that
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Charlie's death has some earmarks of an operation, and that
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there's likely some foreign influence over it, and that foreign
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influence is probably aided and embedded by the individuals that
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are already here in the country because of the open
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borders especially, but may have been here all along. And
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that's why this happens. And that's what I mean, the
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war has come to us. Look, the National counter Terrorism
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Center director Joe Kent, who I know and I've interviewed
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on my show a couple of times, I think when
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he was running for Congress. He put out a statement
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just the other day saying that al Qaeda is here
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inside the United States. They are planning a massive operation essentially,
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and those of us on the outside, especially Sarah Adams,
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the targeter that you've heard about from the Benghazi event,
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and you see her being interviewed by Sean Ryan and
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those kind of things.
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She has been on that.
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And has been right all along, and we let things
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slide through the cracks, like the individual the sergeant in
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New Orleans on New Year's Eve he was We let
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that lone wolf tag get put on there by law
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enforcement of some sort, and there's no way that has
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the earmarks of an operation too. The guy, the Green
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Brave Master Sergeant that killed himself in the cyber truck
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at Trump Tower out in Vegas all ear marks. We
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don't know enough about those events or what happened with
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those individuals and why they may have done those things,
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or who they got involved with.
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We don't know. We don't know, and we should know.
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And that's why I did that show, is because we
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need absolute transparency to the maximum extent possible so that
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we can put confidence in ourselves back in our institutions,
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which have been just absolutely degraded over the last ten years.
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My wife is her comments on screen, I hope they
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root out these infiltrators. It's terrifying, I think, you know,
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I look at this and I go because the average
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you know, I see all the these these g I
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Joe wannabes on on social media and Buck and Buck
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and I are really good friends. We've had many conversations
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about this, like you take the average civilian and you say, Okay,
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here's an here's here's a here's a take this ar
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out there and and and good luck. I mean, they're
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not gonna know what to do. And they're not they're
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not trained the way that you are and and other
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military personnel. But what can we do? And I I
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saw your posts in fact, I shared it that you
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know said stay armed America, I think, and you were
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you were sharing what you were just talking about? What
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can the average citizen do? Two? I mean, yes, I understand,
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stay armed, go to the range, do all the things,
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but that's not the average US citizen.
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Well, it needs to become once again the average US citizen.
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Kid.
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That's that's my point. My viewers know that Colonel retired
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Kurt Slickter and I are friends and we use those
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type of phrasing all along. And believe me, we don't
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want a shooting civil war. Nobody that's had to do
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this stuff in real life that I talked to once
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anything like that. It's all the you know, the g
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I Joe wannabes on both sides that and to talk
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that way, and we're always trying to talk them down
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and go, hey, you don't want to go there. But
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here's what I do tell people. We you are an American,
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if you're an adult, especially, you have a responsibility to
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your to your community, your family. It's written in the Constitution,
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in the Second Amendment. By the way, Okay, a well
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regulated militia. They're not talking about some organized uniform thing.
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They're talking about the people that picked up their rifles
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on April nineteenth, seventeen seventy five that we just celebrated
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two hundred and fifty years ago. One of those people
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was like eighty eight years old. I want to be
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that man. I can't remember. I can never remember his
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name off the top of my head. I don't know why.
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I think his first name was Samuel. But I aspire
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to be that man. And what does it take to
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do that. Well, my commonly used rifle is sitting in
724
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my safe right now with about a thousand rounds of
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five five six ammunition in magazines, ready to go if
726
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I need it, and I've trained to do it. Yeah,
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I had military training, but you don't have to have
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military training. Get training, go out to the range regularly,
729
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and exercise your rights but that's not the end of it.
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You'll talk to your five closest neighbors and have a
731
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community plan to defend yourselves and your homes and your famili's.
