November 11, 2025 • 37 mins
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until eleven. Here's the producer, the Angel Boom Angel bera
cool look on and I can't go down my ryot
o looks like he's going skiing. Uh listen, this is
this is a Florida thing, right. It gets a little
bit cold and we all can complain it. Like it's
when I got into the to the elevator, there were
people going to the elevator.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
Oh my god, it's so cold. This is what we knew.
People were complaining about it yesterday. I look at it.
It's kind of fun.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
You know, it's only going to be one fun day
of really really chilly and out where I was at
because living on a lake, the wind was coming right
off the lake and it was I guess, uh uh Now,
I don't know this shoe. My neighbor said, oh, it's
gonna be twenty nine degrees. I don't know if that's accurate.
I didn't have a thermometer to check it or anything
like that. I do know this that yesterday I thought
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it was gonna be cold. Yesterday it really wasn't.
Speaker 3 (02:51):
You know, it wasn't. It wasn't that bad.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
So I went home and I had a bunch of
monster business to do and do a bunch of stuff,
and I'm like, well, I'm want to open up all
the doors, right. So I've got these two big double
doors that go out to the back patio and the
lake is out there, and two other double doors that
I can open up. And it goes to this like
a trium like area, and I open all the windows.
Speaker 3 (03:12):
I'm like, Okay, it feels really good.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
It's not that bad, you know, and went to go
do the television show the four oh seven on Fox
thirty five, which we'll talk about later.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
Uh, And that took about, I don't know, twenty minutes.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
Within that time, the cold had decided to come in
about four thirty five o'clock or whatever, and it was
I mean, it had dropped so quickly that that I
was shocked. And it got that cold that quick, and
I had to close everything up like with one second,
I'm like, oh, this is gonna beautiful. Next second, you
had to close it all up.
Speaker 4 (03:43):
And uh.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
And you know, I didn't turn the heat on though
I'm like, you know, I can. I want to see
how this for me. This is a new house. I've
never been in this house when it's been cold. I
wanted to see if I have enough insulation. I wanted
to see how well it handled the cold and I'll
be honest with it didn't really it didn't really get
that bad last night. And I walked out this morning
to lit the dogs out and it was, uh, it
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was definitely in the thirties. It was definitely definitely feeling it.
And uh, you know, everyone's bundled up today because that's
what we do in Florida, you know, we we sort
of get excited about a little bit of cold and
uh and I like it.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
I don't know about you guys, but Andel you did
dig the cold.
Speaker 5 (04:22):
Yeah, I mean I've lived in really cold places. Uh,
this is the one uh. And we've kind of said
this in the past. Every now and then when you
get a cold day, this is the one day that
you kind of get the dust off all of your
kind of cold gear.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
You wear it for the day and then you're good.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
You know what, I can't find I can't find my
Miami Dolphins jacket. And I had a Miami Dolphins jacket
that could turn inside out, you know. One way I
could turn it. I had white sleeves, the other way
it was all black. And I looked for it for
I don't know, about a half hour or so. We've
moved and I was. I know, I packed it. I
only have so many closets, and I checked the same
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clausets four times. H could not find my Miami Dolphins jacket,
which was which was irritating. But I like stripping down
right now. I don't even need it though, Like that's
the thing. It's like all I wore a sweat I
got the sweatshirt thing that Jack gave us last year, right,
so all I needed was to walk from the car
to the building.
Speaker 3 (05:16):
I'm in here. I don't need it. It's it's it's
normal in here there. You don't really need Like how
long you're gonna wear your big old snowjacket, Ryn, I
don't know.
Speaker 6 (05:26):
I just that's funny strioping down in the middle of
the segment.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
I was already Yeah, I started to sweat already, you know,
because you know, we're doing the show, and I got
my coffee and so you really, you know, people get
all freaked out about it. From the walk from wherever
your car is to to the to the building isn't
usually that much, and you're in for most people when
you're working, you're inside. Now, if you're like Evil Eye
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or a couple of our other listeners that work outside.
Speaker 3 (05:52):
You know, it's thirty eight degrees right now. It's thirty
eight degrees for them.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
Yeah, working outside now if you And by the way,
I want to start by saying, hey, man, thank you
to all of our veterans for what you do.
Speaker 3 (06:02):
Thank you for our veterans. Today is Veterans Day.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
And because it's Veterans Day, I guess, like male workers,
they're not working so they don't have to worry about,
you know, walking around in the cold today.
Speaker 3 (06:13):
I guess bankers, right, if you're a banker.
Speaker 5 (06:15):
It's a federal holiday, so a lot of the federal
stuff that today, yeah, that hasn't been shut down.
Speaker 3 (06:20):
We'll be close today in honor of the of the holiday.
Speaker 4 (06:23):
Cold in the parade.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
All these means is there are there Veterans Day parades today?
Speaker 3 (06:28):
Oh yeah, yeah in Orlando.
Speaker 6 (06:30):
I don't know. It's usually more small town thing, but
I'm sure there's one.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
Yeah on a Tuesday. That's a weird time to do
a parade, you know.
Speaker 3 (06:37):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (06:37):
They did a lot of them over the weekend, and
the Leesburg Mount Door did theirs over the weekend.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
Yeah, got something on the day though, right, I have
not seen that anyone's doing it on the day now.
Speaker 3 (06:47):
I know.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
The last weekend, Ambernovo was in the Veterans Day parade
out in Leesburg.
Speaker 3 (06:52):
Orlando's was over the weekend as well.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
It was I would think most people would do it
over the weekend and and not do it today and
and and if you're confused, Unlike Memorial Day, this is
a day for like everybody, everybody to honor everyone who's
in the military passing present. This is you know, Memorial
Day is for people who are falling, but this is
for everyone who's ever served. And and we're gonna, we're gonna,
we're gonna cover that well today because I got a
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bunch of topics that are related to Veterans Day. But yeah, yeah,
so uh. I like the I like a little bit
of the cold. It makes you a little frisky. I
feel like a dog, you know how the dog gets
all frisky whenever there's a little cold weather.
Speaker 6 (07:27):
That is why I'm late today.
Speaker 3 (07:28):
What I couldn't catch the dog? I do it something.
What happened?
Speaker 6 (07:33):
Dog has never experienced cold before. She's only so much
six months old, seven months the love a sweet child.
This summer they love so She's never experienced a cold day.
And I was kind of curious to see how this
would go.
Speaker 3 (07:43):
Yeah, she turned in to.
Speaker 6 (07:45):
A just just doing the last around the backyard by.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
The same things zoomie full tilt like.
Speaker 6 (07:51):
Zuomie, but like, yeah, a thousand times when I've ever
experienced before and you can't catch her. She's too fast.
Speaker 3 (07:57):
And they're so happy. That happened to me yesterday.
Speaker 2 (07:59):
So when I let him out right, opened all those windows,
and then I came back and I got super cold.
I'm like, well, let's go out in the yard. And
I got this big yard next door, and I let
him out there, and they did not want to come back.
Speaker 4 (08:09):
They're just running head dude, I don't know what that is.
Speaker 6 (08:11):
I'd use the net that the pool cleaner net, yeah,
to try to like wrangle the dog in Like it
was like so now now I got I got her
back in the corner of my trailer and she's going
one way to stop and with the net she goes
the other way. I'm trying to stop it with the
pole and it's.
Speaker 3 (08:25):
Turned into a game for her. I would pay what
would you pay for video? That day?
Speaker 6 (08:28):
I had pay neighbors.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
I'd pay thirty bucks for that. I pay forty bucks,
so watch you wrangling the dog.
Speaker 6 (08:34):
No one you're gonna be I felt like a dog
catcher from like the fifties the cartoons, a big stick.
Speaker 3 (08:39):
With the net on it.
Speaker 6 (08:40):
But I also don't want to break my pool net,
so I'm not like letting her run into it at
full speed.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
I was getting mad at them for not listening to me,
because they normally listen to me, right, And I've got
this magical thing, and it makes Mary Ellen crazy. If
I said, come on, come on, he always he always listens.
Speaker 6 (08:54):
This time not listening, it was like cat she did
cat in it.
Speaker 3 (08:57):
I'm like, bet, come on back.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
And they are they They could care less. They're like, listen,
we're enjoying this cold weather. They're running around like crazy,
and it made me laugh. I'm sitting her laughing at him.
Speaker 3 (09:06):
I was not laughing.
Speaker 6 (09:07):
Well, yeah, you're swearing full volume mid five in the morning,
and you couldn't.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
Yell at them right because it's it's five o'clock morning.
You'll wake the neighbors up.
Speaker 4 (09:15):
I don't care.
Speaker 6 (09:16):
It got to a point where, like I first, at first,
you do the thing, You're like come on, like all right,
come on, come on, you're whisper yelling, yeah, come on.
Speaker 4 (09:23):
By the end of this, and I'm just exhausted.
Speaker 3 (09:25):
I'm like, yeah, your neighbors are hating you. Oh yeah,
that's fine. You think I'm crazy.
Speaker 4 (09:32):
Yeah, I don't know. It's weird that a dog does that.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
It makes him so happy. It's like, like he just said,
it's like catting it for him. You know, they're they're
just running around all nutty, so look for that this morning.
Speaker 6 (09:44):
Does your dog get a crazy looking ryde though too?
When it happens, Yeah, yeah, they're like, this is awesome.
Dog like like start to like twinge when I I'm
about to go nuts.
Speaker 2 (09:54):
Well, this was her first experience of it, yes, And
for Beth, well, no, this is bes had this before.
They're like, she's tuned, so she's had this before. But
but you know, and here's what was happening. So the
we're in this big, big backyard that's next to mine.
It's not my backyards, my neighbors yard. And they said, hey, listen,
let them run anytime you want. And it must be
two acres, right, So so the one, the older dog,
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bo is trying to listen to me and trying to
come back, but Beth keeps stopping him like no, no,
like like run in front, will try to wrangle him
away like those don't go yet, Like this is too
much fun. This, this cold weather is is great. So,
uh you know that's a good question. Is there school
today on Veterans Day?
Speaker 6 (10:34):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (10:34):
I would think so.
Speaker 6 (10:35):
Oh really yeah, yeah, holiday it is.
