March 22, 2025 • 29 mins
In this episode of Wake Up with Patti Katter, we welcome Travis Partington, a Marine Corps veteran and the host of Oscar Mike Radio. Travis brings his passion for highlighting real-life military experiences, advocating for veterans, and keeping the community informed on the issues that matter most.
🔥 What You’ll Hear in This Episode:
✅ Travis’s journey from military service to podcasting
✅ How Oscar Mike Radio is giving a voice to veterans
✅ The biggest challenges veterans face today and how we can help
✅ Insights into the importance of storytelling and veteran advocacy
✅ A few laughs, some hard truths, and a whole lot of inspiration
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Hi everybody. You're listening to another
episode of Wake Up with Patty Katter.
Today I have Travis Partington on the show with me.
Travis, welcome to the show. Patty, it's great to be here on
a nice, cold, snowy New England day.
So I I'm just excited to talk with you again.
Thank you. You know, I think you're my
first guest from New England. Well, I mean, hopefully that's a
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sign of things to come. Right, I heard you have good
soup. We do, We do.
Clam chowder is good up here, nodoubt.
Awesome. What I'd love you to do is to
tell our guests a little bit about yourself.
I'm really curious if you were born in New England.
I've I mean. It's kind of no, I, I was not
born in New England. I was born in the Midwest,
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actually. And then my parents moved down
to the South from there. I joined the Marine Corps and
served out in at MCASUMA, one ofthe hottest places in the
county, United States, and then moved here after my Marine Corps
service. I'm a dad of three sons.
I do my show OM Radio, which is how Patty and I met.
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I love motorcycles, Freedom flingers and weightlifting and
archery. So any number of those things,
Dad 1st and I'm happy to be here.
Thank you. So let's throw it back a little
ways. When you were younger, before
you joined the Marine Corps, canyou tell us anything about your
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life of like, why in the heck did you want to join the
Marines? Like what brought that up?
Well, it was starts with my grandfathers.
They both served in World War 2 in the Navy and I was always
like odd seeing their old uniform pictures and you know,
they were the typical, you know,pulse World War 2 grandfathers,
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you know, the Hickory stick and all that good stuff.
That's what they believed in. And then, you know, in when I
was in Louisiana, that's where Ijoined the Marine Corps out of
there was a time in my life where I wasn't really sure what
was going on. I I could go to school if I
wanted to and didn't really likethat.
And, you know, had this, I was going for a singing scholarship
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at a local school down there. I said, you know, school's
tough, school's tough, Patty, you know, I'm going to do the
tough thing. I'm going to do the easy thing
and join the Marine Corps because I need some direction in
life and, and that'll be easier than school, right?
What can I say? I'm at least I'm an air wing
Marine. But and, and it, it's kind of
funny because Shreveport Bossieris the home of the strategic 8th
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Air Command. It's an Air Force town and I saw
how the Air Force people did. It was pretty cool.
You know, went on base several times.
Like, man, this is pretty all right now I forget all that.
We're going to join the Marine Corps.
And I think it's because I, I wanted to, you know, reboot my
life, do something epic and, youknow, claim that title of the US
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Marine is as simple as that. Well, I'm sure you even wake up
today and you're still a Marine.Once you're a Marine, you are
always a Marine. Never ends, never ends.
The change is forever, Patty. So tell me, I want to know about
your first couple of days in boot camp.
Well, they do the typical sleep deprivation thing to kind of get
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you pliable and then you get marched around and, you know,
tons of shots and stuff like that.
And it, it was, it was not fun. I went to boot camp out in San
Diego. So it's kind of like this weird
mental thing where it's so beautiful.
The weather is great and you know, there's all this, you
know, you're right smack dab in downtown San Diego getting
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smoked. It's kind of like hell can be
anywhere. And it was a huge, huge
adjustment. Of course, there's the planes
taking off right off from MCRD. And I remember I'm in boot camp
and one of my drill instructors said, hey, I'll tell you what,
I'll give you a head start. I'll give you 200 yards and he's
smoking me really hard. All you got to do is just beat
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me to the to the air airport andif you make it, you can leave.
Come on, Partington. Come on, recruits just over
there. Come on, go.
You know you want to go, right? And I'm like me, I, I could make
it. I could make it.
That's how they started messing with you mentally while you're
in San Diego. And people don't talk about that
a whole lot. But there it was, Patty.
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I'm literally a stone's throw away from the airport, watching
the planes go away and realizingyou're stuck here in hell.
And the food. Tell us about that.
I don't get into these conversations too often.
I just was thinking you would bethe perfect candidate to talk
about some of this stuff. The food wasn't bad.
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I I got to tell you, the food wasn't bad.
Well, the food wasn't bad until we had to go to an Air Force
Base. I think it was, it wasn't Luke
Air Force Base. That's Phoenix area.
It was, it was one of the Air Force bases in north of LA to
pick up Marines coming off a Medfloat.
And we got to sit in the Air Force chow hall and I was like,
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Dang, this is nice. And then I did hawk school at
Fort Bliss. And the Army does food right.
The Army does food right. But boot camp food wasn't bad.
It's, it's high calorie, high energy food to get you through
the day. You're burning anywhere from 12
to 18,000 calories a day. So the food is designed to fuel
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you. And if you eat enough, you'll,
you know, whether you eat enoughor not, you're going to lose
weight anyway. So it it was plentiful, it was
good at the time and you know, Igot through it that way, so.
How in the world did you go frombeing in the Marines to when you
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were getting out? Let's start there.
When you were getting out of theMarines, was it something that
you were excited about? Was it something you had to do?
You know, how was that transition for you?
Well, I was unique in, in 2 respects 1, you know, I got
injured and so was getting out that way.
