11-11-24 - 6am - Veterans Day

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Helloha, Monday.

Speaker 2 (00:02):
It is now one four hundred and fifty seven days
until the next election.

Speaker 1 (00:13):
Stop it, at least somebody's counting. Stop it, just stop it.

Speaker 2 (00:17):
I don't let's just get through the at least a
couple of years before we start that. Today's Veterans Day,
and I have some comments about Veterans Day. I'm not
going to say thank you for your service to all

(00:39):
those veterans, because you volunteered to go serve, and we're
grateful for your service, very very grateful for your service,
and the nation obviously wouldn't survive without your service. However,

(01:03):
there is and this is kind of a conglomeration of
a bunch of things that I saw and heard and
watched over the weekend that made me think about this roughly,
and this just comes from a quick Google search, so

(01:23):
I don't know exactly how accurate it is, but it
fits with what I've read in the past that about
seven percent of the adult population in this country has
served in the military at some point in their lives,
but that percentage decreased and has continued to decrease over time.

(01:47):
Just two years ago, the percentage of veterans in the
US population fell to six percent. In nineteen eighty, about
eighteen percent of US adults were veterans. It also varies
by gender. Male thirteen point four percent of male Americans
have served in the military, female one point four percent

(02:08):
of all female Americans have served in the military. The
states with the highest percentage of veterans are Alaska, Wyoming, Virginia, Maine, Montana,
South Carolina, Nevada, New Mexico, South Dakota, Hawaii. I don't
know if that has anything to do with anything. I
just found it interesting. So roughly eighteen million Americans are

(02:29):
about seven percent of the adult population are veterans of
the United States Armed Forces. I think we're losing touch
and veterans. You may you know, I'd be curious send
me a text message three three one zero three.

Speaker 1 (02:49):
You know, you know the routine.

Speaker 2 (02:52):
But I would be interested in your perspective about how
that affects how people view you as a veteran. Because
you're a minority, You're you're a tiny, tiny seven whereas

(03:13):
and I know you can account for all different reasons
about this, but and for example, I don't you know,
I'm curious. Let me just let me open the Google
machine up real quick. Rotzi. Does ROZI still exist? Yeah,

(03:34):
I use precise location.

Speaker 1 (03:35):
I don't know. I don't care about precise location.

Speaker 3 (03:39):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (03:42):
Coloro School of Mines offers an Army ROTZI, an Air
Force ROTZI program, Reserve Officer Training Corps.

Speaker 1 (03:50):
So that's that's.

Speaker 2 (03:51):
Encouraging to know. The The thing that bugs me is
the loss of connection with veterans. Now, I ran into
veterans all the time because I look for them, or
I don't. It's not like I'm out looking for you
don't get creepers, but I look for indications that you

(04:12):
might be a veteran. A bumper sticker, a pin, a
baseball cap, something that indicates to me that you are
either currently active duty or you.

Speaker 1 (04:21):
Have served in the military.

Speaker 2 (04:25):
And I will again because I know I've had too
many guys say to me. You know, really kind of
drives me nuts when people say thank you for your service,
because it's become so trite. So instead I just tried
to either point at the cap, point at the pen,
do something and just kind of you know, you know,

(04:46):
kind of like that one finger wave we talked about
sometime last week or the week before.

Speaker 1 (04:51):
The head nod.

Speaker 2 (04:52):
Yeah, they head nod just you know the thing that
guys do, just just that look in the eye, the
kind of the point, the acknowledgement, whatever it is, just
so you know that I know that you're a veteran
or that you're currently serving in the US military. But
to disconnect that bothers me is this. I don't think

(05:13):
that most people understand what it means to serve in
the military. I mean, for example, the only reason and again
this is like I kind of like it's what I
kind of know what it's like to have a baby,
only because I've observed babies being born, including my own,
not well not my own, but you know, well that's

(05:35):
how do you say that, because they're not my babies.
They're tamers babies, although I they are not produced from
I participated, right, yeah, I participate.

Speaker 1 (05:46):
Yeah, you spent about twenty seconds. It's good. Yeah. Oh.

Speaker 2 (05:50):
Back in those days, twenty seconds would have been a miracle.
Twenty seconds would have been like, oh honey, I'm exhausted stuff.

