The Glenn Beck Program - Ep 72 ｜ A Medal of Honor for a Grenade I Can’t Remember ｜ Kyle Carpenter ｜ The Glenn Beck Podcast

00:00:00.000 I'm sitting here in the Mercury Studios which were built as the Paramount lot here in Texas and

00:00:07.000 this stage has told many many stories and many films. Now I've purchased the lot and we tell

00:00:15.900 stories in a different way and the people that have sat on this stage to talk about what they

00:00:21.920 have done are incredible. The podcasts really are a collection of people that are unique and every

00:00:29.420 day we're surrounded by great conversations and I hear a ton of stories. Sad stories, stories that

00:00:36.300 will leave you devastated, stories of hope, stories of tremendous humanity, hero stories, real life

00:00:42.560 heroes, people who accomplish the unthinkable. Today I think the guest is all of those things.

00:00:48.220 He is a walking lesson in empathy. His story, unbelievable, without a doubt, a miracle that he's

00:00:53.580 still alive. I don't want to ruin the story for you but when he was 21 years old he went off to

00:00:59.260 war. Most dangerous war zone in the world. He endured the unimaginable but did it in a heroic

00:01:05.680 way and people will say this one event changed his life but I disagree with that. I don't think it had

00:01:13.700 anything to do with that event and that event the excruciating consequences of that event impact him

00:01:20.800 still today. This is one of those podcasts you're going to carry around with you for a while because

00:01:26.200 my guest today has a ton to teach about just the simple art of being a good person. His story is

00:01:33.960 of great empathy, motivate, and inspire you to, as his book says in the subtitle, build a life that's

00:01:40.740 worth fighting for because you're worth it. His name is Kyle Carpenter, the youngest Medal of Honor recipient

00:01:47.820 ever.

00:02:00.800 So I have a reason I want to start here and you'll understand after you answer the first question.

00:02:07.680 Just tell me about the minute that you jumped on the grenade. Start there.

00:02:17.180 So maybe one of the craziest parts of my journey is I do not remember that minute.

00:02:26.220 Leading up to it?

00:02:27.680 Leading up to it. I do not remember seeing the grenade, hearing it land, thinking about it.

00:02:34.700 All I remember is physically how I felt after that grenade detonated and I was injured.

00:02:46.100 So you remember laying on the ground after it detonated?

00:02:51.260 I don't know. I was so disoriented. I felt like I was laying face down on the ground because the

00:03:01.360 first thing that I tried to do was kind of push myself up and shake it off. But my first realization

00:03:10.080 was I could not feel either one of my arms from the shoulders down. And like I said, I had,

00:03:17.960 I was so disoriented that even though I didn't know what was going on, not being able to feel my arms to

00:03:26.520 trying to push myself up and shake it off. I planted a first seed of initial panic.

00:03:36.280 Following that, as I continued searching through the disoriented pieces to try to put some type of

00:03:45.240 what happened together, I thought, okay, the last thing I remember, I'm pretty sure I was in Afghanistan.

00:04:02.040 I was on a roof. Maybe. And now that I'm talking about it, it's crazy that I can even recollect this much.

00:04:11.700 But I thought maybe I got off of the roof. I went on a foot patrol. I stepped on an IED and just the

00:04:20.920 last thing that my brain can register or remember is being on that roof. Those thoughts were interrupted

00:04:28.000 by, and this will allude to Marine's humor, but those thoughts were interrupted by what I thought was

00:04:35.780 someone pouring warm water all over me. I'm thinking, really guys? In this banged up state I'm in,

00:04:43.320 you're pouring warm water on me right now? But that final piece allowed the other ones to fall into

00:04:50.460 place. And it gave me the surreal and unfortunate realization that what I was feeling was not warm

00:04:56.920 water, that it was blood and I was profusely bleeding out. So with physically how I felt,

00:05:06.000 accompanied by the medical training we get as Marines before deploying, and just unfortunately

00:05:13.560 the casualties I had seen so far on that deployment, with all of those combined, I knew that my time was

00:05:21.780 inevitably limited. And so in my final few moments, you know, what I thought were my final few moments

00:05:28.620 on this earth, I thought about my family, specifically my mother, and how devastated that

00:05:34.880 she was going to be that I did not survive to make it home. A tiredness that is still almost 10 years

00:05:44.740 later, impossible to recount or describe, completely consumed every fiber of my being. And I said a quick

00:05:57.060 prayer for forgiveness in anything I had done wrong in my life. And I faded from consciousness in the world

00:06:04.140 on that hot, dusty rooftop. And I woke up roughly five weeks later with snow outside of my hospital room

00:06:12.960 window on the other side of the world. And my first sight was slowly opening the only eye I had left to

00:06:21.200 Christmas stockings that were hanging on my hospital room wall that my mom had hung while she of course

00:06:27.860 was hopefully and lovingly preparing for me to wake up and have life again. Tell me what your friends,

00:06:36.000 what you found out, what you did. Tell me what your friends and your, uh, your co-marines said you did.

00:06:49.440 The, uh, I guess the first moment that anything came up about what I did or my actions on the roof that day,

00:07:04.000 I was still early on in the hospital. It was end of February and I had spent from, uh, November 28th

00:07:14.240 when I arrived at Walter Reed through, uh, that January. So a couple of months later,

00:07:20.520 and once I got, uh, through the, you know, let's try to keep him breathing the life-saving steps.

