November 12, 2024 • 44 mins
(Full Show) Happy Veterans Day. On this edition of I'm Right, Jesse Kelly gets to some pressing news regarding Trump's transition team and the Senate GOP leadership race, but takes most of the show to focus on America's veterans. On the heels of the Marine Corps' 249th birthday, Jesse speaks with two Marines about their experiences and the state of the U.S. military. Plus, a segment with combat veteran Sean Parnell in which he details how he earned a Purple Heart.
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
It's Veterans Day, so we're going to talk a little
bit about that. We'll talk about some government crime problems,
but also we're going to talk to veterans about their service.
Let's do a nice Veterans Day honoring, shall we.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
I'm right, it's Veterans Day.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
And before we get into the politics, I just thought
I should open up by saying one, Happy Veterans Day.
I know that's pretty cliche at this point in time,
but what does that actually mean. Oh, we get to
enjoy this wonderful country of ours because brave men have
been willing to fight and die to keep it free,
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to keep it prosperous. It's not a small thing at all.
Happy Veterans Day. And let me speak to the veterans
really briefly before we get into politics.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
Obviously, thank you for your service. I got that.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
I'm with you, and I got all the taxes today too. Hey,
thank you for your service. But beyond that, I would
remind you, as a veteran that you may not wear
the uniform anymore. I certainly don't too old, bald and fat,
gray and not a marine. You know, I guess it's
always a marine. But you know what, I mean, you
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may not wear the uniform anymore, but you are still
under obligation. You still have a duty to your country.
And so don't short change yourself by thinking, ah, I'm
just this now, I'm just to that. That's what veterans
tend to do, especially when they get depressed later on
in life. They were young guns doing cool things, and
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then later on in life it's Jesse, I'm just a
delivery man. Jesse, I'm just this. I'm just an accountant. No,
you're a citizen, a citizen who has a duty to
his country. You are not finished yet. Keep putting in
the work, keep fighting for your country in different ways,
but keep fighting for your country.
Speaker 3 (02:02):
All right, All right now.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
I want to talk really quickly about this FEMA situation
because it leads me to something bigger. Right now, we
have the Trump transition, we have the Senate leadership race.
We're going to get to all these things. But I
wanted to hit this off the top of the Daily Wire.
They deserve all the credit in the world. It's their story.
They broke it, and it has most definitely since been
(02:25):
confirmed that there was an employee at FEMA, a FEMA
official who told Hurricane relief workers to skip homes that
had Trump signs on them.
Speaker 3 (02:40):
They were going around checking.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
In with these homes, getting people signed up for some
sort of relief, some sort of government relief, some sort
of government help. In this lady sent out a memo
and apparently set it in a meeting. Hey, if they
have Trump signs, screw them, skip all over the house.
And it was done. From the reporting, it looks like
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it was twenty houses at least with Trump signs.
Speaker 3 (03:07):
Didn't get any.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
Help because some evil witch communists with FEMA told those homes,
told the workers to skip those homes. Now, why would
I bring up a story like this one, It is
a big story. I wanted to bring this up at two.
I wanted to explain something we talk about a lot,
fear and pain. Fear and pain are not things we
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like to dwell on at all. They're ugly things. But
fear and pain are the only thing communists understand. Communists
are religious zelos. As we've talked about before. You need
to think of them more like radical Islamists than anything else,
more like Chihati terrorists. Well, Chihati terrorists really only ever
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have ever responded to fear and pain nothing else because
they're religious sellots. These communists are the same. This FEMA employee,
she was fired and all that. That's good to go.
So I'm gonna say something, and maybe you'll think it's
extreme or harsh, but I really genuinely mean it. I'll
explain why in a moment, firing is not close to enough.
(04:18):
She needs to be arrested immediately. She needs to be
put on trial, and the trial needs to be public.
It should be live streamed, covered by multiple media outlets.
When they describe her disgusting sins, she should be publicly humiliated.
She should know that if she is ever let out
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of prison, which she should not be, that she should
have to change her name and location because the shame
of what she's done is so evident on her. And
then after a public trial, a fair trial, she should
probably be sent to prison for the rest of her
natural life. Now maybe you're saying that's extreme, it's some
hurricane aid. Now I think you need understand exactly what
(05:01):
we have right now. We have a government full of
these communists, full of them, government agency after government agency,
from the FBI to FOMA. That this that that full
of these rabid little animals. Who will use their power
in a way that is not lawful. They will use
their power to attack their political enemies. Using your position
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with FEMA to deny aid to people who you disagree
with politically is so deeply evil that it shows this
human being is not fit for public consumption.
Speaker 3 (05:37):
And so what do I want? I want every other
Communist currently.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
Sitting in government, and there are many, many, many, many
many of them, I want them to look at what
happens to this woman, and I want them to be afraid.
I want them to be afraid that one day that
knock may come on their door and that public trial
may happen to them. Maybe you think Goad's too horsh
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They don't have any other way. They will learn to
be honest with you. Firing is not even close to enough.
That doesn't instill fear or pain in the Communists who
are there. Communists must feel pain. If they do not
feel it, if they do not fear you, then they
will abuse you without end. It is sadly the only
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language they understand. And so going forward, as we have
talked about before, this is not the first time I've
said it, you will know the United States of America
is on the right path, the path to cleaning out
the corruption, the path to getting this government right. When
government people start going to prison, not firings, not resignation,
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not relocation, not early retirement. No no, no, no, no, no, no,
all those things are just fine.
Speaker 3 (06:53):
No no, no, no, no. Prison.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
Crimes have been committed against the American people by this government,
and government must go to prison government people, which brings me, actually,
that brings me perfectly into the Senate leadership.
Speaker 3 (07:06):
Fight right now.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
So I warned, if you watch the show, you're not
Johnny come lately to this.
Speaker 3 (07:13):
You've known this is coming.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
I've been warning you about trouble coming from the United
States Senate.
Speaker 3 (07:19):
So allow me to explain. Let's do it.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
Let's take a step back on a macro level and
talk about this Trump transition and the Trump administration and
the Senate and the system and leadership. So let me
just lay this out as clearly as I possibly can.
Donald Trump and Donald Trump's team, if we're to believe
what we're seeing right now and what.
Speaker 3 (07:43):
We're hearing, they are on a mission.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
They believe the American people have given them a mandate
to fix a lot of things and to clean out
a system that is evil and corrupt and broken, a
system that no longer serves the American people. And if
you look at Donald Trump's appointments, to get to those
maybe in a moment, but if you look at Donald
Trump's appointments, it looks like He's completely committed to that.
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In fact, you know what, let's get ex directly to that.
I want you to watch Tom Holman. He sat down
with sixty minutes he was being asked about illegal immigrants
and this and that, and this kind of commitment is
exactly what we need. We have seen one estimate that
says it would cost eighty eight billion dollars to deport
a million people a year.
Speaker 3 (08:31):
I don't know if that's accurate or not.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
Is that what American taxpayers should expect?
Speaker 3 (08:35):
What price do you put on national security? Is that
worth it?
Speaker 1 (08:38):
Is there a way to carry out mass deportation without
separating families?
Speaker 3 (08:44):
Of course, families can be deported together.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
That's exactly what we need. Trump looks committed this time
to get it done right. He announced over the weekend.
NICKI Haley need not apply Mike Pompeio. Sorry, no more
deep state here. But that brings me to the Senate
leadership fight. You think, and I think that the Trump team,
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the Team Trump, has a mandate to make major changes.
Speaker 3 (09:15):
And you're correct. I'm correct.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
The American people went to the polls and wiped Democrats
out because the American people are sick of how this
evil government has been running things. They're sick of a lot,
and they want things to change. Okay, we're all on
the same page, right, we're all on the same page. However,
there's something we have to understand. We've got to get
through this through our heads. GOP leadership, they are locked
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with the communists in this. They don't want anything to change.
You want everything to change. You want the corruption cleaned out,
you want the evil cleaned out. You're sick of the FBI,
you're sick.
Speaker 3 (09:58):
Of an open border.
Speaker 1 (09:59):
You're mad about this, matter about it, and you are
correct about all those things.
Speaker 3 (10:02):
You're mad about.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
But if you are in GOP leadership one of these
swamp rat types, the corruption is your entire existence. Think
about them as if they are criminals. Think about them
as if they're Italian mafia people.
Speaker 3 (10:19):
They're mobsters.
Speaker 1 (10:21):
They don't want some kind of crackdown.
Speaker 3 (10:23):
On the mob. The mob is their entire life.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
Being a swamp rat is how guys like John Cornyan
and John Thune exist. And I said all that to
say the Senate leadership fight, there's going to be a.
Speaker 3 (10:38):
Silent vote on Wednesday.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
The Senate leadership fight is not a small thing. It's
a huge thing because if we go elect John Thune
or John Cornyan as the new Senate majority leader, well
here's the truth. They are going to fight Trump in
every way possible because because they don't have the mandate
you think they have, they will see themselves as having
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a mandate.