Speaker 1 (06:00):
Uh twenty seconds. Uh.

Speaker 2 (06:04):
And it kind of bugs me that we don't fully
comprehend boot camp training, the disruption in family life. If
you have a family, I mean, you know, by family life,
I mean, you know, a spouse and children and you know,
being moved around all of that.

Speaker 1 (06:24):
Uh, we we don't really get that.

Speaker 2 (06:28):
We don't get the deployment and what the deployment means
for people to be gone from home. I have a
couple of friends who do a lot of traveling, and
by and by traveling, I mean for months at a time,
like like one's been gone for like six weeks, and
so we don't have time to go have lunch or

(06:50):
to you know, even you know, just I mean, it
boils down to text message just because he's halfway around
the world. I have another friend who I intend to
see what would like to see before he leaves, is
headed down to Columbia for.

Speaker 1 (07:06):
God knows how. I don't know how long is it
gonna be in Columbia on a secret mission.

Speaker 2 (07:12):
And so I I kind of experience it. But it's
not like a spouse, it's not like a roommate. It's
not like you know, a family member. They're just friends
that you know, they get deployed and they go somewhere
and they're gone for you know, a great length of time.
And in fact, those two while they're going to be gone,

(07:33):
well I was supposed that Columbia is somewhat of a
dangerous place. Well, the whole world's a dangerous place. What
am I saying? But it's not like you're going into
an area of operations. You're not going into a combat zone.
And so I think we lose sight of what it
means to serve in the military. I mean, you know,

(07:54):
there'll be parades and they'll be you know, honors and
and I don't know how you feel, if you're a veteran,
how you feel about this, but there there will be
like specials today. Oh, you know, come in and you know,
show us your card or you know, show us your
military ID, or you know, if you got a baseball cap.
I guess I could just go borrow somebody's baseball cap
and go get And I'm not saying they're doing this today,

(08:14):
but I could go get a you know, a a
double cheeseburger Wendy's for half off or something free.

Speaker 1 (08:21):
Do yeah, free donut, or.

Speaker 2 (08:23):
Come in get a free cup of coffee, or you know,
sheets are half off the day at you know, Mathey's
department store or something. I don't know, but it just
seems to trivialize it. Am I making too much of it.

Speaker 1 (08:34):
I just.

Speaker 2 (08:37):
This this disconnect.

Speaker 1 (08:38):
Kind of bugs me.

Speaker 2 (08:42):
And it's even true in my own life because most
of the cousins or the nephews and nieces, they haven't
joined the military, and so you know, they're not out.

Speaker 1 (08:57):
I have I have.

Speaker 2 (08:59):
I have a cousin whose son was killed very early
on in Iraq, and she still, I mean she, bless
her heart, she still deals with that in an incredibly
difficult way. I know that hasn't what to do more
to do with Memorial Day, But I'm just talking about
the family connection between veterans.

Speaker 1 (09:19):
You know, my dad, you know, a.

Speaker 2 (09:23):
Real command sergeant major as opposed to a fake command
sergeant major, like you know, somebody that we may have
talked about over the past election cycle.

Speaker 1 (09:35):
And growing up with him going to.

Speaker 2 (09:39):
The armory when they would have drills sometimes, you know,
he would let me tag along to observe and watch
and stuff. I found all that fascinating. I love being
able to do that. All of this, I guess just
goes to say that I'd like for everyone today to
whether you run into a veteran or don't run into

(10:00):
a veteran, I'd like for you least to think about it,
Go read about veterans, Go go study a little bit
about the Pentagon and some of the leadership problems we
have at the Pentagon, some of the we're talking about
wokeness later on in the program today about how wokeness
is infecting the military and how it's going to be

(10:24):
It really needs a cultural uh disinfection and a creation
of a of a new tight knit culture. And I
don't mean that as a blanket disparagement of the current culture,
because it's part of it's still good. But you have
to admit that there's some wokeness going on that really

(10:46):
does kind of makes you wonder like were we really ready?
Are we really ready? And then you and then the
other thing that happened. And this isn't directly tied to
the malitary although it very well may be in the
new Trump administration with regard to the southern border and

(11:08):
the invasion that's occurring in this country. Last night, Tara
and I were watching There's Been There, this series on
I Forget Where Paramount plus Netflix, Amazon, No, No.