00:07:29.440 Once I was a little bit more stable, I moved down to what's called a poly trauma unit to spend

00:07:36.040 my final third inpatient month in the hospital, uh, down there. Um, you know, I was off of my

00:07:44.500 tray, the ventilator, most of the tubes were out of me and I was able to get up and start walking

00:07:51.060 around, go into therapy, speech therapy, and things like that. More follow-on steps than the immediate

00:07:56.560 care. And it was one of my last few days in the hospital. And I have no idea how I made

00:08:03.600 a trip to the mall while I was in the hospital, but, uh, and it wasn't to, uh, go shopping,

00:08:10.520 but, uh, I think it was more just to get out, um, uh, with my therapist and get some fresh air,

00:08:18.280 start to think about, you know, that transition out of the hospital, even though I was going to

00:08:23.480 be in the hospital for many years, but, uh, transition to more of the outpatient side of

00:08:28.900 things and start regaining my life again. Uh, but I was about to leave Richmond, Virginia,

00:08:35.540 that poly trauma unit. And I was sitting in the food court at the mall and my good buddy,

00:08:41.080 Griffin Welch called me and Griffin, a good old boy from Mississippi did four combat deployments

00:08:48.480 and, um, got out before, uh, he could even enjoy his first legal beer at 21. And so, uh,

00:08:56.520 it was both of our first combat deployments with each other. And he had called me and, uh, sitting

00:09:01.420 there all wrapped up and bandaged up in my sling. He told me that, um, you know, the Marines saw and

00:09:08.980 knew what I did and they loved me. And, uh, they believe that at least from their just boots on the

00:09:17.400 ground perspective, they're with me that they believe that, um, I should be, and that they were

00:09:23.900 going to recommend me for the medal of honor. Now, with that said, we hang up that phone call

00:09:30.400 and for years until I got any further calls, I did not think about it one more time for one more

00:09:38.300 second. And you still didn't really know what you had done, what they claimed you had done, or did

00:09:43.040 he tell you what they were saying you did?

00:09:49.580 I, it's so strange because I could not have recounted the pieces and parts. Right. Um, but in a way,

00:10:02.100 uh, and I've never really brought this up because it's so unofficial. Yeah. There was no point. I mean,

00:10:12.680 this cannot, what I'm about to say could not have been a factor in the very extensive and thorough

00:10:19.120 two year and over 250 page official investigation done by the Marine Corps military. Um, but I do

00:10:29.720 remember as if my body was a shell and I had no, no cognitive abilities. I do remember being on my knees

00:10:41.740 and, and, and moving forward towards something. Now, again, this is just plays into the strangeness

00:10:49.540 of it because I don't remember seeing the grenade or thinking about it, but I do remember this empty

00:10:56.320 shell of me falling forward. And I remember, uh, if I had to guess being, you know, just knowing my body

00:11:05.040 and, and playing sports and rough housing my whole life with my brothers and friends,

00:11:09.680 I felt like I was just a few inches from landing on my face on the ground face first. And I remember

00:11:18.120 having just those few inches before I got, before I felt like I got hit really hard in the face with

00:11:24.500 something. And so in a way I vaguely remember maybe going through the motions, but again, I don't

00:11:32.660 remember thinking about it. And, um, you know, they told me that and, uh, we hung up the phone. I thank

00:11:38.960 them. Uh, they told me they were proud of me. I told them that I appreciate it and that I would see

00:11:43.540 them soon. And, um, you know, that was it. And I, I got on with my, my recovery and my life.

00:11:50.300 Well, the truth is, is that you threw yourself on the grenade to throw it to save everyone else.

00:11:57.980 Um, and I wanted to start there because I think some people would say that was the defining moment

00:12:07.340 of your life, but I don't think it is. I think it's so unnatural for someone to do that, that you had

00:12:19.100 to have defining moments in your life way before that would make that just an automatic

00:12:25.740 movement. Does that make sense to you? Absolutely. So I want to talk about the defining moment of your

00:12:32.280 life that had to have happened before the grenade. What were they? What, what, what makes a man

00:12:40.660 automatically do that? Have you found those points? That's, uh, I appreciate you bringing

00:12:51.380 this up and that is, um, compared to many other interviews and people's opinions, that's a very

00:13:02.200 profound insight because you're exactly right. It's always about that moment and that moment

00:13:09.940 defines it defines it for me. And, and there's not too much emphasis on the before or the things

00:13:17.220 which I'm most proud of that I've done since. Yeah. But before, like I talk about in the book,

00:13:25.700 my foundation, like many people's came from my family and the people that I chose to surround myself

00:13:39.940 with growing up and the people that thankfully just happened to, you know, our paths crossed

00:13:48.360 from coaches to teachers. So the first part of it is my family. I think first and foremost, just always

00:14:01.980 truly loving and supporting me from being there every single second from the moment I was born,

00:14:09.880 from every single second from the moment that I woke up and in a way, you know, was born again into this

00:14:19.140 bonus round that I'm living now. And for them to always encourage me and my brothers to not only

00:14:30.280 find out who we are in the way and time that we need to, uh, uh, but to not inhibit us in any way. And

00:14:42.980 even if, uh, the goals or aspirations were seemingly unrealistic or unattainable at the time or altogether

00:14:52.940 to make us feel like we could accomplish those things and achieve whatever we wanted to, as long

00:15:00.060 as we were good people who worked hard and gave back to others. And so it starts there.

