June 19, 2025 • 58 mins
Peter Linquist is a United States Marine Corps veteran who served two tours in Iraq before being injured in 2005. Originally from Canton, Ohio, he now lives in Santa Cruz, California, with his wife Shawndy and their two children, Kylee and Milo. Peter is deeply involved in the veteran community as the Championship Director and Member Liaison for the Veteran Motocross Foundation, an Ambassador Athlete for Operation Vet Now, and an instructor with MotoDemption. His passion for motocross and service continues to fuel his mission of helping fellow veterans find purpose, healing, and adrenaline beyond the battlefield.
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next guest runs Veteran MS Foundation. It's a five oh
one C three and his name is Peter Linquist and
welcome to the show. Peter.
Speaker 3 (03:01):
Hey, thanks Rod for having me here.
Speaker 4 (03:02):
It's a pleasure and I'm excited to spread the word
about our foundation and what we do.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
Right. And so this may just be like, where did
you come from? How did you meet Rad? How come
we're talking to you? And you know, well, let's start
off at the beginning real quick. So first of all,
you're a young man, you're in high school. I like
to bring this out of everybody that's on the show.
And at what point in your life did you feel like, oh,
I should swear an oath to protect the Constitution and
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fellow Americans and those in need. Right, honestly, that's what
we do. How old were you when you decided to
join the Marine Corps?
Speaker 4 (03:37):
So I was, I believe nineteen years old. I was
a little bit after high school. I was starting my
job and my career and stuff. And then, as everybody knows,
nine to eleven happened, yes, and I did not want
to be one of those guys is sitting on.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
The couch watching what's.
Speaker 4 (04:01):
I felt like we were attacked, and so I made
the decision to join the Marine Corps. And you know,
all the time people think me for my service, but
really it was an honor for me.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
To be able to serve this country. And so that's
that's why I went in.
Speaker 4 (04:23):
There was nine to eleven, and I wasn't putting up with,
you know, with all the bullshit.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
And be a bullied as an American and in that
aspect seeing somebody come and do such a heinous act
on you know, a vulnerable target, so vulnerable, so many
It's not like it was guarded with sam sites, surfaced
air missiles and like, you know, it was an objective
with military troops on top of the roof protecting it
(04:50):
with snipers. Maybe snipers maybe, but nonetheless you get what
I'm saying. It was like, you know, Fitzgerald Canter, Fitzgerald
employees and American Express building next to the build and
that collapsed because it collapsed, and all these people running
down the streets that we watched as you were being
infected with like I'm going to serve you know, all
of a sudden, it's just like this is something that
(05:10):
called you to arms. Now, well, boy, I was in
bed when nine to eleven happened. My dad came up
and woke me and my girlfriend up at the time
my wife now today, and said, hey, turn the TV on.
So we flipped the TV on and we saw the
first smoke stack coming out of the first tower. And
at that point he's like, yeah, look what happened. And
this is about eight something in the morning, and my
mom came upstairs and the next thing I know, boom,
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the second one hit. And my dad looked at me,
and he's a former Green Beret and I had just
gotten out of the Air Force medically, and he looked
at me. He's like, we're under attack. That's exactly what
he said. We are under attack. Those words out of
my dad's mouth never ring more truer than stay awake
in church. I was like, Oh, he's for real. It's like,
you know, we just went under attack. And so at
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that point you had to feel the same vibe.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (05:56):
And you know, for a lot of people that didn't
live that it experience, they don't understand really how much
that brought everybody as an American together, And you know,
it's sad that we don't see that nowadays.
Speaker 3 (06:11):
I wish we could all be together like we were
on nine to eleven.
Speaker 4 (06:15):
And it's said that it took an attack like that
on us to bring us together. But you know, that's
that's why I joined. That's why I wanted to go
with my brothers and sisters to.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
Be a part of this.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
And So when you went into the Marine Corps, did
you go like for the numbers. I've learned as O
three eleven as an infantryman or a sawgunner, which is
like a sixty oh three thirty thirty thirty thirty thirty.
Speaker 4 (06:42):
So I was actually I was a recruiter's favorite kind
of recruit. I was living in Cincinnati, Ohio. I was
from Canton, Ohio, which is up up north. And I
called the recruiter and can't Ohio. I said, Hey, I'm
packing my bags. I'll be there tomorrow to do whatever
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I got to do to get in. And I went
in as an open contract. I told them I don't
care where you put me, just send me.
Speaker 3 (07:13):
I'm ready to go.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
YEP.
Speaker 4 (07:16):
So I went through boot camp I went through SOI.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
I got School of Infantry, right, that's where you went
through School of Inventories.
Speaker 4 (07:25):
SOI, and that's when they told me I was going
to be an three thirty one, which is a machine gunner.
And after SOI, they actually were like, you know we
need LVS operators. Can you're going to Fort leonard Wood,
Missouri for LVS school.
Speaker 3 (07:44):
I'm like, hey, whatever you guys need me to do,
I'm yours.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
What's an LVS Maybe I should know this.
Speaker 3 (07:50):
It's a logistics vehicle system.
Speaker 4 (07:52):
So it's a pretty decent sized vehicle. It's bigger than
like the seven tons and all that, and it's the
steering is done by hydraulics. It's articulates instead of like
it's got like pistons in the back to the old articulate.
And there's all kinds of different attachments that you can
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put to the rear that you can missiles from the back.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
You can. It's not a hemmot, No.
Speaker 3 (08:20):
It's not LVS.
Speaker 4 (08:22):
They were called we were called the Dragon Masters, uh
an LVS operator.
Speaker 3 (08:28):
And so I.
Speaker 4 (08:29):
Once I got to done with that, they were like, Okay,
you went through LVS school, now you're gonna be back
to being with the grunts because that's where they needed
me again.
Speaker 3 (08:41):
So again I just went and did. I did what
I was told. I put the lotion on the skin.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
Yes, yes, and uh I am looking at it. It's
kind of a it's an Ochcosh vehicle, yes, right, and
so it does have that front windshield look to it,
which is like slanted. It reminds me of a hammet.
But I can see the attachments on here and uh,
you know, go check it out. Just google Oshkosh LVS
(09:09):
and you can see this machine that uh you know,
Peter was in charge of operating, and uh you can
see why it needed to have the different types of
hydraulics to shift it. It's a it's crazy a vehicle.
Let me see. Well here here it is on my
camera right there for anybody to watch it. If you
can kind of see it right there, there's some lvs'
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is very cool. And then you went back to three
eleven grunting with the with the saw or the sixty
and machine gunning machine gun fifty.
Speaker 4 (09:42):
And so from there, I you know, got sent over
to Okinawa, Japan and h O Canal our duty station
was not going getting sent to Iraq because of Korea
of course, and our positioning there. So I went to
Iraq as a volunteer. And I went to Iraq as
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a volunteer, and they was called an augment position, so
I didn't have like an actual.
Speaker 3 (10:17):
Group I was with. I kind of got bounced around
to wherever they need.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
Like a medic would. Sometimes the medics are there and
they're like, oh, hey, you're going with this unit. They're like, okay, cool,
I'm a medic. You're like, what do you need me? Oh,
you're going with this group. You're like, okay, cool, I
got the fifty yep, I was.
Speaker 3 (10:33):
I was like a medic, but totally opposite.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
The total opposite the pills you were dealing.
Speaker 3 (10:40):
Yeah, and that was a tough situation mentally.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
And Fallujah are you? Are you a Fallujah in a
four and first wave into Fallujah? Oh, with my friend's dad, Lopez,
he went in with that same group. Uh, he's here
in Utah. One of my employees. His dad was core Fallujah.
Doesn't really ever talk about it. He's very reserved, but
we love him nonetheless. Yeah. Yeah, So you went through
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Fallujah literally a hot spot door to door. That was you.
So when I see these camera crews that are like embedded,
you know, with these marines and everybody going through all
of these different buildings. In that first wave, it was
so popular on TV, right, everybody had an embedded combat
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press journalist who went through some kind of a boot
camp for war and now they're deployed with kevlar helmet
and body armor on. It says press and when you
push on that press, it doesn't do nothing.
Speaker 3 (11:39):
Yeah, doesn't say. That was easy, that's for sure.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
Yeah, press press, I'm pressing on it. Let's see what
do you do? What's your special function? Press? Press? So
I mean, did you have anybody embedded with you guys?
That was.
Speaker 4 (11:54):
Yeah, Well, I, like I said, I actually got bounced around,
so I wasn't with one unit the whole time in Iraq.
I would actually get put it put wherever they needed me,
which was kind of a tough position because usually I
was going to fill in for somebody who is not
there anymore.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
So yeah, it was you know, my buddy's dad was
also a machine gunner. Yeah, but I know there's a
lot of marines, and there was a lot of marines
inside of Fallujah that were doing their job from a
lot of the different units, right, you guys had so
many that were just all working together. Wow. Man, what
a phase line to be in. You know, you guys
are like, oh, where are you at Felujah? Oh? Well,
(12:33):
what's going on? That's boring? Nothing, Mom, I'm fine. No, No,
we're telling the outskirts. Yeah, uh huh. Sounds about it.
Speaker 3 (12:42):
Sounds about the letters I was sending home. Everything's good here,
just another day at.
Speaker 2 (12:48):
Work and Marine Corps yep. Wow. Well, first of all,
props to you for finding the call to serve. Okay,
today's listener that might be on the fence about joining.
You know, I like to hear this from my guests
who have served, like what was it that tipped you
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to go? You know, some are like, hey, I just
wanted to get a Lexus payment. I'm like wait, what,
Like how many seventeen year olds do you know they
had Alexus? And I was like none, and they're like exactly,
And I was like, okay, so there's their reason. And
then others had reasons like you know, oh, hey, you
saw something violently happen to our America and that impacted
you wholly to join not just the military, but the
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Marine Corps. All right, now the military. Right, I'm just
gonna say, right, I have so much respect for the
Marine Corps. Growing up an army kid, my dad was
always like, oh, Marines, you know, their uniforms look good
in caskets, you know. And I was like, oh, okay, yeah,
Dad's Army. So I got that same mantra. But as
I've gotten older, and I've met some master guns in
my life, and I've met some other young Marines who
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were able to join the army because they were color blind.
But the Marine's like, kumeer, yeah, can you tell this
ten versus this ten? No, you're in, and you're like wait,
So you know, I see the love they gave my buddy,
who has never given anything from other branches, Like they said,
you can't join. All he wanted to do is be
army military police. No, so what does he become three
(14:11):
eleven okay, five foot two, out rocking everybody, breaking his
ankles up those mountains to graduate, and now today he
is a he gets to be the MP part because
now he is like a detective for our Utah Higher
Patrol here nice, so he kind of gets both of
that original I want to be army the Marine Corps
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took him in and said you can be infantry here,
and I was like, wow, okay, cool man. You know,
if you're out there and you're feeling a little like,
oh maybe you're color blind and the Army won't take you,
then why don't you look at the Marine Corps see
if they'll take you. Right, go talk to a career
counselor see if it's the best thing for you, because
there's a lot of romance in the military. There's a
lot of you know, the heroics that we hear read
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about that are pushed into the movies and the screens
that make us want to go join the military. You know,
once you get there, you might find that, you know,
Fallujah was very active and was very door to door
and friends do not come back. But you know, like
you said, you were there to take over for someone
else who took that same oath that you took, and
you know, thank you. So I just want to say,
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if you're out there thinking about joining, go take the
next step and talk to somebody at the career counselors,
at the at the Marine Corps or wherever you're going
to go visit, and just ask them what they can
do for you, because if you don't take the next step,
you'll never know. You'll just be like, oh, maybe maybe
I can't get in, you know, maybe there's no waiver
for me. You just got to ask.
Speaker 4 (15:33):
And also, if I may add, if please going to
join and you do join, think verily, very very highly
of yourself because there is not a lot of people
that are willing to do that, and so if you're
even thinking about it, that's you are an amazing individual.
Speaker 3 (15:54):
And I hats off to you, dude.
Speaker 2 (15:58):
Even my daughter's school right now, she's at University of Oregon,
Go Ducks. But good job, Ohio. But nonetheless, you know,
she was talking to me, She's like, you know, I
don't know about ROTC, and I was like what. I
was like, whoa here, I have like pitch and join
the military. Then my own daughter's like, Dad, I'm thinking
about ROTC. Well, there's a lot of benefits that go
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along with getting into that program. Schooling, you know, a direction,
learning how to do things for others, you know, selfless.