Speaker 1 (11:22):
Don't care.

Speaker 2 (11:23):
But it's a series with Nicole Kidman and I forget
the the Hispanic woman's name, Uh. One of the guys
off West Michael Kelly, I think that was on the
West Wing. It is a pretty good cast. Morgan Freeman
plays in it. He has a kind of a bit
character that he plays as the Secretary of State or

(11:45):
Secretary of Defense. I forget which one he plays. But
in the in the series last Night, not to no
spoiler alert here, but they're they're conducting, they're they're going
through this. This is the new season, and the seasons
kind of connect, but they have always had to do

(12:06):
with a different mission. And so in this mission the
CIA is involved in, and of course the CIA is
really pissed off about it. But long story short, there
is a congresswoman that gets kidnapped. She gets hauled across
the southern border. CIA comes in and extracts her. They

(12:28):
then realized that that may have been a setup, that
it was a it was a test, you know how
terrorists do tests to penetrate and see how far they
can penetrate. Because their ability to capture her and get
her out of that captivity was very, very easy. So

(12:49):
in their after action report they realize, oh, we were
set up on this one. They captured her but then
made it easy for us. The kidnapped her, but made
it easy for us to h to retriever and that
led to some a little bit of cooperation between the
DEA and the CIA in trying to stop the cartels

(13:11):
in doing some of their drug trafficking. But in the
course of the story last night, they decide that there
is this warehouse across the border that they are going.

Speaker 1 (13:24):
To go.

Speaker 2 (13:28):
Capture or seize or do whatever, and they're doing it
in cooperation with the DEA. But the DEA doesn't have
the equipment, of manpower or the wherewithal to do it,
so the CIA team has to come in and do it,
this quick reaction force, and so they they've got eyes
on the warehouse. The DA has all of their satellite imagery.

(13:52):
Everything is outdated. It's in fact, I think it's like
a month old. So the CIA guys are rolling their eyes, like, really,
we're supposed to go in. Your eyes are a month
old on this building. How do we know what happened
last night?

Speaker 1 (14:05):
How do we know? You know? It's current.

Speaker 2 (14:07):
So the CIA puts their current eyes on it and
they look at it. They come up with a plan.
They go in. They they do it under the cover
of darkness because they can see in the dark, and
obviously the cartels cannot and China is a part of
what they think is going on. Obviously, this this is

(14:28):
really has ties to real life. So they assassinate everybody
on the on the ground, they assassinate the feder allies
that are coming to obviously because they're in cahoots with
the cartels. And they blow open the door and they
walk in and the warehouse is full of human beings,

(14:53):
boys and girls, teenagers, women, some men. They're kind of separated,
and the CIA officers are shocked. They're looking at each other, like,
what do we do now? This is supposed to be
a drug operation. As I sit and I watched this,

(15:13):
I realized that this is art imitating life and it
really bugs me. It really really bugs me because that
is what's going on. And so one of the CIA
officers walks over to because they can't do anything now

(15:35):
because they've got to just you know, they've killed everybody out,
you know, it's been guarding the building, so they you know,
they they've got all the doors open so all these
people can escape. How they're going to escape and where
they're going to go, I don't know, but they all
start funneling out, but she stopped. A little girl. She
puts a tracker. She speaks Spanish, uh, and she puts
a tracker in her sneakers. Instructs her to keep that there,

(15:58):
not to anybody know that it's there, so they can
at least kind of track the movement of these people.
And I I'm watching this, and I'm thinking the media
in this country has done a horrible disservice by not
showing us the reality of what human trafficking is and

(16:23):
what's occurring under our noses. And then as I as
my thought process begins to develop, then I start getting
very very angry, because it's one thing to think about. Yeah,
the cartels are supplying a product for which there is
a demand in this country for that product. So there's

(16:45):
a there whether the whether the demand for the product
is created or occurs naturally as immaterial, there is a
demand for the products. There's a demand for coke, there's
a demand for fentanyl, there's a demand for heroin. There's
a demand for all these drugs because of American society.
Stop and think for a moment. There's a demand on

(17:09):
the northern side of the Mexican border for little boys
and girls. There's a demand for men, for middle aged
women for what, well, you know, for what do I
have to spell it out? Sex trafficking, human trafficking, slavery,