00:15:10.780 Uh, but then you go to those other people that helped shape me, the football and baseball coaches,

00:15:18.140 my teachers, my, um, you know, um, my friends and all these people that have loved and supported me my

00:15:30.940 whole life. But with that said, and I was hesitant to write so much about my parents and my family

00:15:38.680 in the book, because I wanted this book to not only transcend all boundaries, but to allow everyone

00:15:47.240 to pick it up, understand it and be able to take from it. And I didn't want to turn anyone off from

00:15:54.840 it. And I know that I'm very fortunate. And a lot of people are not born into the best home life,

00:16:04.200 or they don't have two loving parents that are at every baseball and football game. So I struggle with

00:16:10.680 that. And, and, and, but I, I ended up going with it because, you know, for those people that don't get

00:16:17.960 that, I wanted to give an example of the love, you know, that you can give as a parent and what you can

00:16:25.400 make it through. But all of those other people, my friends and coaches and all of those people,

00:16:31.480 people, you know, in life, every experience, every person, every interaction we have,

00:16:42.120 everything is an opportunity. And even the bad things, even the bad things you can learn,

00:16:49.700 just maybe more importantly, exactly, exactly. You can learn just as much, you know, good and bad from

00:16:57.440 people. And so I wasn't aware of it. And I don't believe I realized it at the time. But now looking

00:17:06.400 back, I'm so thankful that with every person, friend that I made, every person I worked with through

00:17:19.600 in the chicken plant, my boss is there. I always tried to, like you said, look at

00:17:27.200 okay, if this person isn't the way I want to act, you know, carry myself, lead people in the

00:17:39.120 workplace. I chose to try to take something from everyone and build upon that and think about it.

00:17:51.280 And so, you know, with my family's foundation, and all of those incredible people, and the people

00:17:58.080 that taught me how I maybe didn't want to conduct myself in my life, that, along with the third and

00:18:07.920 very important kind of factor into this, is as Marines, starting out as recruits, going to boot camp,

00:18:23.200 from the moment you pull up in that van, and that van door is ripped open by the scariest human being

00:18:31.040 you've ever seen. You, you know, no one's got their haircuts yet. No one's got their uniforms.

00:18:39.600 Everybody's dressed differently. But you get out of the van very quickly, and you stand on those yellow

00:18:46.400 footprints. And from that moment, for the next 13 weeks of boot camp, and for the next four years of your

00:18:55.200 career, or 30 years, during boot camp, and as a Marine, your leaders, and your mentors, and your

00:19:05.200 chain of command, and those drill instructors, you are, you know, people think, oh, it's your training.

00:19:17.040 You know, they're always throwing grenades, fake grenades everywhere, and you're having to jump on

00:19:21.440 them. And it's not like that. I don't, I really don't even remember ever doing that. What it is, is

00:19:32.000 they teach you through your history and your legacy. When you're doing that final crucible event of boot

00:19:43.280 camp to earn that Eagle Globe and anchor. It's a 54 culminating, 54 hour culminating event of everything

00:19:51.680 you've learned, trained to do, no sleep, little food, you're, as you always are in the Marine Corps,

00:19:59.200 cold, wet, hungry, and absolutely miserable. But in those moments, and you're going through all of these

00:20:05.840 obstacles in the crucible, and, and when you're the most run down, and when you need it the most,

00:20:11.360 your drill instructors stop you, and every obstacle, there's a plaque. And it tells of

00:20:20.480 the courageous and superhuman Marines that came before you. Those generations of Marines that

00:20:31.520 at 17, 18, 19 years old, when no one made them, they not only raised their right hand,

00:20:41.600 like every generation has so amazingly done, but raise their right hand. They got on those landing

00:20:49.440 crafts. And we're told you're probably not even going to make it to have a chance to get out of that

00:20:55.200 landing craft. And if you do, there's just as low of a chance that you're going to make it onto the beach

00:21:02.160 or pass the beach. Those Marines that cover grenades for their fellow Marines in Vietnam,

00:21:08.320 the Marines that died and froze to death fighting in Korea to try to give those people,

00:21:15.520 like in Afghanistan, a better way of life to wake up one day and just taste peace, freedom, and hope.

00:21:23.120 And so, and so, to hear these stories, I just remember sitting there and thinking,

00:21:32.400 first of all, how? And second of all, you know,

00:21:38.480 it just makes you realize the uniform that, that you have on and the, the legacy and the sacrifice

00:21:53.040 and courage. And again, generations that have worn that uniform and came before you.

00:21:58.560 So with all of that said, that day on the roof, even though I don't remember the moments leading

00:22:06.240 up to it or thinking about it, I'm thankful and proud that I stepped up.

00:22:13.840 Does it surprise you that you, you were of that mindset?

00:22:19.280 That I, does it looking, not being able to recognize that you did that, not having no memory of that.

00:22:31.600 Does it surprise you that you did that?

00:22:34.800 Yes, absolutely. And, uh, but, uh, the beautiful thing about it is, uh, and, and this is the way I end the book,

00:22:54.560 but people tell me all the time, you know, I just don't think I could have done what you did, right?

00:23:03.520 Uh, you know, I, I don't even, I don't think I could cover a grenade even, you know, for my closest

00:23:09.920 loved ones. I just don't think I could bring myself to do that. And ironically, the last conversation I

00:23:17.040 was having before we got hit with my buddy on the roof is what happens because we have been getting

00:23:23.760 attacked for nonstop the 24 hours leading up to this moment. Um, but you know, what happens when they

00:23:31.280 throw a grenade up here? Half joking to lighten the mood, uh, because it had been eerily quiet for

00:23:37.920 the four hours leading up to this attack. Um, but he said, Hey, I'm off the roof. And I said, I'm right

00:23:46.640 behind you. But with that said, that is, and just this book as a whole is a journey of the human spirit.

