Hello, my name is Chris Hockey and welcome to the Power Trip podcast.

I guess the continuation of the after-party podcast, it is Veterans Day.

Happy Veterans Day to everybody who served out there.

Thank you very much.

If you heard the end of the Power Trip Morning Show, you heard Bruce Richardson, Samuel Verdeha, and John Donovan on, three friends of mine who are part of the fabulous Armadillo is What's Going On Experience, a show that we put on that celebrates the music of the Vietnam

era, but also gives an opportunity for those three gentlemen to tell their stories of serving

our country. Bruce and Samuel were both in Vietnam. John served three tours, two in Iraq and one in Bosnia.

Had an opportunity to get to know these guys, and they have stories to tell and

wanted to give them an opportunity to tell those stories.

So if you didn't hear the last 35 minutes of the Power Trip Morning Show, I encourage you

to listen to that, and then begin to listen to this podcast as well, because we're going

to talk for about an hour,

not only about their service,

but their life after being in Vietnam and being at war and how the opportunity to tell their stories has helped them.

So thank you for tuning in.

Once again, Bruce Richardson, Samuel Verdeja,

and John Donovan are my guests on this edition

of the Power Trip After Party.

So in case you didn't hear the part of the power trip at the end of the show there, we have

Bruce, Samuel, and John in here, and we'll continue our conversation on Veterans Day and

kind of delve a little bit deeper into your service and not only the service

of each of these individuals, but life after conflict.

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