Uh yeah, you have to fall in one hundred percent.
You got to fall into the machine. Though. You got
to get into the machine. You got to become a
cog inside the machines, you know, working mechanisms to do that. So,
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you know, good luck, Sidney, make your choices. I don't.
I'm not forcing nothing enough of you if she wants to.
You know, her grandfather is a Green Beret. Her my
father in law, her grandpa on that side is a
marine from Vietnam. We call my my dad would always
call him a Remington Raider because he was the type.
He knew how to type, and so they needed somebody
(17:02):
that could type so bad. If you've seen save a
Private Ryan, it's like, just bring this pencil. But you're
doing all this. Yeah, Holy cows. So so how long
did you spend it? Did you just do like a
four or six year plot? Did you go a little longer? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (17:19):
So on my on my secondary at Iraq, I was
injured in the Humbi explosion, which got me a med
step out getting you know, I'm one hundred percent disabled
through the DA and so that kind of ended my
career a lot quick quicker than I planned. But you know,
everything happens for a reason, and and I'm here doing
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what I love, which is racing motocross, spending times with
my veterans and helping other veterans.
Speaker 2 (17:48):
You know, and I'm sure that your veteran friends that
come up to you find out that there was an
explosion with your hum V. Is that what you said? Yes, sir,
Do you have more to tell about? Like like the
morning of.
Speaker 4 (18:00):
So we were running q r F, which is quick
Reaction Forces, and when I went out and we knew
we were going into a firefight, that's why they needed us,
and I you know, we just throughout our whole time
there that you know, we ran over twenty different IEDs
and we're just lucky and none of them really messed
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anybody up. But this last one the damage. And luckily
for me, I was a fifty machine gunner, so I
was standing out of the turret and that's what saved
my life because out of the three guys in that vehicle,
I was the only one to survive.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
Sorry about that.
Speaker 4 (18:47):
You know, it's it's made me who I am today.
It's my mission.
Speaker 3 (18:53):
You know, I was sent on this earth to help people, and.
Speaker 4 (18:58):
It's made my ability to do that even stronger because
I well, we all struggle, we've all been through trauma.
Doesn't mean you don't even have to military or not.
We all have been through trauma, and that experience allowed
me to understand that.
Speaker 3 (19:21):
We all shared the.
Speaker 4 (19:23):
Same emotions and no matter the trauma, the emotions are
the same, the feelings are the same, and it just
it makes me stronger at what I'm doing now and
pushing forward.
Speaker 2 (19:38):
Would you like to give a shout out to those
that were lost in that vehicle so that they're on
this podcast forever?
Speaker 3 (19:44):
Yeah, win Chester Mounts.
Speaker 4 (19:45):
You guys are always with me and will always be
with me, And it's it's you guys are looking down
on me and making sure that I'm staying on track
doing what I need to do to help others, because
I know that's what they would want two, is to
help others. A lot of selfless, selfless people at the
Marine Corps one hundred percent.
Speaker 2 (20:07):
You know, they may seem so tough okay, and like
so leather ah. You know, they always like to answer
with the word kill ah. You know, you love your baby, kill,
you love your mama kill okay, But yeah, that means
they do love their mama, and that means that they
love their baby and they do have the same red
blood that bleeds through all of us and our human beings.
(20:30):
Marine Corps. Yeah, Marine Corps, yes, you could be. You're
a human. I know, there's a machine again, the cog
and the wheels and all that here that cogs. You're
actually like the blade. You're like the razor. You're like
the stone that sharpens the How would I explain the
Marine Corps man, You're like, you're like death. That's it, okay,
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if they're on your porch. My dad would tell me,
we don't. We didn't call seals and we didn't call
anybody else to extract us out of a situation where
they're like trying not to be picked up, that they
are an SF team. In areas they would call in
the Marine Corps because they said, the Marine Corps just
come in and make a lot of noise and just
like you know, and just like and they just get
out from that situation. So they would always call in
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the Marines to like cover them while they got out
whatever it was. That's what he would tell me.
Speaker 4 (21:18):
We're not called we're not called devil dogs.
Speaker 2 (21:21):
Seriously, dude. I mean, I've driven on Barcelona Road at
Pendleton and there's just like this omnious vibe driving there.
You know of why that road's named what it is, yeah,
you know, and what he had to do for the
medal of Honor, and what he had to do to
go back into the to the Marine Corps to continue
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fighting where he finally did it a second time and
finally perished on you know, some god forsaken island to him,
you know, Marine Corps bro and my father in law, Elliott.
You know, he's still alive. He's eighty four, doing good. Yeah,
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so far. I told my wife all the time. I
was like, look at your longevity, look at my dad's
I'll see you later. But uh, you know, let's let's
talk about motocross, okay, because there are a ton of
folks who use this app, like single track app out
here in Utah. My buddy only rides single single roads.
(22:23):
He doesn't want anything a quad can go on. He
doesn't want anything that another four by wheel can try
to hit him. He just wants straight dirt bike roads.
So he likes to go enduro off road everywhere in
the mountains. Veteran dude. You know, it clears his head.
You know, it's just him his bike, betrayl I.
Speaker 4 (22:40):
I you know, it's it's the only time you can
really actually just shut off everything around you. All you're
paying attention to is what's in front of you. You
have to live, and a lot of veterans need that,
a lot of veterans. I know myself, I struggle for
many years just shutting off everything around me, and so
I raced motocross growing up. It was always been a
(23:03):
passion in mine. After I was injured in Iraq, I
truthfully didn't think I was going to be able to
get back on the bike again due to a lot
of fiscal injuries. Sure, and once I did, though, it
saved my life. Throttle therapy has saved my life.
Speaker 2 (23:21):
See and around it here at soft rep dot com,
Brandon Webb runs the place. He has this mantra, it's
thrills before pills, you know, so whether he likes to
ski and fly airplanes and surf and skateboard and you know,
just thrills before the pills, right, And so it's like,
you know, when you go to the VA and they're
(23:41):
telling you, oh, here, let me just prescribe some lithium
for you. Let me just prescribe some you know, of
this stuff, some zole off, whatever the case is, all
these different meds, and you know, I believe in. I
do believe in science, and I do believe in medical
prescriptions for certain things like my cholesterol. I take a
statin from my heart already, Okay, I'm on a pill.
But ninety nine percent of the time I'm either in
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the gym trying to beat up a boxing bag or
trying to get that like life threatening skill down, or
we're snowboarding. My wife and I are in the mountain
snowboarding trying to stay alive right through the trees and
stuff like hardcore and just like my buddy, and like
you riding a motorcycle, you're in the motocross. So that's
a lot more where you have like, oh, I think
(24:26):
of the nineteen eighty six game where you had to
like excite excite bike. Yeah, that's you. You're excite bike.
You know, You're like.
Speaker 4 (24:36):
It's you know, I used to do the single trails,
and I used to do a lot of just off
road racing through the woods for you know, you go
for an hour with a g NCC series on the
East Coast is what I used to race. And then
after my injury and got back into it, I decided
(24:57):
I want to get back onto racing the tracks because
actually I was racing GNC out in North Carolina and
wrapped myself around a tree pretty good and realize that
they don't have trees on.
Speaker 2 (25:10):
The tracks, and trees don't move.
Speaker 3 (25:12):
Yeah, so I went back to racing on the tracks.
Speaker 4 (25:15):
And then when i'd moved out to California about eight
years ago and just been racing motocross on all different
kinds of tracks all.
Speaker 3 (25:24):
Up and down the state. Here in Nevada, Arizona.
Speaker 2 (25:27):
It'd be cool to ride it on the beach. I see, like,
you know, videos of people on their motorcycles on the beach,
things like with the wakes coming up yet boom. You know,
I've not experienced that. I'm only like, you know, that
would be cool in Cali.
Speaker 3 (25:40):
Yeah, there's some good spots out here.
Speaker 4 (25:43):
I definitely don't live here for the politics or the
cost of living.
Speaker 2 (25:46):
That's oh yeah, No, I get it. You're there for Hollywood.
Speaker 3 (25:50):
I know.
Speaker 2 (25:50):
I know what it's all about. Yeah, he's just looking
for your star on the Walk of Fame. You're working
at it. We all are. It's okay. Once it's there,
we'll be like it's cool, it's cool. My fans want it.
Speaker 4 (26:02):
Yeah, So I got I got back into riding. And
then when I moved out here, so I was actually
riding a lot with another disabled VET who has had
a lot of time on his hands also, So we
were doing a lot of riding in North Carolina. And
then when I moved out to California, I was still riding.
Had a group of guys I was riding.
Speaker 3 (26:23):
With, but none of them were veterans, and it was different.
Speaker 4 (26:27):
I love being able to share that that moto lingo,
but with that military banter. And once I found the
Veteran MX Foundation and came on board with these guys,
it was a life changing experience.
Speaker 3 (26:43):
Man.
Speaker 2 (26:45):
Now, the Veteran MX Foundation you specifically work with veterans
to get into the motocross and you know, to help
them get better at the skill, whether they're you know,
meeting some type of like an adapt to adapt did system.
Is there adapted writers.
Speaker 4 (27:04):
Better in that next foundation we hote, we host ride days.
We're a nationwide foundation. We right now I think have
like twelve or thirteen hundred members around the nation overseas
and we and everybody that's a part of our foundation
is an owner of the foundation. And you get in
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what you you get out of it what you put in,
meaning that you know, we're constantly raising money and doing
other things. And so one of our big things is
we do ride days where we bring in, you know,
all the vets that are in the area. If you
have new friends, bring them in, and normally another person
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has an extra.
Speaker 2 (27:48):
Bike or something, bring a friend.
Speaker 4 (27:49):
Yeah, And it's really not even so much the riding aspect,
but more about just hanging out in the pits and
sharing our stories and just that camaraderie. But we do
ride days, we host clinics where we'll bring in pro
riders to help us with techniques and getting better on
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the bike. And then we also do a big championship
which I'm actually the director of, and that's out in
mas Kansas at Bar to Bar MX, and that's a
week long event that.
Speaker 3 (28:24):
Is completely free for our veterans.
Speaker 4 (28:28):
We raise enough money where we provide breakfast and dinner,
all the camping fees, race entry fee. We have three
different race entry fees that we pay for, and out
of those race entry fees, we have twenty i think
it's like twenty three, twenty four different classes that are
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military only, so you're on the gate with all military
guys and it's it's a lot of a lot of
snacktok going on there.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
It's like eat my dust, sir.
Speaker 4 (29:03):
And one of the best races we have is called
the Battle of the Branches race, and that's the Marines
against the you know, it's all the different.
Speaker 2 (29:14):
Everybody against the Marines pretty much.
Speaker 5 (29:17):
Well, we won it last year and we plan on
retaining that title, yes, and so yeah, if you want
to come get it. But yeah, that's it's one of
my favorite races just because it's.
Speaker 3 (29:30):
Everybody is out there, no matter your skill set. You know.
We do several gate drops to.
Speaker 4 (29:36):
Make it safe as safe as possible, and it's just
an amazing experience to look up and down these roads
and or.
Speaker 3 (29:48):
Down the gate and see all.
Speaker 4 (29:51):
These different guys from you know, all different type, different
errors in the service and different branches and it's amazing.
And we also with that event team up with another
nonprofit called Motodemption who has the adaptive bikes, have the
roll cage. They're all hand controls, so we get paraplegics
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on there and.
Speaker 2 (30:18):
I like a double amputee can still operate it because
it's been configured. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (30:23):
Absolutely, that's spotters that go around with them.
Speaker 4 (30:27):
So when they're ready to stop, we're off our bikes
ready to catch them, so they're not falling over.
Speaker 2 (30:32):
I love that.
Speaker 3 (30:33):
And I'll tell you what, man like, when those guys
get on.
Speaker 4 (30:37):
That bike for the first time, and even if they're
just going around the field and they come back to
the pits, the tears of happiness in their eyes. There
is nothing like that. Those guys think about it. They
can't go that fast in the wheelchair.
Speaker 2 (30:54):
No, I mean they want that to be their wheelchair.
They're like, bro, yeah, bro, bro, bro, bro, bro, can
get me through the VA so quick. Those long tunnels done.
Speaker 3 (31:05):
So.
Speaker 4 (31:05):
A funny thing is we actually built a sidecar one
of the dirt bikes and we debuted it at I
want to say, is in Tampa Bay for the Supercross
that they hosted out there, and the veteran that came
out was looking at the sidecar, looking at the bike.