00:23:58.160 And those moments on the roof show that the beauty in the human spirit is you never know

00:24:06.560 how, when, or to what capacity you're going to step up for your fellow man, for your fellow human

00:24:15.920 and big or small, how you're going to be a savior and a hero to those around you.

00:24:27.120 So I, I, um, I think some of the people who talk a big game and, you know, you would expect to be heroes.

00:24:36.640 Some of them will not be others that you would never expect to do this miraculous thing do.

00:24:44.640 Um, I brought my kids to Auschwitz years ago because I believe the world is heading towards 0.94

00:24:50.400 just catastrophe and hatred and, and groups and all of this stuff. And, uh, I said to them,

00:24:59.440 this is when people decide what they're going to do and who they're going to be. It's never in the

00:25:05.520 moment. It's never in the moment you, it's not like you ever thought, am I going to jump on a grenade?

00:25:12.460 But it was those things that you did to know who you really are, what you believe, who you,

00:25:20.140 you know, who you fight for and, and, and, um, and who your teammates are around you.

00:25:27.580 And then it's just automatically kicks in. Do you think that's true or not?

00:25:33.740 I completely agree. Okay. I completely agree, which is why you're surprised that you did it

00:25:40.380 because it wasn't, you weren't thinking, you're not thinking, Oh Jesus will really,

00:25:45.180 I might die. It just happens. Absolutely. I mean, I, you know, going off of what you just said,

00:25:52.540 I think you really take any aspect of life and, uh, very few things are ever in the moment.

00:26:01.660 Very few things ever come up without the ability to have steps of preparation beforehand.

00:26:10.540 And many times you might not know exactly where those steps will take you clearly. Uh, but I think

00:26:19.740 you're exactly right. I think, uh, it's, it's very rare if ever just strictly in the moment and,

00:26:26.780 and only in the moment. And it's what our moms were trying to say. I think when they say,

00:26:32.220 show me your friends, I'll show you your future. It's not that they're going to drag you down there

00:26:37.580 or anything else, but you're training yourself to think like that, to be like that, to accept that.

00:26:44.140 And if that's how you're training yourself to be, that's generally who you will be. I was struck by,

00:26:53.980 uh, you know, your name of your book is you are worth it. Um, but building a life worth fighting for,

00:27:01.660 I don't think most people understand. I think only those who have had real struggles

00:27:14.940 understand that life and every bit of it is a choice. And if you just let it happen to you,

00:27:23.260 you're probably going to not be very fulfilled and happy, and you're probably going to end up a

00:27:27.980 little bitter, you know, but if you understand, I am only a product of what I choose to build life

00:27:37.660 changes. Did you understand that before your grenade? Or was that something you discovered

00:27:49.500 after that? Okay. Now I have this massive issue and I'm going to have to rebuild.

00:28:03.420 I think I understood it about as well, I think I understood it just about as well as any

00:28:18.060 teenager or kid growing up. I saw that if I worked hard off the football field in the weight room,

00:28:32.620 that translated to when the lights turned on. I studied ahead of time, which is always a struggle

00:28:42.220 for, uh, for, uh, most kids growing up. The grades correlate in the classroom. And so

00:28:53.340 I think I understood it a little bit, but did I actually realize it and, and think about it?

00:29:00.700 Maybe not. But after is where, um, my insight and perspective, because

00:29:08.780 you know, those trials and tribulations came, I got knocked down. And at times I was forced to search

00:29:17.660 through the darkness for those silver linings, those faint glimmers of hope. Um, but, uh, to answer

00:29:26.300 your question, I think most, mostly after. Yeah. Um, it's interesting, you know, we were just talking

00:29:32.700 about, you don't know who you're going to be, you know, it appears to me, you have two heroes in your

00:29:38.940 life, at least two heroes in your life, your mom and dad. And, um, in the book, you talk about how

00:29:46.220 dad kind of fell apart when he first heard about it. Mom was strong. Was it that way? No, it was,

00:29:52.060 mom was fell apart and dad was strong. And then when they got to the hospital and they first saw you,

00:29:57.020 dad fell apart and mom all of a sudden stepped to the plate. It was a good tag team effort. Yeah. 1.00

00:30:03.980 Yeah. Very hard one, but a good one. And it worked out. How did, uh, how did your parents help you through

00:30:16.780 all of this? Did you have, what were you, what were you feeling about your life? Because a lot of people

00:30:26.460 would go, my life is over. What were you feeling when you became really aware in the hospital of

00:30:34.460 what you were facing? Yeah. So when I really started to wake up and become aware, um, it would be easy

00:30:42.380 to think. And maybe a lot of people would think instantly negative. And this is so detrimental,

00:30:54.060 instant, no hope. But the more I woke up and became more and more lucid, every single

00:31:05.500 realization or every single injury that I had, uh, just made me more and more thankful and surprised

00:31:17.820 and really shocked that I was alive. So did you have a moment? I mean, where did the grenade go off?

00:31:25.100 About here? In the upper right quadrant. How did you live?

00:31:30.780 Yeah. There's still, there's even still a hole in the roof that you can find on Google earth from,

00:31:39.340 and that was, that was part of that two year investigation along with the eyewitnesses.