(17:32):
all of those things. So when Trump talks about perhaps
we need to use the US military, perhaps it is.
And I don't want to sound like some neo con
here this wanting to take over Mexico. But between China
and Mexico and that trade route, and then the trade

(17:55):
route between Mexico and for that matter, all the southern
countries South America, for America, and all those humans coming
into this country. Forget the ones that want to be
farm workers. I'm talking about the ones who are being
forced into this country for sex trafficing and human traphics.
We're a sick nation. We're a truly sick nation, and

(18:20):
we need some healing. We need some.

Speaker 1 (18:22):
Medication, we need something. Happy Veterans Morning, fair face, morning
ding dong.

Speaker 3 (18:29):
Happy Veterans Day to my brothers and sisters out there,
Enjoy the day. If you're struggling with PTSD, don't become
one of the twenty two reach out talk to somebody.
Dial nine to eight eight, get the help that you need.

Speaker 2 (18:48):
Please, absolutely, absolutely do that. So a friend of mine
this listening right now, says, I humbly disagree with you.
I will be thanking all of our veterans I see it.
I will be thanking all of our veterans I see
at the homeless shelter today, every single one to the
VA couldn't help, or society couldn't help. We've talked them

(19:13):
out and left them on their own when they needed us.
That's why people aren't signing up. There's no payoff or respect.

Speaker 1 (19:24):
I think.

Speaker 2 (19:25):
I think what Carol may misunderstand me about is I
don't I don't walk up and say thank you for
your service. I acknowledge their service because I think, and
here's where Caroline may disagree. I think the thank you

(19:45):
for your service, at least from the veterans that i've
I've spoken to, that that's become too trite. It's become
too just. That's the easy that's the easy thing for
those of us who have not served, for those who
will never serve, for those who maybe feel just like, oh,

(20:08):
I got to say something because well, you know, there's
no part with the World War two, cap on, I
got to say something. It's yes, we've abandoned. Too many
of them, too many of them suffered from PTSD. You know,
one of the things that we have that that is

(20:31):
a double edged sword, is that our ability to survive
injuries has become so good on the battlefield that that's
why we have so many wounded veterans because before you
think about many of the previous wars, you were lucky

(20:54):
to survive, if at all, simply because maybe there was
there was a there was a heelo that was able
to get you out fast enough to get you to
some to some place where they could, you know, save
your life. Today, hells bell things save your life right
there on the field, right there on the battleground. So

(21:15):
we end up with a lot of wounded veterans, which
is why we have all these organizations that do all
these things. But don't even get me started on the VA.
And I know the VA. Different people have different opinions,
and I think that oftentimes depends upon what local VA
hospital or facility that you're using. Because hearing from people

(21:36):
all across the country, I hear a range of the
V A absolutely such to the VA saved my life.
It goes across the entire spectrum. What I'm trying to
convey is obviously I must not be doing a very
good job of it is just an acknowledgement that you know,

(21:59):
maybe ought to be that instead of, you know, thank
you for your service, how about telling a veteran that
you appreciate their service, you acknowledge their service, and that
you recognize that they're doing something that ninety three percent
of the rest of the population is either unwilling or
incapable of doing.

Speaker 1 (22:20):
See.

Speaker 2 (22:20):
I think that's the difference. These men and women have
stepped up to do something. And again, does it take
It took ten percent of the colonists to successfully carry
off the American Revolution, Well, it's taking seven percent. So see,
it's always that ten percent group, in this case, seven

(22:41):
percent of the American population that has served that is
protecting the country and protecting freedom around the world. A
tiny minority, less than ten percent, not even ten percent.
So I would just encourage you to figure out some way.
I'll give examples of the text messages. Michael, I think

(23:11):
I think it may become like all the virtue signals
that are woke that our woke culture has created. Well,
I think that's scuber number forty four sixty seven I
think we're kind of saying the same thing. You're You're like,
it's kind of virtue signaling, and I'm kind of like
it's become too trite forty three sixty six, Mike, it's

(23:33):
about how wokeness and DEI are destroying our military. Most
of the guys are US and a grads. Oh, forty
six seventy nine Michael, being a veteran, and I never
take advantage of food gifts or discounts on veterans to day,
because it just doesn't feel right to do so. Give

(23:54):
all of that to someone who needs it. Michael, the
series is lying this. I think I said, did I
not say? The series I was talking about in that
last segment is a series called Lioness. There's I think
three seasons of it, four seasons.

