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Speaker 1: Over the weekend, I was you know what I reposted,
Speaker 1: or at least put up on Instagram was I figured,
Speaker 1: now is a really interesting time to listen. We're re
Speaker 1: listen to the Roger Stone interview that I did with
Speaker 1: Brandon Uh. We had him on a while back. So
Speaker 1: it's episode if you go to soft reppervidio dot com.
Speaker 1: It's not up on you know that the U sound Cloud,
Speaker 1: Apple Podcast. Actually thinking about this over the weekend because
Speaker 1: you know, it's just interesting the number of people who
Speaker 1: like you and I have crossed paths with over the
Speaker 1: years that are caught up in the Muller investigation, and like,
Speaker 1: one by one they're kind of like going down. We
Speaker 1: had we had Eric Flynn, We had Flynn on the podcast.
Speaker 1: You had Roger Stone on podcast. I've talked to UM
Speaker 1: what's his name, Jerome Corsi. And there's there's actually one
Speaker 1: other strain to this that somebody or a connection I'm
Speaker 1: familiar with who I mean, I'm just kind of waiting
Speaker 1: for the other shoe to drop because Flynn was also
Speaker 1: part of back channel communications to another country that is
Speaker 1: not Russia. And I'm sure the Muller investigation must know
Speaker 1: all about it at this point because they flip Flynn
Speaker 1: and he spilled his guts, so he must have told
Speaker 1: him everything. But I'm just kind of curious to see
Speaker 1: if any of that's going to come out in the wash.
Speaker 1: Um maybe not, because you know, they're just not interested
Speaker 1: in that other country. They're interested in, uh in Russia,
Speaker 1: not connected with this. But we did have um Ryan
Speaker 1: Zinki on as well, right before he became a member
Speaker 1: of the administration. But I'm just saying the tide to
Speaker 1: the administration right not not involved in the Mure investigation
Speaker 1: to the best to the best of our knowledge, but
Speaker 1: he did he did end up having to resign, did Yeah,
Speaker 1: So yeah, it is odd the number of characters, especially
Speaker 1: at least me personally, I don't normally associate with you know, well,
Speaker 1: well yes that, but also like that that kind of
Speaker 1: like far right. Uh, you know, Fox News crew is
Speaker 1: not really my my demographic. Um I do. I will say,
Speaker 1: you know, maybe uh I feel differently here because Roger Stone,
Speaker 1: it's weird. I've I've talked to him on many occasions.
Speaker 1: Extremely nice guy as long as you're not like on
Speaker 1: his bedside or anything. And I do think the way
Speaker 1: they arrested him it was completely over the top. I mean,
Speaker 1: Roger Stone is not a guy who is a history
Speaker 1: of violence and or anything like that. He's not being
Speaker 1: arrested for anything violent. And you have all these agents
Speaker 1: like at his front door, open it up the door,
Speaker 1: you know, and and also a CNN camera crew. How
Speaker 1: did they get there? Why were they tipped off? They
Speaker 1: weren't tipped off. There was a CNN person camped out
Speaker 1: in front of his house every night. Yes, that was
Speaker 1: their job. And that's what they do with like low
Speaker 1: level people, um at news agencies. They will like that.
Speaker 1: It's like the typical new guy job, like Okay, you're
Speaker 1: gonna sit in front of the mayor's house, you know,
Speaker 1: in case something happens, you know, that kind of thing.
Speaker 1: So they had someone camped out in front. It's almost
Speaker 1: like what George hand has to do with sex traffic
Speaker 1: just to wait there surveillance um and I I, of
Speaker 1: course I agree that it was heavy handed. There's probably
Speaker 1: no need to go in there with like a fucking
Speaker 1: swat team. But that said, this is what we do
Speaker 1: in America. I mean, if somebody has like a Graham
Speaker 1: of pot the swat team, you know, kicks in the
Speaker 1: front door and throws a flash bang into the baby's
Speaker 1: bedroom and shoots the dog. This is what we do
Speaker 1: in America. It's not just Roger Stone, you know. And
Speaker 1: he's out there whining. I was okay, I get it.
Speaker 1: You know, it wasn't necessary what they did. But this
Speaker 1: is been happening across the country for a long time now.
Speaker 1: So let's not pretend like poor Roger Stone he was
Speaker 1: given some special treatment as punishment or or some political agenda.
Speaker 1: I mean, this is the every day no knock warrant
Speaker 1: arrest uh in the United States. Did you see the
Speaker 1: video that resurfaced of of him at his house, UH
Speaker 1: saying arrest me, muler. Did you see that? Oh no,
Speaker 1: I didn't see that. See if I can, I'm trying
Speaker 1: to pull it up on Youtue too. But it's funny. Well,
Speaker 1: what's your impression of Roger Stone just as a person? Uh,
Speaker 1: he's definitely I get. I mean you've seen the same
Speaker 1: documentary I did Get Me with Roger Sts on Netflix.
Speaker 1: I think it's pretty accurate considering the fact that it
Speaker 1: wasn't kissing his ass. And at the same time, he
Speaker 1: was fine with that movie being released, and it doesn't
Speaker 1: paint him a flowery way, and and anyway, I would say,
Speaker 1: and he is a guy who I think Republicans go
Speaker 1: to if they want to run a dirty campaign and
Speaker 1: they want to dig up dirt on their opponent. And
Speaker 1: I think the Democrats have those same type of trip.
Speaker 1: But I don't think he would deny that that's who
Speaker 1: he is. And I that's why he has that quote
Speaker 1: of of you hate me because I'm effective. If I
Speaker 1: wasn't effective, you wouldn't hate me. I mean, I think
Speaker 1: he describes himself as an agent provocateur. You know he
Speaker 1: in the documentary. I remember him saying something like, I
Speaker 1: revel in your hatred. There you go. Here's yea because
Speaker 1: I think it's pretty funny. Is the thirteen I gonna
Speaker 1: put this on? Really? I guess it's this one sorry,
Speaker 1: Oh my god, I'm busting drinking Russian vodka. Mueller arrest
Speaker 1: me liptars. So people are kind of making fun of
Speaker 1: the fact that you know, he made that as a
Speaker 1: joke and yes he did get arrested. Yeah, you know
Speaker 1: it's Um. The only thing you'll really get in trouble
Speaker 1: with is if you start fucking with um federal judges. Um.
Speaker 1: But it's not really advisable to go after lawyers like
Speaker 1: that are that are kind of actively investigating you. You know,
Speaker 1: that's kind of what I was pointing to, um with
Speaker 1: the the Eddie Gallagher case and the families attacking the
Speaker 1: jag lawyers. Um, it's like like it's it happens all
Speaker 1: the time, but that actually could come back and um
Speaker 1: bite you in the assets sentencing because a lawyer who
Speaker 1: might show some sympathy towards you at the sentencing if
Speaker 1: you've been fucking with him the whole time, they might
Speaker 1: you know, just push for the to have the judge
Speaker 1: throw the book at you. Of course, and he's a
Speaker 1: guy in the media who's pushing his narrative. So yeah, um,
Speaker 1: so man, Roger Stone, they're dropping like flies if you
Speaker 1: want to well, I mean he wasn't He was in
Speaker 1: the administration, though for a very short period he was
Speaker 1: Trump's political advisor for like two days. Yeah, I don't
Speaker 1: actually come to think I shouldn't say in the administration
Speaker 1: he was there, but he was in the campaign. Uh.
Speaker 1: And he because of the controversies, Uh, he became the
Speaker 1: informal advisory. Take that as you will. You know, it
Speaker 1: was funny that, um, Howard Stern said I was listening
Speaker 1: to Howard. Uh and this is public knowledge. I mean,
Speaker 1: if you watch the documentary. Uh, actually was Robin said
Speaker 1: it on Howard was that someone said, this looks like
Speaker 1: a guy who would pay black men to come to
Speaker 1: his house and have sex with his wife. And then
Speaker 1: they were like it can it come? Turns out that
Speaker 1: he actually is that kind of guy. I mean, it's
Speaker 1: known that he's a swinger, and he you know, in
Speaker 1: the documentary he says like, I don't think there should
Speaker 1: have anything to do with my political wife, and in
Speaker 1: a way I agree. At the same time, Roger Stone
Speaker 1: is a guy who digs up dirt on people, So
Speaker 1: you know people are gonna dig up dirt on I mean,
Speaker 1: wasn't it that like him and his old lady they'd
Speaker 1: hire like gay porn people to come over, and I
Speaker 1: wouldn't be surprised. I don't know exactly what he was into,
Speaker 1: but you know he was a swinger. That's yeah, Yeah,
Speaker 1: they both swing. Yeah. He's an interesting character, but, like
Speaker 1: I said, a very nice guy if you're on his
Speaker 1: good side. And I loved having him on. And if
Speaker 1: you listen back to that episode once again, it's one
Speaker 1: nine two if you go to soccer radio dot com.
Speaker 1: We had him on when the campaign was, you know,
Speaker 1: in full headway, and he was talking about Ted Cruz
Speaker 1: and he was talking about Hillary and all that and
Speaker 1: why Trump was the man to beat uh, to beat Hillary,
Speaker 1: and very very early on he believed that Trump was
Speaker 1: gonna go all the way back when. And he's he's
Speaker 1: a pal with Alex Jones. Yes, he goes on Info Wars.
Speaker 1: I remember him on there, and and openly politically, he's
Speaker 1: very libertarian. He's very pro marijuana legalization, things like that.
Speaker 1: UM and he believed that Trump was the closest thing
Speaker 1: you were to get to a libertarian in office. That's
Speaker 1: why he's not a fan of like the UM uh,
Speaker 1: the religious right, like the tech cruises. That's not his
Speaker 1: that that that's not who he wants to see run
Speaker 1: the ch for that. And also the Nixon tattoo is
Speaker 1: making headlines again for people who didn't know that he
Speaker 1: had a tattoo Richard Nixon on his back. Um. The
Speaker 1: other big piece of news, which is actually a lot
Speaker 1: more serious that I've seen you um tweeting about, is
Speaker 1: this alleged photo. Because I want to say, no, it's
Speaker 1: not an alleged photo. How do we how do we
Speaker 1: know that it's really it was taken by like an
Speaker 1: AP photographer. It's yes, it is a old photography. It's
Speaker 1: not it was not photoshopped or anything like that. I
Speaker 1: will take your word because I saw people on Twitter
Speaker 1: saying that it's real. But I'm like, how do I
Speaker 1: know it's it's an actual photograph? Uh? And it says
Speaker 1: what Afghanistan opened to peace talks on one line, I
Speaker 1: think that's what it said. Uh. And then the next
Speaker 1: one was you have five thousand troops to Columbia. Uh.
Speaker 1: And presumably that's about Venezuela. That's what they've been pushing for.
Speaker 1: John Bolton has been opened that all options are on
Speaker 1: the table, you know, doing he John Bolton is like
Speaker 1: LARPing the two thousand and three invasion of Iraq all
Speaker 1: over again, Like congratulations, old man, you have learned nothing. Uh,
Speaker 1: And now we're gonna going back the Venezuelan version of
Speaker 1: the Free Syrian Army and uh and stir this whole
Speaker 1: ship storm up all over again. At least that's the
Speaker 1: direction that he's heading in. It's just so crazy that
Speaker 1: you have a guy, though, who like him or not,
Speaker 1: has been in politics for decades and would openly hold
Speaker 1: the notepad with the very private information. Presumably. I mean,
Speaker 1: there's of course there's going to be the conspiracy theorists
Speaker 1: out there that, oh, it's misinformation. He's playing four D
Speaker 1: chess maybe, I mean, you could it could be that
Speaker 1: that's an odd way to go about it, but it
Speaker 1: could be. Um. I think it's just wasn't thinking about it.