Speaker 3 (10:39):
But some federal holidays they don't, they don't. They already
have the teacher workday for this. It was a couple
of weeks ago.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
Okay, yeah, yeah, some federal holidays there's like, hey, it's
a federal holiday, like Columbus Day is a federal holiday,
but you don't get off for that, you know what
I mean. Veterans at President's Day is another one. There's
a there's a handful where you don't really get off
for him. It's just they just acknowledge it.
Speaker 3 (10:59):
Whatever.
Speaker 6 (10:59):
So anyway, fame, it's like, you know, like you hoped
for this as a kid, and you're like you're like, oh,
you know, Columbuses whatever.
Speaker 4 (11:08):
But we get a day off.
Speaker 6 (11:10):
Pretty good day.
Speaker 3 (11:11):
Yeah, it is a good day. Hey, how long have
you been? Oh?
Speaker 2 (11:15):
This is another This is this is a topic that
will take more time than we have so I'm gonna
hold onto that first, hold on to that. Yeah, I
got a question for you guys, and uh yeah, So
anyway it is veteran, say, we're gonna talk about that
a little bit. We got a bunch of other stuff
to handle today. So, yes, it is gonna be a
little chilly today. It's gonna kind of get back to
not normal tomorrow, but it's not gonna be back to
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the seventies tomorrow, believe Yeah during the middle, Yeah, during
the yeah, middle of the day, and it'll be you know,
chilly in the morning.
Speaker 3 (11:41):
Whatever. Uh So we get one day of a little
bit of.
Speaker 5 (11:44):
What tomorrow the highest is gonna be sixty nine lows
forty seven, Yeah, Thursday, Friday, Saturdays, we're goen it gets
back to seventy four or seventy seven, eighty eighty, you know.
Speaker 3 (11:54):
So we got, you know, got a couple of days
so for my son's wedding, and it's gonna be nice.
It's gonna be perfect. I'll be perfect for him. I'm
happy about that. All right.
Speaker 2 (12:01):
More big dumb, fun bunch of stuff to handle today.
But once again, thank you to all of our veterans
for your service and what you've done, and well we'll
definitely help you cover that today. Don't go anywhere you're
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Speaker 3 (12:56):
That it is Veterans Day.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
And I will say this, these are what is one
of those things you probably shouldn't say out loud, but.
Speaker 3 (13:03):
Just you know, these are just things that I think,
I believe you think.
Speaker 2 (13:09):
I'm gonta say this is right because I don't want to,
you know, I might offend people, but whatever. Uh. As
a younger man, I always had had a problem with
I felt disingenuous. Right if I met somebody who was
a service person, I always felt weird or disingenuous or
like to say thank you for your service.
Speaker 3 (13:27):
I don't know why.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
Like when I was a younger guy, if I met
someone in the middle and other people would go, oh,
thank you for your service.
Speaker 3 (13:33):
Do you really mean that?
Speaker 2 (13:33):
Like it's exactly I felt like it was a performative, like, Oh,
you're just saying it because they tell you to say it,
and I don't like doing that. Like I didn't like
just saying thank you for your service because they tell
you're supposed to say it. And then as I got
older and I really thought about it a lot more
and I really appreciated it a lot more, and I
really saw exactly what service people do. Now I don't
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feel weird about it now. I feel like it's coming
from the heart.
Speaker 3 (14:00):
Do you know what I'm saying?
Speaker 6 (14:01):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (14:01):
And I don't. I don't know when that change happened.
Speaker 2 (14:04):
I think it was after nine eleven, but I believe
it was after nine to eleven is when I felt
more comfortable saying.
Speaker 6 (14:11):
When you were in a twenty year war. After that
it kind of felt necessary. Yeah, well, I don't.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
I don't know about that. I just know that I
felt appreciative of what the what our service people do.
And then I start really like looking inside and going, man,
why weren't you brave enough to enter the military, Like
like I've got that part, Like, man, these guys are brave,
like they know that they're going to.
Speaker 3 (14:31):
Put their lives to day.
Speaker 6 (14:32):
Do you feel like it's an issue for bravery for you?
Speaker 2 (14:34):
For me, I think it was, yeah. Yeah, I felt
like I wasn't brave. Yeah yeah, I was scared, So
yeah it was a bravery. Like I was scared they
would I would be put in some situation where my
life would be in danger, and I'd be asked to
give my life for my country and and and I
don't know that I'm brave enough to do that. So
as I looked at it that way, I'm like, man,
I do want to thank every every veteran, and it
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comes from the heart.
Speaker 3 (14:57):
Now, before I wouldn't even say it.
Speaker 2 (14:58):
I wouldn't even go, I thank you for your When
I say it now, it's because I sincerely mean it.
Speaker 3 (15:03):
Does that make any sense? That makes sense?
Speaker 6 (15:05):
He said about nine to eleven, Because like I grew
up in a time where were like we had in
Iraq war, you know, but like not like how we
were in Afghanistan for twenty years. So it felt like
our service members were doing something then, you know, like
they were. You'd see that they die ever so often,
and we'd been attacked, so it did feel different after that.
Speaker 2 (15:24):
Yeah, Angel, you grew up in a military family, so
you might feel different now.
Speaker 3 (15:28):
I grew up and my father was in the Marine Corps.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
But he always, he always the Marine Corps was one thing,
and then all the other service thing for him was
it was a different thing, you know. So it's for
my family, it was always a Marine Corps.
Speaker 5 (15:42):
Did you leave I would never ask you of this.
Did you get a chance to live the military lifestyle though? No, No,
by the time you were grown, your dad was already out.
Speaker 2 (15:50):
I was just hearing old stories of going to Campbell
June and going to Paris Island and him getting in
fights there and how how bad he was treated in
boot camp. And then I just heard stories of the
Marine Corps is all I really heard. Yeah, just just
in general, just as a culture.
Speaker 5 (16:07):
Raised as a military kid, Uh, yeah, we it was
always with heartfelt and Veterans Day, Memorials Day, Memorial Day,
all these events or holidays.
Speaker 3 (16:15):
Did you always say thank you for your service? Yeah?
Speaker 5 (16:17):
Yeah, yeah, that was I mean that was especially again
when you're living on an active military base and then
you've got like different soldiers going out for TD Wyse
all right, and those were you know, training deployments, and
then you had there was a couple of times where
we lived on an air base and there was an
army base right next to you, and you knew kids
who their dads were getting sent out to active you
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know campaigns and stuff like that. So uh yeah, it
was always with utmost respect and uh you know, humility
that you said thank you and stuff like that, you know,
And that's why it was always you know, when when
I got a little older and I was a little
bit of a troublemaker, it was a pain in the
ass from a dad, you know, because like you're supposed
to be on an air base, don't be an idiot,
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And I was that idiot.
Speaker 2 (17:02):
I just knew people that would say it and I
knew they didn't mean it, and I'm like, I'm not
gonna do that.
Speaker 3 (17:07):
I don't, you know.
Speaker 2 (17:08):
And I think it was after nine to eleven or
after we spoke to some servicemen. I think maybe after
we did we did a show here where we met
a guy that won the uh Medal of uh. It
was a purple heart or metal of honor or something
like that.
Speaker 1 (17:22):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (17:22):
His name was uh Sammy Davis. And we did a
show with him and and uh. I think after meeting him,
I felt it felt more heartfelt. I don't know, like
I had to really feel it in order to actually
say it.
Speaker 6 (17:32):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (17:33):
And and I think about that, and I think about, like,
why why did I have that change? What was that
change of heart? And I think it was me judging myself, like, man,
you know, why weren't you a brave to brave enough
to go into the military and and uh and uh
and do that.
Speaker 3 (17:47):
Wasn't for me.
Speaker 6 (17:48):
It was an issue of brave. I actually try to
join the navy. Uh and I got I got uh
all the way through it, did the ass BAP and
all that stuff. And then it's I had had better
options like of things to do well far as like
I had a scholarships available and things like that. So
it was never like I was scared to join im,
just like I was like, just do this instead.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
I already had plans to have my own business when uh,
when I drove Bo to uh Bo for those that
don't know, I started the show with me Bo Rodes
my best friend ever.
Speaker 3 (18:17):
Uh and uh.
Speaker 2 (18:18):
And so he was he lost his license or something
like that and he couldn't drive anymore. And I'm like, well,
you're not gonna be able to be a delivery guy.
You know, what are you gonna do. He's like, I
don't know. I'll go on the military. I said, no,
you won't, and he's like, yes I will. I said,
I'll drive you there right now. No you won't, Yes,
I will. And I drove it, kind of like bluffing him, right.
I drive him to the to the recruiter station at
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the at the Marine Corps and I walked, let's go,
and he's like all right and we I'm like, okay,
he's gonna back down here in a minute, right, And
we walk into the walk into the recruiter station. There's
a marine standing there. You guys wanna He's like, I
want to. I want to be a marine. And he's like,
you guys gonna go in together. They got the buddy system.
I'm like, no, sir, I got other plans, you know.
Speaker 3 (18:59):
And uh.
Speaker 2 (18:59):
And he he signs up that day and one week
later he's off of the Marine Corps and I always
think what if I would have decided to go with him, right,
Like how my life would have been different.
Speaker 3 (19:09):
But I definitely was too afraid. I definitely thought about.
Speaker 2 (19:11):
It, Oh my god, if they send me over to
some war, you know, I'm I'm too scared that I'd
lose my life.
Speaker 3 (19:18):
And and that's that's about bravery, right sure.
Speaker 6 (19:23):
Yeah, I mean yeah that we like we didn't grow
up with any like great wars, you know what I mean,
Like a World War two makes sense if my grandpa
World War two, you go, you fight the Nazis, the
Japanese attacked us, you go, well, and the wars that
you get in now is like we need to feel back.
Speaker 4 (19:38):
It's like do we even need to be there?
Speaker 2 (19:39):
It's going well, right, I'm a little older than you,
so so, And I've talked about this before too. Growing
up as a kid, every day on the news, I
watched the Vietnam War. So I would see the Vietnam War,
and as a kid, it scared me to death to think,
oh my god, that's what military guys have to do.
