Show: Insight Station: KNCO File: 10:6.mp3 Air date: 2026-10-06 Source: OpenAI whisper-1 · shrunk from 98.6 MB to 12.3 MB --- transcript --- Welcome to KNCO Insight, Nevada County Action, KNCO's local issue talk show. This is your chance to gain insight into issues affecting Nevada County. Be a part of the show. Call with your questions or comments. The number, 477-5626, that's 477-KNCO. The opinions expressed are those of the hosts and callers and do not reflect the opinions of the advertisers, staff, or ownership of Nevada County Broadcasters. Now here is your host, Tom Fitzsimmons. Okay, NC News time, just about 907, 72 degrees already, yes, it's going to get into the low 90s again today at the Jason Tedder Ranch, probably mid 90s or so. It was steamy hot yesterday. How was it at your place yesterday, Jason? We used our air conditioner. Is that unusual? We try really hard not to use our air conditioner because it's very expensive. Yeah, it is, and it's amazingly hot. It was amazingly hot yesterday. It's going to be hot again today. For the first week of October, not that it never happens, but it's been plenty warm. So again, if you have errands to do, early part of the day, keep the pets at home, use your common sense. You're going to do weed eating and stuff. You know, you might want to wait until it's a little bit cooler. We appreciate you wanting to get the fenceable space right against your house. Any spark could be an issue right now, so just be cautious out there. If you're doing it, have a water source nearby and take care of things. The other thing that's coming up soon, which I've been anticipating, is we're going to go from this really dry period to all of a sudden really cold, and people are going to start lighting their wood stoves. Very good point. You're going to have to be a little extra diligent this time because usually there's a period of dew in the morning that happens this time of year that will start to bring moisture back into the topsoil. That's not going to be the case this time. Yeah, doesn't seem that way, that's for sure. If you can, bundle up for a while before you start lighting those things. And here's the other thing. If you have those chimneys or stove pipes, whatever your case might be, make sure they're clean. If you're not sure how to do it, there's professionals, some that, I think there's even some organizations, if you need some financial help and stuff, maybe they can help you out with that. Make sure you have a clean flue. Don't do something crazy. I've known people that do some crazy things to try to clean out their flue, and it's not necessarily good. I can't imagine. I mean, I'm trying to figure out what you're saying, but I don't know. Have you never done that? Cleaned out your flue? Oh, never. No. Come on. Twice a year, like religion. But how do you do it different than a brush? I've used a chain before. That works pretty efficiently. Oh, no. I've known people that use certain accelerants, things like that. Oh, I see. I see. Go big or go home kind of thing. Yeah. Yeah. Just think of the logic on that. No, I don't bother trying to think of logic. Let's cause a bigger one. Let's just know it'll take care of everything. You had a neighbor that might have done that. I don't know. I'm not saying what he did or didn't do, but you've had the fire right next to your home. Yeah, that was on purpose. Yeah. I've relayed your story a number of times to people, and they so appreciate your feedback about you doing your weed eating and yard work and all that stuff, and how that fire laid down on your property that was roaring in your neighbor's property, laid down where you saw it, and that was great feedback for everybody. And I will say, I gave that story watching the fire cross over onto my land and turn into what I call a burning cigarette. Yeah, like you said, cigarette embers. It looked like a cigarette burning out slowly along the paper, if you will, but this time it was along the ground. All that material that was three foot tall, and I cut it down, and it just kind of just smoldered out and did nothing. And I had the occasion to talk to the battalion chief in Nevada City a couple of weeks ago, and he said specifically, he said, because you two did your defensible space, you saved your houses, your neighbor's houses, and possibly the neighborhood. Yeah, yeah, because that area, it roars. I mean, look how hot it is right now, right? Yeah. It takes a certain amount of time for them to get there, and thankfully they were there quick enough, they were able to put it out. But if it had been twice as big, who knows what would have happened. So it's a lot of effort, and it's a lot of cost, physical or financially, to go out there and do your defensible space, but so is setting the whole county on fire, so it's worth it. And again, that's a great testimony, too. Just how you're wondering what that means, well, here's a gentleman took care of his yard and his property, and it saved his neighbor's properties. And that's how it works, that's what you kind of believe in each other, right? It's almost like being in the service, like being on a team, whatever, it's like you're there for your brother and sister, that's right shoulder to shoulder with you, you know? Absolutely. After the work, it all kind of works. Yep, and a community as a team. And I figured that Jason's always delayed getting to the seat, because he comes in the door and he's