Speaker 3 (31:26):
He was like, I don't want to be in the sidecar.
I want to ride the bike. Yeah, And we told him, hey,
get on the bike, let's do this.
Speaker 4 (31:34):
And it was awesome, man Like, just the like again,
just the happiness and everything that comes out of it.
Speaker 3 (31:42):
It makes everything so worth it.
Speaker 2 (31:45):
I think we should like Key in Black Rifle Coffee
right about now, and like some sponsorships and like Travis Pastrana,
because what you're talking to me, I just, for some
reason envision a ramp at the end of the jump
that this guy's riding a motorcycle with a sidecar on,
like nitrol circus or something just like going off of it.
That's the first thing I think of. And then I
think of my buddy in California who's a part of
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the Sidecar Club, and he has like the vintage style
World War Two looking sidecar motorcycle. And there's a whole
bunch of them that are in so Cow that are
the Sidecar Club, And so they go driving around on
that same type of thing, you know, like what you're saying.
They get together, they go drive their side cars. He
has this dog in his sidecar with the goggles. He
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has like a like a bulldog, just tongue hanging out.
Speaker 3 (32:33):
I have three of them minutes because they are the
Marine Corps mask guy, you know what I mean?
Speaker 2 (32:38):
Yeah, I do know.
Speaker 3 (32:39):
And they snore in part just like any.
Speaker 2 (32:41):
Other Marine I know, their tongues exactly. It's like, what
are you gonna go eat what anything you want, right, dude,
that's awesome.
Speaker 3 (32:53):
What we do is awesome.
Speaker 2 (32:55):
You know.
Speaker 4 (32:55):
We're again about the camaraderie being able to share those
stories together, because when you're out doing something like this
and you come together like that, it really does allow
you to maybe talk about something you've been holding in
for a long time. And now you're around all these
guys that share that passion for motocross but also have
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that military banter and understand because as a lot of
that's we'll tell you, nobody understands and we can't expect
any civilian to understand what.
Speaker 3 (33:33):
We go through.
Speaker 4 (33:35):
We live a totally different life than those that don't serve,
and we carry a lot of that with us throughout
our lives, when the good and the bad, and so
it's really important to be able to have a group
that you can't share something that may be bothering you
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and it's just you know, it's it's that's what we do.
Speaker 2 (34:04):
No, I love it. And who are you looking for
to reach out to? You? You know, like, what's that typical? Hey?
Uh this you know veterans mx I motocross. I'm a veteran,
you know, forty percent disability or maybe no disability. Just
I'm a veteran. You know what, what's the path for them? What?
Who are you looking for? Who comes to you?
Speaker 3 (34:25):
So not just not just veterans.
Speaker 4 (34:28):
We have active duty members that are there, you know,
part of.
Speaker 3 (34:31):
Our foundation and members of ours.
Speaker 4 (34:34):
And you know, anybody, anybody that if you're even interested
in and getting on a bike and seeing what it
does for you, hit us up on Veteran mx dot com.
Speaker 3 (34:49):
Come on out.
Speaker 4 (34:50):
We'll get you to h you know, try to set
you up with a local event that we have going
on again because we have we have bride days and
clinics all over the nation.
Speaker 3 (35:01):
Come out to Kansas for the week. Well, you know,
just because.
Speaker 4 (35:04):
You're not on a bike and just want to hang
out with us, come out. We'll provide, you know, a
place for a safe environment for you to come and
just be with other veterans that get it.
Speaker 2 (35:18):
Yeah, one hundred percent, you know, and boy, what veteran
All of a sudden, I'm just thinking of Rambo okay
on his motorcycle and Rambo First Blood Part one, Okay,
where he's like getting away from the sheriff on his
Honda going up the rocks on the mountain. I mean,
like you know, I mean veterans on motorcycles. There's one
right there, okay, Rambo, let's go okay. Another veteran a
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motorcycle right here, Peter aka Rambo, let's go okay. You
guys are all rambos, right, you all encompass that to me,
you know. And the name is for men and women, okay,
because there's women Rambos, men Rambos. I just see them
all just hardcore and you got ladies riding.
Speaker 4 (35:59):
We have a couple of female veterans that are racers
and our group and I can't beat them, right, they.
Speaker 3 (36:08):
Are hardcore man.
Speaker 4 (36:09):
So I you know, no matter what you are, who
you are, if you're a veteran, come out be a
part of.
Speaker 3 (36:18):
This because it's just it's amazing.
Speaker 2 (36:20):
It's it's so what are you writing like a Yamaha
for fifty or five hundred or what? What are you writing?
What do you do? Two fifty Kawasaki water cool green?
What do you write?
Speaker 3 (36:31):
So I'm part of the green machine.
Speaker 4 (36:34):
I got Kawasaki four fifties that I rip, looking someday
to maybe get a stark bar because the that's the
do electric bikes not that I would ever sell my
gas bikes.
Speaker 3 (36:47):
I love the smell of the exhaust. I love the
vibration of them.
Speaker 4 (36:50):
Sure, but those electric bikes nowadays, the torque on those,
you you know, you just rip it.
Speaker 3 (36:58):
You're heading one hundred and he put over that jump man.
Speaker 2 (37:02):
Oh, immediately, see my buddy that does ride a lot
of trails out here. He has a talaria, you know,
like the electric bike that's like almost a motorcycle. But
then another colleague of mine has what you're talking about,
and that's his commuter and yeah, yeah, yeah, he writes
to work on it all the time. It's licensed and
all that. He's got his plate and he wears his helmet.
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Thank you. But when he leaves, he's just like, You're
like hello, Yeah, Like I thought loud pipes save lives.
I thought I was supposed to hear the blah blah blah
blah blah blah blah next to my car, so I
don't run you over. But you're just like, just so
the quietest sound you could possibly think of, and he's
just gone into traffic.
Speaker 3 (37:40):
Yeah, I'm an engine guy.
Speaker 4 (37:42):
I actually even have a check oh you check engine
light tattoo on my wrist, and that's to help me
regulate myself and my emotions when my PTSD might be
getting a little blared up and I just need to
check myself. You know.
Speaker 2 (37:57):
I always to say I don't have a check engine light,
so I have to go get my heart checked on
my own. It's like no one's telling me. And here
that's why I'm even on that that pill I was
telling you about, because I want to get pre checked
because nothing's like dinging on me. I don't got a
washer fluid empty, I don't got blinker fluid empty, I
don't have a check engine light on my wrist.
Speaker 3 (38:17):
I'll definitely be going.
Speaker 2 (38:19):
Yo, bro, dude, it would be cool if it was
made with that glow in the dark, right, yeah, and
you can like pick it. Maybe I can do that
a little later. You could have to go over it.
You just have to go over it, right, and then
you can like put the UV light over it. You're like, oh, yeah,
that's what's up, bro. You're so cool, dude. And so
your goal is just to make others feel comfortable in
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their own skin doing something that they may not be
used to doing, or that they loved to do that
they stopped doing because maybe they did get injured, maybe
they did think like, oh, I got to stop riding
my motorcycle because you know, I don't want to hurt
myself because my job requires me to be healthy. But
I'm out now, or you know all these different things. Uh,
you're just there to make sure they have a good time.
Speaker 4 (39:02):
Yeah, And our our three main peers of the our
pillars of the foundation is therapy, community, and accessibility. And
as a member of our foundation, we make sure accessibility
is a big thing. So we have a ton of
sponsors throughout the motocross industry to help you.
Speaker 3 (39:22):
You know, motocross is not a cheap sport, so if
we if we can help you.
Speaker 4 (39:29):
Make it more feasible than we you know, we have
tons of discount codes with other with all kinds of
different companies, Fly Racing, sixty Helmets, Hintson, Clutch Hintson is
like fifty percent off right there. So like there's we
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try to make it accessible for everybody.
Speaker 3 (39:53):
And that's one.
Speaker 4 (39:53):
Thing we do at the championship is we actually rent.
And this is the championship out in Maze, Kansas. We
you rant twenty two campers from McConnell Air Force, base
and bring them out there to house guys that don't
have a camper or sleeping in its head and don't
want to do that or whatever. So it's it's really
about the community, the therapy and accessibility.
Speaker 2 (40:17):
That's really cool, bro. And you know I'm on your
I'm on your app right now or on the website.
You know, it's really easy to thumb scroll and you
know it's almost like you thought about it being on
a phone as well. So I mean, you know, it
says that's the thing, Hello, what happened to the typewriter?
You know? And it's just and what I like. It
probably says it in reverse here because I'm backwards, but
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it says that others may ride, and that right there
just says a lot. You know. You know, the Pair
of Rescue has that others may live as a mantra.
You know, you guys have that others may ride as
a mantra. A Veteran Motocross Foundation empowers veterans struggling with
the physical and mental scars of service to leverage the
benefits of motocross. And uh let me let me just
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read the y US. At Veteran Motocross Foundation, we offer
a unique blend of lifestyle, enrichment and recovery for veterans.
Through the exhilaration of motocross, we empower veterans to overcome
physical and mental challenges that they may face. Our expert
instructors guide veterans through the process of learning a new skill,
fostering discipline, resilience, and healing. Join us to discover the
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transformative power of motocross today, and you can just go
hit the about us on your web page, Community Therapy, Accessibility,
the gallery. I think that's you. That is you in
the gallery, bro, And you know there's memberships and benefits,
and you know I would encourage you to go check
out VETERANMX dot com. Veteran MX. I say it like
(41:44):
I'm in Utah veteran. It's veteran MX dot com right
And I did it while I'm just sitting here talking
with Peter. So you can easily while you're listening right now,
just say, oh, let me open a new window and
just check it out while we're while you're listening to
the show. I mean really, and you might be interested
in And again, like he said, everybody from all walks
of life can participate in this. Let's say that you
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had asthma as a young man and you could never join,
but you have, you would have been the best, but
you have asthma, but no one let you. And then
there's this guy that's an empty shell. Next year, you're like,
how did you get here? I don't rather have the
kid with asthma. Okay, So it's like that kid with
asthma can still help participate in your culture, right, he
could still like be like on the on the the
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course as like safety or something like that, Right, I
mean you're looking for.
Speaker 3 (42:33):
We're always looking for for help and volunteers.
Speaker 4 (42:37):
You know, it's anybody any help, any kind.
Speaker 3 (42:43):
Of support is support. And yes, that's what we appreciate.
Speaker 4 (42:47):
We you know, we're we're just trying out there, trying
to have a good time and bring some happiness. Put
some smiles on some guy's face or girl's face that
really deserved to smile.
Speaker 3 (42:58):
Man.
Speaker 2 (42:59):
And my friend is that kid who had asthma who
wanted to join the military, And they were like, you
got asthma, but you would never think he had asthma
with the way he operates in his daily life. You're like,
he could totally be in the military. Dude, but there's
this like, you know thing I'm just saying, so we
just want to include everyone, and he would be that
exact person who I'm thinking of, who'd be like, Oh,
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there's a group that needs some assistance, where can I
go help out at you know that boy scout mentality
And so, boy, bro, the Marine Corps bleeds through you.
I feel it. And you know you got three bulldogs.
That's even doper and you know your motocross ness. Can
I ask you just to kind of piggyback on what
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you were saying about your injury. You said you had
to overcome your injury to ride. What was your injury
that you sustained in that hum or that vehicle?
Speaker 4 (43:51):
So obviously my whole back's messed up, hips feet, I've
had several surgeries on ankles, reconstructive surgery, stuff like that,
but probably one of the biggest ones was my TBI
brain injury, and that I've kind of had to relearn
how to do a lot of different things and that's
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been a big one.
Speaker 3 (44:15):
But also PTSD, you.
Speaker 4 (44:17):
Know what I mean, like just just not wanting to PTSDs.
Speaker 3 (44:24):
It can really just overtake your life.
Speaker 4 (44:28):
There was you know, years that went by that I
didn't get off my couch. I would sleep all day,
I would be on guard all night. Like it's the
mental health is just as damaging and important as your
physical health. And twenty years later, I'm still doing the
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work to keep my mental health there. I actually last
about a week ago.
Speaker 3 (44:58):
For two weeks.
Speaker 4 (44:59):
I spent two weeks in a program called Operation Men
that's through the Wounded Warrior Project.
Speaker 3 (45:06):
Down at U c l A. Go Bruins. And but
it came to a point where you know, I needed to.
