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Speaker 1 (00:00):
I feel like there's been a couple that kind of
have a usurped Monster. You remember Monster that was That was
like twenty years ago. That was like dawn of the Internet.
It's definitely I'm looking at it, Monster dot com. It's real.
It's still it's still a thing. Look at that.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
You're still using it. It's telling me to upload my resume.
Surely that's safe.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
I did my first crossway workout in about eight years. Yeah,
seven or eight years. Nice. You know, you need motivation.
You'd kick in a pan. Sometimes you need somebody to
tell you, no, get up, keep going, keep going, go harder,
try harder.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
Yeah, you need David Goggin standing right behind it to
the left, no yelling at you. Don't know who that is,
but David Goggin, No, no, don't look it up. Then
he might yell at you.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
I like it. Yeah, but anyway, I try it really
hard to do what I can, you know, stir things
up and conjure up some motivation and do my own
like you know, work workouts and stuff. It's just not working.
Sometimes you just need somebody that's in your face. This
is why people should join the military. You know. Finland
has a military situation where you like, every male over
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the age of eighteen has to serve like six months
or do like basic like military training or whatever. Would
you be in support of that that everybody has to
do it, every male over the age of eighteen that
is physically capable.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
Yeah, oh, I can tell you don't do it right
now because you know what everyone would say.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
Forget about that. I'm talking about just generally. I know,
but that's the first thing that jumped in. I know,
but I'm talking generally. I'm just like Finland is doing this.
Remember Laurie Markin in the NBA player, Yeah, a really
great NBA player, Yet it's been the off season doing
his military stuff.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
He did.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
Yeah, look it up. That's a little aggressive what he's ad.
He's finish, He's finished.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
They did like, Oh they can do it, and we think, oh,
it's in that adorable if we did that, you know
what everyone say. I'm just saying, this is what I'm like,
you know how different our mentality as a country would
be if that's something we instilled in our people. NPR
would do like a five hundred page report on how
the the twenty twenties in America is exactly like the
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nineteen twenties in Germany. That's what it would happen if
that happened to Oh stop, it's exactly what would happen.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
Dude. We had a draft for Vietnam, like sixty five
years ago, six sixty years, sixty years, fifty five years,
fifty five years ago, fifty five years ago. That's not
that long ago. It was a draft, you and me.
We had to be ready to be on the.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
Call, you know what I mean, just like twentieth century
early twentieth century Germany. Yeah, right there, there you go exactly.
Yeah right, I heard they toast back then too.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
I had something. Is that right? That's right? Is that right? Okay, well,
well this is what I'm saying. It's just like, you know,
sometimes I need a kick in the shorts from somebody.
And trust me, this guy, you know, the shout out
to justin the coach of there at crossfed Hydro free
uh free shout out. My wife's been going there for
a while. And you want to know something, it uh
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kicked my kicked my buttocks my cardio because remember I
got sick like a month ago. You said buttocks kind
of like uh for a jump. Yeah, I point uh
you remember you remember when I got the I got sick.
I was like an upper respiratory thing. Yeah, and it
kind of just drug on for a while. Yeah yeah. Yeah.
So like this is the first like real hard work
that I've done physically, and and it just like burned
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me up on the like like your lungs here, get
your lungs like burning up to a point where you
just got to like hawk some loogis to like get
out whatever, Like have you run? Have you gone on
a run lately? And you're just like, oh man, I.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
Just man, I really should And I know that's what
would happen. It'd be a rough thing for me.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
Yeah, but it's just like you know, uh he told
me this after I got done with the work. I
was just like, the first one's always the hardest one,
right if you keep coming back, theoretically it should be
getting easier and he's still working hard, but that doesn't
you know, you know what I mean. Yeah, So I
got I got a couple of things here. Number one.
It was it was good and everything, and I'm really
happy about it. But it got me to thinking the
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discipline that we're missing in our country and how important
it may be if somebody who just wanted to like
instill that level of discipline in a young person, And
if we did that and everybody had to do it,
then what would our country be like.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
If everyone was doing CrossFit no mandatory, no, not CrossFit no,
but like military, like a military exercises.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
Like I don't think this is something you should keep
bringing up. Why not, because it's dangerous.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
You're gonna get You're gonna get a giant piece written
in the rolling stone all about you.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
That would be great, that'd be great for them, But
it's not gonna be good for you. It's not gonna
be good. Just trust it. It's good for the brand.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
I'm saying, Wait until there's like a really soft and
cozy Subaru driving dem in the office again, and then
you can do it and then it's safe and it's
fun and it's and it's and it's and it's a
good look. But right now you want to do that
right now, I'm not I'm not how you get an
oracle written about you at at NPR dot com.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
I'm just saying, and if they want to give me
free publicity, I'll take it. I'm just saying I read
about these countries like Finland, for instance, that they can
get away with it. Though I don't care if they
can get away with it. This is a country that
many people believe, you know, like, oh, the Scandinavians, they
are very socialists in the way that they operate with
their economies. It's very expensive to live there, and that
would be correct. But guess what else they had. Every
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male over the age of eighteen has to serve like
at least a few months doing military service.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
And please tell me how that is not like literal
fascism right there? What are you talking about?
Speaker 1 (05:34):
It's just literally, if anything were to happen in Finland,
being a smaller nation, they're gonna need numbers, and you're
gonna just like pluck people who have absolutely no understanding
of how the military operates. All I'm saying. I'm just saying,
maybe it wouldn't be bad for kids to be in
JROTC when they're in high school and understand what discipline means.
That's all I'm saying, regulated and forced? What does that mean?
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Not right now?
Speaker 2 (05:58):
If Mary Ann Williamson was in the office, then people
will be like, oh, that's adorable.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
Oh I'm saying, I don't even care who's in.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
Office, just saying it's a bad look.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
Right now, Joe says, tell your producer, not all SUPERU
drivers are Democrats.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
Oh you know, I'll stop saying that. I actually I
drive a suber Us sometimes it's nice. It's a nice car.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
So why are you throwing super run? I don't know,
it just.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
Rolls off the tongue. You know what, I'm gonna switch
it up to a smart car?
Speaker 1 (06:22):
How about that?
Speaker 4 (06:23):
No?
Speaker 1 (06:23):
Because no cars? No, you never know who might be
listening and maybe want to advertise on our radio station.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
Oh you know what, You're right, a lot of people
drive subar Us. That was a swing and a miss
for me.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
It's a swinging a miss for you to not agree
with me that it wouldn't It would behoove our society
to have some sort of discipline just kind of built in,
you know, into our society. And I'm just saying, if
other countries can do it, why can't we? You know
how many? Like like a Catholic, you go through confirmation, right,
like you get baptized when you're a kid, you go
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you go through confirmation. You've heard of that, right, that's
supposed to instill something you as a as a human.
You know what college is like. You know, college is
post saying instill something in you. All I'm saying is
we can just add a little appendage of like, this
is what being a disciplined, hard working individual does, and
this is what the military how it operates. You don't
have to you don't have to like join full time
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if you don't want to. That's not what we're here for.
But we're just saying that this is we want a
healthy and active and loyal people who want to see
our country do well, regardless of their political ideologies or backgrounds.