Speaker 1 (24:07):
I forget.

Speaker 2 (24:08):
We're on the most current season nine zero six zero Mike.
Most colleges and universities have forced Ratze off their campuses.
This is pretty interesting. Sixty two zero eight Mike, retired
US Navy. Here, when I get a thank you for
my service, my reply is the Navy thanks me every month?

Speaker 1 (24:28):
Got it one.

Speaker 2 (24:32):
Let's just acknowledge that today, you know, and speaking of
which the stupidity of the stupid stuff that we get
on Veterans Day. So I get an email. I forget
how oft when I get this email? But I have
bought something called I bought something from an outfit called
the International Wine Accessories, so you know, like wine storage

(24:57):
and cooling products, glassware accessories, gifts, things like that. Why
got an email literally from them at six am? Sway,
I didn't know. It's just now thank you for your service.
Veterans and active military personnel get ten percent off through Wednesday.

(25:18):
So this is what I mean. Don't they deserve more
like the gratitude of a nation than ten percent off
some wineglasses or a wine refrigerator. Don't don't you deserve?
And by the way, to receive the promo code for

(25:40):
saving ten percent, please send your proof of military service
to info at iwy iwawine dot com so you can
get your ten percent off on this new set of
wine glasses. But you gotta do it between now and Wednesday,
and you get ten percent off. And I'm thinking to myself,
ten percent. That's the kind of this same organ I'm
not picking up. They just happen to be the one

(26:01):
that sent the first email, But I'll get a dozen
of these today, if not more, ten percent off. Wow,
So you put your life on the line, you deployed,
you were gone for you know, months or not years.

Speaker 1 (26:16):
At a time.

Speaker 2 (26:17):
When you come back and you can get a set
of wine that's for ten percent off, that's pretty Dragon's
back there thinking to himself, Gee, how do I fake that?
How do I fake some and he doesn't even drink?
How do I fake a military ID so I can
get ten percent off on Veterans Day?

Speaker 3 (26:30):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (26:30):
Like, we just trivialize it. I think that's the point
I'm trying to make. Whereas someone like Carol doesn't need
to necessarily say thank you, because every single day that
she's taking care of a homeless veteran, she's actually doing something.
By Carol's own actions, she is doing something to physically,

(26:55):
actually substantively thank a veteran as opposed to giving them.
Since you're already homeless, I can't give you ten percent off,
but I'll just give.

Speaker 1 (27:07):
You extra good cleaning today, That's what I'll do.

Speaker 2 (27:10):
And extra good cleaning, or I'll see if I can't
find you a more tighter fitting pair of boots to
wear or something.

Speaker 1 (27:19):
Oh, it's just.

Speaker 2 (27:22):
A bugaboo about me because I've been I've been lectured
by too many veterans, and so I'm gun shy about
saying thank you for your service. But I do want
to acknowledge it because too many Americans have become disassociated
with the military. And I think one of the things

(27:46):
that Trump will do is he will be a commander
in chief that people will want to serve and if
they see that, they're not going to be deployed to
you know, a to well, not that we deployed people
to Ukraine yet, but a mission, a well defined mission.

(28:10):
We're going to go in and we're going to do X,
Y and Z. We're going to accomplish and fulfill the mission,
and then we're going to get out. So Veterans Day,
you figure out your way, I'll give that wink, I'll

(28:33):
give that little.

Speaker 1 (28:34):
Manly nod, yeah, and give the acknowledgment.

Speaker 2 (28:43):
And if you've got an idea suggestion about how you
would do it differently, well, then send me a text
and I'll certainly consider as a different way to do it.
Oh let me do this real quickly. Oh do this.
Oh this is pretty good. Seventeen thirteen until I retired,

(29:06):
I never got Veterans Day off. Sixty nine ninety seven.
Check the VA in your area. They may be low
on some of these things. Uh, there you go. That's
a great way to say thank you. Or sixty six
ninety eight, Michael, Government to really give a little more,
a bit more to the veterans would be good companies.