Speaker 3 (11:04):
To stop him.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
You think John Cornyn John Thune want to rein in
the defense contractors, You think John Cornyan or John Thune
are gonna get the FBI in line. They will see
themselves as the sword in shield of the government, not
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the sword in shield of you. And this is not
me sitting here telling you that Rick Scott is some
kind of sink because he's the only other option I know.
His gun control passed as gross. I'm not telling you
there are great options. Okay, right now, there are three.
But it is a big, big, big, big big deal.
Mitch McConnell, let me just explain it this way. You've
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seen everything Mitch McConnell has done to try to impede Trump.
It's not everything he possibly can ITH's John Cornyn or
w it's John Thune. It will be a continuation of that.
And that is a really big deal when you consider
Donald Trump is going to need Senate confirmations. You know,
you don't just as president. You don't just get to say, hey,
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you go be my attorney general. You're the one I pick. No,
you're attorney general. Oh, you get to choose one you want.
But then he has to get an up or down
vote in.
Speaker 3 (12:28):
The United States Senate. What if Donald Trump?
Speaker 1 (12:33):
What if he picked a reformer for AG, a man
who decided the FBI needed a little house cleaning. Do
you think John Cornyn would be okay with that? What's
about to happen Wednesday is a big deal. It matters
a lot again, you think. And Trump thinks there's a
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mandate to change the government. John Cornyan and John Thune
believe there's a mandate to keep it exactly where it is.
Remember that all that may have made you uncomfortable, but
I am right now.
Speaker 3 (13:07):
Before we get to our veteran heavy show, we.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
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We'll be back.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
Well, we'd be remiss if we didn't take a little
time to celebrate the true birthday that has happened out there,
the birthday number two four nine of my beloved United
States Marine Corps. I figured it was a good way
to celebrate that would be bringing in Wade Miller, Marine
Corps combat veteran, also executive director at the Center for
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Renewing America. Wade, why the heck did you go join
the Marines. There were all kinds of other more feminine branches.
Speaker 4 (14:30):
Well, I was hungry for crayons, so I heard they
add ons there.
Speaker 3 (14:37):
No, seriously, why did you join? Everyone has their own story.
What'd you do? What were you doing?
Speaker 5 (14:42):
Uh?
Speaker 4 (14:43):
You know, I was in college at the time when
nine to eleven happened. In fact, I had slept in
because I had gone out the night before for beers
and I was getting up and I saw the World
Trade centers being hit, and so I dropped out of
college joined the Marine Corps.
Speaker 5 (14:56):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (14:57):
Twenty years later, I questioned whether or not our you know,
soldiers were used for a good purpose there. But nonetheless,
we you know, killed a lot of bad guys and
took a lot of bad guys out.
Speaker 6 (15:07):
But that's that's why I joined.
Speaker 3 (15:11):
Wade.
Speaker 1 (15:12):
Let's shift into to what's happening currently with the military.
You and I have talked about this before. What they're doing,
what they've done, what military leadership has done to our
military is beyond belief.
Speaker 3 (15:25):
The retention crisis is a disaster. People don't talk about.
Speaker 1 (15:28):
Everyone talks about recruiting, but retention, that the pipe hitters
are leaving. Is this something in four years that Trump
can't or even will reverse. There wasn't a ton of
change last time. He looks much more committed this time.
What do we expect, what do we need?
Speaker 6 (15:43):
I think it'll be a different scenario this time.
Speaker 4 (15:45):
If you'll remember, the Executive Order to combat CRT came
out right at the end of the administration, after Chris
Rufo and others had been exposing it. I think that
where we're at now as opposed to twenty nineteen, I
think a lot of people's eyes are open up to
what woke and weaponized bureaucracy is, and it's a really
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bad problem. In DoD We've got a bunch of left
wing Nancy generals that are wanting to elevate diversity, equity,
inclusion and anti racism, which is just racism if you
boil it down, and they're doing it for political jockeying,
and they're throwing their troops under the bus because they
want to get their next promotion and to look good
in front of left wing senators. And that includes some
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of the Senate on the Republican side as well. And
we've got a dangerous, toxic culture. And I think that
President Trump understands that there needs to be a cultural
change in the military. I think he's probably right now
weighing through all of his various options.
Speaker 6 (16:44):
Of who's gonna take on DoD.
Speaker 4 (16:46):
I think he fully understands that we need to embrace
more of a realism approach, and I think so.
Speaker 6 (16:52):
I think it's going to be a combination of realism and.
Speaker 4 (16:54):
Restraint, ending forever wars, saving our treasure for American family
instead of spinning it abroad, and then going at this
neo Marxist rot that's in all of the bureaucracies, including
within our admirals and generals. And frankly, I will stand
up and applaud very loudly when the first general or
admiral gets gets fired for embracing all this nonsense.
Speaker 1 (17:20):
Wade, can you explain to people who don't understand, how
did we get so many of these generals and admirals, Because,
especially if you're a civilian, you look at these guys
and the uniform looks good, and the course all of
them have eight thousand medals and ribbons now and you
look and you think, wow, gosh, what a warrior. I
can't imagine what a resume. Those ribbons and medals must reflect.
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How do we get so many of these guys who
are just poisonous filth that.
Speaker 3 (17:47):
Lead our military.
Speaker 1 (17:48):
It's crazy to people who don't get how this happened.
Speaker 7 (17:52):
Well sure so.
Speaker 4 (17:53):
Well, you know, first of all, if an officer sneezes
in the right direction, they get some sort of metal
these days, to the broader point that you're making at
a certain point, especially in the officer ranks, you know,
you go to get your continuing education, you go get
a master's degree. They go to places like Harvard and
Yale where it's just left wing nonsense. And then I
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think that, you know, to get past a certain rank,
they have to be approved by Congress. And in fact,
last year or maybe two years ago, Senator Tommy Tuberville
kind of famously was holding a lot of these promotions
because they were embracing all sorts of nonsense, including woket
ideology and abortion policies.
Speaker 6 (18:36):
And so these senators play the game.
Speaker 4 (18:38):
They see what DC culture is and they just basically
throw this country under the bus and say, if I
want to get my next promotion, I'm going to embrace
this Marxist nonsense. And they just like I said, they
throw us on into the bus because they want to
get that next star or their next you know, the
become a colonel or whatever it is. And I think
a lot of them just don't care about America as
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much as they should, and they're kind of protecting their
own height and they're throwing our culture, our country, our
troops under the.
Speaker 6 (19:07):
Bus in order to attain it.
Speaker 4 (19:08):
And frankly, it's sad, and that's why we need to
start cleaning house. I would love to see the DOJ
start prosecuting some of these generals who have seemingly violated
the law by promoting people on the basis of race
and sex, which should be illegal. I think that the
military actually might have an exemption on that, but nevertheless,
the signal needs be sent and these people need to.
Speaker 6 (19:30):
Be fired that are responsible for it, no question.
Speaker 1 (19:33):
We're already getting reports of informal meetings, of course Wade
and the Pentagon, of people talking about how they can
challenge Donald Trump, which is odd because last time I checked,
he was the commander in chief. How much trouble is
Trump going to have if he's committed to do so,
and he appears to be, how much trouble is he
going to have cleaning this thing out?
Speaker 6 (19:54):
It's a monumental task.
Speaker 4 (19:56):
If anyone can do it, I think the Trump can,
and I think that he will surround himself with the
right people.
Speaker 6 (20:01):
But remember, the Intel state, the.
Speaker 4 (20:04):
National security state, and the Defense Industrial Complex have a
lot of reasons for this not to happen. And so
to the degree that they have all of their different
machinations and lobbyists in DC and Hill staffers that want
us to be in every single conceivable war possible, they're
going to find reasons to throw wrenches in all of
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these plans.
Speaker 6 (20:25):
And so, you know, I would just encourage the president.
Speaker 4 (20:28):
I'm excited that he is going to be the president
once again to just plow through all of that nonsense
and empower the people that he puts there to to,
you know, to carry out his charge and to fundamentally
reshape these institutions so they're not frankly an enemy of
the United States any longer, and actually looking out for
the best interests of you know, the of the common cause,
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of what you know, government is supposed to be achieving
for the American people.
Speaker 1 (20:56):
Wait, there's already been a bunch of chatter you never
know what to believe about the Israel Hamas thing getting
wrapped up, maybe hopefully the Ukraine Russia thing getting wrapped up,
maybe hopefully. Now how much that stuff is realistic, Surely
Trump's not going to walk in there and world peace
is going to descend on us.
Speaker 4 (21:18):
I think it will be light years ahead of where
it's at now. If you remember, in his last term,
a lot of what the foreign policy deep state and
the establishment said was impossible, he got a lot of
it done and it kind of shocked all of them.
Speaker 6 (21:32):
The state of affairs in which the world.
Speaker 4 (21:34):
Was in towards the end of his first term, and
then of course it all kind of fell the you know,
total crap excuse me, and there ensuing four years after
that under the Biden administration. I think that there's something
to be said when you have a leader who is
unpredictable and may just because you piss him off, he
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may go to war with you, or he may take
out one of your top generals.
Speaker 6 (21:59):
And Trump has that.