Speaker 1: And I guess it's also a different time frame in
Speaker 1: that ten years ago, not even ten years ago, probably five,
Speaker 1: I don't know how many years ago, but five to
Speaker 1: ten years ago. If you took that photo, you probably
Speaker 1: wouldn't be able to zoom in and get a clear
Speaker 1: picture of what was scribbled on a notepad. Nowadays, the
Speaker 1: cameras are just so much higher resolution than Yeah, well
Speaker 1: there's that. And also again before social media, like, who
Speaker 1: is really going to scrutinize all of those photographs unless
Speaker 1: you work for an intelligence agency. I mean, but I
Speaker 1: would say, if you are a member of the media,
Speaker 1: let's a CNN camera person and you you're able to
Speaker 1: zoom in on that notepad, they're going to report on that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they might, but that even then, what is that? That's like,
Speaker 1: that's a story on page A seven of the New
Speaker 1: York Times. You know, it's not something that not that
Speaker 1: many people are gonna catch onto. Probably, Yeah, I think
Speaker 1: the real story is why do you why would you
Speaker 1: be holding that information in front of cameras? That's the
Speaker 1: real story. I mean, he was just writing it down,
Speaker 1: you know, during whatever event he was at. You know,
Speaker 1: I was also having some interesting conversations over the weekend
Speaker 1: about John Bolton and his recent trips to Armenia and Georgia,
Speaker 1: and he basically he's over there paving the way for
Speaker 1: Iran UM trying to secure an air base in Georgia
Speaker 1: that we used to project ourselves into Iran. It's it's
Speaker 1: bad ship, all right, Well, getting into emails here, it's
Speaker 1: been a little bit since we got a voice memo
Speaker 1: from our Fringiane Forignsworth. But yeah, Gene comments on the
Speaker 1: recent episode talking about Navy military housing. I should say
Speaker 1: Navy because we had a wife of a Marine and
Speaker 1: wife of an Army Special Operations veteran or Special Operations
Speaker 1: UM member of the military on and this is Gene
Speaker 1: giving us take all right. He always starts the music.
Speaker 1: I don't know why, greedy, but shipmates, Gene Farnsworth here
Speaker 1: us in retired got to listen to episode four to
Speaker 1: four discussing the problems with housing throughout our military basis.
Speaker 1: What a function fucking ship. I remember reading that alright,
Speaker 1: called a couple of weeks ago. I was thinking, oh
Speaker 1: my god, as you know, I have family at BREG
Speaker 1: so I'm glad to see that they have moved off post.
Speaker 1: Lived in navy housing for the most part the time
Speaker 1: I made these six couldn't really get in back on
Speaker 1: my day before then until I retired as an as
Speaker 1: an old three and didn't have a whole lot of
Speaker 1: problems living everything from an old stick built no installation
Speaker 1: frame house in Hawaii, Holly Coo and naval housing. We
Speaker 1: had to put the wet papers in the cracks to
Speaker 1: keep the wind and the bugs from coming in to
Speaker 1: some pretty nice housing and some Pacific beaks California one hint.
Speaker 1: I'd like to give the ladies and a place they
Speaker 1: can look. I'm shocked that the commands have not got
Speaker 1: industrial hygiene environmental health on board. They should be doing
Speaker 1: air samples of those houses. The air samples will show
Speaker 1: spores and will show the black mode problem. I just
Speaker 1: can't believe they haven't done that yet, and I'm guessing
Speaker 1: they have. And I'm talking about my ass. I'm just
Speaker 1: glad there are charged and away on it. Uh. You know,
Speaker 1: air samples proves everything, and now all the lawyers class
Speaker 1: acts and they can get involved, and our military people
Speaker 1: should god damn well, and I have to be living
Speaker 1: like that. I don't like their d M. I sent
Speaker 1: Aloll will get back from deployment here in a few
Speaker 1: months and can live in how thing this's got black
Speaker 1: mold and make my grandkids sick whenever they come along.
Speaker 1: Just trying to throw my two cents out there once again.
Speaker 1: I love when I saw preps doing and I hope
Speaker 1: they continue for years to come. May you continue to
Speaker 1: have fair winds and following sees Genow. Alright, well said
Speaker 1: by Gene. Thanks Gene and the air samples thing. I
Speaker 1: would I would guess they probably have considering UM we've
Speaker 1: retweeted out they have, they have photos of the actual mold. Um.
Speaker 1: They seem to be doing their due diligence. They are.
Speaker 1: They're definitely chipping away out this hard at work. Um.
Speaker 1: All kinds of different stuff going on, and I can
Speaker 1: only imagine. I think it's only a matter of time
Speaker 1: before the lawsuits start hitting on this. And I saw
Speaker 1: that I think it was um Lee retweeted or tweeted
Speaker 1: something out about Marco Rubio not going after Corveous but
Speaker 1: going after another another private company that runs on post housing.
Speaker 1: So I wouldn't be surprised if they get in touch
Speaker 1: with Senator Mark or Rubio talk to him about this,
Speaker 1: you know, I think it would. Unfortunately, in politics, people
Speaker 1: do do things that it makes them look good, and
Speaker 1: I think it would make them look good. I think
Speaker 1: this is something Democrats Republicans could easily get behind. Yeah. Um, yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm working on another UM story where Christine Julia Brand
Speaker 1: is involved. Um, yeah, you're Kirriston jel Brand. Yes, sorry,
Speaker 1: Kirston Jeli Brand. Um, so you take these things wherever
Speaker 1: you can get them. You know, of course, why not
Speaker 1: anytime politicians are gonna willing to help out, Uh, you
Speaker 1: know our military members or military families. I mean, it's
Speaker 1: certainly a bipartisan issue. It should it should be, it
Speaker 1: should be. Yeah, Well, we'll keep you updated as we
Speaker 1: learn more, and maybe we'll have both of those ladies
Speaker 1: back on if there's like a major up or a lawsuit. Um,
Speaker 1: we have two more great emails sent to software dot
Speaker 1: rag out softwarep dot com. Actually a lot more than two,
Speaker 1: you know, keep them coming. We get to what we can.
Speaker 1: But these were two really good ones. Um, I'll get
Speaker 1: to this first one from Paul um And I have
Speaker 1: no idea if you have information on this, but why
Speaker 1: not get to it? Hey, Ian and Jack. I'm a
Speaker 1: longtime listener of SOFTWAREP Radio and I'm a newly certified
Speaker 1: e m T. I'm working towards going to medical school
Speaker 1: and want to eventually serve I recently found out about
Speaker 1: the Special Operations Surgical Team s OST. The information about
Speaker 1: s os T is very limited online, and would love
Speaker 1: to hear some firsthand experience from members of those teams.
Speaker 1: I'm really interested in learning the selection training, pipeline, types
Speaker 1: of missions, scope of practice, and any other resources to
Speaker 1: check out. Thanks for all the good work you guys
Speaker 1: do at soft Rep Radio and Hurricane Group, Paul Carry So,
Speaker 1: I don't know if you know anything about them or
Speaker 1: have any friends and community. S os T is a
Speaker 1: new acronym for me, but I believe I know what
Speaker 1: he's talking about there that that I believe it's an
Speaker 1: endeavor or that you know, back in my day it was,
Speaker 1: it was under a different acronym UM, and what that
Speaker 1: was was basically an endeavor to basically bring surgeons on
Speaker 1: target with you UM or as close to target as
Speaker 1: they could get. So you have a guy who you
Speaker 1: know could presumably, uh, you know, conduct brain surgery on target.
Speaker 1: If a guy got shot UM, and some of those
Speaker 1: guys are highly trained, they'd have um, you know, highly
Speaker 1: mobile UM surgery rooms. I mean, I'm sure there's more
Speaker 1: technical UM explanation of that and how it works, but yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean my understanding was that, you know, they were
Speaker 1: the elite of the elite of the of a medical
Speaker 1: field UM, and they would go into um, you know,
Speaker 1: forward operating bases if not go actually out on operations. Well,
Speaker 1: if you know anybody in the community, maybe we could
Speaker 1: have them on because we haven't had anyone on from Yeah,
Speaker 1: there's not there's not many, but um I do know
Speaker 1: one person who is a medic. I think in that
Speaker 1: unit I can ask around. Sounds good. Well, thanks for
Speaker 1: the email. Um here's another one from Tim. Good morning, gents.
Speaker 1: I spent fifteen active and have twenty two years altogether
Speaker 1: with the Coast Guard, most of which was spent with
Speaker 1: d DSF Deployable Specialized Forces. First, I love the show. Second,
Speaker 1: I wanted to chime in on the social media film
Speaker 1: Everything Mania you guys were talking about. I've been a
Speaker 1: police officer in a big, nasty city since I left
Speaker 1: active duty, and I have to tell you that since
Speaker 1: we were mandated to wear body cameras, it has made
Speaker 1: my job exponentially easier. The miscreants I arrest can't clean up,
Speaker 1: can't clean up, and then show up for trial and
Speaker 1: their Sunday best and win over a jury because we
Speaker 1: have the footage showing them acting a fool or motherfucking
Speaker 1: us the whole time. The only drawback is that if
Speaker 1: I get fucking smoke checked in the grape. It will
Speaker 1: be on YouTube and days and my kids can watch
Speaker 1: me get murdered. Very true. Uh, long work is that
Speaker 1: even though these ass hats can film much doing our job,
Speaker 1: thanks to our technology, they can no longer twist what
Speaker 1: really happened. Keep up the great work, Tim, Very good point. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I know that is a fair point. Um, it definitely
Speaker 1: goes both ways. You know. Uh, there's certainly police abuse
Speaker 1: out there, but at the same time, there are a
Speaker 1: lot of bad guys out there who want to accuse
Speaker 1: the police of harassment or whatever else. Uh you know. Uh,
Speaker 1: the kid of a friend of mine actually as a lawyer,
Speaker 1: um who works here in New York City, and they,
Speaker 1: um where my understanding was, they were very far left
Speaker 1: and then they took this job where they have to
Speaker 1: actually go through and like vet all these claims against
Speaker 1: the police and see like what you're real and what's
Speaker 1: what's really going on? And uh, this lawyer is not
Speaker 1: experienced a complete political change of heart, but but understands that,
Speaker 1: like you know, out of a hundred of these claims
Speaker 1: are just total bullshit and it's get thrown right at court, understandably, man.
Speaker 1: And uh, I do think you know, it has a
Speaker 1: lot to do with the culture of this is who
Speaker 1: the police are, and and every single sector of America
Speaker 1: is going to have these guys and and and this
Speaker 1: is what makes headlines. Yeah. And also if you're a criminal, uh,
Speaker 1: you don't really like the police putting a boot in
Speaker 1: your ass, you know what I mean? So, and the
Speaker 1: and the way you have to retaliate against the police
Speaker 1: officer is to you know, say, you know, he used
Speaker 1: excessive force, or he sexually assaulted me, or you know,
Speaker 1: whatever the case may be. Um, and I certainly don't
Speaker 1: say that to excuse any sort of you know, I
Speaker 1: llegal behavior that the police officers might engage in, but
Speaker 1: a lot of times it's just bullshit and fictitious claims. Sure, Um,
Speaker 1: we'll keep the emails coming to soft rep dot radio.
Speaker 1: At soft rep dot com, we get to everything that
Speaker 1: we can. Actually, just yesterday sent out the software radio
Speaker 1: tumbler coffee mug to a listener, So maybe we'll do
Speaker 1: another giveaway soon. Um sent him some great club stuff
Speaker 1: as well. Uh, if you guys are into it, well
Speaker 1: we'll do another giveaway. I mean, who doesn't like free
Speaker 1: cool stuff? So I'm I'm all for it. I guess
Speaker 1: another quick thing to mention that that's not really important
Speaker 1: or anything. But since we have a few minutes before
Speaker 1: we get to Michael was I got sent by so
Speaker 1: many people that Dennis Rodman Rick Roll video, which I
Speaker 1: can't really play on here. It's really more visual than audio.
Speaker 1: But you know, the whole Rick Roll thing with Rick Astley, Uh,
Speaker 1: never gonna give you. It's a it's a video with
Speaker 1: Dennis Rodman. So of course I got sent it by
Speaker 1: a lot of listeners of the show. It was like
Speaker 1: a parody video. Yeah, I mean, I could show you
Speaker 1: and it doesn't. It doesn't really work audibly, so you
Speaker 1: guys might want to check it out yourself. But anytime
Speaker 1: Dennis Rodman does something like in the news, I get
Speaker 1: tweeted by listen areas, which I like. I mean, it's
Speaker 1: just it's not like I'm the biggest Dennis Rodman fan
Speaker 1: in the show. But it's just it's in the world.
Speaker 1: But you're definitely the biggest Dennis Rodman fan on the
Speaker 1: on the correct yeah, but not in the world. But
Speaker 1: it's just become anything with this guy gets attached to me. Now.
Speaker 1: Uh so if you you guys should probably want to
Speaker 1: check it out um online, because it's really more of
Speaker 1: a there we go. It's really more visual than audible thing.