Speaker 4 (45:18):
It's it's easy, easier to help others than it is
to help yourself. Yeah, but isn't it not taking care
of yourself, you can't really help others. So I had
to take some time away and go put myself in check.
And I'm glad I did because now I'm back here
rocking and rolling and ready to make a difference in
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this world.
Speaker 2 (45:41):
That's right, dude, And you you're a giver, and that's
what you're kind of saying. It's hard to be someone
who wants to take something when you're such a giver. So, like,
I use this analogy all the time, and it's when
you get on the plane and they say, put your
mask on you first, and they then help the person
or the kid next to you, because you do no
good without you your own oxygen on, and you know,
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and so you know you want to fix everybody, but
you need to have it on too, right, Your oxygen
needs to be on. So as a giver myself, I
feel i'm a very much like, oh, I'm good, here,
you can have my water. I'm good. No, it's good.
I should probably have some of that water.
Speaker 3 (46:16):
Yeah, it's a.
Speaker 4 (46:18):
Lot of people are, you know, especially service members, because
that's one of the big reasons we join is we
want to help others and we want to be able
to protect others. And yeah, it's it's again like you've
got to make sure you're taking care of yourself.
Speaker 3 (46:37):
But I also.
Speaker 4 (46:38):
Wanted to add with our event in Kansas, and that
is in September. It's September fourteenth through the twenty first.
Not only is it open to veterans, veterans and active military,
let's just say military. From Monday through.
Speaker 3 (46:55):
Thursday, it's military only.
Speaker 4 (46:58):
But if you want to come out and support in
some kind of way, help us out as a civilian.
Speaker 3 (47:03):
We're always looking for help.
Speaker 2 (47:04):
Photographers, maybe somebody that could take a snappy picture of
these vets as they're busting yeah dirt, big whips. Yeah,
I'm saying, you know. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (47:16):
On Thursday evening they open it up to the public
and then so we race Friday, Saturday, and Sunday.
Speaker 3 (47:24):
We have a class for everybody.
Speaker 4 (47:27):
And not only are we doing our racing, but this
event is in conjunction with the Kansas State Motocross Championship,
so you can anybody can come and race that race,
and not just race that race, but really enjoy seeing
what we're doing as veterans get to see the adaptive
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guys out with one leg probably yeah, vendors, all that stuff.
And I tell you a quick story, real quick.
Speaker 3 (47:58):
I was, yeah, please, I was racing with one of.
Speaker 4 (48:00):
My adaptive guys chants clearly, and we were going over
a jump.
Speaker 3 (48:06):
He's got a prosthetic.
Speaker 2 (48:07):
Leg, oh boy, And we.
Speaker 4 (48:09):
Were going over a jump, this is in a race,
and I look over and his leg came off and
so he wrecked when he landed because he's, you know,
trying to.
Speaker 3 (48:20):
Balance on only one leg.
Speaker 4 (48:23):
And I come around the turn like I start to
stop because I'm like, do I stop and help him out?
Like I keep going, We're in a race, and he's.
Speaker 3 (48:31):
Like, oh, go go.
Speaker 4 (48:35):
And then next I see him hopping, like, you know,
hopping around, grab his leg.
Speaker 3 (48:39):
He put it back on. But it's just it's such
an amazing event. It's so much fun.
Speaker 4 (48:44):
It's it's just this whole foundation has just brought so
much joy to me, not only to help myself because
of all the guys and girls that are a part
of it, but to be able to help others too,
Like it's it's it's amazing.
Speaker 2 (49:01):
That's awesome. I love that that story. I love the
fact that in my mind I just see his leg
kind of like probably like up there with him, you know,
like he's like looking over, It's like is that my leg?
You're like, is that your leg?
Speaker 3 (49:14):
Is not expecting that? Like I was like, oh shit,
his leg just fell off, dude.
Speaker 2 (49:19):
I mean you know, and sometimes those legs have like
to be charged or else they like will stiffen up
and then they're walking like the pirate all the time.
It doesn't have that kink in it, so bro and
I could only imagine what a prosthetic would have to
be like for motocross. It it's got to be a
little bit more like carbon fiber industrial.
Speaker 4 (49:37):
I don't know if he's got like a specific one.
Speaker 2 (49:40):
For motocross now he does, yeah, he should.
Speaker 3 (49:46):
But again we have we teamed up with Moto Damption.
Speaker 4 (49:49):
They're they're an awesome nonprofit also that have the adaptive bikes.
Speaker 3 (49:53):
They they come out to Kansas.
Speaker 4 (49:55):
We do clinics with those guys also, and it just
to see all all these people coming together for one
big cause and that's just to put happiness into others lines.
Speaker 2 (50:09):
I love it. And if you want to experience the
Veteran MX way, you can visit the website at Veteran
ms dot com and you can learn all about the
Kansas Ride that's going down in September, and you can
you know, reach out through email and say hey, I'm
in Kansas a big Chiefs fan or Royals fan or
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whatever's in Kansas.
Speaker 3 (50:32):
You know, start September event.
Speaker 4 (50:34):
We've got this September that go on throughout the you know,
throughout the year.
Speaker 3 (50:40):
We're set up.
Speaker 4 (50:41):
We have a boost set up at all the pro
races for Supercross and outdoor series.
Speaker 3 (50:46):
So if you're at one of those races.
Speaker 4 (50:48):
Come find our booth either in vendor row or down
in the pits and come say hi and.
Speaker 2 (50:54):
Let me bring this up. Now? Is there I think
I saw like a member like ranking, like you can
join as a member for like twenty dollars or there's
like a fee to be a member, like anybody can
kind of be a member and support Veterans MX.
Speaker 4 (51:07):
Right, So the way it works is members are going
to be military only, okay, and that's that membership. That
twenty dollars is to allow us to be able to
keep our mission going without relying on a lot of donations.
So if you're a civilian donating, is that's what we need.
Speaker 3 (51:32):
That's how we keep our mission.
Speaker 2 (51:34):
An endowment, bro, you need an endowment to come your
way and be like here, this should help keep you
going for three to five years.
Speaker 3 (51:40):
That would be That would be awesome.
Speaker 2 (51:42):
And if there's someone out there that can write up
an endowment for him for Veterans MX, just let him
know that you did it because of soft REP and
this conversation and you heard it here and you're like, hey,
you know what, you guys, this was really moving me.
And I have money that I have to get rid
of because of taxes and five so it's I'm just
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saying for everybody, either pay it off to the man,
or you can give it and be the man. Okay,
So there is a way that you know you're still
spending it even though it's got to go somewhere. So
you either spend it in a place where you want
it to go, or it's gonna get taken from you exactay,
because you have to file all that at the end
of the year. So I'm just I'm plugging you for that.
You're not doing it. You didn't say that. That's me.
(52:24):
This is Rad saying it. Okay, that Rad's a rat. Dude,
that's dude, that's what You're a radical datical? How about that?
Speaker 4 (52:30):
Huh, that's hilarious.
Speaker 2 (52:34):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (52:34):
So but we we do do a membership fee, and
that's twenty It's twenty dollars a year.
Speaker 3 (52:39):
For the VET to pay or the active duty guide
to pay.
Speaker 4 (52:42):
But I'll tell you what, with all the discount codes
we have, you're gonna need a new pair of boots,
you're gonna need a new helmet, you're gonna need you
buy one thing, and that twenty dollars is already paid
for itself. So yeah, it's twenty dollars out of the
vetter in his pocket. But you use any of our services,
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and believe me, it's you get it's well worth the
twenty dollars.
Speaker 2 (53:08):
And it's like, how many veterans out there buy bottled water?
Just stop buying bottled water and put twenty bucks into
the Veterans MX and then go back to buying your
bottled water. Just, you know, hold off on that. You
got water in the tap, you can drink out of
the tap. Drink the water out of the tap. You
don't need razor water. You don't need it anymore. Calm down,
it's okay, it's okay.
Speaker 3 (53:28):
Now they have the water and the beer. Looking can
liquid death or something and you're like, will you drinking?
Speaker 2 (53:34):
Man?
Speaker 3 (53:34):
Drinking and driving?
Speaker 2 (53:35):
And you're like no, it's what it tastes like a
coarse life, but it doesn't have any alcohol. I just
don't understand. They got root beer. Now I have root
beer and Doctor Death, which is supposed to be their
version of the doctor version of the pepper, and like,
I mean, hey, two grams of sugar if you're not
if you're diabetic, it's like diet. It's actually pretty good. Okay,
(53:57):
Liquid death get involved with Veterans MX. How about that.
Let me shout you out liquid death right there. I
like liquid death. Actually, I quite love liquid death. I
have it in my house. Stop, Brad, I'll stop right now. Okay,
sending that money.
Speaker 3 (54:10):
On Liquid Death. Man, Let's get a twenty dollars membership.
Speaker 2 (54:13):
I should do it. I should do it donation. And
I got you, I got you, I got you. Don't
you worry about it. I'll get something squared away. I
will do that. Yeah. Just let me get some time
later today and I'll go on your website and figure
out how to do a twenty dollars donation. No problem,
I got you.
Speaker 4 (54:29):
You have the big button up there for donating, and yeah,
it goes even just a little bit, goes a far,
far away, a long way with us, just to keep
our mission moving forward and keeping that therapy community and
accessibility for all our veterans and active duty members perfect.
Speaker 2 (54:49):
And when I see you guys completing this in Kansas,
I'm gonna say my twenty dollars was the tipping iceberg
that completed all of this. Okay, Yes, And I will
have that sense of like ownership and pride of you
doing this. I think that goes a long way too
on the inside. So you know you've been You've been
a wonderful uh uh interview and person to have on
(55:10):
the show and a guest. You know, I want to say, friend,
you know, I want to let my one hundred percent
Peter and I just want to let my my listener
and my viewer know that we just met today, Like
you and I didn't have any I didn't send you
any questions. We just seriously just had a real.
Speaker 3 (55:26):
Link just so we can see.
Speaker 2 (55:28):
Yes, But I was like, no problem, dude, It's like
we just wanted to have a conversation. And I want
to show you that you can have a normal conversation
with somebody and not get at each other's throats. In
this day and age, right, we can actually communicate with
one another another about something common. Right. Uh. You notice
we just said, hey, motocross. That can just bring everybody together. Okay,
(55:48):
So remember that when you look at our military servicemen
and women, they have something all in common that lets
them think about one thing, and that is the US
before the Army, before the Marines, before the coast Guard US.
It says US right there, and so that is that's
the team we're all on here, okay, And to my
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coalition of friends that are around the world, we love
you and we're here for you as well. And so
just you know, look into Veteran Motocross if you're out there.
Speaker 4 (56:19):
You know, actually have other countries that guys from that
have served in other countries. And we always say this,
as long as you're one of our allies, right our group, and.
Speaker 2 (56:32):
If you show yourself, show yourself now step forward.
Speaker 4 (56:41):
But yeah, man, it's all about love and respect for
each other and this world needs a lot more of
that nowadays.
Speaker 2 (56:48):
I agree. I agree, and I think that this is
the perfect way to wind down our show. I've had
you for an hour and captivated our audience with motocross
and your your humbling story of trials and tribulations and
sadness and all in the name of you know, of America.
So thank you. I appreciate that. I know our listener
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does and on behalf of everybody here at soft Rep
Peterlinquist of Veterans MX dot com five oh one c
three looking for any endowment you might want to bestow
upon him, or if you just want to enlist in
the ranks of the Veterans MX for twenty dollars. You
can go donate as a military personnel to help others
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out there achieve a sense of freedom again, okay, because
that's what it is. When I go out snowboarding, I'm
just like, it's me and not dying. My wife follows,
she's not dying. It's just it's us. Trees, trees don't move,
trees don't move. You got to move around the trees,
So be careful out there. And check out our book
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considering joining the military, take a step to the recruiter's
office and just say, hey, how's it going. What can
you do for me? Just say what can you do
for me? Because it's about you at the end of
the day. And that's what makes us the best military
in the world is we're volunteer, Okay, So let's keep
it that way. And if you're on the fence, check
it out and if you have any questions, hit me
up on Instagram. I'm sure that you can reach out
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to Peter at Veteran MX dot com and say hey,
I saw you on soft Rep. I have a question
about your organization, feel free to do so. And thanks
again Peter for being on the show.
Speaker 3 (58:25):
Absolutely, thank you for having me.
