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Nate McDonald

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We welcome a unique veterans service organization to the program and the Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of the Irreverent Warriors, Nate McDonald, to the show. Nate served in the Marine Corps as an intelligence officer and used his own experience to work for this group. Irreverent Warriors seek to link warriors together through therapeutic events across the country. We also work with other veteran organizations who provide services such as job placement, training, housing, service dogs and more. Their use of humor and dark comedy is bringing veterans together using that humor and camaraderie to improve their mental health and to prevent veteran suicide.

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Zephrine Hanson

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We welcome yet another award winner from Bob Evans Farms’ “Heroes to CEOs” grant program, with retired Air Force photojournalist Zephrine Hanson. Medically retired in 2004, she began a healing journey, along the way she welcomed 3 neurodiverse children to her already atypical life. In 2016, Zephrine, her husband, and children moved to Denver to continue the healing journey. After completing a life-changing therapeutic horticulture farm program for veterans, Zephrine pivoted into the agricultural community focusing on food security and entrepreneurship for underserved communities in the Denver metro area.

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James Hollon

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We welcome US Marine Corps Staff Sergeant James Hollon (Ret.) to the program to discuss both his military service in the Corps, and how his own injuries he sustained during five combat deployments affected his daily life and how he decided to do something to not only help himself navigate his own transition process to civilian life, but how that could go to helping others in the same predicament with the founding of his non-profit, Set Apart Farms.

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Tim Kennedy

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We welcome a retired Green Beret, Tim Kennedy, to the show to talk about his decision to join the military on September 12th, 2001, and how that decision has led him on the path to where he is today. Make sure to check out the new book “Scars and Stripes: An unapologetically American Story of Fighting the Taliban, UFC Warriors, and Myself” by Tim Kennedy for the story of a great American.

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Major Fred Galvin

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“A Few Bad Men: The True Story of U.S. Marines Ambushed in Afghanistan and Betrayed by America” is the incredible true story of an elite team of U.S. Marines set up to take the fall for Afghanistan war crimes they did not commit—and their leader who fought for the redemption of his men. We welcome the author of this book, and a figure central to the story, Major Fred Galvin, to the show to talk about his experience not only as a soldier but to defend and clear his and his men’s name in the longest Marine Corps trial in its history.

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Phil Rosenthal

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We welcome the creator of “Everybody Loves Raymond” and “Somebody Feed Phil” the #1 Food and Travel program on Netflix, Phil Rosenthal to the show. Randy and Phil talk about his world travels and how he explores other people’s cultures through his stomach on his show, now entering its 5th season on Netflix.

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Joe Mantegna

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The National Defense is happy to welcome once again, as we do every year this time of year, Tony Award-Winning Actor Joe Mantegna to talk about his cohosting work with Gary Sinise for the National Memorial Day Concert in Washington D.C.. The event is back live this year after a two-year dance of accommodating pandemic measures, and Joe talks with Randy about what viewers tuning in on their local PBS station can expect from him and Gary Sinise.

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Lt. General Larry Jordan

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We welcome retired Lieutenant General of the U.S. Army, Larry Jordan, to the program. Lt. General Jordan will be giving a speech as part of the Memorial Day remembrances as well as to help open up “Black Citizenship in the Face of Jim Crow” a traveling exhibit at the National World War I Museum in Kansas City, MO. You can livestream the event at theworldwar.org/live

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Kelly Carlin

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The National Defense welcomes the daughter of the late George Carlin, Kelly Carlin to talk about the new documentary series “George Carlin: American Dream” available on HBO and streaming on HBO Max. Randy and Kelly talk about the career and legacy of her father and relates some of the private stories that shaped his on-stage style and his comedic sensibilities, as well as how Judd Apatow came to direct this documentary about one of America’s favorite comics.

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Eric Engquist

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We welcome the Vice President of Marketing for USAA, Eric Engquist, to talk about just a handful of the Memorial Day remembrances that USAA is helping to facilitate all across the country. USAA is back on the National Mall in Washington D.C. with the Poppy Wall of Honor; a temporary installation honoring the more than 645,000 American service members who gave their lives in service to our nation since World War I. Thanks to Eric for his, and USAA’s, continued work in serving active-duty military members, veterans, and their families.

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