Speaker 1: He says. I want to get something off my chest,
Speaker 1: something that's bothered me for a very long time. By
Speaker 1: the way, retweets, I'm finally ready to review it. I
Speaker 1: hope you will still accept who I am. Okay, here
Speaker 1: we go. It is great want. I wanted to get
Speaker 1: him on the show still, I've I've reached out to
Speaker 1: his team. I don't know. I'm gonna keep trying. I
Speaker 1: would love to get him on you. We've We've gotten
Speaker 1: some pretty big names on We've, Like I said, Roger Stone,
Speaker 1: why can't we get Dennis Rodman? True, we should be
Speaker 1: able to at some point, and hopefully I've been pushing
Speaker 1: for it well. And then the last thing I want
Speaker 1: to tell you about uh is I had I don't
Speaker 1: know if you'd call it a dream or a nightmare
Speaker 1: last night that you were you were involved in this
Speaker 1: is like the biggest nightmare when you work in radio
Speaker 1: or this podcast. And I don't know why I had it,
Speaker 1: Maybe just other stress I was under because this has
Speaker 1: not happened in a good two years or something. But
Speaker 1: I had a dream that we were we recorded the
Speaker 1: intro for this podcast, and then I was like, dude,
Speaker 1: nothing recorded, which used to be the worst thing. Now
Speaker 1: we're in a setup that's kind of full proof. I'm
Speaker 1: able to see the levels and all that. But as
Speaker 1: you know, in the history of the show, it's happened.
Speaker 1: I think, I think, yeah, I think it may even
Speaker 1: be three times. And the times that had happened. It
Speaker 1: is the worst feeling in the world. Where I would
Speaker 1: put where I put in the audio file into. I
Speaker 1: actually still use acid Pro just because it's what I
Speaker 1: learned on and know it's an old program, and you
Speaker 1: see that flat line of audio, and I've had times
Speaker 1: where I've just past around my block and like this
Speaker 1: is not good. This is not good. It's not good,
Speaker 1: Like and how do I call Jack? And then you know,
Speaker 1: when it happened to already Scoveland, after record of like
Speaker 1: two hours of material, I feel like such an asshole
Speaker 1: calling Marty. It's the worst feeling in the world. I
Speaker 1: think it's just other stress I was under that made
Speaker 1: me think of this. But that's what I had a
Speaker 1: dream about, Dude. I had a dream the other night
Speaker 1: where I was like, sixteen again and I was like
Speaker 1: going to some like private school, military academy or something
Speaker 1: like that. I woke up. I was like, batty, I
Speaker 1: had a dream And I told my wife about it,
Speaker 1: and she's like, Jack, that's not a dream, that's a nightmare.
Speaker 1: What what happen? Is there something terrible that happened? No,
Speaker 1: you know, I think for just for me, it was
Speaker 1: like this uh, like flashback to like I never went
Speaker 1: to a military school or a military academy, but it's
Speaker 1: like this flashback till I'm starting all over again. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think there's a part of the dream or like
Speaker 1: I had to go to ranger school. You know, it's
Speaker 1: like stuff that you probably wouldn't want to do all
Speaker 1: over again, you know, and you knew that you did
Speaker 1: it already in your dream. It was like it's like
Speaker 1: my subconscious you know, it's is he's like memories coming
Speaker 1: back to haunt me, Like, oh my god, there really
Speaker 1: is is weird the whole dream analysis thing. Sometimes I
Speaker 1: do wake up and I'll you know, write down what
Speaker 1: I'm dreaming. It's also because I'm I've mentioned it before
Speaker 1: on the podcast, but I do take this supplement called
Speaker 1: z m A which is like zinc magnesium. It's nothing.
Speaker 1: It does help you sleep, but it's not really a
Speaker 1: sleep supplement. It's you know, there's a lot of benefits
Speaker 1: if you guys ever want to look it up. Victor Conti,
Speaker 1: who's been on Joe Rogan's show, is the founder of it,
Speaker 1: who was also arrested for the whole like steroid thing
Speaker 1: going on in the NFL. But he's a super smart
Speaker 1: guy and this was a supplement he created, and I'm
Speaker 1: totally sold on it. But anyway, for people who are like, oh,
Speaker 1: it's placebo, it doesn't work, you have completely vivid dreams
Speaker 1: on that stuff that I've I've never had. When I'm
Speaker 1: not taking it, I usually don't remember my dreams. So
Speaker 1: it's kind of interesting. When when I was in the Army,
Speaker 1: I used to have the dream where uh, you know,
Speaker 1: um parachuting uh and my parachute doesn't open, so I'd
Speaker 1: be like it'd be like a halo jump. So like
Speaker 1: I'm pulling my main rip chord grip, parachute doesn't deploy,
Speaker 1: so I cut away, pull my reserve rip chord grip
Speaker 1: that doesn't work, and like I'm going through all the
Speaker 1: like different types of contingency checks. See, like try to
Speaker 1: get my parachute to work. I just can't get my
Speaker 1: parachute out no matter what I do. I have like
Speaker 1: a total malfunction. And then somehow I end up on
Speaker 1: the ground and uh, and I'm being attacked by the
Speaker 1: enemy and I'm shooting my gun and it jams my
Speaker 1: rifle jam. So I go through an army they called sports.
Speaker 1: So you're going through like your corrective measures, uh, trying
Speaker 1: to fix the gun. It just will not unjam, it
Speaker 1: will not fire and um. And now later on, I'd
Speaker 1: have the civilian version of that dream when I went
Speaker 1: to college, and I still have to this day sometimes
Speaker 1: where you wake up it's time for the final exam
Speaker 1: and you forgot to study, which is like very common
Speaker 1: for college students to have. So it's like, yeah, I've
Speaker 1: had I have both of the it's the same. It's
Speaker 1: the same kind of performance anxiety for the military for college,
Speaker 1: I think. And you probably have those like night sweats
Speaker 1: when you wake up from that. Oh my god, do
Speaker 1: you ever since you said it's a halo jump, I've
Speaker 1: had I've had dreams that involved like car accidents or
Speaker 1: stuff like that. Do you feel like you're literally falling
Speaker 1: into your bed. I've had that before where I wake
Speaker 1: up and I feel like I was thrown right into
Speaker 1: my bed. No, I never had that, but I'll tell
Speaker 1: you what was super fucking creepy. It was. This is
Speaker 1: the first time it'd ever happened to me about a
Speaker 1: year ago, where um, I woke up. I was having
Speaker 1: a nightmare and I woke up and I absolutely thought
Speaker 1: I was awake, but I was still in the nightmare
Speaker 1: it and it kept going, and then I woke up
Speaker 1: and I finally woke up for real. This is like inception. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and it and it took me. I laid in bed,
Speaker 1: no ship for like ten That's just like making sure, like,
Speaker 1: am I really awake this time. I've sort of had that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I've also experienced throughout my life. I've had sleep paralysis.
Speaker 1: I've never had that. You've mentioned that. Yeah, I've had
Speaker 1: sleep paralysis maybe twenty or thirty times, which I've heard
Speaker 1: the first time experience it is like and uh, I've
Speaker 1: read that it only happens to most people once in
Speaker 1: an entire lifetime, if at all. Some people may say PTSD,
Speaker 1: if I even had happen, I even had it when
Speaker 1: I was a kid. Yeah, and I haven't had it
Speaker 1: in quite a while. I think when I was living
Speaker 1: in my last apartment, so like maybe the last time
Speaker 1: it happened was like a year or year and a
Speaker 1: half ago. Um, But yeah, I've had it quite a bit,
Speaker 1: and my my sister has had it also quite a bit.
Speaker 1: So I don't know if it's genetic or what. Interesting. Well,
Speaker 1: if you guys have any weird sleep analysis stuff you
Speaker 1: want to mention, send it to Software Up dot Radio
Speaker 1: at softwrep dot com. I find that to be a
Speaker 1: fascinating topic. But with that Michael Broderick I know is
Speaker 1: standing by, I'm really excited to talk to him. Uh.
Speaker 1: Interesting background and I would never think that this guy
Speaker 1: was in the military from when I was born. He
Speaker 1: he looks young, so yeah he does, but he's he's
Speaker 1: like fifty, but he does look like still in his thirties. Maybe, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I agree. Joining us for the first time on Software
Speaker 1: Up Radio, Michael Broderick. There's so much that I want
Speaker 1: to get into, but just to give some background. His
Speaker 1: latest role is Special Agent Sean Bownen, which is a
Speaker 1: recurring character on True Detective. The newest season, season three
Speaker 1: He's also been in The People Versus O. J. Simpson
Speaker 1: and c I s Cel Team, a whole bunch of
Speaker 1: other shows, and the connection with our shows. He served
Speaker 1: as a marine from six to nine is the logistics
Speaker 1: UH specialist with Marine White Attack Helicopter Squadron one sixties seven.
Speaker 1: A lot of great stuff to get into that. That
Speaker 1: and I'm also a huge fan of True Detective too. Yes,
Speaker 1: so excited to have you on for the first time. Oh,
Speaker 1: thanks so much for having me, guys, I really thanks
Speaker 1: so much for having me. I appreciate it absolutely. Um So,
Speaker 1: I think before we even get into True Detective, I
Speaker 1: think the audience might want to know your background as
Speaker 1: a marine. As I said, I would never think just
Speaker 1: looking at your picture that you served from eighty six
Speaker 1: to ninety you will go a lot younger. But that's
Speaker 1: when I mean is when I was born. So there's
Speaker 1: a huge age gap there. But that's that's cool, man.
Speaker 1: I mean, you've you've lived an interesting life from this
Speaker 1: to acting. So maybe we can get into the origin
Speaker 1: of the military career. Well, you know, I look so
Speaker 1: good because all that clean living. Man, I guess not
Speaker 1: four years, but I joined when I was seventeen, so um,
Speaker 1: you know I was, I was even young going in
Speaker 1: but um uh yeah, I joined right after my um
Speaker 1: senior year in high school. I actually actually joined during
Speaker 1: my senior year and got in on the delayed entry program.
Speaker 1: Uh So November of eighty five I signed up, and
Speaker 1: uh and I spent the summer at home because I
Speaker 1: grew up on the Jersey Shore, so uh, you know,
Speaker 1: I didn't want to leave right after school. A little
Speaker 1: town called spring Lakes on on the shore down by
Speaker 1: Asbury Park, Okay cool. I used to spend summers down it,
Speaker 1: like Seaside and some of those other places. Sure, yeah,
Speaker 1: I know sea Side we go to. You know, they
Speaker 1: had a good water slide down there, so we'd, uh
Speaker 1: we go down there every once in a while. And
Speaker 1: many years before the show Jersey Shore. So yes, yes,
Speaker 1: we were the locals though they were all what we
Speaker 1: would call Benny's. Benny's were the people that would come
Speaker 1: down from New York or other places in North Jersey
Speaker 1: to uh to invade our shore every every year. Uh
Speaker 1: So I joined, Uh, I joined and went in September
Speaker 1: of eighty six, and uh you know, did boot camp
Speaker 1: over Parris Island and then uh went out to school
Speaker 1: in Little Creek in Virginia and then hit the fleet
Speaker 1: uh and matched up with HML A one sixty seven,
Speaker 1: did a med float with HMM two sixty four, you know,
Speaker 1: Composite Squadron and uh, yeah, man did a couple of cats.
Speaker 1: That's about the extent of it. But had a great time,
Speaker 1: and uh it really kind of um. You know, my
Speaker 1: time in the Marine Corps definitely taught me that I
Speaker 1: can do whatever I put my mind to. You know.
Speaker 1: I always used to say, uh, you know, whatever I
Speaker 1: was trying to do, whether it was gett into music
Speaker 1: or later get into acting, people would be like, oh,
Speaker 1: you know, it's really hard. I'm like, well, they can't
Speaker 1: send me back to boot camp. So uh, you know
Speaker 1: I kind of felt like, you know, if I got
Speaker 1: through that and then I can pretty much do anything.
Speaker 1: What was it in your back of your mind already
Speaker 1: that you thought you might pursue an acting career. Yeah. Absolutely.
Speaker 1: I grew up, like I said on the Jersey Shore,
Speaker 1: I did a lot of um community theater and things
Speaker 1: like that. Uh, and I wanted to be an actor,
Speaker 1: and since I was seventeen when I joined, I had
Speaker 1: to get my parents permission, and my dad was not. Uh,
Speaker 1: he wasn't really enthusiastic about me joining the Marines, and
Speaker 1: uh because because I was a little guy. I was
Speaker 1: like a hundred and thirty pounds, you know, and like
Speaker 1: five ft ten and I was like a string bean.
Speaker 1: And uh, so he tried to talk me out of
Speaker 1: it by saying, he's like, look, John Wayne, so I'm
Speaker 1: gonna do an impression my father. He's like, John Wayne
Speaker 1: was in every American war and he never served in
Speaker 1: the military. Right now, I'm like, yeah, but you know,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna join. So he couldn't he couldn't dissuade me,
Speaker 1: and and uh and he ended up signing the papers.