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That's the minimum right there to be an American citizen
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and fulfill that responsibility that's described in this Second Amendment,
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in my opinion, and that's all I can tell people
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to do at this point in our history, because they've
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made so many laws in so many states where you
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risk tripping up and becoming a criminal, and those kind
738
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of are an insurrectionist by accident if you go too
739
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much further than that. But those are the minimums of
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00:43:22.880 --> 00:43:26.119
fulfilling your responsibilities as an American, and it applies to
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men and women. If you don't think women can be warriors,
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you've got another thing coming. My best warriors in the
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V one cockpit, my two best warrior combat co pilots
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were women, and they went on to be fantastic aircraft
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commanders and instructors and squadron commanders and all kinds of
746
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things after I left Air Force. So so my point
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with all that is fulfill your responsibility. It's a right, yes,
748
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the Second Amendment is, but it's also a responsibility, and
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it's our responsibility to do that. You don't have to
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be untrained, you don't have to be uncoordinated with your neighbors.
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Uh.
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You should know your five closest neighbors, know what their
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views are, what their capabilities are, and have a plan
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as to who would do what in the event of
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an emergency.
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You never know. I live right here where Kashrina hit
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pretty hard.
758
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Uh and uh uh. Ask those people that survived that.
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Go have a chat with somebody that's been through something
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like that and you'll understand what I'm talking about.
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My wife is a definitely a warrior. She does stuff.
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I'm like, how does she even do? I don't where
763
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does that come from? Like, I'm and I'm serious, it's
764
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I think anybody with a strong woman in their life
765
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knows what I'm talking about. Do you. It's gonna sound
766
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like a crazy question. Probably. I'm sitting here listening to
767
00:44:53.440 --> 00:44:56.400
this and I get sent all these I mean, I
768
00:44:56.480 --> 00:45:00.800
went down the QAnon hole for a while. I've you know,
769
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all of the conspiracies, the documentaries all that, I've seen
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00:45:05.360 --> 00:45:08.519
it all. And my my I'm I'm very and I'm
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friends with with doctor Jerome Corsi as well, and and
772
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and you know, he's he's got some interesting theories. But
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you know, have you do you have hope for America?
774
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And I know that sounds crazy to say that, but
775
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do you feel like that there's a way out of
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00:45:28.519 --> 00:45:33.199
this that that we're we can we we can wrangle
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00:45:33.280 --> 00:45:37.800
these people that are just freaking There's some lunatics and
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I'm not going to say even on the left, there's
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just lunatics that have these very unbelievably obscure views of
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what's actually occurring in in our country. I don't get it.
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Of course I have hope.
782
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But when Davy Crockett those that speech on those courthouse
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steps that I was talking about, Yeah, where.
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Did he go? He went to Texas? All right.
785
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He didn't go there thinking he was going to die.
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He didn't go there thinking he was even going to
787
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get shot at uh. He didn't go there to be
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a hero of the Alamo. And you can, I mean,
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the historical records and the facts around it and all that,
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you can debate that all day long, but the bottom
791
00:46:25.239 --> 00:46:28.400
line is he led a group of men from Tennessee
792
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go look at the walls of the Alamo. They're the
793
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largest list of names, guess where it's at, Tennessee. So
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he used his leadership and his experiences to convince many
795
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of his friends to go there because of the hope
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that freedom could come to anywhere, based on what he
797
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had learned growing up in his country and as a frontiersman,
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and using that same question that my book is titled
799
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what can I Do about It? And that's what the
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call those kind of call are all about. So absolutely
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I have hope. You know, twenty it's being said that
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reported that twenty million Americans watched Charlie Kirk's memorial service
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on broadcast television, not live stream, but broadcast television.
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Think about that.
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Now, that's a system that is adamantly opposed to Americans
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who believe, like Davy Crockett and Rob Venus and Ken
807
00:47:27.800 --> 00:47:31.239
Walls and Ken Walls's wife believe and probably everybody that
808
00:47:31.280 --> 00:47:35.079
hopefully everybody that's watching, they are anathetical to us. They're
809
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anathetical to the whole idea. And still twenty million people
810
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watched it on there. Over one hundred million live streams
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throughout the world were observed of Charlie Kirks memorial. Of course,
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I have hope. I have hope I met Charlie Kirk
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when he I think he was around nineteen, wasn't too
814
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long after he started Turning Point USA. I was just
815
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entering the political arena as a US Senate candidate against
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00:47:58.039 --> 00:48:01.000
Bill Cassidy and Mary Landry and Louisiana, much to the
817
00:48:01.119 --> 00:48:05.400
chagrin of the establishment Republicans who still hate me so much.