00:31:45.740 Uh, they brought a post blast analysis team and explosive ordinance disposal team to analyze

00:31:53.660 forensically my gear and the roof. Uh, but one of the pieces in that investigation was, uh,

00:32:01.980 things in life blast forces take the path of least resistance.

00:32:06.140 And my body armor backed by my body weight was stronger and more dense than the roof. So the

00:32:16.140 grenade actually blew down through the roof.

00:32:18.380 Wow.

00:32:18.780 And so, uh, they found me face down, face first in the crater and with the seat of the blast where it

00:32:27.580 exploded, uh, under me. Um, but

00:32:31.340 You're a religious guy. I am. Were you religious before then? I was. Yeah. Um, so there has to be

00:32:42.140 something that goes on in your head with a guy who doesn't, isn't prone to thinking poor me. There

00:32:48.860 has to be, what was I saved for? Yeah. And, um,

00:32:55.820 Um, I, you know, after all of this, a lot of people think that, oh, you know, your, your faith and your

00:33:11.580 religion must be stronger than ever and completely unshakable now. And, um, I don't believe any 1.00

00:33:25.660 less, but what I went through has unfortunately planted and given me more questions than I had before.

00:33:38.300 Because when I, when I closed my eyes for what I thought was the last time

00:33:44.460 And the lights went out.

00:33:51.820 It was

00:33:54.940 I can't even say darkness because I feel like to know

00:33:59.740 darkness, you have to have a cognizant thought process.

00:34:04.460 Yes. So I guess the only way I can, at least right now, accurately describe it is

00:34:13.340 just nothing.

00:34:15.260 A void.

00:34:16.140 A void. Exactly. And I...

00:34:18.620 But you were aware of the void.

00:34:21.660 After I woke up.

00:34:22.780 Mm-hmm.

00:34:23.180 Correct. And so, and you know, I was resuscitated three times when I got to the first combat trauma

00:34:30.540 hospital. In my medical record on paper, it has PEA beside my name, pulseless electrical activity.

00:34:40.460 And so, you know, I, um, I'm still working through that. I'm still thinking about that.

00:34:47.980 Uh, and like with many of the daunting and tough, impossible questions of life,

00:34:56.220 uh, I think the way, the reason they are those questions is because a lot of times no matter what we do,

00:35:04.460 maybe just living and figuring out, figuring out those answers as we continue on,

00:35:10.460 they might come to us. But I think they are a lot of times the daunting and difficult questions

00:35:15.980 because no matter what we do,

00:35:19.260 we can't have an answer or we can't rush those answers.

00:35:23.180 We have to find it ourself. Exactly.

00:35:25.900 Faith is an important part. Exactly.

00:35:30.700 But why, why has it bothered you? I mean, you don't remember doing it. What happened? You don't

00:35:35.660 remember all of that. Why has this void bothered you? Why would you, I'm just trying to say, you don't

00:35:44.540 remember so much. Why do you just remember that so vividly and clearly?

00:35:50.460 Well, I think like much of my journey, it's been a, an evolution, mentally, physically, and emotionally.

00:36:03.500 And so the first few years after everything happened, I was frustrated that I couldn't remember

00:36:10.700 the actual moment. And that was probably amplified times a hundred because not because I was just

00:36:21.420 organically frustrated, but the entire world, the military and teams of people out there were,

00:36:33.020 you know, from the ground in Afghanistan to the Pentagon were looking into scrutinizing newspapers,

00:36:40.940 media. Everyone was looking into these few seconds of my life that as much as I wanted to,

00:36:50.700 I could not and probably was never going to be able to remember.

00:36:55.500 And so, and it wasn't frustration that I was worried that one story might come out and then

00:37:05.980 another story. And then I might seem like, even though I didn't really even have testimony or a

00:37:11.900 word and all of this, that I just might seem illegitimate. But then I thought, you know,

00:37:17.740 my Marines that were there with me, no matter what happens, you know, they know who I am,

00:37:23.580 person I am. And just one day thinking about it, I, I finally, it just hit me and I realized

00:37:33.180 how wrong of a mindset and a thought process this was, that I should just be so unbelievably grateful

00:37:44.060 and thankful that I woke up to even be frustrated at this and that I'm alive. And so from that

00:37:51.020 second that I had that realization on, I've never once got frustrated or been out of shape about not

00:37:58.540 being able to remember those events again.

00:38:01.100 So was part of that frustration, because I think I'm hearing you say,

00:38:04.620 because you couldn't remember it, you were afraid this was a fraud.

00:38:10.860 Well, no, it was just, um,

00:38:14.620 or you were unworthy. Well, you know, newspapers, articles came out and the titles were,

00:38:20.780 did Lance Corporal Carpenter cover this grenade or not? So there was all of that talk going on.

00:38:27.260 And then the Marine Corps and investigators had called me, were called, were talking to everyone

00:38:36.220 that was there. And just, there was just so much rhetoric going on just about moments in my life

00:38:43.900 that I myself didn't have. So I think it was just a mix of everything. And, um, you know,

00:38:52.220 it wasn't so much the fraud thing. It was just that I guess I couldn't contribute to these moments

00:38:59.100 in my own life. Um, do you feel like you deserve the Medal of Honor? I never got asked that before.

00:39:10.140 Feel worthy of it?

00:39:11.100 I am, I'm proud of how I stepped up as a friend and Marine when I needed to be.

00:39:29.100 And as beautiful of a burden and heavy as the medal is, and such responsibility,

00:39:39.660 I am humbled that I have a platform that I can use to connect with, encourage and help others,

00:39:59.820 and also educate and bring to light so many stories that there wasn't Medal of Honors.