Speaker 1: But yeah, I absolutely wanted to be an actor before that.
Speaker 1: I figured I'd do my four get out and then
Speaker 1: uh go to Los Angeles and and uh and become
Speaker 1: an actor. But it just took me another decade and
Speaker 1: a half, I guess too, to get that done. How
Speaker 1: did it end up payning out? Well, it's funny. When
Speaker 1: I got out of the Cores, I went to New
Speaker 1: York City. I moved to New York City and decided
Speaker 1: pursue it there, but really didn't know what I was doing.
Speaker 1: I did some stand up comedy for a little while,
Speaker 1: just because that was something you could if you brought
Speaker 1: two friends, you could get on stage right then, you know,
Speaker 1: at least at the open mic nights. So I did
Speaker 1: that for a little while. But that's a really tough gig,
Speaker 1: and it wasn't I wasn't cut out for that. Um.
Speaker 1: And then I met a guy who was putting together
Speaker 1: a band. And I played in bands in high school
Speaker 1: and and in the Marines even and then, uh, you know,
Speaker 1: we we decided we were gonna bring punk back in
Speaker 1: but unfortunately nobody was getting signed out in New York
Speaker 1: back then, and uh, you know, and then Green Day
Speaker 1: hit and the Offspring and all these other bands and
Speaker 1: and we said, you know what, we're missing this boat.
Speaker 1: But we gave it our best shot for about ten years. UM.
Speaker 1: I met my wife while playing at CBGB in and
Speaker 1: um and uh we got married in two thousand. Uh
Speaker 1: and then nine eleven happened, and uh, I was kind
Speaker 1: of like, I don't know, you know, like when somebody
Speaker 1: drops a building on a on a bunch of people
Speaker 1: in your town, it kind of makes you re evaluate things. Um.
Speaker 1: And so I started flirting with the idea of acting again.
Speaker 1: Because I don't know if you remember at the time
Speaker 1: Band of Brothers was was on HBO. It had just
Speaker 1: it had just started before nine eleven, I think, and uh,
Speaker 1: and I became really engrossed in that and just I mean,
Speaker 1: I continue to say to this dead it's it's one
Speaker 1: of the finest things ever put to film. Um. But
Speaker 1: it had a huge impact on me, and uh, you know,
Speaker 1: I started thinking about being an actor again. I got
Speaker 1: into doing some voice over stuff and uh, kind of
Speaker 1: exiting the music world and um, then when I heard
Speaker 1: they were doing the Pacific. I guess it was about
Speaker 1: two thousand three that I heard that HBO was going
Speaker 1: to do the Pacific on the Marines, and I was like,
Speaker 1: I gotta, I gotta go be in this. So two
Speaker 1: thousand four, my wife and I had just bought an
Speaker 1: apartment on right off Bleaker Street in Manhattan and our
Speaker 1: son was about a year old, and I was like,
Speaker 1: you know what, I really got to go do this. Um.
Speaker 1: I sat my wife down at the kitchen table and
Speaker 1: I said, look, honey, I think I want to go
Speaker 1: be an actor, and uh, you know, and she, you know,
Speaker 1: she had an excellent job. I was working doing voice
Speaker 1: over stuff, so I'd already made a you know, some inroads.
Speaker 1: And my wife's always been a big believer in in
Speaker 1: in Maine and uh so after some discussion, she was like,
Speaker 1: all right, if that's what you want to do, let's
Speaker 1: let's go do it. So she quit her job, we
Speaker 1: sold the apartment which we just bought, and uh and
Speaker 1: we moved out to Los Angeles in two thousand four.
Speaker 1: I think that's so cool to have someone so supportive
Speaker 1: because it reminds me of We've had Brad Thorn on
Speaker 1: the podcast before and he spoke about how he was
Speaker 1: doing other things and his wife asked to him, like,
Speaker 1: you know, what's your dream that you want to and
Speaker 1: he was like, I want to publish a fiction book.
Speaker 1: And she's like, well, you gotta get out there and
Speaker 1: fucking do it, and and he actually did it. And
Speaker 1: I feel like most people's stories are the opposite. Unfortunately,
Speaker 1: like their partner says to them, you know, like yeah,
Speaker 1: that you know that's a dream, you gotta do something stable,
Speaker 1: they themselves kind of put that like cap on their expectations. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And also, you know, I understandably they'll be like you
Speaker 1: have a kid. Now it's not about you. You gotta
Speaker 1: go for the money, you know. Yeah, absolutely, and that's
Speaker 1: uh well, it's one of the reasons I married her.
Speaker 1: Um I think she uh she her first taste of me,
Speaker 1: She'll tell you is when I was, you know, playing
Speaker 1: guitar on stage. So uh she she I guess she
Speaker 1: she saw something, she saw some talent or something. Uh.
Speaker 1: And then when I got you know, I started breaking
Speaker 1: into voice over pretty quickly. Uh. And then so it
Speaker 1: wasn't out of the you know, completely out of the
Speaker 1: realm of possibilities, like you know what I might be
Speaker 1: able to do this? Um Now. Of course, then we
Speaker 1: moved out to Los Angeles, and yeah, I couldn't even
Speaker 1: get an audition for the Pacific because I didn't have
Speaker 1: any kind of resume, you know. But now looking back,
Speaker 1: I'm like, well, now I'm an actor, so you know,
Speaker 1: I guess I guess I got the job done. And
Speaker 1: they're like just totally different ecosystems too. As far as
Speaker 1: the entertainment industry is concerned. Between New York and l A. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I didn't really tuck into it very much in uh
Speaker 1: in New York, I didn't really start my on camera
Speaker 1: stuff film and television until I was out here. But
Speaker 1: I did crack the you know, the voiceover world out there,
Speaker 1: and that's why I started my you know doing commercial
Speaker 1: voice over and things. Um. And so I had a
Speaker 1: decent income coming in through that anyway, which which definitely helped. Uh.
Speaker 1: And then when we sold our apartment, it was, you know,
Speaker 1: we made made a nice chunk of change down that
Speaker 1: even though we weren't even in there very long. That
Speaker 1: the real estate market was crazy in New York at
Speaker 1: the time, So I gave us a nice little buffer
Speaker 1: when we came out to Los Angeles and got a house,
Speaker 1: and and I had some money to to to live
Speaker 1: off while we uh, you know, while I get my
Speaker 1: feet under me. Would you consider this your biggest role yet, because,
Speaker 1: like I said, you've been in The People versus O. J.
Speaker 1: Simpson and C. I. S. But this is a recurring
Speaker 1: role and could lead to something bigger, maybe in season four. Yeah,
Speaker 1: this is absolutely the biggest thing I've done so far. Um.
Speaker 1: You know, they're different. I don't know if you're familiar
Speaker 1: with the with the hierarchy of of of television or
Speaker 1: film roles in television, you know, you get a co
Speaker 1: star role. I've got a slew of those, which is basically,
Speaker 1: you know, you work one episode, you have a couple
Speaker 1: of lines whatever, um, Like in The People versus O. J. Simpson,
Speaker 1: I play a reporter who comes up to Johnny Cochrane.
Speaker 1: We banter a little bit and that's that. Uh, And
Speaker 1: that's that was most of my career. It was, you know,
Speaker 1: showing up for one episode. I'm a I'm a you know,
Speaker 1: FBI agent here, I'm a sheriff deputy here or whatever. Um,
Speaker 1: that's the main body of my work. It wasn't until
Speaker 1: you know, doing it for several years and kind of
Speaker 1: getting uh, kind of feeling feeling like I had plateaued
Speaker 1: and and not understanding why not getting better opportunities that
Speaker 1: I decided to go back into training and so, uh,
Speaker 1: you know, I got with a great teacher. His name
Speaker 1: is John. His name is John Lacy, and we, uh,
Speaker 1: we have a group of actors, the Lacy Group, that
Speaker 1: gets together on Tuesday nights and we we work out.
Speaker 1: You know, it's like going to the gym. You do
Speaker 1: scenes together, you trade impulses, you stay sharp and um.
Speaker 1: I started working with him with the specific goal of
Speaker 1: getting a guest star, which is the next level up. Uh.
Speaker 1: And after working with him a year, I got my
Speaker 1: first guest star audition, and then within six months after that,
Speaker 1: I got my first guest star role and I was
Speaker 1: on n C I s uh. And then I've continued
Speaker 1: to um kind of build up from there, and this
Speaker 1: is my first uh recurring heavy recurring role. Um. You know,
Speaker 1: I think it's several episodes, at least four. I think
Speaker 1: I think it'll be five once once the whole thing
Speaker 1: is all said and done, depends how they cut it.
Speaker 1: But um, this was a huge deal for me. This
Speaker 1: is this is definitely a game changer. Uh, not only
Speaker 1: for because it's such a it's such a prestige property
Speaker 1: for HBO and and and it's really well respected, but
Speaker 1: also because of the uh you know, the FaceTime I
Speaker 1: have on it. And there's a lot of eyeballs on
Speaker 1: this show, so uh, you know, I hope to capitalize
Speaker 1: on some of that momentum. Yeah, I mean True Detective
Speaker 1: is probably like my favorite show on TV. Um and
Speaker 1: it's just known for having you know, it combines a
Speaker 1: star power just like very strong writing, very high quality
Speaker 1: production values. Yeah. Absolutely, Oh and I should mention though,
Speaker 1: because there's uh, you know, every every season it's an
Speaker 1: entirely new cast and new story in new locations. So
Speaker 1: so I won't be back for a season four war.
Speaker 1: But uh, you know, I'm I'm looking at this as
Speaker 1: just a phenomenal experience. I mean, working alongside me herchel
Speaker 1: Ali and Stephen Dorff was was crazy. Actually, I don't
Speaker 1: know if you saw the latest episode of Just There
Speaker 1: the other night. Um, we tried, I'm not gonna lie.
Speaker 1: We tried to get HBO to send us some stuff
Speaker 1: and they seem to be holding. We haven't gotten a
Speaker 1: chance to watch it. That's all right, that's all right.
Speaker 1: Episode four. There's no I'm not giving any spoilers right now.
Speaker 1: I'm just I just want to have an anecdote about it.
Speaker 1: There's one scene in there where you know, um, my
Speaker 1: character John Bowen, he uh he's part of a four
Speaker 1: man task force. You have the two local detectives played
Speaker 1: by me Herchela and Stephen, and then myself and Tim Griffin.
Speaker 1: We play the two FEDS who come down to UH
Speaker 1: to assist in in the investigation. And there's a one
Speaker 1: scene in episode four where we're going over all the
Speaker 1: evidence we've collected so far and and uh uh while
Speaker 1: we were shooting that, I think it was like the
Speaker 1: second thing I shot. Uh, you know, they shoot all
Speaker 1: this stuff out of sequence. Um. And I'm sitting there
Speaker 1: across from Reharchelale and I'm like, I had a flashback
Speaker 1: in between takes. I had this flashback to sitting across
Speaker 1: from my wife and dreading the thing I was about
Speaker 1: to say to her, like how is she going to
Speaker 1: react when I say, look, I want you to quit
Speaker 1: your job and let me go try to chase this dream. Uh.
Speaker 1: And I said to myself, Wow, now I'm sitting across
Speaker 1: from my from a freaking Oscar winner and I'm waiting
Speaker 1: for the director to say action. You know. Um it was,
Speaker 1: it was. It was a real great moment. I kind
Speaker 1: of got to sit there with that, with that energy
Speaker 1: and uh and kind of bring that to some of
Speaker 1: my performance. Um. So that was very special to me.
Speaker 1: It's pretty cool. And I mean your story really is
Speaker 1: just one of kind of like doing the leg work,
Speaker 1: you know, and starting like from you said voiceovers to
Speaker 1: you know, graduating your way upwards to do in this
Speaker 1: and you know, it seems like it took a lot
Speaker 1: of hard work over a long period of time. Well,
Speaker 1: it's you definitely, you know, uh, you pay your dues.
Speaker 1: I mean, you know you look at you look at
Speaker 1: most of the actors you know right now, Uh, you
Speaker 1: see him, you know if you if you do your homework,
Speaker 1: you see that. You see them in smaller roles going
Speaker 1: back for years you just didn't know who the heck
Speaker 1: they were. I mean, look at you know, the great
Speaker 1: Brian Brian Cranston. You're like, okay, we kind of got
Speaker 1: to know him with Malcolm him in the middle and
Speaker 1: then you know, Breaking Bad, it's huge, and now he's
Speaker 1: just killing it. So you know, so many great performances
Speaker 1: under his belt. But then you know, you're watching Saving
Speaker 1: Private Ryan and you're like, oh, jeez, he's the one
Speaker 1: armed colonel or whatever his rank was in the in
Speaker 1: the in the office. When uh, when they when the
Speaker 1: typist finds all the letters about the James Ryan or
Speaker 1: James Ryan's brothers being all killed and they bring him
Speaker 1: to the general and he reads that that letter from
Speaker 1: Abraham Lincoln. And like Brian Cramston had like two lines
Speaker 1: in Saving Private Ryan, didn't I didn't even know he
Speaker 1: was in the movie. I'm telling you go back and
Speaker 1: watch it. You know. That's in paying his dues. Um uh.
