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All right, everybody.

This is Evan from Free Range.

I've got Joe Kent, the one, the only brother from another mother sitting here from the great state of...

Where are you from, Joe?

We're in Washington State.

I know.

So, Washington State right now, and I've talked about this for a while, Washington State is fucking loopy as hell. What the hell's going on out there, man?

Well, I think like a lot of America, we have a lot of good patriotic Americans that are in more rural communities or in smaller town, but we're kind of being held hostage by one urban

center that's ran by absolute lunatics. He gets to pick our governor and a lot of our state

legislation, unfortunately. Yeah, and here's the great thing about Joe is he actually knows a few

things about the country. He knows a few things based on his individual service. The sacrifice both his family is made

for this country and he cares about it. Not only does he care about it, but he loves America.

So give us a bit of your background for the people that don't know who Joe is. Just give us your

as long as you want to take on your bio man like tell us tell us all

about it wait this from right here in the pacific northwest um far back as i can remember i think like a lot

of people listening to this podcast um wanted to join the military go forth and serve the country

so this is pre-9-11 um but i was really inspired by the 1993 Blackhawk Down incident that kind of put me on my

career path to want to be an Army Ranger and special operations. So turned 18 and went off. I got to

go do just that, started out in Ranger Battalion, and then went special forces. Was in the SF,

the Special Forces Qualifications course when 9-11 happened. So we got to go kind of right into the game of war right away.

Went to fit special forces group.

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