Speaker 2 (58:27):
You're welcome pleasure. It's been wonderful. And again I just
want to say thanks to everybody that listens. And this
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next guest runs Veteran MS Foundation. It's a five oh
one C three and his name is Peter Linquist and
welcome to the show. Peter.
Speaker 3 (03:01):
Hey, thanks Rod for having me here.
Speaker 4 (03:02):
It's a pleasure and I'm excited to spread the word
about our foundation and what we do.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
Right. And so this may just be like, where did
you come from? How did you meet Rad? How come
we're talking to you? And you know, well, let's start
off at the beginning real quick. So first of all,
you're a young man, you're in high school. I like
to bring this out of everybody that's on the show.
And at what point in your life did you feel like, oh,
I should swear an oath to protect the Constitution and
(03:30):
fellow Americans and those in need. Right, honestly, that's what
we do. How old were you when you decided to
join the Marine Corps?
Speaker 4 (03:37):
So I was, I believe nineteen years old. I was
a little bit after high school. I was starting my
job and my career and stuff. And then, as everybody knows,
nine to eleven happened, yes, and I did not want
to be one of those guys is sitting on.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
The couch watching what's.
Speaker 4 (04:01):
I felt like we were attacked, and so I made
the decision to join the Marine Corps. And you know,
all the time people think me for my service, but
really it was an honor for me.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
To be able to serve this country. And so that's
that's why I went in.
Speaker 4 (04:23):
There was nine to eleven, and I wasn't putting up with,
you know, with all the bullshit.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
And be a bullied as an American and in that
aspect seeing somebody come and do such a heinous act
on you know, a vulnerable target, so vulnerable, so many
It's not like it was guarded with sam sites, surfaced
air missiles and like, you know, it was an objective
with military troops on top of the roof protecting it
(04:50):
with snipers. Maybe snipers maybe, but nonetheless you get what
I'm saying. It was like, you know, Fitzgerald Canter, Fitzgerald
employees and American Express building next to the build and
that collapsed because it collapsed, and all these people running
down the streets that we watched as you were being
infected with like I'm going to serve you know, all
of a sudden, it's just like this is something that
(05:10):
called you to arms. Now, well, boy, I was in
bed when nine to eleven happened. My dad came up
and woke me and my girlfriend up at the time
my wife now today, and said, hey, turn the TV on.
So we flipped the TV on and we saw the
first smoke stack coming out of the first tower. And
at that point he's like, yeah, look what happened. And
this is about eight something in the morning, and my
mom came upstairs and the next thing I know, boom,
(05:33):
the second one hit. And my dad looked at me,
and he's a former Green Beret and I had just
gotten out of the Air Force medically, and he looked
at me. He's like, we're under attack. That's exactly what
he said. We are under attack. Those words out of
my dad's mouth never ring more truer than stay awake
in church. I was like, Oh, he's for real. It's like,
you know, we just went under attack. And so at
(05:53):
that point you had to feel the same vibe.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (05:56):
And you know, for a lot of people that didn't
live that it experience, they don't understand really how much
that brought everybody as an American together, And you know,
it's sad that we don't see that nowadays.
Speaker 3 (06:11):
I wish we could all be together like we were
on nine to eleven.
Speaker 4 (06:15):
And it's said that it took an attack like that
on us to bring us together. But you know, that's
that's why I joined. That's why I wanted to go
with my brothers and sisters to.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
Be a part of this.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
And So when you went into the Marine Corps, did
you go like for the numbers. I've learned as O
three eleven as an infantryman or a sawgunner, which is
like a sixty oh three thirty thirty thirty thirty thirty.
Speaker 4 (06:42):
So I was actually I was a recruiter's favorite kind
of recruit. I was living in Cincinnati, Ohio. I was
from Canton, Ohio, which is up up north. And I
called the recruiter and can't Ohio. I said, Hey, I'm
packing my bags. I'll be there tomorrow to do whatever
(07:04):
I got to do to get in. And I went
in as an open contract. I told them I don't
care where you put me, just send me.
Speaker 3 (07:13):
I'm ready to go.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
YEP.
Speaker 4 (07:16):
So I went through boot camp I went through SOI.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
I got School of Infantry, right, that's where you went
through School of Inventories.
Speaker 4 (07:25):
SOI, and that's when they told me I was going
to be an three thirty one, which is a machine gunner.
And after SOI, they actually were like, you know we
need LVS operators. Can you're going to Fort leonard Wood,
Missouri for LVS school.
Speaker 3 (07:44):
I'm like, hey, whatever you guys need me to do,
I'm yours.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
What's an LVS Maybe I should know this.
Speaker 3 (07:50):
It's a logistics vehicle system.
Speaker 4 (07:52):
So it's a pretty decent sized vehicle. It's bigger than
like the seven tons and all that, and it's the
steering is done by hydraulics. It's articulates instead of like
it's got like pistons in the back to the old articulate.
And there's all kinds of different attachments that you can
(08:13):
put to the rear that you can missiles from the back.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
You can. It's not a hemmot, No.
Speaker 3 (08:20):
It's not LVS.
Speaker 4 (08:22):
They were called we were called the Dragon Masters, uh
an LVS operator.
Speaker 3 (08:28):
And so I.
Speaker 4 (08:29):
Once I got to done with that, they were like, Okay,
you went through LVS school, now you're gonna be back
to being with the grunts because that's where they needed
me again.
Speaker 3 (08:41):
So again I just went and did. I did what
I was told. I put the lotion on the skin.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
Yes, yes, and uh I am looking at it. It's
kind of a it's an Ochcosh vehicle, yes, right, and
so it does have that front windshield look to it,
which is like slanted. It reminds me of a hammet.
But I can see the attachments on here and uh,
you know, go check it out. Just google Oshkosh LVS
(09:09):
and you can see this machine that uh you know,
Peter was in charge of operating, and uh you can
see why it needed to have the different types of
hydraulics to shift it. It's a it's crazy a vehicle.
Let me see. Well here here it is on my
camera right there for anybody to watch it. If you
can kind of see it right there, there's some lvs'
(09:30):
is very cool. And then you went back to three
eleven grunting with the with the saw or the sixty
and machine gunning machine gun fifty.
Speaker 4 (09:42):
And so from there, I you know, got sent over
to Okinawa, Japan and h O Canal our duty station
was not going getting sent to Iraq because of Korea
of course, and our positioning there. So I went to
Iraq as a volunteer. And I went to Iraq as
(10:06):
a volunteer, and they was called an augment position, so
I didn't have like an actual.
Speaker 3 (10:17):
Group I was with. I kind of got bounced around
to wherever they need.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
Like a medic would. Sometimes the medics are there and
they're like, oh, hey, you're going with this unit. They're like, okay, cool,
I'm a medic. You're like, what do you need me? Oh,
you're going with this group. You're like, okay, cool, I
got the fifty yep, I was.
Speaker 3 (10:33):
I was like a medic, but totally opposite.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
The total opposite the pills you were dealing.
Speaker 3 (10:40):
Yeah, and that was a tough situation mentally.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
And Fallujah are you? Are you a Fallujah in a
four and first wave into Fallujah? Oh, with my friend's dad, Lopez,
he went in with that same group. Uh, he's here
in Utah. One of my employees. His dad was core Fallujah.
Doesn't really ever talk about it. He's very reserved, but
we love him nonetheless. Yeah. Yeah, So you went through
(11:07):
Fallujah literally a hot spot door to door. That was you.
So when I see these camera crews that are like embedded,
you know, with these marines and everybody going through all
of these different buildings. In that first wave, it was
so popular on TV, right, everybody had an embedded combat
(11:28):
press journalist who went through some kind of a boot
camp for war and now they're deployed with kevlar helmet
and body armor on. It says press and when you
push on that press, it doesn't do nothing.
Speaker 3 (11:39):
Yeah, doesn't say. That was easy, that's for sure.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
Yeah, press press, I'm pressing on it. Let's see what
do you do? What's your special function? Press? Press? So
I mean, did you have anybody embedded with you guys?
That was.
Speaker 4 (11:54):
Yeah, Well, I, like I said, I actually got bounced around,
so I wasn't with one unit the whole time in Iraq.
I would actually get put it put wherever they needed me,
which was kind of a tough position because usually I
was going to fill in for somebody who is not
there anymore.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
So yeah, it was you know, my buddy's dad was
also a machine gunner. Yeah, but I know there's a
lot of marines, and there was a lot of marines
inside of Fallujah that were doing their job from a
lot of the different units, right, you guys had so
many that were just all working together. Wow. Man, what
a phase line to be in. You know, you guys
are like, oh, where are you at Felujah? Oh? Well,
(12:33):
what's going on? That's boring? Nothing, Mom, I'm fine. No, No,
we're telling the outskirts. Yeah, uh huh. Sounds about it.
Speaker 3 (12:42):
Sounds about the letters I was sending home. Everything's good here,
just another day at.
Speaker 2 (12:48):
Work and Marine Corps yep. Wow. Well, first of all,
props to you for finding the call to serve. Okay,
today's listener that might be on the fence about joining.
You know, I like to hear this from my guests
who have served, like what was it that tipped you
(13:09):
to go? You know, some are like, hey, I just
wanted to get a Lexus payment. I'm like wait, what,
Like how many seventeen year olds do you know they
had Alexus? And I was like none, and they're like exactly,
And I was like, okay, so there's their reason. And
then others had reasons like you know, oh, hey, you
saw something violently happen to our America and that impacted
you wholly to join not just the military, but the
(13:29):
Marine Corps. All right, now the military. Right, I'm just
gonna say, right, I have so much respect for the
Marine Corps. Growing up an army kid, my dad was
always like, oh, Marines, you know, their uniforms look good
in caskets, you know. And I was like, oh, okay, yeah,
Dad's Army. So I got that same mantra. But as
I've gotten older, and I've met some master guns in
my life, and I've met some other young Marines who
(13:51):
were able to join the army because they were color blind.
But the Marine's like, kumeer, yeah, can you tell this
ten versus this ten? No, you're in, and you're like wait,
So you know, I see the love they gave my buddy,
who has never given anything from other branches, Like they said,
you can't join. All he wanted to do is be
army military police. No, so what does he become three
(14:11):
eleven okay, five foot two, out rocking everybody, breaking his
ankles up those mountains to graduate, and now today he
is a he gets to be the MP part because
now he is like a detective for our Utah Higher
Patrol here nice, so he kind of gets both of
that original I want to be army the Marine Corps
(14:32):
took him in and said you can be infantry here,
and I was like, wow, okay, cool man. You know,
if you're out there and you're feeling a little like,
oh maybe you're color blind and the Army won't take you,
then why don't you look at the Marine Corps see
if they'll take you. Right, go talk to a career
counselor see if it's the best thing for you, because
there's a lot of romance in the military. There's a
lot of you know, the heroics that we hear read
(14:54):
about that are pushed into the movies and the screens
that make us want to go join the military. You know,
once you get there, you might find that, you know,
Fallujah was very active and was very door to door
and friends do not come back. But you know, like
you said, you were there to take over for someone
else who took that same oath that you took, and
you know, thank you. So I just want to say,
(15:15):
if you're out there thinking about joining, go take the
next step and talk to somebody at the career counselors,
at the at the Marine Corps or wherever you're going
to go visit, and just ask them what they can
do for you, because if you don't take the next step,
you'll never know. You'll just be like, oh, maybe maybe
I can't get in, you know, maybe there's no waiver
for me. You just got to ask.
Speaker 4 (15:33):
And also, if I may add, if please going to
join and you do join, think verily, very very highly
of yourself because there is not a lot of people
that are willing to do that, and so if you're
even thinking about it, that's you are an amazing individual.
Speaker 3 (15:54):
And I hats off to you, dude.
Speaker 2 (15:58):
Even my daughter's school right now, she's at University of Oregon,
Go Ducks. But good job, Ohio. But nonetheless, you know,
she was talking to me, She's like, you know, I
don't know about ROTC, and I was like what. I
was like, whoa here, I have like pitch and join
the military. Then my own daughter's like, Dad, I'm thinking
about ROTC. Well, there's a lot of benefits that go
(16:19):
along with getting into that program. Schooling, you know, a direction,
learning how to do things for others, you know, selfless.
Uh yeah, you have to fall in one hundred percent.
You got to fall into the machine. Though. You got
to get into the machine. You got to become a
cog inside the machines, you know, working mechanisms to do that. So,
(16:41):
you know, good luck, Sidney, make your choices. I don't.
I'm not forcing nothing enough of you if she wants to.