Speaker 1: And there's so many you know, I mean, you could
Speaker 1: just run down the list. There's so many stories like that.
Speaker 1: So you know, I'm I'm happy with the trajectory of
Speaker 1: my career so far. And I uh, every job I've
Speaker 1: gotten has been, you know, just a building block for me,
Speaker 1: and so um, I'm happy to have put in the
Speaker 1: time I've been doing this. I guess I got my
Speaker 1: first job it was on twenty four in two thousand six,
Speaker 1: and I've just been kind of building my career since then.
Speaker 1: It's super cool, and I hope a lot of other
Speaker 1: veterans here this podcast, because I know a lot of
Speaker 1: our guys they do kind of, uh drift over to
Speaker 1: Hollywood and pursue, if not acting, some other uh you know,
Speaker 1: something else in production or something else in the entertainment industry. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Oh absolutely. I'm part of vm A Veterans and Media
Speaker 1: and Entertainment. UM. I think now we're about gosh, three
Speaker 1: thousand members strong across the country. The main hub is
Speaker 1: here in Los Angeles, and I was fortunate enough to
Speaker 1: be sitting at the at that at the table when um,
Speaker 1: uh Mike Dowling and Kyle Housman Stokes a Marine veteran
Speaker 1: and Army veteran, respectively, I had the idea to put
Speaker 1: the thing together. And they called some um, you know,
Speaker 1: I had had a little bit of success and and uh,
Speaker 1: they called some veterans that they knew had already gotten
Speaker 1: their foot in the door. And about a dozen of
Speaker 1: us sat around the table and and and hashed the
Speaker 1: idea out. Um. But they those two, those two fellas, uh,
Speaker 1: you know, did all the legwork and standing it up. Uh.
Speaker 1: They've since moved on from the organization. But um, it's
Speaker 1: it's just grown and grown, and it's been a great
Speaker 1: um support system, I think for not only for me,
Speaker 1: but for a lot of veterans here in Hollywood. Well,
Speaker 1: what do you think are some of the opportunities out
Speaker 1: there for veterans in Hollywood or maybe either even in
Speaker 1: television elsewhere. Um, as far as you know that we're
Speaker 1: making an awful lot of war Flix nowadays, I mean
Speaker 1: there are some pretty good opportunities out there for actors
Speaker 1: or technical advisors and things like that who actually come
Speaker 1: from the veteran community. Well, I don't think there's any
Speaker 1: greater UM opportunity. I mean, the fact is if if
Speaker 1: this is the reason I'm doing this is because I
Speaker 1: wouldn't be happy doing anything else, you know what I mean? Um,
Speaker 1: if I mean, that's why I got into music, It's
Speaker 1: why I got you know, I've always wanted to be
Speaker 1: an entertainer as long as as long as I've lived,
Speaker 1: I've wanted to um have an effect on people through
Speaker 1: whatever art form you know I was dealing, uh, whether
Speaker 1: it's music or or acting. So um, I think the
Speaker 1: opportunity is just as available to anybody. But there's certainly
Speaker 1: a lot of um military based projects out there. I mean,
Speaker 1: look at Seal Team on CBS. Tyler Gray. I don't
Speaker 1: know if you know Tyler. He's a you know, he's
Speaker 1: a former operator and he's a producer on the show.
Speaker 1: He has a role on the show. He's like the
Speaker 1: technical advisor on the show. UM, and he's just crushing it.
Speaker 1: He brings in or well, I should say, the show
Speaker 1: brings in a lot of veterans to uh you know,
Speaker 1: not only do stunts and roles on the show, but
Speaker 1: in all aspects of production. So UM, yeah, I guess
Speaker 1: to your question, is there a There are plenty of
Speaker 1: opportunities for anybody, but now is certainly a good time
Speaker 1: if you're if you have a certain skill set to
Speaker 1: um to to give it a shot, you know, if
Speaker 1: that's really what you want to do. I was actually
Speaker 1: gonna ask about the vets groups you're a part of,
Speaker 1: because I also saw that you're a member of that
Speaker 1: scene on TV and that you guys raised ten thousand
Speaker 1: dollars for Gallant Few, who were familiar with a run
Speaker 1: Ranger Run. We've had Karl Monger on before you and
Speaker 1: Michael Schlitz. Yeah, Mike Schlitz introduced the Gallant Few. I
Speaker 1: was I volunteer with u c l A Operation Mend,
Speaker 1: which is UM an organization out here that a program
Speaker 1: that that does plastic surgery for for UH military members
Speaker 1: who are like severely wounded. You know, some like Mike Schlitz.
Speaker 1: He's hand over eighty operations. I think UM and UH
Speaker 1: and I act as a buddy. Basically, when when somebody
Speaker 1: has an operation coming up, they're usually in from out
Speaker 1: of town, they don't have any family with them oftentimes,
Speaker 1: and so there's a lot of downtime pre opera, post stop.
Speaker 1: So I I just act as a you know, a
Speaker 1: friend who can come by. We'll go to dinner, We'll
Speaker 1: go to a movie. You know, I'll take him to
Speaker 1: I don't know, I'll meet you know, I'll take him
Speaker 1: over to meet Gary soneee or you know, if I
Speaker 1: if I can call somebody in my rolodex and and
Speaker 1: they can take some time. Which Gary is always great,
Speaker 1: as you guys know, I'm sure he does a ton
Speaker 1: for for the military and veterans. But anyway, Mike introduced
Speaker 1: me to Gallant few and early on I was just
Speaker 1: so impressed with their model because, uh, at the time,
Speaker 1: there wasn't another one like it, that that one on
Speaker 1: one peer to peer mentorship. Uh. And it really has
Speaker 1: changed a lot of lives. I mean, I can't tell
Speaker 1: you the amount of times I've seen on social media
Speaker 1: just post saying Karl Monger saved my life. Um. And sorry,
Speaker 1: I get you know, I even get a little emotional
Speaker 1: talking about this. I think, Um, they've had a profound
Speaker 1: impact on on the veteran community, and so uh, you
Speaker 1: know I was. I did a project for them years ago,
Speaker 1: back in two thousand and twelve called the Poster Project,
Speaker 1: where I got a uh movie poster a band of
Speaker 1: brothers and it was signed by six of the original
Speaker 1: Easy Company veterans. And then I went around and I
Speaker 1: and I collected signatures from thirty casting crew you know,
Speaker 1: including Damien Lewis, and Ron Livingston and Steven Spielberg, Tom Hanks. Uh.
Speaker 1: And that took me like fifteen months. I got to
Speaker 1: go around Hollywood and try to connect with all these
Speaker 1: cast members. It was really it was cool, and we
Speaker 1: ended up auctioning it off to benefit Gallant Few and Carl.
Speaker 1: Then Carl then asked me to sit on the board
Speaker 1: of directors, So I did that for a few years. Recently, UH,
Speaker 1: took a step away from that just to focus on
Speaker 1: some other things. But I continue to support them. And
Speaker 1: one of the ways we support that is obviously their
Speaker 1: annual fundraiser, Run Ranger Run so Vets Scene on TV
Speaker 1: is a team that I put together. I started doing
Speaker 1: it last year and this is the second year we're
Speaker 1: doing it of just uh, you know, other myself and
Speaker 1: other veterans that that work in the industry, that you
Speaker 1: know that our actors, um. Well, we we form a
Speaker 1: ten person team and we go out and do the
Speaker 1: miles in February, you know, it's five sixty five miles
Speaker 1: for a team and uh, and we raise money. So
Speaker 1: we're doing that again kicking off February first. This year's
Speaker 1: team is awesome. Uh. There's myself, There's Vinny Rocko Vargus,
Speaker 1: you know from Range fifteen, right, and he's on the
Speaker 1: Man's MC now. Uh. Aaron Williamson, who is uh is
Speaker 1: a marine, a bodybuilder and uh an actor. Do you
Speaker 1: ever do you ever see that that video that went
Speaker 1: viral of j K Simmons where he's all like blasted out,
Speaker 1: like totally shredded in the gym. You know. J K
Speaker 1: Simmons is the actor who played like j Jonah Jameson
Speaker 1: in the Spider. But I'm not familiar with the video
Speaker 1: you're talking about. Oh my gosh, there's like photos and
Speaker 1: videos you look up j K Simmons ripped and uh
Speaker 1: and um Aaron Aaron is his trainer. You know, he's
Speaker 1: gotten a lot of guys in shape for for film
Speaker 1: and television anyway. Hyer, Murray tim Abel who's an Army ranger,
Speaker 1: Jen Marshall, Alan Petrochewsky, Dave Meadows, Leepy Kim and James
Speaker 1: James Lee Young is our team. This year, and these
Speaker 1: are all folks that have been on like Stranger Things,
Speaker 1: Hawaii five, oh, Um, Seal Team, you know, a lot
Speaker 1: of great show and films. Go ahead. I was just saying,
Speaker 1: that's awesome. Yeah, yeah, So we have a you know,
Speaker 1: we have a We're all over social media is uh
Speaker 1: vets on TV. We're on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, So if
Speaker 1: you want to, if folks want to keep up with
Speaker 1: us and pick your favorite veteran actor, then you know,
Speaker 1: you can go to our run Range of run page
Speaker 1: and drop a donation if you feel like it. It
Speaker 1: all goes to the great mission of It goes to
Speaker 1: the mission of serving our veterans and our transition and
Speaker 1: veterans through Gallant Few. You know, it's great to see
Speaker 1: that you're a part of that, and it really is
Speaker 1: a small world that we know some of these same
Speaker 1: people and that's a great thing to be able to
Speaker 1: be there for someone going through a surgery who doesn't
Speaker 1: have family in the area. Um. Actually, since we're on
Speaker 1: you know that subject, I know another topic that you're
Speaker 1: passionate about from looking at your social media is autism.
Speaker 1: Being the father of a child with autism, I should
Speaker 1: tell you this, which is kind of interesting. You might
Speaker 1: not know this connection. Another former Marine we've had on
Speaker 1: the show and a former and a punk rocker is c. J.
Speaker 1: Ramon from The Ramons. His his child, his autism, who
Speaker 1: I've you know, met before. It was a lot older now,
Speaker 1: But a great story he told on the show is
Speaker 1: that he turned down that role as the bass player
Speaker 1: from Metallica UM when Jason knew Staid left the band
Speaker 1: because his son was young at the time, and he
Speaker 1: was like, look, I want to be there for my
Speaker 1: son who was special needs. And you know he doesn't
Speaker 1: regret it, Oh, not at all. I mean when when
Speaker 1: I first came out here to Los Angeles in two
Speaker 1: thousand four is when my son was diagnosed. And uh
Speaker 1: so that was a uh you know, it's it changes
Speaker 1: your perspective again, you know again uh, and your priorities
Speaker 1: shift and so um at the time, when my wife
Speaker 1: had went back to work, she she was able to
Speaker 1: stay at home with him for a while, which was great,
Speaker 1: but then you know, when she went back to work,
Speaker 1: I was basically you know, halftime in it. Um. I
Speaker 1: you know, I was, I was only I was only
Speaker 1: able to pursue my career until he was done with
Speaker 1: school and so, uh, we had to make that work.
Speaker 1: And then later on it was very fortunate that my
Speaker 1: in laws came and lived with us. They can, they're
Speaker 1: still with us now, and that allowed me to really
Speaker 1: go after my career and I've made some some great
Speaker 1: leaps forward because of that. My son sixteen now though,
Speaker 1: my son sixteen, and he's just fantastic. I mean, you know,
Speaker 1: he's uh, he's just a funny kid, so smart and
Speaker 1: awesome personality and he's just he's a lot of fun.
Speaker 1: You know, it's funny. I think c J's son is
Speaker 1: right around that same age, give or take a year,
Speaker 1: and if I remember correctly speaks multiple languages. Very bright kid,
Speaker 1: and you know, it definitely smashes that stereotype of autism
Speaker 1: for people who are ignorant of what it is, because
Speaker 1: it doesn't mean you're And he watched intelligence sometimes more intelligent.