And if you are a healthy, able bodied, eighteen plus
year old male and potentially female who wants to participate,
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I think it makes sense that you would have the
responsibility to go through some sort of JROTC style exercises
when you have the opportunity to do so. That may
make you a more disciplined individual as you get older.
I'll be honest with you, I'm I'm not generally very
disciplined when it comes to stuff like that. I have
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to get a coach. For instance, in CrossFit, as an
analogy to say we did a burpie part of the
workout today, those suck. I don't know if you've done
a burpie lately, but those suck and I you know,
sometimes they like to lay on the ground for a
second to catch my breath. Oh he was on me,
he saw me. He's like, no, get up, it's not
a burpie. If here's laying there, you gotta go down.
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You gotta get up, like right away. That's the whole point.
So it was good to get that little pride right,
like a little push. If that's instilled in you at
a younger age, if we instill that in the youth
of America, and not like the youth like the twelve
year olds, but like the youth of like the twenty
one to twenty two year olds.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
You better stop it. You better stop it. You need
to stop it. You need to turn around right now.
We need to have a thirty second PSA and we
need to have one of those you know what we
need is we need one of those things with like
the guy who talks really fast and it's kind of
quite a little bit, but it's like these dots that
represent this show, they haven't talked with these thoughts that
have happened, These thoughts have not been purely thought out
and do not mean they're half baked and trying. We're
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not trying to make any analogies do any different times
of history that maybe people could if you was and
end up getting like a five hundred paper.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
You're the only one to say that. You're the only
one drawing your line to that specific society, your face
on Mother Jones later today.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
I'm just telling you, you watch it, buddy, You watch it
or that's gonna happen.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
You're not. No, your future's in your hands right now.
All I'm saying is it would be helpful, I think
to our society if we instilled something like that standardize.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
The youth of America. You're killing Donald's youth. Is that
what you're saying here? No, see you better stop it.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
No, that's not what I meant. I didn't mean it
like that. I'm just saying young people, able body people
that have eye energy, it needs stuff to do. You know,
Like they get to be in recess for a while.
I'm just saying, once they get to be an adult,
why don't we, like, you know, have them do some
structured exercises and drills. You know, they had ress.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
That's a good point recess Maybe we should we rethink
that that's kind of fascist if you think about it.
Speaker 1 (09:53):
Yeah, you're losing people now. The kids need somewhere to
I was at the airport in Saint Petersburg. Did you
know that they have a play place in the airport?
Speaker 5 (10:01):
Really?
Speaker 1 (10:02):
Yeah, it's a small airport. It's like you got a kid,
there's a little area they just screwed around and try
to get some of that energy before they get on
a plane. Nice. That makes sense, doesn't it? It does?
All right, we'll take calls four roh two, five to five,
eight eleventon. I'm sure nothing we've talked about will conjure
up any emotions for people. We'll do that coming up
news radio eleven t in kfab. Em Ry Songer on
news Radio eleven ten KFAB. I know for a fact
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that there are European countries that you know, like you
have a responsibility to your country's military. And I'm just
suggesting that maybe as the United States of America in
this day and age, you know, like we don't put
enough of an emphasis on those JROTC programs or the
ROTC programs in college that could actually do quite a
bit of good for people who are able bodied young
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people that have energy and probably could use a little
bit of that built in discipline.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
I have an infographic in front of you right now,
just to clean up something we talked about earlier from
uh was it Joe Emailer? Volkswagen would have been a
better example of Nissan and subru So really any of
the three, any of.
Speaker 1 (11:08):
The if you're a representative from Volkswagen, do not listen
to what he just said. We very much like any
and all makes and models of vehicles. Cars themselves do
not have political ideologies, and we are not here to
assign them to anyone. Doris is on our phone line
at four two five five to eleven ten, four two
five five eight eleven ten. Hello Doris. How's it going today?
Speaker 6 (11:30):
Good? Good? And I have a Volkswagen.
Speaker 1 (11:33):
But I'm not a Democrat, see what I mean? See
what I mean?
Speaker 2 (11:36):
Okay, you know what? All right, I'm gonna see myself
out of this.
Speaker 6 (11:43):
So I had a German exchange student and he did
have to be either serve a year in civil service
or a year in the military, and he was much
more situated for the civil service and not the military.
And I can say that because I'm retired army than
most of Europe is still I'm going to make them
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do military So I'm all for it. But you know,
I don't think it should end with just males. I
think females should have to do it too, because they
can get the same benefit out of it.
Speaker 1 (12:15):
Yeah, how does the how does a civil service part
of it work? Like, like what do they do?
Speaker 6 (12:20):
So they so there's like nonprofits or you know, that
need help, and so they have to register with the
German government that they could take you know, civil servants.
And so he actually got to go to New Zealand,
which is odd, but he got to go to New
Zealand because they're registered with the German the government and
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get approved by the German government to accept civil servants.
So like he went to he went to a home
that was for children with eating disorders and he was
there for a whole year. And again it so but
there's all different kinds. So you know, you could do
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civil service just like our old conservation Corps kind of thing.
Speaker 1 (13:06):
Yeah, I mean that's very interesting. And yeah, like if
you have the civil service part of this where it's
not you know, like super duper physical you know, like
and all that's I mean, like, I don't know why
people would be against just having that as an option,
but Doris, I appreciate the context. That's really important, I think.
And thank you for your service to our country as well.
Speaker 6 (13:27):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (13:28):
All right, that is ah, there you go. Now it's
just not just militarily, it's just the government that operates it.
But you have the option of like volunteering and civil
service and that's good, that's healthy. You could find stuff
that you're interested in helping. And that guy got to
go to New Zealand for a year. Man, that that
probably was pretty fun. Mark's on the phone line of
four h two five five, eight eleven ten.
Speaker 5 (13:49):
What do you think, Mark, Well, kind of along the
same line. So it used to be back in the
day that you know, a judge would say, hey, look,
your choice is you can go to jail or you
can go into the military. And that's not an option
today because you know, that's considered cool and unusual punishment apparently.
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But like, as an example, there was a gentleman who
was a three star general at off It or at
Stratcom that he got in trouble for stealing from Ben Franklin,
stealing candy or something when he was seventeen or eighteen,
and that was the judge. What the judge said, Now,
going into the military, he couldn't read or write. His
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parents were both gone and he was living with an aunt.
And he went into the military, learned six languages and
became a three star general. And but that's not available today.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
I mean, like, really, is that not exactly what I'm
talking That's exactly what I'm talking about. I mean, it
really could be something like a life changing experience for
somebody who otherwise may not be super motivated, but give
them like a real purpose while also helping out the place,
the society, the city, the state that they live in. Right.
Speaker 7 (15:09):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (15:10):
And as and as an example on the other side
is I have a ton of kids and one of them,
you know, all of them. You know, I'd saved up
money for college.
Speaker 8 (15:21):
Which I'm not saying that's good or.
Speaker 5 (15:22):
Bad, probably more on the bad side, to be honest,
But I had saved up money for them to go
to college. And my one son chose to go Army
National Guard to when Army National Guard, and he went
to the very kind of high end school here in
Omaha paid school, and they kind of like as a percentage.
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There is probably you know, four out of five hundred
graduating kids that went into the military, because everybody, you know,
the measurement was how many kids go to college, not
how many kids you know go to the military went
into the military. Make a long story short. He took
all his money while he's in boot camp, invested it in.