If I was going to stay in, maybewe would have done it
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differently. But where I was unique is and,
and the missile on my shirts, the missile I crewed in the
Marine Corps was being replaced by Patriot.
We, we, we found out later the Marine Corps knew they were
getting rid of Hawk before we got to Hawk school, our
government to work. But anyway, it was a cool MOS.
I, I loved it. But about halfway through we
said, Hey, you're going to pack up all the stuff and go.
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So there wasn't really a job forus.
We were given, you know, cook artillery and maybe a couple
other MO s s to go to and that was it.
And if you wanted corporal, if you want to get promoted, you
had to to re enlist because whenthey cancelled hawk, if you were
a last corporal, which is what Iwas, the score for corporal was
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like 800 points higher than it was for Sergeant.
They effectively froze you out. So it was one of those things
where, well, I, I was hurting, Ihad injured my knee and right
knee in the Marine Corps. And the rehab was going to take
a long time. And if you can't PT in the
Marine Corps, you, you can't really be a Marine.
And that's just a brutal, brutaltruth.
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And so my command and, you know,so, hey, this is what we're
going to do. It's really for the best.
You get your VA stuff, you'll beall set, you know, Super 5, see
you later. And there was no hard feelings
there, Patty. There was no like umrage there.
I got, I understood and it was the right call.
It was the right call. But that's what happened to me
is I was a super cool MOS. There's something about watching
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that hot missile take off the launcher.
There's something about engaginga target, you know, 20-3 miles
away, you know, and it's it's going, you know, Mach one plus.
That was really, really a, a very cool thing to do.
But yet the reality was that wasover and I I moved on and it was
OK. Yeah, that must have been a
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really big adrenaline rush. It is.
I'm telling you it is still is. When I see it in video, I'm
like, yes, because you hear the boom that you'll hear the the
and that's not the missile igniting, that's the missile
breaking the sound barrier rightafter it gets off the launcher.
That's and it's a rush. It's all the IT.
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It never gets old so. When you're a kid, I'm sure you
didn't imagine doing all that. No, no.
When I was a kid, I thought I was going to do this or that.
I, I didn't really know what I wanted to do and, or if I could,
you know, do stuff like that. And I think that's the thing
that I really got on the Marine Corps is when you put your mind
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to something, the Marine Corps tells you how to break it down
into small steps and and never quit, make progress, you know,
fall back, regroup and then charge at the objective again
until you, you know, adapt, overcome and achieve.
Wow. We're going to pause right here
for just a second because I wantto give a shout out to Upknife.
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And Upknife is a really cool company that helps women protect
themselves with very easy to useknives.
I don't know if you're a woman and you're watching this, you
guys, I put mine in my pocket and you can pull it out and you
can pull this sucker as fast as you can blink your eyes.
So pretty cool stuff. So go over to upknife.com.
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All right, Travis, So getting back on track, I just really had
to give that that shout out to Knife.
They've been so great with me and supportive of the show.
So, Travis, let's get back for asecond here.
So you're getting out of the military and you're
transitioning out. You kind of feel like you're a
little bit jacked up. It sounds like your knees
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hurting. You know, you, you, you're kind
of probably trying to look for some direction.
What were you feeling when you got out?
And did you know what you were going to do next?
Or most Marines I talked to, they don't know what they're
going to do when they get out. So the only thing I need to do
when I got out and I, I got out of the Marine Corps and I rode
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my motorcycle from Yuma, AZ to Boston, MA.
And I think that I think doing that looking back really kind of
helped me, you know, decompress,kind of understand what's going
on and try to figure out what was what I needed to do.
And the only thing I really remember from TAPS class was to
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go to your local veteran services officer and talk to
them and sign up for whatever they had.
And so I, I, I, I go to the, thelocal Rep at the time, he was a
master Sergeant, Army Master Sergeant Joe Colantonio, God
rest his soul, you know, looked at me like my D214.
And then, you know, I thought I was back in Marine Corps
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position of attention. He's like, you're going to do
this, this, this, this and this and report back to me in 2 weeks
and better have it done. And I'm like, yes, Master
Sergeant, I will absolutely do that.
And it was things around, you know, signing up for, that's
just programs at the Commonwealth of Massachusetts
had different things the town had and understand what those
could do for me. And you know, like a year and a
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half later, I got this opportunity to go to this
computer school because even though Hawk is a very high
technical MOS, you had to be, you had to make the GT score to
do it. You had to understand the
technical aspects of it, so on and so forth.
I didn't have a piece of paper from the civilian side saying
that I'm technical, the DD214 was not good enough.
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I didn't understand that. I still understand that, but
that's the, that's the game. You got to play it.
So I, I went to the school, got a piece of paper saying I was
cynical. And then, you know, I, I got a,
a job working for a recruiting agency and then got a job
working for a financial servicesfirm.
And for anybody. I think the thing with
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transition is so hard is becauseeverybody's story is different.
You know, some, some people get out.
Like I talked to World War 2 veterans, Patty, who got off the
train, parents picked them up. They went back to their room,
which hadn't really been, you know, cleaned out or anything,
you know, went to bed, got up, went to church with her parents
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on Sunday morning and Monday. Their dad had a job for them and
they started work and didn't really think anything of it.
And then he talked to some people who, you know, it took
them a couple years to find a job and get going.
Or if they're, you know, damagedfrom service and they're trying
to get rehab done, it's a very different story.
So the only thing I would tell people getting out is you have
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to start the process early, develop the relationships and
then, you know, expand yourself to take care advantage of
opportunities. Absolutely.
What would you say your challenging time was in, in that
period right there? I guess this is your challenging
time. Sorry, it's been a long week,
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but what was the most challenging part about that
transition for you personally? Like what were your real
feelings like? What were you thinking?