Military guys have to go to some place and they
all die like that. That so that was drilled into
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my head and I was afraid for bo to go
in after I took him, and I dared him to
go to the Marine Corps.
Speaker 3 (20:06):
I'm like, dude, don't do this. I was kidding. I
was joking with you. Now, no, I'm gonna do it.
Speaker 2 (20:10):
I'm like, dude, look, you know, like I was afraid
Bou would be sent to some foreign land or whatever
and die. It really really scared me at the time,
and I was I was goofing that day. He ended
up going to the Marine Corps. Of course, he's fine.
He went and it served his time and and and
you know, you know, did what he did. But uh, yeah,
I look back and think that I would have I
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think I would have been a good marine, right, like,
like I if I would have gotten over that fear,
I think I think I'm set for that, you know,
as far as being O. C.
Speaker 3 (20:40):
D things by the book.
Speaker 2 (20:42):
You know, at that time, I was in great shape, Like, like,
I think I would have been a good marine.
Speaker 3 (20:46):
But I'll never know.
Speaker 4 (20:47):
Yeah, I'll never know either.
Speaker 6 (20:48):
I'm the only male in my family that didn't do
like military, So I think about that a lot. Yeah,
I don't know if I like knowing how I am
mentally I don't know if it would have helped me
or hurt me more to go through that kind of thing,
because it's intense. I respect anybody that can do that.
Speaker 3 (21:04):
So I don't get intelligence you had been intelligence or something.
Speaker 6 (21:07):
I was like again, I was shooting for the Navy,
which I hear is an easier version of boot camps.
Speaker 3 (21:12):
Oh yeah, I can see you on a like a submarine.
Yeah yeah, yeah yeah. Angel. What about you? Do you
ever think about going into the military. I know you
want to do Air Force?
Speaker 5 (21:20):
Yeah, no, no, we have my brother and I, both
of us we were adamant about joining the military. My
brother went as so far as he went and visited
the Air Force academy. We both wanted to be but
that was our thing. We wanted to be pilots and
we wanted to be fighter pilots. And at in junior
high when the pilots came to visit school, I remember
to this day the pilot like I stood up to
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meet him and everything, and you know, I crushed the asvab.
Speaker 3 (21:45):
I mean, I was, you know, well on my way.
Speaker 5 (21:47):
Two things that my father always taught both of us,
don't join the military like he did. He was drafted
and then he and he's drafted the army, but he
went and enlisted in the Air Force, right, and then
so to come in as an officer to get your education,
that was like super important to him. If you're going
to do the military, do it that way. So when
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that guy tells me, he's like, oh, yeah, you're way
too tall to fly this plane. Now you're gonna fly
like the big cargo planes and everything, right, You're like,
I was like, man, that's not that's not what I
want to do.
Speaker 2 (22:20):
It was cool though, those really big like the Aspring
or what was it called that they didn't have that thing.
Speaker 5 (22:25):
Oh okay, yeah, no, but back then it was just
the sea one thirties and cargo ships.
Speaker 3 (22:29):
Yeah, and so uh yeah. So then that's where I
that's where I lost interest in.
Speaker 1 (22:36):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (22:37):
I was like, if I can't do the job then
that I want to do then, you know, and I did.
There wasn't a second option. And then what happens is
within a year or two of that moment, I became
really good at basketball. Yeah, and then that opened up
a whole other world to me. And it's the same
kind of with my brother and water polo.
Speaker 3 (22:57):
You know, he was.
Speaker 5 (22:58):
Entertaining and entertaining it, like I said, went to Air
Force Academy and all that kind of stuff.
Speaker 4 (23:02):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (23:03):
But then uh, you know, another college came over the top,
and you just made a better offer for him as
far as uh, you know, a uh scholarship.
Speaker 1 (23:11):
You know.
Speaker 2 (23:11):
Well, my my excuse at the time was, well, listen,
because I'd already started buying stuff for my party rental company,
and id already started setting the company up, and we
already had the bi My excuse at the time was, oh, well,
I've already got do this, a career already planned.
Speaker 3 (23:23):
The truth of the matter is I was afraid that that.
That's the truth.
Speaker 2 (23:26):
I was scared of that because growing up, you know,
I always like everybody went in the military. I had
to go overseas and you could die in Vietnam. That
was uh yeah.
Speaker 5 (23:34):
By the time I was, by the time I was
considerate and everything, I knew that there was just a
bunch of different options in the sense that you weren't
always on the front line. There was a ton of
different jobs, and just the job that I was most
interested in, I was, you know, uh, physically too tall
for Yeah, And so then you know I wasn't going
to be uh you know, uh, let's say on the
(23:54):
front lines. You know I would because of my grades
and whatnot. It was always going to be something different.
Speaker 2 (24:02):
Than that, right, So, so of all the time of
the monsters, I'm trying to think, I think SPK was
in the military, right, So we got SPK was a veteran.
Bo was a veteran. Savannah was a Marine Corps. Marine Corps.
So the two Marines. He was in the army, right
SPK H yeah, So are there any other monsters that
were in the uh in the military.
Speaker 3 (24:24):
I think he was Navy. I'm sorry, was he Navy?
I think?
Speaker 2 (24:26):
Okay, all right, so hey, two Marines, one one Navy.
I don't think any other monsters of all this time,
and then there's a bunch of them. I don't think
anyone else was was was a veteran. I could be wrong,
but you guys might remember more than I do. You
can you can text us it at seven seven zero
three to one. But uh, yeah, I mean I've come
(24:47):
full circle on it, and and now you know, I
actually look forward to or mean it when I say, hey,
thank you for your service, because it's uh, it's coming
from the heart, because think about what they do. I mean,
they make it so we all can, you know, do
the stupid stuff we want to do. Hot take what's
at I have.
Speaker 6 (25:06):
Friends that are in the military, obviously, and you know,
like like there's guys that we think of when we
think the military, we're thinking about the warriors, you know,
we're thinking the guys out there on the front line
that are going after Osama bin Lyned. I got friends
that just did paperwork in Virginia. Did they get to.
Speaker 3 (25:24):
Thank you for your service? Because I don't know, So
they do.
Speaker 2 (25:27):
And here's why. Here's why I'm okay. That's exactly where
I was coming from. The reason I'm okay with that
is because they didn't know where.
Speaker 3 (25:33):
They were going to end up, right, They signed up
not knowing where they'd end up.
Speaker 2 (25:37):
They could end up over in some you know, Afghanistan
or whatever more the government decided they needed to be there,
But they signed up not knowing where they were going
to go.
Speaker 3 (25:47):
So I think.
Speaker 6 (25:49):
Your theoretical service.
Speaker 2 (25:50):
No, they they served the country when you and I
weren't brave enough to sign up.
Speaker 3 (25:55):
They did the commitment, they did the sign up. Yeah, yeah,
so that you can't. You can't be picky and choosie
with your thank you for your service. Ryan.
Speaker 2 (26:03):
It's a great hot take because that's what was going
through my head, like, oh, I'm gonna thank you and
you didn't.
Speaker 6 (26:09):
Really I got a buddy that was like, did like
four years in the mint. He's just like he's proud
that he did nothing, you know what I mean.
Speaker 4 (26:14):
Like he was like, you know, my job was pretty easy.
Speaker 6 (26:16):
I just kind of coaching alone. Yeah, but he still
did it though, So I have to say to him,
thank you for your service to Brad because I don't
want to.
Speaker 3 (26:22):
Yeah, you got to, all right, thank you, Brad, thank
you for your service.
Speaker 2 (26:27):
Because listen, they signed they signed up with me, and
you were too pussy, too much of a pussy to
do it.
Speaker 3 (26:33):
See. I wasn't a pussy though I wanted to do.
I was a pussy. I was scared. Ian. I'm straight
up telling you right now, and it's not and it's
not anything proud to it.
Speaker 6 (26:41):
But you would have had to go into because your dad.
You would have to have been a marine.
Speaker 3 (26:44):
Marine for sure, for sure. Oh he's he's a killer.
Speaker 2 (26:48):
He big and dumb, eat and hill things that would
have been me for sure, And now I am convinced
I would have worked my way up to some sort
of status like you know I would have. I would
have asked, kissed and make it, got my way and
been some sort of sergeant in some way. Okay, I'm
convinced of it.
Speaker 6 (27:04):
Now you'll never know national Guard. No thank you for
service there.
Speaker 2 (27:09):
Oh yeah, they get yeah, yah, yeah, I know that
you're asking. If I would have been National Guard, I
would have been Marine Corps.
Speaker 6 (27:15):
People that do like the Army reserves where they only
go like a couple of months, a couple of weeks.
Speaker 5 (27:22):
I'm just asking, you know why they all get it
because they all did boot camp and you can't do
boot camp correct.
Speaker 3 (27:30):
Period and signed up not knowing where they'd end up.
Speaker 5 (27:34):
And the story period, that's it. I can't do now
whatever you didn't, That's why they get it.
Speaker 3 (27:41):
That's why they get it. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (27:44):
I think it's for their bravery, Hell Week, all that
kind of stuff, all of that, the mental breaking down
and then rebuilding of them.
Speaker 3 (27:50):
Yeah. So anyway, Coast Guard, Coast Guard, yes, wherever they
end up.
Speaker 4 (27:56):
And there's for my buddy Brian who's currently in the
and they're.
Speaker 2 (27:59):
Serving our country and you're a veteran today, I give
you a heartfelt God bless you. Thank you very much,
thank you for your service, and I hope you enjoyed
this conversation. All Right, we got to take a break.
You don't go anywhere. You're listening to the match of
the morning. Really, a lot of people texting and you
(28:25):
can text us. By the way, it's the interactive live
live radio, right to live talk radio.
Speaker 3 (28:30):
That's what we do.
Speaker 2 (28:31):
People texting us at seven seven zero three one people
pointing out that, uh, Savannah was in the Marine Corps.
Not only was she in the Marine Corps, but she
was air traffic control in the Marine Corps. And obviously
that's making a lot of news the past couple of
weeks air traffic control. So like, if she wanted to
get a job in air traffic control, she could do it,
but uh, and I talked to her about that at
one time, but she's like, just I mean, I think
(28:53):
it makes fairly good money to do that, but it's
just not her, you know. Obviously she's doing her passion
with what she's doing. And it looked like I saw
her Instagram. She was up in New York City with
the Queen of Versailles, and they opened up that that
Broadway play.