Speaker 8 (16:04):
Tesla, took his old college.
Speaker 5 (16:06):
Fund, made more money than me investing it into Tesla.
And then when he got out of boot camp, he
had a lot of money at great paying job. Then
COVID hit, he got activated, and he was making all
kinds of money and they give him today. For parents
who are there today, if your kid has any skill
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set at all, they give between a ten and fifteen
thousand dollars signing bonus just to go into the military today. Yeah,
I mean, the signing bonuses they have are crazy amount
of money.
Speaker 1 (16:39):
Yeah. My buddy, my buddy's just in the National Guard
and he's you know, he talks about when he got deployed.
He was gone for about thirteen months and just kind
of it was kind of cushy. I mean, like the
money that he got, he felt like, hey, this is
absolutely worth doing. You know, even just for a year's
in time. So I mean that's just another aspect of
this that could absolutely kind of geared toward, ah, you know,
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kind of a shift in our society if we just
kind of promoted this as a legitimate option and normalize
it as much as we have normalized going to college
and getting degrees for stuff that actually doesn't end up
mattering or helping people out. Mark.
Speaker 5 (17:14):
Yeah, Stan Tolkien, I have a son that's an ironworker,
makes over one hundred grand a year.
Speaker 1 (17:18):
There you go. I mean, in a job that's necessary.
Speaker 5 (17:21):
College debt no nothing, No college debt, no nothing.
Speaker 1 (17:24):
Right, it's good stuff. Mark, thanks for calling in man,
Thanks for yeah. I mean there's a million different ways
you can make it in this world. I'm just saying
that I don't know how good. Like, I don't think
our country is maybe doing as good as it possibly could.
And uh, you want to know why people are so
adamantly against a lot of the stuff that happens in Washington,
d C. Is because people don't have the investment in
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this the city, the state, the country that they live in.
They have their allegiances in other places for different things,
And I don't know, there's just something that I think
maybe we can we can do better. I don't know.
We'll talk more. If you've got thoughts on this, we'd
love to talk to you about it. Four two five
five eight eleven ten. Four h two five five eight
eleven ten, News Radio eleven ten kfab Emri Sunger coach
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and my first CrossFit workout in seven years today telling me,
you know, let's go keep going and stuff you know
that can kind of move you along. It makes you
a better person, It makes you feel like, you know,
you're actually, you know, doing something. And I was just saying,
you know, there are military or countries with military service
as a requirement for men at a certain age, and
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I'm just saying, like, would that be such a bad
idea to just kind of instill a sense of pride
in you know, serving either your community or your state,
or your country one way or the other, even if
civil service is a thing we're talking about. That is
just kind of an idea. And the phone lines are open.
Four h two five five eight eleven ten. Four h
two five five eight eleven ten. Let's start with Gary. Gary,
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welcome to the show today. What's on your mind?
Speaker 4 (18:53):
Hey, yeah, thanks for taking my call. Years ago, about
forty five, when I was in high school, I had
a teacher them up with an idea that the government
pays for your education if you come in the mandatory
serve four years in the military. Yeah, they've made the
Montgomery GI Bill since then. My son was a Marine.
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He utilized that as much as he could. I really
think they need to sell that Montgomery GI Bill along
with you know, joining the military. It is it's open
doors for the kid, it's it's just a good project
all the way around. But you never see it advertised.
I don't think I've seen it join the military commercial
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anytime in the past four years obviously.
Speaker 1 (19:41):
Yeah, well, I mean there, I mean if you watch
like football games and stuff. I mean I I watch
a lot of sports, and there's like I see Army
and Marines commercials here and there for different, you know,
types of things, but they're never talking about some of
the benefits. It's just like, look, how cool you could
be if you're wearing this uniform and you're you know,
actually serving in the military, if you were able to
like go online and or or watch TV, and like
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they straight up told you that your college would get
paid for it. If you decided to serve. I think
a lot of a lot of people my age would
have thought, Yeah, it's not actually a bad idea. It'd
save me a lot of money and make me a
better person, you know.
Speaker 4 (20:16):
It just the doors that it's opened. You get free education.
There are certain things that he wasn't allowed to spend
his GI bill money on. Maybe likes them a little bit,
but uh oh, maybe maybe the key is just more
advertising for the benefits that you can reap by joining
the military. There's not a problem with that either. You're
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getting something in return.
Speaker 1 (20:39):
Yeah, that's a it's a good point. Gary. I appreciate
you calling in and sharing that, and thanks to your
entire family for their service to our nation. Appreciate that.
Speaker 4 (20:47):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (20:48):
Yeah, that's a very very very cool I like hearing
stuff like that. Let's get to Mike on the line.
Mike is on four two, five, five, eight eleven ten. Mike,
what are you thinking about today?
Speaker 7 (20:59):
Hey, appreciate the call. Jents. I'm a twenty two year
marine veteran. I just wanted to kind of let you
know about an event. Very sadly. On the eighteenth of January,
Omaha lost its last the United States Marine Corps Ewo
Jima veteran Marine Veteran Corporal Dwayne Tunnehill, ninety nine years old,
passed away eighty years ago, almost to the day he
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along with thousands of other Marines, stormed the beaches on
Ewo Jima. About twenty thousand marines were wounded, somewhere around
sixty seven hundred killed in what was you know, kind
of has since been recorded as one of the fiercest
battles in the US Marine Corps history. And Dwayne was
wounded on Ewo Jima, and you know, Admiral Nimitz, who
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was kind of in charge of the Pacific theater of
operations at the time, maybe Marine Corps set of the
Marines at Ewo uncommon valor was a common virtue, and
so you know, I think it's it's important to reflect upon,
you know, those that came ahead of us, you know,
men that paved the way for the wonderful life that
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we have and that we live here today in the
United States. And sadly he's gone, but what a wonderful legacy.
And I just wanted to pass that along to you
gens today and thought it was noteworthy.
Speaker 1 (22:15):
It's one hundred percent noteworthy. Mike, thank you for your service,
and thanks for calling us and letting us know about that.
That's incredibly important for us to celebrate a note on
our show. Thank you so much.
Speaker 7 (22:24):
Yeah, sure, thank you, dang man.
Speaker 1 (22:27):
That's powerful stuff. You know, you talk about it, you
read about this stuff. We get so caught up in
all this military or sorry, in all this political stuff.
That that you know is so dramatic and it splits
us up and it makes us all feel like, you know,
we're kind of at each other's throats if you're one
way or the other. And then you hear stories like
that like Dwayne, who you know, served his country at
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a young age, was storming the beaches on Ewo Jima
in the middle of World War Two, got wounded. I
was able to survive and come back and have those
you know, that legacy in the stories to tell as
a real beacon of what that generation in a lot
of ways represented. So rest in peace to him into
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all of our veterans, especially of that era, who you know,
we're losing them every single day. I mean, it is
becoming more and more, you know, difficult to find World
War Two veterans who you know can share those experiences
in those stories, but we can never stop trying to
yearn for that information because there are still so many
great documentaries and books and shows that you can learn
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a lot about what they did in that legacy, especially
you know, having a local connection like that. Back to
the phones. At four h two, five, five, eight eleven ten,
we got Bob on the line. Welcome in, Bob. How
you doing good?