It's a great question for me because I did not grow up in New
England. I'm not from Massachusetts.
It's it's fine. 20 years later, I'm still asshole.
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You're not from around here, areyou?
I'm like, no, I'm not. I, I think when I reflected, I
missed my family, some of my friends, and what I knew a lot
more than I let on. And I didn't know how to
articulate that. And I didn't know how to get
around that until much, much later.
But that, that gap, I think really affected me a lot more
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than I wanted to admit. And I didn't know how to talk
about it or work around that. You know, I think a lot of
Marines, at least all the ones that I've met, they have a
harder time communicating sometimes.
And I'm wondering, is that just maybe because of their
personality when they went into the Marines, or they are taught
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to kind of guard what you say towho?
And can you tell me is it a natural thing for all Marines?
Just is it embedded in you already before you join?
And then you just pop out of themilitary like, oh, I don't
really want to disclose anythingto anybody, including my family
members, because I'm soft that way.
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It's, it's twofold, right? You go in the Marine Corps,
maybe you are weak. Maybe you are, you know, not
really, you know, strong in who you are, right.
And so the Marine Corps will strip all that down, rebuild you
to something else. And if you ask for help or show
weakness or vulnerability after you get out, you're thought of
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as less than a person because there's women that serve too.
And people will wonder, well, you know, is this what the
Marines really put out? So there's this, I'm not saying
a a real pressure, arbitrary need to, you know, maintain a
certain level behavior after youget out.
But when they say the change is forever, they're not kidding.
There's certain aspects of me that the Marine Corps change for
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the rest of my life that I and Ican't get around that.
So I I think it's a combination of both.
I I agree with that. I can usually spot a marine in a
room. If there's a room full of
veterans or a room full of people, you always can spot that
marine. The shoulders back, the head
high, the confidence. You picked up on that pretty
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quickly, Patty. Yeah, I'm like, oh, you're a
Marine? Yeah, easy.
Yeah. So you're a big guy, those of
you, if you're watching, you cankind of see.
But he's huge. Like how tall are you?
Well, I'm 510, Patty. No, are you?
I mean, I wouldn't be surprised because I'm short.
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You seem like, well, I'm larger than life, let's put it like
that. I feel like you're 6 foot six
well. I mean, some people, you know,
get the Travs experience upfrontand you know, they, they think
I'm very big and that's all right, no problem.
We will use that accordingly. Absolutely.
OK, so if you're listening, he'sreally 6 foot 6.
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Oh, that's hilarious. So I was going to ask you.
This is going to be extra funny then, and I don't want to sound
like a ditz, right? But I was going to ask, is there
any kind of height requirement or are you not allowed to be so
short in the Marines? Because I met a lot of different
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people, different sizes. A lot of Marines are very big.
They're very tall or at least they get big once they join the
the Marines. And maybe too, it's not just the
height stature, right? A lot of y'all get huge.
Like I met one guy, he was a poster boy for the Marines and I
do remember he wasn't very tall but he appeared very big.
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And I think it was just because he was had that confidence about
him, but also he worked out all the time.
Well, so I, I'm a competitive weight lifter now that that's I,
I do that. I train four days a week.
I, I just, I just got off a national meet, you know, two
months ago. So, yeah, there, but there is a
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height requirement. I forget what it is.
You do not want to be. And there's a weight requirement
too. A lot of us.
And you know, I'll be honest with you, I went to boot camp,
weighed about 205 lbs. When I left boot camp, I weighed
about 176 lbs. So the Marine Corps diet plan is
effective, but also we have these things called double and
triple rats because these were like 100 and 10105 LB guys
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trying to, you know, get throughboot camp.
And like I said, you're, you're,you're consuming, you know, 10,
you're burning 10 to 18,000 calories a day.
So they would get like two to three times of food and have to
shovel it all down in the chow hall during, you know, chow.
And it wasn't fun for them either.
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And it's really needed like the Marine Corps is a physically
demanding, punishing job to yourbody.
And you need to be able to, you know, do your job and, and in
the silent drill team, I think the the height requirement there
is like 6162. All those Marines are tall
individuals because, and they want them uniform.
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So that, and that's just the wayit works.
Taller guys have an easier job running, easier job humping than
you know smaller guys do. But you know, adapt and overcome
and achieve. So actually, I think maybe
that's it. You're just a big guy.
So tell us about this weightlifting thing or this
bodybuilding that you're into. So I do the Olympic style
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weightlifting, the snatch and the Klingon jerk.
I've done it since I was like 17years old, and last December I
went to a national competition in my age group.
I'm in the masters division now,which is a fancy way of saying
the old guys division, but I placed third nationally at this
meet. It was a really big deal for me
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because, you know, three years ago I ruptured my quadricep
tendon. It was my old Marine Corps
injury coming due and I didn't really think about it, didn't
really ever have it watched. And all of a sudden, you know, I
had to recover from that and theMarine Corps way got me through
a lot of that recovery and PT side.
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But I went to a national meat Patty and got it done.
You know, Chesty, I think would be proud.
Wow, that's amazing. You know, especially with your
knee injury, I think that's really intriguing because it
shows that you can still do something if you put your mind
to it. Wow.
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So how does podcasting fit in all of this for you?
Because you do have a podcast. I do well.
So OM Radio, which is my podcast, I started in 2016.
You've been in this game longer than I have and that's very
cool. It was my way to kind of reboot
my life in from 2011 to 2015. Life was really bad for me
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personally. I had, you know, feelings of no
self worth. I didn't feel like a, like a
marine at all. I I was really questioning, you
know, what life is all about. But also during that time you'll
remember you're very cognizant of this is that's when we really
had to start facing this whole 22 a day, a specter that was
overhanging our country. And I was a member of the Marine
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Corps League and we would bury people who had commit suicide.