00:40:14.220 Whether that was because no one around them survived to tell the tale,

00:40:19.900 or somewhere in some crazy paperwork process, it maybe just didn't happen.

00:40:27.500 And so you realize that's the way somebody who's worthy of that medal would answer that question.

00:40:37.180 Well, that's, I guess, another, uh, thinking point that I need to, uh,

00:40:42.060 go, go to bat brainstorming on, but, um,

00:40:49.420 Talk to me a little bit about, um,

00:40:51.100 in your recovery process, you talk about in the book how, um, you're going to go on a mud run,

00:41:00.380 you're talking about skydiving, and, and mom and dad are like, God, Lord, stop, no, please, don't.

00:41:08.940 And you get to this point where you're like, I can't be afraid. Can you talk about that?

00:41:16.140 Well, um, first of all, Glenn, why'd you have to do this to me? Mom already says that for the rest of her life.

00:41:23.100 I should be funding her hair color treatment. 1.00

00:41:26.460 So, um, but, uh, yes.

00:41:31.660 And actually specifically speaking about the mud run.

00:41:34.620 Uh, and looking back, you know, now I, uh, it still makes me a little nervous thinking about some of those very high, slippery, muddy obstacles.

00:41:47.660 Um, you know, while I was, uh, doing those, how, how wrong that could have gone.

00:41:53.420 But going into that mud run, and I was only maybe halfway through my three years of recovery.

00:42:01.020 But, uh, leading up to that mud run, I really, you know, sat down and I always tried to, um, think about things deeply.

00:42:11.580 And really self-reflect and not only on where I've been, but also where I'm going.

00:42:19.100 And as I was thinking about that mud run, still surgeries left to go.

00:42:26.280 I just thought, you know, if I don't do this, what else is that going to lead to?

00:42:35.880 And this is part of you building yourself back up.

00:42:39.680 Right.

00:42:40.980 Because you always had like a short thing, didn't you?

00:42:43.200 Didn't you always kind of have an, uh, like I'm short and I'm a little guy and, you know.

00:42:47.600 Well, I think that's just, that's just obvious.

00:42:52.320 Anyone that, uh, sees me, I don't ever think I had to make it known.

00:42:56.940 Um, but.

00:42:58.920 So you, but you had to kind of do things to make sure that you were like, no, it doesn't stop me from doing anything.

00:43:06.360 So you're now back at that place, except with different reasons for saying.

00:43:11.880 And you're right.

00:43:12.320 Growing up on the football field and in the weight room and things like that, it, not that I ever just put it out there.

00:43:18.300 Hey, you know, I'm this small guy that's trying to prove something.

00:43:21.660 But when I did prove something, uh, it was, you know, nice rubbing it into the, uh, the older, bigger guys, the guys that were above five foot five.

00:43:30.980 Uh, but not only was I thinking, okay, if I don't do this, what will that lead to?

00:43:39.460 But also if I do break my arm, is that better than not doing it and living with that regret?

00:43:48.720 Uh, and so just working through thought process like that, but you know, I did it and I did not do another one, but I'm very thankful I did.

00:43:58.620 And, and I, just like many parts of my journey, doing that challenge, pushing myself through that, especially during my time in the hospital and when I was still rediscovering myself and building this new life, um, it taught me.

00:44:21.260 And it taught me that I can do more than I think I can right now.

00:44:27.880 And I'm not, you know, just getting back to this new banged up person.

00:44:35.640 I'm getting back to you, a new, potentially even bigger and better me and Kyle.

00:44:47.920 So are you there?

00:44:49.060 Are you a better, are you, this sounds so bad.

00:44:54.640 Um, but I understand my father taught me this when I was young, after my mom had a suicide, you know, she's, she committed suicide and alcoholic family divorce, blah, blah, blah.

00:45:07.820 Everything was going by the time I was 30, I was like, poor me.

00:45:11.880 And my father taught me that in a very clever way that there is no bad.

00:45:18.240 It's how, it's what you do with it.

00:45:20.440 And so I look at all the tragedies, you know, and I think, well, I wouldn't want to go through that again.

00:45:29.060 And I wouldn't assign that to somebody.

00:45:31.200 It made me who I am.

00:45:33.120 And I'm a better, stronger person because of my failures or because of whatever.

00:45:36.840 Are you a better person today than you were?

00:45:40.700 Absolutely.

00:45:42.100 And I would not trade anything that I've been through, even that moment on the roof.

00:45:47.580 Now, do I wish I could have taken the entire blast and Nick could have walked away perfectly unharmed and completely fine.

00:46:00.160 And even if I wouldn't have woken up in the hospital five weeks later, yes.

00:46:06.820 Or even the grenade wasn't thrown on the roof.

00:46:09.740 Um, no, I, uh, you're grateful for the grenade.

00:46:19.220 I am.

00:46:21.620 Wow.

00:46:22.440 I am.

00:46:24.380 Because who I am now, you know, just in a, in a selfish me sense.

00:46:33.320 You seem pretty selfish.

00:46:34.780 The experiences I've had, the people I've met, the journey I've had, uh, has, you know, been incredible.

00:46:50.660 So do you ever watch TV or listen to people that are constantly whining about how their life is so bad?

00:47:01.260 And, you know, Greta Thunberg, and I don't, I don't want to get you into names and stuff, but you know, that 16 year old kid, you stole my childhood.