stopped, and there's people taking stuff from him, there's bags, there's exchanges going on. You're making me sound like a drug dealer. It almost is like a drug dealer. So what's with those eggs? What do you mean? You bring in eggs, and people go, Jason's here with his eggs! Well, I'm tickled. I put a lot of effort into making them as wholesome as I possibly can, and I think anytime you really believe in your products, you'll get a good response from it. All right, is this bad weather for your hens that are laying right now, and it's this hot, or does it matter? Well, see, because of the cold nights, they're starting to go into major re-feathering mode. So their protein intake has increased, I have to supplement, and they're changing gear, so they're laying less. Wow, okay. I didn't know that. I figured maybe just with this hot weather, they'd be popping out things like boiled eggs. They're already soft-boiled when they come out. It's hot during the day, but my gosh, it's cool at night, right? I think they're a little confused like the rest of us. What the heck is going on? Yeah. I will say, too, this is me flying by the seat of my pants here, but I think we're going to have a real wet winter, so be ready for that. I mean, we're going to go from this to lots of rain, so make sure your gutters are clean and all that. I didn't grow up here, obviously. I grew up in Jersey City, New Jersey, all right? But El Nino has become like the term for the last 30 years maybe or so. Was it a big term before that, you think? I think as long as I've been aware of it, I've been aware of it. It is an El Nino year, which I've heard everything. It's going to be a lot wetter, maybe snow levels a lot, not a lot higher, but maybe a little bit higher than normal, but it's going to be wet and with us for the whole term of winter time. Well, the one thing, too, whenever you have real extreme jogs in the jet stream, there's a high potential there for those atmospheric rivers to get caught in a polar vortex simultaneously, which is what led to that huge snowstorm in, what was it, 88, no? Yeah, it was something like 88 or 89, yeah, I know what you mean, yeah. So there's that potential, there's that potential there for a huge dump of snow, so I have to be prepared for that. Wasn't that a fun dump of snow for a kid? Oh, that was the best. I mean, do the math, I was six years old, yeah, we were making snow forts and snow tunnels. Yeah, I made snow tunnels for my daughters and stuff in our backyard and stuff. So much fun. Yeah, it was totally fun. It was the best. I loved doing it myself, but the kids really loved it. I can hear a lot of people, a 16 over crowd, cringing right now. Snow four feet, yeah. Yeah, it was, it was amazing, and people out driving because they wanted to experience it and all getting stuck. Oh gosh. I mean, it was pretty amazing. What happens around here? Well, we have a very unique climate. We're a Mediterranean climate. There's huge periods of dry spells in California's geological history and huge spells of wet spells. There have been occasions in the not-so-distant past where the whole valley filled up with water. Down in Sacramento, they were 30 feet under. It's very dreary. Broken levees and all that stuff, yeah, they keep trying to improve them, but nature is nature. So yeah, everything kind of runs down there, eventually gets there, so it has to go someplace. So we'll see how it goes. And by the way, when you were in the Navy, did you serve in the Mediterranean, didn't you? No. So generally speaking, people who are stationed on the East Coast are the ones who go over to the Mediterranean. We have a small base there in Naples, but it's a pretty limited space. So usually the people coming out of Norfolk or Florida are the ones going over there. How about the ones that come out of the Great Lakes? I'm still trying to figure that one out. Yeah, I was trying to figure that out while I was there. That was an interesting thing. The excuse was that that was the biggest draw for the Navy's recruitment. Even a long time ago, it wasn't really easy to move people around by plane. There weren't planes. So they founded that boot camp because that was the most logistically sound spot to bring the sailors that were enlisting. That's a great explanation. And actually, I buy that one more than anything else, just thinking the Canadians are coming across Lake Superior. I never bought that, coming into Lake Michigan, coming down, taking Chicago. No, it was probably actually the other way around. There's all those darn sailors going across the border. I had my hands working like President Trump there for a second. It was going down, doing this, doing that. It looks like you're about to do that little dance he does. Yeah, I can do that. Same build. Anyway, when we come back, talk about the Navy. Talk about your old ship, as a matter of fact. That's Jason Tedder's in the house for the Jason Tedder Show. We'll be right back. Rain or shine, all about gutters and awnings has your home covered. 