We, we did, you know, we do our ceremony, the ritual, and you'll
send those people hopefully to aplace of resting and comfort the
families. And I'd like, you know what,
this is just bad. This sucks.
This is terrible. I want to do something.
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I didn't know what to do. I love radio.
We can go into that. You know, it's my first job.
My first job was at 98 Rocks in Shreveport, LA.
So I love radio. I'm like, I'll, I'll do radio.
Well, you know, that's expense, airtime's expensive and you got
to have time to do your show. My I really couldn't do that for
a lot of reasons. I'll do a podcast, it's called
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Oscar Margarita because we're, you know, I think that we, you,
all of us are on the move, on mission for our veterans, for
active duty service members and the Americans that support them.
So that's where that got started.
That's incredible. When you were on the radio, were
you able to talk about the veteran issues or what did you
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talk about there? Well, I was, I would, I would do
guest hosting at AM station in Taunton, MA.
And that's why they brought me in.
And that's where I got my first experience was when they had a
veteran, you know, event or nonprofit or even like a local
politician. They they, they like what I did,
how I sounded, and they want to be there to talk with them.
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You do have a great voice. I told you that when I first met
you, I could hear you talking inthe room and I'm like, who is
this person? I need to meet this person.
He has the perfect radio voice. Who's one of the most memorable
people you've interviewed? Oh wow, there's all of them are
memorable in their own way, right?
I mean, I think you would agree with me, but I think two of them
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that come to mind are you have that Benavidez Garcia.
She is the daughter of Roy Garcia, the the Medal of Honor
winner from the Vietnam War. And she talks about her father's
service and, and what that meantto her and the challenges that
family faced. And it really you you don't ever
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hear from the children of service members that much,
right? At least in my travels and
talkings, you just don't. So it was nice to talk with her.
And then another one recently isLauren Burns.
If you remember the the TV moviemade about the fact that she was
captured from the US and taken to Jordan.
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And she talks about the veteranswho came and, you know, rescued
her and brought her back to United States.
It's just a really good story ofhow appreciative someone is of
veterans in the United States and how proud they are to be an
American. That is incredible.
And I'm like you. I think I'd rather talk to a
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veteran or an everyday hero who's doing amazing things than
celebrities. It's funny, people will ask me
like, what celebrities have you met?
And I really have to think aboutit.
I know I've met a lot, but they don't mean as much.
Like there are still great people, of course, but they're
not is in Heroes. Right, heroes.
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It's just different. It just hits different.
So here's a fun question for you.
Have you ever had a time during an interview that you had like a
mishap or a blooper or somethingkind of funny?
Oh yes, yes, I have. And I've done the classic one.
I've got my Zoom H6. You know, we're sitting there at
the coffee shop or the park or whatever and we're vibing in
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about 7 minutes in the interview.
I'm like, Oh my God, I didn't hit the record button.
Oh yes, and the Zoom is great because the red indicator light
right by the record button tellsyou you're recording visually.
And I'm like, Oh my God, like what do you do?
And that's just a very like, oh,you just got to own it.
But a couple times that happened.
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And then I just have a checklistthat says, hey, is the red light
on? We're ready to go.
Oh. My goodness, I was interviewing
a guy, Victoria blends, and Victoria's father is a military
veteran. And this kid, Victoria, he's got
like millions of followers on TikTok and he goes around and he
gives people guys haircuts. And while he's giving him a
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haircut, he is motivational to them and everything.
And I was so excited to interview Victoria because I'm
like, wow, this kid is incredible.
He's got this motivation. He's all tattooed out and like
in the inner city, just giving these cuts to these kids and,
and I'm talking to him and all of a sudden my seat that I was
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in, it was one of those seats that you can adjust.
It just started going down and down and down.
And like, so finally I'm like down here while he's talking,
trying to like pump it back up. Well, nobody could see, but that
was probably my biggest blooper.And then I'll have to admit
today it was kind of topping thecake here when I said that you
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were huge and you're like, I'm 510.
Like that kind of put a damper on things.
Well. I I I'm not small.
You're not wrong. I'm not small.
I'm not small. You're not.
Look at these myths. Yeah, I mean, it's pretty cool
though. You're going to, you're going to
be happy for the rest of the day, like, oh wow, she said.
It was huge. Because guys think that's cool,
I guess, right? Well, I mean, it is absolutely.
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So where can people find your podcast?
In your website and your social media so.
Website is OM radio.com you can go on Facebook, OM radio,
Instagram OM under score radio just one of those things
YouTube, OM radio just OM radio,you'll find me and please again
Spotify Apple podcast like shareand subscribe sharing it
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definitely. Yes, that's so important.
Yes, everybody, please go followTravis.
He is an awesome guy. I've met him in person.
You know, I say that about all my guests, but I really vet
everybody carefully. And Travis, your kindness and
your personality and your encouragement to people is so
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great and so important. Travis sat on a panel with me at
the Pod Fest in Orlando and man,you all should have heard the
encouragement that he gave. And not only that, he really,
really cares about what he does.I have got to say to Travis
recorded the episode of the, I say the episode, the panel, and
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he was the only one who took thetime to do that.
He was very thoughtful in that process.
So thank you for doing that, Travis, and we'll be sure to
link that so people go over to your YouTube and follow you as
well. Appreciate it.
Thank you very much. It was a great panel and I
really like the aspect that we included civilians in that
conversation and I really liked when you got the audience
involved. It really changed the whole the
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whole energy in the whole room that time.
Oh my gosh. Well, thank you.
I could not have done it withoutyou.
And I'm so happy to have you on my panel.
And I mean, I think you you really helped make the day.
So thank you. Thank you very much.