You know, her grandfather is a Green Beret. Her my
father in law, her grandpa on that side is a
marine from Vietnam. We call my my dad would always
call him a Remington Raider because he was the type.
He knew how to type, and so they needed somebody
(17:02):
that could type so bad. If you've seen save a
Private Ryan, it's like, just bring this pencil. But you're
doing all this. Yeah, Holy cows. So so how long
did you spend it? Did you just do like a
four or six year plot? Did you go a little longer? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (17:19):
So on my on my secondary at Iraq, I was
injured in the Humbi explosion, which got me a med
step out getting you know, I'm one hundred percent disabled
through the DA and so that kind of ended my
career a lot quick quicker than I planned. But you know,
everything happens for a reason, and and I'm here doing
(17:41):
what I love, which is racing motocross, spending times with
my veterans and helping other veterans.
Speaker 2 (17:48):
You know, and I'm sure that your veteran friends that
come up to you find out that there was an
explosion with your hum V. Is that what you said? Yes, sir,
Do you have more to tell about? Like like the
morning of.
Speaker 4 (18:00):
So we were running q r F, which is quick
Reaction Forces, and when I went out and we knew
we were going into a firefight, that's why they needed us,
and I you know, we just throughout our whole time
there that you know, we ran over twenty different IEDs
and we're just lucky and none of them really messed
(18:23):
anybody up. But this last one the damage. And luckily
for me, I was a fifty machine gunner, so I
was standing out of the turret and that's what saved
my life because out of the three guys in that vehicle,
I was the only one to survive.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
Sorry about that.
Speaker 4 (18:47):
You know, it's it's made me who I am today.
It's my mission.
Speaker 3 (18:53):
You know, I was sent on this earth to help people, and.
Speaker 4 (18:58):
It's made my ability to do that even stronger because
I well, we all struggle, we've all been through trauma.
Doesn't mean you don't even have to military or not.
We all have been through trauma, and that experience allowed
me to understand that.
Speaker 3 (19:21):
We all shared the.
Speaker 4 (19:23):
Same emotions and no matter the trauma, the emotions are
the same, the feelings are the same, and it just
it makes me stronger at what I'm doing now and
pushing forward.
Speaker 2 (19:38):
Would you like to give a shout out to those
that were lost in that vehicle so that they're on
this podcast forever?
Speaker 3 (19:44):
Yeah, win Chester Mounts.
Speaker 4 (19:45):
You guys are always with me and will always be
with me, And it's it's you guys are looking down
on me and making sure that I'm staying on track
doing what I need to do to help others, because
I know that's what they would want two, is to
help others. A lot of selfless, selfless people at the
Marine Corps one hundred percent.
Speaker 2 (20:07):
You know, they may seem so tough okay, and like
so leather ah. You know, they always like to answer
with the word kill ah. You know, you love your baby, kill,
you love your mama kill okay, But yeah, that means
they do love their mama, and that means that they
love their baby and they do have the same red
blood that bleeds through all of us and our human beings.
(20:30):
Marine Corps. Yeah, Marine Corps, yes, you could be. You're
a human. I know, there's a machine again, the cog
and the wheels and all that here that cogs. You're
actually like the blade. You're like the razor. You're like
the stone that sharpens the How would I explain the
Marine Corps man, You're like, you're like death. That's it, okay,
(20:52):
if they're on your porch. My dad would tell me,
we don't. We didn't call seals and we didn't call
anybody else to extract us out of a situation where
they're like trying not to be picked up, that they
are an SF team. In areas they would call in
the Marine Corps because they said, the Marine Corps just
come in and make a lot of noise and just
like you know, and just like and they just get
out from that situation. So they would always call in
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the Marines to like cover them while they got out
whatever it was. That's what he would tell me.
Speaker 4 (21:18):
We're not called we're not called devil dogs.
Speaker 2 (21:21):
Seriously, dude. I mean, I've driven on Barcelona Road at
Pendleton and there's just like this omnious vibe driving there.
You know of why that road's named what it is, yeah,
you know, and what he had to do for the
medal of Honor, and what he had to do to
go back into the to the Marine Corps to continue
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fighting where he finally did it a second time and
finally perished on you know, some god forsaken island to him,
you know, Marine Corps bro and my father in law, Elliott.
You know, he's still alive. He's eighty four, doing good. Yeah,
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so far. I told my wife all the time. I
was like, look at your longevity, look at my dad's
I'll see you later. But uh, you know, let's let's
talk about motocross, okay, because there are a ton of
folks who use this app, like single track app out
here in Utah. My buddy only rides single single roads.
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He doesn't want anything a quad can go on. He
doesn't want anything that another four by wheel can try
to hit him. He just wants straight dirt bike roads.
So he likes to go enduro off road everywhere in
the mountains. Veteran dude. You know, it clears his head.
You know, it's just him his bike, betrayl I.
Speaker 4 (22:40):
I you know, it's it's the only time you can
really actually just shut off everything around you. All you're
paying attention to is what's in front of you. You
have to live, and a lot of veterans need that,
a lot of veterans. I know myself, I struggle for
many years just shutting off everything around me, and so
I raced motocross growing up. It was always been a
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passion in mine. After I was injured in Iraq, I
truthfully didn't think I was going to be able to
get back on the bike again due to a lot
of fiscal injuries. Sure, and once I did, though, it
saved my life. Throttle therapy has saved my life.
Speaker 2 (23:21):
See and around it here at soft rep dot com,
Brandon Webb runs the place. He has this mantra, it's
thrills before pills, you know, so whether he likes to
ski and fly airplanes and surf and skateboard and you know,
just thrills before the pills, right, And so it's like,
you know, when you go to the VA and they're
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telling you, oh, here, let me just prescribe some lithium
for you. Let me just prescribe some you know, of
this stuff, some zole off, whatever the case is, all
these different meds, and you know, I believe in. I
do believe in science, and I do believe in medical
prescriptions for certain things like my cholesterol. I take a
statin from my heart already, Okay, I'm on a pill.
But ninety nine percent of the time I'm either in
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the gym trying to beat up a boxing bag or
trying to get that like life threatening skill down, or
we're snowboarding. My wife and I are in the mountain
snowboarding trying to stay alive right through the trees and
stuff like hardcore and just like my buddy, and like
you riding a motorcycle, you're in the motocross. So that's
a lot more where you have like, oh, I think
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of the nineteen eighty six game where you had to
like excite excite bike. Yeah, that's you. You're excite bike.
You know, You're like.
Speaker 4 (24:36):
It's you know, I used to do the single trails,
and I used to do a lot of just off
road racing through the woods for you know, you go
for an hour with a g NCC series on the
East Coast is what I used to race. And then
after my injury and got back into it, I decided
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I want to get back onto racing the tracks because
actually I was racing GNC out in North Carolina and
wrapped myself around a tree pretty good and realize that
they don't have trees on.
Speaker 2 (25:10):
The tracks, and trees don't move.
Speaker 3 (25:12):
Yeah, so I went back to racing on the tracks.
Speaker 4 (25:15):
And then when i'd moved out to California about eight
years ago and just been racing motocross on all different
kinds of tracks all.
Speaker 3 (25:24):
Up and down the state. Here in Nevada, Arizona.
Speaker 2 (25:27):
It'd be cool to ride it on the beach. I see, like,
you know, videos of people on their motorcycles on the beach,
things like with the wakes coming up yet boom. You know,
I've not experienced that. I'm only like, you know, that
would be cool in Cali.
Speaker 3 (25:40):
Yeah, there's some good spots out here.
Speaker 4 (25:43):
I definitely don't live here for the politics or the
cost of living.
Speaker 2 (25:46):
That's oh yeah, No, I get it. You're there for Hollywood.
Speaker 3 (25:50):
I know.
Speaker 2 (25:50):
I know what it's all about. Yeah, he's just looking
for your star on the Walk of Fame. You're working
at it. We all are. It's okay. Once it's there,
we'll be like it's cool, it's cool. My fans want it.
Speaker 4 (26:02):
Yeah, So I got I got back into riding. And
then when I moved out here, so I was actually
riding a lot with another disabled VET who has had
a lot of time on his hands also, So we
were doing a lot of riding in North Carolina. And
then when I moved out to California, I was still riding.
Had a group of guys I was riding.
Speaker 3 (26:23):
With, but none of them were veterans, and it was different.
Speaker 4 (26:27):
I love being able to share that that moto lingo,
but with that military banter. And once I found the
Veteran MX Foundation and came on board with these guys,
it was a life changing experience.
Speaker 3 (26:43):
Man.
Speaker 2 (26:45):
Now, the Veteran MX Foundation you specifically work with veterans
to get into the motocross and you know, to help
them get better at the skill, whether they're you know,
meeting some type of like an adapt to adapt did system.
Is there adapted writers.
Speaker 4 (27:04):
Better in that next foundation we hote, we host ride days.
We're a nationwide foundation. We right now I think have
like twelve or thirteen hundred members around the nation overseas
and we and everybody that's a part of our foundation
is an owner of the foundation. And you get in
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what you you get out of it what you put in,
meaning that you know, we're constantly raising money and doing
other things. And so one of our big things is
we do ride days where we bring in, you know,
all the vets that are in the area. If you
have new friends, bring them in, and normally another person
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has an extra.
Speaker 2 (27:48):
Bike or something, bring a friend.
Speaker 4 (27:49):
Yeah, And it's really not even so much the riding aspect,
but more about just hanging out in the pits and
sharing our stories and just that camaraderie. But we do
ride days, we host clinics where we'll bring in pro
riders to help us with techniques and getting better on
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the bike. And then we also do a big championship
which I'm actually the director of, and that's out in
mas Kansas at Bar to Bar MX, and that's a
week long event that.
Speaker 3 (28:24):
Is completely free for our veterans.
Speaker 4 (28:28):
We raise enough money where we provide breakfast and dinner,
all the camping fees, race entry fee. We have three
different race entry fees that we pay for, and out
of those race entry fees, we have twenty i think
it's like twenty three, twenty four different classes that are
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military only, so you're on the gate with all military
guys and it's it's a lot of a lot of
snacktok going on there.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
It's like eat my dust, sir.
Speaker 4 (29:03):
And one of the best races we have is called
the Battle of the Branches race, and that's the Marines
against the you know, it's all the different.
Speaker 2 (29:14):
Everybody against the Marines pretty much.
Speaker 5 (29:17):
Well, we won it last year and we plan on
retaining that title, yes, and so yeah, if you want
to come get it. But yeah, that's it's one of
my favorite races just because it's.
Speaker 3 (29:30):
Everybody is out there, no matter your skill set. You know.
We do several gate drops to.
Speaker 4 (29:36):
Make it safe as safe as possible, and it's just
an amazing experience to look up and down these roads
and or.
Speaker 3 (29:48):
Down the gate and see all.
Speaker 4 (29:51):
These different guys from you know, all different type, different
errors in the service and different branches and it's amazing.
And we also with that event team up with another
nonprofit called Motodemption who has the adaptive bikes, have the
roll cage. They're all hand controls, so we get paraplegics
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on there and.
Speaker 2 (30:18):
I like a double amputee can still operate it because
it's been configured. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (30:23):
Absolutely, that's spotters that go around with them.
Speaker 4 (30:27):
So when they're ready to stop, we're off our bikes
ready to catch them, so they're not falling over.
Speaker 2 (30:32):
I love that.
Speaker 3 (30:33):
And I'll tell you what, man like, when those guys
get on.
Speaker 4 (30:37):
That bike for the first time, and even if they're
just going around the field and they come back to
the pits, the tears of happiness in their eyes. There
is nothing like that. Those guys think about it. They
can't go that fast in the wheelchair.
Speaker 2 (30:54):
No, I mean they want that to be their wheelchair.
They're like, bro, yeah, bro, bro, bro, bro, bro, can
get me through the VA so quick. Those long tunnels done.
Speaker 3 (31:05):
So.
Speaker 4 (31:05):
A funny thing is we actually built a sidecar one
of the dirt bikes and we debuted it at I
want to say, is in Tampa Bay for the Supercross
that they hosted out there, and the veteran that came
out was looking at the sidecar, looking at the bike.
Speaker 3 (31:26):
He was like, I don't want to be in the sidecar.
I want to ride the bike. Yeah, And we told him, hey,
get on the bike, let's do this.
Speaker 4 (31:34):
And it was awesome, man Like, just the like again,
just the happiness and everything that comes out of it.