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Because progress in the operating room should mean progress in your life. Learn more at DignityHealth.org Sierra Nevada Surgery Dignity Health Hello, Humankindness Alright, KNC Newstime, 919.73 degrees. Welcome back to KNC Insight. It is the Jason Tedder Show. It stars Jason Tedder. Hey, good morning, everyone. Great having you here. You're going solo again today. Yep. Not forever. I've got a couple people booked for the next few. Yeah, that's alright, though. What was the first tour that you served on? The primary part of my tour was on the USS Germantown. Germantown. Yeah, it was an LSD. No, it wasn't as fun as it sounds. LSD, that sounds like a latter-day saint. No, that's LDS, I'm sorry. Close. That's psychotropics or whatever. It got decommissioned. It did. I reported it to you guys probably like six months ago that it was going to be decommissioned. It felt pretty weird. I mean, it was an older ship but the Navy had already spent a lot of money on it and the future of naval vessels has been pretty strongly aimed towards littoral combat, which this is an older version of a littoral combat ship. It was designed to haul what are called LCACs. LCACs? Landing Craft Air Cushion. It's basically a huge hovercraft that the Marines used to take beaches. It's able to hold I think it's like two Abrams tanks or a dozen Humvees. Something like that. They're massive. Our ship would hold more than any other class of ship, which was five. We always had a battalion of Marines aboard the ship. That's my affinity for those gentlemen and gentle ladies. Yeah! And all their gear, of course. That was our job, right? Our job was to be that first responder to deliver the Marines onto the beach. Yeah. So there's Whidbey Island class, they're going to decommission all those ships. My ship was pretty old. It was just the backbone of the ship, the very bottom backbone. The starting part was laid in 1984 and then eventually it was commissioned in 1986. So it took about two years to build it. That makes it 40 years old. And at 40 years old in 25 days, despite the many upgrades and arguably need for it, the Navy has decided to decommission it. First off, I found it fascinating. Did you know all those details about the ship or once you got on it you learned those details? Because that's a lot of information to know right there. You know, that's interesting. Yeah, I guess. You become pretty involved in your ship. When you're standing there at the pier looking at that thing, it's so huge. That specific class of ships has more deck plate space per sailor than even aircraft carriers. The scale of it is really really hard to wrap your mind around. And you're looking at this thing and it's so massive. But I tell you you get out there in the ocean and you say, I'm going to take this to war. Man, it just gets smaller and smaller and smaller. What seems so huge becomes pretty intimate. Yes, and it becomes a personal extension of you. For instance, late at night, which I often had to work late at night, when we're out doing things, we run completely dark. So there is not a single light of any kind coming off our ship anywhere. Often I had to go to the outer spaces to access the different rooms where my equipment was housed and it was pitch black. You could put your hand because there is always a marine layer over the ocean so there is no moonlight getting through. You could put your hand in front of your face two inches away and you'll never see it. That's crazy in itself. So how did you walk around? You memorize the steps, you memorize the distances, it's so crazy. It's like a blind person. The ship is moving the whole time and rocking back and forth. I had no idea. I could walk across out of what they call a light trap. Every doorway has two doors. Every exterior doorway has two doors. That serves a couple of purposes. It's for safety to contain fire and to contain water tightness to keep water out. The other thing it does is it gives us a light trap. You open one door and there is a chicane of curtains. The whole room is painted black to absorb that light that might escape through. Then you go through the chicane of curtains and there is another door. By the time you get outside it's just pitch black. The ship is rocking around. One of the things they do is lay down a strip of what's called non-skin. It's like an epoxy kind of product that has pumice in it. It's very grippy. If you land on it you'll shred yourself. It'll tear your skin off. Your shoes stick to it pretty good. If you start to wander off that and you're getting too close to being on the painted surfaces and you're like, OK, I've got to turn left a little bit here. That's crazy! To get from one space to another is anywhere from 200 feet to 100 feet or 300 feet. It's all kind of dependent and pitch black with the ship moving around in the middle of the ocean at night where nobody would see you fall over. You're hyper-aware and you're very careful. That's one of those things. I took it for granted. I can tell you're talking about taking it for granted. I can't even comprehend that. I've never experienced something like that. That's pretty awesome that you were able to do that and learn how to do it. It's like a blind person. Yeah, totally. You can't see anything. It's a testament to the sensory overload and why being in the military is so arduous. I always said six years felt like 18 years. I hear this really constantly from people and that's probably one of the reasons why you're pretty much supposed to get out after 20 years. There are strict guidelines of why you can't stay in after 20 years. You have to be pretty senior to be able to stay in the military after 20 years. If you're going to be 30 years in, you're an admiral. You're a general maybe in 06 which is a captain in the Navy. The