818
00:48:06.000 --> 00:48:09.360
They hate me so much. Uh they try to prevent
819
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me from uh getting leadership roles and those kind of
820
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things even to this day. Uh wow, okay, so uh,
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but I still have hope because those Americans and especially
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those young people, and that that filled that building in
823
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Arizona the other day last night in the University of Minnesota,
824
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much to the angst of the of the Marxist folks
825
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up there. Uh, with that governor and all those people.
826
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They're yelling and whining and screaming about it. But they
827
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filled it and they're gonna fill them all. Uh. Before yesterday, Uh,
828
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there were no chapters for Turning Point us a A
829
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on any of the major colleges right here on the coast.
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Because I'm in touch with the regional director and I
831
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asked him right away, told him, Hey, I'll volunteer to
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help you build them and those kind of things. I
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just got told by uh, by someone that goes to
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school that we have a chapter meeting today, wow, of
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young people in one of those schools. So yes, of
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course I have hope. I have hope that my five
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children and their children have gotten some of the characteristics
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that I got from my family that came from people
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like Davy Crockett, my ancestor William that fought in the
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Continental Army out of North Carolina, and all of those
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that have come before us. They've passed the stuff down
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to us. It's what drove me to do what I
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did in the United States Armed Forces is what drove
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me into the political arena to try to stop establishment
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from politicians from running as one thing and governing like
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they're on the other side. It's what drives me today
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this episode today in my show's five hundred and eighty three.
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I got my YouTube channel back today for the Rob
849
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Mayna Show. I haven't figured out how to link greenlink
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it back. We've been broadcasting to my personal channel since
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they took it aw away for me at episode one
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sixty two, and I'm at five sixty or five eighty
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three today and I got that back this morning. If
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you haven't heard, Google and YouTube it finally relented and
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admitted they were wrong for censoring us. And Charlie Kirk
856
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was the only American that would go into college campuses
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and talk to eighteen year olds and nineteen year olds
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and twenty year olds in twenty thirteen because they said,
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and they were telling my folks were telling me this.
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The professionals in the political business. The campaign was rob
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they won't vote for you. There's no reason to waste
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your time going and talking to these kids on college campuses.
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Charlie Kirle, Charlie Kirk did this, and the eighteen to
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thirty five year old demographic went for Donald Trump in
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this second historic election That's never happened this way before
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in our lifetimes.
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I know Garfield got reelected.
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Once, but he wasn't threatened and tried in court, almost
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put in prison for ninety four years for life, and
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those kind of things like this man was.
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And two assassinations.
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Charlie Kirks leadership because he asked himself the same question
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at that book that I'm getting to release, is what
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can I do about it? And he figured it out
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and that's why we wrote the book. You know, the
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incident had not occurred as a matter of fact when
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we wrote this book, but we have changed the forward
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in the book and dedicated it to Charlie and his
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efforts and free speech, because that's exactly what he was doing,
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was answering that question. We try to give people some
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tools in the book to do that. I didn't want
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00:51:38.159 --> 00:51:40.599
to just write a biography that people would read and go, oh,
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that's an interesting person and throw it a you know,
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put it on the shelf. I wanted to give people
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some tools that I've learned to use and ideas that
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I've learned about from people like Charlie. Even though I'm
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thirty three years older than him, i still learned a
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lot from him. And I'm very grateful that he did
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what he did, and that gives me hope that the
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United States will continue and that we will defeat these people,
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whether they're American citizens or not, that no longer will
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00:52:07.920 --> 00:52:10.320
support and defend the Constitution of the United States but
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00:52:10.400 --> 00:52:12.719
want to burn it down. We will defeat these people,
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and we'll do it through free speech in spite of
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them killing us one at a time.