Speaker 4 (23:44):
How are you?
Speaker 1 (23:44):
I'm great.
Speaker 8 (23:45):
So my thought is, as far as the school thing
is concerned, is you know, it used to be that
people were let out in the summertime because kids help
their parents on the farm, and they don't do that anymore.
So if we eliminated summer break, that would give you
three months extra per year for twelve years, which would
be equate to another four years of schooling in the
same timeframe, you could get the same amount of college
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You could get a college education in the same amount
of time. And then I agree, yes, I think everybody male,
female should serve at least two years for their country,
especially in this day and age when discipline is non existent,
and I think that's where a lot of kids are lacking.
(24:30):
There's no consequences, there's no discipline yeah, and that's something
that the military will definitely teach you.
Speaker 1 (24:37):
Yeah, and even if it's civil service within the military.
I mean, I think that that could could build upon
that the idea that you mentioned there of you know,
like kind of eliminating summer break, which I don't know
exactly the viability of something like that, but in that
time span, you would be able to add on three
months basically for twelve years, and that would give you
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the kind of time frame that you could get a
college education and be like more even more prepared by
the time you're eighteen or nineteen years old. There's something
to that idea there, Bob. I don't know what the
science would be. Obviously, we're getting into kind of a
scenario where you know, we're learning about what the most
efficient ways there is, you know, to teach young people,
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including potentially four day school or four week or four
day school weeks, and how that actually has been a
positive for a lot of school districts. So but that's
the first time I've actually heard that kind of in
a macro form over several years. So I'll look into
that and see if there's any countries, because I'm sure
the different societies are always experimenting, and it's kind of
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an interesting idea to have that much education under your
belt by the time you're eighteen.
Speaker 8 (25:44):
Well, yeah, because you know, when I was in school,
all the boys were excused for the first month or
two of school because they were out you know why.
I grew up in a small town and it's been
you know, a few years back. Yeah, because they were
still helping their flow others and parents harvest on the farm,
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so they were just excused from school. But kids aren't
doing that anymore, right, So, I mean, we're already paying
for the teachers, we're already paying for the buildings to
be there, be heated, be cooled, be maintained. Why not
use them.
Speaker 1 (26:17):
It's quite interesting there, Bob. I like the idea. This
is what we're here. We're brainstorming, we're talking through our
thoughts here, and this is definitely an idea that could
be constructive if we can figure out a way to
implement it. Thanks for calling in man, you Mack, Thank you. Well,
we'll take more calls when we come back. I'd love
for you to be a part of the conversation. Four
two five five eight eleven ten four h two five
five eight eleven ten. We're on news radio eleven ten
(26:38):
kfab and done. This isn't meant to be offensive. This
isn't meant to, you know, make everybody feel like I'm
a big like I'm going to try to use my
influence somehow as a radio host to get people talking
about military service should be one hundred percent mandatory, no
matter what in this country. I'm just saying, in general,
there are countries that do have mandatory military service or
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civil service available for young people as they get into
their adult you know, into their adult years. And uh,
you know, I'm just saying that we are a country
that is quite divided, and maybe this would be something
that could instill some level of, uh, I don't know,
cooperation and might be make us a healthier nation. That's
all I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (27:19):
And there's the disclaimer, folks. Finally it finally came back
from our legal team. It looks like I was waiting
with bated breath this whole time. You are such you're
so do you know how many people melted in their
Volkswagens while they listen to these segments?
Speaker 3 (27:31):
White stop it, I didn't get you, said, Volkswagen said,
stop using names of cars. You're you're you're ruining the
market for endorsements.
Speaker 6 (27:44):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (27:44):
Anyway, Bill's on a phone line of four h two, five, five,
eight eleven ten. Bill, how are you feeling about this today?
Speaker 9 (27:51):
Well, I just kind of was going to throw something,
and I don't have much time, but I kind of
one of the other benefits of not just so much
when you gets out of the military and you get
your GI bill and stuff. But I was drafted during
the end of the Vietnam War and my number was
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thirty one, and I talked to the draft secretary in
the county and he goes, yeah, you're probably going. So
I decided that if I'm going, I'm going to enlist
and get some benefits out of it. And I did,
and luckily I was pretty smart and got selected to
be a CB and even though I couldn't even change
(28:37):
oil on my own car, CBS sought me to be
a diesel mechanic and it led me from After four
years serving three deployments, I got out of the Navy
and never did go back to college because I was
making so much money in oil field being a.
Speaker 1 (29:02):
Yeah. Now see, this is a story of success in
a completely circuitous route then you know society would tell
you as possible. And this is why I love hearing
stories like this, Bill, because there is no perfect way
to live in the United States of America, but everybody
kind of has their own unique perspectives on how they've
made their life as good as it possibly can be.
So thank you for your service, thanks for calling in
(29:23):
and sharing this story. And I'm so glad that you've
had such great success. That's awesome stuff. Love to hear that.
Let's go to back on the phone line of four two, five, five,
eight eleven ten. Beth, what do you think about this?
Speaker 10 (29:35):
Well, I just don't agree with the thinking because I
don't think we're living in World War two anymore. And
I just googled this and Finland wasn't on this, so
it was an AI overview. And so the top twenty
arms exporting countries in the twenty twenty three in the
United States is one of the top exporter of arms.
(29:56):
I mean, this is a totally different world we live in,
how our money is spent as taxpayers, and I think
I respect the people who want to serve, but I
think that in this day and age, people who are
going to do that really should have a passion and
a real understanding of the consequences good and bad. There
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might and I just don't think that, uh, the psychological.
Speaker 6 (30:25):
End of it.
Speaker 10 (30:25):
I don't know that everybody's equipped to do that. And
you know, if you want to really open it up,
maybe they ought to open it up to older people.
You know, maybe older people could be able to uh
contribute to their their situation. But the problem is the
older people wouldn't want to take an order.
Speaker 6 (30:45):
See.
Speaker 1 (30:46):
Well, but that's I guess, my, my, my, my bigger
point to the whole thing.
Speaker 10 (30:51):
Best paying for all of this dysfunction. Though you are
a lot younger though so and we have already been
through all these wars.
Speaker 1 (30:58):
Yeah, no, and I don't want you to I'm running
out of time, bath, I just want to get a
point in before I run out of time. Okay, So
I'm sorry I had to cut you off there, But
like I realistically right, Like, I'm not suggesting that we're
we're sending people into combat practicing, right, We're talking about
just drilling. We're talking about understanding what it is to
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be a part of a team, what it is to
be a useful member of our society, and I'm not
even saying it has to be military service, the civil
service idea, and volunteering and being a part of like
a nonprofit organization for a few months or whatever it
would take. That could be incredibly beneficial to our communities
and also the young minds that that could touch. And
(31:39):
I'm not suggesting this to be anybody like mandatory for
everybody in the entire country. Just you know, something that
is a program for kids who are, you know, eighteen,
twenty twenty two years old. That's all I'm saying. More
on the way on news radio eleven ten kfab
I feel like there's been a couple that kind of
have a usurped Monster. You remember Monster that was That was
like twenty years ago. That was like dawn of the Internet.
It's definitely I'm looking at it, Monster dot com. It's real.
