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The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show

Staff Sgt. David Bellavia: The Only Living Medal of Honor Recipient from the Iraq War

The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show

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Politics, News, Society & Culture, News Commentary, Daily News

4.511.4K Ratings

🗓️ 10 October 2023

⏱️ 194 minutes

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Summary

This episode is kind of a “betweener”— part Normal Folks and part our special series Supporting Greatness. It may seem like a stretch to call a Medal of Honor recipient normal, but he wasn’t some big wig general, literally went house to house clearing insurgents in Iraq, and it’s not like he campaigned for the medal. But we definitely wanted to interview David about who’s supported him and he powerfully talks about his grandfather, his dad, the men he served with in the “Ramrods”, and a Gold Star mom. 

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0:00.0

So now it's like happy Veterans Day. I'm like, well yeah, but it's not directed at me.

0:10.9

It's directed at the other guy that wears camouflage and low crawls to the coffee machine.

0:15.2

You know that guy he wants everyone to know he's a vet.

0:18.4

He's got his you know airborne wings on his car and he's that after be...

0:21.8

I'm not I'm staying low. Then this phone

0:25.7

call comes and it's like this is all happening and I'm thinking well maybe it's not

0:31.6

really happening maybe there's a way to do this on the

0:34.7

down low maybe you can say no maybe you can say I don't need it I'm good thanks give it to

0:39.2

someone else and when that news broke and I had like a guy at work that was like you're not going to believe this

0:45.5

There's a guy with your name

0:48.7

Getting the metal of that

0:50.7

But he was like you it can't be you.

0:54.4

You're the guy that is on my fantasy football league.

0:58.4

You're not that guy.

1:11.8

Welcome to an army of normal folks. I'm Bill Courtney. I'm a normal guy. I'm a husband. I'm a father. I'm an entrepreneur and I've been a

1:16.0

football coach in inner city Memphis and the last part it unintentionally led to an Oscar for the film about our team.

1:23.4

It's called Undefated.

1:26.3

I believe our country's problems will never be solved by a bunch of fancy people

1:31.3

in nice suits talking big words that nobody uses on

1:34.7

CNN and Fox but rather by an army of normal folks us just you and me deciding

1:40.5

hey I can help that's what Staff Sergeant David Bellevia, the voice we just heard, is done.

1:47.0

Now, David isn't exactly normal. This guy, he's a Medal of Honor recipient.

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