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A highlight from Growing Unease: Current Administrations Approach to Security and Travel with David Bellavia
"What do you think they're doing with cash, right? What deal do you make where someone says, I'll bring a box of money to you? Yeah. What do you, it's, this is a state sponsor of terrorism. Ladies and gentlemen, distinguished guests and my fellow citizens. America's comeback now. starts right Welcome back Financial Guys podcast. Mike Speraza in studio live today with a guest in the studio. I haven't had this in a long time. Staff Sergeant medal of honor recipient David Bellavia joining me for about a half hour today. David, thank you for joining us. Thank you for having me. I appreciate it. Absolutely. So I'm going to stick based on your background. I'm going to stick with a lot of military stuff today and I want to start, we'll go all the way back to the beginning of the Joe Biden presidency. The Afghanistan withdrawal, in my opinion, did not go very smoothly. I'm sure many people listening agree. What were your overall thoughts of that withdrawal and how it actually ended up happening? I know we lost, you know, sadly lost 13 soldiers in that, in that withdrawal. People say we went off the wrong air base. People say that we shouldn't have gone out in the middle of the summer. There was a lot of different things there. What were your overall thoughts on that? I think it's like the worst day in American history since Market Garden. Just absolutely. And the reason why it was so difficult was it was totally unnecessary. So let's rewind to the Obama trade, Bull Bergdahl and the three first round draft picks. They get Marshall, they get MacArthur and they get Patton that end up the resurgence of the Taliban. These men not just go back to the enemy, they go back to the battlefield. They're in power when the government falls. You have misinformation coming from the White House that the president of Afghanistan is leaving with billions of dollars on his plane, which wasn't true. And then you leave the equipment, the cash. There's no recovery. We're getting reports of sales of American equipment left in Afghanistan in Southeast Asia. We're moving material across the globe. Our children will fight and pay and have to atone for these miscalculations. Let's talk about that. You being in the military and you knowing that area too, why did they just find it the easiest way out to just say, you know, just leave that billion dollar billions of dollars of equipment there and not think, again, if it was me and I'm speaking that someone that's never been in the military, but if it's me and I'm the president, I'm thinking, OK, I don't want to leave all our weaponry there. I don't want to lose any of my men. Number two. And number three, I want to make sure that everybody knows when and how we're getting out of there. And it just felt like poof. One day they said we're getting out of here. Well, it's because the military didn't make any of those decisions. I mean, look, Millie, it can criticize him. You can criticize Secretary of Defense worthy of criticism. However, none of these individuals are making decisions. This is about NGOs on the ground. This is about the State Department. So you've got Bagram Air Base, the equivalent of JFK. You've got Karzai International Airport, the equivalent of Teterboro. Right. Why would you ever do an exfil out of Karzai International Airport? It makes absolutely no sense. It's tactically unsound. But and then you've got all the ISIS -K. We retaliate from the murder of 13 of our bravest and we drop a bomb on a guy delivering water. He's on our payroll and we kill children on that. Then we take out Borat on a tuk tuk driving around like that wasn't even really what was happening. It's just a den of lies. And Tony Blinken and Jake Sullivan, all the heroes that brought us, you know, the Bergdahl deal, the Iran nuke deal. This is these. They the State Department is running all foreign policy, including what the DOD used to run. Well, that's I was going to say. I mean, I know Biden's the president, but do you blame him at all or is it everybody underneath him that, you know, maybe was giving him bad information? And again, some of these decisions, David, is Biden even involved in some of these decisions? Like, I don't even know anymore. Is he around? Is he paying attention to anything going on? Well, I mean, just from the press conferences, it was apparent he didn't know what was going on. And the great irony is that they actually were predicting that Ukraine was going to be invaded and, you know, no one believed them. So it's like you can't influence your friends. The allies don't trust you. The enemy doesn't respect you. You know, I mean, you've got Ben Rhodes is really proud of this State Department. Susan Rice loves what they're doing. But, you know, again, Americans died. And, you know, and what is the perfect culmination of the adventure in Afghanistan? Looking at your watch at Dover Air Base when bodies are coming home. I mean, nothing could you couldn't ask for a just it's it's a debacle. Yeah. And it's sad that that's that's the leader of our country there. Let's move in. You brought up the Ukraine there. So the Russia Ukraine conflict will get to Zelensky in a minute. He is as we speak in New York City right now. But so Trump's in office. We don't see many of these conflicts or any conflicts actually started under his watch. And then we have the Biden administration come in. And a year later, we have Russia invading Ukraine. Why did this happen and why? Why the timing of February of 2022? So let's go back to when we were fighting ISIS. Trump engaged and destroyed estimated some say 300 members of Wagner forces. But those were Russian nationals. We engaged. We destroyed them. What was the response from Putin? Nothing at all. So what do people in that section of the world, Eastern Europe, the Middle East, what do they respect? They respect power. They respect authority. You're not going to get any respect if you don't engage the enemy when they present themselves. I don't understand the calculus of again, I'm trying hard to figure it out. I don't get it. I don't. You know, Romania and Hungary and Poland, you're letting them unilaterally decide whether or not they want to send reinforcements into Ukraine. That's an act of war. If NATO members engage the enemy, all of NATO is engaged against the enemy. Poland doesn't unilaterally make that decision. Hungary and Romania don't unilaterally make that decision. We can't even articulate what the mission is. And if you look, go to the Institute for the Study of War, there's a plug for them. Check out their overlay from when the battle started, when the war started with Russia. And tell me what success this offensive in Ukraine has produced. I mean, let me ask this question, because I get confused. The answer is nothing. I asked this on Twitter, X, whatever it's called, all the time. What is the end game and how do we get there? Because all I see the answer is, hey, just blank checks. Hey, just write a check. Hey, here's a billion. Hey, here's 20 billion. Hey, here's another 10 billion. I don't actually see a look. I mean, like anything, right? If I write a business plan of what I want to do in 2024, my goal is X. I write down my steps to get X. I don't just write down X and say it's going to happen. I don't really know. And then the answer always is, well, we have to fight. We have to back Ukraine. Okay. But when does that end? Because the Afghanistan war and the war in Iraq lasted 20 years plus, right? And was there a real end to it? I don't know. That's where it gets frustrating for me, Dave, where I'm like, how do we know what the end game is? Do you win or lose? When does that happen? I don't know. I don't know. At least you're thinking about it. And I have fear that our leaders aren't, and that's the problem. So here's what this comes out. You're going to get a negotiated settlement out of Ukraine, right? But you talked about the billions of dollars that we're spending and giving to Ukraine as a blank check. First of all, Zelensky visited Ukrainian soldiers in the United States. Did you know that there were wounded Ukrainian soldiers in the United States? I did not know that. Well, today he visited them. So what's happening there? So that's a cost that no one is putting on the ledger. So now let's look at the blank check that Ukraine is getting. And by the way, I'm pro Ukraine. I want to fight communists all day and night. So let's punch Putin hard in the face. However, you're giving them a blank check and you're giving them munitions. Now here's the problem. We have to replace those munitions. Those munitions were purchased for 20 year global war and terror. And let's be honest, inflation is involved. So what you purchased for $10 is now $17. So you're not just giving them the money. You're giving them the equipment and the munitions that you have to replace yourself at the value of what is valued today. We haven't scratched the surface for the amount of money. CBO absent at the wheel. No one is tracking this. 2024 can't get here fast enough. How does this work, though, when you talk about some of these NATO nations coming together and making decisions, but us not just giving weaponry, giving everything money, whatever we're giving there? Is that not an act of war, too, though, David, at some point? We're continuing to fund Ukraine continuing the war in Ukraine. I mean, that to me seems like we're backing a war. Well, I mean, by the letter of the law and NATO charter, it's not. But here's the problem. It's schizophrenic because we were told that what was an offensive weapon was going to mitigate, you know, that wasn't going to help peace at all. So we went from, I don't know if they should get tracked vehicles to I'm not sure an artillery piece is what they need to high Mars rockets being launched. And let's be honest. I mean, the Ukrainians are I mean, the payload that they're going through, what you would have to have cataclysmic casualty numbers to be able to to the spandex that they're doing on the ground that they need to replace Patriot. If you're going through thirty five Patriot to, you know, missiles, I would expect to at least the C 20 makes that are shot down. They're using them for air artillery. They're using there for indirect fire. I don't know what they're doing, but this is going to end with Don Boss going to Russia. This is going to end with that land chain that Putin wanted through Crimea. And again, our friends in NATO, what are they even doing for Ukraine? What? Look, if you they said that Trump wanted to kill NATO, Biden did it. Right. Biden did it. And now Germany. And so Putin was selling oil at thirty dollars a barrel. What's it at ninety six? Yeah. He's making more money than he did before. And he's financing a war and killing innocent people. You mentioned before, too, and I think this is a good point. Everybody on the left and I'll say the media, the establishment, whoever you want to say, says that if you don't agree with the war in Ukraine, you're like pro Putin. Right. And that's just the most outrageous thing in the world, because I agree with you. I feel for the people of Ukraine. I don't want this for them. I don't want this for innocent people. However, at some point, the world's every every one of the world's problems can't be America's problem when we have a border crisis. And then I think they said yesterday ten thousand people came across. They got, I think, eight thousand of the ten thousand. But you see the numbers day over day. It's a problem. We have crime that's rampant. We have overdoses that are at record numbers. We have we have suicides at record numbers. At some point, we have to maybe just think about ourselves and not everybody else, because if we fall, sadly, I think the world falls at that point. Amen. The thing that I would add is I love the way the Ukraine refugee has been crowbarred into the migrant crisis in the United States. New York leaders from the city to all over Kathy Hochul, the governor of the state of New York, mentioning that, you know, like the Ukrainians in Poland, the the Polish have no intention to keep Ukrainians forever. That's a temporary you know, they're leaving a conflict to return to their country after the conflict is over. Again, this is just we're we're putting a round peg into a square hole and just hammering it away. But but there's no the media. There's you're our destroying military. I go to parents all the time around this country and ask them to give us their sons and daughters to join the military. And the one thing they bring up is Afghanistan. It's not about anything. It's Afghanistan. How are you going to assure us that you're going to maintain your commitment to our son and daughter when you betrayed us in Afghanistan that has lasting effects? And there's not a I'm trying to find a segment of our of our of our nation that's functioning. I don't know what it is. I saw in Chicago, they're going to have municipally owned grocery stores. Maybe that will figure it out there. Yeah, yeah, it's good. Real quick, do you think and we'll finish up on this topic, but do you think that they will we will ever have boots in the ground on Ukraine? I mean, I hope not, because I just don't know what the I mean, look at I'm I'm we're getting ready for China. We're trying to revolutionize everything. I don't know what the what the plan is. I mean, again, if you want to put a base in Ukraine, and you want to make that a sustainment operation going forward, that I here's the point. I don't understand what the inactive ready reserve call up was for. Why are you bringing those troops in the non combat support? Why are they going to Ukraine? What are you building infrastructure there? Here's what I do know. We're talking a minimum of $11 trillion to build Ukraine back. That is cataclysmic amounts of money. There isn't water, electricity, internet, you know, you want to help Ukraine. You're going to Russia is not paying for that if you negotiate a settlement. So I don't know what the plan is. But I hope we never see boots on the ground. I could guess what the plan is. I won't I won't say for sure. But I could guess that we'll be paying a chunk of that. And I do have one last one. So I did interview Colonel Douglas McGregor a few months back. And he talked about he's a real optimist. But he is really very, very bullish on Ukraine. Yes, very, very optimistic. I'm dropping some all over the place. But he brought up some staggering numbers, though. And even if they're half true, it's a problem. The amount of casualties and wounded soldiers on the Ukrainian side that we're not hearing about the media. I don't know if you agree with some of those numbers or not. But he's saying, I mean, it's people are acting as if this is an even war right now. And it's not even close. First of all, McGregor's a stud. I mean, he's an absolute, you know, that we're glad he's on our side. He's a military mind. I don't know if those numbers are accurate. I could tell you they're juxtaposed to almost everything we're hearing from every institution that we have, including a lot of our intel from Germany and England. But again, I don't know what to believe. So when you don't have when you don't have transparency, when you're not holding regular press conferences, when your Pentagon spokesman is now working in the White House and now you're getting a triple spin. I mean, the U .S. Open double backspin. You've gotten so many spins on the narrative. I don't know what to believe. But if he is even close to what is a segment of truth, you know, then look, Ukraine needs an investigation. There's a lot of investigations. We've got to start on Afghanistan. We were promised that by Speaker McCarthy. We need a hot wash on Afghanistan. And then we need to go to what who is oversighting the money that's going to Ukraine. And what have we got for our return on investment? Yeah, I'm not asking for much. Really, all I'm asking for in this conflict is can we just talk about what the end game is? And to your point, can we get an accounting of where the money's going and what's being spent in a real accounting of it? The Iran deal that just happened last week. First off, the fact that that was negotiated and completed on 11th September to me is just the ultimate slap in the face. But you again, you know more about this than I do. We do a five for five trade. OK, I'm going to use sports analogies. We trade five for five. And then we also approved of six billion dollars that apparently wasn't ours, but it was in a fund that now they can release to Iran. How are we winning on that one? Well, first of all, I was hoping that at least it was a digital transfer. The fact that it went as euros in cash through Qatar. And OK, so what happens the 24 hours after that deal is made? We're now getting issues in the West Bank. We're now hearing about issues in Yemen. We've now got Hezbollah that's reinforced. I mean, look, what do you think they're doing with cash? Right. What deal do you make where someone says, I'll bring a box of money to you? What do you it's this is a state sponsor of terrorism. They haven't changed. By the way, their president is now in New York City addressing the United Nations. This guy's killed 6500 of his own people. He admits to it. He killed the students that revolted and wanted democracy when we did nothing. He killed 5000 of his citizens in 1988. He's killed over 300 Americans. There's no accountability whatsoever. I don't understand what it is about Jake Sullivan and Tony Blinken that believe that Iran is a partner. All you've done 10 years ago, they were refining 10 percent of their oil. And now they're a force. Now they're working with Maduro in Venezuela, and they're a huge part of their members of of the international community. They're in good standing there. I don't get it. Does anyone believe that the Iran nuke deal? Look, we got hit with cruise missiles under Trump in Iraq. How did they have those cruise missiles? Those cruise missiles were illegal under the Obama nuke deal. So how are you refurbishing missiles in two years? Do we believe that their centrifuges have stopped? That they won't have a program if they don't have one already? No, I mean, I guess my question, David, is how I mean, I know that you pay a lot of attention to this stuff, but how do people like in the media not ask these questions? Right. I mean, these are legitimate. I mean, we just traded to I put this on my notes here. This is on the heels of trading a WNBA basketball player for the Merchant of Death like six months ago. Right. I mean, and again, I'm glad Americans are coming back to America. I don't want to sound pessimistic on that. That's great news. But we also I mean, this this stuff just seems like I don't care what side of the aisle you're on. It warrants questions, but nobody seems to care. I'm in the world that if you take hostages, we take hostages. You want to exchange people? We'll exchange people. You know, we definitely have the partners in the area to do that. For whatever reason, this administration, they're they're they're contrarians. They're contrarians to you know, they claim Bush and Cheney are their best friends, yet they just go 180 degrees from that doctrine. I don't know what the Biden doctrine is. I don't know what Bidenonomics is either, but I could tell you that they believe that Iran is a partner. Now, here's another thing. Our envoy to Iran not only is no longer the envoy, he doesn't have a security clearance. Does anyone curious at The New York Times as to what happened to the lead negotiator in Iran that is escorted off a bus, taken into American custody, given a job at Yale or Princeton or wherever he's working now? I've never heard of a person going from top secret classified negotiations to no clearance whatsoever and in the custody of American intelligence community. No one cares. No one cares at all. It's fascinating. And again, for me, I mean, these are big decisions that we're making. And correct me if I'm wrong, but it used to be, you know, maybe we did a two for five deal and then we made the six billion. Now we're like, we're giving stuff away and we're on the losing end. Correct me if I'm wrong, but America was never, you know, America losing. It was always America winning, right? America getting the best of deals. At least McDonald's has a five for five. We didn't even get that. You know what this does though? Honest to God, if you're thinking about traveling overseas, things go sideways, cartel, South America, Mexico, wherever you're going, you have a price in your head now. No one in their right mind is going to bring you back whether it's Haiti or wherever you are, you're worth $1 .25 billion. And thugs and scumbags are going to take advantage of that. I mean, that's a great point too. Do you think about leaving the country? I don't know anymore. That's a little bit concerning. I don't care where you're going, right? That's concerning. This one I just had to bring up because it happened two days ago or yesterday. How do we lose a plane? And I heard that's like a third one in the last six weeks that something like this has happened. How are we losing $80 million planes? Well, they're not $80 million anymore because they've got a new engine and all this other stuff. Look, the F -35 program is a complete disaster. You want to talk about why our allies think we're crazy. We sold them a plane. This program has been around since the early 90s and we've got nothing on return for it. So basically two planes are flying in a buddy team. They're doing training and a guy punches out. We don't even know why he punched out, but that plane could have easily hit a building. It didn't, thank God. But the wingman didn't follow where his buddy went. So what is he doing? He just kind of went on and did his own thing. And now the Marine Corps put a Facebook post like a dog is missing. We're expecting the Ukrainian farmers to carry the F -35 out with their tractors. I don't know what the point of it's wild. Look, stop embarrassing us. Just stop humiliating us. That's all I'm asking. Just be the army and the Marine Corps that we know our men and women are capable of being. Get out of their way. This gender garbage, this social experiment nonsense, stop humiliating our military. That's all I ask. Why can we not get the... I mean, I know why we can't get the answer, but I'm asking this to you. But why can't we, at a press conference at the White House, why can't we say, I want to talk to the guy that was in the other plane, or you can tell us the transcript of what happened when that happened. Talk to the guy who jumped out of the plane. Why did you do that? And again, I'm not trying to put our military on the spot, but these are kind of big questions to ask, right? I mean, if I do something in my business, I have to go face the music on that. Why doesn't everybody have to face music for their decisions or why things are happening? I think it's kind of important. Well, you don't want to talk to generals because they're going to tell you the truth and they won't be generals anymore. True. And you don't want to talk to enlisted people. Because look, I mean, let's be honest. How many people are... Is this a merit -based military anymore? Do we have a meritocracy? Are we promoting people based on pronouns? Go figure. When we're putting politics above military strength, accidents happen. We don't know the facts, but the fact that nobody cares about getting to the bottom of it, the day of the Pentagon paper reporters are gone. Yep. Yep. Let's just talk about the 2024 race quick, and then we will wrap up for today. So your thoughts on the Republican primary so far, I'll stay away from the Democratic side till the very end, but your thoughts on, you know, there's obviously Trump who is now in a, has a huge lead. Ron DeSantis seems to be crumbling underneath himself. Vivek Ramaswamy has jumped up in the polls. Nikki Haley's there. Tim Scott's there. A few others that probably aren't going to get a lot of votes. Chris Christie's the anti -Trump candidate. Mike Pence is, I don't know what Mike Pence is. I'm not really sure. Your thoughts about the whole field so far? I mean, look, it's impressive. They've got a deep bench. There's a lot of diversity. I, you know, none of it matters. Trump is the guy. The more you indict him, the more you empower him. You know, I'd like him to work on his communications a little bit better. You know, but if Trump is Trump, Trump is a Frankenstein monster of Barack Obama. As long as you have that faction, you're going to get, you know, Trump is going to be empowered. I just don't want to see Governor Noem anywhere near the White House. And I, if he's going to pick a running mate, you know, it's hard to find an ally here, you know. But it would be nice to find a governor. I don't want to take anyone from the Senate. I don't want to take anyone from the House with the margins that tight. But I mean, the idea that Governor Noem is being floated right now. I mean, I'd rather take North Dakota. Yeah. A little sled there. You know, it's funny you mentioned that because I saw a lot of that this weekend. I mean, can we just, for lack of a better term, keep it in our pants for about a year and then do what you got to do? It really is. I mean, every time you turn, somebody's doing something idiotic, whether it's Boebert. And again, I say this, David, a lot of people know who you are. A lot more know who you are than they'll ever know who I am. But when you go out in public into a movie theater like that, and I'm going to Boebert, not Noem for a second, you're, you're extremely well known. I don't care if it's dark or if it's as light as it is in the studio right now. What are you thinking? I, you know, she's, she's, she's an embarrassment. She is. She's bad, too. Who would have thought that Marjorie Taylor Greene would have been the, the oasis of the Maryland? I mean, seriously, I, again, you're, you're in Congress every day. You're out in public, you're on the job. You know, at least she wasn't wearing a hoodie, you know, that's all in shorts. She was at least dressed for the occasion, but I, it was, it's wildly embarrassing. Vaping, singing, whatever you're doing. Getting groped. Yes. Who is your VP candidate then? Because I think, you know, you have names thrown around. There's, there's, the vague has been thrown around in there. You know, Byron Donald's has been thrown around in there. Carrie Lake has. I don't know. I love Carrie Lake. I just don't know that Trump needs to go with somebody so divisive there. I think he's got to go with somebody that's, that's firm in their beliefs, but also not maybe going to turn off half the country. Well, you know, it's, it's impossible. One of the, one of the problems with making Trump, you know, the, the enemy of the state that the left has done is that you've really made it difficult for him to even put a cabinet together. You know, I mean, what are you going to do with it? You've got a lot of loyalists out there. You know, the vague is, is I think maybe the most intelligent dynamic candidate we've ever seen run for president, but experience does matter. But you know, I love the way he thinks. I love the movement. I don't know if he would even take the job to be honest with it. I don't think he needs it. But you look at a Tim Scott, I think Tim Scott is, you know, there's a whole lot to his message and I think he's, he's got the experience in the Senate, but honestly, you could literally take the Clint Eastwood chair and, and throw it in there as vice president. I'm going with that because this, this from top to bottom, we have to have seismic change in 24. Do you think he would ever choose Kristi Noem at this point with all that now? Yeah, no one knew Mike Pence was a, was a 24 hour story and then he was the vice president candidate. So who knows? I mean, a lot can happen between now and then, but I just, I don't need, you know, let's just pick people on their merit. Let's pick people that are ready to be the president. Imagine this, imagine picking a vice president that can lead the country. If something happens to a 75 year old president, you know, like Kamala Harris. Yeah. Someone like that.
