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Welcome back to a brand new episode of the Bold American podcast.

I don't know why I sat kind of like half singing that.

It's good.

Whatever.

We're rolling with it.

Boys Night, me and Robert here.

Ryan is out doing Fancy Pants, CEO, TMF, Travis Vanyan Foundation stuff.

So it's just the fellows.

And listen, at the top, I just want to say, blanket, feels like the news has been utterly repetitive, in a lot of ways, negative.

And the goal of this show was always to report on the news that was relevant to the military

and veteran and Americans at large, but also to be inclusive.

And it feels like just due to the nature of the news,

it hasn't been as inclusive of late.

So at least tonight, we're just going to assume you already know what's going on in the world

and we're going to talk about a few other lighter topics to include the tweet that I saw that talked about, what are the must watch

American movies ahead of America's 250th birthday?

Some news in the game show world.

There are these influencers, I guess we call them, or MBA students, veterans who are working

towards their MBA, who are trying to be influencers, I don't know, I want to talk about it.

And then I had a great interview with Al from the pause of war. That's pause as in the pause of a dog, dog pause,

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