reason being is if you're just doing your job and you're going to combat and doing those tours and stuff your nervous system can't handle it. It's too much. I will say that sleeping on the ship was that easy? That had to get learned. I'm a very light sleeper and it was pretty bad. There were times where I was up I felt like for 30 days or more. I couldn't sleep at all. There was a lot of noises. Everybody has to be on watch so there's constantly people coming in and out of the berthing and it's really small and everything's metal and crickety and so they'd come in just to go to bed and I'd hear them and it would wake me up every time. To the laymen out there if I had to sleep in something like that or had to walk around blind they'd go, boy, I'm so glad that ship's out of business. But you don't feel that way. You feel like it was part of your being almost being decommissioned. Like you alluded to earlier I think you do develop a personal relationship with the vessel. There's a reason why we call it a woman. Because you do have a relationship with it. It's the only thing keeping you from dying. If a ship sinks unless there's a whole bunch of other ships nearby, unless there's you're not in a war type situation there's a high, high likelihood that you're going to die. You hit that water and it's completely unforgiving and the sharks come out of nowhere you know it's well known and well understood that hitting that water is a death sentence. You're going to hit hypothermia really quick. It doesn't really matter what part of the world you're in. There's only a handful of places where the water's warm enough where you won't get hypothermic very quickly. The sea life being over the middle of the Pacific I think is something that every person if they can manage it there's a lot to go out there we think of our open spaces here on land as being very vast and never ending especially when you go into the middle of the country and you see the flat just going off forever the ocean is so much bigger. As you said that I've done the cruise with my wife but we've always gone up the coast so on one side of the ship it was there other side it was vast That would be something say if you were crossing the Pacific and being in the middle of nowhere Being in the middle of the Pacific is surreal it really is the water is so deep it's so incredibly deep it's taller than any mountain and you look down there and you just go and it's teeming with life my gosh the Pacific it's very clear too the water is so clean there were times where we were going across and I swear I could see down a thousand feet into the water and the color of the ocean water out there is so pure it's really indescribable there's no camera that can do it justice it's one of those kind of things you have to be there to see it So what happens to your decommissioned ship now? Do you quote mothballs that they talk about go someplace and park it I don't have that information my wife asked me the same question it's a good question there's a couple options mothball fleet they'll pull off the gear that's relevant to the fleet right now they'll pull off anything that could be compromised usually these ships will go to an area that's less secure so they'll go through and they'll take off certain things the minimum maintenance possible they try to keep it dry keep air moving around keep it floating look for leaks another option is they'll use it for target practice that happens quite often less so in recent years sometimes they make a barrier reef out of it for whatever reason marine life loves sunken ships I guess it's their way of revenge I'm not sure so that's an option and then of course there's always the turn it into razor blades option I'm leaning towards turn it into razor blades is that a true thing? it's a joke it's talking about cutting it up I think they'll probably cut it up I don't like that option I like the whole thing of a reef I don't mind that well steel is expensive it's cheaper to recycle than to dig into mother earth and try to make more it's a lot of steel I feel kind of weird about it the weirdest part about it is last week I was kind of feeling something I was kind of off and I was thinking about my brothers and sisters a whole bunch to the point that I was trying to seek them out I texted some people that I hadn't talked to in a long time reached out and was trying to connect and find people's phone numbers nothing was working so to bolster some of my legal cases that I'm going to have to do very soon I signed on to one of those it was Truthfinder I don't recommend it to get information on people and I took the opportunity because I was going to cancel it instead of paying for another month and I said I'm going to look some of my old shipmates up and see if I can find their phone numbers and I did and so yesterday, almost all day long I spent talking to my former shipmates and you got a hold of some of them? yeah, people I went to boot camp with and people I served with on the ship and it was them who told me that the ship had been decommissioned last week I had no idea your soul, something was going on in there I haven't talked to these people in years I reached out to half a dozen of them and I haven't this gets a little dark I've been avoiding it a lot because every time I call I'm always scared they're not going to pick up because so many of them killed themselves every time I call and I avoided the