Speaker 6 (29:09):
I saw that just on the streets in New York
with with a with a billionaire? Are is how fun?
Speaker 3 (29:16):
So that does not surprise me.
Speaker 2 (29:18):
So whenever she's back in town, will get her to
come in and tell her that story about that. Uh.
It being Veterans Day today, and then once again, thank
you for your service. Uh.
Speaker 3 (29:27):
Do you have a favorite?
Speaker 2 (29:28):
I would call it it like Veterans Day movie, but
like a military movie or a war movie or whatever
that is that is your favorite to watch if you're
gonna watch if you're going to do a theme today
and like, all right, I'm not working, I got time off.
Speaker 3 (29:39):
I'm gonna watch a Veterans Day movie.
Speaker 6 (29:41):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (29:41):
And I have one that's in my mind.
Speaker 2 (29:44):
And when I saw this list that they asked people
two thousand people, my movie is in tenth place, so
obviously it's not it's thought.
Speaker 3 (29:52):
It's not high up there. Do you have one that
you like a lot?
Speaker 6 (29:57):
I mean, Saving Private Ryan's the classic.
Speaker 2 (29:59):
Yeah, it's in sixth place in this particular poll. Now
this is who did this hold on?
Speaker 4 (30:04):
You know?
Speaker 2 (30:04):
These are one of those dumb dumb poles and I
don't know. It doesn't even say bogus poles dot com,
bogus bogus bs poles. Uh, it's called it's called pair up,
is what it's called. So in pair up, Uh, they
they two thousand people they pulled, and Saving Private Ryan
came in sixth place.
Speaker 3 (30:24):
I think that's ridiculous. I agree with you.
Speaker 2 (30:26):
It probably should be in first. It's the one most
people think of. But it came in sixth place. And
I'm just gonna tell you what's number one, number two,
and number three, because I don't think anyone well, you'll
never get well, let us guess a favorite apocalypse now,
not in the top ten.
Speaker 7 (30:42):
The deer Hunter, The deer Hunter not in the top ten?
Black top down? Would you say, black cock down? Black hawk,
black cock down? Yeah, okay, I see what you're doing there.
Full metal jacket, full metal jackets.
Speaker 3 (30:56):
Not in the top ten. See, I'll tell you it
is a ridiculous list. We really need to get that
website right.
Speaker 2 (31:03):
You're you're mentioning some good ones, though all of those
should have been instead of the Grand Illusion.
Speaker 6 (31:10):
The Grand Illusion.
Speaker 2 (31:12):
Number one is the Grand Illusion from nineteen thirty seven.
Speaker 3 (31:16):
I don't know what that is? Okay?
Speaker 2 (31:17):
And what and my father watched every single All my
dad did was watch war movies. Any war movie. It
had John Wayne, it had a war, it had the
Marines in it.
Speaker 3 (31:26):
That's what he watched.
Speaker 6 (31:27):
You're talking about the French movie from nineteen thirty seven,
Brandon Grand Gloru.
Speaker 3 (31:33):
I came number one.
Speaker 6 (31:34):
Okay, what a dumb archy bogus list?
Speaker 3 (31:36):
Is this number two? I told you was a BS list.
This is a BS The Best Years of our Lives?
Speaker 2 (31:43):
Never heard of that from nineteen forty six came in second.
Speaker 6 (31:46):
That's the worst Years of the life. Is that nineteen
forty I want?
Speaker 5 (31:50):
I think it has actors in it that will recognize though,
what about I've heard that title before?
Speaker 2 (31:54):
What about number three on this list? He's a great
Veterans Day movies? According to this the best of all time,
the Great Escape from nineteen sixty three. That's an awesome movie.
Speaker 3 (32:03):
Okay, none, so seriously pull that up. That's that's got
all the guys in that.
Speaker 4 (32:07):
At least I know this movie.
Speaker 3 (32:09):
Yeah, John Wayne, No, no, no, no, no, I don't
think Wayne said, I think the.
Speaker 4 (32:14):
Other McQueen, Charles Brown, Oh, Richard Atton bro.
Speaker 2 (32:19):
All the heavy hitters in that one. Okay, all right,
then that one belongs. Okay, I'm with that.
Speaker 3 (32:23):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (32:24):
Number four we all know no and it's and it's
a current times, it's it's a it's you know, the
top one. It's from nineteen eighty six, and it's when
he was normal, when he was normal, when he was normal.
Speaker 3 (32:39):
Cruise movie, No, No, Platoon Charlie, Charlie Sheen, when Charlie
Sheen was normal.
Speaker 2 (32:46):
That was his first big hit, Platoon and that's a
great and then Cruise in number five as far as
being you know, Veterans Day movies.
Speaker 3 (32:56):
Born on the fourth of July. That's epic movie. I
saw it once, maybe twice.
Speaker 2 (33:02):
And I've never watched it again, but I guess a
lot of people will watch that on Veterans Day and
Memorial Day.
Speaker 3 (33:07):
I had a history teacher. We watched that in school.
Speaker 2 (33:10):
Okay, Saving Private Ryans in sixth place, Okay, college.
Speaker 3 (33:13):
I've heard this of this one. It was in nineteen
ninety eight. I never saw it. The Thin Red Line.
Fantastic movie, is it? Yeah?
Speaker 5 (33:22):
I mean again, I think that's uh. I think that's
Sean Penn in that one as well.
Speaker 4 (33:26):
Penn and Nick Nolty.
Speaker 3 (33:27):
Yeah, that one's ooh, that's a tough one. Okay, this one,
number eight is a really good one.
Speaker 2 (33:33):
And I don't know why I don't give it much
credit because I really like this movie Hacksaw Ridge.
Speaker 3 (33:40):
Is that with Clint Eastwood.
Speaker 6 (33:43):
It's I think he produced it.
Speaker 3 (33:44):
He produced it. Who starred in Hacksaw Ridge?
Speaker 6 (33:46):
Andrew Garfield.
Speaker 2 (33:47):
Yes, yeah, that's a goodie. That's a goodie. It's still
not my favorite, though.
Speaker 5 (33:53):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (33:53):
I just saw this one last week and though it
seemed like it was sort of discombobulated, and it was,
the story was all over the place.
Speaker 3 (34:00):
It was a really good movie.
Speaker 2 (34:02):
And that's Dunkirk from twenty seventeen and my favorite. And
I don't know if you guys saw this or not.
It came out in twenty nineteen and it was the
name of the movie is nineteen seventeen.
Speaker 3 (34:16):
And they've got these long shots. Oh my god.
Speaker 2 (34:21):
It was so good, these long shots where there's no break.
And I saw a documentary about how they tried to
make these shots as long as possible with no breaks,
and it's it is an epically, absolutely awesome movie. And
at the end it's super sad. Obviously it's war movie.
War movies never in good.
Speaker 5 (34:41):
Would you guys let me put these two movies on
the lists out of curiosity?
Speaker 3 (34:44):
Well, the hurt Locker and like the Ryan was saying,
black Hawk Down. Yeah, yeah, both of those are great.
Speaker 5 (34:52):
Yeah, those are born in my wheelhouse in the sense
of what's the long and all of those movies are great,
but those two in particular, because that's the generation. Are
those of the years that I had, like I knew,
I knew people that were yeah, active in either one
of those scenarios.
Speaker 2 (35:09):
Where do you put Full Metal Jacket? Because Full Metal
Jacket is a freaking great movie. That's a top ten
that is that is when the guy, I mean they
lose it. I mean, that's just my rifle.
Speaker 6 (35:22):
What about okay, can we I mean it's a little
fantast fantastical, but in glorious bastards, I'd put his number
two or three.
Speaker 2 (35:30):
Okay, are those American troops? Yeah, I guess yeah, yeah, yeah,
there's America. That's good. That is a good That is
a really good war movie.
Speaker 5 (35:37):
But okay, so but again, great movie, all of that, right,
But it's it's a fantasy.
Speaker 4 (35:45):
Yeah yeah, yeah, but a lot I mean a lot,
because if.
Speaker 5 (35:51):
We're ever going to do that, then I want to
put Eddie Murphy's best defense on that.
Speaker 6 (35:54):
Okay, I also want to put mel Gibson's brave Heart
on mine.
Speaker 2 (35:59):
Well, I would have put black Knight, Martina Night Martin,
Steve Martin.
Speaker 4 (36:06):
You know what I got? One Star Wars, got the
word warn it.
Speaker 5 (36:10):
He's a couple of really good ones again, A fantastic one,
big al a, good morning Vietnam. I'm remember seeing that one.
That's true flag, Flag of our Fathers. That's Clint Eastwood.
Speaker 4 (36:22):
How far can we go back to American Sniper?
Speaker 5 (36:24):
American Sniper is good? That is pretty good, Fury, that's
the Tom Cruise one.
Speaker 3 (36:28):
Okay, Band of.
Speaker 6 (36:30):
Brothers as I have tried to watch it so many times,
and you know the problem is it's David Swimmer's stupid face.
I get through like the first couple episodes and I'm like,
I can't. I know he's not there later, but I
have not been able to get through Brandon Brothers. And
everybody's like, it's so good. I got I need to
get the third episode.
Speaker 3 (36:48):
I got to let go of swimmers face.
Speaker 2 (36:50):
Dude, No, I got Okay, a Few good Men definitely
is sort of a war movie. I don't know about that.
How about Green Beret with John Wayne. I had to
watch it so many times my dad, and it really
is you know, it is a great it's very pro usa.
Speaker 3 (37:06):
What about Stripes, No, okay, Private Benjamin.
Speaker 6 (37:11):
They never actually make it to war. They're in war
class most of the time.
Speaker 2 (37:15):
All right, we're gonna do trivia when we come back.
It means that you have a chance to win something.
To Torah, that's a good one too. That is a
good one.
Speaker 3 (37:20):
I had to watch that one a lot with my
dad in Vietnam. Yeah, I said that.