Speaker 4 (22:00):
In foreign policy terms, it's called strategic ambiguity. Foreign leaders
don't really know what Trump's going to do, and that
is a superpower if you're President Trump. They were going
to start calibrating their decision making to not want to
offend or piss off Trump, because Trump has the keys
to the car now, and he can make or break
a lot of these nations. He can cut them off.
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He can impost one hundred percent tariffs, he can cut
off all of our trade. He can isolate them, he
can put sanctions on them, and they know that. So
I think that that's one reason you're starting to see
a shift already in conversations now. Will hope happen overnight,
probably not, But the fact that you're already seeing these
discussions materialize out of the ether days after the election
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was decided.
Speaker 6 (22:46):
I don't think that that's a coincidence.
Speaker 4 (22:48):
I think it's the strategic ambiguity of having a president
who they really don't know what he's going to do,
and that kind.
Speaker 6 (22:54):
Of scares him. And that's a great position. That's a
great power to have if you're a president.
Speaker 3 (23:00):
It certainly is wait brother, send for Fie, Happy birthday.
I appreciate you man, all right. I don't think we're done.
Speaker 1 (23:09):
We have even another VET for you before.
Speaker 3 (23:12):
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Speaker 3 (24:01):
We'll be back.
Speaker 1 (24:10):
Veteran's Day is a special day on the show, always
has been a special day. We like to try to
do more than just thank a veteran. We'd like to
try to have some on Let's hear from them, let's
talk to them. As you could probably tell, that's going
to be a theme on today's show. In joining me now,
somebody's personal friend of mine has been for many years.
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Sean Parnell Bronze Star, Purple Heart U US Army captain
and author of the book Outlaw Platoon. If you want
to hear exactly what he went through in Afghanistan for
this country, Okay, Sean, first of all, tell us about
the Army's Tenth Mountain Division.
Speaker 3 (24:47):
That sounds kind of cool.
Speaker 8 (24:50):
Yeah, well, there are two seasons there and stationed up
station up at Fort Drum, New York.
Speaker 7 (24:55):
Two seasons there July and winter.
Speaker 8 (24:57):
I found that out the hard way when I was
a brand new, brand new second lieutenant coming out of
Ranger School.
Speaker 7 (25:02):
Failed the first time through Ranger School.
Speaker 8 (25:05):
Got probably one of my last choices in duty assignments because,
come to find out, again, nobody really wanted to go
to Fort Trum. But when I got there, I realized
it was the best kept secret in the Army in
the Tenth Mountain Division was It was a light infantry
division that had the moniker at least back in the
day of being the most deployed unit in the Army.
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And back then that's exactly what I wanted.
Speaker 7 (25:29):
I don't know.
Speaker 8 (25:30):
Why I felt that way, but I was just after
nine to eleven, I was just chomping at the bit
to get in the fight as fast as humanly possible,
to take the fight to the enemy. I mean, looking back, stupid,
naive in so many ways, just a young kid. But
we had units in the tenth Mountain Division that specialized
in Iraq and one brigade, the Spartan Brigade, that specialized
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in Afghanistan. And I was in the Spartan Brigade and
oar motto was with your shield or on it. In
other words, come home victorious or come home dead again.
I didn't really understand that back in the day, but
looking back, you know, I was very proud to be
associated with that unit.
Speaker 1 (26:07):
Tell people, because I only did a little bit of
this in the Marines.
Speaker 3 (26:10):
Too bad for you, Sean. Tell people what.
Speaker 1 (26:12):
It's like to train in the mountains before we even
get to Afghanistan. The mountains are just a completely different animal,
aren't they.
Speaker 7 (26:21):
Well, yeah they are.
Speaker 8 (26:22):
And the crazy thing about that is that leave it
to the army that station somebody at Fort Drum where
it's just flat as far as the eye can see.
Speaker 7 (26:31):
But what it was in Fort Drum was freezing cold.
Speaker 8 (26:35):
And so the Tenth Mountain Division was really what really
helped us was training in extreme cold weather climates, So
when you're operating at fourteen thousand feet and that's where
we were in the valleys in Afghanistan at fourteen thousand
feet and get pretty freaking cold up there. So being
able to train in that type of environment and learn
to operate in this in I mean seriously sub like
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fifteen sixteen seventeen degrees blow zero and that type of
weather in combat environment I mean.
Speaker 7 (27:06):
Jesse, I think it saved lives in combat.
Speaker 8 (27:09):
You train hard, you know, you train like you fight,
and then when you get to combat, the hope is
is that it pays off dividends when you get there,
and in my case, I think it did.
Speaker 1 (27:19):
Sean. It's hard to explain for those who haven't gone
through it, and oftentimes women have a harder time understanding
this who haven't gone through it. How much suffering together
brings men together, It helps you come together as a unit.
I've told these stories before on the radio on here
of various times where you suffer together and you end
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up just getting closer and closer through all that.
Speaker 8 (27:45):
Why you know, what I think it is, Jesse, is
like when you go into basic training, you go in
as an individual. You know their shave in everybody's head.
They're you know, you're only as fast as your slowest person.
If somebody falls out in the run, the whole platoon stops,
turns around, puts the guy to the front. You know,
you become part of a team, something larger than yourself.
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And then you get to your unit and you shoot,
move and communicate together as a team, and that motto
being a part of something bigger than yourself, being part
of something that's a collective is really just beat into you.
So you you almost you change from just being an
individual to a part of something bigger than just you.
Speaker 7 (28:25):
So you shoot, move and communicate.
Speaker 8 (28:27):
Together as a team and training, and then you go
to fight, bleed and die together in combat. It really
does forge this special bond with people that you have
there and Jesse, it really is unlike anything that I've
ever experienced before. I was in combat for sixteen months
with these guys heavy combat. I was in the light
infantry too, and we were out number ten to one,
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and almost every single engagement that we were in, we
were one infantry platoon in almost all of Burmel District
and Regional Command East Afghanistan. This was before the right,
This was at the height of the hunt and lot
and before the surge, before we had tens of thousands
of troops there, and I could. You know, I'm the
oldest of four siblings, and in many ways, I'm closer
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with my troops than I am with my own sister
and brothers. And it's not because I don't love my
sisters and brothers, but it's just because I went through
something very, very different with my men.
Speaker 7 (29:20):
Jesse.
Speaker 8 (29:21):
It was so crazy that it got to a point
where I got to know those men so well. I
could see them walking away from me under night vision
in the middle of the night and know exactly who
it was just by the way that they walked. I mean,
that's that's how close you get with those people and
you come to love them.
Speaker 3 (29:40):
Man.
Speaker 8 (29:40):
And like, the crazy thing about it is is like,
you know, you do these platoon reunions or you talk
to your you know, you talk to people who are
in your unit from time to time, and it's like,
you know, it could be years, but it's like you
just hung out the day before because that bond is
just so strong it never goes away.
Speaker 1 (29:58):
Yeah, we just we just I had a little twenty
year marine unit for or reunion for my unit, and
we got together and it was exactly like that. It
was like we we rented a house in the lake
and we automatically knew who was going to cook, who
did the dishes, we did like we just we just
I mean, we've we've been there, we've we've been through.
Speaker 3 (30:15):
It with each other before. It's exactly like that.
Speaker 1 (30:17):
John, I want you to speak if you don't mind
two veterans who may be struggling and watching this right now.
It's harder over the holidays, it's harder with family, it's harder.
And there are a lot of guys, even though we've
been back for a long time, who are really really
still struggling with life and getting by.
Speaker 3 (30:36):
And what do you have to say to them?
Speaker 8 (30:38):
Well, you know what it is if you if we
believe that the military trains you to shoot, move, communicate together,
and then you fight, bleed and die together in combat,
and then you get out and the military is like,
all right, have a great life, salute Like you're back
out into the civilian world by yourself, and it runs
contrary to everything that you'd just been through.
Speaker 7 (31:00):
And I always think, Jesse, when someone asked me this question.
Speaker 8 (31:02):
I struggled with this a lot as well, and I've
struggled a lot, you know, throughout the years with this.
I'm no different. But what so many men and women
struggle with is the next mission coming home. And I
remember having a conversation with my buddies and from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania,
sitting around a table in a bar, and they asked
me what Afghanistan was like. Of course, they asked me
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if I had killed anybody before, and I started telling
them the stories of my time in combat. You know,
just they're my friends, people I went to elementary school with,
high school with in some cases college, And very soon, Jesse,
I realized I was sitting at the table by myself,
and you know, I'm nothing against my buddies. These were
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depressing stories, and combat stories can be a bit of
a buzzkill.
Speaker 7 (31:47):
For people who weren't there.
Speaker 8 (31:49):
But in that moment, I did with every single member
who served in combat, doesn't matter what war you served in.
I said to myself, you know what, these civilians will
never get it. And I took that pain and I
locked it away side myself and I promised to never
talk about it again unless I spoke to somebody who
understood or was there with me. And then I started
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writing out Level Tune, which is my first book that
you referenced. And what I realized when that book came out,
I had soldiers and their family members reaching out to
me and saying, Oh my God, thank you for telling
this story. You know, my son, my husband would have
never told me this. But now that I know, you know,
I can, I can help him.