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Amen, Holy moly, Wow, I can't wait to rewatch that
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and put it out in some nice clips. That was unbelievable.
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You've spoken at at Amfest, right.
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Yes, sir.
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I got the opportunity to speak at MFIs last December. Wow,
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and I asked to do it because my pack, Gator Pack.
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You can find it at gatorpac dot com. Give us
903
00:52:45.880 --> 00:52:47.920
a five dollars a month donation, folks. This is what
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00:52:47.960 --> 00:52:49.920
we did. We raised over two and a half million dollars.
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00:52:49.960 --> 00:52:54.440
Our largest political donation for that presidential cycle was to
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two groups, Charlie's Turning Point USA and Cliff Maloney's Pennsylvania Chase.
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There really one group.
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They were working together to ballot Chase in the Swing States,
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and as you know, Pennsylvania was the first state to
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be announced that Trump won in the Swing States, and
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that within five minutes of that it was pronounced he
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00:53:11.840 --> 00:53:13.920
was going to be president of the United States.
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Again.
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That was Charlie Kirk and Clipaloni and that whole team
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that did that. And I just wanted to say thank you.
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So I spent about five minutes too.
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That's amazing. And that I haven't scrolling is that it
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is that how you spell it G A T O
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R p A C.
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That's correct. That's correct.
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Okay, so everybody, I yeah, I'll definitely go over. I'll
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sign up support you and Robmayanus dot com as well. Correct.
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Robminus dot com is my website. You can find me.
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So much, so much on there by the way and.
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My Facebook fan pages at co l Rob Maynus. It's
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got about two hundred thousand followers. It's been suppressed since
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00:53:56.239 --> 00:54:00.920
October first, twenty twenty. That page you should generate about
928
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nine thousand dollars a month in revenue at its peak
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after only four months in operation, and Facebook has stolen
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the rest of it from us all this time. So
931
00:54:10.519 --> 00:54:12.920
if you can go there and subscribe to that, like it,
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00:54:13.039 --> 00:54:15.119
follow it, all that stuff, I'd appreciate it. And on
933
00:54:15.360 --> 00:54:18.639
x at Rob Manus, at getter at Rob Manus. I'm
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00:54:18.679 --> 00:54:21.519
on True Social. The show broadcasts on the True Social
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00:54:21.519 --> 00:54:23.920
plus channel two, so you can.
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Find us there.
937
00:54:24.960 --> 00:54:28.599
And of course we're on Rumble at Worldviewtube on their
938
00:54:28.639 --> 00:54:31.639
live stream and our channel has the Rob Maina Show
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was live there and soon we will go back to
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the Rob Maina Show page on YouTube.
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On YouTube, it's there, you can find it now. That's
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00:54:43.360 --> 00:54:47.679
so awesome. Congratulations, and I knew. I knew it would
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come back eventually. The only video that YouTube has ever
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deleted from my show one video, and that was doctor
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Jerome Corsi.
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I like doctor Corsi. I've got to meet him a
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couple of times. I have some of his books. I
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love the guy. He's a fantastic American. But you know
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what they did to us. They went back, they found
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a video they didn't like that was current, and they
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went back three years again and found enough videos that
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they could put strikes against based on policies that were
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written after we did the videos.
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It's despicable.
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And if I had the money, I would sue Facebook,
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Google and YouTube for millions of dollars, but it's almost
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impossible to do. So you st to get somebody to
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take that case up, because they think probably over a
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million dollars at least, I'm.
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Sure they do. I'll tell you here's what I think
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is going to happen. Trump's just getting started. II They
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next year or so, we're gonna see some things like WHOA.
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I don't know, we'll see. But Colonel, I know your
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time is. I think you're on a tight schedule, so
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I don't wanna I don't want to go over if
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you can't, but I do wanna. I don't feel like
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I covered hardly anything with you too. I will say this, okay,
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I want to I want to offer this to you.