Speaker 3 (31:42):
It makes everything so worth it.
Speaker 2 (31:45):
I think we should like Key in Black Rifle Coffee
right about now, and like some sponsorships and like Travis Pastrana,
because what you're talking to me, I just, for some
reason envision a ramp at the end of the jump
that this guy's riding a motorcycle with a sidecar on,
like nitrol circus or something just like going off of it.
That's the first thing I think of. And then I
think of my buddy in California who's a part of
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the Sidecar Club, and he has like the vintage style
World War Two looking sidecar motorcycle. And there's a whole
bunch of them that are in so Cow that are
the Sidecar Club, And so they go driving around on
that same type of thing, you know, like what you're saying.
They get together, they go drive their side cars. He
has this dog in his sidecar with the goggles. He
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has like a like a bulldog, just tongue hanging out.
Speaker 3 (32:33):
I have three of them minutes because they are the
Marine Corps mask guy, you know what I mean?
Speaker 2 (32:38):
Yeah, I do know.
Speaker 3 (32:39):
And they snore in part just like any.
Speaker 2 (32:41):
Other Marine I know, their tongues exactly. It's like, what
are you gonna go eat what anything you want, right, dude,
that's awesome.
Speaker 3 (32:53):
What we do is awesome.
Speaker 2 (32:55):
You know.
Speaker 4 (32:55):
We're again about the camaraderie being able to share those
stories together, because when you're out doing something like this
and you come together like that, it really does allow
you to maybe talk about something you've been holding in
for a long time. And now you're around all these
guys that share that passion for motocross but also have
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that military banter and understand because as a lot of
that's we'll tell you, nobody understands and we can't expect
any civilian to understand what.
Speaker 3 (33:33):
We go through.
Speaker 4 (33:35):
We live a totally different life than those that don't serve,
and we carry a lot of that with us throughout
our lives, when the good and the bad, and so
it's really important to be able to have a group
that you can't share something that may be bothering you
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and it's just you know, it's it's that's what we do.
Speaker 2 (34:04):
No, I love it. And who are you looking for
to reach out to? You? You know, like, what's that typical? Hey?
Uh this you know veterans mx I motocross. I'm a veteran,
you know, forty percent disability or maybe no disability. Just
I'm a veteran. You know what, what's the path for them? What?
Who are you looking for? Who comes to you?
Speaker 3 (34:25):
So not just not just veterans.
Speaker 4 (34:28):
We have active duty members that are there, you know,
part of.
Speaker 3 (34:31):
Our foundation and members of ours.
Speaker 4 (34:34):
And you know, anybody, anybody that if you're even interested
in and getting on a bike and seeing what it
does for you, hit us up on Veteran mx dot com.
Speaker 3 (34:49):
Come on out.
Speaker 4 (34:50):
We'll get you to h you know, try to set
you up with a local event that we have going
on again because we have we have bride days and
clinics all over the nation.
Speaker 3 (35:01):
Come out to Kansas for the week. Well, you know,
just because.
Speaker 4 (35:04):
You're not on a bike and just want to hang
out with us, come out. We'll provide, you know, a
place for a safe environment for you to come and
just be with other veterans that get it.
Speaker 2 (35:18):
Yeah, one hundred percent, you know, and boy, what veteran
All of a sudden, I'm just thinking of Rambo okay
on his motorcycle and Rambo First Blood Part one, Okay,
where he's like getting away from the sheriff on his
Honda going up the rocks on the mountain. I mean,
like you know, I mean veterans on motorcycles. There's one
right there, okay, Rambo, let's go okay. Another veteran a
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motorcycle right here, Peter aka Rambo, let's go okay. You
guys are all rambos, right, you all encompass that to me,
you know. And the name is for men and women, okay,
because there's women Rambos, men Rambos. I just see them
all just hardcore and you got ladies riding.
Speaker 4 (35:59):
We have a couple of female veterans that are racers
and our group and I can't beat them, right, they.
Speaker 3 (36:08):
Are hardcore man.
Speaker 4 (36:09):
So I you know, no matter what you are, who
you are, if you're a veteran, come out be a
part of.
Speaker 3 (36:18):
This because it's just it's amazing.
Speaker 2 (36:20):
It's it's so what are you writing like a Yamaha
for fifty or five hundred or what? What are you writing?
What do you do? Two fifty Kawasaki water cool green?
What do you write?
Speaker 3 (36:31):
So I'm part of the green machine.
Speaker 4 (36:34):
I got Kawasaki four fifties that I rip, looking someday
to maybe get a stark bar because the that's the
do electric bikes not that I would ever sell my
gas bikes.
Speaker 3 (36:47):
I love the smell of the exhaust. I love the
vibration of them.
Speaker 4 (36:50):
Sure, but those electric bikes nowadays, the torque on those,
you you know, you just rip it.
Speaker 3 (36:58):
You're heading one hundred and he put over that jump man.
Speaker 2 (37:02):
Oh, immediately, see my buddy that does ride a lot
of trails out here. He has a talaria, you know,
like the electric bike that's like almost a motorcycle. But
then another colleague of mine has what you're talking about,
and that's his commuter and yeah, yeah, yeah, he writes
to work on it all the time. It's licensed and
all that. He's got his plate and he wears his helmet.
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Thank you. But when he leaves, he's just like, You're
like hello, Yeah, Like I thought loud pipes save lives.
I thought I was supposed to hear the blah blah blah
blah blah blah blah next to my car, so I
don't run you over. But you're just like, just so
the quietest sound you could possibly think of, and he's
just gone into traffic.
Speaker 3 (37:40):
Yeah, I'm an engine guy.
Speaker 4 (37:42):
I actually even have a check oh you check engine
light tattoo on my wrist, and that's to help me
regulate myself and my emotions when my PTSD might be
getting a little blared up and I just need to
check myself. You know.
Speaker 2 (37:57):
I always to say I don't have a check engine light,
so I have to go get my heart checked on
my own. It's like no one's telling me. And here
that's why I'm even on that that pill I was
telling you about, because I want to get pre checked
because nothing's like dinging on me. I don't got a
washer fluid empty, I don't got blinker fluid empty, I
don't have a check engine light on my wrist.
Speaker 3 (38:17):
I'll definitely be going.
Speaker 2 (38:19):
Yo, bro, dude, it would be cool if it was
made with that glow in the dark, right, yeah, and
you can like pick it. Maybe I can do that
a little later. You could have to go over it.
You just have to go over it, right, and then
you can like put the UV light over it. You're like, oh, yeah,
that's what's up, bro. You're so cool, dude. And so
your goal is just to make others feel comfortable in
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their own skin doing something that they may not be
used to doing, or that they loved to do that
they stopped doing because maybe they did get injured, maybe
they did think like, oh, I got to stop riding
my motorcycle because you know, I don't want to hurt
myself because my job requires me to be healthy. But
I'm out now, or you know all these different things. Uh,
you're just there to make sure they have a good time.
Speaker 4 (39:02):
Yeah, And our our three main peers of the our
pillars of the foundation is therapy, community, and accessibility. And
as a member of our foundation, we make sure accessibility
is a big thing. So we have a ton of
sponsors throughout the motocross industry to help you.
Speaker 3 (39:22):
You know, motocross is not a cheap sport, so if
we if we can help you.
Speaker 4 (39:29):
Make it more feasible than we you know, we have
tons of discount codes with other with all kinds of
different companies, Fly Racing, sixty Helmets, Hintson, Clutch Hintson is
like fifty percent off right there. So like there's we
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try to make it accessible for everybody.
Speaker 3 (39:53):
And that's one.
Speaker 4 (39:53):
Thing we do at the championship is we actually rent.
And this is the championship out in Maze, Kansas. We
you rant twenty two campers from McConnell Air Force, base
and bring them out there to house guys that don't
have a camper or sleeping in its head and don't
want to do that or whatever. So it's it's really
about the community, the therapy and accessibility.
Speaker 2 (40:17):
That's really cool, bro. And you know I'm on your
I'm on your app right now or on the website.
You know, it's really easy to thumb scroll and you
know it's almost like you thought about it being on
a phone as well. So I mean, you know, it
says that's the thing, Hello, what happened to the typewriter?
You know? And it's just and what I like. It
probably says it in reverse here because I'm backwards, but
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it says that others may ride, and that right there
just says a lot. You know. You know, the Pair
of Rescue has that others may live as a mantra.
You know, you guys have that others may ride as
a mantra. A Veteran Motocross Foundation empowers veterans struggling with
the physical and mental scars of service to leverage the
benefits of motocross. And uh let me let me just
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read the y US. At Veteran Motocross Foundation, we offer
a unique blend of lifestyle, enrichment and recovery for veterans.
Through the exhilaration of motocross, we empower veterans to overcome
physical and mental challenges that they may face. Our expert
instructors guide veterans through the process of learning a new skill,
fostering discipline, resilience, and healing. Join us to discover the
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transformative power of motocross today, and you can just go
hit the about us on your web page, Community Therapy, Accessibility,
the gallery. I think that's you. That is you in
the gallery, bro, And you know there's memberships and benefits,
and you know I would encourage you to go check
out VETERANMX dot com. Veteran MX. I say it like
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I'm in Utah veteran. It's veteran MX dot com right
And I did it while I'm just sitting here talking
with Peter. So you can easily while you're listening right now,
just say, oh, let me open a new window and
just check it out while we're while you're listening to
the show. I mean really, and you might be interested
in And again, like he said, everybody from all walks
of life can participate in this. Let's say that you
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had asthma as a young man and you could never join,
but you have, you would have been the best, but
you have asthma, but no one let you. And then
there's this guy that's an empty shell. Next year, you're like,
how did you get here? I don't rather have the
kid with asthma. Okay, So it's like that kid with
asthma can still help participate in your culture, right, he
could still like be like on the on the the
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course as like safety or something like that, Right, I
mean you're looking for.
Speaker 3 (42:33):
We're always looking for for help and volunteers.
Speaker 4 (42:37):
You know, it's anybody any help, any kind.
Speaker 3 (42:43):
Of support is support. And yes, that's what we appreciate.
Speaker 4 (42:47):
We you know, we're we're just trying out there, trying
to have a good time and bring some happiness. Put
some smiles on some guy's face or girl's face that
really deserved to smile.
Speaker 3 (42:58):
Man.
Speaker 2 (42:59):
And my friend is that kid who had asthma who
wanted to join the military, And they were like, you
got asthma, but you would never think he had asthma
with the way he operates in his daily life. You're like,
he could totally be in the military. Dude, but there's
this like, you know thing I'm just saying, so we
just want to include everyone, and he would be that
exact person who I'm thinking of, who'd be like, Oh,
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there's a group that needs some assistance, where can I
go help out at you know that boy scout mentality
And so, boy, bro, the Marine Corps bleeds through you.
I feel it. And you know you got three bulldogs.
That's even doper and you know your motocross ness. Can
I ask you just to kind of piggyback on what
(43:41):
you were saying about your injury. You said you had
to overcome your injury to ride. What was your injury
that you sustained in that hum or that vehicle?
Speaker 4 (43:51):
So obviously my whole back's messed up, hips feet, I've
had several surgeries on ankles, reconstructive surgery, stuff like that,
but probably one of the biggest ones was my TBI
brain injury, and that I've kind of had to relearn
how to do a lot of different things and that's
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been a big one.
Speaker 3 (44:15):
But also PTSD, you.
Speaker 4 (44:17):
Know what I mean, like just just not wanting to PTSDs.
Speaker 3 (44:24):
It can really just overtake your life.
Speaker 4 (44:28):
There was you know, years that went by that I
didn't get off my couch. I would sleep all day,
I would be on guard all night. Like it's the
mental health is just as damaging and important as your
physical health. And twenty years later, I'm still doing the
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work to keep my mental health there. I actually last
about a week ago.
Speaker 3 (44:58):
For two weeks.
Speaker 4 (44:59):
I spent two weeks in a program called Operation Men
that's through the Wounded Warrior Project.
Speaker 3 (45:06):
Down at U c l A. Go Bruins. And but
it came to a point where you know, I needed to.
Speaker 4 (45:18):
It's it's easy, easier to help others than it is
to help yourself. Yeah, but isn't it not taking care
of yourself, you can't really help others. So I had
to take some time away and go put myself in check.
And I'm glad I did because now I'm back here
rocking and rolling and ready to make a difference in
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this world.
