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Today's episode of zero block 30 is brought to you by our friends at Starbucks. Once again,

not just brought to you by, but presented by Starbucks believes that veteran active duty

and military spouses make our community better. We have a ton of things coming up and

close to Tuesday shows that are also brought to you by Starbucks. So now that we're on a two

a week schedule, that's because our friends at Starbucks are hooking us up. Since 2004,

there's been this nasty little rumor about Starbucks and not really a little rumor. It's a huge

rumor. It was rampant. It was rampant. It was all over. It was all over Facebook back in the day.

And as you know, Facebook memes when they're there, they're true.

Yep. 100% except for their years of late night. I mean, they're usually definitely not true at all.

They said that the Starbucks doesn't support veterans or support the war or anything like that.

But they sent tons and tons, literal tons of coffee to deployed members all over the globe. And not

only that, but they're hiring military veterans and their spouses. So far, they've hired 17,000

veterans and military spouses and have a commitment to hire at least 25,000 by 2025. And the past year

of loan Starbucks is donate to 2.5 million cups of coffee to deployed service members.

I mean, and that's just so important whenever you're there. Coffee is the lifeblood of a unit when

you're, yeah, yeah, if you don't, if you're a box, you know what, you could be if you are a

deployed member and you get one of those 2.5 cups of 2.5 million cups of coffee,

if you take my tutorial on how to make cold brew and you're slinging cold brew around your

bivouac sites or around your cans and Iraq or Afghanistan, you would be the hero of whatever.

You want to talk about getting room awards? We're going to talk about that later in the show.

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