Speaker 2 (37:24):
When we come back, it's trivia time, and the Angel
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cool look on and I can't go down my ryot
o looks like he's going skiing. Uh listen, this is
this is a Florida thing, right. It gets a little
bit cold and we all can complain it. Like it's
when I got into the to the elevator, there were
people going to the elevator.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
Oh my god, it's so cold. This is what we knew.
People were complaining about it yesterday. I look at it.
It's kind of fun.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
You know, it's only going to be one fun day
of really really chilly and out where I was at
because living on a lake, the wind was coming right
off the lake and it was I guess, uh uh Now,
I don't know this shoe. My neighbor said, oh, it's
gonna be twenty nine degrees. I don't know if that's accurate.
I didn't have a thermometer to check it or anything
like that. I do know this that yesterday I thought
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Speaker 3 (02:51):
You know, it wasn't. It wasn't that bad.
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So I went home and I had a bunch of
monster business to do and do a bunch of stuff,
and I'm like, well, I'm want to open up all
the doors, right. So I've got these two big double
doors that go out to the back patio and the
lake is out there, and two other double doors that
I can open up. And it goes to this like
a trium like area, and I open all the windows.
Speaker 3 (03:12):
I'm like, Okay, it feels really good.
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It's not that bad, you know, and went to go
do the television show the four oh seven on Fox
thirty five, which we'll talk about later.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
Uh, And that took about, I don't know, twenty minutes.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
Within that time, the cold had decided to come in
about four thirty five o'clock or whatever, and it was
I mean, it had dropped so quickly that that I
was shocked. And it got that cold that quick, and
I had to close everything up like with one second,
I'm like, oh, this is gonna beautiful. Next second, you
had to close it all up.
Speaker 4 (03:43):
And uh.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
And you know, I didn't turn the heat on though
I'm like, you know, I can. I want to see
how this for me. This is a new house. I've
never been in this house when it's been cold. I
wanted to see if I have enough insulation. I wanted
to see how well it handled the cold and I'll
be honest with it didn't really it didn't really get
that bad last night. And I walked out this morning
to lit the dogs out and it was, uh, it
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was definitely in the thirties. It was definitely definitely feeling it.
And uh, you know, everyone's bundled up today because that's
what we do in Florida, you know, we we sort
of get excited about a little bit of cold and
uh and I like it.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
I don't know about you guys, but Andel you did
dig the cold.
Speaker 5 (04:22):
Yeah, I mean I've lived in really cold places. Uh,
this is the one uh. And we've kind of said
this in the past. Every now and then when you
get a cold day, this is the one day that
you kind of get the dust off all of your
kind of cold gear.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
You wear it for the day and then you're good.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
You know what, I can't find I can't find my
Miami Dolphins jacket. And I had a Miami Dolphins jacket
that could turn inside out, you know. One way I
could turn it. I had white sleeves, the other way
it was all black. And I looked for it for
I don't know, about a half hour or so. We've
moved and I was. I know, I packed it. I
only have so many closets, and I checked the same
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clausets four times. H could not find my Miami Dolphins jacket,
which was which was irritating. But I like stripping down
right now. I don't even need it though, Like that's
the thing. It's like all I wore a sweat I
got the sweatshirt thing that Jack gave us last year, right,
so all I needed was to walk from the car
to the building.
Speaker 3 (05:16):
I'm in here. I don't need it. It's it's it's
normal in here there. You don't really need Like how
long you're gonna wear your big old snowjacket, Ryn, I
don't know.
Speaker 6 (05:26):
I just that's funny strioping down in the middle of
the segment.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
I was already Yeah, I started to sweat already, you know,
because you know, we're doing the show, and I got
my coffee and so you really, you know, people get
all freaked out about it. From the walk from wherever
your car is to to the to the building isn't
usually that much, and you're in for most people when
you're working, you're inside. Now, if you're like Evil Eye
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or a couple of our other listeners that work outside.
Speaker 3 (05:52):
You know, it's thirty eight degrees right now. It's thirty
eight degrees for them.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
Yeah, working outside now if you And by the way,
I want to start by saying, hey, man, thank you
to all of our veterans for what you do.
Speaker 3 (06:02):
Thank you for our veterans. Today is Veterans Day.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
And because it's Veterans Day, I guess, like male workers,
they're not working so they don't have to worry about,
you know, walking around in the cold today.
Speaker 3 (06:13):
I guess bankers, right, if you're a banker.
Speaker 5 (06:15):
It's a federal holiday, so a lot of the federal
stuff that today, yeah, that hasn't been shut down.
Speaker 3 (06:20):
We'll be close today in honor of the of the holiday.
Speaker 4 (06:23):
Cold in the parade.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
All these means is there are there Veterans Day parades today?
Speaker 3 (06:28):
Oh yeah, yeah in Orlando.
Speaker 6 (06:30):
I don't know. It's usually more small town thing, but
I'm sure there's one.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
Yeah on a Tuesday. That's a weird time to do
a parade, you know.
Speaker 3 (06:37):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (06:37):
They did a lot of them over the weekend, and
the Leesburg Mount Door did theirs over the weekend.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
Yeah, got something on the day though, right, I have
not seen that anyone's doing it on the day now.
Speaker 3 (06:47):
I know.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
The last weekend, Ambernovo was in the Veterans Day parade
out in Leesburg.
Speaker 3 (06:52):
Orlando's was over the weekend as well.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
It was I would think most people would do it
over the weekend and and not do it today and
and and if you're confused, Unlike Memorial Day, this is
a day for like everybody, everybody to honor everyone who's
in the military passing present. This is you know, Memorial
Day is for people who are falling, but this is
for everyone who's ever served. And and we're gonna, we're gonna,
we're gonna cover that well today because I got a
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bunch of topics that are related to Veterans Day. But yeah, yeah,
so uh. I like the I like a little bit
of the cold. It makes you a little frisky. I
feel like a dog, you know how the dog gets
all frisky whenever there's a little cold weather.
Speaker 6 (07:27):
That is why I'm late today.
Speaker 3 (07:28):
What I couldn't catch the dog? I do it something.
What happened?
Speaker 6 (07:33):
Dog has never experienced cold before. She's only so much
six months old, seven months the love a sweet child.
This summer they love so She's never experienced a cold day.
And I was kind of curious to see how this
would go.
Speaker 3 (07:43):
Yeah, she turned in to.
Speaker 6 (07:45):
A just just doing the last around the backyard by.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
The same things zoomie full tilt like.
Speaker 6 (07:51):
Zuomie, but like, yeah, a thousand times when I've ever
experienced before and you can't catch her. She's too fast.
Speaker 3 (07:57):
And they're so happy. That happened to me yesterday.
Speaker 2 (07:59):
So when I let him out right, opened all those windows,
and then I came back and I got super cold.
I'm like, well, let's go out in the yard. And
I got this big yard next door, and I let
him out there, and they did not want to come back.
Speaker 4 (08:09):
They're just running head dude, I don't know what that is.
Speaker 6 (08:11):
I'd use the net that the pool cleaner net, yeah,
to try to like wrangle the dog in Like it
was like so now now I got I got her
back in the corner of my trailer and she's going
one way to stop and with the net she goes
the other way. I'm trying to stop it with the
pole and it's.
Speaker 3 (08:25):
Turned into a game for her. I would pay what
would you pay for video? That day?
Speaker 6 (08:28):
I had pay neighbors.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
I'd pay thirty bucks for that. I pay forty bucks,
so watch you wrangling the dog.
Speaker 6 (08:34):
No one you're gonna be I felt like a dog
catcher from like the fifties the cartoons, a big stick.
Speaker 3 (08:39):
With the net on it.
Speaker 6 (08:40):
But I also don't want to break my pool net,
so I'm not like letting her run into it at
full speed.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
I was getting mad at them for not listening to me,
because they normally listen to me, right, And I've got
this magical thing, and it makes Mary Ellen crazy. If
I said, come on, come on, he always he always listens.
Speaker 6 (08:54):
This time not listening, it was like cat she did
cat in it.
Speaker 3 (08:57):
I'm like, bet, come on back.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
And they are they They could care less. They're like, listen,
we're enjoying this cold weather. They're running around like crazy,
and it made me laugh. I'm sitting her laughing at him.
Speaker 3 (09:06):
I was not laughing.
Speaker 6 (09:07):
Well, yeah, you're swearing full volume mid five in the morning,
and you couldn't.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
Yell at them right because it's it's five o'clock morning.
You'll wake the neighbors up.
Speaker 4 (09:15):
I don't care.
Speaker 6 (09:16):
It got to a point where, like I first, at first,
you do the thing, You're like come on, like all right,
come on, come on, you're whisper yelling, yeah, come on.
Speaker 4 (09:23):
By the end of this, and I'm just exhausted.
Speaker 3 (09:25):
I'm like, yeah, your neighbors are hating you. Oh yeah,
that's fine. You think I'm crazy.
Speaker 4 (09:32):
Yeah, I don't know. It's weird that a dog does that.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
It makes him so happy. It's like, like he just said,
it's like catting it for him. You know, they're they're
just running around all nutty, so look for that this morning.
Speaker 6 (09:44):
Does your dog get a crazy looking ryde though too?
When it happens, Yeah, yeah, they're like, this is awesome.
Dog like like start to like twinge when I I'm
about to go nuts.
Speaker 2 (09:54):
Well, this was her first experience of it, yes, And
for Beth, well, no, this is bes had this before.
They're like, she's tuned, so she's had this before. But
but you know, and here's what was happening. So the
we're in this big, big backyard that's next to mine.
It's not my backyards, my neighbors yard. And they said, hey, listen,
let them run anytime you want. And it must be
two acres, right, So so the one, the older dog,
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bo is trying to listen to me and trying to
come back, but Beth keeps stopping him like no, no,
like like run in front, will try to wrangle him
away like those don't go yet, Like this is too
much fun. This, this cold weather is is great. So,
uh you know that's a good question. Is there school
today on Veterans Day?
Speaker 6 (10:34):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (10:34):
I would think so.
Speaker 6 (10:35):
Oh really yeah, yeah, holiday it is.