Thanks. All right, everybody, thank you
so much for listening and joining me again next Saturday
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Hi everybody. You're listening to another
episode of Wake Up with Patty Katter.
Today I have Travis Partington on the show with me.
Travis, welcome to the show. Patty, it's great to be here on
a nice, cold, snowy New England day.
So I I'm just excited to talk with you again.
Thank you. You know, I think you're my
first guest from New England. Well, I mean, hopefully that's a
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sign of things to come. Right, I heard you have good
soup. We do, We do.
Clam chowder is good up here, nodoubt.
Awesome. What I'd love you to do is to
tell our guests a little bit about yourself.
I'm really curious if you were born in New England.
I've I mean. It's kind of no, I, I was not
born in New England. I was born in the Midwest,
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actually. And then my parents moved down
to the South from there. I joined the Marine Corps and
served out in at MCASUMA, one ofthe hottest places in the
county, United States, and then moved here after my Marine Corps
service. I'm a dad of three sons.
I do my show OM Radio, which is how Patty and I met.
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I love motorcycles, Freedom flingers and weightlifting and
archery. So any number of those things,
Dad 1st and I'm happy to be here.
Thank you. So let's throw it back a little
ways. When you were younger, before
you joined the Marine Corps, canyou tell us anything about your
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life of like, why in the heck did you want to join the
Marines? Like what brought that up?
Well, it was starts with my grandfathers.
They both served in World War 2 in the Navy and I was always
like odd seeing their old uniform pictures and you know,
they were the typical, you know,pulse World War 2 grandfathers,
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you know, the Hickory stick and all that good stuff.
That's what they believed in. And then, you know, in when I
was in Louisiana, that's where Ijoined the Marine Corps out of
there was a time in my life where I wasn't really sure what
was going on. I I could go to school if I
wanted to and didn't really likethat.
And, you know, had this, I was going for a singing scholarship
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at a local school down there. I said, you know, school's
tough, school's tough, Patty, you know, I'm going to do the
tough thing. I'm going to do the easy thing
and join the Marine Corps because I need some direction in
life and, and that'll be easier than school, right?
What can I say? I'm at least I'm an air wing
Marine. But and, and it, it's kind of
funny because Shreveport Bossieris the home of the strategic 8th
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Air Command. It's an Air Force town and I saw
how the Air Force people did. It was pretty cool.
You know, went on base several times.
Like, man, this is pretty all right now I forget all that.
We're going to join the Marine Corps.
And I think it's because I, I wanted to, you know, reboot my
life, do something epic and, youknow, claim that title of the US
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Marine is as simple as that. Well, I'm sure you even wake up
today and you're still a Marine.Once you're a Marine, you are
always a Marine. Never ends, never ends.
The change is forever, Patty. So tell me, I want to know about
your first couple of days in boot camp.
Well, they do the typical sleep deprivation thing to kind of get
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you pliable and then you get marched around and, you know,
tons of shots and stuff like that.
And it, it was, it was not fun. I went to boot camp out in San
Diego. So it's kind of like this weird
mental thing where it's so beautiful.
The weather is great and you know, there's all this, you
know, you're right smack dab in downtown San Diego getting
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smoked. It's kind of like hell can be
anywhere. And it was a huge, huge
adjustment. Of course, there's the planes
taking off right off from MCRD. And I remember I'm in boot camp
and one of my drill instructors said, hey, I'll tell you what,
I'll give you a head start. I'll give you 200 yards and he's
smoking me really hard. All you got to do is just beat
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me to the to the air airport andif you make it, you can leave.
Come on, Partington. Come on, recruits just over
there. Come on, go.
You know you want to go, right? And I'm like me, I, I could make
it. I could make it.
That's how they started messing with you mentally while you're
in San Diego. And people don't talk about that
a whole lot. But there it was, Patty.
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I'm literally a stone's throw away from the airport, watching
the planes go away and realizingyou're stuck here in hell.
And the food. Tell us about that.
I don't get into these conversations too often.
I just was thinking you would bethe perfect candidate to talk
about some of this stuff. The food wasn't bad.
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I I got to tell you, the food wasn't bad.
Well, the food wasn't bad until we had to go to an Air Force
Base. I think it was, it wasn't Luke
Air Force Base. That's Phoenix area.
It was, it was one of the Air Force bases in north of LA to
pick up Marines coming off a Medfloat.
And we got to sit in the Air Force chow hall and I was like,
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Dang, this is nice. And then I did hawk school at
Fort Bliss. And the Army does food right.
The Army does food right. But boot camp food wasn't bad.
It's, it's high calorie, high energy food to get you through
the day. You're burning anywhere from 12
to 18,000 calories a day. So the food is designed to fuel
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you. And if you eat enough, you'll,
you know, whether you eat enoughor not, you're going to lose
weight anyway. So it it was plentiful, it was
good at the time and you know, Igot through it that way, so.
How in the world did you go frombeing in the Marines to when you
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were getting out? Let's start there.
When you were getting out of theMarines, was it something that
you were excited about? Was it something you had to do?
You know, how was that transition for you?
Well, I was unique in, in 2 respects 1, you know, I got
injured and so was getting out that way.
If I was going to stay in, maybewe would have done it
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differently. But where I was unique is and,
and the missile on my shirts, the missile I crewed in the
Marine Corps was being replaced by Patriot.
We, we, we found out later the Marine Corps knew they were
getting rid of Hawk before we got to Hawk school, our
government to work. But anyway, it was a cool MOS.
I, I loved it. But about halfway through we
said, Hey, you're going to pack up all the stuff and go.
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So there wasn't really a job forus.
We were given, you know, cook artillery and maybe a couple
other MO s s to go to and that was it.