Speaker 7 (32:28):
I can. I can.
Speaker 8 (32:29):
I know what he went through, so I'm better suited
now to be that shoulder that he can lean on.
Speaker 7 (32:36):
And what I realized is.
Speaker 8 (32:37):
Is that's why it's so critical for veterans to tell
their story, you know. But it's really important, Jesse, to
ask why I said, Hey, people don't get it. I'm
never going to talk about this ever again. It's really
important to ask why I did that. Well, you raise
your right hand. You volunteer to serve, knowing that you
go that you're going to war, and you take an
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oath to protect people that you love and your care
about your friends and your family. And when soldiers or
marines or anybody who served in the military realizes that
their story just even listening to it hurts the people
that they took an oath to protect. Most members of
the military will just lock that away and say, you
know what, I'll eat the pain myself because I'm going
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to protect the people that I love and care about.
But the problem is is that if you lock that
stuff up inside of you, it can destroy somebody from
the inside out. And it's really important, living in a
representative republic that the people who send politicians to Washington
and then politicians and turn around and centermen and women
to war. It's really important for the people who sent
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those politicians to Washington, who centermen and women.
Speaker 7 (33:44):
To war, to own that war when we come home
and help us carry the burden.
Speaker 8 (33:48):
And that's what I realized in publishing my first book
did is that everybody, every soldier, everybody that's ever served
as part of these wars should be out there talking
to civilians and people who never served about what it
was like. And the reason why that's so important, Jesse,
and this is the last thing I'll say, is because
it helps educate our society so we don't find ourselves
in positions of forever. Wars like Iraq and Afghanistan for
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twenty plus years will almost nothing to show for it.
We become a smarter society when our men and women
come home and educate people about war and conflict.
Speaker 3 (34:19):
It's true, it is really true. They are the people
who should be speaking the loudest.
Speaker 1 (34:23):
After all, they have the most invested in this wonderful country.
So Sean, you are the man as always, my brother.
I will talk to you soon.
Speaker 3 (34:33):
That was good.
Speaker 1 (34:34):
I knew Sean would be good there. I wasn't even
I was going to go talk to him about some
political things. But I just thought maybe we should talk
to the vets for a minute. All right, Speaking of veterans,
Pure Talk, you know their ceo. You know what mac
v Saal is, right, you've heard of it. Maybe you've
read about it, seen it in the movies, the super
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duper special Forces ninja types from Vietnam, hind enemy lines,
those type guys. You know, the CEO of Pure Talk
two tours mac Visa and Vietnam. Why would Puretalk hire Americans?
Nobody does that? What you call it pure talk? You
speak to an American who speaks English. Why would they
do that?
Speaker 3 (35:15):
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Speaker 3 (35:40):
We'll be back. Well.
Speaker 1 (35:47):
Obviously, it is Veterans Day, as we mentioned over the top,
and it's more than a day where we just say
thank you for your service.
Speaker 3 (35:54):
It's more than a day where people like me try
to get.
Speaker 1 (35:56):
Ten percent off in waffle house. I'm just kidding out
of know whether a waffle house is doing that, but
I bet they are.
Speaker 3 (36:02):
Let's also remember that.
Speaker 1 (36:03):
People have given up significant parts of themselves, their lives,
their bodies for this country, and they deserve an extra thanks,
at least from us today.
Speaker 3 (36:14):
Joining me now.
Speaker 1 (36:15):
Marine Corps Veteran Bronze Star recipients and simper. He's also
a Simplify in America's Fund. His name is Eddie Wright.
Eddie Semplify my marine brother. First of all, what happened
to you twenty years ago? Tell us your story. We
don't know your story.
Speaker 5 (36:32):
Well, five brother, Happy birthday twenty years ago. I was
serving as an assistant team leader with First Reconnaissance Battalion
in Flujah, Iraq, and during an ambush, I was struck
by a rock of propelled grenade and that resulted in
the immediate amputation of both of my hands. And it
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was a catastrophic injury and into my dream career as
a reconnaissance marine. But you know, a long road of
recovery and a blessed life. Twenty years later, here I
am still standing.
Speaker 1 (37:10):
It's amazing how many blessings God still pours down on us. Okay,
let's rewind a little bit for those who don't know.
Recon marines are kind above. It's it's our elite if
you will. Why recon was Zoho grows up thinking about
being recon Tell me about it.
Speaker 5 (37:28):
Well, Ever since I was a child, I wanted to
be a marine, and around middle school I started to
read all kinds of books on the Marine corps. But
I stumbled upon reconnaissance marines books written by marines who
you served in Vietnam, and I just fell in love.
And from then on I knew that my goal in
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life was to become a reconnaissance marine.
Speaker 1 (37:54):
Yeah, that's that's not an easy slog either I respect
it and message okay. So recovery obviously cannot possibly be pleasant.
Tell me about your treatments. I'm assuming it was VA treatment.
Did you feel like you had everything you needed? And
what's it like afterwards? How do you adjust to not
having hands all of a sudden?
Speaker 3 (38:15):
What do you do from there? Tell us about it.
Speaker 5 (38:19):
Well, when my recovery took quite some time, I was
an impatient for four months at the National Naval Medical
Center in Bethesda, Maryland, and then followed on at Walter
Reed So a combination of both hospitals four months, and
then about a year I was at the Malone House
and doing physical therapy occupational therapy. But I never lost
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my drive to be a marine. I just didn't know
how I was going to continue in that service. Fortunately,
the Marine Corps saw some value in my service and
I was able to spend my last year in the
Marine Corps at the Basic School in Quantico, Virginia as
an instructor at the Martial Arts Center of Excellence training Marines.
And that was offen asked the way to go out
with my boots on. But then I was a civilian
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and that world to me was a little bit of
a shock. You know, the VA system, for everything that
they do wonderful for us, there our gaps in the system.
It is a bureaucratic agency, and so sometimes many times
it was very frustrating that, you know, my needs could
be prosthetics, my needs could be maybe counseling things like that,
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or just regular medical care, and there are gaps in
the system, and that can be tiring and frustrating, and
unfortunately sometimes you have to be your own advocate and
it gets a little old. And that's where organizations like
to Simplify in America's fund come through and they fill
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in those gaps and they support us not just with.
Speaker 3 (40:00):
Transition, but they do support for the service.
Speaker 5 (40:05):
Members, for our families, and they have a holistic approach
integrative wellness, and it's a continued service to us and myself.
Twenty years later, things come up, Life happens, and then
when you're a veteran and you have a physical disability,
you know, a severe injury that limits you, you know,
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unless you can find some workarounds, it can be tiring
and just that much harder than say, if you had
all your health and all your fingers and your limbs
and so they've really come through. It's like a family.
They understand that it's not just one time involvement, that
it's a lifetime of involvement and have a commitment. There
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are military spouses that started the organization, that run the organization,
dedicated staff and volunteers all over the country, and they
not only support marines, they support all service branches and
our families and our children.
Speaker 3 (41:06):
And that's wonderful.
Speaker 5 (41:08):
That brings life, Like when when you get tired and
you're carrying out you know, you're a marine, you're carrying
your rock and you're like, man, I've been rocking for
so long, and you know, for I guess for people listening,
that's you big old backpack. It's heavy, and you get tired,
and it's life.
Speaker 3 (41:22):
You know.
Speaker 5 (41:22):
You you're marching on, you're rocking, and you just sometimes
you need to drink the water. You need to sit down,
change your socks, take a knee, catch your breath. The
Simplifying America's Fund is an organization that understands that, and
they're there for us and sometimes you don't even you
don't even have to reach out because they're committed and
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they care about us and they'll reach out and it's
like to have esp that can. It happens when you
when you, when you.
Speaker 3 (41:51):
Least expect it.
Speaker 5 (41:51):
And I just am very grateful for an organization like that,
and for the Americans in our country that support that organization.
Speaker 1 (41:59):
All you veterans watching right now, something touched your heart.
Speaker 3 (42:03):
Maybe you're struggling.
Speaker 1 (42:05):
Reach out Simpifying America's fun reach out see if they
can help you. Anyone else who wants to support an
organization like that, I would highly encourage you to do so,
Eddie writes, Simpify, my brother, and happy birthday once again.
Good to talk to you. All right, it's time for
lightning mood next. All right, it is time to lighten
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the mood. And before we get to the video, I
can't ren decide if it's light it's funny, but we'll
get to that in a second. Before we do that,
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Speaker 1 (42:53):
We do some extra things on there, things you won't
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And oh yet all right, you know there are things
that we get used to. We've talked about this before,
you and I. We we grow accustomed to certain things,
even terrible things. It's part of the human condition. It's
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how adaptable we are. We've kind of accepted you and me.
We accepted a while ago that the president of the
United States of America is not a fully functional adult,
and that his witch wife was going to run him
for re election again knowing he wasn't a functional adult.
Speaker 3 (43:34):
Like, those two things are both horrible, and.
Speaker 1 (43:37):
We've just kind of like baked it into the cake.
And now Trump once or we're all happy, but we
don't even think about it anymore.