Speaker 3 (10:39):
But some federal holidays they don't, they don't. They already
have the teacher workday for this. It was a couple
of weeks ago.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
Okay, yeah, yeah, some federal holidays there's like, hey, it's
a federal holiday, like Columbus Day is a federal holiday,
but you don't get off for that, you know what
I mean. Veterans at President's Day is another one. There's
a there's a handful where you don't really get off
for him. It's just they just acknowledge it.
Speaker 3 (10:59):
Whatever.
Speaker 6 (10:59):
So anyway, fame, it's like, you know, like you hoped
for this as a kid, and you're like you're like, oh,
you know, Columbuses whatever.
Speaker 4 (11:08):
But we get a day off.
Speaker 6 (11:10):
Pretty good day.
Speaker 3 (11:11):
Yeah, it is a good day. Hey, how long have
you been? Oh?
Speaker 2 (11:15):
This is another This is this is a topic that
will take more time than we have so I'm gonna
hold onto that first, hold on to that. Yeah, I
got a question for you guys, and uh yeah, So
anyway it is veteran, say, we're gonna talk about that
a little bit. We got a bunch of other stuff
to handle today. So, yes, it is gonna be a
little chilly today. It's gonna kind of get back to
not normal tomorrow, but it's not gonna be back to
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the seventies tomorrow, believe Yeah during the middle, Yeah, during
the yeah, middle of the day, and it'll be you know,
chilly in the morning.
Speaker 3 (11:41):
Whatever. Uh So we get one day of a little
bit of.
Speaker 5 (11:44):
What tomorrow the highest is gonna be sixty nine lows
forty seven, Yeah, Thursday, Friday, Saturdays, we're goen it gets
back to seventy four or seventy seven, eighty eighty, you know.
Speaker 3 (11:54):
So we got, you know, got a couple of days
so for my son's wedding, and it's gonna be nice.
It's gonna be perfect. I'll be perfect for him. I'm
happy about that. All right.
Speaker 2 (12:01):
More big dumb, fun bunch of stuff to handle today.
But once again, thank you to all of our veterans
for your service and what you've done, and well we'll
definitely help you cover that today. Don't go anywhere you're
listening to the match of the morning. Hey, it is
(12:24):
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Rock Cafe that are offering.
Speaker 3 (12:56):
That it is Veterans Day.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
And I will say this, these are what is one
of those things you probably shouldn't say out loud, but.
Speaker 3 (13:03):
Just you know, these are just things that I think,
I believe you think.
Speaker 2 (13:09):
I'm gonta say this is right because I don't want to,
you know, I might offend people, but whatever. Uh. As
a younger man, I always had had a problem with
I felt disingenuous. Right if I met somebody who was
a service person, I always felt weird or disingenuous or
like to say thank you for your service.
Speaker 3 (13:27):
I don't know why.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
Like when I was a younger guy, if I met
someone in the middle and other people would go, oh,
thank you for your service.
Speaker 3 (13:33):
Do you really mean that?
Speaker 2 (13:33):
Like it's exactly I felt like it was a performative, like, Oh,
you're just saying it because they tell you to say it,
and I don't like doing that. Like I didn't like
just saying thank you for your service because they tell
you're supposed to say it. And then as I got
older and I really thought about it a lot more
and I really appreciated it a lot more, and I
really saw exactly what service people do. Now I don't
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feel weird about it now. I feel like it's coming
from the heart.
Speaker 3 (14:00):
Do you know what I'm saying?
Speaker 6 (14:01):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (14:01):
And I don't. I don't know when that change happened.
Speaker 2 (14:04):
I think it was after nine eleven, but I believe
it was after nine to eleven is when I felt
more comfortable saying.
Speaker 6 (14:11):
When you were in a twenty year war. After that
it kind of felt necessary. Yeah, well, I don't.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
I don't know about that. I just know that I
felt appreciative of what the what our service people do.
And then I start really like looking inside and going, man,
why weren't you brave enough to enter the military, Like
like I've got that part, Like, man, these guys are brave,
like they know that they're going to.
Speaker 3 (14:31):
Put their lives to day.
Speaker 6 (14:32):
Do you feel like it's an issue for bravery for you?
Speaker 2 (14:34):
For me, I think it was, yeah. Yeah, I felt
like I wasn't brave. Yeah yeah, I was scared, So
yeah it was a bravery. Like I was scared they
would I would be put in some situation where my
life would be in danger, and I'd be asked to
give my life for my country and and and I
don't know that I'm brave enough to do that. So
as I looked at it that way, I'm like, man,
I do want to thank every every veteran, and it
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comes from the heart.
Speaker 3 (14:57):
Now, before I wouldn't even say it.
Speaker 2 (14:58):
I wouldn't even go, I thank you for your When
I say it now, it's because I sincerely mean it.
Speaker 3 (15:03):
Does that make any sense? That makes sense?
Speaker 6 (15:05):
He said about nine to eleven, Because like I grew
up in a time where were like we had in
Iraq war, you know, but like not like how we
were in Afghanistan for twenty years. So it felt like
our service members were doing something then, you know, like
they were. You'd see that they die ever so often,
and we'd been attacked, so it did feel different after that.
Speaker 2 (15:24):
Yeah, Angel, you grew up in a military family, so
you might feel different now.
Speaker 3 (15:28):
I grew up and my father was in the Marine Corps.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
But he always, he always the Marine Corps was one thing,
and then all the other service thing for him was
it was a different thing, you know. So it's for
my family, it was always a Marine Corps.
Speaker 5 (15:42):
Did you leave I would never ask you of this.
Did you get a chance to live the military lifestyle though? No, No,
by the time you were grown, your dad was already out.
Speaker 2 (15:50):
I was just hearing old stories of going to Campbell
June and going to Paris Island and him getting in
fights there and how how bad he was treated in
boot camp. And then I just heard stories of the
Marine Corps is all I really heard. Yeah, just just
in general, just as a culture.
Speaker 5 (16:07):
Raised as a military kid, Uh, yeah, we it was
always with heartfelt and Veterans Day, Memorials Day, Memorial Day,
all these events or holidays.
Speaker 3 (16:15):
Did you always say thank you for your service? Yeah?
Speaker 5 (16:17):
Yeah, yeah, that was I mean that was especially again
when you're living on an active military base and then
you've got like different soldiers going out for TD Wyse
all right, and those were you know, training deployments, and
then you had there was a couple of times where
we lived on an air base and there was an
army base right next to you, and you knew kids
who their dads were getting sent out to active you
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know campaigns and stuff like that. So uh yeah, it
was always with utmost respect and uh you know, humility
that you said thank you and stuff like that, you know,
And that's why it was always you know, when when
I got a little older and I was a little
bit of a troublemaker, it was a pain in the
ass from a dad, you know, because like you're supposed
to be on an air base, don't be an idiot,
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And I was that idiot.
Speaker 2 (17:02):
I just knew people that would say it and I
knew they didn't mean it, and I'm like, I'm not
gonna do that.
Speaker 3 (17:07):
I don't, you know.
Speaker 2 (17:08):
And I think it was after nine to eleven or
after we spoke to some servicemen. I think maybe after
we did we did a show here where we met
a guy that won the uh Medal of uh. It
was a purple heart or metal of honor or something
like that.
Speaker 1 (17:22):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (17:22):
His name was uh Sammy Davis. And we did a
show with him and and uh. I think after meeting him,
I felt it felt more heartfelt. I don't know, like
I had to really feel it in order to actually
say it.
Speaker 6 (17:32):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (17:33):
And and I think about that, and I think about, like,
why why did I have that change? What was that
change of heart? And I think it was me judging myself, like, man,
you know, why weren't you a brave to brave enough
to go into the military and and uh and uh
and do that.
Speaker 3 (17:47):
Wasn't for me.
Speaker 6 (17:48):
It was an issue of brave. I actually try to
join the navy. Uh and I got I got uh
all the way through it, did the ass BAP and
all that stuff. And then it's I had had better
options like of things to do well far as like
I had a scholarships available and things like that. So
it was never like I was scared to join im,
just like I was like, just do this instead.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
I already had plans to have my own business when uh,
when I drove Bo to uh Bo for those that
don't know, I started the show with me Bo Rodes
my best friend ever.
Speaker 3 (18:17):
Uh and uh.
Speaker 2 (18:18):
And so he was he lost his license or something
like that and he couldn't drive anymore. And I'm like, well,
you're not gonna be able to be a delivery guy.
You know, what are you gonna do. He's like, I
don't know. I'll go on the military. I said, no,
you won't, and he's like, yes I will. I said,
I'll drive you there right now. No you won't, Yes,
I will. And I drove it, kind of like bluffing him, right.
I drive him to the to the recruiter station at
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the at the Marine Corps and I walked, let's go,
and he's like all right and we I'm like, okay,
he's gonna back down here in a minute, right, And
we walk into the walk into the recruiter station. There's
a marine standing there. You guys wanna He's like, I
want to. I want to be a marine. And he's like,
you guys gonna go in together. They got the buddy system.
I'm like, no, sir, I got other plans, you know.
Speaker 3 (18:59):
And uh.
Speaker 2 (18:59):
And he he signs up that day and one week
later he's off of the Marine Corps and I always
think what if I would have decided to go with him, right,
Like how my life would have been different.
Speaker 3 (19:09):
But I definitely was too afraid. I definitely thought about.
Speaker 2 (19:11):
It, Oh my god, if they send me over to
some war, you know, I'm I'm too scared that I'd
lose my life.
Speaker 3 (19:18):
And and that's that's about bravery, right sure.
Speaker 6 (19:23):
Yeah, I mean yeah that we like we didn't grow
up with any like great wars, you know what I mean,
Like a World War two makes sense if my grandpa
World War two, you go, you fight the Nazis, the
Japanese attacked us, you go, well, and the wars that
you get in now is like we need to feel back.
Speaker 4 (19:38):
It's like do we even need to be there?
Speaker 2 (19:39):
It's going well, right, I'm a little older than you,
so so, And I've talked about this before too. Growing
up as a kid, every day on the news, I
watched the Vietnam War. So I would see the Vietnam War,
and as a kid, it scared me to death to think,
oh my god, that's what military guys have to do.
Military guys have to go to some place and they
all die like that. That so that was drilled into
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my head and I was afraid for bo to go
in after I took him, and I dared him to
go to the Marine Corps.