And if you wanted corporal, if you want to get promoted, you
had to to re enlist because whenthey cancelled hawk, if you were
a last corporal, which is what Iwas, the score for corporal was
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like 800 points higher than it was for Sergeant.
They effectively froze you out. So it was one of those things
where, well, I, I was hurting, Ihad injured my knee and right
knee in the Marine Corps. And the rehab was going to take
a long time. And if you can't PT in the
Marine Corps, you, you can't really be a Marine.
And that's just a brutal, brutaltruth.
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And so my command and, you know,so, hey, this is what we're
going to do. It's really for the best.
You get your VA stuff, you'll beall set, you know, Super 5, see
you later. And there was no hard feelings
there, Patty. There was no like umrage there.
I got, I understood and it was the right call.
It was the right call. But that's what happened to me
is I was a super cool MOS. There's something about watching
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that hot missile take off the launcher.
There's something about engaginga target, you know, 20-3 miles
away, you know, and it's it's going, you know, Mach one plus.
That was really, really a, a very cool thing to do.
But yet the reality was that wasover and I I moved on and it was
OK. Yeah, that must have been a
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really big adrenaline rush. It is.
I'm telling you it is still is. When I see it in video, I'm
like, yes, because you hear the boom that you'll hear the the
and that's not the missile igniting, that's the missile
breaking the sound barrier rightafter it gets off the launcher.
That's and it's a rush. It's all the IT.
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It never gets old so. When you're a kid, I'm sure you
didn't imagine doing all that. No, no.
When I was a kid, I thought I was going to do this or that.
I, I didn't really know what I wanted to do and, or if I could,
you know, do stuff like that. And I think that's the thing
that I really got on the Marine Corps is when you put your mind
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to something, the Marine Corps tells you how to break it down
into small steps and and never quit, make progress, you know,
fall back, regroup and then charge at the objective again
until you, you know, adapt, overcome and achieve.
Wow. We're going to pause right here
for just a second because I wantto give a shout out to Upknife.
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themselves with very easy to useknives.
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All right, Travis, So getting back on track, I just really had
to give that that shout out to Knife.
They've been so great with me and supportive of the show.
So, Travis, let's get back for asecond here.
So you're getting out of the military and you're
transitioning out. You kind of feel like you're a
little bit jacked up. It sounds like your knees
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hurting. You know, you, you, you're kind
of probably trying to look for some direction.
What were you feeling when you got out?
And did you know what you were going to do next?
Or most Marines I talked to, they don't know what they're
going to do when they get out. So the only thing I need to do
when I got out and I, I got out of the Marine Corps and I rode
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my motorcycle from Yuma, AZ to Boston, MA.
And I think that I think doing that looking back really kind of
helped me, you know, decompress,kind of understand what's going
on and try to figure out what was what I needed to do.
And the only thing I really remember from TAPS class was to
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go to your local veteran services officer and talk to
them and sign up for whatever they had.
And so I, I, I, I go to the, thelocal Rep at the time, he was a
master Sergeant, Army Master Sergeant Joe Colantonio, God
rest his soul, you know, looked at me like my D214.
And then, you know, I thought I was back in Marine Corps
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position of attention. He's like, you're going to do
this, this, this, this and this and report back to me in 2 weeks
and better have it done. And I'm like, yes, Master
Sergeant, I will absolutely do that.
And it was things around, you know, signing up for, that's
just programs at the Commonwealth of Massachusetts
had different things the town had and understand what those
could do for me. And you know, like a year and a
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half later, I got this opportunity to go to this
computer school because even though Hawk is a very high
technical MOS, you had to be, you had to make the GT score to
do it. You had to understand the
technical aspects of it, so on and so forth.
I didn't have a piece of paper from the civilian side saying
that I'm technical, the DD214 was not good enough.
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I didn't understand that. I still understand that, but
that's the, that's the game. You got to play it.
So I, I went to the school, got a piece of paper saying I was
cynical. And then, you know, I, I got a,
a job working for a recruiting agency and then got a job
working for a financial servicesfirm.
And for anybody. I think the thing with
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transition is so hard is becauseeverybody's story is different.
You know, some, some people get out.
Like I talked to World War 2 veterans, Patty, who got off the
train, parents picked them up. They went back to their room,
which hadn't really been, you know, cleaned out or anything,
you know, went to bed, got up, went to church with her parents
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on Sunday morning and Monday. Their dad had a job for them and
they started work and didn't really think anything of it.
And then he talked to some people who, you know, it took
them a couple years to find a job and get going.
Or if they're, you know, damagedfrom service and they're trying
to get rehab done, it's a very different story.
So the only thing I would tell people getting out is you have
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to start the process early, develop the relationships and
then, you know, expand yourself to take care advantage of
opportunities. Absolutely.
What would you say your challenging time was in, in that
period right there? I guess this is your challenging
time. Sorry, it's been a long week,
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but what was the most challenging part about that
transition for you personally? Like what were your real
feelings like? What were you thinking?
It's a great question for me because I did not grow up in New
England. I'm not from Massachusetts.
It's it's fine. 20 years later, I'm still asshole.
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You're not from around here, areyou?
I'm like, no, I'm not. I, I think when I reflected, I
missed my family, some of my friends, and what I knew a lot
more than I let on. And I didn't know how to
articulate that. And I didn't know how to get
around that until much, much later.
But that, that gap, I think really affected me a lot more
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than I wanted to admit. And I didn't know how to talk
about it or work around that. You know, I think a lot of
Marines, at least all the ones that I've met, they have a
harder time communicating sometimes.
And I'm wondering, is that just maybe because of their
personality when they went into the Marines, or they are taught
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to kind of guard what you say towho?
And can you tell me is it a natural thing for all Marines?
Just is it embedded in you already before you join?