It's still it's still a thing. Look at that.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
You're still using it. It's telling me to upload my resume.
Surely that's safe.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
I did my first crossway workout in about eight years. Yeah,
seven or eight years. Nice. You know, you need motivation.
You'd kick in a pan. Sometimes you need somebody to
tell you, no, get up, keep going, keep going, go harder,
try harder.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
Yeah, you need David Goggin standing right behind it to
the left, no yelling at you. Don't know who that is,
but David Goggin, No, no, don't look it up. Then
he might yell at you.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
I like it. Yeah, but anyway, I try it really
hard to do what I can, you know, stir things
up and conjure up some motivation and do my own
like you know, work workouts and stuff. It's just not working.
Sometimes you just need somebody that's in your face. This
is why people should join the military. You know. Finland
has a military situation where you like, every male over
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the age of eighteen has to serve like six months
or do like basic like military training or whatever. Would
you be in support of that that everybody has to
do it, every male over the age of eighteen that
is physically capable.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
Yeah, oh, I can tell you don't do it right
now because you know what everyone would say.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
Forget about that. I'm talking about just generally. I know,
but that's the first thing that jumped in. I know,
but I'm talking generally. I'm just like Finland is doing this.
Remember Laurie Markin in the NBA player, Yeah, a really
great NBA player, Yet it's been the off season doing
his military stuff.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
He did.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
Yeah, look it up. That's a little aggressive what he's ad.
He's finish, He's finished.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
They did like, Oh they can do it, and we think, oh,
it's in that adorable if we did that, you know
what everyone say. I'm just saying, this is what I'm like,
you know how different our mentality as a country would
be if that's something we instilled in our people. NPR
would do like a five hundred page report on how
the the twenty twenties in America is exactly like the
(02:17):
nineteen twenties in Germany. That's what it would happen if
that happened to Oh stop, it's exactly what would happen.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
Dude. We had a draft for Vietnam, like sixty five
years ago, six sixty years, sixty years, fifty five years,
fifty five years ago, fifty five years ago. That's not
that long ago. It was a draft, you and me.
We had to be ready to be on the.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
Call, you know what I mean, just like twentieth century
early twentieth century Germany. Yeah, right there, there you go exactly.
Yeah right, I heard they toast back then too.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
I had something. Is that right? That's right? Is that right? Okay, well,
well this is what I'm saying. It's just like, you know,
sometimes I need a kick in the shorts from somebody.
And trust me, this guy, you know, the shout out
to justin the coach of there at crossfed Hydro free
uh free shout out. My wife's been going there for
a while. And you want to know something, it uh
(03:07):
kicked my kicked my buttocks my cardio because remember I
got sick like a month ago. You said buttocks kind
of like uh for a jump. Yeah, I point uh
you remember you remember when I got the I got sick.
I was like an upper respiratory thing. Yeah, and it
kind of just drug on for a while. Yeah yeah. Yeah.
So like this is the first like real hard work
that I've done physically, and and it just like burned
(03:29):
me up on the like like your lungs here, get
your lungs like burning up to a point where you
just got to like hawk some loogis to like get
out whatever, Like have you run? Have you gone on
a run lately? And you're just like, oh man, I.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
Just man, I really should And I know that's what
would happen. It'd be a rough thing for me.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
Yeah, but it's just like you know, uh he told
me this after I got done with the work. I
was just like, the first one's always the hardest one,
right if you keep coming back, theoretically it should be
getting easier and he's still working hard, but that doesn't
you know, you know what I mean. Yeah, So I
got I got a couple of things here. Number one.
It was it was good and everything, and I'm really
happy about it. But it got me to thinking the
(04:06):
discipline that we're missing in our country and how important
it may be if somebody who just wanted to like
instill that level of discipline in a young person, And
if we did that and everybody had to do it,
then what would our country be like.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
If everyone was doing CrossFit no mandatory, no, not CrossFit no,
but like military, like a military exercises.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
Like I don't think this is something you should keep
bringing up. Why not, because it's dangerous.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
You're gonna get You're gonna get a giant piece written
in the rolling stone all about you.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
That would be great, that'd be great for them, But
it's not gonna be good for you. It's not gonna
be good. Just trust it. It's good for the brand.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
I'm saying, Wait until there's like a really soft and
cozy Subaru driving dem in the office again, and then
you can do it and then it's safe and it's
fun and it's and it's and it's and it's a
good look. But right now you want to do that
right now, I'm not I'm not how you get an
oracle written about you at at NPR dot com.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
I'm just saying, and if they want to give me
free publicity, I'll take it. I'm just saying I read
about these countries like Finland, for instance, that they can
get away with it. Though I don't care if they
can get away with it. This is a country that
many people believe, you know, like, oh, the Scandinavians, they
are very socialists in the way that they operate with
their economies. It's very expensive to live there, and that
would be correct. But guess what else they had. Every
(05:23):
male over the age of eighteen has to serve like
at least a few months doing military service.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
And please tell me how that is not like literal
fascism right there? What are you talking about?
Speaker 1 (05:34):
It's just literally, if anything were to happen in Finland,
being a smaller nation, they're gonna need numbers, and you're
gonna just like pluck people who have absolutely no understanding
of how the military operates. All I'm saying. I'm just saying,
maybe it wouldn't be bad for kids to be in
JROTC when they're in high school and understand what discipline means.
That's all I'm saying, regulated and forced? What does that mean?
(05:57):
Not right now?
Speaker 2 (05:58):
If Mary Ann Williamson was in the office, then people
will be like, oh, that's adorable.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
Oh I'm saying, I don't even care who's in.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
Office, just saying it's a bad look.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
Right now, Joe says, tell your producer, not all SUPERU
drivers are Democrats.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
Oh you know, I'll stop saying that. I actually I
drive a suber Us sometimes it's nice. It's a nice car.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
So why are you throwing super run? I don't know,
it just.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
Rolls off the tongue. You know what, I'm gonna switch
it up to a smart car?
Speaker 1 (06:22):
How about that?
Speaker 4 (06:23):
No?
Speaker 1 (06:23):
Because no cars? No, you never know who might be
listening and maybe want to advertise on our radio station.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
Oh you know what, You're right, a lot of people
drive subar Us. That was a swing and a miss
for me.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
It's a swinging a miss for you to not agree
with me that it wouldn't It would behoove our society
to have some sort of discipline just kind of built in,
you know, into our society. And I'm just saying, if
other countries can do it, why can't we? You know
how many? Like like a Catholic, you go through confirmation, right,
like you get baptized when you're a kid, you go
(06:55):
you go through confirmation. You've heard of that, right, that's
supposed to instill something you as a as a human.
You know what college is like. You know, college is
post saying instill something in you. All I'm saying is
we can just add a little appendage of like, this
is what being a disciplined, hard working individual does, and
this is what the military how it operates. You don't
have to you don't have to like join full time
(07:16):
if you don't want to. That's not what we're here for.
But we're just saying that this is we want a
healthy and active and loyal people who want to see
our country do well, regardless of their political ideologies or backgrounds.
And if you are a healthy, able bodied, eighteen plus
year old male and potentially female who wants to participate,
(07:38):
I think it makes sense that you would have the
responsibility to go through some sort of JROTC style exercises
when you have the opportunity to do so. That may
make you a more disciplined individual as you get older.