subject completely this time but every time I call any of them they tell me, hey did you hear blah blah blah it keeps happening that is a sad thing I appreciate the honesty about that and by the way, we have to take a break we come back when I talk about the stand up, that's a great segue to that because that's what the stand up for vets is about helping out vets even sailors from the navy anyway, we're going to get a news update weather forecast he didn't say anything about the marines trying to get a hold of them we'll be right back more clarifying information will need to be provided for manufacturers and retailers on a particular two wheel vehicle it requires the inclusion of material that breaks down what exactly the bike is capable of there's no further way that a customer can complete a purchase at a vendor and walk out and somehow be surprised that their e-moto is not the e-bike that they thought they were buying and the seasons have changed and soon more people will be coughing and sneezing as respiratory illnesses begin to spread Sierra Nevada Memorial Hospital Chief Medical Officer Dr. Tyler Hill who appeared on the recent regular segment last Thursday says that they will likely be around for a while really October through March is about the six months that we would really start to see respiratory symptoms with the changing weather people being inside more congregating around the holidays travel, etc. Dr. Hill also says that COVID is still around but he says it's dropped out of the headlines he says it still makes people feeling lousy for prolonged periods of time with coughing, fever and general fatigue and he says even though the vaccine may not match flu strains exactly it will reduce the severity of illness and lessen the chance of death. 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It's the Jason Tedder Show It stars Jason Tedder Hey, good morning everyone I just walked past my dog I tried to do some housekeeping after digging in here for 3 or 4 hours The dog is just the laziest dog laying down I kind of envy him to be honest That's a whole other thing Nobody works harder than Jason Tedder You do all this stuff and you're also a student by the way How's the student stuff going as far as you being a lawyer I did the math and I think it's safe to say that I am well, maybe in about 2 weeks I'll be past the halfway point Well, that's something good Psychologically, right? That's a good thing I'm super stoked about that Alright, that's very good Now, as we went I always appreciate the truth that yourself other vets you've had on talked about the issue of suicide and things that happen to vets that return home. It is a tough transition The stand down that started, now we have a stand up for veterans That's one of the things to help out these vets have a place they can have camaraderie again and kind of come together and stuff, because it is obviously an ongoing thing. Nobody talks about it much It gets better with service, just because the issue of suicide has been out there a little bit more in mental health But still it happens, I guess, a lot more to vets I can just tell how it affected you just calling people Yes It's really hard to explain or describe what that trauma looks like unless you've been through it I mean, a great example of that See, what you were doing is almost what people do with reunions coming They haven't seen their high school classmates for a while, so they might do a same people search and all that stuff They don't think about that That's not a normal thing to think about You might think somebody passed away, could have been cancer could have been that, could have been suicide But you wouldn't think that's a thing you have to take a deep breath because you know it's going to be coming up It's a learned experience It's just happened so many times I'm just going through the Rolodex of faces in my head right now It's tough, it's really super tough I will say, leaning into what you were talking about a moment ago that's the key to keeping those soldiers, sailors airmen and marines with us is giving them opportunities to reconnect with the community and more specifically giving them opportunities to reconnect with their service and their fellow service members and organizations like Stand Up and the like are really important to that part of it It feels so empty when you get out of the military Especially if you've been through a lot We talked about your nervous system a little while ago that tempo, that level of awareness and alertness that you have while you're serving and even just being in the military and walking around base, being fully aware that everybody's watching you, making sure you're doing the right things When you are back to your own devices out in civilian world again and you lose all of that and people don't have that same respect for each other because there isn't that same discipline and then maybe you've gained some rank while you're in and you're kind of used to people giving you a certain level of respects and then you go to the store and someone mouths off at you Those are all these It's cumulative, there's all these things that are going to put that pressure on you to reincorporate into the community and so it's super duper tough and it's not intuitive to a warrior to ask for help or think that they need anybody or anything and so it's like hitting a brick wall and the best way to overcome that in my opinion, and