Speaker 3 (20:06):
I'm like, dude, don't do this. I was kidding. I
was joking with you. Now, no, I'm gonna do it.
Speaker 2 (20:10):
I'm like, dude, look, you know, like I was afraid
Bou would be sent to some foreign land or whatever
and die. It really really scared me at the time,
and I was I was goofing that day. He ended
up going to the Marine Corps. Of course, he's fine.
He went and it served his time and and and
you know, you know, did what he did. But uh, yeah,
I look back and think that I would have I
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think I would have been a good marine, right, like,
like I if I would have gotten over that fear,
I think I think I'm set for that, you know,
as far as being O. C.
Speaker 3 (20:40):
D things by the book.
Speaker 2 (20:42):
You know, at that time, I was in great shape, Like, like,
I think I would have been a good marine.
Speaker 3 (20:46):
But I'll never know.
Speaker 4 (20:47):
Yeah, I'll never know either.
Speaker 6 (20:48):
I'm the only male in my family that didn't do
like military, So I think about that a lot. Yeah,
I don't know if I like knowing how I am
mentally I don't know if it would have helped me
or hurt me more to go through that kind of thing,
because it's intense. I respect anybody that can do that.
Speaker 3 (21:04):
So I don't get intelligence you had been intelligence or something.
Speaker 6 (21:07):
I was like again, I was shooting for the Navy,
which I hear is an easier version of boot camps.
Speaker 3 (21:12):
Oh yeah, I can see you on a like a submarine.
Yeah yeah, yeah yeah. Angel. What about you? Do you
ever think about going into the military. I know you
want to do Air Force?
Speaker 5 (21:20):
Yeah, no, no, we have my brother and I, both
of us we were adamant about joining the military. My
brother went as so far as he went and visited
the Air Force academy. We both wanted to be but
that was our thing. We wanted to be pilots and
we wanted to be fighter pilots. And at in junior
high when the pilots came to visit school, I remember
to this day the pilot like I stood up to
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meet him and everything, and you know, I crushed the asvab.
Speaker 3 (21:45):
I mean, I was, you know, well on my way.
Speaker 5 (21:47):
Two things that my father always taught both of us,
don't join the military like he did. He was drafted
and then he and he's drafted the army, but he
went and enlisted in the Air Force, right, and then
so to come in as an officer to get your education,
that was like super important to him. If you're going
to do the military, do it that way. So when
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that guy tells me, he's like, oh, yeah, you're way
too tall to fly this plane. Now you're gonna fly
like the big cargo planes and everything, right, You're like,
I was like, man, that's not that's not what I
want to do.
Speaker 2 (22:20):
It was cool though, those really big like the Aspring
or what was it called that they didn't have that thing.
Speaker 5 (22:25):
Oh okay, yeah, no, but back then it was just
the sea one thirties and cargo ships.
Speaker 3 (22:29):
Yeah, and so uh yeah. So then that's where I
that's where I lost interest in.
Speaker 1 (22:36):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (22:37):
I was like, if I can't do the job then
that I want to do then, you know, and I did.
There wasn't a second option. And then what happens is
within a year or two of that moment, I became
really good at basketball. Yeah, and then that opened up
a whole other world to me. And it's the same
kind of with my brother and water polo.
Speaker 3 (22:57):
You know, he was.
Speaker 5 (22:58):
Entertaining and entertaining it, like I said, went to Air
Force Academy and all that kind of stuff.
Speaker 4 (23:02):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (23:03):
But then uh, you know, another college came over the top,
and you just made a better offer for him as
far as uh, you know, a uh scholarship.
Speaker 1 (23:11):
You know.
Speaker 2 (23:11):
Well, my my excuse at the time was, well, listen,
because I'd already started buying stuff for my party rental company,
and id already started setting the company up, and we
already had the bi My excuse at the time was, oh, well,
I've already got do this, a career already planned.
Speaker 3 (23:23):
The truth of the matter is I was afraid that that.
That's the truth.
Speaker 2 (23:26):
I was scared of that because growing up, you know,
I always like everybody went in the military. I had
to go overseas and you could die in Vietnam. That
was uh yeah.
Speaker 5 (23:34):
By the time I was, by the time I was
considerate and everything, I knew that there was just a
bunch of different options in the sense that you weren't
always on the front line. There was a ton of
different jobs, and just the job that I was most
interested in, I was, you know, uh, physically too tall
for Yeah, And so then you know I wasn't going
to be uh you know, uh, let's say on the
(23:54):
front lines. You know I would because of my grades
and whatnot. It was always going to be something different.
Speaker 2 (24:02):
Than that, right, So, so of all the time of
the monsters, I'm trying to think, I think SPK was
in the military, right, So we got SPK was a veteran.
Bo was a veteran. Savannah was a Marine Corps. Marine Corps.
So the two Marines. He was in the army, right
SPK H yeah, So are there any other monsters that
were in the uh in the military.
Speaker 3 (24:24):
I think he was Navy. I'm sorry, was he Navy?
I think?
Speaker 2 (24:26):
Okay, all right, so hey, two Marines, one one Navy.
I don't think any other monsters of all this time,
and then there's a bunch of them. I don't think
anyone else was was was a veteran. I could be wrong,
but you guys might remember more than I do. You
can you can text us it at seven seven zero
three to one. But uh, yeah, I mean I've come
(24:47):
full circle on it, and and now you know, I
actually look forward to or mean it when I say, hey,
thank you for your service, because it's uh, it's coming
from the heart, because think about what they do. I mean,
they make it so we all can, you know, do
the stupid stuff we want to do. Hot take what's
at I have.
Speaker 6 (25:06):
Friends that are in the military, obviously, and you know,
like like there's guys that we think of when we
think the military, we're thinking about the warriors, you know,
we're thinking the guys out there on the front line
that are going after Osama bin Lyned. I got friends
that just did paperwork in Virginia. Did they get to.
Speaker 3 (25:24):
Thank you for your service? Because I don't know, So
they do.
Speaker 2 (25:27):
And here's why. Here's why I'm okay. That's exactly where
I was coming from. The reason I'm okay with that
is because they didn't know where.
Speaker 3 (25:33):
They were going to end up, right, They signed up
not knowing where they'd end up.
Speaker 2 (25:37):
They could end up over in some you know, Afghanistan
or whatever more the government decided they needed to be there,
But they signed up not knowing where they were going
to go.
Speaker 3 (25:47):
So I think.
Speaker 6 (25:49):
Your theoretical service.
Speaker 2 (25:50):
No, they they served the country when you and I
weren't brave enough to sign up.
Speaker 3 (25:55):
They did the commitment, they did the sign up. Yeah, yeah,
so that you can't. You can't be picky and choosie
with your thank you for your service. Ryan.
Speaker 2 (26:03):
It's a great hot take because that's what was going
through my head, like, oh, I'm gonna thank you and
you didn't.
Speaker 6 (26:09):
Really I got a buddy that was like, did like
four years in the mint. He's just like he's proud
that he did nothing, you know what I mean.
Speaker 4 (26:14):
Like he was like, you know, my job was pretty easy.
Speaker 6 (26:16):
I just kind of coaching alone. Yeah, but he still
did it though, So I have to say to him,
thank you for your service to Brad because I don't
want to.
Speaker 3 (26:22):
Yeah, you got to, all right, thank you, Brad, thank
you for your service.
Speaker 2 (26:27):
Because listen, they signed they signed up with me, and
you were too pussy, too much of a pussy to
do it.
Speaker 3 (26:33):
See. I wasn't a pussy though I wanted to do.
I was a pussy. I was scared. Ian. I'm straight
up telling you right now, and it's not and it's
not anything proud to it.
Speaker 6 (26:41):
But you would have had to go into because your dad.
You would have to have been a marine.
Speaker 3 (26:44):
Marine for sure, for sure. Oh he's he's a killer.
Speaker 2 (26:48):
He big and dumb, eat and hill things that would
have been me for sure, And now I am convinced
I would have worked my way up to some sort
of status like you know I would have. I would
have asked, kissed and make it, got my way and
been some sort of sergeant in some way. Okay, I'm
convinced of it.
Speaker 6 (27:04):
Now you'll never know national Guard. No thank you for
service there.
Speaker 2 (27:09):
Oh yeah, they get yeah, yah, yeah, I know that
you're asking. If I would have been National Guard, I
would have been Marine Corps.
Speaker 6 (27:15):
People that do like the Army reserves where they only
go like a couple of months, a couple of weeks.
Speaker 5 (27:22):
I'm just asking, you know why they all get it
because they all did boot camp and you can't do
boot camp correct.
Speaker 3 (27:30):
Period and signed up not knowing where they'd end up.
Speaker 5 (27:34):
And the story period, that's it. I can't do now
whatever you didn't, That's why they get it.
Speaker 3 (27:41):
That's why they get it. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (27:44):
I think it's for their bravery, Hell Week, all that
kind of stuff, all of that, the mental breaking down
and then rebuilding of them.
Speaker 3 (27:50):
Yeah. So anyway, Coast Guard, Coast Guard, yes, wherever they
end up.
Speaker 4 (27:56):
And there's for my buddy Brian who's currently in the
and they're.
Speaker 2 (27:59):
Serving our country and you're a veteran today, I give
you a heartfelt God bless you. Thank you very much,
thank you for your service, and I hope you enjoyed
this conversation. All Right, we got to take a break.
You don't go anywhere. You're listening to the match of
the morning. Really, a lot of people texting and you
(28:25):
can text us. By the way, it's the interactive live
live radio, right to live talk radio.
Speaker 3 (28:30):
That's what we do.
Speaker 2 (28:31):
People texting us at seven seven zero three one people
pointing out that, uh, Savannah was in the Marine Corps.
Not only was she in the Marine Corps, but she
was air traffic control in the Marine Corps. And obviously
that's making a lot of news the past couple of
weeks air traffic control. So like, if she wanted to
get a job in air traffic control, she could do it,
but uh, and I talked to her about that at
one time, but she's like, just I mean, I think
(28:53):
it makes fairly good money to do that, but it's
just not her, you know. Obviously she's doing her passion
with what she's doing. And it looked like I saw
her Instagram. She was up in New York City with
the Queen of Versailles, and they opened up that that
Broadway play.