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"Awesome. Well, I'll give you the last word. If you're talking to somebody that's on their way out of the military, what kind of advice comes to mind? Well, as I stated before, I would tell them to, you know, if if you're if you're going to interview with a company, not only should they be interviewing you, but you should be interviewing that company. The biggest mistakes veterans make is they seek a job to keep the lights turned on and they end up maybe changing careers a couple of different times. And I believe that can kind of hurt our reputation and our efforts, put a stain on them because you're coming in a company and you're leaving immediately. I would say get it right from the beginning. Unpack your skill set, feel confident in what you're doing. Rehearse, seek a lifeline from an internal networking source and get there and grow where you're planted. Keep the door open, reach back in the elevator, back down and grab a buddy. Absolutely. Sage advice, our major. I appreciate sharing your phenomenal success story, your military transition success story and sharing all the good word about one of those great American companies that's doing it right and hiring veterans.Joe Crane, I appreciate the time you allowed me to spend with the Marine Corps today and I love the work that you're doing. Take care. Appreciate it. All right. These two veterans are Oscar Mike. Thank you for listening to Veteran on the Move, your Pathfinder to freedom. If you like the show, leave us a review on iTunes. Reviews are always greatly appreciated. So until next time, this veteran is Oscar Mike.
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"In her inspiring journey, Patty Katter, a passionate advocate for freedom and military families, delved into advocacy after her husband's service -related injury. From advocating for wounded warriors and veterans to bridging the gap between the military and broader communities, Patty's commitment to service and love for freedom shines through. As an author, journalist, and host of the renowned podcast, Wake Up with Patty Katter, she strives to foster understanding, connection, and open -mindedness, all while cherishing the values of freedom and independence. Her remarkable story is up next on Veteran on the Move. Welcome to Veteran on the Move. If you're a veteran in transition, an entrepreneur wannabe, or someone still stuck in that J -O -B trying to escape, this podcast is dedicated to your success. And now, your host, Joe Crane. Service isn't just what Navy Federal Credit Union does, it's who they are. That's why Navy Federal created tools to help you earn and save more. Find out more at navyfederal .org. All right, we're talking with Patty Katter today, mill spouse, a wounded warrior advocate, and host of the Wake Up with Patty Katter podcast. Patty, always great to have a fellow podcaster on the show. Take us back, tell us a little bit about your background, where you're coming from. Hey Joe, thank you so much for having me. So originally, I was born in Flint, Michigan. A lot of people know about Flint because of their water crisis they had years ago. But rest assured, I didn't grow up in Flint. I was from a little town in mid -Michigan, and I met my husband, Ken, when he was just getting out of the Marine Corps. He was kind of, it was kind of fun because he was this muscular Marine, you know, and he ended up going to be a police officer. And we ended up getting married and having kids and had a beautiful home on 30 acres. And then 9 -11 happened, and he had the calling to go back into the military again. It was his choice. I definitely wanted to support him in any way possible because we had the type of relationship where we were very supportive of each other's dreams and aspirations. So sold we our home, and my husband joined the Army. I know some listeners might think, why did you go from the Marines to the Army? And for transparency's sake, his age. He was older than most people who would be going into the Army. He had, you know, been a police officer for about a decade after his service in the Marine Corps. And so he ended up joining the Army because he could go active duty and he wanted to go active versus reserves. So he went in fully aware that he would more than likely be deployed to combat. We already had two of our nephews who were in the Army and deployed to Iraq at that point. And so we knew it was definitely on the table. I felt like his training was good. He would be fine over there. We just kind of, you know, whoever is listening, if you're not a God believer, that's fine. Call it divine intervention, whatnot. We believed that God would protect him in one way or another or whatever would happen would be in God's control, not ours. So long story short, we were living on Fort Bragg after we sold our home. And we lived there for about a year and he decided to, we actually together, decided to buy a home off of Fort Bragg. Shortly after his call was to Iraq. So I guess it was about a year. There was a tiny part when he first joined that he was in Hurricane Katrina cleanup. I think he was gone maybe a month or so. I can't quite remember that honestly. So I'll pause here to see if you have any questions. Cause I know that was just a lot to digest. Yeah, no questions. Although, I did want to say there's a lot of Marines that go into the Army and Air Force and other services the second time around. Especially the Army and Air Force, cause they're a lot bigger. There's just more opportunity there. Especially if you like done your main stint as a young active duty Marine, you start running, depending on what your MOS is, it's a very up or out organization. And that's really common. There's a lot of people that were in services other and the other services love hiring them, love getting them on board too. You don't have to go back to boot camp or basic training. And usually they bring that Marine Corps attitude with them, which the other services most of the time love. So it's pretty common story. I know a bunch of Marines that went to other services afterwards. So he's probably in good company. Yeah, definitely. And he was definitely a good asset to the 82nd Recon. So he had all that training and he was pretty high speed and I didn't even understand how high speed he was until probably the last few years, because he never bragged about it. He still never brags about it. Recon, they run a tight ship and the Army was a little bit different of a transition, honestly, for him versus being in the Marines, it was really structured. And the Army, it was pretty structured, but not quite as regimented, I think, as the Marines. And that's just me interpreting. And so if you Army guys out there are upset about that, sorry. And of course, what a transition for you also, because you met him, first time you met him, he was on his way out of the Marine Corps. So you never really experienced being in the Marine Corps with him. And then now you're both are several years older. You're not some young 18, 19 year old new spouse going into the service with her husband. So what was that like for you, your transition into the Army? Yeah, for me, at first it was an adventure. I was excited about the move. I've always been one who enjoyed adventure and I was pretty independent anyways, in my thinking and in my career that I had, and I had done some journalism since I was in 10th grade. So I had my own things going on. And then having kids, I kept busy. So it wasn't a huge adjustment at the beginning, especially for him being a police officer. There were a lot of times that he would work third shift, he would come home in the mornings and then go to court during the day. So he was already sort of gone a lot. So when the training was going on in the Army, that part was not a big deal to me. Hurricane Katrina, that was just different, I guess, because it wasn't like he was out on a hunting trip, you know, it was like he was gone a little bit longer. And then gearing up towards Iraq, I really didn't think a lot into it either. Because honestly, I didn't watch the news a lot. I was busy with my kids. When we moved to Rayford, North Carolina, outside of Fort Bragg, my parents actually had bought a house there and we ended up living right next door to my parents. So I was busy with them and the kids would be back and forth with them. So that part was good and easy. Awesome. Yeah, the deployment was weird because I'll never forget the day he was supposed to deploy. First of all, you know, the hurry up and wait thing, that's a real thing. So we're waiting hours and we're thinking, you know, he's going to be taking off soon. What year was this? Do you remember? That was in 2006. So that's a good question. Yeah, August 2006. Okay. Things were fairly well oiled at that point, you know, like the cycles and everything like back in 03 and then going into 04, we were turning things on, turning things off I've heard so many horror stories about units were supposed to be leaving and then weeks later, they were still there, still waiting to leave, you know, and then eventually they left. Yeah. And, um, yeah, honestly, I kind of thought that was going to happen with him because the first night they were like, Oh, sorry, just joking. No. Um, so he ended up deploying the next day. So he was able to come home that first night and then it was the next day he left. So my dad took him. Um, it was easier for him to take my husband, I think to war because, you know, it was a little bit stressful that morning. I remember it was a little tense at home. The kids, um, were small. So at that point there was a six year old, a nine year old and a 12, nine and a 12 year old. Yeah. So six, nine and 12, um, the 12 year old, she understood it. The nine year old understood it, but not as clearly as the 12 year old. And then the six year old, she did not understand it really. And they were all really close with Ken. Um, he was always really great with the kids. Um, very, very active participant in their lives. And so it was difficult on them. Um, the first, the, when he actually really left that, that first day, one of the neighborhood kids down the road said, Oh man, your dad's going to war. He's going to die cause soldiers get killed in war. It never crossed my kid's mind until that very first day of a 15 month deployment. So that was, that was a tough one for the kids.
Game of Crimes
A highlight from 116: Part 1: Eric McBride and the December 2015 San Bernardino Terrorist Attack
"Ola, ola, ola, amigos, amigos, players, playerettes, dudettes, everybody in between, welcome back. This is the follow -on episode to last week with Rick Prado on the 22nd anniversary of 9 -11. We had a theme going here, we wanted to follow through on this next theme, and we'll tell you about that here in just a second, but first of all, welcome. As always, I'm here. I'm Morgan. I'm here literally with my partner in crime, and we're going to do what we did last time. I know some of you guys like small town police water, but we just couldn't bring ourselves to do that when we're talking about something as serious as when we talked about 9 -11. And then this month we're talking with Eric McBride. He retired as the chief of police in San Bernardino City. If you guys remember, Alex Collins we had on was a deputy with San Bernardino County. His partner was killed, Jamie McBride. He was wounded by a piece of shit. We don't even want to mention his name. But we're getting into now the December 2015 terrorist attack at the city of San Bernardino. Fourteen people killed, I think twenty -seven wounded, and it just didn't seem right to follow on. You know, we wanted to have a couple serious discussions, so that's kind of what it was. So before we get started though, just a couple quick things. Head on over to Apple, Spotify, hit those five stars. Let us know what you thought of last week's episode. Let us know what you think of this week's episode. And don't worry folks, next week we'll get back into small town police water. Also head on over to our website, gameofcrimespodcast .com, our book from our prior guest, Rick Prado. You'll see that up there, Black Ops, The Life of a CIA Shadow Warrior. Great reading. You just got to get it. We've got everything you need there. Follow us on social media at Game of Crimes on Twitter, at Game of Crimes podcast on Facebook and the Instagram. But follow us on Patreon too, patreon .com slash gameofcrimes. We just recorded some great episodes. You can't make this shit up. We've got 9 -1 -1, Case of the Month. One rule we made is Murph never gets to pick a movie again. He has to submit it for review before we review it. I promise to do better in the future. Well, because you're on the hook for next month. All right. But guys, we have a lot of good stuff over there. Everything about, you know, we get into funny stuff, we get into serious stuff. Our Case of the Month has been recommended by you, the listeners out there. So head on over there, patreon .com slash gameofcrimes. Now this is a show about crime. We normally are fun and jovial because this is a show about crime. We talk about bad people doing bad things and bad people doing bad things to good people. We take the story seriously and that's how we're going to do it. This is not about us having fun and joking at the expense of a serious incident like this. So our next guest, Aaron McBride, like we said, retired as the chief of police, worked his way up from patrol officer, but started off as a Marine, formerly on active duty. He's got some good stories there, but he comes to us through another long list of people, a family of service, the McBrides out in California. He does. You know, our good buddy out in San Diego, Mel Sosa, made an introduction for us, got us to Eric. But the McBride family is well known in the law enforcement circles out there as brother Jamie, his niece Tony, and then Jamie's other daughter are all police officers out there that have experienced violence that, you know what, most cops in the United States don't have to experience. I'm not sure what's going on with the McBride family here, but you know what, they don't shy away from it and they don't run away. They address the issues as they come to them, and they're protecting their communities. Eric here was just the fact that, I mean, he's a trendsetter. You're going to hear him talk about his high school career, getting out of high school early so he could join the Marine Corps early. And his whole life is service to his community and his fellow man. And you know, in my book, there's no greater calling that you're willing to dedicate your life to work for the public. A public servant, I think, is a term of a hero. And that's certainly who we have on here today. And I'll tell you, again, we've got to thank our buddies out there, Southern California Gang Conference, Mel Sosa, all of those people. They're brothers to us. They get us great gifts, great gifts, great guests, which are gifts for things like this. And I'll tell you, you've really got to sit down and listen to this because one of the things that's going to come out of this is stuff that has not really been talked about in the media before, and you'll hear him talk about a call that was received. He's been briefing this to law enforcement. On the day of, he was the, quote, deputy incident commander, but he was the incident commander for all intents and purposes. And so he's not the one at the tip of the spear out there, but this guy has the overview of everything going on. You're going to hear things that went well. You're going to hear about things that didn't go so well. But we will never get to hearing any of this, Murph, unless I ask you, are you ready to play the biggest, baddest? And as we see in this episode, too, the most dangerous game of all, the game of crime. Absolutely. So everybody get in, sit down, shut up, hold on. You're getting ready to hear a story about an incident that I wasn't even aware of, a terrorist attack in San Bernardino, California. So Eric, tell us what's going on, brother.