And then you just pop out of themilitary like, oh, I don't
really want to disclose anythingto anybody, including my family
members, because I'm soft that way.
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It's, it's twofold, right? You go in the Marine Corps,
maybe you are weak. Maybe you are, you know, not
really, you know, strong in who you are, right.
And so the Marine Corps will strip all that down, rebuild you
to something else. And if you ask for help or show
weakness or vulnerability after you get out, you're thought of
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as less than a person because there's women that serve too.
And people will wonder, well, you know, is this what the
Marines really put out? So there's this, I'm not saying
a a real pressure, arbitrary need to, you know, maintain a
certain level behavior after youget out.
But when they say the change is forever, they're not kidding.
There's certain aspects of me that the Marine Corps change for
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the rest of my life that I and Ican't get around that.
So I I think it's a combination of both.
I I agree with that. I can usually spot a marine in a
room. If there's a room full of
veterans or a room full of people, you always can spot that
marine. The shoulders back, the head
high, the confidence. You picked up on that pretty
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quickly, Patty. Yeah, I'm like, oh, you're a
Marine? Yeah, easy.
Yeah. So you're a big guy, those of
you, if you're watching, you cankind of see.
But he's huge. Like how tall are you?
Well, I'm 510, Patty. No, are you?
I mean, I wouldn't be surprised because I'm short.
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You seem like, well, I'm larger than life, let's put it like
that. I feel like you're 6 foot six
well. I mean, some people, you know,
get the Travs experience upfrontand you know, they, they think
I'm very big and that's all right, no problem.
We will use that accordingly. Absolutely.
OK, so if you're listening, he'sreally 6 foot 6.
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Oh, that's hilarious. So I was going to ask you.
This is going to be extra funny then, and I don't want to sound
like a ditz, right? But I was going to ask, is there
any kind of height requirement or are you not allowed to be so
short in the Marines? Because I met a lot of different
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people, different sizes. A lot of Marines are very big.
They're very tall or at least they get big once they join the
the Marines. And maybe too, it's not just the
height stature, right? A lot of y'all get huge.
Like I met one guy, he was a poster boy for the Marines and I
do remember he wasn't very tall but he appeared very big.
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And I think it was just because he was had that confidence about
him, but also he worked out all the time.
Well, so I, I'm a competitive weight lifter now that that's I,
I do that. I train four days a week.
I, I just, I just got off a national meet, you know, two
months ago. So, yeah, there, but there is a
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height requirement. I forget what it is.
You do not want to be. And there's a weight requirement
too. A lot of us.
And you know, I'll be honest with you, I went to boot camp,
weighed about 205 lbs. When I left boot camp, I weighed
about 176 lbs. So the Marine Corps diet plan is
effective, but also we have these things called double and
triple rats because these were like 100 and 10105 LB guys
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trying to, you know, get throughboot camp.
And like I said, you're, you're,you're consuming, you know, 10,
you're burning 10 to 18,000 calories a day.
So they would get like two to three times of food and have to
shovel it all down in the chow hall during, you know, chow.
And it wasn't fun for them either.
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And it's really needed like the Marine Corps is a physically
demanding, punishing job to yourbody.
And you need to be able to, you know, do your job and, and in
the silent drill team, I think the the height requirement there
is like 6162. All those Marines are tall
individuals because, and they want them uniform.
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So that, and that's just the wayit works.
Taller guys have an easier job running, easier job humping than
you know smaller guys do. But you know, adapt and overcome
and achieve. So actually, I think maybe
that's it. You're just a big guy.
So tell us about this weightlifting thing or this
bodybuilding that you're into. So I do the Olympic style
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weightlifting, the snatch and the Klingon jerk.
I've done it since I was like 17years old, and last December I
went to a national competition in my age group.
I'm in the masters division now,which is a fancy way of saying
the old guys division, but I placed third nationally at this
meet. It was a really big deal for me
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because, you know, three years ago I ruptured my quadricep
tendon. It was my old Marine Corps
injury coming due and I didn't really think about it, didn't
really ever have it watched. And all of a sudden, you know, I
had to recover from that and theMarine Corps way got me through
a lot of that recovery and PT side.
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But I went to a national meat Patty and got it done.
You know, Chesty, I think would be proud.
Wow, that's amazing. You know, especially with your
knee injury, I think that's really intriguing because it
shows that you can still do something if you put your mind
to it. Wow.
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So how does podcasting fit in all of this for you?
Because you do have a podcast. I do well.
So OM Radio, which is my podcast, I started in 2016.
You've been in this game longer than I have and that's very
cool. It was my way to kind of reboot
my life in from 2011 to 2015. Life was really bad for me
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personally. I had, you know, feelings of no
self worth. I didn't feel like a, like a
marine at all. I I was really questioning, you
know, what life is all about. But also during that time you'll
remember you're very cognizant of this is that's when we really
had to start facing this whole 22 a day, a specter that was
overhanging our country. And I was a member of the Marine
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Corps League and we would bury people who had commit suicide.
We, we did, you know, we do our ceremony, the ritual, and you'll
send those people hopefully to aplace of resting and comfort the
families. And I'd like, you know what,
this is just bad. This sucks.
This is terrible. I want to do something.
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I didn't know what to do. I love radio.
We can go into that. You know, it's my first job.
My first job was at 98 Rocks in Shreveport, LA.
So I love radio. I'm like, I'll, I'll do radio.
Well, you know, that's expense, airtime's expensive and you got
to have time to do your show. My I really couldn't do that for
a lot of reasons. I'll do a podcast, it's called
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Oscar Margarita because we're, you know, I think that we, you,
all of us are on the move, on mission for our veterans, for
active duty service members and the Americans that support them.
So that's where that got started.