I think it's pretty well founded is to do things like stand up, to go out there and to reconnect with your brothers and sisters and the programs and go to the veteran service organizations They're wonderful They have their hiccups, for sure There's a lot of attitudes to navigate I think the biggest downfall of those organizations is that you tend to have people who have never been leaders before and here's their big chance Oh, that's interesting I think that's the best way to put it I'm stealing that from Doug Becker, by the way I think he framed it really well and it doesn't mean that it's a bad thing It's just, if you are a good leader and you walk into those situations where you've got the guy who's rubbing you the wrong way He's your brother Talk to him See if you can figure it out, make it better And good leaders will figure out how to make that leader better Yeah, that's what you do Lift each other up, for sure The stand up for vets, by the way is coming up pretty shortly It's October 16th and 17th Just after that You didn't say happy birthday To who? The Marines, man Everybody knows about the Marines' birthday When's the Navy's birthday? October 13th, 250 years, brother Really? Yep, we've been doing it a long time Who was that guy that was in charge of them in the beginning? Wasn't it a John Paul and Ringo? Yeah, Ringo Jones, he wasn't in charge of it Who said that? Maybe I just did He was a captain An amazing captain, by the way Torpedoes, full speed ahead The torpedoes, that's right Torpedoes are actually mines In that context Stop it now Do you need a birthday cake? See, the Marines know how to do it They have a cake, they have little party hats They do the whole thing Do you need that stuff as a Navy guy? I would like some cake That would be nice Maybe we could get a cake donated Well, maybe we could do that You're on in two weeks, but that's after the birthday So it's next week that's the birthday The week from today is the 13th Yep, next Tuesday Is Gary Miller going to be on? Oh man, he's going to be on my birthday Maybe I should Maybe you should crash it That's the word I was looking for, thank you And then you could have a good discussion of what fine individuals the men and women of the Marine Corps were on your ship that got decommissioned Oh, I will be brutal Brutal You know what it boils down to Honestly, those guys They were so bored They didn't have anything to do but clean their rifles and take long showers They were just bored They love standing in line I learned that about Marines, they love it It's their favorite, they stand in line for hours It's like, oh, I heard there's something up there I don't know what it is, but everybody's lined up so I'm going to get in line too They got FOMO like you wouldn't believe FOMO to the max Oh yeah, that would be quite a show if you came in here and just crashed it That would be totally fine Now it's a dare, now I have to Alright, it's a week from today The thing is about the stand-up It's for veterans, it's for their families And we talk about that all the time too because there's benefits out there that vets might not know about But there's going to be health services available There's going to be housing services available Vet services Benefit information that you can take advantage of So it happens at the Elks Lodge on the 16th and 17th It's from 8.30 in the morning to 3.30 in the afternoon both days It's free So please, attend it Service organizations will be out there too if you'd like to connect with them I do recommend that I think there's a strong aversion to being a part of those communities because for whatever reasons they're probably the ones I mentioned earlier but your participation is completely dependent on you You can show up once a month and have a drink or you can volunteer once in a while at the different events that we have going or you could be very very involved and be an officer if that's what you want to do And we'll take any which way you'll come I just love that this the stand-up is really we had that woman on that was Debbie Sullivan, thank you so much for keeping this going Exactly, I mean just her own pocket going on the cost of it, it's like amazing stuff She's putting out her own energy, her own finances and all that stuff to help make this thing happen Well I will say you were talking about awareness earlier for veterans I do feel maybe they're not as prevalent maybe it's not as common place as I'd like to see it but truthfully we have a lot of allies people who are that do nice things and kind things and businesses that donate and give discounts there's a lot of love for our veterans Well said I appreciate Debbie's energy, that's for sure Anyway, we have to take our last break and to do that right now we come back we'll come down the home stretch and it's the Jason Tedder show it's what Jason wants to talk about and it could be about all the wonderful things that Marines are like on a ship That probably will fill 30 seconds Anyway, that does it for us, we'll be right back During some of life's most difficult moments Every Sunday in October a portion of proceeds from Grass Valley Provisions will be donated to help support this important work right here in our community So when you shop their thoughtfully curated selection of quality products, you're also helping provide compassion, comfort and dignity to local families who need it most Adults 21 and over visit Grass Valley Provisions at 403 Idaho-Maryland Road open daily 9-9 shop Grass Valley Provisions and support Foothills Compassionate Care every Sunday in October If you're a business owner in Nevada or Placer County, who should you choose to maintain your business's landscaping? 