The Financial Guys
A highlight from BONUS episode From Marine to Entrepreneur: Overcoming Challenges and Thriving
"Since September 11th, 2011, there's been 31 ,000 suicides, veteran suicides. So 7 ,100 of us have perished in combat. 31 ,000 have taken their lives, and part of that, I'm not an expert, I'm not a psychologist, this is just my personal feeling, part of that is lack of purpose. They've transitioned out, this 20 -year war that never ended that really didn't mean anything to anybody now, and they've lost purpose. Welcome, everybody, for our special release podcast. I'm Glenn Wilko here with Mike Lomas. We have a special guest in studio, and this is gonna kinda be a tease. This podcast, we're gonna be releasing now, but we're also gonna release this podcast again in the future as part of a series that we're gonna launch. And this is gonna be like a podcast miniseries, so it's not gonna be a forever podcast. We've got enough of those going already, right? This new series is gonna be a series will be just a probably 10 or 12 -episode series where we're interviewing different business owners, and we're gonna call it something along the lines of you built this. That's still in the works, so by the time this is the actual series release, it might be different. But back in 08, 09, one of the things I found extraordinarily offensive was when the Democrat Party, which really started with Elizabeth Warren, by the way, Obama actually ripped it off. He's not even, he even plagiarized that, the guy. But Obama was the one with the power to really resonate it. Move this thing, yep. And he came out, and he's, you know, everyone remembers famously saying in his speech, he said, well, you didn't build that. You got a factory. Somebody else made that happen, you know? And the whole idea was, and the whole concept, and their little tiny brains, was that somebody else built the road to that factory for you to be able to move their goods. That's right. What these folks didn't realize was that back in the days when some of these factories were built, there was no federal government interstate road system. It was oftentimes the business owner themselves that were indeed building the factory and the road to get things to the market. And they're still doing that because the revenue from that factory is what actually affords the road. Not some liberal in their mom and dad's basement that is on TikTok for the day. Right, but nevertheless, as business owners ourselves, and Mike and I have owned 12 businesses over the years. I think we currently own nine and have sold three. But we've also been extraordinarily fortunate to work with a lot of business owners that have sold businesses, are running businesses, and as I was telling our guests, who I'm gonna introduce in a second, before, I don't wanna tease it here, I'm gonna keep the suspense, before we started the podcast, it's amazing to hear the different stories and be fortunate of the people that have started their business, and how they built it, how they started it, what they had to go through, some of the sacrifices they made, some of the difficulties. I think a lot of people that have never owned a business have no idea what it means. And so this was, this I had an opportunity to bring you in, and I wanted to start with you, Robbie. So Robbie DeNiro is our very first guest here, and we're happy to have you in. Robbie, you obviously have been in the news a lot. You're famous in Western New York, of course, for standing up to the face masks and the garbage when you owned the gym. And I know we're gonna talk about the new business, which I'm excited to hear about, but just start me from the get -go of that business, how hard was it, some of the regulatory stuff. Remember, you started a gym, it's hard enough to start a gym, and then you had to go through COVID when they were trying to shut things down. How hard as a business owner is it to pay bills when you have no income and no revenue? I mean, it's crazy. They were so worried about people's health that they shut the gyms down to help their health. So Robbie, you built it, and I wanna hear how you did it. Well, I appreciate that. Thanks for having me come on. So I had just got done with about 14 years in the Marine Corps. I transitioned out. God bless you, by the way. Thank you. You got it. Greatest 14 years of my life. It's an amazing experience to serve the country, especially as a Marine.
Veteran on the Move
A highlight from The CoverBag with Murp McCarthy
"Marine veteran Murph McCarthy is the creator of the cover bag the best protection for your dress hat or dress uniform cover Coming up next on veteran on the move Welcome to veteran on the move if you're a veteran in transition an entrepreneur wannabe or someone still stuck in that J -o -b trying to escape this podcast is dedicated to your success And now your host Joe Crain As a member owned not -for -profit Navy Federal puts members at the heart of every single thing they do Find out more at Navy federal org All right today we're talking with Marine Corps veteran Murph McCarthy owner of the cover bag calm and The women's rugby coach at the Naval Academy, that's pretty cool So Murph welcome to the show before we get to talking about business and entrepreneurship As a marine fellow aviator having had one of those on this show for a long time. Tell us what you did in the Marine Corps yes, so I Actually, I enlisted right out of high school and things went really well I was a tower air traffic controller and I ended up at the prep school for the Naval Academy and then graduated from the Naval Academy in 2000 then TBS and then went to down to Pensacola and When so helos went out to the FRS out there in Camp Pendleton quickly fell in love with it learned how to fly frogs Then I went to East Coast and I did two deployments on the East Coast And when I came back from that second one, there was a bunch of ospreys on the tarmac you know, I wasn't sure I wanted to get into that so I solicited my services back out to Camp Pendleton and then I ended up with the Purple Did foxes a couple deployments with them and then along the road. I got I got the the drone stink on me Stick with VMU doing drones and when it came time for me to get out of the cockpit I actually my services were sought by people other than myself To go do that again. So I went To VMU three and did a couple deployments With those guys then I came back to the Naval Academy where I was working in the Stockdale Center for ethical leadership and I was teaching leadership and that's when I started coaching rugby at the Academy in 2011 and then I had one last gig down at DITRA defense threat reduction agency where I was doing I was working on the open skies treaty which is a fascinating gig if you can get it, and I don't think you can get it anymore, but and then I retired in 2017 and You know, that was my Marine Corps story from the end of high school 92 to 2017 interesting so You know, sometimes transition is different. You're retiring because at least you got that paycheck of the month club membership, but Sometimes retirement isn't any easier than you know being in being in the military for four years and then getting out also So what was your transition like? Well, I wasn't sure what I wanted to do when I grew up You know, I was still like volunteering coaching rugby and that I Didn't see myself ever getting out of that because that was just a really fun thing for me to do It filled a lot of the you know, what you miss about the Marine Corps stuff for me But I started looking into a couple different business opportunities. I Started a business before I retired probably almost ten years before I retired and that was the cover bag and what ended up being the cover bag calm and that just grew and grew and grew to where You know, I could definitely take up a lot of time just working that when I retired But I'm I knew that was I wanted one more thing at least And that's when I started looking into other business opportunities and I got into fitness I a started franchise in Annapolis and did that I looked at a Number of other franchise opportunities, but I knew fitness was probably going to be what I wanted to do, right? So Was there an entrepreneurial bug inside of you the whole time? You're in the Marine Corps to just come about at a later time Totally. Yeah, like I've been into that kind of thing when I was since I was a kid So I remember getting in trouble for selling fireworks in the bathroom at my junior high school You know, I came up with ideas for stuff to put on ball caps Slinging t -shirts like that was always a thing but the cover bag was an idea I had when I went to the Naval Academy and You know, you're always wearing that combination cover like in the Marine Corps You're lucky especially if you're in aviation like you already ever even see that thing Yeah, buddy with the chicken you're trucking that thing all around all the time and it's white And you know, all you got to do is sit on it once or you know Be holding an ink pen that you probably should have retired a week before next to it And you gotta take the whole thing apart or buy new parts or buy a new one And I'm like man if I just had a bag for this thing, so it was like a couple years of me sketching out what it probably should look like and then designing it and then You know once you make the first couple and then you kind of go from there, but no I've always had that Hey, wouldn't this be a good idea Like I probably I probably do that like three times a week. Yeah, I've always been the same way but I think like especially when I was when you're a kid or when you're really young you have no idea how to Capitalize on your idea like yeah idea how to implement it or execute. I mean, you just don't have those capabilities and then especially nowadays with the internet and all the technology and everything and in Alibaba and China and all these resources that are available You can you could come up with a harebrained idea in just a few months be taking it to market Whereas like 20 30 years ago. It was like almost impossible to do to do. Yeah. No, and that's something you People should keep in mind. Like if you've got what you think is a crazy idea Just keep kind of fleshing it out and then you know for me it was a buddy of mine He's like, hey, I got a buddy who's got a hat and bag factory in Newark, New Jersey And why don't you send me that sketch you talked about? 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So When I saw your interview come through Murph I gotta admit I'm like the cover bag and I went to your website and I saw it and I'm like ding I get it instant instant like yep thumbs up and Cuz my wife and I were Amazon sellers for many years. We're totally out of the business now. Amazon just got to be Amazon was like walking through a minefield you like you thinking you're fine all sudden kaboom your right leg's missing You're like what the fuck? anyways So we're out of Amazon now, but I loved Amazon cuz like we talked about earlier when you're when you're young You come all these hair brained ideas. That's a great idea for product That's a great idea and I could I could run them to ground and be and be putting it on Amma be putting a great product on Amazon, you know within a few months sometimes Sometimes that's not a good thing because if it turned out not to be a good idea you lose a lot of money At least I could exercise these ideas for the first time in my life. And so I have a true appreciation for a great product and I Remember, you know getting my uniforms at the Marine Corps shop or the marine the marine shop in there in Quantico And I think I still have that white shredded cardboard box with my white cover in it somewhere back in storage and and I The whole time I'm like, how am I supposed to carry this thing around? I mean for 20 plus years in the Marine Corps I carded that thing around in a cardboard box and somehow it managed to work out for him when I saw the cover bag I'm like, oh, yeah, like I get it that that's it. Like like how did how'd you just come up with that idea? It was just I mean I get it It's like it's like a problem every one of us dealt with but nobody ever thought of the idea or at least executed on the idea Yeah, well, I always thought we you know, they're expensive So all you gotta do is have to replace one and you're like man, how do I not do that again? Yeah, and that's where it started but when I had You know that run -in with my buddy's friend who said he could make me a demo I was like a demo sounds like it sounds like I'm in it But he he produced, you know The first cover bag from my sketch and I and all I had was like a little couple tweaks And he sent I ordered about 15 of them and I opened up the box of these 15 cover bags And I handed him out to the guys that were doing the color guard For the ball when we had the ball the next night and when the Marines were like, holy shit, sir This is awesome. Where'd you get these? I was like funny story like I invented that and they're like what and then I knew that I had something and that's Really? Yeah pulling my money together and like spending quality time thinking about how I was gonna do it Wow Yeah, I got like a thousand questions cuz and like I said, I'm a product guy Like I love cool products and the idea behind it. So interviewing somebody that created a product it became successful Because it was just the right idea and Let me tell you man. I don't know if you realize this bit. It is hard to find to Manufacture something in the US and it's great that this is a military product Which by the way, I want to point out like I know in the Navy Marine Corps. We call it a cover your uniform hat The other services. I'm sure the Air Force didn't call it a cover. They probably caught a hat I'm not I'm not sure about the army But you know, I want to point out a cut the cover is your official military head piece or your you know It's your military hat but in the Marine Corps Navy, we call it the cover So your product is called the cover bag But I suppose you you wouldn't have wanted to call it the hat bag because then it would have just been like anything No, and I you know how you always wondered like you watch a commercial Or hear like a radio ad you're like I'm confused but like three minutes later you're still talking about it I think some of that. Yes, I think some of that has happened with calling it the cover back You know because I thought that I was gonna be selling to guys like you and me Like I thought this was gonna be you know by the troops for the troops type thing Yeah, but I have a ton of customers that are moms and Grandmas wives like they don't know what a cover is So they're like I pick up the phone and somebody says cat bag 95 % of the time really and I just I just kind of roll with it because it's one of those You got all these old ladies buying it to you're talking about it. So let's keep that up It's like the the the Red Hat Ladies Club is buying your bag for their hats and stuff or fancy hat No, they're buying it for their husband's boyfriend's grandchildren The cover bag is a huge gift idea like I'll send I'll sell like six figures worth of these things through the Marine Corps exchanges in a year I sell a lot more than that to friends and families of people graduating Parris Island and MCRD San Diego. It's it's absolutely fascinating and Much in the same way as cover bags hat bags hat covers all that stuff My favorite is that you know, I don't pay anything for advertising like I tried it a couple times It was to me It was like wasting money because I couldn't figure out if it was doing anything at all But people will get on Facebook and argue about what should be Embroidered on the cover bag. No, it should be last name first name. No, it should just be the initials No It should be first name and then the middle name and then the last name and I'm like this is amazing because it'll go on And then the website goes ding ding ding Yeah, well I suppose you know first initial middle initial last name, you know, maybe rank before that might you know if you're selling them to all the eighth and I Marines if it becomes that if he becomes a Regular issue piece of gear. Well, then you gotta you gotta do by right? I think that's probably eventually gonna happen. Yeah Yeah, the Marines like solve a lot of your problems. They just make you do stuff The Marine Corps ever figures out. Hey, we don't want anybody walking around with a bad -looking cover again We're gonna put one of them cover bags in their c -bag issue. Yeah, that's it. That'll solve that. Yeah Yeah, well then they won't have to walk around with it in you in there with their bent arm and hand, you know So So what are some of your numbers that you can share with us or just to give us a perspective on? How successful the cover bags? Well, to be honest The company's not openly for sale, so I'm not really in tune exactly with the numbers But I've been trying to get in with the Navy exchange So the last gentleman that worked there He didn't really understand and like how the cover bag was an amazing piece of gear But they're starting to get the memo now and the main number I've been talking with them is like hey Do you know I I do over six figures worth of business with the MCX at the Navy exchanges of which there is many Many more. Can you imagine how good this would do if it was available? Yeah to the Navy first hand and then retail, you know I do I do a lot more business retail than I do goals for sale. So well, dude, that's awesome. This is good you're always gonna need to protect that cover and like I said the the parents and Girlfriends wives and grandparents are on Facebook talking about what needs to be on a cover bag and they're like, what's a cover bag? Cover and then there I am my website just gets the pinks. Yeah You know, it's like that the old the old Henry Ford story where he says Well, if I had asked the customer what they wanted, they would have said a faster horse, you know, or right There's a quote similar from Steve Jobs Like sometimes the customer doesn't really know what they're looking forward what they need until they see it You can have any color car you want as long as it's black the other Henry Ford one yeah, and The cover bags kind of like that because if you said what's one of the biggest, you know You know pain in the ass things you do you deal with with your uniform? Nobody would have said I wish I had something to carry my cover in but I mean hardly anybody would have said that but When they see when they see the cover bag, they're like, oh, yeah I want one of them because I that is a pain point for me I just never realized that there would be as ever solution for it yeah, no, it's it's a no -brainer and eat and like People that aren't, you know actively using the cover like the parents can figure out that a cover bags a great idea And the other thing is, you know, mom's don't want to be buying their kids, you know, whiskey flasks and knives Something Practical they're not gonna put alcohol in or possibly shank somebody with It works out pretty good to get him a cover back and embroidery everybody loves embroidery that Yeah Now it's got your name on it, oh, yeah The embroidery thing for the cover bag is when it really exploded Yeah, and there's a nice big surface area on the thing for plenty of embroidery you can Yeah It takes a while if you come up with a design and you want me to put it on there that takes a little more time a little more involved, but I got plenty of patch choices and You can put whatever name you want on there nicknames Like if people get too wrapped up in what name they want in there or what order I'll be like Does your does your son have a pretty cool nickname? They're like, oh, yeah, we call him Sparky.
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Monitor Show 23:00 09-08-2023 23:00
"Interactive Brokers charges USD margin loan rates from 5 .83 % to 6 .83%. Rated the lowest margin fees by stockbrokers .com. Rates subject to change. Learn more at ibkr .com slash compare. It just becomes unwieldy and unmanageable to have them tried in a single criminal trial. Thanks so much Jimmy. That's Professor Jimmy Garule of Notre Dame Law School. I'm June Grosso and this is Bloomberg. A new poll shows most voters believe President Biden was involved in his son's business dealings while serving as vice president. The CNN poll found 61 % of voters say the president had some involvement in Hunter Biden's business in Ukraine and China. Among that group, 42 % said he acted illegally. The Defense Department is calling on Alabama Senator Tommy Tuberville to stop blocking military confirmations in the Senate. Pentagon spokesperson Sabrina Singh says more than 300 confirmations have been delayed so far. For the first time in history, three of our military branches, the Army, the Navy and the Marine Corps, have no Senate confirmed service chief. Officials said the hold is impacting military readiness and national security. Tuberville is blocking the confirmations in protest of the Pentagon's policy to reimburse service members who travel out of state for abortions. Suspected Chinese operatives are using AI -generated images to pose as American voters online and spread disinformation. More from Lisa Taylor. That's according to Microsoft analysts. The company says it's an attempt to bring up discussion on controversial political issues ahead of the 2024 U .S. election. Microsoft says operatives posted images using AI -generated images.