Speaker 1: I mean, I I remember actually work king with a
Speaker 1: guy when I worked at Tower Records who had Asperger's
Speaker 1: and he was like an encyclopedia for music. You asked
Speaker 1: him any question and he was able to tell you, you
Speaker 1: you know, the in and outs of it if it
Speaker 1: involved music. Yeah, I think that's awesome that he was
Speaker 1: able to, uh, you know, apply his his interests in
Speaker 1: knowledge into his work. You know, I think that's that's
Speaker 1: the key for anyone who thinks differently. I think, like
Speaker 1: my son has a lot of interest. Right now, we're
Speaker 1: trying to figure out you know, he's a junior in
Speaker 1: high school. He's going to graduate, uh the year after
Speaker 1: so I guess next year for so next year he'll
Speaker 1: graduate um. And you know, we're trying to figure out
Speaker 1: what does it what does he want to do? But
Speaker 1: but like you said, when he or at least with
Speaker 1: with my son, and I guess with c Jason, when
Speaker 1: he has particular interests, that becomes everything. You know, like
Speaker 1: right now, he could tell you, he could tell you
Speaker 1: anything about Australia. Yeah, he's literally I think he wants
Speaker 1: to move to Australia. He talks about marrying an Australian
Speaker 1: girl so he can get citizenship and move there. It's like,
Speaker 1: it doesn't mean I don't love America. I'm like, okay,
Speaker 1: better on, Well, what if you wanted to to go
Speaker 1: to college and like study abroad in Australia. Would he
Speaker 1: be able to do that or do you know it's
Speaker 1: so funny. We we just we just talked about that
Speaker 1: the other day. My wife was saying, you know, she's like,
Speaker 1: oh my god, I wouldn't know what i'd do, you know,
Speaker 1: like he would say it and we'd like laugh about it,
Speaker 1: but we're like, he could go do that, you know.
Speaker 1: Um and uh so it's it's you know, look for
Speaker 1: any parent, it's scary when your kids start to get
Speaker 1: to that age where they're they're going to be independent. Um.
Speaker 1: So well, if you want to, if you want to
Speaker 1: scare him back to the United States, you can turn
Speaker 1: back the time to a few podcasts previously where we
Speaker 1: had a Australian military diver on and during an exercise
Speaker 1: he got attacked by a shark and um lost to
Speaker 1: end in his leg. Oh that's that's terrible. But that's
Speaker 1: for my son. That's a feature, not a bug. Well
Speaker 1: he I mean he turned out okay. He uh he
Speaker 1: went back on active duty and he's doing great. Now. Um,
Speaker 1: that's outstanding. And my son is it loves sharks. That's
Speaker 1: his whole thing. He loves sharks. Um. I think that's
Speaker 1: why he loves Australia. We we actually got to go
Speaker 1: there this past year and we uh snorkeled the Great
Speaker 1: Barrier reef and at one point we're on the boat,
Speaker 1: uh having launched in between snorkels, and uh, there's like
Speaker 1: five or six black tip reef sharks like around the
Speaker 1: back of the boat and these are good like three
Speaker 1: four footers kids right in the water and like like
Speaker 1: you know, and of course, the as soon as people
Speaker 1: started getting the water, the sharks took off. But I'm like,
Speaker 1: I'm thinking, now, you know, I had to get in instantly,
Speaker 1: of course, and um, but he's like, no, no, they did.
Speaker 1: The reef sharks they just they just eat little fish,
Speaker 1: don't attack people. And like knowledge is power for this kid.
Speaker 1: You know, he knows, uh, he knows all these things
Speaker 1: about the sharks and marine life. And now you know,
Speaker 1: seven of the eight world's eight most poisonous steaks are
Speaker 1: in Australia. I'm learning all kinds of crazy stuff, which
Speaker 1: is which is awesome. That is that is interesting because
Speaker 1: the people that I have met with um autism or aspergers,
Speaker 1: that does seem to be a recurring theme is that
Speaker 1: they have a fascination in something and they become extremely
Speaker 1: knowledgeable about it. Yeah. Absolutely, Well, like I said, these
Speaker 1: are great causes that you're a part of. Um. You
Speaker 1: know what I I also wanted to ask you about, just
Speaker 1: getting back to the show itself. Is you playing special
Speaker 1: Agent John Bowen? This is kind of uh similar to
Speaker 1: other roles that you've played. So I'm I'm curious if
Speaker 1: your time in the core uh just makes you familiar
Speaker 1: with these type of roles and and makes it so
Speaker 1: that you're able to play this type of thing on
Speaker 1: TV or is there a connection there for you? Yeah? Absolutely,
Speaker 1: I mean, um, there's I mean, you know, you know
Speaker 1: about military bearing, it's it's uh they beat it into
Speaker 1: it and in the Marines or whatever branch you servant,
Speaker 1: so it comes naturally, um. And it's not something I
Speaker 1: have to put on. Uh. So I think when you know,
Speaker 1: I mean, if you look at my career, almost almost
Speaker 1: every character I've played on television or in a film
Speaker 1: is carrying a gun. UM. So I think that military bearing,
Speaker 1: being familiar with with with the culture uh just makes
Speaker 1: it more natural when I walk into an audition, I
Speaker 1: don't I don't feel like I have to put it
Speaker 1: on uh. And and I you know, and I certainly
Speaker 1: don't put a bunch of stank on it. You know,
Speaker 1: I was watching your Real this morning where you were
Speaker 1: playing a police officer and you know, it's a couple
Speaker 1: of cops and you're breaking each other's balls, and I
Speaker 1: was like, yeah, I'm sure his time in the military
Speaker 1: played into this pretty well. Absolutely. That's that was from Power,
Speaker 1: which which is uh one of my favorite roles ever.
Speaker 1: I really get to to throw down with the other actor,
Speaker 1: and um uh, you know, in that particular situation, I
Speaker 1: was the local NYPD detective and he's a fed rolling
Speaker 1: into my crime scene and I don't like that, So
Speaker 1: that was easy for me, you know, to kind of
Speaker 1: uh you know, raise the hackles a little bit and
Speaker 1: go after him. Um uh. Coming up in a couple
Speaker 1: of weeks, I play the reverse side of that situation
Speaker 1: on SWAT on CBS. UH is an episode I think
Speaker 1: this episode fourteen of of this season. It's called the
Speaker 1: B Team, and uh I think it airs February seven. Anyway,
Speaker 1: I play a federal agent who's rolling into the local
Speaker 1: you know, uh SWAT headquarters and and kind of you know,
Speaker 1: stirring things up. So I've now I've gotten to play
Speaker 1: both sides of that equation, and it's it's interesting. Well,
Speaker 1: I'm I'm excited to see it. This has been a
Speaker 1: fascinating interview. If people want to check out your social
Speaker 1: media on Twitter, it's at m underscore Broderick at that's
Speaker 1: Michael Broderick on Instagram. Uh. And of course you're here
Speaker 1: promoting True Detective. UM, so if you want to shoot
Speaker 1: out where people could watch or anything else that you're promoting, Uh,
Speaker 1: go for it. Yeah, absolutely Uh True Detectives currently airing
Speaker 1: on HBO episode as we record this. Episode four just aired,
Speaker 1: so episode five will air on Sunday, and we'll continue
Speaker 1: uh every Sunday after that until the season is done. Um.
Speaker 1: You can find me uh actor Michael Broderick on Facebook,
Speaker 1: and that's really the hub of everything, and everything kind
Speaker 1: of spills over from there. But um, yes, swat on,
Speaker 1: I believe it's February seven, and uh who else? A
Speaker 1: couple of other things in the work works, but nothing
Speaker 1: nothing ready to announce yet. Oh and please please do
Speaker 1: thank you. I just do want to give one more
Speaker 1: shout to uh two vets on tv UH if you're
Speaker 1: interested in backing us in the month of February for
Speaker 1: a run Ranger run to support Gallant Few please do
Speaker 1: so we could use it, and so could Gallant Few
Speaker 1: actually or do they have a Twitter account or Instagram? Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's it's uh that one. I got it all the
Speaker 1: same vets on TV across social media. Excellent. I think
Speaker 1: you'll get some support from the listeners of this community.
Speaker 1: And uh, this has been great. I mean, as Jack said,
Speaker 1: there's there's guys in the military community who I think
Speaker 1: aspire to do what you're living. Yeah, and Galliant Few
Speaker 1: is a great cause too. If people want to get involved,
Speaker 1: they sure are. And anybody any veterans or guys who
Speaker 1: are men and women were getting ready to get out
Speaker 1: and just wouldn't be happy doing anything else. And you
Speaker 1: wanna get into the entertainment industry, do visit v m
Speaker 1: E connect dot org. That's Veterans and Media and Entertainment's
Speaker 1: website v m E connect dot org and sign up
Speaker 1: and and see what's going on there. There might be
Speaker 1: a local chapter near you. That's great. Thank you so much, Michael,
Speaker 1: really appreciate having you on today. Hey, thanks for having
Speaker 1: me on Guys on on Targeting on time? Right, Thank
Speaker 1: you man, hopefully all right, take care of fellis excellent
Speaker 1: appearance there from Michael Broderick. Uh, hopefully the audio sounds
Speaker 1: really clear, because he was in a studio in uh
Speaker 1: California for those wondering, and I'm gonna they recorded on
Speaker 1: there and I'm gonna try to layer it together. So
Speaker 1: if this sounded good, uh, that's thanks to them recording
Speaker 1: there and me mixing this whole thing together. Um. But
Speaker 1: it was cool that we could get him in studio
Speaker 1: and do that or in studio over there, and hopefully
Speaker 1: next time we could do something in studio here. I mean,
Speaker 1: there's plenty of acting and roles that go on in
Speaker 1: New York, so I wouldn't be surprised if at some
Speaker 1: point he's over here, just like we have Jeffrey right
Speaker 1: in the studio. Yeah, for sure, Jeffrey right. Actually, I
Speaker 1: don't want to say god offended because it would be
Speaker 1: like too harsh, but but I called him like a
Speaker 1: Hollywood actor and he was like, no, I think myself
Speaker 1: as a New York actor. So it's like two different Yeah,
Speaker 1: two different worlds. I guess that's cool. I love his
Speaker 1: work and on on West World. I don't know if
Speaker 1: Brandon told you when so we had him on your
Speaker 1: in here. Brandon was yeah, I wish I could have
Speaker 1: met him. Yeah, but um, Brandon was on a plane
Speaker 1: heading to Puerto Rico and he said on the plane
Speaker 1: he heard this guy go, Brandon, it was Jeffrey right,
Speaker 1: And he was like, yeah, I'm headed to Puerto Rico.
Speaker 1: I'm going surfing with my son. I know you you
Speaker 1: do a little surfing. You want to come out with us?
Speaker 1: And he got to surf with Jeffrey right in Puerto Rico.
Speaker 1: That's funny. Yeah, so he was. He was definitely a
Speaker 1: very nice guy. Of course, we got the blowback from
Speaker 1: some listeners on Brandon's Instagram that were like, Brandon, this
Speaker 1: guy's a communist. Why would he added on he's a
Speaker 1: big like you know, Hillary supporter. Never, I was at
Speaker 1: a like a rally um for the Syrian Kurds, this
Speaker 1: Defend Java rally square where Gloria Steinem was a speaker.
Speaker 1: What was it like? Because you didn't get to like
Speaker 1: video footage jury, I mean I took a few pictures.
Speaker 1: I mean I wasn't there for Gloria Steinem. I was
Speaker 1: there because it was to support the Kurds. Um it was.
Speaker 1: I mean it was a small group. I mean I
Speaker 1: wish they could have rallied more people together. Um. But
Speaker 1: Gloria Steinhum just came out and talked a little bit
Speaker 1: about I don't know what she was really I'm not
Speaker 1: sure she knows that much about Syria, but I mean,
Speaker 1: I suppose her heart was in the right place. And
Speaker 1: um it was basically, you know, talking about women's rights
Speaker 1: and how the Kurds have made these like amazing advancements
Speaker 1: with women's rights in the Middle East. Um and uh.
Speaker 1: And of course they would like the United States to
Speaker 1: stick around a little bit longer until the situation stabilizes
Speaker 1: because they don't want to get invaded by the Turks
Speaker 1: like Afron already did. Um. So we'll see how that
Speaker 1: pans out. But anyway, I wrote a short article about
Speaker 1: going to that rally. UM. I think it's called um
Speaker 1: while America, While America moves on the Curtish struggle in
Speaker 1: Syria continues something like that, and went out yesterday. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so go to the News rep dot com. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: have to shoot a text over to Michael Flitz and
Speaker 1: say we had your body on because uh, we haven't
Speaker 1: had him on in a while. But ye, school, I
Speaker 1: didn't know that the connection was there. I just randomly
Speaker 1: brought up Michael because he's who I think of when
Speaker 1: I think of Gallant Few and we're actually really Run
Speaker 1: Ranger Run and Karl Monger, and you know, he's the
Speaker 1: guy that I know involved in all that. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we should have both of those guys, both Carl and
Speaker 1: Michael on again. Uh, sometime in the near future. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'll definitely reach out to them. I mean, we recently
Speaker 1: did an episode on uh, you know, not to bring
Speaker 1: the mood down here, but the veteran suicide stuff with Alex.