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Yeah, how you butchered my name What's wrong with that? I'm teasing. You did it right, actually Every time The moms let you The moms break into the booth As it should be Come on That's her babies It could be worse I could call him number 71 I could be totally accurate You could probably read that from up where you were That's pretty much all you could do One thing you wanted to talk about I have no idea where you wanted to go with this Was it vaccine or vaccine related? Well, you know, we talk a lot about people who have died in service of this country and there's something that doesn't get talked about very often and it's starting to get a little more attention is that there were a lot of service members who died from the experimental vaccines the anthrax vaccine The anthrax vaccine In particular. It was very deadly It's really hard to find It's really hard to find reputable sources to confirm that but I will say there was Dr. Francis Boyle who was also a lawyer He successfully sued the federal government twice on that particular topic representing people from the armed services who refused to either take the vaccine or administer the vaccine and he has claimed that they were able to prove in court that 10,000 service members died 10,000? Over the period of 20 years, yeah That's a lot of people I know wholeheartedly that because I thought it was going to kill me honestly My mom gave me a lot of my vaccines She was a pediatric nurse and I didn't think anything of it and of course she lost my shot record So when I went to boot camp I got all my vaccines that I was supposed to get through childhood in about 10 minutes and oh man I was so sick but again, I didn't think anything of it and then I came to the anthrax vaccine when I went on deployment and the first one made me so sick I really thought I was going to die and something was terribly wrong I had a strong reaction to it and I went up and got on Google of all things and was, oh my gosh this is killing people They had websites dedicated to it at the time Mainly service members that it was dedicated to? Or just people in general? Pretty much only service members or contractors Contractors, right Because it was experimental It didn't even have the same level of classification that the COVID did The federal judge in 2004 had already ruled you can't give this to the guys You can't give this to the guys You can't force them to take it So anyway, I was looking through the statistics and it was 1 in 10,000 people were dying from taking the vaccine versus it was 1 in 84 million chance of getting exposed to anthrax and I tried to refuse it I went to medical and I told them this is what I found I just don't want to do it I got really sick, I reported all that and it went through the chain of command and eventually the captain said well and you have to understand, I was very chunky at the time Nobody's boots were shinier Nobody ran faster on the whole ship It's hard to imagine looking at me now He said through my chain of command not directly, he said well if you don't take the vaccine the next booster shot Does that sound familiar? If you don't take the next booster shot then we're going to administratively separate you and tell you to follow an order That was pretty rough I had a really tough decision to make I also had the smallpax vaccine at the same time so it's kind of hard to say whether one or the other and I think that was pretty consistent across the fleet, everybody was getting both at the same time and then there was boosters that you got I think it was a three month interval I can't remember, it's been so long maybe two weeks, I forget but the subsequent shots made me so sick too I remember after the second one, I thought man, I think this might kill me Had trouble breathing and stuff? What did it do? Flu symptoms, really bad temperature through the roof achy joints couldn't move really, really, really sick and they didn't seem to care So people got exposed to that had they been dying years later do you think from that? I think it's going to be our generation's Agent Orange because there's a lot of people who got really sick after it and they didn't make that mental connection because so many of us feel that through propaganda and what have you that vaccines are safe and effective and the truth is, that's not always true not for everybody I developed several autoimmune disorders immediately following getting those shots the more notable one my face, the rosacea and then I had huge patches of my hair fall out it's called alopecia and timing wise, it was all right then Wow, alright they have websites and stuff for people class action lawsuit or something? Yes, there's been several class action lawsuits and they won every time Well, I appreciate you bringing that up we're out of time obviously but that's something we'll continue to talk about and you're welcome next week to Crash the Marine Show I think I will Gary? Don't tell them, just show up that's what they did on your ship anyway, that's a decent tether show appreciate them coming in here we've got ABC News coming up next --- end of transcript ---