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Day 13,727 - Veterans' Day Warm-Up.mp3
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Happy morning Monday.
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Happy Monday morning.
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I don't know, just quarterbacking over here.
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Made some French press coffee this morning.
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I'm feeling awesome.
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Have a potential new local business owner that I was talking to the other day and he gave me some of his sample.
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some of his stuff to sample, and that won't be ready for a couple of days.
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So I figured I'd take some of my old espresso beans and try to make my way through some old stock and make room for some, new delicious coffee to try.
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And well, with that said, it's the day before veteran's day.
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And it gets me to an important point.
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I wanted to do this a day early.
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I mean, I still want to do like a veteran's day podcast, but I
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I feel like most people don't know what veteran's day is.
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Like, when you're a little kid, right?
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What's Labor Day?
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What's Memorial Day?
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Like, you know, what's this?
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What's that?
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Like, you know, well, what does, you know, what does Labor Day mean when it, like, why can't you wear white clothes after Labor Day?
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Or, you know what I mean?
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Or it's one of those like, you're a little kid, you don't know, right?
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And nobody really truly explains it, you know, at least
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Repetition is important, right?
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You send your kids to school.
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What is on average, 10 to 15% of what you learn in a day is retained.
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So it's like, hey, kids, we're learning numbers.
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Like, well, then why the hell do we spend 12 years beating numbers into kids' heads?
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So that they remember and retain all the information that we do to maneuver and manipulate numbers and the numbers themselves and how to add them, multiply them, divide them.
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Like we spend 12 years doing that.
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Because you got to think like day one, like this is the number one, like
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Okay.
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so if you go one through 10, the kids are gonna remember like one to two numbers, right?
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Like, okay, well guess what?
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We're gonna do it again.
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Well, you spend one day going over Memorial Day, Labor Day, veteran's day, and it's just one of those things, like people don't know what it is.
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And
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with the divisiveness in our country now, and I think divisiveness is handy.
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I mean, it's more about the debate, right?
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So if I debate you on why you voted for whatever president you just voted for, if I debate you on some topic on the internet, if I troll you, know what I mean?
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Like, yeah, sure, there's divisiveness, but at the end of the day, we're all Americans and we should have a common American pride.
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And the downside is that this divisiveness is not leading
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When I was in the comic council, we used to, there was nights that like all, like we'd get along and then all of a sudden there's nights that we'd like scream and yell at each other over budgets.
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And then at the end of the meeting, it's like, you know, I would calm down and then I'd be like, how am I gonna go talk to these people again?
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Like I just got in a screaming match with them.
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And then like we would talk the next day and it was like, or we talk later on, you know, and it was like,
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nothing had happened, right?
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And it's like, and people, I think people forget that.
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They're like, oh, I can't get in an argument with this person because they're on the internet.
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And then you get on the internet and they're like, they start fighting and it's like, oh, this person just trolled me and I hate them.
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They're now my mortal enemy.
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And it's like, well, it's because you didn't have an in-person dialogue with them.
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But
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let's remember that moving forward.
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But that divisiveness has also gotten like, well, I'm going to take this a step further.
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This person's a veteran.
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This person's an American.
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This person doesn't like this.
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person doesn't like that.
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Well, the American system is broken.
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And then you get all these other, these bad actors coming in and manipulating the system to where, like, people don't want to be an American, which is depressing because you have people that are willing to die and fight for our country and our freedoms and all this other, you know, all these great things that
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that make America great.
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And you have people willing to die for that and serve their country, not in the hopes to die, but in the thought that they're doing good in the world.
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And if for some reason something bad happens, you know what I mean?
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Like they're expecting, like if they have to, they will die for our country and our freedoms.
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And so, like you see all the younger generation now, and they're just like, America sucks.
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America's broken.
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America's
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founded by colonists and slavers and blah, blah, blah.
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It's like, no.
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Sure, it was founded by colonists, because we, colonialism and what, but it's like, who cares?
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Every place was colonized by somebody.
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Like, what came first?
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The chicken and egg.
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You want to go down like a philosophical rabbit hole over it?