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I'll do it publicly. I'm an Amazon influencer and and
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I would love to invite you to do we can.
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I'm I'm one of the few people that can live
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stream directly to Amazon's customers. So when your book is released,
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I would love to invite you on to do an
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Amazon live with me and I'll host it and there
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Their only communist rules are you're not allowed to bring
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up outside external websites. That's okay, which which is understandable.
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It's you know, hey, come over here and play and
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sell everybody else's stuff. No.
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Yeah, well I want to sell my book on Amazon too,
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So I mean that's part of our that's part of
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our our process and approach that the team that's that's
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working with me is is doing.
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So it's all ready to go.
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We're just waiting on the final approval from the Pentagon. Uh,
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it should be soon. It's not a very long book,
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and there wasn't that much information in it that I
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would think would be at risk, but I told them
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to just do their job. They said it'd probably be
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a minimum of a couple of months. So we're coming
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up on a couple of months here.
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In about two.
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Can can you like call anybody and go, hey.
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I'll check in with them after I hit their minimums.
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That's awesome that the.
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Guys work at the guys and gals work at that
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office and depending on have been great. So have they
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00:57:38.639 --> 00:57:41.039
not everybody in the government to these days is great.
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00:57:41.039 --> 00:57:43.360
But I could tell right away that they were They
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were all business and doing good jobs.
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Yeah, I'm I'm a publisher and so I I literally
1001
00:57:50.719 --> 00:57:53.519
I'm I wait on the Library of Congress to send
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00:57:53.599 --> 00:57:57.679
me the registration number all the time. And it's like,
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oh my gosh. They don't move fast. They do not
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move fast. So so what what would be some parting words?
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And I'm going to give you full screen out of respect,
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00:58:11.719 --> 00:58:15.079
I really would like you to, you know, for the
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00:58:15.119 --> 00:58:18.360
people who are watching and listening, they'll listen to this
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later when I upload it. What words of hope do
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00:58:25.599 --> 00:58:29.400
you have for people that are just barely hanging on
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00:58:29.639 --> 00:58:34.719
to whatever. There's a lot of people struggling, not just emotionally,
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00:58:34.760 --> 00:58:38.880
but financially in every other way, what would you say
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00:58:38.920 --> 00:58:42.159
to those folks that are that are looking for for
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00:58:42.199 --> 00:58:45.400
some hope to continue pushing forward.
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Well, thanks, Ken, I appreciate that. Thanks for having me on. Look, folks,
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00:58:51.719 --> 00:58:57.239
we're Americans. We answer that question individually at that level.
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What can I do about it? So as a Americans,
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00:59:01.360 --> 00:59:03.840
you have the hope that you have that ingrained in
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your DNA, that idea that you don't have to put
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up with being broke. You don't have to put up
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with government that takes your tax dollars and then does
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00:59:13.920 --> 00:59:16.679
things against you. There are things you can do about it,
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and you know that. I just would encourage you to
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ask yourself that question every single day and follow Charlie
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00:59:26.039 --> 00:59:28.880
Kirk's advice. One of the pieces of advice he always
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gave to college students that ask him for it is
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learn something new every single day because it helps us
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00:59:35.440 --> 00:59:38.199
answer these questions. If I could do it as a
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00:59:38.199 --> 00:59:42.159
seventeen year old and mister Kirk could do it as
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00:59:42.159 --> 00:59:46.079
a teenager, every American can do it.
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There are a lot of.
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00:59:47.559 --> 00:59:51.719
People whose giant shoulders we stand on, like Colonel Crockett
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00:59:51.719 --> 00:59:54.280
that I mentioned in this show today, But there are
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00:59:54.320 --> 00:59:57.760
tens of thousands of others, and they've all passed these
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00:59:57.840 --> 01:00:03.320
ideas down to us through our parents and our ancestors.
