All right, everybody. Welcome to Kaffiru cast. I've got Frank across from me and we have,

we always say a special guest, but this truly is a special guest. This is someone I'm sure

everyone has heard about in one way, shape, former fashion. And that is Eddie Gallagher. Eddie,

what's happening, man? Not a man. I appreciate you having me on and just giving me a chance to

speak and be on this platform and glad that Mike Glover had connected us. It's awesome.

No, it's good. It's kind of weird how all this

played out. I mean, obviously the news. You know, for those who don't know, I guess I should

give some context. Eddie was falsely accused of war crimes and I'm not going to go into great deal

with that. It was a shit show and I had been fortunate enough when all this was going on to have

friends in the community that I could ask. And the quick response was, you know, basically he's

getting F-dover, he's getting screwed. And I had heard, you know, different versions of the story,

which were all pretty close to the same thing that you were a solid dude and an old school seal

came up a lot. And obviously I'm not in the community just friends. And so as everything kind of

played out, I had met some other, you know, friends of yours later on after everything happened

and you got out and so on and so forth. It kind of confirmed what I had, why didn't read your book.

I listened to your book. Everything in the book was pretty much the same thing. I'm not much of a

reader. So, man, kind of give, if you don't mind, I know you're not a huge braggar, but your history,

you've got a hell of a career. You know, a little bit about that and then obviously kind of dive

into what happened or give people some context to it. Yeah, for sure, man. So I came in the military

at 99, joined the Navy pretty much right out of high school. I took like a year, tried to do

college and realized that that wasn't for me. So I went and listed in the Navy and I did my first

four years as a corpsman, which is a medic with the marueping corps. So I stationed in Jacksonville,

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