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Monitor Show 14:00 09-07-2023 14:00
"My sense is yes, and something else I see is that I know a lot of people in Gen Z who, if they were asked in a public opinion poll, do you think you approve the job Joe Biden is doing? They would say no from a left perspective, but when it comes to election day, they will go in and they will vote the Democratic Party from top to bottom. All right. Lincoln, great to have you. Don't be a stranger. Lincoln Mitchell, and of course, Bloomberg Politics contributor Rick Davis. And some big thoughts this hour. We've got a long way to go. So hour two of Sound On starts right now. Broadcasting 24 hours a day at Bloomberg .com and the Bloomberg Business Act. This is Bloomberg Radio. Now from our nation's capital, this is Bloomberg Sound On. We're talking about red and blue division within states. How busy is Donald Trump's legal team going to be? Is the economy stupid? Is that actually what will decide this race? Bloomberg Sound On. Politics, policy, and perspective from D .C.'s top names. Federal spending combined with too -lax monetary policy has produced this 40 -year high on inflation. China policy is driven basically by domestic politics. American families are finding themselves further behind the eight ball. To get anything done in this Congress, it's going to have to be done in a bipartisan way. Bloomberg Sound On with Joe Matthew and Kaylee Lines on Bloomberg Radio. Coach Tommy Tuberville digs in. Welcome to hour two of Sound On as the senator from Alabama rejects calls to drop his block on Pentagon promotions in protest of the military's abortion policy. We're going to be joined in just a moment by retired Marine Corps General Arnold Pinero who has very strong feelings about this as we bring Kaylee Lines back into the conversation for the first time in a couple of weeks here on the radio and on YouTube. Later on this hour, Mike Doerning, Bloomberg News deputy congressional editor, shut down politics and the future for...
The Podcast On Podcasting
A highlight from Ep365: 4 Things To Help You Improve As A Podcaster - Richard Walsh
"What you want to do from the business podcast standpoint, it builds authority. When you do a quality podcast, again, you're bringing on the right guests. Oh, you're presenting the proper contact. Builds a lot of authority, gives people an easy access. It's free. They can listen. You can build that know, like, and trust factor and really get that authority stand in front of them. Most hosts never achieved the results they hoped for. They're falling short on listenership and monetization, meaning their message isn't being heard and their show ends up costing them money. This podcast was created to help you grow your listenership and make money while you're at it. Get ready to take notes. Here's your host, Adam Adams. What's up, podcaster. It's Adam A. Adams, and I've got a returning guest today. His name's Richard Walsh. We will connect you with the previous episode he was on more than two years ago, which was episode number 45 in the 350 or 360 or three 70 range. But back over 300 episodes ago, he was on the podcast about two years ago. What that means that I'm averaging three a week. I think that's what it means. Three episodes a week, Richard Walsh. His bio is in the show notes. You can check out the other link when he was on his company link is in the show notes and also his podcast itself. So that way you can follow him, check him out, get to know him, hire him. He's a business coach. And the podcast name is E .T .O .P. What does E .T .O .P. stand for again? So that's E .T .O .P. Escape the owner prison escape. That's the title of my best. That's right. I remember my best selling book and I modeled that up. Hey, you know what, Richard? When I was looking at your Facebook, we're connected on Facebook. I thought it was interesting. The regiment for your son. Can we talk a little bit about that? Yes, I love to talk about that. OK, all right. So right now he's doing three workouts every single day. What is this like? So he's going in the Navy, OK, which we wouldn't be doing three workouts a day if he was just going to the Navy. I'm a Marine. OK, he's not going to be a Marine because they don't need to. And we'll leave it at that. OK, no offense. The Navy guys out there, they say the Marine Corps is a department of the Navy, but it's the men's department. OK, so I've never heard. I like it. I love being, you know, I'm not original. So he was going, what's called the buzz program. So that's basic underwater demolition seals training. So he wants to be a Navy seal like it's and everybody does. And they'll go in there and there's a 90 percent fill rate. OK, and most of that's even in the first couple of days. OK, well, he's not going to be that. OK, he's going to make it. He's under no delusions of what it is, knows exactly what he's up for. So we embarked on about two and a half months ago. We did about a five month program to get him ready. So my whole goal is to increase the probability for success. OK, so obviously it's a huge physical demand, but really the real demand is mental. OK, they break you, you break. And it's not as long as you don't quit. You'll pretty much make it if you got the head for it. OK, so but physically, again, the increased probability of success. We need to train properly. OK, so I'll give you a real quick what he does. So in the morning, we do a 45 minute conditioning workout. So that's a lot of body weight and includes pull ups, pull ups, push ups, squats, lunges, burpees, you name it. Like we do a ton of stuff, you know, probably body weight or maybe add weight and stuff like that very hard, do 10 sets of that. So we'll do 100 of everything. You'll do 500 reps of stuff in the morning from there would go directly about less than 30 minutes from there. He'll do a six to 10 mile run, which is hills. We're in a very hilly country out here to do a six to 10 mile road run that in the afternoon we go back for pool and he'll do one to two miles of combat side stroke freestyle to work on training water, of course, underwater on your breath. So he actually trains on that as well. It was a boxer as well. We're doing last two years, so we will occasionally do bag workouts or as he did last night, went and sparred eight rounds with four different guys. So we do this five to six days a week, depending on the six, they will vary. And we also have what you saw today at our house in the yard. It created kind of a little outdoor training. So we'll do like an 80 pound log carry for 60 yards. He'll do 10 burpees. He'll do 60 yard bear crawl. He'll do an 80 pound log carry for 60 yards. He'll run with the 35 pound med ball extended above his head to simulate the boats they run with for 60 yards. Then he'll do a 20, a 20 foot rope climb, and they'll come down and take a 50 pound dumbbell and do a single arm farmer's carry, which is just carried at his side, he'll go 35 yards out, switch hands, do 35 yards back. And we'll do that five times. And normally do that right after his six mile run. And we'll do them. So that's three different workouts and it sounds crazy. And it's cause he wants to be in the men's department. Well, he says, yeah, well, yeah, he does, but you'll see it. I train with seals and everything else too. So they are the elite warriors of the world and he wants to be an elite warrior. Okay. That's what he really wants the skills and stuff like that. So, um, and he has a no quit mindset and that's why. Speaking of no quit mindset, I quoted you and I loved it. I loved the quote says, as long as you don't quit, you'll make it. And I was in junior high, middle school. And, and my band director made us memorize quotes. And one of the quotes I could actually a few of the quotes were about persistence and determination. Not quitting, not giving up one being from Calvin Coolidge. And he basically said like, it's not how smart you are. It's not how intelligent you are, even how educated you are or how cool you are, how funny you are, how good looking you are a lot of those things don't really make somebody successful, but what makes somebody successful is never quitting, never giving up. And so like when we're starting a podcast, it's hard, it's brutal. And he's about to go to, I guess it's probably called hell week or something. Is that what it's called? Yeah. In the program buds itself is like 35 weeks long and that's in like week five. Hell week is week five. Okay. Okay. So yeah, it's a lot more than people. Yeah. 35 weeks, nine months or something with basic and airborne school. It's almost a year to get the whole thing done. Okay. And well, so first and foremost, I want to take something that you mentioned that I think you've taken with you to your business also to your business clients that you mentor, you coach them also to your son, the mindset that you've had to be successful, the mindset that he's having to be successful. And I'm extracting this as long as you don't quit, he'll make it. As long as you just keep getting back up when you get knocked down, you'll make it. And I am curious how this can tie into you and your journey. I know you have episode 45, 45. You were on for episode 45, and I'm sure you've gotten knocked down in the last two years. It's been over two years since you've been on. I'm sure you got knocked down as you were starting your business or you started your podcast. How would you feel just to share some of the trials and how you got through them? Just a few ideas, two or three trials that you've gotten through to get to where you are right now. Absolutely. I'll give you a quick quote too, about losing and quitting.
The Hugh Hewitt Show: Highly Concentrated
A highlight from Chairman Gallagher on What Bret Baier and Martha MacCallum Should Ask the GOP Candidates About Xi and CCP
"We're proud to announce our brand new ACLJ Life and Liberty Drive. Our legal teams will be focusing on the issues that you, our ACLJ members, have told us matter the most to you, life and religious liberty. Join the ACLJ in the fight to keep America free. Welcome to today's podcast, sponsored by Hillsdale College, all things Hillsdale, Hillsdale dot edu. I encourage you to take advantage of the many free online courses there. And of course, a listen to the Hillsdale dialogues, all of them at Q for Hillsdale dot com or just Google Apple, iTunes and Hillsdale. Morning Glory America Bonjour. Hi, Canada. I'm Hugh Hewitt. Tomorrow night, eight Republicans will meet on the stage in Milwaukee for a debate. I am certain that China will come up the Chinese Communist Party, but I'm not sure how. Brett Baer, of course, coming up later in the program. Martha McCollum, two superb professionals, the equal of anyone else in our business, will be asking the question. But I thought I would talk it through with the chairman of the House Select Committee on Engagement with the Chinese Communist Party. Mike Gallagher, congressman. Good morning. Great to have you. Thank you for joining me. It is great to be with you, Hugh. We're going to come back around to this kind of war, which I finished last night on the recommendation of you. It is a remarkable book. And I had no idea how awful the chai comms were to our American prisoners. I just I didn't know. Did you know that before? Did the Marines teach you that when you were in the Marines? No, there's there's two things that I think, well, a lot of actually our modern thinking about how to prepare people for when they get captured. Think survival of Asian resistance and escape school, which I attended when I was in the Marine Corps actually comes out of the experience of the Korean War, particularly some politically sensitive moments when a few American captives refused actually to go home. There was, of course, this controversy during that time period post Korean War in the 50s about this idea of brainwashing. This is prominently expressed in the fictional book The Manchurian Candidate, which became a major American movie. But a lot of our thinking about how to better prepare pilots in particular because they get shot down for resisting in captivity actually comes out of that period. Well, a couple of takeaways I'll never forget. There are no Turks died in the camps. The Turks are the toughest people in the world, and none of them died in the Chinese Communist Party camps. And the Americans didn't eat everything they could eat because they didn't like it and they died of starvation. But the fact that the Chinese communists treated our men that way is a tell because they've reverted to this mode. They were the hardcore Maoist, Leninist mode in 1950 through 1953, and they've reverted. And that's what I want to talk to you about. I want to ask you at length. We got a lot of time this morning and thank you for the time. If you were advising Brett and Martha based upon your six months, what would you tell them are the major takeaways that you've learned as the chairman of the Select Committee? And how would you suggest they be turned into a question? Take your time, because that's a big that's a big question. What have you learned thus far in six months? And how would you convert that into questions for our candidates? Well, I think the overall thing to realize for these candidates and this advice is worth what they're paying me for it is that there is, in my opinion, something called the commander in chief test. It's not you know, you're not graded A through F. I think it's a pass fail endeavor, but it is absolutely critical. Put differently, I'm not myopic enough to believe that foreign policy or a particular issue of foreign policy is going to win the candidate candidate the election, but it could very well lose them the election. The final thing to say about the assumptions going into this when it comes to foreign policy is that the conventional wisdom is that it doesn't really matter from a political electoral perspective. And there's a lot of social science to support that. I just would say it doesn't matter until it does. It doesn't matter until things go haywire on the world stage and suddenly voters are looking to a prospective commander in chief to communicate, if nothing else, a sense of safety that I have the temperament and the plan to keep America safe in a very dangerous world, which leads, I think, to the answer your question more than anything else. I think these candidates need to communicate that they have a clear understanding of the threat we face in the Chinese Communist Party, the scale and scope of this threat. Why this isn't just a matter of some obscure territorial disputes in the South China Sea. This is indeed a global competition. The CCP has global ambitions. What happens in Xinjiang, what happens in Beijing is not going to stay there. They are intent on exporting their model of total techno totalitarian control, which leads to the second point that you need to find a way to contrast that threat to enduring the and inherently superior American values. And I do believe that this is a contest between two fundamentally incompatible systems of government. And it's unlike anything we've seen since, of course, the old Cold War. So communicating the stakes, communicating who we're dealing with in the nature of a Marxist Leninist regime that will stop at nothing to ensure that they survive at the expense of their own people. And that is the enemy of freedom around the world is the most important thing. In fact, I would say even more important than any particular policy position is just communicating that understanding of the threat and the prioritization of the threat, a recognition that as president, the most important issue that you will be dealing with as commander in chief is how to deter a war with the CCP in the short term and win a new Cold War with the CCP over the long term. So let's put that in the form of a question for Brett and Martha, because I think you're right, I am looking at, of course, I've always looked at every one of these debates as an audition to be commander in chief. Eventually, there comes a choice with the Democrat. But right now, when I vote in the Virginia primary, I will vote based on who will be the best commander in chief. And because that's what matter. 9 -11 matters. What is the W do on 9 -11 that matters? What does W do? The Afghanistan and Iraq. What does anyone do on any moment of crisis? What do they do in the situation room? Figuring out how to elicit that about China is a difficult thing. So you've been doing nothing but this for six months. And by the way, recap for our audience and Pittsburgh Steeler fans what you have been doing for six months, because they may never have heard of the select committee. This might be the first day they're listening to the audience. No acronyms or five dollars in the tip jar for food for the poor. Well, the speaker of the House created the select committee on the CCP to do two things. One is to communicate why this matters, why anybody in northeast Wisconsin or Pittsburgh or Ohio should care about the threat posed by the CCP, to shine a light on all the things that they're doing, whether it's threatening to invade Taiwan, whether it's establishing illegal police stations on American soil, whether it's infiltrating American universities or attempting to build spy bases in our near abroad, to explain why it matters and why your average American should care about it. The second thing is to identify policies and pieces of legislation that can pass even in divided government. In the 118th Congress, what is the center of gravity in terms of steps that we can take in order to put ourselves on a better position to beat the CCP in this short and long term competition? So that's what we've been doing. We've broken it down, essentially, as though this isn't a perfect organization into three main lines of effort. And I do think this reflects our overall lines of effort, our grand strategy against China basically has three main components. One is military competition. What are the things we need to do to deter a war over Taiwan in the near term, as well as ensure that we maintain our dominant military position over the long term? The second is what I call economic statecraft. How do we selectively decouple from China so they don't have a coercive leverage over us so they can't threaten, for example, to cut off the export of advanced pharmaceutical ingredients in order to bring us to our knees? And then the third line of effort is what I call ideological warfare or ideological competition, which is not only how do we rediscover a language for talking about American values and incorporate values and human rights back into American grand strategy, but also how do we better defend our institutions from Chinese Communist Party subversion, from something called United Front Work, from traditional espionage, things like that. So we aren't corrupted and divided from within, which is what the Chinese Communist Party is trying to do. Wang Huning, who's Xi Jinping's top lieutenant in the 90s, wrote a book called America Against America, in which he talks about Americans as greedy, factional. And that that title, America against America, I think reflects their overall strategy, which is to divide Americans against Americans and thereby make it impossible for us to compete. So we've been developing policy recommendations along each of those lines. We've put out two reports, one on military competition, one related to human rights. And we're going to be putting out further reports. So, you know, I think those are useful starting points for for candidates who want to prepare for a debate in terms of where's Congress at on this issue? Where's the bipartisan center of gravity? Where can you potentially build on some of our work? But that's what we've been doing for six months. It's trying to understand and explain the threat and then identify policy solutions that help us to combat that threat. How would you put that in the form of a question by Brett or Martha? Well, there's the overall prioritization question, you know, what is the biggest threat to American national security, which is a bit boring, but no, it's not that's not boring. That that is that is the question, isn't it? Shouldn't that just be asked? What is the number one threat to American national security and why? Shouldn't that be it? Yeah, I think that that's table stakes, right? That's a good diagnostic question. And then it also allows the candidates, if they want to use their full time and I forget how much time they get to really articulate the key distinction between them and the Biden administration, because if you read the Biden administration's national security strategy that they talk about China as a pacing threat, although I'm hearing now that the Pentagon is saying don't say pacing threat, say pacing challenge or competitor, because we obviously don't want to provoke the CCP for whatever reason. I've described this as kind of like a Voldemort phenomenon. There's this belief that the more more we say things like New Cold War or say that the CCP is doing bad things, that it will somehow become more true, which I think is absurd. I'll be right back. Sherman Gallagher is going to stay with me through the break and then we're going to bring him back and then we're going to do that again. And we're going to talk to him for 15 minutes this morning about this. I can't believe I'm doing that. 15 minutes with Mike Gallagher coming right at you, America. Stay tuned. I'm back now with Chairman Mike Gallagher. This is the segment between the radio segments, so you don't get to hear this unless you're watching it on YouTube or on the on the television station. Chairman, in terms of what level should we expect of our candidates knowledge? I see your Green Bay Packers thing yet. Do you know the Browns cleared 38 million in cap yesterday by restructuring Joel Bentonio and Miles Garrett's contract? We have no we have the most cap space in the NFL. We are the team to beat. We will see you. I actually I don't think you're making it to the Super Bowl this year. We are going to be in the Super Bowl this year and you are not ready for this. I'm glad this isn't on the air because this is a serious conversation. But you had to do that little thing. And I'll I'll just go get my brown sweater and just put it on during this segment like that. I'm going to wear this all the time now on the air because we're going to the Super Bowl. Chairman, do you know that we cleared Miles Garrett contract yesterday? You know what we do? Do you