Speaker 3 (43:43):
Did you see Joe Biden walking through the sand?
Speaker 1 (43:45):
And did you see Joe Biden when Joe started to stumble.
Speaker 7 (44:00):
He's playing.
Speaker 1 (44:02):
He's playing, Yeah, he's playing the lord.
Speaker 3 (44:07):
H he's playing.
Speaker 1 (44:13):
That man has been commander in chief for the last
four years. I can't believe we're all still alive anyway,
I see them all h
It's Veterans Day, so we're going to talk a little
bit about that. We'll talk about some government crime problems,
but also we're going to talk to veterans about their service.
Let's do a nice Veterans Day honoring, shall we.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
I'm right, it's Veterans Day.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
And before we get into the politics, I just thought
I should open up by saying one, Happy Veterans Day.
I know that's pretty cliche at this point in time,
but what does that actually mean. Oh, we get to
enjoy this wonderful country of ours because brave men have
been willing to fight and die to keep it free,
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to keep it prosperous. It's not a small thing at all.
Happy Veterans Day. And let me speak to the veterans
really briefly before we get into politics.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
Obviously, thank you for your service. I got that.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
I'm with you, and I got all the taxes today too. Hey,
thank you for your service. But beyond that, I would
remind you, as a veteran that you may not wear
the uniform anymore. I certainly don't too old, bald and fat,
gray and not a marine. You know, I guess it's
always a marine. But you know what, I mean, you
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may not wear the uniform anymore, but you are still
under obligation. You still have a duty to your country.
And so don't short change yourself by thinking, ah, I'm
just this now, I'm just to that. That's what veterans
tend to do, especially when they get depressed later on
in life. They were young guns doing cool things, and
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then later on in life it's Jesse, I'm just a
delivery man. Jesse, I'm just this. I'm just an accountant. No,
you're a citizen, a citizen who has a duty to
his country. You are not finished yet. Keep putting in
the work, keep fighting for your country in different ways,
but keep fighting for your country.
Speaker 3 (02:02):
All right, All right now.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
I want to talk really quickly about this FEMA situation
because it leads me to something bigger. Right now, we
have the Trump transition, we have the Senate leadership race.
We're going to get to all these things. But I
wanted to hit this off the top of the Daily Wire.
They deserve all the credit in the world. It's their story.
They broke it, and it has most definitely since been
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confirmed that there was an employee at FEMA, a FEMA
official who told Hurricane relief workers to skip homes that
had Trump signs on them.
Speaker 3 (02:40):
They were going around checking.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
In with these homes, getting people signed up for some
sort of relief, some sort of government relief, some sort
of government help. In this lady sent out a memo
and apparently set it in a meeting. Hey, if they
have Trump signs, screw them, skip all over the house.
And it was done. From the reporting, it looks like
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it was twenty houses at least with Trump signs.
Speaker 3 (03:07):
Didn't get any.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
Help because some evil witch communists with FEMA told those homes,
told the workers to skip those homes. Now, why would
I bring up a story like this one, It is
a big story. I wanted to bring this up at two.
I wanted to explain something we talk about a lot,
fear and pain. Fear and pain are not things we
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like to dwell on at all. They're ugly things. But
fear and pain are the only thing communists understand. Communists
are religious zelos. As we've talked about before. You need
to think of them more like radical Islamists than anything else,
more like Chihati terrorists. Well, Chihati terrorists really only ever
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have ever responded to fear and pain nothing else because
they're religious sellots. These communists are the same. This FEMA employee,
she was fired and all that. That's good to go.
So I'm gonna say something, and maybe you'll think it's
extreme or harsh, but I really genuinely mean it. I'll
explain why in a moment, firing is not close to enough.
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She needs to be arrested immediately. She needs to be
put on trial, and the trial needs to be public.
It should be live streamed, covered by multiple media outlets.
When they describe her disgusting sins, she should be publicly humiliated.
She should know that if she is ever let out
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of prison, which she should not be, that she should
have to change her name and location because the shame
of what she's done is so evident on her. And
then after a public trial, a fair trial, she should
probably be sent to prison for the rest of her
natural life. Now maybe you're saying that's extreme, it's some
hurricane aid. Now I think you need understand exactly what
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we have right now. We have a government full of
these communists, full of them, government agency after government agency,
from the FBI to FOMA. That this that that full
of these rabid little animals. Who will use their power
in a way that is not lawful. They will use
their power to attack their political enemies. Using your position
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with FEMA to deny aid to people who you disagree
with politically is so deeply evil that it shows this
human being is not fit for public consumption.
Speaker 3 (05:37):
And so what do I want? I want every other
Communist currently.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
Sitting in government, and there are many, many, many, many
many of them, I want them to look at what
happens to this woman, and I want them to be afraid.
I want them to be afraid that one day that
knock may come on their door and that public trial
may happen to them. Maybe you think Goad's too horsh
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They don't have any other way. They will learn to
be honest with you. Firing is not even close to enough.
That doesn't instill fear or pain in the Communists who
are there. Communists must feel pain. If they do not
feel it, if they do not fear you, then they
will abuse you without end. It is sadly the only
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language they understand. And so going forward, as we have
talked about before, this is not the first time I've
said it, you will know the United States of America
is on the right path, the path to cleaning out
the corruption, the path to getting this government right. When
government people start going to prison, not firings, not resignation,
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not relocation, not early retirement. No no, no, no, no, no, no,
all those things are just fine.
Speaker 3 (06:53):
No no, no, no, no. Prison.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
Crimes have been committed against the American people by this government,
and government must go to prison government people, which brings me, actually,
that brings me perfectly into the Senate leadership.
Speaker 3 (07:06):
Fight right now.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
So I warned, if you watch the show, you're not
Johnny come lately to this.
Speaker 3 (07:13):
You've known this is coming.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
I've been warning you about trouble coming from the United
States Senate.
Speaker 3 (07:19):
So allow me to explain. Let's do it.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
Let's take a step back on a macro level and
talk about this Trump transition and the Trump administration and
the Senate and the system and leadership. So let me
just lay this out as clearly as I possibly can.
Donald Trump and Donald Trump's team, if we're to believe
what we're seeing right now and what.
Speaker 3 (07:43):
We're hearing, they are on a mission.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
They believe the American people have given them a mandate
to fix a lot of things and to clean out
a system that is evil and corrupt and broken, a
system that no longer serves the American people. And if
you look at Donald Trump's appointments, to get to those
maybe in a moment, but if you look at Donald
Trump's appointments, it looks like He's completely committed to that.
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In fact, you know what, let's get ex directly to that.
I want you to watch Tom Holman. He sat down
with sixty minutes he was being asked about illegal immigrants
and this and that, and this kind of commitment is
exactly what we need. We have seen one estimate that
says it would cost eighty eight billion dollars to deport
a million people a year.
Speaker 3 (08:31):
I don't know if that's accurate or not.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
Is that what American taxpayers should expect?
Speaker 3 (08:35):
What price do you put on national security? Is that
worth it?
Speaker 1 (08:38):
Is there a way to carry out mass deportation without
separating families?
Speaker 3 (08:44):
Of course, families can be deported together.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
That's exactly what we need. Trump looks committed this time
to get it done right. He announced over the weekend.
NICKI Haley need not apply Mike Pompeio. Sorry, no more
deep state here. But that brings me to the Senate
leadership fight. You think, and I think that the Trump team,
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the Team Trump, has a mandate to make major changes.
Speaker 3 (09:15):
And you're correct. I'm correct.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
The American people went to the polls and wiped Democrats
out because the American people are sick of how this
evil government has been running things. They're sick of a lot,
and they want things to change. Okay, we're all on
the same page, right, we're all on the same page. However,
there's something we have to understand. We've got to get
through this through our heads. GOP leadership, they are locked
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with the communists in this. They don't want anything to change.
You want everything to change. You want the corruption cleaned out,
you want the evil cleaned out. You're sick of the FBI,
you're sick.
Speaker 3 (09:58):
Of an open border.
Speaker 1 (09:59):
You're mad about this, matter about it, and you are
correct about all those things.
Speaker 3 (10:02):
You're mad about.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
But if you are in GOP leadership one of these
swamp rat types, the corruption is your entire existence. Think
about them as if they are criminals. Think about them
as if they're Italian mafia people.
Speaker 3 (10:19):
They're mobsters.
Speaker 1 (10:21):
They don't want some kind of crackdown.
Speaker 3 (10:23):
On the mob. The mob is their entire life.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
Being a swamp rat is how guys like John Cornyan
and John Thune exist. And I said all that to
say the Senate leadership fight, there's going to be a.
Speaker 3 (10:38):
Silent vote on Wednesday.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
The Senate leadership fight is not a small thing. It's
a huge thing because if we go elect John Thune
or John Cornyan as the new Senate majority leader, well
here's the truth. They are going to fight Trump in
every way possible because because they don't have the mandate
you think they have, they will see themselves as having
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a mandate.