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01:00:03.800 --> 01:00:06.960
And it's up to us to take those ideas and
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run with it. And the great thing about America is
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that we can. We are able to do that because
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01:00:13.880 --> 01:00:18.199
even today, we still have enough freedom to change things
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01:00:18.239 --> 01:00:21.840
for the better. Get our institutions back to being American first,
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correct our system of taxation so that the federal government
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01:00:27.320 --> 01:00:30.840
and all governments at every level aren't too powerful because
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01:00:30.840 --> 01:00:31.559
they are today.
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01:00:32.639 --> 01:00:33.360
We can do it.
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01:00:33.960 --> 01:00:37.079
The fight coming up after mister Trump leaves office, and
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01:00:37.159 --> 01:00:41.079
especially even now, is in the state houses. That's where
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01:00:41.079 --> 01:00:45.400
our culture is being attacked, restricted, and tyranny is rising
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01:00:45.559 --> 01:00:46.920
and has been rising all along.
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01:00:47.000 --> 01:00:48.519
As we've had these national fights.
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01:00:49.239 --> 01:00:51.599
Go find people to run for state house, run for
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01:00:51.679 --> 01:00:56.199
city council, run for county commission. It's not only our
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01:00:56.360 --> 01:01:01.360
obligation to have these fights willingly, but to have them
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01:01:01.400 --> 01:01:04.920
with a smile on our face and know that even
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01:01:04.920 --> 01:01:07.559
if it's an American citizen, if they're a Marxist or
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01:01:07.599 --> 01:01:11.199
an Islamist, they're an enemy of the Constitution. It's on
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01:01:11.320 --> 01:01:13.480
us to do it. Only three percent did it in
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01:01:13.519 --> 01:01:17.480
the American Revolution. That's all it takes. I'm counting on
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you to join me and everybody else in this fight.
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Wow. There you have it. And Shell's announcing your guests
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01:01:28.440 --> 01:01:31.639
for today. John Taylor is the Colonel's guest today and
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01:01:31.679 --> 01:01:35.599
we're talking about freedom of speech. What time does your
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show start?
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It starts at three pm Eastern two pm Central time.
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Okay, everybody, make sure that you are following the Colonel
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01:01:44.400 --> 01:01:48.760
everywhere like it's so it is on your personal YouTube
1065
01:01:48.840 --> 01:01:50.480
channel because I've seen it there.
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Yes, yes, it is so.
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I haven't had time to link it back up to
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the show channel today yet, but I will figure that out.
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It's three days that it'll go there too. And I
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will say that the one hour live stream television show
1071
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we simulcast to our ex audience. We actually turn the
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X Space on about thirty minutes before and I try
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to stay for thirty minutes after to talk in the
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X Space if folks want to join us there and
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they can't watch the full show. And I take questions
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during the show from the Space audience.
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Yeah, and that's where I got to know you is
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through your doing the Space so very grateful for that.
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I'm grateful for you coming on today. Thank you, and
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let's let's make some noise. Let's get everybody over to
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gatorpack dot com and to Robmaynus dot com. Those are
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scrolling across the bottom of the screen. They will be
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in the show notes as well. So, Colonel, thank you.
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If you would stay with me, I am gonna I'm
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going to close the show down, but if you'd stay
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with me for a minute and just to chat about
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the Amazon thing. And I want to say thank you
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to everybody who's shared this out. If you have not
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shared this out yet, there is time to redeem yourself,
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go ahead and click that share button and share this
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out to everybody you know on every social media platform.
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Because even Zuckerberg was begging for his freedom when Trump won.
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That's great.
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I wish he'd give me mine. He still hasn't given
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me mine back. Oh, ro Venus at col Rob Minus,
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send him a note.
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Oh I might be able to help you with that.
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Let me let me see what I can do. But
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all right, so listen, everybody, have a wonderful day. Thank
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you so much. Make sure you're following the Colonel on
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x and on Facebook. Everywhere and share this out. Thank
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you all so much, Colonel, thank you very much for
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being here, sir.
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Thank you, God bless you.
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You too, Thank you, sir.
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