follow sports at all or do you just do ChaiCom stuff? I don't follow Brown's contract minutia. I'll confess. I'll confess that, though. I was I was yesterday. Someone said that I had the potential to coach for the Browns after I helped them with a constituent case issue, to which I said I would never coach for the Browns on an Intel. All right. Let me get serious again. I'm going to try to go off the off the rail. We'll get back on the rails. How many times have you guys held public hearings? Oh, gosh, I think 10 at this point, approximately 10. You had at least one set of war games. You have more war games coming. We do. We have we have at least one more coming up that's going to be more focused on economic and supply chain issues. OK. Do you think the candidates know anything about that? I really do want to try and use today to focus their attention on China. Do you think they know anything about what the select committee has been doing? Have you been approached by any of them? I think some do. It's part of the reason I wrote an op ed on this that appeared today in The Wall Street Journal just came out was an effort, maybe shamelessly, to draw attention to some of the things we're doing, because I think it creates some unique opportunities. I mean, to me, you know, the most and this reflects my bias in thinking that hard power is the most important variable on the world stage. I think a candidate who can articulate what we need to do to rebuild the military in general, but really the Navy in particular, which is, as you know, Hugh is really struggling right now. It needs to be our priority force in our priority theater. It's not. We're going backwards. There's questions about focus, warfighting prowess. You know, I wrote a report with the help of Admiral Montgomery about the lack of warfighting focus in the surface Navy with Tom Cotton, Dan Crenshaw and others. I mean, I think that's a massive opportunity for a candidate really to take the ball on defense and go a few layers deep beyond just peace through strength, military good, China bad. You go a few layers deep on that and sort of communicate that you have a coherent plan. Doesn't need to be super detailed. Doesn't need to be a 50 page white paper about everything we need to do. But just as an overall strategy for fiction, I'm going to get your comms team in trouble again. I haven't seen this plan that you and Cotton worked on. How can I not have seen this plan? Well, this is a year ago. You got to blame Cotton's comms team for this because he was OK. And usually it's good to blame Tom Cotton. He's on next hour. I'll do that. Is that widely available? Yeah, it's Cotton did it with four of us in the house. It was over a year, a year and a half ago, kind of in response to all of these ship collisions. Some of the reports that we were getting from active duty sailors and just the changes over the years to training in the surface Navy. We did a deep dive drawing on the expertise of Admiral Montgomery and others. I will give him about that in the next hour and I'll get a link and I'll make sure it's posted out to the candidates. Don't go anywhere. I'm coming right back with Chairman Gallagher. Welcome back, America. I'm Hugh Hewitt, Chairman Mike Gallagher of the House Select Committee on Engagement, the Chinese Communist Party returns. We talked during the break and we got off course because we did a little football trash talk. But now we're back on course. Chairman Gallagher, have you read this book? You had Kabul, the untold story of Biden's fiasco and the warriors who fought to the end. It it made me furious. It absolutely made me furious. Have you had a chance to read it yet? No, but my friend Commander Salamander, who's great in his podcast, Midrats, I highly recommend, just did a podcast with with the authors. So I listened to it. It's not the same, but I am now looking forward to reading the actual hard copy. Well, the end of the book, which I don't know of Commander Salamander got to because I didn't get to it and I talked to him for a long time. It's about how the chai comms came in as soon as we left. They have designs on Bagram. They know what the air raids mean. They know what the strategic minerals mean. It's just a great example of what happens when we retreat in the world. In fact, in the in the this kind of war book you had me read, I wrote down some notes. A retreat once started as the most difficult of all human actions to reverse. And they were talking about the retreat of the Norcs at that point. And then we would retreat later when they counterattack with the chai comms. But we retreated from Afghanistan and they have come in. Have you focused yet on what they're doing there? It hasn't been, admittedly, a subject of a hearing. You know, we have experts, you know, regional experts and Afghanistan experts. I think the key thing to bring it back to the the presidential debate, obviously the obvious thing to do is to connect the surrender to terrorists in Afghanistan, our abandonment of our position, our abandonment of billions of dollars worth of military equipment to then the collapse of deterrence in Ukraine and Eastern Europe, because I do believe that our feckless position in Afghanistan sent a clear signal of weakness to Vladimir Putin. And no wonder Vladimir Putin ignored all of our warnings leading up to the invasion on February 24th because we look so weak on the world stage and we allowed terrorists to completely take over the country. And I think also that has had a negative impact on our deterrent posture in in the Indo -Pacific, across the Taiwan Strait. You mentioned critical minerals. I also think this is a huge opportunity for presidential candidates to articulate a plausible path towards reducing our dependency on China for critical mineral processing. They control 90 percent of the processing. Right now, I think our attempts to wean ourselves off of our to to establish some form of semiconductor manufacturing independence are not going to be successful, in part because the Biden administration has placed so many onerous regulations on grants for chips, fabrication facilities. But if a Republican candidate, particularly one with a business background or with a gubernatorial background, came in and said, here's our strategy when it comes to advanced pharmaceutical ingredients, critical minerals and rare earth processing, tie that to a robust domestic economic agenda. That's a massive opportunity for someone trying to pass the commander in chief test, because the reality is we are going to have to reclaim our economic independence from China in key areas. The progressives are experimenting with one way to do it. We need to identify a way that is fundamentally free market, but not but nonetheless achieves the actual goal of reducing our dependency on China. Chairman Gallagher, there's only one veteran on the stage, Ron DeSantis. Mike Pence has got a son and a son in law on active duty. Of course, Nikki Haley's husband is deployed. Those three know about this in terms of of why is China a threat? Is it a fair question to ask? Why is China a threat? What is it that worries you about China? Is that a fair question? If so, how would you answer that or suggest they answer that if you are one of the people on the stage? Well, first of all, I do think DeSantis has been really good on China and probably the best in the field. I was watching the forum that they did in Iowa. I forget what it's called, the Iowa Faith and Family Forum. And he proactively brought up China as an issue and talked about what he's done in Florida to combat the threat, talked about the threat in global terms. And so the most of the discussion focused on Ukraine. And I understand that that's more of a politically divisive issue on the stage. And so there is a you know, I think the moderators will want to identify the differences between the candidate thus far. Governor DeSantis has been talking in clear and unapologetic language about why the CCP is a threat and what he would do to combat it, which is greatly appreciated. More to your point, as a Navy veteran, I think he has a huge opportunity to be the Navy guy, be the guy who's going to rebuild the Navy and put it in a position where it can it can deter Xi Jinping from attempting to achieve his lifelong ambition was to take Taiwan by force. So to answer your question, Vivek just told me last week, we'll give them Taiwan after we achieve semiconductor independence. In other words, Vivek understands Taiwan is important for its semiconductor. Your colleague on the committee, Ro Khanna, tweeted at me last night when I was already offline that that doesn't do the trick. That's not why we're worried about Taiwan going down. Who's right? Well, obviously, our interests in Taiwan extend far beyond semiconductors. Our interests predate Taiwan's emergence as a semiconductor powerhouse. And if the concern from Vivek and I think it is that our dependence on TSMC for semiconductor manufacturing needs to be eliminated, I just would say two things. It's highly unlikely that we're going to achieve semiconductor independence by 2028. TSMC is investing far more money than the CHIPS Act is investing right now. Even under a Republican president, we would struggle to wean ourself off our dependency. But if the CCP had control of Taiwan, they would still be able to hold the rest of the world economically hostage. And that is the issue. Semiconductors or other or some sort of domain of economic competition. If they had Taiwan, they would be able to completely dominate the region through which trillions of dollars of international trade go. The other thing I would say, it's I mean, we got to go to break. I'll come back to go to break. We'll be right back with Chairman Gallagher during the break and then one more segment beyond. Don't go anywhere. America, I'm Hugh Hewitt. Portions of The Hugh Hewitt Show are brought to you by Food for the Poor. So I'm back with Chairman Gallagher, Chairman Vivek's answer to that is I'm going to get India to cooperate. And if Taiwan closes the Taiwan Straits, we're going to close the Malacca Straits. Ro Khanna says that's that's crazy. That doesn't work. I don't know what the answer is, but I know what Vivek has told me. I don't think he agrees with you, but I'll let him speak for himself. I don't want to put words in his mouth that we have to worry that much about the Taiwan Strait. Well, he's obviously very smart. I would say this with Marxist Leninist regimes, their appetites grow with the eating. So I think it would be a mistake to think that if we just surrender Taiwan on a date certain that we wouldn't have to worry about the problem. If they're the dominant regional power, they're one step closer to becoming the dominant global power. And that, I think, is the answer to your earlier question. Why? Why is the CCP a threat? Because they're trying to destroy our geopolitical position. Primarily by convincing us to destroy ourselves, they believe, as we mince words about whether they're a competitor or an adversary, they certainly believe that they're in an existential war with the free world led by America and that China will win, rendering America and our constitutional system of self -government subordinate, humiliated and wholly irrelevant on the world stage. So you can sort of think of it as as an assisted suicide. You know, they're trying to expedite our collapse. They provide the chemicals, fentanyl, the collapse in prosperity. Covid, IP theft, economic warfare and the self -loathing and depression via political interference and information warfare. So I think the the the threat would not stop after Xi Jinping had taken Taiwan. I think it would only expedite and become greater. So if you could read Xi Jinping's mind, what is he thinking about us? What does he want to see happen to us? I think he wants us to look inward and to abandon our position on the world stage and to be consumed with internal political battles. I also think he likes seeing us embrace this almost the CCP's narrative that America is an evil country. America is a neo colonial racist hellscape. I mean, this is CCP propaganda that a lot of Americans have embraced. I think ultimately he wants us to lose faith in ourselves as a force for good in the world. And ultimately, over time, he thinks the rest of the world is going to Finland dies more in the CCP's direction as an alternative model of government and world leadership, in part because America has lost faith in itself. That's why I think primarily the hard power is the most important variable. This is an ideological competition overall. And ignoring the role ideology plays in the competition is a fatal flaw. And so we need to find a way to press the candidates on that as well. You know, the we got two minutes before we come back. The ideological competition is quite simply not discussed. And I don't think our media is familiar with it. They're not stupid. They're ignorant of the ideological. They don't even believe it exists anymore. Chairman, have you run into that? Do your Democratic colleagues believe that there are such things like Leninist and that that the 20th century ideological competition is back with a vengeance? Well, I think for two and a half decades, we tried to take the communist out of Chinese Communist Party, and this belief persists that, well, they're not really communist. They're not really Marxist. They've embraced forms of capitalism and they're they're rational actors. And I think this is a dangerous way of thinking to go down, particularly under Xi Jinping. The party has embraced its Marxist Leninist roots. Xi's spirit animal is, in fact, Stalin. He looks to Stalin for guidance on how to operate. And so a candidate who understands that and can articulate that, I think, has a massive opportunity to distinguish themselves. The Democrats sort of come at the ideological competition through human rights. And there are a lot who genuinely believe in the cause of human rights. And though there are times when we have to prioritize between security concerns and human rights, this is when dealing with China, that's not an issue at all. We're coming right back. Stand by, chairman.
Veteran on the Move
A highlight from Batteries Plus Franchise with Keith Placencio
"After successfully run in other franchises Marine veteran Keith Placencio bought a Batteries Plus franchise from a friend and plans to open his second location in the near future coming up next on veteran on the move Welcome to veteran on the move if you're a veteran in transition an entrepreneur wannabe or someone still stuck in that Trying to escape this podcast is dedicated to your success and now your host Joe Crane Getting a new car is exciting and you deserve a hassle -free buying experience for more on Navy Federals car buying experience visit Navy federal org All right today we're talking with marine veteran Keith Placencio with batteries plus in Las Cruces, New Mexico Keith Thanks for being here today looking forward to hearing your entrepreneurial story before we do all that take us back to us Which did in Marine Corps? Okay. Well, thank you so much for having me We really appreciate you know an exposure and and we're just so excited to be part of this Batteries Plus organization Thank you said my name is Keith Placencio. I had went into the Marine Corps back in 1987 August 10th of 1987 right out of high school, yeah You know my wife and I were high school sweethearts sweethearts. We were already married Had a daughter and they went to the Marine Corps, which wasn't easy But we knew it was great life that would lead to great things. Yeah, I Spent four years in the Marine Corps moved around all over I was with a hawk missile battalion. We had to shoot down planes out of sky. Yeah desert storm veteran Going and being being a marine one of the greatest experience of my life it I was always pretty motivated very competitive I ran track and did all a lot of great things right now. I was super competitive The Marine Corps just kind of refined that and and gave me even more motivation more discipline One of the greatest things I picked up from the Marine Corps is how to overcome right? Yeah, him provides a dad all that great stuff that you need to be successful in life, right? Absolutely Learn how to take care of our people right you take care of your people. They're gonna take care of you. So My wife and I and and our children we stayed four years in the Marine Corps After desert storm we got out. We went to New Mexico State University and an electrical engineering degree Wow, that's a tough one and spent a foot another four years in the National Guard here It was a little tough, but you know what thankfully to my wife she man She's hung with in with me through some of the most difficult times in any marriage right the Marine Corps. Yeah college And you know, I was very competitive again in the even in school, right? I wanted my straight A's and wanted to do best, you know The best I could and and get out and get a great job with great pay so I can take very care of my family Uh -huh. So what happened after college? after college went to work in the In the plants in Mexico for a little bitty company called General Motors Their Delphi Delco organization, I'm as an engineer worked on ninja control modules stereos things like that Started as an engineer and moved my way up into engineering management and eventually I was running plants in Mexico so I just just done quite a bit traveled around in Mexico quite a bit and then What year was this this would probably been 2007 2006 -7 You know, you've heard about all those killings in Juarez and all that craziness that was going on down there When I felt safer in a war than I did down in Juarez I Was like no, it's about time to leave and and it's sad because I loved what I did the great people great engineers great Work environment, you know, I was having a lot of fun and doing great things. So we left that Went into you know, looked around El Paso for quite a while. We were living El Paso at the time Couldn't you know, the job market wasn't that great at that time? And we're so from a little town in New Mexico called super city, New Mexico, it's a mining community upper mines that's been there forever and So, I don't know one day got a wild hair made some calls down there My uncle was an engineer for them and started working down there three weeks later My wife wasn't a big fan because you know, we left that small -town community and that this and that but you know It gave us a good a good living for for several years But I had always loved entrepreneurship always I was always had a side business Anything from custom home installations of theater systems, you know, I loved working on stereo since I was a kid electronics and Wanted to do that and when my wife wasn't real happy about our kids were already a little older But we had a granddaughter we were raising and she wasn't real happy about living down there in those small communities So we decided we had to come back up to some some semblance of civilization and into Got as an insurance agent for a bit and that's how I started I thought that'd be a great Opportunity everybody's gonna have insurance right but when your family turns and runs away from you because you sell insurance I was like, that's not good Yeah, I was like I just want to say hi to you right I want to give my mom a hug It's like no you're gonna try to sell me insurance I'm quite that bad.
The Aloönæ Show
A highlight from S12 E17: Upcoming Books, Program, Military Career Discussion
"Hello, welcome to The Loney Show. I'm your host, Jaume Loney. In this episode, don't have a very good list because of reasons, as always. As for our guest, he's from San Diego, California, and he is an author. What kind of author, exactly? Well, we're about to find out. Ladies and gentlemen, I give you David Richards. Jaume, thank you very much. It's a pleasure to speak with you tonight. Yes, it sure is. So, how's life? Life has been grand. I just got back from a trip up in Canada where I was camping with friends and was not involved with the wildfires, but just some beautiful scenery up there, tons of woods, and an amazing camping experience. Oh, very good. Have you, and have you been up too much recently? Besides working on my next book, I've been working on putting a program together to complement kind of both of the two books I've been working on and then I've also got an idea for yet another book, and I'm going to work that as I build the program, and then really just connecting with people on a much deeper level to help them on their journey. Very good. So, adding up the books you have written, already written, and the books you're about to write so far, how many of how many in total would that be? So, I've written three so far, and then I've got one that I'm about halfway done with, and I'm gonna work on another one. So, that put us to a total of five, but the current one that I'm halfway through is a sequel to my last one, and that series is going to be a trilogy at the very least. Ah, very good. So, what inspired you to become an author? Yeah, so I grew up in the military, and one of the casualties of that experience is you move every two or three years, and I say casualty because you ended up losing friends, and this is well before the age of the internet where you could FaceTime someone or stay in touch with text or chat. And so, as a result, I just really kind of turned into my imagination for, I don't want to say companionship, but just to keep myself busy in between the moves, and that led me to falling in love with comic books at a very early age and superheroes. And as I grew older and got into high school, I had success with my writing, I had something published, I had national recognition for a short story I wrote, and my poetry won contest. It was always something that I really felt passionate about, but growing up in the military, I didn't really have a sense of how to be a writer or what it took to become an author, and not having an idea of how to get started in that journey, I did what my father did. I also joined the military, so I served for 15 years in the United States Marine Corps, and at that point, I got out in 2006 and finally was living in a place where I wasn't going to be moving every two or three years, which was super exciting for me. And that led me to the idea that I could start writing again, because I thought I'd given that up, and so that was an 11 -year journey to publish my first book. Wow, very good.