Speaker 3 (11:04):
To stop him.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
You think John Cornyn John Thune want to rein in
the defense contractors, You think John Cornyan or John Thune
are gonna get the FBI in line. They will see
themselves as the sword in shield of the government, not
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the sword in shield of you. And this is not
me sitting here telling you that Rick Scott is some
kind of sink because he's the only other option I know.
His gun control passed as gross. I'm not telling you
there are great options. Okay, right now, there are three.
But it is a big, big, big, big big deal.
Mitch McConnell, let me just explain it this way. You've
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seen everything Mitch McConnell has done to try to impede Trump.
It's not everything he possibly can ITH's John Cornyn or
w it's John Thune. It will be a continuation of that.
And that is a really big deal when you consider
Donald Trump is going to need Senate confirmations. You know,
you don't just as president. You don't just get to say, hey,
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you go be my attorney general. You're the one I pick. No,
you're attorney general. Oh, you get to choose one you want.
But then he has to get an up or down
vote in.
Speaker 3 (12:28):
The United States Senate. What if Donald Trump?
Speaker 1 (12:33):
What if he picked a reformer for AG, a man
who decided the FBI needed a little house cleaning. Do
you think John Cornyn would be okay with that? What's
about to happen Wednesday is a big deal. It matters
a lot again, you think. And Trump thinks there's a
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mandate to change the government. John Cornyan and John Thune
believe there's a mandate to keep it exactly where it is.
Remember that all that may have made you uncomfortable, but
I am right now.
Speaker 3 (13:07):
Before we get to our veteran heavy show, we.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
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We'll be back.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
Well, we'd be remiss if we didn't take a little
time to celebrate the true birthday that has happened out there,
the birthday number two four nine of my beloved United
States Marine Corps. I figured it was a good way
to celebrate that would be bringing in Wade Miller, Marine
Corps combat veteran, also executive director at the Center for
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Renewing America. Wade, why the heck did you go join
the Marines. There were all kinds of other more feminine branches.
Speaker 4 (14:30):
Well, I was hungry for crayons, so I heard they
add ons there.
Speaker 3 (14:37):
No, seriously, why did you join? Everyone has their own story.
What'd you do? What were you doing?
Speaker 5 (14:42):
Uh?
Speaker 4 (14:43):
You know, I was in college at the time when
nine to eleven happened. In fact, I had slept in
because I had gone out the night before for beers
and I was getting up and I saw the World
Trade centers being hit, and so I dropped out of
college joined the Marine Corps.
Speaker 5 (14:56):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (14:57):
Twenty years later, I questioned whether or not our you know,
soldiers were used for a good purpose there. But nonetheless,
we you know, killed a lot of bad guys and
took a lot of bad guys out.
Speaker 6 (15:07):
But that's that's why I joined.
Speaker 3 (15:11):
Wade.
Speaker 1 (15:12):
Let's shift into to what's happening currently with the military.
You and I have talked about this before. What they're doing,
what they've done, what military leadership has done to our
military is beyond belief.
Speaker 3 (15:25):
The retention crisis is a disaster. People don't talk about.
Speaker 1 (15:28):
Everyone talks about recruiting, but retention, that the pipe hitters
are leaving. Is this something in four years that Trump
can't or even will reverse. There wasn't a ton of
change last time. He looks much more committed this time.
What do we expect, what do we need?
Speaker 6 (15:43):
I think it'll be a different scenario this time.
Speaker 4 (15:45):
If you'll remember, the Executive Order to combat CRT came
out right at the end of the administration, after Chris
Rufo and others had been exposing it. I think that
where we're at now as opposed to twenty nineteen, I
think a lot of people's eyes are open up to
what woke and weaponized bureaucracy is, and it's a really
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bad problem. In DoD We've got a bunch of left
wing Nancy generals that are wanting to elevate diversity, equity,
inclusion and anti racism, which is just racism if you
boil it down, and they're doing it for political jockeying,
and they're throwing their troops under the bus because they
want to get their next promotion and to look good
in front of left wing senators. And that includes some
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of the Senate on the Republican side as well. And
we've got a dangerous, toxic culture. And I think that
President Trump understands that there needs to be a cultural
change in the military. I think he's probably right now
weighing through all of his various options.
Speaker 6 (16:44):
Of who's gonna take on DoD.
Speaker 4 (16:46):
I think he fully understands that we need to embrace
more of a realism approach, and I think so.
Speaker 6 (16:52):
I think it's going to be a combination of realism and.
Speaker 4 (16:54):
Restraint, ending forever wars, saving our treasure for American family
instead of spinning it abroad, and then going at this
neo Marxist rot that's in all of the bureaucracies, including
within our admirals and generals. And frankly, I will stand
up and applaud very loudly when the first general or
admiral gets gets fired for embracing all this nonsense.
Speaker 1 (17:20):
Wade, can you explain to people who don't understand, how
did we get so many of these generals and admirals, Because,
especially if you're a civilian, you look at these guys
and the uniform looks good, and the course all of
them have eight thousand medals and ribbons now and you
look and you think, wow, gosh, what a warrior. I
can't imagine what a resume. Those ribbons and medals must reflect.
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How do we get so many of these guys who
are just poisonous filth that.
Speaker 3 (17:47):
Lead our military.
Speaker 1 (17:48):
It's crazy to people who don't get how this happened.
Speaker 7 (17:52):
Well sure so.
Speaker 4 (17:53):
Well, you know, first of all, if an officer sneezes
in the right direction, they get some sort of metal
these days, to the broader point that you're making at
a certain point, especially in the officer ranks, you know,
you go to get your continuing education, you go get
a master's degree. They go to places like Harvard and
Yale where it's just left wing nonsense. And then I
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think that, you know, to get past a certain rank,
they have to be approved by Congress. And in fact,
last year or maybe two years ago, Senator Tommy Tuberville
kind of famously was holding a lot of these promotions
because they were embracing all sorts of nonsense, including woket
ideology and abortion policies.
Speaker 6 (18:36):
And so these senators play the game.
Speaker 4 (18:38):
They see what DC culture is and they just basically
throw this country under the bus and say, if I
want to get my next promotion, I'm going to embrace
this Marxist nonsense. And they just like I said, they
throw us on into the bus because they want to
get that next star or their next you know, the
become a colonel or whatever it is. And I think
a lot of them just don't care about America as
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much as they should, and they're kind of protecting their
own height and they're throwing our culture, our country, our
troops under the.
Speaker 6 (19:07):
Bus in order to attain it.
Speaker 4 (19:08):
And frankly, it's sad, and that's why we need to
start cleaning house. I would love to see the DOJ
start prosecuting some of these generals who have seemingly violated
the law by promoting people on the basis of race
and sex, which should be illegal. I think that the
military actually might have an exemption on that, but nevertheless,
the signal needs be sent and these people need to.
Speaker 6 (19:30):
Be fired that are responsible for it, no question.
Speaker 1 (19:33):
We're already getting reports of informal meetings, of course Wade
and the Pentagon, of people talking about how they can
challenge Donald Trump, which is odd because last time I checked,
he was the commander in chief. How much trouble is
Trump going to have if he's committed to do so,
and he appears to be, how much trouble is he
going to have cleaning this thing out?
Speaker 6 (19:54):
It's a monumental task.
Speaker 4 (19:56):
If anyone can do it, I think the Trump can,
and I think that he will surround himself with the
right people.
Speaker 6 (20:01):
But remember, the Intel state, the.
Speaker 4 (20:04):
National security state, and the Defense Industrial Complex have a
lot of reasons for this not to happen. And so
to the degree that they have all of their different
machinations and lobbyists in DC and Hill staffers that want
us to be in every single conceivable war possible, they're
going to find reasons to throw wrenches in all of
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these plans.
Speaker 6 (20:25):
And so, you know, I would just encourage the president.
Speaker 4 (20:28):
I'm excited that he is going to be the president
once again to just plow through all of that nonsense
and empower the people that he puts there to to,
you know, to carry out his charge and to fundamentally
reshape these institutions so they're not frankly an enemy of
the United States any longer, and actually looking out for
the best interests of you know, the of the common cause,
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of what you know, government is supposed to be achieving
for the American people.
Speaker 1 (20:56):
Wait, there's already been a bunch of chatter you never
know what to believe about the Israel Hamas thing getting
wrapped up, maybe hopefully the Ukraine Russia thing getting wrapped up,
maybe hopefully. Now how much that stuff is realistic, Surely
Trump's not going to walk in there and world peace
is going to descend on us.
Speaker 4 (21:18):
I think it will be light years ahead of where
it's at now. If you remember, in his last term,
a lot of what the foreign policy deep state and
the establishment said was impossible, he got a lot of
it done and it kind of shocked all of them.
Speaker 6 (21:32):
The state of affairs in which the world.
Speaker 4 (21:34):
Was in towards the end of his first term, and
then of course it all kind of fell the you know,
total crap excuse me, and there ensuing four years after
that under the Biden administration. I think that there's something
to be said when you have a leader who is
unpredictable and may just because you piss him off, he
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may go to war with you, or he may take
out one of your top generals.
Speaker 6 (21:59):
And Trump has that.
