ZBT #199: General Don Bolduc
Bold American Pod
Barstool Sports
4.7 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 13 September 2019
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
On this very special edition of ZBT we are joined by Brigadier General Don Bolduc. Bolduc led the first units into Afghanistan in the months after 9/11, and did so on horseback. He's also running for Senate in the state of New Hampshire. In the interview we touch on the Afghanistan War, leadership principles, defeating the mental health stigma, and so much more!
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, zero block 30 listeners, you can find us every Tuesday and Friday on Apple podcasts, |
| 0:05.0 | Spotify and YouTube. Pride members can also listen ad free on Amazon music. |
| 0:10.2 | Today's edition of zero block 30 is going to be a little bit different. We are going to abandon |
| 0:14.3 | our rounds in the magazine. The range is dry. The range is dry. ceasefire, ceasefire, |
| 0:20.9 | unload show clear. Are you serious, devil, Doug? Yeah, I'm serious. I just came from the army. |
| 0:25.3 | I counted all those rounds out. That did suck. I know that you want to go down further |
| 0:30.0 | this, but I do want to say that when you had to do that, if you were ever an explosive driver, |
| 0:34.7 | and you get all the rounds, you show up early as fuck, and then something happens, |
| 0:38.4 | like lightning shows up at the range. And you're like, I woke up in two 15 years this morning |
| 0:45.7 | to get all of this shit. That is no worse. I drove to an ammo supply point once. I had to get up |
| 0:51.2 | at three in the morning, drive to the ammo supply point. One of my headlights is out. They wouldn't |
| 0:55.2 | let me into the ammo supply point. I had to go all the way back to the other. And then your first |
| 0:57.8 | audience pissed at you. Like the whole range, like piss at you because they can't get there. |
| 1:01.9 | Or whenever you show up and they're like, oh, there's lightning within five. We can't do it. |
| 1:05.6 | We're after weight. And then they say, oh, let's just reschedule everybody go back and do platoon |
| 1:11.0 | level shit, get all your training done. And then we'll be back here. We're going to reschedule the |
| 1:14.9 | rain for tomorrow Thursday. And then in your mind, as the ammo driver, like I got to do this again. |
| 1:19.9 | That is what happened though. This morning, I went to our zero block 30 ammo supply point. |
| 1:24.4 | I went to get a couple rounds. I was turned away at the gate. Your time on the range. |
| 1:29.1 | I was on. I was actually on time. And then I got turned around by PFC Bren, Man in the Gate. |
| 1:34.3 | He was just being a dick. So he said, turn back around. So now I guess we're going to have to do |
| 1:37.7 | platoon shit. Let's do Friday, Friday platoon room. Yeah, we're going to do a little platoon room |
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