The Eric Metaxas Show
Former Congressman Col. Allen West Reflects on His Father
"I have as my guest Lieutenant Colonel Alan West, and we're talking about a lot of important stuff. We're talking about merit. We're talking about working hard. We're talking about earning your stripes. You just said, Colonel West, you just said that your father, when you were 15, challenged you in a particular way. Take us back there, because that to me is clearly foundational in your story of success. Well, let me set the stage for that. My dad was a corporal in the United States Army during World War II, and he served in a segregated army. My older brother was a Lance Corporal in the United States Marine Corps. He served in Vietnam as a combat infantryman. But at the age of 15, my dad challenged me to be the first officer in the family. And I think that's what's so important, is that we set higher standards for our children so that we can push them to achieve greater than what we had ourselves. And so my dad laid out this plan, and I knew that I had to study and do very well in high school because it was about getting accepted into a college to have a great ROTC program. I was in the junior ROTC program in high school. I ended up going to the University of Tennessee. And of course, you're not going to be an officer unless you graduate, get that degree, and then you can get commissioned. So it was that simple challenge that my father laid out for me. This was not about my skin color. It was about intelligence. It was about competency. It was about character. And throughout my military career, sure, maybe there were some officers that looked at me differently because of my skin color, but guess what? My dad taught me that you find out what the standard is and you exceed it. And no one can hold you back if that's your mentality and that's your focus. And that's how I've always tried to live my life.
Cinemavino
A highlight from Jaws
"And welcome back to CinemaVino. Farewell and adieu to you, First Spanish Lady. Y 'all scallywags. Farewell to the salty dogs, old ladies of Spain. Summer chaos is continuing and this is my pick. Chaos got a little chaotic this week. It did. Originally, we're looking for The Conversation, which is my original pick. Francis Ford Coppola. It vanished off of most streaming platforms, so... And I think, could you still buy it? No, I couldn't find it where you can buy it. It's like, I'm lucky that I own it on DVD. I don't know why. We were going to be passing it around Todd's, you know, it was just going to be musical chairing it. I'm actually like Todd at a party. We were just going to pass it around. I just get passed around. But it's like, it doesn't make sense for us to watch something that you guys can't find out there in the world anywhere. It doesn't do you any good. It doesn't do us any good. And we're here for you. You know, we love you and we want to kiss your face. So instead, we did my next... A lot of fire in your panties. Which that joke actually is from our next episode for black sheep. Gary Busey. Yeah. It all comes back to Busey. Busey. Bussy. Bussy. So we did my next choice down, which was Jaws, which is not a bad alternative. Not a bad bet. Yeah. Not a bad movie. Guys. I'm going to go ahead and spoil this. I'm giving this a 10 out of 10. I think. Me too. This is one of my top probably 20, 25 movies. I've got a list of perfect movies. To me, this is a perfect movie. This is absolutely perfect. It's up there. But first, we're going to talk about what we're drinking to the random wheel, which, you know, for Summer Chaos, we're doing random movies that each of us has picked. So we pair it with a random, literally completely random booze. We didn't consent to this. Yes. I put different wines, different spirits on the wheel, on the random internet wheel, spin the wheel, whatever it does, whatever we get. This was rum. And, full disclosure, my first bad experience in life with alcohol was with rum. Freshman in college, I drank a fifth of Captain Morgan and ended up in a pool of vomit. So it was years before I could even smell rum again. It was years before I could drink Coke again. I couldn't even drink Coke because it smelled like rum. It was bad. Yeah. That was... Because you were doing rum and Coke or because Coke itself just kind of smells like rum? I was shooting rum and chasing it with Coke. So that was... I'll do ya. Captain Morgan took me to the bowels of hell that night. I did much the same with Jack Daniels and IBC Root Beer. I got hit the same way with Kraken. Really? You ever do Kraken spice rum? Yeah. It kind of tastes like gasoline. It got released. The Kraken got released. Yeah, it was bad. Yeah. It's so delicious and sweet though. At first you're like, oh my God, this is great. So we started with Kraken and then we went to... Rye whiskey. Oh man. And the rye whiskey that we went to was rye. It's called R .I. Like rye. Yeah. It is the sharpest rye I've ever had to where you drink and you're like... But the Kraken, we started with Kraken and it just destroyed our taste buds so much that by the time we got to the rye, it was just like nothing. And... Yeah, by that point you're just having a party, you know? It was bad news bears. I think everyone's had a bad experience with rum. Rum is a bad time spirit. Well, and it's like, you know, my dad was a boxer in the Marine Corps and he told me that the first time you get knocked down, you never look at the ring the same way. Like once you like hit the canvas, the ring never feels the same again when you step into it. That's kind of like alcohol. Once you get knocked down by booze, you never look at booze quite the same way again. You have a new respect for it. I had a new respect for it. I was cocky as an 18 -year -old. I was like, oh yeah, I can drink whatever the hell I want. So I'm sitting there shooting rum. I got beat up pretty bad. So for you as Captain Morgan, what was your rum? Jack Daniels and IBC. It was the combo for me. Oh, so that wasn't rum. But it's, you know, there's... The thing is you never want to quit alcohol. You always want to be like Trumbull at one. But if you get knocked down, you get up again. You never get beat down.
The Hugh Hewitt Show: Highly Concentrated
A highlight from Nikki Haley calls for trial of former President Trump to be moved out of D.C.
"Welcome to today's podcast, sponsored by Hillsdale College, all things Hillsdale, Hillsdale .edu. I encourage you to take advantage of the many free online courses there. And of course, listen to the Hillsdale Dialogues, all of them at Q for Hillsdale .com or just Google Apple, iTunes, and Hillsdale. Morning, Gloria America. Bonjour, hi, Canada. It's Hugh Hewitt from Studio North. Good morning. I'm pleased to welcome back former UN ambassador, former governor of South Carolina, and Nikki Haley. Ambassador Haley, good morning. Welcome back to the Hugh Hewitt Show. Good morning from Manchester, New Hampshire. Oh, you're not too far away. I'm up north. Quite a storm going on right now. Ambassador Haley, I want to begin. I've complimented the former vice president, Pence, because he has a son and son -in -law on active duty. I've complimented Ron DeSantis. He's a veteran. You are a veteran military spouse. I believe your husband is deployed as we speak, correct? Yes, he is currently deployed. Okay. So is he an officer? Yes. Well, I am talking, I just talked with Mike Gallagher about this. Senator Tuberville has a hold on more than 300 general officers, colonels who want to promote to general, captains who want to promote to admiral, and then everyone, one star to two star on up. We don't have a commandant in the Marine Corps. We do not have a chief of staff of the army for the first time in 200 years. More than 300 vacancies. It's a mess. And I know that the Pentagon has violated the Hyde amendment and I know you're pro -life, but would you call Senator Tuberville and ask him to stop screwing up the military because we're on the brink of a conflict with China and we cannot have this. Well, you know, I mean, look, this just goes to show how messed up our country is. I mean, you look at the fact that the Department of Defense shouldn't be doing this in the first place, but there's got to be other ways to go about doing this. You know, I mean, in a time where our recruitment's 25 % down and, you know, 80 % of those recruits typically come from military families and military parents are telling their kids not to go into the military. It's because they don't feel like anybody's got the military's back. They look at the fact that 33 ,000 veterans are homeless. They look at the fact that they're, you know, dangling these promotions out there and using them as fodder. I mean, they're looking at the fact that people don't see these, you know, men and women who serve as heroes anymore, and that's sad and it's terrible. And, you know, I appreciate what Tuberville's trying to do. I do. Like, it's totally wrong that the Department of Defense is doing this, but have we gotten so low that this is how we have to go about stopping it? I mean, at what point can we not go and have, you know, congressional members go to the Department of Defense and say, look, you have to go through Congress if you're going to do this. You can't suddenly, you know, decide you're going to do this. Don't hold, you know, don't make us have to do this. I just think it shouldn't get to this point. And, you know, for my husband who's serving overseas and for all those military men and women, the idea that this is what they're looking back and seeing, and this is what they are dealing with on top of the stresses of keeping themselves safe and being away from their families, it's wrong. You know, Ambassador Haley, thank you for saying that. I talked to an officer last week who told me not about himself, but about a friend who is facing a one -year deployment in tough circumstances. I don't know if he's going to Djibouti. I know where they're going. There are some tough places to serve a year. And it's not Navy because usually they do six -month and nine -month deployments, but a year in a tough place, but they can't start. So the family's in limbo. You've been there, right? You know what that month is before deployment. Now that month is six months. Now it's for the family, but it's incredibly stressful for the service member because their life is on hold. And you're, you know, it's enough to try and get ready for something like that. But, you know, for any military family, they can agree with me that once they have had the assignment that they have to go, they just want to go and get it over with. They just want to go ahead and get it done. And, you know, it's just, it goes to the heart of we don't treat our military men and women, service men and women well. We don't treat our veterans well. And, you know, my parents always taught us, you take care of those who take care of you. And I think it's shameful from the way that, you know, we're making veterans have to wait 29 days to get a doctor's appointment to the idea that, you know, you're dealing with a department of defense that's not focused on making sure that our military has the equipment, ammunition up to date that they need. Instead they want them taking gender pronoun classes. We've got a serious problem when you've got China threatening us, Russia threatening us, Iran threatening us, and we're going to sit there and play games like this. It's just wrong. On a political level, I also think it's completely disastrous for anyone on the Republican side, the party of defense, to have a Republican senator doing this, but I'll come back to that. China ran 11 ships in concert with Russia down past the Aleutians last week. I said last night, I'm Brett Barash, I want us to send 11 ships to the Taiwan Strait in response. I don't want to, you know, they didn't come into our waters, but I think we're on the brink of a conflict with China, Ambassador Haley. What do you think? I think that we should make sure we're not in a conflict with China, and I think that President Biden's doing everything he can to make sure that we walk into it. You don't run scared from China. You have to be strong. You have to make sure they know, you know, what we're focused on. We know this all started with Afghanistan, but it didn't end with Afghanistan. We've continued to see Biden go and send Blinken over there and try and make nice. Send Yellen over there, try and make nice. Send John Kerry over there and try and make nice. And in all these things, why are you doing that when they literally are responsible for killing 75 ,000 people last year because they're sending fentanyl across the border? Why are you doing that when they, you know, basically send a Chinese spy balloon over our airspace and they're buying up land next to our military? They've bought the largest pork producer in our country. You know, all of these things that they continue to do, why are we doing that? We now have malware that is in our systems that is going to basically, we don't know where the code is, but we know it's there, that's going to disrupt our power grid, our communications, our water supply. That's what China's done. So quit playing nice with them. And I think that's the problem is, you know, America has been too nice to these people that want to kill us. And that's just not the way you handle it. You handle it with strength. You let them know what you expect of them and you respond and let them know there's a price to pay if they do anything to challenge, threaten us, or any of our allies. Ambassador Haley, like I said, 11 Russian and Chinese ships sail close to the Aleutians, but not into our water. It's the third straight year China has done this. Every time we send one ship, President Biden and Secretary Austin send one ship to the Taiwan Strait, the Chinese Communist Party goes nuts. I like the fact they sent 11 ships near us so that we can just flood the zone in the Taiwan Strait. Would you order that if you were the president in response to this? Well, this is actually in response to the fact that we had exercises going on in the Taiwan Strait, that we had exercises going on in the, you know, South China Sea. That's why China's doing this is because they're upset. But understand, you look at a map and see how close they came to Alaska and you combine that with the Chinese spy base that they're putting up in Cuba, which don't think that they won't send Chinese military there soon. You add that and look at how close they are to our soil. And if that doesn't send a chill up every American's mind, I don't know what will. So yes, if we need to go and put, you know, ships there to show them what we're doing, but it's not so much that you do a tit for tat like that. It's fine. We can do that. But what I'd rather us do is have America strategize to get strong. You know, the fact that China has the largest naval fleet in the world. They have 350 ships. They'll have 400 in two years. We won't even have 350 in two decades. Let's focus. The one thing that will scare China is to watch us strengthen our military because they know that we have the best military in the world. If they start seeing us modernize our equipment, if they start seeing us focus on our navy, our air, our, you know, to make sure that we're doing artificial intelligence, cyber, space, all of those things, they will suddenly start to realize that we need business. Right now, they're just not scared of us.
Mike Gallagher Podcast
A highlight from Rep. Tommy Tuberville Makes Good On His Promise, Ronna McDaniel Stands up to CNN on Elections, and more!
"This is your source for breaking news and what to make of it all. This is the Mike Gallagher show. I think saying there were problems with 2020 is very real. I don't think that's election denying it. You will regret not following my direction. Sounds like a shakedown, doesn't it director? I'm not going to get into comedy. You seem deeply uncurious about it, don't you? Are you protecting the Bidens? Absolutely not. He fired the entire Comey leadership team out of the FBI and he put these reforms in place, which are now showing extraordinary results. Now from the relief factor .com studios, here's Mike Gallagher. There are a lot of mysteries in life. One mystery is why do self -proclaimed pro -life Republicans not defend other pro -life Republicans? This is the craziest thing I've ever heard in my life. Senator Tommy Tuberville is in the middle of a firestorm. The Democrats are livid. They don't like the fact that Tuberville is holding the Defense Department accountable for its illegal use of DOD funds for abortion. And he's taking a principled stance. He has a position as a key member of the Senate to block military appointments. He warned DOD, don't carry this out, this little scheme that the Department of Defense came up with to circumvent the law because there's a little pesky thing called the law. You cannot use federal funds for abortion. The DOD is trying to circumvent it by funding people who want to have abortions. Tuberville said, hey, if you do this, I'm telling you, we're going to block the nominations. We're going to block these nominations and you aren't going to like it. DOD said, go pound salt. They carried out the plan anyway. And now the Democrats and some Republicans, friends and colleagues of mine, are furious with Tommy Tuberville for doing exactly what he said he'd do. And this is uncomfortable for me. I don't like criticizing colleagues. And I don't want to make this, we're not going to turn this into why, you know, I think I'm right and why I disagree with one of my colleagues, Hugh Hewitt. But it's an important issue. Hugh's a smart guy. I've got tremendous respect for him. And Hugh is calling Tuberville stupid. He's stupid. And he said that repeatedly. Hugh chooses his words carefully. And Hugh's obviously very upset with the Alabama senator. And I, listen, I pay close attention. Hugh's one of the best broadcasters in our business. He lands great interviews. And he's a friend. Friends can sometimes disagree. Why would Republicans pile on and criticize the Alabama senator for doing exactly what he said he would do? He didn't start this fight. The Democrats did. They unilaterally funded abortion travel over at DOD. They didn't need to do this. They did it anyway. And now Tuberville is trying to defend life. God forbid a pro -life tries Republican senator to defend life. We don't want, we can't have, come on, we got shipyards to build. We've got money to give to Ukraine. And I didn't get me started on Ukraine. You can't, on the one hand, keep wanting more defense funds for shipyards and give Zelensky whatever he wants for as long as he wants it. Did you hear Biden yesterday in Lithuania? We need to give Zelensky whatever he wants for as long as he wants it. Can you imagine Americans not paying attention to that? Have we learned nothing about endless inventions in foreign countries that will never end? Biden wants the United States taxpayer to get out our checkbook and give Zelensky of Ukraine whatever he wants for as long as he wants it. We'll find that clip for you. I'll play that because when I heard it, it made my blood go cold. I could not believe I was hearing these words. It's unbelievable. So we've got differences here among like -minded Americans. Republicans can differ and disagree. And again, we are not making this an attack on people who don't agree with me on this. So don't, don't, don't even call to turn it into that. Let's have a good, solid conversation about what Senator Tuberville is doing. Let's have a good, solid conversation about what Joe Biden and the Democrats expect from you, from our endless funding of Ukraine's battle with Russia. I want to talk about policy. I want to talk about issues. I'm not going to talk about personalities, but I do wonder why Republicans eat each other up like this. Why we go after somebody like anybody goes after Tommy Tuberville. Now, earlier in the week, he got in trouble over an issue of the way he defines white nationalism. And I admit, and I agree, that was a dopey thing to say. White nationalism is racism, of course. I think that Tuberville was defending nationalism and was hung up on the word white in front of it and is there a black nationalist and all of that. But maybe people on our side are mad at Tuberville over that and they're taking, and now they're pounding him on standing up for life. But the bottom line here is, and this is what I want to talk to you about. Let's dive into this. Isn't Tuberville correct to do exactly what he said he would do? He promised he would block these nominations if the Department of Defense tried to circumvent the law and fund abortion travel. Oh, the Marine Corps is without a commandant for 15 minutes. Big deal. The Marines will survive. You know who isn't surviving? Babies aborted in the womb and women who are enabled by taxpayer dollars to go travel to get an abortion at our expense. And you know what that is? That's illegal. That is against the law. So I'm fired up a little bit today. Wonder if you are too. Welcome aboard. It's Thursday, July the 13th. We're in the relief factor dot com studios. Our number is 800 -655 -MIKE. 800 -655 -6453. And again, I'm going to ask you to please respect my desire to keep this about policy, not personality. It's a given that not all Republicans are always going to agree with one another. That's okay. So we're not going to make this about personalities. I want to consider doing Tuberville what many of us think is the absolute godly thing, the right thing, the correct thing. If you're going to be pro -life, if you say you're pro -life, act like it. 800 -655 -6453. One open line. Your voice, your call, your perspective. Coming up. Something has gone terribly wrong with the world economy. Before you lose faith, be sure to read the book Life After Capitalism, now on sale from Regnery Publishing.