Speaker 1: And Alex also, I saw wrote UM just this past
Speaker 1: week that Marine Corps suicides are at an all time
Speaker 1: high right now. It's shitty. Yeah, it's really really we
Speaker 1: haven't figured out how to grapple with it exactly. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's it's definitely a problem that needs to be addressed.
Speaker 1: And I saw Alex wrote a pretty passionate tweet in
Speaker 1: response to something, um Donald Trump said the other week
Speaker 1: about you know, how great the military is doing and veterans,
Speaker 1: and you know, Alex was like, before you, um, you know,
Speaker 1: start boasting about all this stuff, like, let's address the
Speaker 1: issue of military suicide. You know, I have guys that
Speaker 1: I know, dying every few months, and something needs to
Speaker 1: be done about this. It's nuts, you know, I want
Speaker 1: to Um. I know I've talked about this before. Um,
Speaker 1: but I went to a memorial for a former teammate
Speaker 1: of mine who committed suicide, and while I was there,
Speaker 1: I met this other gentleman, also in the military, who
Speaker 1: was my friends my teammates best man at his wedding
Speaker 1: and a Paul bearer at his funeral. And uh, and
Speaker 1: that gentleman died unexpectedly about a year later. I don't
Speaker 1: know the story behind it. That's why I'm not gonna
Speaker 1: say his name here. But I mean, Jesus Christ, I mean,
Speaker 1: it just keeps happening and happening. I really do respect
Speaker 1: the fact there's guys like Karl Monger out there who say,
Speaker 1: give me a call if you're in that place. Um,
Speaker 1: you know, we need to have those types of people. UM. Yeah.
Speaker 1: It's something that we talked about on this show a
Speaker 1: lot because it's it's an important issue and uh, there
Speaker 1: are no easy solutions. But that's why I like to
Speaker 1: have people on, like how we had Peter Gidrion talking
Speaker 1: about the creative thing, whether you're pro or con I
Speaker 1: want to hear about other alternatives out there that the
Speaker 1: news media is not really talking about. Yeah. Man, there
Speaker 1: are no easy answers. You know. It's like I've said
Speaker 1: in the past. I mean, if you're hurting out there, um,
Speaker 1: you need to go and seek some kind of treatment.
Speaker 1: Like that's the real solution to it. Um. You know.
Speaker 1: And in the civilian world, you need to fight just
Speaker 1: as hard as you did while you were in the military.
Speaker 1: For in this case, you know, you need to fight
Speaker 1: for your own life. Um, in your own future. You
Speaker 1: need to create a life for yourself outside the military.
Speaker 1: And that's just as difficult as going through ranger school.
Speaker 1: Sometime in some ways it's more difficult. Yeah. And I
Speaker 1: would say read pieces like Michael Schlitz Mike switz is
Speaker 1: that he wrote for UM, if I remember correctly, Ranger Up.
Speaker 1: He wrote a piece about his experience going through these surgeries.
Speaker 1: I'm halfway through Carmen Genteel's book and he talks about
Speaker 1: in uh New York just uh, you know, one point saying,
Speaker 1: I wish this guy would have killed me. And you know,
Speaker 1: he went through a lot of crap to and not
Speaker 1: not a veteran but experienced worse than a lot of veterans.
Speaker 1: And I'm loving this book so far. I know I'm
Speaker 1: taking my time with it. I just haven't had a
Speaker 1: time to like read as much as usual, but um,
Speaker 1: this is I have to. You know, I keep plugging
Speaker 1: the book, I feel like every two episodes. But it's
Speaker 1: a brutally honest book. I mean, he talks about cheating
Speaker 1: on his fiance, his fiance cheating on him, and I
Speaker 1: feel I feel like he could have just written a
Speaker 1: book about look at how awesome I am. I escaped
Speaker 1: death and had this great recovery, and like, no, he's
Speaker 1: talking about the opioids healing story. You know, yeah, he's
Speaker 1: positive thinking. He's talking about the opioids and all that.
Speaker 1: And you know, like I said, his fiance at the
Speaker 1: time writing him an email, you know, I've been cheating
Speaker 1: on you with some other guy, and you're a scumbag,
Speaker 1: you know, him cheating on her right after seeing her
Speaker 1: after the injury, and kind of making excuses in his
Speaker 1: head of like, oh, well, I'm on all this medication.
Speaker 1: There's any time I'm allowed to do something like this,
Speaker 1: it's now, and then kind of saying like, look, I'm
Speaker 1: I'm a scumbag. There's no there's no hiding the fact
Speaker 1: that I just cheated on my fiance. Yeah. You know,
Speaker 1: those like uplifting, empowering stories were kind of force fed
Speaker 1: all the time. They don't really do anything for me personally,
Speaker 1: because it's like real life. Real life is painful. Well,
Speaker 1: it's very painful, and you have to you know, pulling
Speaker 1: yourself through it is painful. I've actually never heard this
Speaker 1: quote before reading this book, but I think you would
Speaker 1: love this quote, and I totally agree with this. This
Speaker 1: is what he starts the book with, this very short
Speaker 1: but profound quote from George Orwell, autobiography is only to
Speaker 1: be trusted when it reveals something disgraceful. Yeah, it's true.
Speaker 1: I mean I've had this experience, you know, right in
Speaker 1: my own book recently, and you know, it definitely talks
Speaker 1: about the highs and the lows, and it's not all
Speaker 1: flag waving or depicting my certainly not depicting myself as
Speaker 1: some sort of Captain America. Um. And you know, when
Speaker 1: I wrote that book, I thought about that, like, I
Speaker 1: want this to be a book that people can actually
Speaker 1: like learn something from, especially somebody who was in my
Speaker 1: shoes when I was like eighteen years old and I
Speaker 1: was gonna about to join the military. Like I wanted
Speaker 1: it to be a book that it's not just about
Speaker 1: me waving the flag and talking about how great I am,
Speaker 1: but it's something like you can read about the mistakes
Speaker 1: I made and be like whoa, Okay, that's what I
Speaker 1: want to avoid. Um, so that the book actually has
Speaker 1: some content and it's actually has something meaningful. Because if
Speaker 1: you just talk about how awesome you are and you're
Speaker 1: just I mean, well, first off, you're just looking in
Speaker 1: the mirror jerking yourself off. Uh, But beyond that, there's
Speaker 1: nothing there. There's no takeaways from the book, Like you're
Speaker 1: not actually learning anything. So what's the fucking point, you know,
Speaker 1: other other than like a masturbatory, fucking fantasy of yourself. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm very we weary of those types of books. Um.
Speaker 1: On the other hand, there's there's people who probably reveal
Speaker 1: too much and they regret it. UM. SUREC recent story
Speaker 1: I heard, you know, not related to anyone on this
Speaker 1: show or Special Ops. But I did read Rex Brown
Speaker 1: from Pantera's book, and throughout the book he talks about
Speaker 1: like what a scumbag phil On Salma was at times
Speaker 1: and what a dirt bag Vinnie Paul was at times,
Speaker 1: and from what I've heard him giving interviews, who was
Speaker 1: on Jamie Joster from Hate Hate Reads podcast, and Jamie
Speaker 1: hinted at that he feels like he almost regrets writing
Speaker 1: parts of that in the book, you know, And now
Speaker 1: Vinnie Paul has gone, and that book is going to
Speaker 1: be in print from you know, forever for people to
Speaker 1: hear your dislike for the guy. And I'm sure, I'm
Speaker 1: sure there were, you know, great times they didn't put
Speaker 1: in there. And I've thought about that very carefully when
Speaker 1: I was writing a book, because the book it is
Speaker 1: a memoir, and yeah, it is kind of like a
Speaker 1: douchey story you're writing about yourself, I mean, or it
Speaker 1: feels that way in a sense. And I thought about
Speaker 1: that very carefully because it's like, I have this opportunity,
Speaker 1: I don't really want to use it to like just
Speaker 1: drop dime on my teammates are friends of mine, um,
Speaker 1: you know, especially like if you tell an embarrassing story
Speaker 1: about like a friend of yours, like you went out
Speaker 1: and got drunk, you know, when you were young soldiers,
Speaker 1: as we tend to do, and you write if you
Speaker 1: write about that. UM, that is the one public depiction
Speaker 1: of that guy is him drunk off his ask doing
Speaker 1: something totally stupid, doing naked cannonballs into a public swimming
Speaker 1: pool or whatever it was, and banging hooker. I'm sure, yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean all kinds of craziness. That's that's the sole
Speaker 1: public that's the sole public depiction of that person. UM
Speaker 1: that will come to um encompass or represent that person's
Speaker 1: entire life when they maybe they had a twenty year
Speaker 1: military career of honorable service, but this one little event
Speaker 1: is what will come to define their service publicly. And
Speaker 1: I didn't want to do that, so UM, I try
Speaker 1: to limit the embarrassing stories more to myself. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: if I feel that the story is some there's some
Speaker 1: sort of like narrative lesson or there's something that has
Speaker 1: to be told UM that I can't gloss over. UM,
Speaker 1: I typically don't name the person. UM. I would feel
Speaker 1: much more comfortable revealing UM embarrassing aspects of myself than
Speaker 1: of other people, because also, you never know what the
Speaker 1: future holds. I've you know what's crazy. This has happened
Speaker 1: to me once before. I got a phone call from
Speaker 1: a kid who used to like give me crap in
Speaker 1: high school. I had not in contact for this person
Speaker 1: for years. Got a call from out of the blue.
Speaker 1: I have no idea why. I mean, I could speculate
Speaker 1: it on it, but he was just like, hey, hey man,
Speaker 1: sorry for you know, not being a good person back then,
Speaker 1: and met a better time in my life. And it
Speaker 1: makes you wonder, like, I don't know, maybe they went
Speaker 1: through a or something like that. Maybe this is part
Speaker 1: of what is it happy Gilmore? Yes, no, no, but
Speaker 1: Billy Madison, But Billy Madison where he's like he calls
Speaker 1: him up and apologizes to him and it's, uh, oh,
Speaker 1: what's the actor's name. Oh you're Steve Steve Yeah, And
Speaker 1: he reaches over and he crosses the guy's name off
Speaker 1: his list and they put yeah, it might be something
Speaker 1: like that, but so I wouldn't. I would feel pretty
Speaker 1: terrible about myself if I wrote something bad about someone
Speaker 1: who wasn't nice to me. But maybe years down the
Speaker 1: line you meet up with them. I mean, there's been
Speaker 1: plenty of times I've met up kids I didn't like
Speaker 1: at high school. I see them at a bar and
Speaker 1: they're a great person now at different time in their life.
Speaker 1: They're like, are you going to use that opportunity to
Speaker 1: just like as some sort of like childish revenge because
Speaker 1: somebody aggrieved you when you guys were like fourteen, Like yeah,
Speaker 1: and there's like I don't know that. I think when
Speaker 1: you write a book, you know, whatever kind of book
Speaker 1: you're writing, and you want to have some more important
Speaker 1: lessons or some some more meaningful narrative in it than
Speaker 1: you know, this guy stole my Nintendo cards on the
Speaker 1: bus when I was in first grade, which happened to me,
Speaker 1: but you know, and I still remember that. But I mean,
Speaker 1: there's got to be some better like life lessons or
Speaker 1: or some better, more meaningful stories to tell when you
Speaker 1: when you write a memoir than than that kind of thing.
Speaker 1: Is there anyone you reached out to like, Hey, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna talk about this. You have you have a problem
Speaker 1: with it? There were a number of people on former
Speaker 1: teammates who I reached out to and I sent excerpts
Speaker 1: from the book about specific things that happened on deployments.
Speaker 1: UM So guys who I served in range A battalion with,
Speaker 1: um some guys who were on my O D A,
Speaker 1: and I sent them excerpts from the book, but mostly
Speaker 1: not because I was really asking them for permission. UM.