That's incredible. When you were on the radio, were
you able to talk about the veteran issues or what did you
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talk about there? Well, I was, I would, I would do
guest hosting at AM station in Taunton, MA.
And that's why they brought me in.
And that's where I got my first experience was when they had a
veteran, you know, event or nonprofit or even like a local
politician. They they, they like what I did,
how I sounded, and they want to be there to talk with them.
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You do have a great voice. I told you that when I first met
you, I could hear you talking inthe room and I'm like, who is
this person? I need to meet this person.
He has the perfect radio voice. Who's one of the most memorable
people you've interviewed? Oh wow, there's all of them are
memorable in their own way, right?
I mean, I think you would agree with me, but I think two of them
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that come to mind are you have that Benavidez Garcia.
She is the daughter of Roy Garcia, the the Medal of Honor
winner from the Vietnam War. And she talks about her father's
service and, and what that meantto her and the challenges that
family faced. And it really you you don't ever
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hear from the children of service members that much,
right? At least in my travels and
talkings, you just don't. So it was nice to talk with her.
And then another one recently isLauren Burns.
If you remember the the TV moviemade about the fact that she was
captured from the US and taken to Jordan.
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And she talks about the veteranswho came and, you know, rescued
her and brought her back to United States.
It's just a really good story ofhow appreciative someone is of
veterans in the United States and how proud they are to be an
American. That is incredible.
And I'm like you. I think I'd rather talk to a
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veteran or an everyday hero who's doing amazing things than
celebrities. It's funny, people will ask me
like, what celebrities have you met?
And I really have to think aboutit.
I know I've met a lot, but they don't mean as much.
Like there are still great people, of course, but they're
not is in Heroes. Right, heroes.
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It's just different. It just hits different.
So here's a fun question for you.
Have you ever had a time during an interview that you had like a
mishap or a blooper or somethingkind of funny?
Oh yes, yes, I have. And I've done the classic one.
I've got my Zoom H6. You know, we're sitting there at
the coffee shop or the park or whatever and we're vibing in
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about 7 minutes in the interview.
I'm like, Oh my God, I didn't hit the record button.
Oh yes, and the Zoom is great because the red indicator light
right by the record button tellsyou you're recording visually.
And I'm like, Oh my God, like what do you do?
And that's just a very like, oh,you just got to own it.
But a couple times that happened.
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And then I just have a checklistthat says, hey, is the red light
on? We're ready to go.
Oh. My goodness, I was interviewing
a guy, Victoria blends, and Victoria's father is a military
veteran. And this kid, Victoria, he's got
like millions of followers on TikTok and he goes around and he
gives people guys haircuts. And while he's giving him a
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haircut, he is motivational to them and everything.
And I was so excited to interview Victoria because I'm
like, wow, this kid is incredible.
He's got this motivation. He's all tattooed out and like
in the inner city, just giving these cuts to these kids and,
and I'm talking to him and all of a sudden my seat that I was
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in, it was one of those seats that you can adjust.
It just started going down and down and down.
And like, so finally I'm like down here while he's talking,
trying to like pump it back up. Well, nobody could see, but that
was probably my biggest blooper.And then I'll have to admit
today it was kind of topping thecake here when I said that you
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were huge and you're like, I'm 510.
Like that kind of put a damper on things.
Well. I I I'm not small.
You're not wrong. I'm not small.
I'm not small. You're not.
Look at these myths. Yeah, I mean, it's pretty cool
though. You're going to, you're going to
be happy for the rest of the day, like, oh wow, she said.
It was huge. Because guys think that's cool,
I guess, right? Well, I mean, it is absolutely.
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So where can people find your podcast?
In your website and your social media so.
Website is OM radio.com you can go on Facebook, OM radio,
Instagram OM under score radio just one of those things
YouTube, OM radio just OM radio,you'll find me and please again
Spotify Apple podcast like shareand subscribe sharing it
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definitely. Yes, that's so important.
Yes, everybody, please go followTravis.
He is an awesome guy. I've met him in person.
You know, I say that about all my guests, but I really vet
everybody carefully. And Travis, your kindness and
your personality and your encouragement to people is so
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great and so important. Travis sat on a panel with me at
the Pod Fest in Orlando and man,you all should have heard the
encouragement that he gave. And not only that, he really,
really cares about what he does.I have got to say to Travis
recorded the episode of the, I say the episode, the panel, and
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he was the only one who took thetime to do that.
He was very thoughtful in that process.
So thank you for doing that, Travis, and we'll be sure to
link that so people go over to your YouTube and follow you as
well. Appreciate it.
Thank you very much. It was a great panel and I
really like the aspect that we included civilians in that
conversation and I really liked when you got the audience
involved. It really changed the whole the
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whole energy in the whole room that time.
Oh my gosh. Well, thank you.
I could not have done it withoutyou.
And I'm so happy to have you on my panel.
And I mean, I think you you really helped make the day.
So thank you. Thank you very much.
Thanks. All right, everybody, thank you
so much for listening and joining me again next Saturday
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morning and Tuesday evening on Rushwood Media Network.
Until then, I'll see you on social media.
Super 5 Patty. Thank you.
Thank you, Travis. Thanks for tuning in to Wake Up
with Patty Catter. Patty Catter If you enjoyed
these stories of resilience and leadership, visit
pattycatter.com to connect with Patty and learn more.
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Until next time, stay inspired and keep pushing.
Forward When the world watched the heartbreaking withdrawal
from Afghanistan in 2021, lives were shattered, families were
displaced, and children were left with nothing but
uncertainty. Out of that chaos came a mission
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of duty and compassion to stand by those who once stood with us.
The Black Feather Foundation is committed to helping refugee
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again, to become citizens and leaders of tomorrow.
This is a call to action. How you can help?
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