Speaker 4 (22:00):
In foreign policy terms, it's called strategic ambiguity. Foreign leaders
don't really know what Trump's going to do, and that
is a superpower if you're President Trump. They were going
to start calibrating their decision making to not want to
offend or piss off Trump, because Trump has the keys
to the car now, and he can make or break
a lot of these nations. He can cut them off.
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He can impost one hundred percent tariffs, he can cut
off all of our trade. He can isolate them, he
can put sanctions on them, and they know that. So
I think that that's one reason you're starting to see
a shift already in conversations now. Will hope happen overnight,
probably not, But the fact that you're already seeing these
discussions materialize out of the ether days after the election
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was decided.
Speaker 6 (22:46):
I don't think that that's a coincidence.
Speaker 4 (22:48):
I think it's the strategic ambiguity of having a president
who they really don't know what he's going to do,
and that kind.
Speaker 6 (22:54):
Of scares him. And that's a great position. That's a
great power to have if you're a president.
Speaker 3 (23:00):
It certainly is wait brother, send for Fie, Happy birthday.
I appreciate you man, all right. I don't think we're done.
Speaker 1 (23:09):
We have even another VET for you before.
Speaker 3 (23:12):
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We'll be back.
Speaker 1 (24:10):
Veteran's Day is a special day on the show, always
has been a special day. We like to try to
do more than just thank a veteran. We'd like to
try to have some on Let's hear from them, let's
talk to them. As you could probably tell, that's going
to be a theme on today's show. In joining me now,
somebody's personal friend of mine has been for many years.
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Sean Parnell Bronze Star, Purple Heart U US Army captain
and author of the book Outlaw Platoon. If you want
to hear exactly what he went through in Afghanistan for
this country, Okay, Sean, first of all, tell us about
the Army's Tenth Mountain Division.
Speaker 3 (24:47):
That sounds kind of cool.
Speaker 8 (24:50):
Yeah, well, there are two seasons there and stationed up
station up at Fort Drum, New York.
Speaker 7 (24:55):
Two seasons there July and winter.
Speaker 8 (24:57):
I found that out the hard way when I was
a brand new, brand new second lieutenant coming out of
Ranger School.
Speaker 7 (25:02):
Failed the first time through Ranger School.
Speaker 8 (25:05):
Got probably one of my last choices in duty assignments because,
come to find out, again, nobody really wanted to go
to Fort Trum. But when I got there, I realized
it was the best kept secret in the Army in
the Tenth Mountain Division was It was a light infantry
division that had the moniker at least back in the
day of being the most deployed unit in the Army.
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And back then that's exactly what I wanted.
Speaker 7 (25:29):
I don't know.
Speaker 8 (25:30):
Why I felt that way, but I was just after
nine to eleven, I was just chomping at the bit
to get in the fight as fast as humanly possible,
to take the fight to the enemy. I mean, looking back, stupid,
naive in so many ways, just a young kid. But
we had units in the tenth Mountain Division that specialized
in Iraq and one brigade, the Spartan Brigade, that specialized
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in Afghanistan. And I was in the Spartan Brigade and
oar motto was with your shield or on it. In
other words, come home victorious or come home dead again.
I didn't really understand that back in the day, but
looking back, you know, I was very proud to be
associated with that unit.
Speaker 1 (26:07):
Tell people, because I only did a little bit of
this in the Marines.
Speaker 3 (26:10):
Too bad for you, Sean. Tell people what.
Speaker 1 (26:12):
It's like to train in the mountains before we even
get to Afghanistan. The mountains are just a completely different animal,
aren't they.
Speaker 7 (26:21):
Well, yeah they are.
Speaker 8 (26:22):
And the crazy thing about that is that leave it
to the army that station somebody at Fort Drum where
it's just flat as far as the eye can see.
Speaker 7 (26:31):
But what it was in Fort Drum was freezing cold.
Speaker 8 (26:35):
And so the Tenth Mountain Division was really what really
helped us was training in extreme cold weather climates, So
when you're operating at fourteen thousand feet and that's where
we were in the valleys in Afghanistan at fourteen thousand
feet and get pretty freaking cold up there. So being
able to train in that type of environment and learn
to operate in this in I mean seriously sub like
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fifteen sixteen seventeen degrees blow zero and that type of
weather in combat environment I mean.
Speaker 7 (27:06):
Jesse, I think it saved lives in combat.
Speaker 8 (27:09):
You train hard, you know, you train like you fight,
and then when you get to combat, the hope is
is that it pays off dividends when you get there,
and in my case, I think it did.
Speaker 1 (27:19):
Sean. It's hard to explain for those who haven't gone
through it, and oftentimes women have a harder time understanding
this who haven't gone through it. How much suffering together
brings men together, It helps you come together as a unit.
I've told these stories before on the radio on here
of various times where you suffer together and you end
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up just getting closer and closer through all that.
Speaker 8 (27:45):
Why you know, what I think it is, Jesse, is
like when you go into basic training, you go in
as an individual. You know their shave in everybody's head.
They're you know, you're only as fast as your slowest person.
If somebody falls out in the run, the whole platoon stops,
turns around, puts the guy to the front. You know,
you become part of a team, something larger than yourself.
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And then you get to your unit and you shoot,
move and communicate together as a team, and that motto
being a part of something bigger than yourself, being part
of something that's a collective is really just beat into you.
So you you almost you change from just being an
individual to a part of something bigger than just you.
Speaker 7 (28:25):
So you shoot, move and communicate.
Speaker 8 (28:27):
Together as a team and training, and then you go
to fight, bleed and die together in combat. It really
does forge this special bond with people that you have
there and Jesse, it really is unlike anything that I've
ever experienced before. I was in combat for sixteen months
with these guys heavy combat. I was in the light
infantry too, and we were out number ten to one,
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and almost every single engagement that we were in, we
were one infantry platoon in almost all of Burmel District
and Regional Command East Afghanistan. This was before the right,
This was at the height of the hunt and lot
and before the surge, before we had tens of thousands
of troops there, and I could. You know, I'm the
oldest of four siblings, and in many ways, I'm closer
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with my troops than I am with my own sister
and brothers. And it's not because I don't love my
sisters and brothers, but it's just because I went through
something very, very different with my men.
Speaker 7 (29:20):
Jesse.
Speaker 8 (29:21):
It was so crazy that it got to a point
where I got to know those men so well. I
could see them walking away from me under night vision
in the middle of the night and know exactly who
it was just by the way that they walked. I mean,
that's that's how close you get with those people and
you come to love them.
Speaker 3 (29:40):
Man.
Speaker 8 (29:40):
And like, the crazy thing about it is is like,
you know, you do these platoon reunions or you talk
to your you know, you talk to people who are
in your unit from time to time, and it's like,
you know, it could be years, but it's like you
just hung out the day before because that bond is
just so strong it never goes away.
Speaker 1 (29:58):
Yeah, we just we just I had a little twenty
year marine unit for or reunion for my unit, and
we got together and it was exactly like that. It
was like we we rented a house in the lake
and we automatically knew who was going to cook, who
did the dishes, we did like we just we just
I mean, we've we've been there, we've we've been through.
Speaker 3 (30:15):
It with each other before. It's exactly like that.
Speaker 1 (30:17):
John, I want you to speak if you don't mind
two veterans who may be struggling and watching this right now.
It's harder over the holidays, it's harder with family, it's harder.
And there are a lot of guys, even though we've
been back for a long time, who are really really
still struggling with life and getting by.
Speaker 3 (30:36):
And what do you have to say to them?
Speaker 8 (30:38):
Well, you know what it is if you if we
believe that the military trains you to shoot, move, communicate together,
and then you fight, bleed and die together in combat,
and then you get out and the military is like,
all right, have a great life, salute Like you're back
out into the civilian world by yourself, and it runs
contrary to everything that you'd just been through.
Speaker 7 (31:00):
And I always think, Jesse, when someone asked me this question.
Speaker 8 (31:02):
I struggled with this a lot as well, and I've
struggled a lot, you know, throughout the years with this.
I'm no different. But what so many men and women
struggle with is the next mission coming home. And I
remember having a conversation with my buddies and from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania,
sitting around a table in a bar, and they asked
me what Afghanistan was like. Of course, they asked me
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if I had killed anybody before, and I started telling
them the stories of my time in combat. You know,
just they're my friends, people I went to elementary school with,
high school with in some cases college, And very soon, Jesse,
I realized I was sitting at the table by myself,
and you know, I'm nothing against my buddies. These were
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depressing stories, and combat stories can be a bit of
a buzzkill.
Speaker 7 (31:47):
For people who weren't there.
Speaker 8 (31:49):
But in that moment, I did with every single member
who served in combat, doesn't matter what war you served in.
I said to myself, you know what, these civilians will
never get it. And I took that pain and I
locked it away side myself and I promised to never
talk about it again unless I spoke to somebody who
understood or was there with me. And then I started
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writing out Level Tune, which is my first book that
you referenced. And what I realized when that book came out,
I had soldiers and their family members reaching out to
me and saying, Oh my God, thank you for telling
this story. You know, my son, my husband would have
never told me this. But now that I know, you know,
I can, I can help him.
Speaker 7 (32:28):
I can. I can.
