Vincent "Rocco" Vargas - Episode 137

Citizen Podcast

Tetherball Academy Media

Education, Society & Culture

4.9 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 23 October 2023

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

Former Army Ranger and medic for the US Border Patrol, Vincent "Rocco" Vargas joins this episode of Citizen. This former Drinkin' Bro's Podcast host discusses his life as a father, how his kids gave him purpose again, and his 7 years as a Border Patrol officer.

Rocco's book "Borderline: Defending The Home Front" is out now.

https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250285577/borderline

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0:00.0	Everyone goes, why didn't he call me?
0:01.5	I was like, because no one's thinking about calling nobody at the time.
0:03.8	They're fucking in it.
0:04.9	They're in it.
0:05.4	They're in this crisis moment where everything is fucking,
0:08.4	fuck the world.
0:09.8	Fuck it, you know?
0:12.0	Let's go.
0:20.0	Welcome to Citizen. We've got a special guest today.
0:21.0	Vincant Rocco Vargas.
0:25.3	You may have heard of him.
0:26.3	How's it going?
0:27.3	Good man.
0:28.3	Welcome to Texas.
0:29.3	Thank you, thank you.
0:31.3	I got back as fast as I could.
0:33.0	Back from where?
0:35.0	You know, we were in Utah for a while.
0:37.0	Yeah.
0:38.0	About seven years, but when I went to Utah, I was living in El Paso at the time still.
0:41.0	But you didn't live in, did you live in LA? No I never did. I did the
0:46.4	commute the whole time. You know all seven years of that. That's not bad. Six years
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