00:47:09.480 Do you ever just watch people on TV and go, are you kidding me?

00:47:15.840 Are you kidding me?

00:47:18.220 I went through this and I'm happy.

00:47:20.180 And I'm, I'm actually don't, I don't think I'd want my grenade, my life to be gone.

00:47:27.760 And you're bitching about your grenade. 0.72

00:47:31.000 That's a good thing.

00:47:32.740 Do you ever, are you always just very empathetic and kind?

00:47:38.740 Both.

00:47:40.420 Both.

00:47:41.180 And it's a healthy amount of both.

00:47:42.980 But one thing I've realized through my journey is struggle is the last thing we should ever compare.

00:47:58.040 And although it's maybe natural to, cause you, you can't not, when you hear other struggles, you obviously can't forget about your struggles.

00:48:11.000 But, uh, I think to compare struggle or who has it worse or who's been through more is a very dangerous thing and can lead to very unhealthy things and a very unhealthy mindset.

00:48:31.600 Uh, but, uh, maybe a story to kind of illustrate this is, I did my three years at Walter Reed.

00:48:41.760 I used my last six, eight months there, which was just a medical board paperwork process to, uh, allow me to medically retire.

00:48:50.520 I had completed all my surgeries and therapy and I used my time, uh, towards the end there to do two internships and, uh, start working on redoing my SAT and ACT test, writing college admissions paperwork.

00:49:08.420 I got a tutor to start coming to the hospital to help me do that.

00:49:13.620 And so after three years in the hospital, right before that, I was toting machine guns through Afghanistan.

00:49:20.080 Two weeks after I left the hospital, I was moving into, uh, and my new apartment in Columbia, South Carolina and walking to freshman classes.

00:49:32.880 And daily, if not daily, if not daily, weekly, students came up to me and it just obviously was much more during my sophomore year after I received the medal.

00:49:50.240 But so many times they would run up and say, oh, you're the guy that won the Purple Heart.

00:49:57.860 You're like, no, kind of, but I didn't enter the annual win of Purple Heart competition, you know?

00:50:07.660 And also I, you know, realized that probably by the way you're asking, you don't know the difference between the medal of honor and the Purple Heart.

00:50:18.380 But at, during those moments, I'm thankful that I realized, because I had to take a deep breath a couple of times.

00:50:26.820 And I had to realize that just like we said at the beginning, every encounter, every opportunity, every crossroads in life, good or bad, is a choice.

00:50:41.560 And it presents you with the choice.

00:50:43.320 And in that moment, I could have got frustrated, told them, you know, what I could have in a very Marine, aggressive-like manner.

00:50:57.620 But not only would that have probably turned them off for me, but it would have, you know, given them what they might think is an idea of how all Marines are.

00:51:13.720 And they wouldn't have gotten properly educated on the difference between the Purple Heart and the Medal of Honor and the fact that we don't set out to win these medals.

00:51:30.380 You know, it's interesting.

00:51:31.160 It was FDR that changed the Purple Heart. 0.90

00:51:34.420 We didn't discover the Purple Heart.

00:51:36.140 That comes from the badge of merit from Washington in the Revolutionary War.

00:51:41.760 It was the first award given to an enlisted man in the history of battle.

00:51:51.240 And it was actually a Purple Heart.

00:51:54.140 And it said on it, merit.

00:51:55.860 And you would sew it to your uniform.

00:51:58.540 Oh, interesting.

00:51:59.260 And you were put into his, I think it was called the Book of Remembrance, because he believed that if we were going to win against England, we had to be people that were good and honorable and decent.

00:52:17.220 And if you were caught doing something of merit, if you were doing something good, that's how you got the Purple Heart.

00:52:25.100 We only rediscovered this turn of last century.

00:52:30.180 There's only three Purple Hearts left from the Revolutionary War.

00:52:33.800 And the book is gone.

00:52:37.080 But you did earn the Purple Heart.

00:52:41.220 Not just the way that the FDR from that point on says it.

00:52:50.720 But you earned it the way Washington did.

00:52:53.860 We didn't have a Medal of Honor back then.

00:52:56.540 It was the Purple Heart.

00:53:00.180 So you deserve both of them for now and back then.

00:53:06.920 You write in your book.

00:53:08.500 I want to read a part.

00:53:09.180 Not long ago, I'm walking downtown in Columbia.

00:53:17.900 I passed two homeless men talking on the street.

00:53:20.960 I just came from a meeting, was dressed up, and one of them said kindly,

00:53:24.400 Looking sharp, brother.

00:53:26.020 I thanked them.

00:53:27.320 And I admit, I waited for the follow-up question if I had any money.

00:53:31.220 But as I continued walking, nothing else was said.

00:53:35.780 I reached my car, but I couldn't shake him from my mind.

00:53:39.480 Half my brain was telling me to turn around and talk to him, and the other half was telling

00:53:43.200 me just to forget about it and drive away.

00:53:45.140 I stood there with the car door open, wrestling with myself what I should do.

00:53:50.000 It seemed silly to walk all the way back there, but I couldn't get into my car.

00:53:54.920 I didn't know what I was doing, but I thought to myself,

00:53:58.260 What if this is the last time you see this nice man?

00:54:01.240 I think we as people have this thought all the time, all the time.

00:54:10.040 And we have that argument in our head all the time.

00:54:18.540 And most of us ignore it.

00:54:21.900 But it makes a difference if you act on that and exercise that muscle every time, doesn't it?

00:54:31.860 Absolutely.