Speaker 6 (29:09):
I saw that just on the streets in New York
with with a with a billionaire? Are is how fun?
Speaker 3 (29:16):
So that does not surprise me.
Speaker 2 (29:18):
So whenever she's back in town, will get her to
come in and tell her that story about that. Uh.
It being Veterans Day today, and then once again, thank
you for your service. Uh.
Speaker 3 (29:27):
Do you have a favorite?
Speaker 2 (29:28):
I would call it it like Veterans Day movie, but
like a military movie or a war movie or whatever
that is that is your favorite to watch if you're
gonna watch if you're going to do a theme today
and like, all right, I'm not working, I got time off.
Speaker 3 (29:39):
I'm gonna watch a Veterans Day movie.
Speaker 6 (29:41):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (29:41):
And I have one that's in my mind.
Speaker 2 (29:44):
And when I saw this list that they asked people
two thousand people, my movie is in tenth place, so
obviously it's not it's thought.
Speaker 3 (29:52):
It's not high up there. Do you have one that
you like a lot?
Speaker 6 (29:57):
I mean, Saving Private Ryan's the classic.
Speaker 2 (29:59):
Yeah, it's in sixth place in this particular poll. Now
this is who did this hold on?
Speaker 4 (30:04):
You know?
Speaker 2 (30:04):
These are one of those dumb dumb poles and I
don't know. It doesn't even say bogus poles dot com,
bogus bogus bs poles. Uh, it's called it's called pair up,
is what it's called. So in pair up, Uh, they
they two thousand people they pulled, and Saving Private Ryan
came in sixth place.
Speaker 3 (30:24):
I think that's ridiculous. I agree with you.
Speaker 2 (30:26):
It probably should be in first. It's the one most
people think of. But it came in sixth place. And
I'm just gonna tell you what's number one, number two,
and number three, because I don't think anyone well, you'll
never get well, let us guess a favorite apocalypse now,
not in the top ten.
Speaker 7 (30:42):
The deer Hunter, The deer Hunter not in the top ten?
Black top down? Would you say, black cock down? Black hawk,
black cock down? Yeah, okay, I see what you're doing there.
Full metal jacket, full metal jackets.
Speaker 3 (30:56):
Not in the top ten. See, I'll tell you it
is a ridiculous list. We really need to get that
website right.
Speaker 2 (31:03):
You're you're mentioning some good ones, though all of those
should have been instead of the Grand Illusion.
Speaker 6 (31:10):
The Grand Illusion.
Speaker 2 (31:12):
Number one is the Grand Illusion from nineteen thirty seven.
Speaker 3 (31:16):
I don't know what that is? Okay?
Speaker 2 (31:17):
And what and my father watched every single All my
dad did was watch war movies. Any war movie. It
had John Wayne, it had a war, it had the
Marines in it.
Speaker 3 (31:26):
That's what he watched.
Speaker 6 (31:27):
You're talking about the French movie from nineteen thirty seven,
Brandon Grand Gloru.
Speaker 3 (31:33):
I came number one.
Speaker 6 (31:34):
Okay, what a dumb archy bogus list?
Speaker 3 (31:36):
Is this number two? I told you was a BS list.
This is a BS The Best Years of our Lives?
Speaker 2 (31:43):
Never heard of that from nineteen forty six came in second.
Speaker 6 (31:46):
That's the worst Years of the life. Is that nineteen
forty I want?
Speaker 5 (31:50):
I think it has actors in it that will recognize though,
what about I've heard that title before?
Speaker 2 (31:54):
What about number three on this list? He's a great
Veterans Day movies? According to this the best of all time,
the Great Escape from nineteen sixty three. That's an awesome movie.
Speaker 3 (32:03):
Okay, none, so seriously pull that up. That's that's got
all the guys in that.
Speaker 4 (32:07):
At least I know this movie.
Speaker 3 (32:09):
Yeah, John Wayne, No, no, no, no, no, I don't
think Wayne said, I think the.
Speaker 4 (32:14):
Other McQueen, Charles Brown, Oh, Richard Atton bro.
Speaker 2 (32:19):
All the heavy hitters in that one. Okay, all right,
then that one belongs. Okay, I'm with that.
Speaker 3 (32:23):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (32:24):
Number four we all know no and it's and it's
a current times, it's it's a it's you know, the
top one. It's from nineteen eighty six, and it's when
he was normal, when he was normal, when he was normal.
Speaker 3 (32:39):
Cruise movie, No, No, Platoon Charlie, Charlie Sheen, when Charlie
Sheen was normal.
Speaker 2 (32:46):
That was his first big hit, Platoon and that's a
great and then Cruise in number five as far as
being you know, Veterans Day movies.
Speaker 3 (32:56):
Born on the fourth of July. That's epic movie. I
saw it once, maybe twice.
Speaker 2 (33:02):
And I've never watched it again, but I guess a
lot of people will watch that on Veterans Day and
Memorial Day.
Speaker 3 (33:07):
I had a history teacher. We watched that in school.
Speaker 2 (33:10):
Okay, Saving Private Ryans in sixth place, Okay, college.
Speaker 3 (33:13):
I've heard this of this one. It was in nineteen
ninety eight. I never saw it. The Thin Red Line.
Fantastic movie, is it? Yeah?
Speaker 5 (33:22):
I mean again, I think that's uh. I think that's
Sean Penn in that one as well.
Speaker 4 (33:26):
Penn and Nick Nolty.
Speaker 3 (33:27):
Yeah, that one's ooh, that's a tough one. Okay, this one,
number eight is a really good one.
Speaker 2 (33:33):
And I don't know why I don't give it much
credit because I really like this movie Hacksaw Ridge.
Speaker 3 (33:40):
Is that with Clint Eastwood.
Speaker 6 (33:43):
It's I think he produced it.
Speaker 3 (33:44):
He produced it. Who starred in Hacksaw Ridge?
Speaker 6 (33:46):
Andrew Garfield.
Speaker 2 (33:47):
Yes, yeah, that's a goodie. That's a goodie. It's still
not my favorite, though.
Speaker 5 (33:53):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (33:53):
I just saw this one last week and though it
seemed like it was sort of discombobulated, and it was,
the story was all over the place.
Speaker 3 (34:00):
It was a really good movie.
Speaker 2 (34:02):
And that's Dunkirk from twenty seventeen and my favorite. And
I don't know if you guys saw this or not.
It came out in twenty nineteen and it was the
name of the movie is nineteen seventeen.
Speaker 3 (34:16):
And they've got these long shots. Oh my god.
Speaker 2 (34:21):
It was so good, these long shots where there's no break.
And I saw a documentary about how they tried to
make these shots as long as possible with no breaks,
and it's it is an epically, absolutely awesome movie. And
at the end it's super sad. Obviously it's war movie.
War movies never in good.
Speaker 5 (34:41):
Would you guys let me put these two movies on
the lists out of curiosity?
Speaker 3 (34:44):
Well, the hurt Locker and like the Ryan was saying,
black Hawk Down. Yeah, yeah, both of those are great.
Speaker 5 (34:52):
Yeah, those are born in my wheelhouse in the sense
of what's the long and all of those movies are great,
but those two in particular, because that's the generation. Are
those of the years that I had, like I knew,
I knew people that were yeah, active in either one
of those scenarios.
Speaker 2 (35:09):
Where do you put Full Metal Jacket? Because Full Metal
Jacket is a freaking great movie. That's a top ten
that is that is when the guy, I mean they
lose it. I mean, that's just my rifle.
Speaker 6 (35:22):
What about okay, can we I mean it's a little
fantast fantastical, but in glorious bastards, I'd put his number
two or three.
Speaker 2 (35:30):
Okay, are those American troops? Yeah, I guess yeah, yeah, yeah,
there's America. That's good. That is a good That is
a really good war movie.
Speaker 5 (35:37):
But okay, so but again, great movie, all of that, right,
But it's it's a fantasy.
Speaker 4 (35:45):
Yeah yeah, yeah, but a lot I mean a lot,
because if.
Speaker 5 (35:51):
We're ever going to do that, then I want to
put Eddie Murphy's best defense on that.
Speaker 6 (35:54):
Okay, I also want to put mel Gibson's brave Heart
on mine.
Speaker 2 (35:59):
Well, I would have put black Knight, Martina Night Martin,
Steve Martin.
Speaker 4 (36:06):
You know what I got? One Star Wars, got the
word warn it.
Speaker 5 (36:10):
He's a couple of really good ones again, A fantastic one,
big al a, good morning Vietnam. I'm remember seeing that one.
That's true flag, Flag of our Fathers. That's Clint Eastwood.
Speaker 4 (36:22):
How far can we go back to American Sniper?
Speaker 5 (36:24):
American Sniper is good? That is pretty good, Fury, that's
the Tom Cruise one.
Speaker 3 (36:28):
Okay, Band of.
Speaker 6 (36:30):
Brothers as I have tried to watch it so many times,
and you know the problem is it's David Swimmer's stupid face.
I get through like the first couple episodes and I'm like,
I can't. I know he's not there later, but I
have not been able to get through Brandon Brothers. And
everybody's like, it's so good. I got I need to
get the third episode.
Speaker 3 (36:48):
I got to let go of swimmers face.
Speaker 2 (36:50):
Dude, No, I got Okay, a Few good Men definitely
is sort of a war movie. I don't know about that.
How about Green Beret with John Wayne. I had to
watch it so many times my dad, and it really
is you know, it is a great it's very pro usa.
Speaker 3 (37:06):
What about Stripes, No, okay, Private Benjamin.
Speaker 6 (37:11):
They never actually make it to war. They're in war
class most of the time.
Speaker 2 (37:15):
All right, we're gonna do trivia when we come back.
It means that you have a chance to win something.
To Torah, that's a good one too. That is a
good one.
Speaker 3 (37:20):
I had to watch that one a lot with my
dad in Vietnam. Yeah, I said that.
Speaker 2 (37:24):
When we come back, it's trivia time, and the Angel
has had some incredible prizes. I think we might have
some more of those incredible prizes. Will get on the
line the telephone numbers four oh seven, nine, one, six,
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