(29:28):
Government to really give a little bit more to the
veterans would be good companies. Give given the ten percent discount,
no tax, Military veterans should not pay tax at all
and services. I would go so far to say that
they should not have to pay property taxes as well.

Speaker 1 (29:47):
Have a good day.

Speaker 2 (29:49):
Did we just vote in some sort of additional exemption
for military veterans on property taxes in Colorado? I think
that passed. I think we got that one. And yeah,
that would be a good way to do it too.
So anyway, happy Veterans Day and thank you for your service.

Speaker 1 (30:08):
Brandy.

Speaker 3 (30:09):
I agree with you about that ten percent. Hell, I
get fifteen percent if I click the little boxes send
me emails every week.

Speaker 2 (30:16):
That yeah, And the sad part is, rick, you're getting
ten and fifteen percent when really all you deserve is
five percent or maybe two and a half percent forty
one thirty seven. Michael, the people in the all volunteer
all volunteer Military are the most honorable and the best

(30:37):
of the best. But the real purpose it was created
was so the rest of the nation didn't have to
give a darn and that has been wildly successful. I'm
sure you know in DC that you say, when there's
a list of reasons for something, you can be certain
the real reason is never.

Speaker 1 (30:53):
On that list. That's exactly right.

Speaker 2 (30:56):
Also, as a nation, we have completely dishonored the World
War II generation by walking away from and mostly destroying
everything they fought for and believed in everything. Thank you
for being on the air this morning. Tip of the
CAPTI all who serve and have served or seventy five
ninety two. I love this one. Insulting veteran discounts just

(31:18):
another example of how America has chosen the wrong idols
to worship. Yes, thank you for going out and risking
your entire life. You can today between today and Wednesday,
but you have to provide proof. You can get ten
percent off at International Wine Accessories. So if you knew
if you need a new wine decanter for your you
know your Pino and will wait. You know, thank you

(31:41):
for risking life and Limb, well you get ten percent
off on one hundred and twenty dollars, you know, decanter.

Speaker 3 (31:47):
We.

Speaker 2 (31:49):
Have such screwed up, we have such screwed up priorities
in this country, so screwed up.

Speaker 1 (31:56):
So just I don't know, just I have to be
careful with this one.

Speaker 2 (32:01):
But there are some companies that have Veterans Day as
a holiday, and I think Veterans Day should be a
national holiday as opposed to, oh, I don't know, June teenth, Juneteenth,
the celebration of when that final group of slaves and

(32:26):
Civil War soldiers down in Galveston. Now I think about
that tiny little I mean, it's a great story, don't
get me wrong, it's a great story. But we're talking
about a very minute group of people who finally learned
the slaves have been freed and the war was over.
And we make that a national holiday. But we don't

(32:46):
make now I know that banks, I sing, aren't banks
closed today? The banks and the post office are closed today, right, correct? Yes,
But some companies will rather celebrate Juneteenth, then they would
Veterans Day. Veterans Day, which encompasses.

Speaker 1 (33:05):
The entire the entirety of the.

Speaker 2 (33:07):
Of the history of the nation, anyone who has served,
anyone who is a veteran of the United States military
from seventeen seventy six through twenty twenty four, this is
a day that we honor you. But yeah, some guys, well, no,
we're not going to do that. But for that tiny
little group of people down in Galveston, yeah, we'll make that.
We'll make that a company holiday. It just doesn't make

(33:32):
any sense to me. Prioroids are screwed up. And meanwhile,
our school school, schools are open to the dragon.

Speaker 1 (33:43):
I don't think so, because it is that the federal
holidays of the bank's post office. I'm pretty sure our schools.

Speaker 2 (33:51):
So I don't know, because I was going to say
that if schools are open today, what a great day.
If there is, if there's classroom teaching going on today,
what a great day to focus on veterans.

Speaker 1 (34:05):
Have some veterans come in and talk about the military.
That's what the military does.

Speaker 2 (34:10):
How about a history teacher coming in and bringing some
veterans in and talking about their experiences and what they learned,
the life skills they learned about all of that make
it a great day of recruitment.

Speaker 1 (34:23):
Wow, I'm it's Monday morning and I'm hearing of them