Speaker 2 (45:41):
That's right, dude, And you you're a giver, and that's
what you're kind of saying. It's hard to be someone
who wants to take something when you're such a giver. So, like,
I use this analogy all the time, and it's when
you get on the plane and they say, put your
mask on you first, and they then help the person
or the kid next to you, because you do no
good without you your own oxygen on, and you know,
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and so you know you want to fix everybody, but
you need to have it on too, right, Your oxygen
needs to be on. So as a giver myself, I
feel i'm a very much like, oh, I'm good, here,
you can have my water. I'm good. No, it's good.
I should probably have some of that water.
Speaker 3 (46:16):
Yeah, it's a.
Speaker 4 (46:18):
Lot of people are, you know, especially service members, because
that's one of the big reasons we join is we
want to help others and we want to be able
to protect others. And yeah, it's it's again like you've
got to make sure you're taking care of yourself.
Speaker 3 (46:37):
But I also.
Speaker 4 (46:38):
Wanted to add with our event in Kansas, and that
is in September. It's September fourteenth through the twenty first.
Not only is it open to veterans, veterans and active military,
let's just say military. From Monday through.
Speaker 3 (46:55):
Thursday, it's military only.
Speaker 4 (46:58):
But if you want to come out and support in
some kind of way, help us out as a civilian.
Speaker 3 (47:03):
We're always looking for help.
Speaker 2 (47:04):
Photographers, maybe somebody that could take a snappy picture of
these vets as they're busting yeah dirt, big whips. Yeah,
I'm saying, you know. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (47:16):
On Thursday evening they open it up to the public
and then so we race Friday, Saturday, and Sunday.
Speaker 3 (47:24):
We have a class for everybody.
Speaker 4 (47:27):
And not only are we doing our racing, but this
event is in conjunction with the Kansas State Motocross Championship,
so you can anybody can come and race that race,
and not just race that race, but really enjoy seeing
what we're doing as veterans get to see the adaptive
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guys out with one leg probably yeah, vendors, all that stuff.
And I tell you a quick story, real quick.
Speaker 3 (47:58):
I was, yeah, please, I was racing with one of.
Speaker 4 (48:00):
My adaptive guys chants clearly, and we were going over
a jump.
Speaker 3 (48:06):
He's got a prosthetic.
Speaker 2 (48:07):
Leg, oh boy, And we.
Speaker 4 (48:09):
Were going over a jump, this is in a race,
and I look over and his leg came off and
so he wrecked when he landed because he's, you know,
trying to.
Speaker 3 (48:20):
Balance on only one leg.
Speaker 4 (48:23):
And I come around the turn like I start to
stop because I'm like, do I stop and help him out?
Like I keep going, We're in a race, and he's.
Speaker 3 (48:31):
Like, oh, go go.
Speaker 4 (48:35):
And then next I see him hopping, like, you know,
hopping around, grab his leg.
Speaker 3 (48:39):
He put it back on. But it's just it's such
an amazing event. It's so much fun.
Speaker 4 (48:44):
It's it's just this whole foundation has just brought so
much joy to me, not only to help myself because
of all the guys and girls that are a part
of it, but to be able to help others too,
Like it's it's it's amazing.
Speaker 2 (49:01):
That's awesome. I love that that story. I love the
fact that in my mind I just see his leg
kind of like probably like up there with him, you know,
like he's like looking over, It's like is that my leg?
You're like, is that your leg?
Speaker 3 (49:14):
Is not expecting that? Like I was like, oh shit,
his leg just fell off, dude.
Speaker 2 (49:19):
I mean you know, and sometimes those legs have like
to be charged or else they like will stiffen up
and then they're walking like the pirate all the time.
It doesn't have that kink in it, so bro and
I could only imagine what a prosthetic would have to
be like for motocross. It it's got to be a
little bit more like carbon fiber industrial.
Speaker 4 (49:37):
I don't know if he's got like a specific one.
Speaker 2 (49:40):
For motocross now he does, yeah, he should.
Speaker 3 (49:46):
But again we have we teamed up with Moto Damption.
Speaker 4 (49:49):
They're they're an awesome nonprofit also that have the adaptive bikes.
Speaker 3 (49:53):
They they come out to Kansas.
Speaker 4 (49:55):
We do clinics with those guys also, and it just
to see all all these people coming together for one
big cause and that's just to put happiness into others lines.
Speaker 2 (50:09):
I love it. And if you want to experience the
Veteran MX way, you can visit the website at Veteran
ms dot com and you can learn all about the
Kansas Ride that's going down in September, and you can
you know, reach out through email and say hey, I'm
in Kansas a big Chiefs fan or Royals fan or
(50:30):
whatever's in Kansas.
Speaker 3 (50:32):
You know, start September event.
Speaker 4 (50:34):
We've got this September that go on throughout the you know,
throughout the year.
Speaker 3 (50:40):
We're set up.
Speaker 4 (50:41):
We have a boost set up at all the pro
races for Supercross and outdoor series.
Speaker 3 (50:46):
So if you're at one of those races.
Speaker 4 (50:48):
Come find our booth either in vendor row or down
in the pits and come say hi and.
Speaker 2 (50:54):
Let me bring this up. Now? Is there I think
I saw like a member like ranking, like you can
join as a member for like twenty dollars or there's
like a fee to be a member, like anybody can
kind of be a member and support Veterans MX.
Speaker 4 (51:07):
Right, So the way it works is members are going
to be military only, okay, and that's that membership. That
twenty dollars is to allow us to be able to
keep our mission going without relying on a lot of donations.
So if you're a civilian donating, is that's what we need.
Speaker 3 (51:32):
That's how we keep our mission.
Speaker 2 (51:34):
An endowment, bro, you need an endowment to come your
way and be like here, this should help keep you
going for three to five years.
Speaker 3 (51:40):
That would be That would be awesome.
Speaker 2 (51:42):
And if there's someone out there that can write up
an endowment for him for Veterans MX, just let him
know that you did it because of soft REP and
this conversation and you heard it here and you're like, hey,
you know what, you guys, this was really moving me.
And I have money that I have to get rid
of because of taxes and five so it's I'm just
(52:03):
saying for everybody, either pay it off to the man,
or you can give it and be the man. Okay,
So there is a way that you know you're still
spending it even though it's got to go somewhere. So
you either spend it in a place where you want
it to go, or it's gonna get taken from you exactay,
because you have to file all that at the end
of the year. So I'm just I'm plugging you for that.
You're not doing it. You didn't say that. That's me.
(52:24):
This is Rad saying it. Okay, that Rad's a rat. Dude,
that's dude, that's what You're a radical datical? How about that?
Speaker 4 (52:30):
Huh, that's hilarious.
Speaker 2 (52:34):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (52:34):
So but we we do do a membership fee, and
that's twenty It's twenty dollars a year.
Speaker 3 (52:39):
For the VET to pay or the active duty guide
to pay.
Speaker 4 (52:42):
But I'll tell you what, with all the discount codes
we have, you're gonna need a new pair of boots,
you're gonna need a new helmet, you're gonna need you
buy one thing, and that twenty dollars is already paid
for itself. So yeah, it's twenty dollars out of the
vetter in his pocket. But you use any of our services,
(53:04):
and believe me, it's you get it's well worth the
twenty dollars.
Speaker 2 (53:08):
And it's like, how many veterans out there buy bottled water?
Just stop buying bottled water and put twenty bucks into
the Veterans MX and then go back to buying your
bottled water. Just, you know, hold off on that. You
got water in the tap, you can drink out of
the tap. Drink the water out of the tap. You
don't need razor water. You don't need it anymore. Calm down,
it's okay, it's okay.
Speaker 3 (53:28):
Now they have the water and the beer. Looking can
liquid death or something and you're like, will you drinking?
Speaker 2 (53:34):
Man?
Speaker 3 (53:34):
Drinking and driving?
Speaker 2 (53:35):
And you're like no, it's what it tastes like a
coarse life, but it doesn't have any alcohol. I just
don't understand. They got root beer. Now I have root
beer and Doctor Death, which is supposed to be their
version of the doctor version of the pepper, and like,
I mean, hey, two grams of sugar if you're not
if you're diabetic, it's like diet. It's actually pretty good. Okay,
(53:57):
Liquid death get involved with Veterans MX. How about that.
Let me shout you out liquid death right there. I
like liquid death. Actually, I quite love liquid death. I
have it in my house. Stop, Brad, I'll stop right now. Okay,
sending that money.
Speaker 3 (54:10):
On Liquid Death. Man, Let's get a twenty dollars membership.
Speaker 2 (54:13):
I should do it. I should do it donation. And
I got you, I got you, I got you. Don't
you worry about it. I'll get something squared away. I
will do that. Yeah. Just let me get some time
later today and I'll go on your website and figure
out how to do a twenty dollars donation. No problem,
I got you.
Speaker 4 (54:29):
You have the big button up there for donating, and yeah,
it goes even just a little bit, goes a far,
far away, a long way with us, just to keep
our mission moving forward and keeping that therapy community and
accessibility for all our veterans and active duty members perfect.
Speaker 2 (54:49):
And when I see you guys completing this in Kansas,
I'm gonna say my twenty dollars was the tipping iceberg
that completed all of this. Okay, Yes, And I will
have that sense of like ownership and pride of you
doing this. I think that goes a long way too
on the inside. So you know you've been You've been
a wonderful uh uh interview and person to have on
(55:10):
the show and a guest. You know, I want to say, friend,
you know, I want to let my one hundred percent
Peter and I just want to let my my listener
and my viewer know that we just met today, Like
you and I didn't have any I didn't send you
any questions. We just seriously just had a real.
Speaker 3 (55:26):
Link just so we can see.
Speaker 2 (55:28):
Yes, But I was like, no problem, dude, It's like
we just wanted to have a conversation. And I want
to show you that you can have a normal conversation
with somebody and not get at each other's throats. In
this day and age, right, we can actually communicate with
one another another about something common. Right. Uh. You notice
we just said, hey, motocross. That can just bring everybody together. Okay,
(55:48):
So remember that when you look at our military servicemen
and women, they have something all in common that lets
them think about one thing, and that is the US
before the Army, before the Marines, before the coast Guard US.
It says US right there, and so that is that's
the team we're all on here, okay, And to my
(56:09):
coalition of friends that are around the world, we love
you and we're here for you as well. And so
just you know, look into Veteran Motocross if you're out there.
Speaker 4 (56:19):
You know, actually have other countries that guys from that
have served in other countries. And we always say this,
as long as you're one of our allies, right our group, and.
Speaker 2 (56:32):
If you show yourself, show yourself now step forward.
Speaker 4 (56:41):
But yeah, man, it's all about love and respect for
each other and this world needs a lot more of
that nowadays.
Speaker 2 (56:48):
I agree. I agree, and I think that this is
the perfect way to wind down our show. I've had
you for an hour and captivated our audience with motocross
and your your humbling story of trials and tribulations and
sadness and all in the name of you know, of America.
So thank you. I appreciate that. I know our listener
(57:10):
does and on behalf of everybody here at soft Rep
Peterlinquist of Veterans MX dot com five oh one c
three looking for any endowment you might want to bestow
upon him, or if you just want to enlist in
the ranks of the Veterans MX for twenty dollars. You
can go donate as a military personnel to help others
(57:31):
out there achieve a sense of freedom again, okay, because
that's what it is. When I go out snowboarding, I'm
just like, it's me and not dying. My wife follows,
she's not dying. It's just it's us. Trees, trees don't move,
trees don't move. You got to move around the trees,
So be careful out there. And check out our book
club at soft rep dot com, Forward Slash Book, hyphen Club,
(57:54):
check out the merch store and please, again, if you're
considering joining the military, take a step to the recruiter's
office and just say, hey, how's it going. What can
you do for me? Just say what can you do
for me? Because it's about you at the end of
the day. And that's what makes us the best military
in the world is we're volunteer, Okay, So let's keep
it that way. And if you're on the fence, check
it out and if you have any questions, hit me
up on Instagram. I'm sure that you can reach out
(58:16):
to Peter at Veteran MX dot com and say hey,
I saw you on soft Rep. I have a question
about your organization, feel free to do so. And thanks
again Peter for being on the show.
Speaker 3 (58:25):
Absolutely, thank you for having me.
Speaker 2 (58:27):
You're welcome pleasure. It's been wonderful. And again I just
want to say thanks to everybody that listens. And this
is Rad saying peace.
Speaker 1 (58:50):
You've been listening to self. Rep.
Speaker 2 (58:52):
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