Speaker 1: I was asking them for permission to use their name
Speaker 1: if they wanted to be in the book, and ask
Speaker 1: if they wanted to or not. Um. And I think
Speaker 1: all of them said, UM, you know, go ahead, do
Speaker 1: what do what you want. And and I think I
Speaker 1: just referred to them all by their first names in
Speaker 1: the book. UM. But more I was sending it to
Speaker 1: them because I wanted to make sure that I was
Speaker 1: being factually accurate, Like am I like, am I remembering
Speaker 1: this totally wrong? You know, of course there's gonna be
Speaker 1: different perspectives, but are my facts just completely wrong here?
Speaker 1: And so I sent them. I sent excerpts of the
Speaker 1: book off to a lot, uh, not a lot, but
Speaker 1: you know, maybe a dozen or ten different people, um,
Speaker 1: just to make sure that I wasn't remembering things completely wrong.
Speaker 1: And UM to my surprise. Actually, I mean, when you
Speaker 1: tell someone you're writing a book about this stuff, you
Speaker 1: would understand that they get very nervous. UM. But I
Speaker 1: found all of them to be completely like helpful, like
Speaker 1: am willing to add additional information um or further elaborate
Speaker 1: or contextualize something for me? Um? And all of them
Speaker 1: were kind of like, dude, it's your book right from
Speaker 1: your perspective, tell it like it is is. And you know,
Speaker 1: it seems like they all kind of had the perspective of,
Speaker 1: you know, let history be the judge. And I mean
Speaker 1: I really admire all of them for that. That's awesome. Well,
Speaker 1: I have the advanced copy. I will get to it
Speaker 1: um once I finished Carmen's book, which I've enjoying. Definitely
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Speaker 1: and listen to one two with Roger Stone, because right
Speaker 1: now is an interesting time. There's especially those people out there,
Speaker 1: believe it or not, who were like I have never
Speaker 1: heard the name of Roger Stone until this week. Understandable
Speaker 1: because I mean I turned on the news. I rarely
Speaker 1: watch TV. I don't even have cable anymore, but I
Speaker 1: turned on just regular network news at home while Roger
Speaker 1: Stone was arrested that morning, and you know, like it
Speaker 1: was every channel they interrupted the prices right to show
Speaker 1: you Roger Stone being arrested and you know, courtroom and
Speaker 1: and you know him coming out with the V for victory.
Speaker 1: We should be so lucky that you know they interrupt
Speaker 1: the prices right for your arrest. I mean Jesus, I
Speaker 1: mean that rarely happens, right this Roger that's like for
Speaker 1: that's like nine eleven. You know they interrupted, you know,
Speaker 1: you know Steve Harvey here, you know, or whatever. I don't.
Speaker 1: I mean, it could just be my perspective, but I
Speaker 1: feel like it's hard to say that it's not political.
Speaker 1: I I feel like this has to do it with
Speaker 1: some people with taking down Trump and incrementally one by one,
Speaker 1: look at all these connections and putting it in your
Speaker 1: face of politics involved, Yeah, no doubt. Yeah, putting that
Speaker 1: corruption stuff out there. Uh. And the other you know,
Speaker 1: big piece of news that's it's gonna get even more intense,
Speaker 1: or the insane amount of Democrats announcing their run for
Speaker 1: the presidents ramping up. You got Kamala Harris, Bernie Sanders,
Speaker 1: Hillary Quintin possibly my life. I mean, she just she's
Speaker 1: just isn't gonna just wait until who comes to president?
Speaker 1: Just go away? Uh? And Elizabeth Warren of course. And
Speaker 1: then the other guy that you have as the independent
Speaker 1: is the CEO of Starbucks, which Howard Schultz. Is that
Speaker 1: that the name? I'm not sure, trying to let me
Speaker 1: make sure I have that right. And Trump got all
Speaker 1: scared and sent out some tweets about it of Starbucks,
Speaker 1: see yeah, yeah, saying like he doesn't have the guts. Uh,
Speaker 1: so he's Yeah, the current CEO is Kevin Johnson. The
Speaker 1: former CEO who's running is Howard Schultz. Believe it or not,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go back to my Twitter feed and say, uh,
Speaker 1: some listeners were not happy at me about me with
Speaker 1: this somewhere that I do have to say giving credit
Speaker 1: where credit is due. I don't normally agree with Bill Maher,
Speaker 1: but I agree with Bill Maher wrote here. He wrote,
Speaker 1: really the coffee guy wants to be president? Just because
Speaker 1: you had one profitable insight people overpay for coffee doesn't
Speaker 1: mean you can run the world. The government is a
Speaker 1: different animal. Can we please get a pro in there?
Speaker 1: I certainly agree, And although honestly I very well may
Speaker 1: vote for Trump just because I don't like the alternative
Speaker 1: so much, I'm not happy with this new um Trump
Speaker 1: effect or whatever you want to call it, putting people
Speaker 1: completely unqualified into office. And you know, writing that's one
Speaker 1: of our listeners was tweeting at me. You know, well,
Speaker 1: Barack Obama started that trend, and I do have to
Speaker 1: disagree and that, yes, Barack Obama was far less qualified
Speaker 1: than previous presidents, but he served in state government. He
Speaker 1: served for a very short time in you know, US
Speaker 1: as a one term, you know, senator, and I'm aware
Speaker 1: he voted president most of those times, but to me,
Speaker 1: it would be a very different ballgame if Trump held
Speaker 1: some position prior to being president. It's like, that's why
Speaker 1: I say, you can't the people who were like, well,
Speaker 1: Ronald Reagan was an actor. Yeah, Ronald Reagan did a
Speaker 1: lot before he became president. There's this underlying attitude that
Speaker 1: or this this narrative that gets sold to us that
Speaker 1: like being a business CEO or running a business has
Speaker 1: some correlation to running the United States fucking government, and
Speaker 1: it doesn't. I mean, they're two wildly different animals. The
Speaker 1: United States government doesn't run on a profit incentive. You're
Speaker 1: dealing with public goods, you're dealing with indivisible assets. Uh.
Speaker 1: It's just totally different than the private sector. But people
Speaker 1: keep talking to us and telling us that government should
Speaker 1: run like a business. Like it can't run like a business.
Speaker 1: And if you say it should run like a business,
Speaker 1: I think you fundamentally don't understand what our government is.
Speaker 1: And personally, I actually would like to see more veterans
Speaker 1: and business owners in government, but I don't. I don't
Speaker 1: think you go from even though this is what happened.
Speaker 1: I don't think you should go from business owner to president,
Speaker 1: go from business owner to congressman to governor, and then
Speaker 1: work your way up. I have I think that that's
Speaker 1: the way to do it. I mean, for example, I
Speaker 1: really do not like the man, but our our former
Speaker 1: UM mayor, Michael Bloomberg, I do think is qualified in
Speaker 1: going from business owner to mayor. You know, if he
Speaker 1: wants to run, I would never say he's he's not qualified.
Speaker 1: If Trump went from CEO to mayor or something, I
Speaker 1: would feel very different. But then again, I don't think
Speaker 1: New York would have elected Donald Trump for anything. No
Speaker 1: New Yorkers never would have elected Trump for anything, because
Speaker 1: we we knew him too well. We knew the guy
Speaker 1: was full of ship decades ago, I really, and New
Speaker 1: Yorkers just used to seeing his face and everywhere money. Though,
Speaker 1: if you talk to people who are not from New York,
Speaker 1: they think Donald Trump changed the skyline of New York City,
Speaker 1: Like they seriously think that. It's like what, like this
Speaker 1: guy was a minor player at best in New York
Speaker 1: City real estate. I mean he has he built one building,
Speaker 1: but I don't. I don't know. It's just there's other
Speaker 1: buildings all know, Like, for example, though, Fred Trump, you
Speaker 1: know my mom grew up in Trump Village. There's all
Speaker 1: that stuff in Brooklyn, there's this, there's some stuff in Queens.
Speaker 1: But I know what you mean. You know, it's not
Speaker 1: like Trump in the World Trade Center or something. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean in in conversations about New York City real estate,
Speaker 1: like Donald Trump is not a player, Like his name
Speaker 1: doesn't even come up. And Michael Bloomberg is who Bloomberg is,
Speaker 1: but he's way belder the radar. Oh, speaking of Bloomberg,
Speaker 1: I could I you know what, I'm gonna play something.
Speaker 1: I thought it was funny for you guys. This go
Speaker 1: back to Twitter here. Sorry that I keep referring to
Speaker 1: Twitter here, but it is what it is. Um. I
Speaker 1: thought this was funny if I could find it. So,
Speaker 1: I don't know if you saw Dan Crenshaw, who speaks
Speaker 1: great Spanish, put out this address. Ah, really, I didn't
Speaker 1: know he was a Spanish speaker, and he sounds great.
Speaker 1: Definitely fluided trumps some So anyway you get the idea.
Speaker 1: He he sounds like honestly he could be Spanish. Yeah yeah,
Speaker 1: well good for him. So it's important when you're a
Speaker 1: politician in Texas too. I agree, and so I was
Speaker 1: comparing that to you. Do you remember this, Michael Bloomberg.
Speaker 1: We'll take some questions, but first let me just try
Speaker 1: to summarize for our Spanish speaking audience plus vehiculos, cafe
Speaker 1: bernados and lacatante la trement and know us difficult different
Speaker 1: cult like at that point, get some fence. Sounds like
Speaker 1: a New York bistro Delhi owner or something trying to
Speaker 1: speak in Spanish when the construction workers come to order,
Speaker 1: you know, a fucking filafel or something. Yeah, I don't
Speaker 1: think that it earns you any you know, points with
Speaker 1: Latinos to go out there, like I think he would
Speaker 1: have been better off having a member of his administration
Speaker 1: who speaks fluent span. It's like when I try to
Speaker 1: speak Italian, I sound like Brad Pitt And what's that
Speaker 1: movie where uh inglorious bastards? Where is there? Like, because
Speaker 1: like they're pretending to be Italians and infiltrate this like
Speaker 1: Nazi ball and he's like air veard eric Chie, that's alright,
Speaker 1: sound but I try to speak Italian? All right? Well,
Speaker 1: I guess that that about sums up anything. From you
Speaker 1: or no, no, that's it. Um, Well, I am. I
Speaker 1: did work on a update to a previous UH story
Speaker 1: I wrote. Um. You know, I wrote about a year
Speaker 1: ago UH story called Dick Pick six, which was about
Speaker 1: a bunch of drama unfolding and Seventh Special Forces Group
Speaker 1: kind of a sexual blackmail network that ensnared a bunch
Speaker 1: of high ranking officers and n c O s and UH.
Speaker 1: The Army Times just did a follow up to it
Speaker 1: yesterday and they got um the Seventh Group secretary who
Speaker 1: is involved in a lot of it. Um, they got
Speaker 1: her on the record. I reached out to her. She
Speaker 1: didn't want to talk to me at the time, which
Speaker 1: you know is her decision of course and h but
Speaker 1: she spoke to the Army Times. So UM, I went
Speaker 1: back and I kind of did like an update to
Speaker 1: the article UM that I had written a year ago,
Speaker 1: including some of the new information from the Army Times
Speaker 1: and some other information that I've been given and provided
Speaker 1: over the last year or so. UM. So that article
Speaker 1: will probably be up by the time people hear this podcast.
Speaker 1: Excellent UM, And the next episode, as promised, we will
Speaker 1: get a shot show recap from load Out writer Jen's
Speaker 1: I'm trying to think of what Jen's writes under. He
Speaker 1: has a weird name that he writes under on the website.
Speaker 1: But he'll be on to talk about that. And a
Speaker 1: friend of yours Douglas. Yeah, Doug is a former PJ
Speaker 1: and now he um he will tell us in depth
Speaker 1: what he does. Um. But he's like highly qualified with
Speaker 1: like all the sports physiology and all that kind of stuff. Um.
Speaker 1: And his company is called Resilient UM and he will
Speaker 1: tell us all about it for sure, and he'll be
Speaker 1: in studio with us. Yeah, which is great, great because
Speaker 1: we don't have a lot of pjs on. We've had
Speaker 1: on the K of course, but I think it's still
Speaker 1: banging on Twitter. No, No, he's back, he's back. Okay, Okay.
Speaker 1: Who else have we had on? We've had We've had
Speaker 1: a handful of Air Force guys. I mean Doug Reardon
Speaker 1: his former Air Force, Mike Lampy his former Air Force. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Uh well Doug is like super pt stud um. I
Speaker 1: met him when we were both going to Colombia. Uh so, yeah,
Speaker 1: he'll be a great guest. But he's not a part
Speaker 1: of the wolke Vets of Colombia. No, he's he's a
Speaker 1: very reasonable young man. I'm sure he will we can
Speaker 1: discuss some of that. All right, awesome extra checking out
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