I'll be honest with you, I'm I'm not generally very
disciplined when it comes to stuff like that. I have
(07:58):
to get a coach. For instance, in CrossFit, as an
analogy to say we did a burpie part of the
workout today, those suck. I don't know if you've done
a burpie lately, but those suck and I you know,
sometimes they like to lay on the ground for a
second to catch my breath. Oh he was on me,
he saw me. He's like, no, get up, it's not
a burpie. If here's laying there, you gotta go down.
(08:18):
You gotta get up, like right away. That's the whole point.
So it was good to get that little pride right,
like a little push. If that's instilled in you at
a younger age, if we instill that in the youth
of America, and not like the youth like the twelve
year olds, but like the youth of like the twenty
one to twenty two year olds.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
You better stop it. You better stop it. You need
to stop it. You need to turn around right now.
We need to have a thirty second PSA and we
need to have one of those you know what we
need is we need one of those things with like
the guy who talks really fast and it's kind of
quite a little bit, but it's like these dots that
represent this show, they haven't talked with these thoughts that
have happened, These thoughts have not been purely thought out
and do not mean they're half baked and trying. We're
(08:57):
not trying to make any analogies do any different times
of history that maybe people could if you was and
end up getting like a five hundred paper.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
You're the only one to say that. You're the only
one drawing your line to that specific society, your face
on Mother Jones later today.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
I'm just telling you, you watch it, buddy, You watch it
or that's gonna happen.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
You're not. No, your future's in your hands right now.
All I'm saying is it would be helpful, I think
to our society if we instilled something like that standardize.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
The youth of America. You're killing Donald's youth. Is that
what you're saying here? No, see you better stop it.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
No, that's not what I meant. I didn't mean it
like that. I'm just saying young people, able body people
that have eye energy, it needs stuff to do. You know,
Like they get to be in recess for a while.
I'm just saying, once they get to be an adult,
why don't we, like, you know, have them do some
structured exercises and drills. You know, they had ress.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
That's a good point recess Maybe we should we rethink
that that's kind of fascist if you think about it.
Speaker 1 (09:53):
Yeah, you're losing people now. The kids need somewhere to
I was at the airport in Saint Petersburg. Did you
know that they have a play place in the airport?
Speaker 5 (10:01):
Really?
Speaker 1 (10:02):
Yeah, it's a small airport. It's like you got a kid,
there's a little area they just screwed around and try
to get some of that energy before they get on
a plane. Nice. That makes sense, doesn't it? It does?
All right, we'll take calls four roh two, five to five,
eight eleventon. I'm sure nothing we've talked about will conjure
up any emotions for people. We'll do that coming up
news radio eleven t in kfab. Em Ry Songer on
news Radio eleven ten KFAB. I know for a fact
(10:25):
that there are European countries that you know, like you
have a responsibility to your country's military. And I'm just
suggesting that maybe as the United States of America in
this day and age, you know, like we don't put
enough of an emphasis on those JROTC programs or the
ROTC programs in college that could actually do quite a
bit of good for people who are able bodied young
(10:48):
people that have energy and probably could use a little
bit of that built in discipline.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
I have an infographic in front of you right now,
just to clean up something we talked about earlier from
uh was it Joe Emailer? Volkswagen would have been a
better example of Nissan and subru So really any of
the three, any of.
Speaker 1 (11:08):
The if you're a representative from Volkswagen, do not listen
to what he just said. We very much like any
and all makes and models of vehicles. Cars themselves do
not have political ideologies, and we are not here to
assign them to anyone. Doris is on our phone line
at four two five five to eleven ten, four two
five five eight eleven ten. Hello Doris. How's it going today?
Speaker 6 (11:30):
Good? Good? And I have a Volkswagen.
Speaker 1 (11:33):
But I'm not a Democrat, see what I mean? See
what I mean?
Speaker 2 (11:36):
Okay, you know what? All right, I'm gonna see myself
out of this.
Speaker 6 (11:43):
So I had a German exchange student and he did
have to be either serve a year in civil service
or a year in the military, and he was much
more situated for the civil service and not the military.
And I can say that because I'm retired army than
most of Europe is still I'm going to make them
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do military So I'm all for it. But you know,
I don't think it should end with just males. I
think females should have to do it too, because they
can get the same benefit out of it.
Speaker 1 (12:15):
Yeah, how does the how does a civil service part
of it work? Like, like what do they do?
Speaker 6 (12:20):
So they so there's like nonprofits or you know, that
need help, and so they have to register with the
German government that they could take you know, civil servants.
And so he actually got to go to New Zealand,
which is odd, but he got to go to New
Zealand because they're registered with the German the government and
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get approved by the German government to accept civil servants.
So like he went to he went to a home
that was for children with eating disorders and he was
there for a whole year. And again it so but
there's all different kinds. So you know, you could do
(13:02):
civil service just like our old conservation Corps kind of thing.
Speaker 1 (13:06):
Yeah, I mean that's very interesting. And yeah, like if
you have the civil service part of this where it's
not you know, like super duper physical you know, like
and all that's I mean, like, I don't know why
people would be against just having that as an option,
but Doris, I appreciate the context. That's really important, I think.
And thank you for your service to our country as well.
Speaker 6 (13:27):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (13:28):
All right, that is ah, there you go. Now it's
just not just militarily, it's just the government that operates it.
But you have the option of like volunteering and civil
service and that's good, that's healthy. You could find stuff
that you're interested in helping. And that guy got to
go to New Zealand for a year. Man, that that
probably was pretty fun. Mark's on the phone line of
four h two five five, eight eleven ten.
Speaker 5 (13:49):
What do you think, Mark, Well, kind of along the
same line. So it used to be back in the
day that you know, a judge would say, hey, look,
your choice is you can go to jail or you
can go into the military. And that's not an option
today because you know, that's considered cool and unusual punishment apparently.
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But like, as an example, there was a gentleman who
was a three star general at off It or at
Stratcom that he got in trouble for stealing from Ben Franklin,
stealing candy or something when he was seventeen or eighteen,
and that was the judge. What the judge said, Now,
going into the military, he couldn't read or write. His
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parents were both gone and he was living with an aunt.
And he went into the military, learned six languages and
became a three star general. And but that's not available today.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
I mean, like, really, is that not exactly what I'm
talking That's exactly what I'm talking about. I mean, it
really could be something like a life changing experience for
somebody who otherwise may not be super motivated, but give
them like a real purpose while also helping out the place,
the society, the city, the state that they live in. Right.
Speaker 7 (15:09):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (15:10):
And as and as an example on the other side
is I have a ton of kids and one of them,
you know, all of them. You know, I'd saved up
money for college.
Speaker 8 (15:21):
Which I'm not saying that's good or.
Speaker 5 (15:22):
Bad, probably more on the bad side, to be honest,
But I had saved up money for them to go
to college. And my one son chose to go Army
National Guard to when Army National Guard, and he went
to the very kind of high end school here in
Omaha paid school, and they kind of like as a percentage.
(15:43):
There is probably you know, four out of five hundred
graduating kids that went into the military, because everybody, you know,
the measurement was how many kids go to college, not
how many kids you know go to the military went
into the military. Make a long story short. He took
all his money while he's in boot camp, invested it in.