AP News Radio
Biden arrives in Japan and meets with prime minister ahead of G7 - CNN
"President Biden meets with the Japanese prime minister ahead of the G 7 summit. President Biden greeted troops a Japanese officials at a hangar at a Marine Corps air base near Hiroshima before heading to a meeting with Japanese prime minister fumio kushida. The bottom line, mister prime minister is that on our country's stand together, we stand stronger. White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan says the two leaders have a lot to talk about ahead of the larger group of 7 summit. The military dimension of the alliance, the economic dimension of the recently concluded agreement on clean energy, the work we're doing together in economic security,
AP News Radio
Marine veteran who fatally choked NYC subway rider Jordan Neely surrenders on manslaughter charge
"The Marine Corps veteran who kept a man in a chokehold on a New York City subway car has surrendered on a manslaughter charge. 24 year old Daniel penny turned himself in at a Manhattan police station. His lawyer says it was voluntary, and with the sort of dignity and integrity that's characteristic of penny and his history of service to the nation. Pennies being charged in the death may 1st of 30 year old Jordan Neely, a street performer who'd been dealing with mental illness and homelessness. Neely's death captured on videotape, stirred up outrage over the treatment of the mentally ill and vigilantism. If convicted on a manslaughter count, penny could be sent to prison for 15 years. I'm Jackie Quinn
AP News Radio
Man who fatally choked another NYC subway rider to surrender on manslaughter charge
"A Marine Corps of veteran who fatally choked a man with mental illness on the New York City subway is expected to turn himself into authorities today. Daniel penny is charged with second degree manslaughter in the death of 30 year old Jordan Neely and onlooker says an agitated Neely had been screaming and begging for money aboard a train on May 1st, but had not gotten physical with any one, video shows penny on the ground placing Neely in a chokehold, Manhattan prosecutors announced Thursday that they would bring a criminal charge against penny, whose attorneys said acted in self defense, nearly performed on the subway as Michael Jackson, and friends say he had been dealing with homelessness and mental illness in recent years. I am Donna water
Strong By Design Podcast
"marine corps" Discussed on Strong By Design Podcast
"Like, no, feel what you feel, but this is our household rules. This is how it is. It's okay. Yeah. You know, you still have that control. It's great. Great advice and I need to take some more of that myself. Luckily, my wife is more of the cook in the house. I'm the grill man. I'm daddy. I'm daddy weekend breakfast guy. And grill man. Nice. That's my, you know, I know my way around the kitchen well enough, but my wife's the cook, like she's better. She's good at making, you know, kid friendly slash family meals, like stuff that everyone will eat, but I do take great pride in stuff coming off the grill, whether it's drum sticks or chicken wings or burgers dogs, steaks, and the kids, everybody enjoys that food. Which is nice. When I'm out there grilling, I know everyone's gonna be involved in whatever is coming off the grill. And when you go or grill and I just have to ask this since we're similar age range. So my dad used to grill and he would be drinking a michelob. And that was, you know, as a kid, that was the drink, a lot of fathers were doing. It was michelob. And that was when I got my first taste of beer, you know, at age ten or 12 or whatever it is. When he was grilling it, you know? Yes. Are you already anticipating those days with your son? Oh, without question I mean, absolutely. As I said earlier, and if people have heard me in previous podcasts, I've mentioned before, my dad was a Marine Corps drill instructor and an alcoholic. He was the oldest of four boys. He was a pretty hard guy. But he had a lot of redeeming qualities as well. But my first taste of beer was I was very young.
National Day Calendar
"marine corps" Discussed on National Day Calendar
"I love the smell of salt water in the air. And the warm glow of the sun, kissing your cheeks. This is so relaxing. I wish this could never end. Me too. Oh, well, give me my heart. Stop touching you, stop touch, mom. That's coastal morning. One of three exclusive rejuvenation modes from Lincoln designed to enhance your state of mind with choreographed experiences of scent, light, music, and even massage. Learn more about the future of sanctuary, Lincoln dot com. Welcome to November 10th, 2022 on the national day calendar. Today we celebrate the suite life and the military branch that turned the tide of the Revolutionary War. Doctor LC's is keeping cats and loving homes with veterinarian formulated solutions. Like their cat attract litter that brings problem cats back to the litter box. Arthur bestselling ultra litter made with a 100% natural clay. It's great at controlling odors and low in dust and tracking without add a perfumes or harsh chemicals. Visit doctor elsie's dot com slash podcast to see why it's the litter cats love. That's DRE, LSE, YS dot com slash podcast. These days, everyone could use a little sweetness. Yep. And what is sweeter than a personal sized vanilla cake with some buttercream and sprinkles. In fact, the bakery known as sprinkles tapped a trend that has continued to this day with their Los Angeles bakery that opened in 2005. The first recipe for cupcakes appeared in 1796 at Amelia Simon's American cookery and little did she know that chef Candace Nelson would eventually open a cupcake ATM in 2012 with sprinkles bakeries from coast to coast. Have you guys seen the one in the Las Vegas airport? What? I know. I need this. I know. On national vanilla cupcake day, it's never been easier to celebrate the suite life. After a few defeats at the hands of British forces, George Washington had requested troops that could fight on both land and sea. On November 10th, 1775, the second Continental Congress passed a resolution to create two battalions of marines to serve with the Continental Army, and these men changed the course of the Revolutionary War. Their first major test came when they landed on hostile shores of The Bahamas and captured new Providence island. As a result, captain Samuel Nicholas became the first commissioned officer in the continental marines and is celebrated as the marines first commandant. On the Marine Corps birthday, we celebrate those who are always loyal to each other, their country and their traditions. Semper 5. I think that's a good reason to make you some cupcakes, John. Oh, I think the marines would say, hoorah. Who's wrong? I love that. I think we should put that on a vanilla cupcake. That's a good idea. I'm Anna deavere. I'm Marlo Anderson. Thanks for joining us as we celebrate every day. Hurrah.
"You're In Charge: Conversation that Spark Change" with Glenn Pasch
"marine corps" Discussed on "You're In Charge: Conversation that Spark Change" with Glenn Pasch
"Most of the time I hold myself accountable, and maybe it's my background and the Marine Corps and the way I came up, but if I stand to do something, I'm going to execute it. You know, I'm going to follow through. You know, I find myself which is funny. Sometimes I feel like I'm running late to work, right? So this is an example of, I'm the owner, you know, no one's going to get on me for being late ever. I could be an hour late an hour. But I really put pressure on myself that I'm readily for work. And sometimes I'll sit there and I'm running late and I'm brushing my teeth or whatever and getting ready and I'm thinking, well, who's going to come down? There's no hammer that's going to fall on me for being late. But I think it's something that you have to still in yourself. And when you're expecting that from other people, it's just like any other relationship. If I'm expecting you to have the right values and you to have the right character and you to have integrity and then I don't come through in that. That's like a marriage that doesn't work. So you have to look at me in that same respect while I want you looking back, I want to have, you know, maybe better values, maybe better character. I was striving for that. I'm not saying I do have that, but I'm striving to show you better values, better character, better integrity. So I want to give you something to aspire to. And if I can't, you know, portray that in my everyday actions that it's just not going to work. It's just like a husband and wife, you know, I can't expect you to do this. You can do this, you do this. And I just do nothing. I sit on the couch, eat Doritos, and I don't do anything. So, you know, it's just like any other relationship. So I think that's what holds me accountable. I put a lot of value on the way I'm perceived also from an employee standpoint. Because I came up through the ranks, you know, I went in for a detailer job started as sales. And I came up through the ranks and I saw those.
Game of Crimes
"marine corps" Discussed on Game of Crimes
"You wanted to do canine because I know you said you saw some of it back in the Marine Corps with their tactical stuff. Did you get an early on an affinity for wanting to work canines? Or is that something that just developed because of your friend, Larry? No, not entirely because of Larry, but because I had seen it, I always knew that I wanted to do something specialized, right? So patrol is fun, but I don't want you. It's called a call. You're humping it every day. Responding to calls for service. I mean, it's fun, but at the same time, it's finite, if that makes sense like, how many, I think I arrested like a thousand people in three years, like literally a thousand people. You know what I mean? Like, how long am I going to keep doing that? So on and so forth. And I saw tactical canine specialty units is always fascinated me. Either one. But then I saw the opportunity. We still didn't have a tactical team, but I saw what canines I had called Larry a couple times on some calls from dope calls as a patrolman. I had gone on tracks with them and where we caught the bad guy. And I'm like, you know what? This is another tool to make me a better at catching crooks, right? Like I'm going to take this to the next level. Oh, yeah. So I was interested because it was let's face it. I'll never be the 18 year old crooks never get in the older, right? They're always 18. And we all get older, right? But you can outrun me, but you can not run my dog. And that's right. And so I was like, you know what? This is the next progression. This is where it's at. I'm gonna fuck some people up. Basically, you're gonna run for me. You're gonna pay for it, right? Kind of stuff..
Game of Crimes
"marine corps" Discussed on Game of Crimes
"It's where you go to swear in and do all your paperwork with the recruiter before they ship you off to boot camp. So the day I went to maps to finalize my enlistment with the army I find out that I was slated to go army or infantry. And I was all disgruntled, and I was walking past the recruiter's office in the Marine Corps recruiter that I had been talking to, saw me. And he said, hey, what are you doing? I said, well, I'm here to enlist and he goes, come here, pull me in, you know, they're shady. You know, they just want to get that number. And everybody's trying to hit their number, yeah. Can you fog a spoon? You'll do, come here. So he calls me in there. He goes, you want to be military police, right? He goes, I got to he showed me on the chart. You know, they got these little back then. It was all on paper. 58 11, which is military police and it, I think this was in January and he goes, you leave February at the time, he said February 21st. And I said, that's guaranteed. He goes, yeah, I said, I'll sign it right now. I signed it right then. As I'm walking, I blew off the army recruiter. I'm walking up to the master sergeant's office with the marine and the army guy sees me. And then the shit storm erupts. These two guys get into a pissing contest, right? Because the army guy outranks the Marine Corps guy by like he's E 6 and the Marine Corps E 5 so they're having a piss and match and finally we get up to boy called top master chart in his office and he's the head and motherfucker in charge at the map center. HMF IC, baby. That's right. And he says, I didn't know it at the time, but I think I was telling you during the pre interview..
Bloomberg Radio New York
"marine corps" Discussed on Bloomberg Radio New York
"Foundation of two three four 5 clients are upset but you have to wonder what long term impact it does have if the trend continues and really is that the best way to boost loyalty and association with the firm Well and I do think bottom line it is about the bottom line right Goldman concerned about preserving the revenues the relationships right Because when some of these big top earners and dealmakers go that certainly impacts them Yes but they've also done a fabulous job over several decades of cultivating what is the corporate world's most powerful alumni network When these successful rainmakers leave 200 west street Goldman's headquarters in New York and take up a lucrative second career they will come back to Goldman for advice deals trades that connect to that is really a connective tissue for a lifetime of shared riches Yeah I always feel like home is really really good at that We're going to watch and see if other Wall Street firms follow Sri fantastic story Srinagar Rajan finance reporter at Bloomberg news It is our most read story on the Bloomberg today All right February is black history month every day this month We are celebrating significant moments in U.S. black history now with your installment for February 23rd here is Bloomberg's we need a young On this day in black history in 1979 Frank E Peterson junior is named the first black general in the U.S. Marine Corps He was determined to serve his country despite racial discrimination Peterson first attempted to join the U.S. Navy but was asked to take the entrance exam over because administrators believed he had cheated in 1950 Peterson enlisted in the navy and two years later as a marine he completed flight school and was commissioned as a second lieutenant Peterson went on to become the marines first black aviator and served as commanding general for the Marine Corps combat development command throughout his career Peterson received several military awards among them the navy distinguished service medal defense superior service medal and the Purple Heart So in 1988 Peterson retired as lieutenant general after serving as special assistant to the chief of staff That's today in black history I'm renita young Bloomberg radio All right just a few minutes we're gonna head over to our TV teams to talk about the markets right now stocks pretty much every near their lows were down almost 2% on the NASDAQ and we're looking at about a 1.4% decline on the S&P 500 Bloomberg businessweek Carol master along with query group data on this Wednesday this is Bloomberg You could save big when you bundle your home and auto with progressive but when we just come out and say it it feels like it falls a bit flat So we're going to tap into human emotion First with some music Then in a serious toenail say safe.
Bloomberg Radio New York
"marine corps" Discussed on Bloomberg Radio New York
"Tara thank you so much for joining us It's really fascinating discussion Tara J Frank president and CEO of career modeling Well February is black history month and every day this week we are celebrating significant moments in U.S. black history Now with your installment for February 23rd here is Bloomberg's Rene de young In this day in black history in 1979 Frank E Peterson junior is named the first black general in the U.S. Marine Corps He was determined to serve his country despite racial discrimination Peterson first attempted to join the U.S. Navy but was asked to take the entrance exam over because administrators believed he had cheated in 1950 Peterson enlisted in the navy and two years later as a marine he completed flight school and was commissioned as a second lieutenant Peterson went on to become the marines first black aviator and served as commanding general for the Marine Corps combat development command throughout his career Peterson received several military awards among them the navy distinguished service medal defense superior service medal and the Purple Heart So in 1988 Peterson retired as lieutenant general after serving as special assistant to the chief of staff That's today in black history I'm renita young Bloomberg radio Renee Diane thank you so much We appreciate that as always a little bit of red on the screen here Matt I want to oversell it kind of a quiet day I would say relative to some of the volatility we've seen Just this year we've got the vix sitting pretty steady around 29 Yeah I'm looking at especially some of the retail names on the downside of the S&P 500 Home Depot is off One in three quarters percent I had seen TJ Maxx or as it's called in Europe he came max on the downside of it Yeah I think TJ Maxx was taken already Okay So there's a little trivia for you And some of the consumer related stocks.
Veteran on the Move
"marine corps" Discussed on Veteran on the Move
"For listeners who served in or work to the United States Marine Corps or have family or friends who might have, I want to notify you of an available resource. From 1953 to 1987, personnel assigned to Marine Corps base camp lejeune, were potentially exposed to contaminated drinking water. The Marine Corps has since partnered with health agencies to get scientific studies to assess impacts from these potential exposures, and they are working to keep those marines, their families, and civilian employees informed with updates and resources available to them. If you or someone you know may have been a campus junior during those years, please consider registering with the camp lejeune historic drinking water notification database. You can learn more and register at marines dot mill slash CL water. At CL as in Charlie, that's marines dot mill slash CL water. All right, back to it with army veteran Ben Burt with fiber new franchisee. So Ben, as you go through your vocational rehab or you're going to be retired from the army. Where did this entrepreneurial interest or this entrepreneurial street come from? I'd say primarily just I was at that point in my life where I was just tired of poor management. So.
National Day Calendar
"marine corps" Discussed on National Day Calendar
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WMAL 630AM
"marine corps" Discussed on WMAL 630AM
"I want to say this very strongly strong have been fighting for 17 years. I am willing to throw it all away to say to my senior leaders. I demand accountability. That's it. He must be crazy. See in Washington. If you think that there should be accountability, they think you must be crazy. They think you need your head examined. That's how screwed up this city is. That's how screwed up our government is And when the Democrats are in charge, that's how screwed up the military is. And in this case, the Marine Corps more specifically which is particularly tragic because it's the United States Marine Corps. And they're not the first ones to fall into this whole, but But there they are, because Joe Biden's in church and they've got you know, thoroughly modern. Millie is the chairman of the joint Chiefs. And and, uh, so United States Marine Corps officer Who was relieved of his command over a battalion for a chastising his bosses over the botched Afghan withdrawal. Has revealed that he was ordered to undergo mental health screening is already resigned. Uh and his commission He said. I went to work this morning I was ordered by my commanding officer to go to the hospital for a mental health screening, Lieutenant Colonel Stewart Sheller wrote on Facebook. On Monday. I was evaluated by mental health specialists and then sent on my way. My commanding officer is a stand up guy, and I understand why he did it. He did it because his superior officers ordered it, and it probably goes all the way to thoroughly modern Millie. Maybe somebody should ask Cowboy Kirby about it. Why? We're examining the heads of our Marine Corps officers who are obviously more rational than the senior leadership. Which we'll thoroughly modern Millie. So what does he want? He wants to explore his white rage. Right is what he wants to explore. His white rage apparently is again bottled up a lot of white rage over the years. And I personally am not suffering from a lot of white rage. I'm occasionally indignant as a rational thinking person, but it doesn't have anything to do with my melon and levels are my skin tone, uh, which is rich and lustrous and deeply 10 kind of Ricardo Montalban style. Skin tone. I think for me and shelter explained that despite being Relieved of his duties. He was still an active Marine until he completes his resignation. Which he said was part in part by former commander who wrote on linked in that he should resign if he was honorable. Okay, so he's being shamed and I can see whether it be conflict in the military because he went public and strict discipline. Good order and discipline are important and all that, but he came out and he spoke the truth, and he put himself on the line and he's and he's walking the walk. Not just talking the talk, so naturally, there are people in this city that think that he needs to have his head examined and again. That same man to an insane society must appear insane. And this is yet another example of that. This is what goes on when you have the left in charge, and we're working on transgender friendly army, but not a military that countenances Officers calling out really bad leadership and really bad decisions that lead to disastrous consequences because we live in a consequence free city if you're a Democrat, because the bureaucracy leans very heavily Democrat, the entrenched permanent bureaucracy which we sometimes referred to as the deep state. Which reminds me because I never mentioned that at the Chris Plante store at the Chris Plante store. We have deep state T shirts, and it has the State Department sealed, but it says the Department of Deep State said of the Department of State as it might ordinarily say, and we have many other good things. Like Remember Normal. Remember, normal might be a good T shirt and coffee mug for this time. You can give the coffee mug here. Lefty friends to it will just confuse them. There will be befuddled, but that's normal, So I wouldn't worry about that too much. Remarkable remarkable stuff. Hmm. By the way, the doing such a great job in, um and, um Afghanistan are the Biden people? Here's the headline from the International Business Times. At least 32, California students remain stuck in Afghanistan. After summer trick trip to country now, um They range stuck, but they're not stranded right? Because the White House says they're not sure you can say stuck. But you can't say stranded, remarkable stuff. And there's also story I've got free today on text messages from a colonel and Afghanistan talking about leaving Americans behind. Not happily talking about leaving Americans behind, but talking about leaving Americans behind, boy. Oh, boy. Mhm. First of all, I think it's irresponsible to say Americans are stranded. Also, here's a great story on the daily Wear that's Colonel club over there from Russia with love. A former George W. Bush, chief of staff and speechwriter, says Joe Biden. He keeps talking about how his son Beau died, and he just can't stop talking about it. Um and and it says tragic loss of his son six years ago to natural causes to cancer, a brain tumor. Terrible, horrible story, And he keeps talking about that when he's talking about Gold star families, and, um someone would like to remind him that he's not a gold star father. His son, Beau, died of natural causes here in the United States after serving in Iraq as a lawyer. And the judge advocate General Corps, the JAG Corps. He was a JAG officer. They say that quickly. Um and, um And the headline is today. Biden is not a gold star father and should stop playing one on TV, George W. Bush's chief speech writer said. In a scathing opinion piece for the Wall Street Journal. William McGurn, the chief speechwriter for former President George W. Bush, eviscerated President Biden for increasingly bringing up his late son, Beau. After American servicemen and women were murdered by terrorists in Afghanistan. McGurn snapped. Mr Biden is not a gold star Father and should stop playing one on TV. Yesterday I shared with you the sentiments of many of the Gold star parents now not, uh, the title anyone wants. The parents of.