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No.
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But then like, you can't be like, oh, now we have to hate America, you know?
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Two 150 years later, because, we don't like, because we...
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I don't like with how they started it.
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it's like, well, then why is that an idea?
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Why didn't they do this 50 years after founding?
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Why didn't they do this 200 years after founding?
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Why didn't they do 100, 127 and a half years into it?
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They just said, nah, sorry, you had slaves once.
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We don't think you've redeemed yourself.
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You know, it's like so dumb.
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But anyways, getting back to it.
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This is America and we need to be proud to be Americans regardless of how much we fight on the internet.
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Regardless how many times Kevin trolls you or you troll Kevin, we're Americans and we need to have that American pride.
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Because to fight for our freedoms, to have that national pride, right?
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Like, and that's a pride that's okay to have, right?
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Like to be proud to be an American is a good thing.
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it's okay to be proud to be an American.
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And I don't know, it's just, it's one of those things.
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We've lost it and it's, and we need to, we need to get back to it.
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We need to go back to being a proud country because veteran's day is full of people who have served in our military, alive and deceased.
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And if you will, they were the volunteers.
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right?
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Because these are the people that volunteered to do it so they could get rid of the draft.
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These are the people that did it so you didn't have to.
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But when push comes to shove, and I've talked about this on the show before, in order to fight for our freedoms, like we send all the volunteers first, and let's say something catastrophic happens and all the volunteers get killed or they're losing numbers, they will start pulling people.
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And to the point that like,
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If a war was bad enough and they were coming in, and we haven't had a war on American soil, so I mean, if things were bad enough, and then people are gonna say the war on terror or something, but no, that's a little bit different, but like an active, like deployed troops, if things get bad enough and we lost all the volunteers and all the able-bodied, you know, adults, and then all you have left is like the weak women,
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the stay-at-home moms, the children, all the people that had to stay home for whatever reasons.
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Rosie the Riveter was riveting planes, whatever.
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Like, guess what?
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You're going to either pick up arms or whatever thing that is coming through and wiping us out.
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You're going to have to defend it.
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Or they're just going to decimate because if they're just wiping us out so easily, then essentially why wouldn't they eradicate every living soul on this, on this, on American soil, right?
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And that is the inevitable conclusion of what would happen if we were to lose a war, right?
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Like you would just like, these are all the people, these are all the equipment.
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Okay, they get wiped out.
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Well, what's next?
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Do we get the runner-ups?
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Okay, these are people that don't want to fight, but guess what?
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You're going to have to or you're going to get eradicated because you just stand there and be like, I don't fight no war.
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And then they shoot you.
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know, that's what happens.
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That's what happens in a war.
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All is fair in love in a war.
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But yeah, so if you don't want to be an American,
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like that's that you should be proud to be an American.
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And I guess I want a little rabbit hole there about like veteran's day is about the people that volunteered to potentially die for this country, to die for our freedoms, the people who have died for our freedoms.
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veteran's day is to celebrate those people, the people that like said, hey, I'm going to serve my country.
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I'm going to stand up.
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I'm going to fight for American freedoms.
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I am proud to be an American.
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Those are the people that tomorrow is for.
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And to better celebrate veteran's day, you should be proud to be an American.
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You, the individual, the person who may not have volunteered to fight for your country, to serve your country, the person who did not.
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That's who I'm talking to right now, because veterans know that they're veterans.
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Veterans might be humbled and don't want to be appreciated.
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Maybe they don't need to be appreciated, whatever.
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Like, that's fine.
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But you should still appreciate them.
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That doesn't regard the fact, well, he doesn't want me to.
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Like, I don't care.
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You should want to.
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You should want to show appreciation for the veterans for what they did for our country, the service that they've provided, the service that they have valiantly laid down their lives in a lot of instances to defend your right to live the way that you live today.
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And on that note, I'm going to end today's podcast just under 10 minutes.
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And
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I will see you guys tomorrow, and I hope you have a good and valiant veteran's day.
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Hug a veteran, lay down flowers at a grave site, and we'll see you guys tomorrow.