Speaker 8 (32:29):
I know what he went through, so I'm better suited
now to be that shoulder that he can lean on.
Speaker 7 (32:36):
And what I realized is.
Speaker 8 (32:37):
Is that's why it's so critical for veterans to tell
their story, you know. But it's really important, Jesse, to
ask why I said, Hey, people don't get it. I'm
never going to talk about this ever again. It's really
important to ask why I did that. Well, you raise
your right hand. You volunteer to serve, knowing that you
go that you're going to war, and you take an
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oath to protect people that you love and your care
about your friends and your family. And when soldiers or
marines or anybody who served in the military realizes that
their story just even listening to it hurts the people
that they took an oath to protect. Most members of
the military will just lock that away and say, you
know what, I'll eat the pain myself because I'm going
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to protect the people that I love and care about.
But the problem is is that if you lock that
stuff up inside of you, it can destroy somebody from
the inside out. And it's really important, living in a
representative republic that the people who send politicians to Washington
and then politicians and turn around and centermen and women
to war. It's really important for the people who sent
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those politicians to Washington, who centermen and women.
Speaker 7 (33:44):
To war, to own that war when we come home
and help us carry the burden.
Speaker 8 (33:48):
And that's what I realized in publishing my first book
did is that everybody, every soldier, everybody that's ever served
as part of these wars should be out there talking
to civilians and people who never served about what it
was like. And the reason why that's so important, Jesse,
and this is the last thing I'll say, is because
it helps educate our society so we don't find ourselves
in positions of forever. Wars like Iraq and Afghanistan for
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twenty plus years will almost nothing to show for it.
We become a smarter society when our men and women
come home and educate people about war and conflict.
Speaker 3 (34:19):
It's true, it is really true. They are the people
who should be speaking the loudest.
Speaker 1 (34:23):
After all, they have the most invested in this wonderful country.
So Sean, you are the man as always, my brother.
I will talk to you soon.
Speaker 3 (34:33):
That was good.
Speaker 1 (34:34):
I knew Sean would be good there. I wasn't even
I was going to go talk to him about some
political things. But I just thought maybe we should talk
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Speaker 3 (35:40):
We'll be back. Well.
Speaker 1 (35:47):
Obviously, it is Veterans Day, as we mentioned over the top,
and it's more than a day where we just say
thank you for your service.
Speaker 3 (35:54):
It's more than a day where people like me try
to get.
Speaker 1 (35:56):
Ten percent off in waffle house. I'm just kidding out
of know whether a waffle house is doing that, but
I bet they are.
Speaker 3 (36:02):
Let's also remember that.
Speaker 1 (36:03):
People have given up significant parts of themselves, their lives,
their bodies for this country, and they deserve an extra thanks,
at least from us today.
Speaker 3 (36:14):
Joining me now.
Speaker 1 (36:15):
Marine Corps Veteran Bronze Star recipients and simper. He's also
a Simplify in America's Fund. His name is Eddie Wright.
Eddie Semplify my marine brother. First of all, what happened
to you twenty years ago? Tell us your story. We
don't know your story.
Speaker 5 (36:32):
Well, five brother, Happy birthday twenty years ago. I was
serving as an assistant team leader with First Reconnaissance Battalion
in Flujah, Iraq, and during an ambush, I was struck
by a rock of propelled grenade and that resulted in
the immediate amputation of both of my hands. And it
(36:54):
was a catastrophic injury and into my dream career as
a reconnaissance marine. But you know, a long road of
recovery and a blessed life. Twenty years later, here I
am still standing.
Speaker 1 (37:10):
It's amazing how many blessings God still pours down on us. Okay,
let's rewind a little bit for those who don't know.
Recon marines are kind above. It's it's our elite if
you will. Why recon was Zoho grows up thinking about
being recon Tell me about it.
Speaker 5 (37:28):
Well, Ever since I was a child, I wanted to
be a marine, and around middle school I started to
read all kinds of books on the Marine corps. But
I stumbled upon reconnaissance marines books written by marines who
you served in Vietnam, and I just fell in love.
And from then on I knew that my goal in
(37:49):
life was to become a reconnaissance marine.
Speaker 1 (37:54):
Yeah, that's that's not an easy slog either I respect
it and message okay. So recovery obviously cannot possibly be pleasant.
Tell me about your treatments. I'm assuming it was VA treatment.
Did you feel like you had everything you needed? And
what's it like afterwards? How do you adjust to not
having hands all of a sudden?
Speaker 3 (38:15):
What do you do from there? Tell us about it.
Speaker 5 (38:19):
Well, when my recovery took quite some time, I was
an impatient for four months at the National Naval Medical
Center in Bethesda, Maryland, and then followed on at Walter
Reed So a combination of both hospitals four months, and
then about a year I was at the Malone House
and doing physical therapy occupational therapy. But I never lost
(38:41):
my drive to be a marine. I just didn't know
how I was going to continue in that service. Fortunately,
the Marine Corps saw some value in my service and
I was able to spend my last year in the
Marine Corps at the Basic School in Quantico, Virginia as
an instructor at the Martial Arts Center of Excellence training Marines.
And that was offen asked the way to go out
with my boots on. But then I was a civilian
(39:07):
and that world to me was a little bit of
a shock. You know, the VA system, for everything that
they do wonderful for us, there our gaps in the system.
It is a bureaucratic agency, and so sometimes many times
it was very frustrating that, you know, my needs could
be prosthetics, my needs could be maybe counseling things like that,
(39:31):
or just regular medical care, and there are gaps in
the system, and that can be tiring and frustrating, and
unfortunately sometimes you have to be your own advocate and
it gets a little old. And that's where organizations like
to Simplify in America's fund come through and they fill
(39:55):
in those gaps and they support us not just with.
Speaker 3 (40:00):
Transition, but they do support for the service.
Speaker 5 (40:05):
Members, for our families, and they have a holistic approach
integrative wellness, and it's a continued service to us and myself.
Twenty years later, things come up, Life happens, and then
when you're a veteran and you have a physical disability,
you know, a severe injury that limits you, you know,
(40:28):
unless you can find some workarounds, it can be tiring
and just that much harder than say, if you had
all your health and all your fingers and your limbs
and so they've really come through. It's like a family.
They understand that it's not just one time involvement, that
it's a lifetime of involvement and have a commitment. There
(40:50):
are military spouses that started the organization, that run the organization,
dedicated staff and volunteers all over the country, and they
not only support marines, they support all service branches and
our families and our children.
Speaker 3 (41:06):
And that's wonderful.
Speaker 5 (41:08):
That brings life, Like when when you get tired and
you're carrying out you know, you're a marine, you're carrying
your rock and you're like, man, I've been rocking for
so long, and you know, for I guess for people listening,
that's you big old backpack. It's heavy, and you get tired,
and it's life.
Speaker 3 (41:22):
You know.
Speaker 5 (41:22):
You you're marching on, you're rocking, and you just sometimes
you need to drink the water. You need to sit down,
change your socks, take a knee, catch your breath. The
Simplifying America's Fund is an organization that understands that, and
they're there for us and sometimes you don't even you
don't even have to reach out because they're committed and
(41:44):
they care about us and they'll reach out and it's
like to have esp that can. It happens when you
when you, when you.
Speaker 3 (41:51):
Least expect it.
Speaker 5 (41:51):
And I just am very grateful for an organization like that,
and for the Americans in our country that support that organization.
Speaker 1 (41:59):
All you veterans watching right now, something touched your heart.
Speaker 3 (42:03):
Maybe you're struggling.
Speaker 1 (42:05):
Reach out Simpifying America's fun reach out see if they
can help you. Anyone else who wants to support an
organization like that, I would highly encourage you to do so,
Eddie writes, Simpify, my brother, and happy birthday once again.
Good to talk to you. All right, it's time for
lightning mood next. All right, it is time to lighten
(42:32):
the mood. And before we get to the video, I
can't ren decide if it's light it's funny, but we'll
get to that in a second. Before we do that,
remember go subscribe to my YouTube channel YouTube dot com
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And oh yet all right, you know there are things
that we get used to. We've talked about this before,
you and I. We we grow accustomed to certain things,
even terrible things. It's part of the human condition. It's
(43:15):
how adaptable we are. We've kind of accepted you and me.
We accepted a while ago that the president of the
United States of America is not a fully functional adult,
and that his witch wife was going to run him
for re election again knowing he wasn't a functional adult.
Speaker 3 (43:34):
Like, those two things are both horrible, and.
Speaker 1 (43:37):
We've just kind of like baked it into the cake.
And now Trump once or we're all happy, but we
don't even think about it anymore.
Speaker 3 (43:43):
Did you see Joe Biden walking through the sand?
Speaker 1 (43:45):
And did you see Joe Biden when Joe started to stumble.
Speaker 7 (44:00):
He's playing.
Speaker 1 (44:02):
He's playing, Yeah, he's playing the lord.
Speaker 3 (44:07):
H he's playing.
Speaker 1 (44:13):
That man has been commander in chief for the last
four years. I can't believe we're all still alive anyway,
I see them all h
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