Life Transformation Radio
"marine corps" Discussed on Life Transformation Radio
"Their purpose and die for them. Seems to impact the world through a speaking coaching filmmaking and you see what he did. There skydiving. Ira welcome to life transformation radio, what's going on Rob doing brother? I'm doing good. I'm doing good. Glad to have you here so I guess the theme would be dream. Diving overcoming fear man, I love it. I love it. Well so you've done a life in a very short amount of time. And first of all, I just like to dive in. What was it? Like in the Marine Corps? Like that was so what got you to go into the Marine Corps? First of all, Do you have a great question? First of all, man, thanks so much for having me here on your incredible show, man. I'm honored and I'm humbled to be here with you to serve you. When you're awesome audience, what got me to go to Marine Corps? Well, you know, as simple, Rob grown up really feeling purpose, lost, right? Like feeling like that guy when he was handing out purpose and dreams. He skipped over me. And so I kind of grew up feeling that well, to middle child, you know, got separated from my birth mom, at a very young age. She was, you know, addicted to drugs. And my father took us got remarried to a woman who I called my mother. Today who took us in and rage just middle child. My older brother was phenomenal Rob and everything he touched a scholar. My younger sister was the princess and they were I was in the middle lost in the sauce. Wow the most of my life and so I was kind of just all over the place until I hit High School. I joined the Marine Corps ROTC which gave me a lot of structure and you know, I started to see some glimpses of who I was created to be their birth. I wasn't picking up on the clues yet, but I, I enjoy the leadership. I enjoy the inspiration and I said, man, I don't want to go to college cuz I feel like I'll waste somebody's money, right? I'm going to go there and do what college is for, right? But I can see myself taking this into from pretend Marine Corps. In high school too, real Marine Corps, and, and be a successful and took this video of a drill instructor and recruit training and boot camp. And I was like, wow,.
Less Than Average Podcast
"marine corps" Discussed on Less Than Average Podcast
"Provide those free programs and services much like you said which is part of our alumni program which is we give warriors and their families experiences nights out right things that you know. They might normally not get to do. We also offer a wide variety of programs and services thirteen including mental health services warriors to work All kinds of different programs services really to help them achieve their next mission right whether they're Out of service into Being in civilian or they've been out for a while and they're they're in need of assistance were released. Set up there to to help them. At whatever part of their journey their ad really kinda take them to their next to the next mission. Yeah that's so big man. People are realizing. I think a lot of my viewers are not veterans and a lot of people on which aren't veterans. But there's one thing you just hit on. Something really crucial right. There's at that winter in the marine corps the service generally you have this mission mindset and a lot of times people get out They don't have a mission anymore. And i actually of dealing with that right now. My brother-in-law just got back from okinawa three weeks ago. So it's very new. He just got home and so three weeks ago. Four weeks ago here. He is a month ago. Living the marine corps. Life living in the barracks on-duty working two three weeks later he's home and having to restart his life almost and it's a trying time in this happened. This is now uncommon for everybody. You know it's not that you have a job lined up half the time when you get out so you just kind of flounder for a bit. I think what you said is unusual. Having that mission is giant. I guess you kind of just like yeah. Here's your d to fourteen. Now go like wait. Well good luck to you no longer no longer take no no Right place right time right uniform. That's gone luckily my wife Fiancee at the time was like you can have one day on the couch. And after that you know you're getting out there so she was like walking to go one day. I had where i got to. I just like later on the couch. I didn't do anything i you know. I just got three years in. And i was like man. I'm i just want one day..
KTAR 92.3FM
"marine corps" Discussed on KTAR 92.3FM
"That guy, too. Nobody likes Jimmy Jimmy's For all you out there. He's a great guy. More family time. I like to spend time with my family. I like board games. Stuff like that. So it's nice to be able to be around when other people are off work and be able to do that. Um, self responsibility on that can profit from my own genius. Hmm? Yes, Profiting in which is our forefathers said that every person should be able to profit from their own genius. But when you're working for somebody else, they're profiting from your genius. And you're getting paid the same as every other And that's just another transition. Right? Eh? So I kind of, uh, those air. You're 11. Well, no, I have more. There's something that's not there was more that was eight. Those eight, Okay, so free time goes back to work. It's work whenever I want. The same thing is free time. Basically, it's just If I get up in the morning, and I said, You know, I want to trade this today. I don't have to traded at that point. I can trade it whenever I feel like I want to trade it. Right? Um, number 10 was using capital I make to invest in other fields, not just the market, So, Yeah, You may always invest in the markets, but you could always go to real estate. You could go toe, maybe starting her own business. I mean, you can go and do other things, but understanding investing opens up those worlds to you exactly. Number 11. I am anti social. I don't necessarily like to talk to people all day long, even though I talked to him on the radio all the time. But on number 12 is no large crowds. That's ah. It's big for you Lay over from my last job. I don't like large crowds. So, uh, that's kind of good that without having a job, I don't have to do that. So it's on my list is kind of the same. Let's let's go through them, okay? Number one. You can work in your pajamas. Yes. Yeah. Hard to do in office environment tend to judge you, right? All right. You can make your own hours and the reason that I say this is because you own your time. You're not selling your time. When you work for somebody, you sell your time, and that's what you're paid on. You work for yourself? It's not necessarily in the number of hours you work. It's you own. What? You a construct What you accomplished during that time? Good. Yeah. You get to talk to people when you want, so you and I have some of the same tendencies there. You better taxes if you know what you're doing. If you're a professional, you can control your taxes. Not so true. When when you're working for somebody should have been a realist. I didn't. I should've had that distressed Number five. You dictate your own risk. When you work for somebody, somebody else dictate you risk. I think that goes back to the self responsibility that I had. Yes. You have to be responsible for whatever action you take, not whatever your co workers take. Here's a big one for me. Private toilet. You get your own private toilet. Now, do you wanna explain to me why that? Well, okay, this harkens back to my Marine Corps days Because here I am. You know, in the Marine Corps in in in training environments, they do have the toilets, but they don't have doors. On the stalls..
C-SPAN Radio
"marine corps" Discussed on C-SPAN Radio
"But you had to address many levels of guilt through this this book from from not being home when when your brother was killed, too. Lived in your battle buddies behind when your brother was killed to, um, being pulled entirely from from the battle, and it led you to a dark place from tell us a little bit about what your journey has been since then, because that's that's a moment. You know when maybe you could describe a little bit about what happened that night and where you've come since then, you know, I think that you just articulated it very well. I think the survivor's guilt Compound it for that reason, because of multiple instances where I On being away from my marines for for two weeks at a time. I've felt guilty every day, and I was up all night just about every night while I was gone thinking about them and like praying to God that No one got hurt while I was absolutely And so as we talked about in the book getting back to them, I was just such a relief and it was like one of the best feelings in the world. And that That my oldest friend in the Marine Corps was on potion. I won the first place. I went to see where's Johnson said he's up on post like climb a ladder and ran up there. And, you know, having a response and like being with you is crazy as it sounds. It felt like Justice. Good is going home in so many ways. You know the relief was gone and several. I think leaving the Marine Corps or leaving the infantry or being on deployable are restricted from Victor units of global units. It was like the girl came back, and so I struggled for for many years with it, and we're doing instructor jobs, even though I stayed in the Marine Corps. Um He's doing kind of odds and instincts and things that I didn't sign up for you. No, I signed up for built that ammunition. And so I felt rocking in. Um, Michael s Sumerian say in some ways it really maybe you know when it's threatened me on a downward spiral. And eventually it's gonna You know, that kind of thinking is gonna I think of eventually it'll become something. It's just a self pity. You just feel sorry for yourself. And once you once you get to that point, it's that's where it's going to start accelerating real quickly by wise, three wise men and And then you know, there's there's moments and on the way you're talking about the scene when you're talking about towards the conclusions. You know, I still haven't got a lot of things and I thought about Ben. And you know suffered. But you know the ones that he did 8 to 10 rounds. Chest, Max and growing and when they amputations, what the hip to the hip and he was still I'm fighting for every last breath and I just, you know, said Ben's gonna fight for every impossible breath and you're looking at this option and just And that's when you know Jenny and Ben's last moments, their legacy and everything that they that they did. And I was it just made me You're like, No, This is not gonna be a you're going to keep going. You're gonna fight. You know, bacon flight that I could fly. I'll keep like Other things you've done since then. That help Kelly Kennedy. Okay, You carry it? Yeah, There's a lot of things and one is trying to her. In Ben's example. Trying tow, you know, get back in my faith. Stop blaming God for me Personally, I'm a Christian. So that's something But whatever your faith is, and you're just getting grounded and making sure that you're taken care of. But yourself, Heart, mind and soul. And and then you know, you know, we say in the Marine Corps, you know, there's no such thing as an ex Marine, and just, you know, former actor And, you know, reconnect with that family, like doing sports writing process is helping exponentially. Because you're doing the research for this Now. I have you know, we connected to that entire Platoon, almost all but just a few guys I found you. And now we have, like, you know, a couple of 20 member text changed and you know, he just annoy each other and that little stuff like they're just still sharpened steel on staying connected. And then tell me you probably have have been some guiding their as well. Just step that part of the this story. Imagine that. That was a tough interview that day. Um, as a writer, where the things that you did for yourself, Tonto kind of help yourself through the writing of something that's a dramatic story. Sure. Absolutely. Um, I'm not gonna lie. It kept me up many nights as well. And I still think about it, Um, this story and a lot of the previous stories that I have the honor of being helping others till, uh, You know, I think a lot about van. I think about Jeremy, too, of course, but I think a lot about what then did have knowing that his brother had already passed away. His big brother went back for multiple deployments away from his family away from Tracy away from young, Luke Bryan and Kaylen. And was willing to do that, in fact, so hard while he was there and save so many lives, including, you know, just hours before he was shot minutes that And then to battle so hard after he had been wounded for six days in the hospital, and I think about his wife, Tracy and both flying to Germany and being with him in his final moments, and those are not things that You can usually put out of your mind and frankly, I don't want to put them out of my mind because it's a reminder post civilian like me of what someone I've never met was willing to do to protect. My family and other families like mine. Tom Sileo, co author. Three wise men.
KIRO Radio 97.3 FM
"marine corps" Discussed on KIRO Radio 97.3 FM
"Got talent warriors raising awareness of people who served you got wounded. Do you volunteered for them? Or I was wounded back in 2000 and four you served? Yes, sir. Well, I was in the Marine Corps. I do a good job of hiding it. Oh, my gosh. What happened? I was I was a machine gunner, and I ran In a little town called Ar Ramadi and I got blown up. What was that? Like, man? Where you just super stoked? And did you know that women in the crowd were like swooning over? You know, so the way they make that with any performance, What you want is no lights. Is the actual theater with spotlights on you. So you're the center of attention, but in this case not only with islet at being blinded by lights, but on top of that I had Palley Mandel and Howard Stern and Heidi Crume and I'll be sitting in front of me. You know, casually to the most beautiful women that have ever walked the earth ever. Um and then on top of that, you know Howard Stern, the biggest radio horses, biggest radio personality that's ever been host. Uh Super talented dude, Kelly Mandel being sitting in the corner being super awkward. But he was great. They were all great. I you know, most of that whole first percentage was me trying not To lose my mind staying home any time she goes in vain. Any time she goes away, then you can really see your boy's happiness. It was e want tomorrow that Eddie, you're singing. I think it's beautiful. You sing with a lot of feelings and a lot of passion. And I love your smile. I thought you were great. Thank you..
ESPN Chicago 1000 - WMVP
"marine corps" Discussed on ESPN Chicago 1000 - WMVP
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860AM The Answer
"marine corps" Discussed on 860AM The Answer
"Years at the crossroads of the Marine Corps teaching at Quantico. Just because you've been a marine doesn't mean you're necessarily an honorable man. One of them who isn't his lapdog, Jim Mattis, his reminder of just how badly he betrayed his oath. James Mattis. Otherwise known as Mad Dog. By the way, my dog That appellation. It's a lie, and I'll tell you why. He gave a statement to the Atlantic A rabid, never trump. Rag. I'm going to pick some of the sentences that he gave in his holier than thou. Statement. Which he did in reaction to the president, United States. Walking. Across Lafayette Place. After an evening of destruction in Washington, D C. To the Episcopal Church of ST John. That people who said they were protesting the death of George Floyd Actually tried to burn to the ground. He goes on. The roads, the moral high ground that ensures a trusted bond between men and women in uniform on the society that they are sworn to protect. The moral ground. Moral ground. Where is the moral ground? What a black federal protection services officer Patrick Underwood. Shot in the head murdered. My ride is, you know, tent Is that a moral Aspect to that. I'd like you to illuminate that for us. The warrior monk priest off the Marine Corps Mad dog, Mattis. This one really took some balls. You're right. We are witnessing the consequences of three years without mature leadership. Really? Well, first things first. You didn't have any hesitation in serving in the administration is a Cabinet member off a man who you says lax, mature leadership. What did you do that You So without moral fiber that you just needed to take that off on your resume. Mad dog, Mattis. You were fired. Why? Because you're a coward. I'll tell the world why you're a coward. Mad dog. Well, the president United States decided enough is enough. After 24 years of broken promises. Multiple presidents of United States. We are going to recognize Jerusalem. As the capital of eternal state of his fail. We're gonna move him embassy to it to Jerusalem. What did you do? I was in the White House and I know What did you two mad dog? Mattis worry a monk. You told the president and the assembled Cabinet members. Mr President. Don't move the embassy. For if you do You're going to trigger World War three. In the Middle East. And I don't have enough Marines to God or are all our embassies. So do it. Mr President. That's your version of mature leadership being a coward. Lastly, Come to Maris. To the never Trumper rag that is the Atlantic. We are better than the abuse of executive authority that we witnessed in Lafayette Square. Funny how you see that as an abuse of executive authority in it. So cue. Mad dog. It's so Stimulates you to give an announcement a statement. When avowedly anti Maga organ Abuse of Executive authority really? That That's what it was for you. I seem to miss your statement to anybody on the abuses off Executive authority from the man you used to work for Who fired you? Good barrack Obama. I can think of many abuses of authority. But I don't have the time to list them all from the I. R s being used to target conservative Americans because they're conservatives. The Department of Justice under Obama, providing weapons to drug cartels in Mexico under the fast and furious operation. To the sale of 20% of our nation's uranium against statute. When Hillary Clinton was chairman of the city is a committee that have to approve that sail on her husband had just received half a million dollars for one speech from the same Russian company that acquired that uranium. Missed that statement to the Atlantic from you. Oh, Benghazi. When Americans died. Because Hillary didn't provide the security requested by Chris Stevens hundreds of times and then Obama and his lackeys lied about it incessantly on the Sunday morning programs, saying, Oh, it's a YouTube thing, and that wasn't Al Qaeda was spontaneous. Well, your statement, then you hack When the last Lee executive abuse of power Miss your statement to the mainstream media when a three star general Oh, I know he's not a Marine, but maybe you could care if he's from the Army after 33 years of service was targeted. For framing and abuse. Losing his home $3 million worth of legal fees. When did you speak out about Mike Flynn? Mad dog, Mattis. You're in a front, not just to the devil Dogs of Quantico. But the real Americans who care about real abuses of power. Go to hell. Mad dog! Mattis. I'm Sebastian Gorka. This'll is America first on the Salem radio network. Tell me why, Willie. Thank you is so successful in.