Speaker 8 (16:04):
Tesla, took his old college.
Speaker 5 (16:06):
Fund, made more money than me investing it into Tesla.
And then when he got out of boot camp, he
had a lot of money at great paying job. Then
COVID hit, he got activated, and he was making all
kinds of money and they give him today. For parents
who are there today, if your kid has any skill
(16:27):
set at all, they give between a ten and fifteen
thousand dollars signing bonus just to go into the military today. Yeah,
I mean, the signing bonuses they have are crazy amount
of money.
Speaker 1 (16:39):
Yeah. My buddy, my buddy's just in the National Guard
and he's you know, he talks about when he got deployed.
He was gone for about thirteen months and just kind
of it was kind of cushy. I mean, like the
money that he got, he felt like, hey, this is
absolutely worth doing. You know, even just for a year's
in time. So I mean that's just another aspect of
this that could absolutely kind of geared toward, ah, you know,
(17:03):
kind of a shift in our society if we just
kind of promoted this as a legitimate option and normalize
it as much as we have normalized going to college
and getting degrees for stuff that actually doesn't end up
mattering or helping people out. Mark.
Speaker 5 (17:14):
Yeah, Stan Tolkien, I have a son that's an ironworker,
makes over one hundred grand a year.
Speaker 1 (17:18):
There you go. I mean, in a job that's necessary.
Speaker 5 (17:21):
College debt no nothing, No college debt, no nothing.
Speaker 1 (17:24):
Right, it's good stuff. Mark, thanks for calling in man,
Thanks for yeah. I mean there's a million different ways
you can make it in this world. I'm just saying
that I don't know how good. Like, I don't think
our country is maybe doing as good as it possibly could.
And uh, you want to know why people are so
adamantly against a lot of the stuff that happens in Washington,
d C. Is because people don't have the investment in
(17:47):
this the city, the state, the country that they live in.
They have their allegiances in other places for different things,
And I don't know, there's just something that I think
maybe we can we can do better. I don't know.
We'll talk more. If you've got thoughts on this, we'd
love to talk to you about it. Four two five
five eight eleven ten. Four h two five five eight
eleven ten, News Radio eleven ten kfab Emri Sunger coach
(18:10):
and my first CrossFit workout in seven years today telling me,
you know, let's go keep going and stuff you know
that can kind of move you along. It makes you
a better person, It makes you feel like, you know,
you're actually, you know, doing something. And I was just saying,
you know, there are military or countries with military service
as a requirement for men at a certain age, and
(18:30):
I'm just saying, like, would that be such a bad
idea to just kind of instill a sense of pride
in you know, serving either your community or your state,
or your country one way or the other, even if
civil service is a thing we're talking about. That is
just kind of an idea. And the phone lines are open.
Four h two five five eight eleven ten. Four h
two five five eight eleven ten. Let's start with Gary. Gary,
(18:52):
welcome to the show today. What's on your mind?
Speaker 4 (18:53):
Hey, yeah, thanks for taking my call. Years ago, about
forty five, when I was in high school, I had
a teacher them up with an idea that the government
pays for your education if you come in the mandatory
serve four years in the military. Yeah, they've made the
Montgomery GI Bill since then. My son was a Marine.
(19:16):
He utilized that as much as he could. I really
think they need to sell that Montgomery GI Bill along
with you know, joining the military. It is it's open
doors for the kid, it's it's just a good project
all the way around. But you never see it advertised.
I don't think I've seen it join the military commercial
(19:38):
anytime in the past four years obviously.
Speaker 1 (19:41):
Yeah, well, I mean there, I mean if you watch
like football games and stuff. I mean I I watch
a lot of sports, and there's like I see Army
and Marines commercials here and there for different, you know,
types of things, but they're never talking about some of
the benefits. It's just like, look, how cool you could
be if you're wearing this uniform and you're you know,
actually serving in the military, if you were able to
like go online and or or watch TV, and like
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they straight up told you that your college would get
paid for it. If you decided to serve. I think
a lot of a lot of people my age would
have thought, Yeah, it's not actually a bad idea. It'd
save me a lot of money and make me a
better person, you know.
Speaker 4 (20:16):
It just the doors that it's opened. You get free education.
There are certain things that he wasn't allowed to spend
his GI bill money on. Maybe likes them a little bit,
but uh oh, maybe maybe the key is just more
advertising for the benefits that you can reap by joining
the military. There's not a problem with that either. You're
(20:38):
getting something in return.
Speaker 1 (20:39):
Yeah, that's a it's a good point. Gary. I appreciate
you calling in and sharing that, and thanks to your
entire family for their service to our nation. Appreciate that.
Speaker 4 (20:47):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (20:48):
Yeah, that's a very very very cool I like hearing
stuff like that. Let's get to Mike on the line.
Mike is on four two, five, five, eight eleven ten. Mike,
what are you thinking about today?
Speaker 7 (20:59):
Hey, appreciate the call. Jents. I'm a twenty two year
marine veteran. I just wanted to kind of let you
know about an event. Very sadly. On the eighteenth of January,
Omaha lost its last the United States Marine Corps Ewo
Jima veteran Marine Veteran Corporal Dwayne Tunnehill, ninety nine years old,
passed away eighty years ago, almost to the day he
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along with thousands of other Marines, stormed the beaches on
Ewo Jima. About twenty thousand marines were wounded, somewhere around
sixty seven hundred killed in what was you know, kind
of has since been recorded as one of the fiercest
battles in the US Marine Corps history. And Dwayne was
wounded on Ewo Jima, and you know, Admiral Nimitz, who
(21:45):
was kind of in charge of the Pacific theater of
operations at the time, maybe Marine Corps set of the
Marines at Ewo uncommon valor was a common virtue, and
so you know, I think it's it's important to reflect upon,
you know, those that came ahead of us, you know,
men that paved the way for the wonderful life that
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we have and that we live here today in the
United States. And sadly he's gone, but what a wonderful legacy.
And I just wanted to pass that along to you
gens today and thought it was noteworthy.
Speaker 1 (22:15):
It's one hundred percent noteworthy. Mike, thank you for your service,
and thanks for calling us and letting us know about that.
That's incredibly important for us to celebrate a note on
our show. Thank you so much.
Speaker 7 (22:24):
Yeah, sure, thank you, dang man.
Speaker 1 (22:27):
That's powerful stuff. You know, you talk about it, you
read about this stuff. We get so caught up in
all this military or sorry, in all this political stuff.
That that you know is so dramatic and it splits
us up and it makes us all feel like, you know,
we're kind of at each other's throats if you're one
way or the other. And then you hear stories like
that like Dwayne, who you know, served his country at
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a young age, was storming the beaches on Ewo Jima
in the middle of World War Two, got wounded. I
was able to survive and come back and have those
you know, that legacy in the stories to tell as
a real beacon of what that generation in a lot
of ways represented. So rest in peace to him into
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all of our veterans, especially of that era, who you know,
we're losing them every single day. I mean, it is
becoming more and more, you know, difficult to find World
War Two veterans who you know can share those experiences
in those stories, but we can never stop trying to
yearn for that information because there are still so many
great documentaries and books and shows that you can learn
(23:31):
a lot about what they did in that legacy, especially
you know, having a local connection like that. Back to
the phones. At four h two, five, five, eight eleven ten,
we got Bob on the line. Welcome in, Bob. How
you doing good?
