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This is the admiral show.

Welcome back to the show, everybody.

The gentleman of my left, true American hero, even though he won't admit that he is.

The man to my left is Israel del Toro.

Let me tell you about him.

Israel is a purple heart recipient, has a bronze star, and has become kind of a worldwide known figure because he had an IED go off

on a Humvee that he was in in the military and ended up having about 80% of his body burned

and has turned his life into a testimony of what you can do when you go through a difficult

event and turn it around and inspire millions of people. so I'm really honored thank you for your service number one

and and most importantly thank you for being here today so thanks brother

thank you thanks for inviting me it's good to have you those you that are listening

to this in the audio I would challenge you at some point today to go see the YouTube

version so that you can get an idea to go see the YouTube version so that

you can get an idea of some of the B-roll that we're feeding in and you can get a better flavor for some of the things that Israel's overcome and that he's been through. So thanks for being here, brother. That's my pleasure. Super excited, man. I wish it could have been nicer weather. I know. Well, come all the way here here and it's raining and it's going to be. There's no way to know.

So let's get into a couple things here. You know, I want it before the military because I, you know, we've got to know each other. We share a birthday. All right. So there's a brotherhood there. And we've got to know each other now for the last six, seven weeks pretty well. and we've talked several times. But what I didn't know is that, you know, your childhood wasn't the easiest childhood, even before we get to what happened in the military. Tell us a little bit, share with the audience a little bit about you had to grow up pretty young. So you lost your dad and your mom, basically in back-to-back years as a young man. So tell them about that.

Yeah, you know, I lost my dad when I was 12,

January of 88.

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