Veteran with a Sign Zach Bell | Mike Ritland Podcast Episode 115
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Mike Ritland
4.9 • 6.3K Ratings
🗓️ 16 October 2022
⏱️ 115 minutes
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Summary
"No one listened to me until I held up the sign." That's Zach Bell's outlook anyway - known online as Veteran with a Sign, Zach's got a lot of hot takes about America's military and the heroes who serve. That's why he's sitting down with Mike to talk about his time serving as an infantryman in the Marines, the nightmare reality of his time in Marjah, and how something as simple as putting sharpie to cardboard turned into a movement that's quickly becoming too big to ignore.
Chapters:
00:00 - Intro
02:30 - Lightning-Round Questions
10:00 - Tennessee, Born and Raised
19:30 - LiveLeak Changed Everything
30:30 - The Trouble with Stolen Valor
38:30 - A Parris Island Marine
45:00 - Boots on the Ground in Afghanistan
51:00 - My First Gunfight
57:00 - So We Went to a Wedding
1:03:00 - Hell is on Earth, and it's in Marjah
1:17:00 - On U.S. Withdrawal
1:23:00 - Squad Dog
1:27:00 - Back in the Workforce
1:30:30 - Veteran with a Sign
1:40:00 - Brothers In Arms
1:47:00 - Mike's 'Epstein' Fox News Joke
1:51:00 - What's Next
Support Zach Bell & Veteran With a Sign:
Website: https://veteranwithasign.com
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/veteranwithasign
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/veteranwithasign
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Wrapping presents for so no one gets to peak |
| 0:05.0 | Last minute asks for guests to have a seat |
| 0:08.0 | Race for the best spot to watch the TV |
| 0:12.0 | Chuck the pillows on the floor as a make-to-setty Christmas cake |
| 0:16.0 | Celebrate the chaos this Christmas |
| 0:19.0 | At IKEA, have a Smith |
| 0:21.0 | With everything you need to be a great host |
| 0:23.0 | From tables and seating to gifts, decorations and Swedish treats |
| 0:27.0 | IKEA, the wonderful everyday |
| 0:30.0 | I just want... |
| 0:32.0 | Man, I just want to stop burying my friends |
| 0:37.0 | Have there been a lot that you've lost to suicide since then? |
| 0:48.0 | Or after I did to it |
| 0:50.0 | I summer my whole year |
| 0:55.0 | But in particular my summer is just |
| 0:57.0 | Pock Mart with anniversaries and deaths |
| 1:00.0 | And it's just... |
| 1:04.0 | You know, it's hard, it's hard |
| 1:08.0 | I mean, each time it happens |
| 1:11.0 | Each time it happens, I feel like there's a wall between |
| 1:15.0 | Not doing it and doing it to where like it lessons |
| 1:18.0 | Right, I was looking at this thing, somebody sent me and they said |
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