Speaker 4 (23:44):
How are you?
Speaker 1 (23:44):
I'm great.
Speaker 8 (23:45):
So my thought is, as far as the school thing
is concerned, is you know, it used to be that
people were let out in the summertime because kids help
their parents on the farm, and they don't do that anymore.
So if we eliminated summer break, that would give you
three months extra per year for twelve years, which would
be equate to another four years of schooling in the
same timeframe, you could get the same amount of college
(24:08):
You could get a college education in the same amount
of time. And then I agree, yes, I think everybody male,
female should serve at least two years for their country,
especially in this day and age when discipline is non existent,
and I think that's where a lot of kids are lacking.
(24:30):
There's no consequences, there's no discipline yeah, and that's something
that the military will definitely teach you.
Speaker 1 (24:37):
Yeah, and even if it's civil service within the military.
I mean, I think that that could could build upon
that the idea that you mentioned there of you know,
like kind of eliminating summer break, which I don't know
exactly the viability of something like that, but in that
time span, you would be able to add on three
months basically for twelve years, and that would give you
(24:59):
the kind of time frame that you could get a
college education and be like more even more prepared by
the time you're eighteen or nineteen years old. There's something
to that idea there, Bob. I don't know what the
science would be. Obviously, we're getting into kind of a
scenario where you know, we're learning about what the most
efficient ways there is, you know, to teach young people,
(25:20):
including potentially four day school or four week or four
day school weeks, and how that actually has been a
positive for a lot of school districts. So but that's
the first time I've actually heard that kind of in
a macro form over several years. So I'll look into
that and see if there's any countries, because I'm sure
the different societies are always experimenting, and it's kind of
(25:40):
an interesting idea to have that much education under your
belt by the time you're eighteen.
Speaker 8 (25:44):
Well, yeah, because you know, when I was in school,
all the boys were excused for the first month or
two of school because they were out you know why.
I grew up in a small town and it's been
you know, a few years back. Yeah, because they were
still helping their flow others and parents harvest on the farm,
(26:04):
so they were just excused from school. But kids aren't
doing that anymore, right, So, I mean, we're already paying
for the teachers, we're already paying for the buildings to
be there, be heated, be cooled, be maintained. Why not
use them.
Speaker 1 (26:17):
It's quite interesting there, Bob. I like the idea. This
is what we're here. We're brainstorming, we're talking through our
thoughts here, and this is definitely an idea that could
be constructive if we can figure out a way to
implement it. Thanks for calling in man, you Mack, Thank you. Well,
we'll take more calls when we come back. I'd love
for you to be a part of the conversation. Four
two five five eight eleven ten four h two five
five eight eleven ten. We're on news radio eleven ten
(26:38):
kfab and done. This isn't meant to be offensive. This
isn't meant to, you know, make everybody feel like I'm
a big like I'm going to try to use my
influence somehow as a radio host to get people talking
about military service should be one hundred percent mandatory, no
matter what in this country. I'm just saying, in general,
there are countries that do have mandatory military service or
(27:01):
civil service available for young people as they get into
their adult you know, into their adult years. And uh,
you know, I'm just saying that we are a country
that is quite divided, and maybe this would be something
that could instill some level of, uh, I don't know,
cooperation and might be make us a healthier nation. That's
all I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (27:19):
And there's the disclaimer, folks. Finally it finally came back
from our legal team. It looks like I was waiting
with bated breath this whole time. You are such you're
so do you know how many people melted in their
Volkswagens while they listen to these segments?
Speaker 3 (27:31):
White stop it, I didn't get you, said, Volkswagen said,
stop using names of cars. You're you're you're ruining the
market for endorsements.
Speaker 6 (27:44):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (27:44):
Anyway, Bill's on a phone line of four h two, five, five,
eight eleven ten. Bill, how are you feeling about this today?
Speaker 9 (27:51):
Well, I just kind of was going to throw something,
and I don't have much time, but I kind of
one of the other benefits of not just so much
when you gets out of the military and you get
your GI bill and stuff. But I was drafted during
the end of the Vietnam War and my number was
(28:14):
thirty one, and I talked to the draft secretary in
the county and he goes, yeah, you're probably going. So
I decided that if I'm going, I'm going to enlist
and get some benefits out of it. And I did,
and luckily I was pretty smart and got selected to
be a CB and even though I couldn't even change
(28:37):
oil on my own car, CBS sought me to be
a diesel mechanic and it led me from After four
years serving three deployments, I got out of the Navy
and never did go back to college because I was
making so much money in oil field being a.
Speaker 1 (29:02):
Yeah. Now see, this is a story of success in
a completely circuitous route then you know society would tell
you as possible. And this is why I love hearing
stories like this, Bill, because there is no perfect way
to live in the United States of America, but everybody
kind of has their own unique perspectives on how they've
made their life as good as it possibly can be.
So thank you for your service, thanks for calling in
(29:23):
and sharing this story. And I'm so glad that you've
had such great success. That's awesome stuff. Love to hear that.
Let's go to back on the phone line of four two, five, five,
eight eleven ten. Beth, what do you think about this?
Speaker 10 (29:35):
Well, I just don't agree with the thinking because I
don't think we're living in World War two anymore. And
I just googled this and Finland wasn't on this, so
it was an AI overview. And so the top twenty
arms exporting countries in the twenty twenty three in the
United States is one of the top exporter of arms.
(29:56):
I mean, this is a totally different world we live in,
how our money is spent as taxpayers, and I think
I respect the people who want to serve, but I
think that in this day and age, people who are
going to do that really should have a passion and
a real understanding of the consequences good and bad. There
(30:20):
might and I just don't think that, uh, the psychological.
Speaker 6 (30:25):
End of it.
Speaker 10 (30:25):
I don't know that everybody's equipped to do that. And
you know, if you want to really open it up,
maybe they ought to open it up to older people.
You know, maybe older people could be able to uh
contribute to their their situation. But the problem is the
older people wouldn't want to take an order.
Speaker 6 (30:45):
See.
Speaker 1 (30:46):
Well, but that's I guess, my, my, my, my bigger
point to the whole thing.
Speaker 10 (30:51):
Best paying for all of this dysfunction. Though you are
a lot younger though so and we have already been
through all these wars.
Speaker 1 (30:58):
Yeah, no, and I don't want you to I'm running
out of time, bath, I just want to get a
point in before I run out of time. Okay, So
I'm sorry I had to cut you off there, But
like I realistically right, Like, I'm not suggesting that we're
we're sending people into combat practicing, right, We're talking about
just drilling. We're talking about understanding what it is to
(31:19):
be a part of a team, what it is to
be a useful member of our society, and I'm not
even saying it has to be military service, the civil
service idea, and volunteering and being a part of like
a nonprofit organization for a few months or whatever it
would take. That could be incredibly beneficial to our communities
and also the young minds that that could touch. And
(31:39):
I'm not suggesting this to be anybody like mandatory for
everybody in the entire country. Just you know, something that
is a program for kids who are, you know, eighteen,
twenty twenty two years old. That's all I'm saying. More
on the way on news radio eleven ten kfab
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