00:54:33.080 And you never know what touching moments or...

00:54:40.520 Impact.

00:54:41.580 Impact and just powerful, for me, emotional.

00:54:48.600 I mean, that story, shout out to my man, Kenny, by the way.

00:54:52.540 But emotional, I mean, that story still chokes me up, because we go on to talk, and he asked

00:55:03.200 me, and I offered to go get him some snacks at the college mart up the street.

00:55:09.240 And he asked me, hey, can you get me some cigarettes?

00:55:13.140 And immediately pointed out that he doesn't smoke.

00:55:15.840 And so, of course, I had to ask, you know, Kenny, why do you need cigarettes if you don't smoke?

00:55:21.460 And he told me that cigarettes are like gold down at the homeless shelter, that he can sell each one for $2.

00:55:30.820 And then that allows him to get more food, you know, for the days ahead.

00:55:35.380 And so, I'm so thankful I did.

00:55:39.100 And you're right, I think we are presented with those dilemmas, opportunities, situations all the time.

00:55:49.620 And I'm just, I'm proud of myself, but I'm thankful that I didn't shut the car door and I turned around,

00:55:57.100 because it taught me a valuable life lesson.

00:56:03.140 And it just reminded me that, you know, life is, life is not only choices, but it's something

00:56:17.080 that you choose the lenses you look through.

00:56:23.400 And you, we always have to strive to continue to remind ourselves and to understand and empathize

00:56:37.780 that there are so many people in this country, around the world, that wake up every day and

00:56:51.120 and from not knowing what school is, to not having shoes on their feet,

00:57:01.480 to not knowing where their next meal is going to come from.

00:57:09.940 And so, um...

00:57:12.080 Did you, there's a difference between kindness, being gracious, being helpful,

00:57:20.180 even being caring, and empathy.

00:57:27.260 Empathy is, I've lived it.

00:57:31.200 I know it.

00:57:32.280 I can feel your pain.

00:57:35.360 Not just see it, but I can feel it.

00:57:39.080 Do you think your journey has given that to you, or have you always had that empathetic side?

00:57:49.980 I think I've always had it.

00:57:51.640 But my journey has heightened it and continuously refines it.

00:58:01.200 Which might not be the perfect word, but...

00:58:03.740 I think empathy, I think this is, I think it's like a muscle.

00:58:06.980 It is.

00:58:07.420 I think the more you listen to that voice and you make the choice of don't get into the car,

00:58:13.160 it gets stronger.

00:58:14.400 Yeah, and maybe it really started when I was in high school.

00:58:21.000 I went on a mission trip to the Dominican Republic.

00:58:24.780 And for a week there, we built a couple of schools and churches

00:58:30.140 and just hung out with the local kids, played soccer.

00:58:34.160 But it was so, just, so profound to me when we got there.

00:58:44.680 And we were walking and making our way to this neighborhood where we were going to help and work.

00:58:52.740 And as we got closer, we were working our way down into a landfill.

00:59:00.280 We get to the bottom of this landfill and there are shacks all over the place. 1.00

00:59:06.860 And the people there, not only could they have not been happier.

00:59:14.920 I mean, they're amazing, struggling every day of their lives, but so happy.

00:59:21.300 And just so thankful for us to bring a soccer ball to them.

00:59:25.260 And so I think I've always been empathetic growing up.

00:59:32.120 But when that happened, that really planted that seed of empathy.

00:59:37.740 And I got to truly see not everywhere in the world is like the southeast of the United States growing up.

00:59:49.580 And so I'm so, like many parts of my journey, I'm so thankful for that.

00:59:53.620 But that's very interesting.

00:59:57.140 It is like a muscle.

00:59:58.420 I would agree with you.

01:00:00.700 Last thing from your book.

01:00:02.980 For weeks afterward, I would wake up wondering, now what?

01:00:07.600 Every morning started with a question for which I didn't have an answer,

01:00:11.660 except to do whatever the next thing was that day.

01:00:15.440 I developed a daily mantra, and I still say something similar to myself each morning.

01:00:20.180 I don't know what I want to do, or how I'm going to do it, or where I might end up.

01:00:26.340 But as long as I work hard, try to do the right thing, try to be a good person, and try to help people,

01:00:32.960 I can't go wrong doing that.

01:00:35.260 You kind of dismiss that as, you know, you say, that's not the profound piece of wisdom that, you know, has ever been uttered.

01:00:46.960 But I think this is why your story is so important and impactful, is it's really back to basics.

01:00:57.000 We've lost the basics.

01:01:00.400 I was raised believing that.

01:01:03.560 A lot of people don't believe that anymore.

01:01:07.060 But if you just work hard, try to do the right thing, be kind to people, things will work out, and you'll be good.

01:01:15.580 And on top of that, I think it's important to remind people that you don't always have to have a perfect plan.

01:01:30.740 One of the favorite lines in my book is,

01:01:33.680 the smallest of steps eventually completes the grandest of journeys.

01:01:37.140 And after that first initial three months of recovery at Walter Reed in Richmond, Virginia,

01:01:47.440 at the time, instead of going back up to Walter Reed,

01:01:53.600 late 2010 through 2011, there were so many casualties coming in that,

01:02:00.160 at one point, they started overflowing beds into the hallway.

01:02:04.820 And every room had two patients in it.

01:02:09.340 And so knowing that I had many years left for them to put Humpty Dumpty back together again,

01:02:17.160 they allowed me, and also getting to know my family over those months,

01:02:22.080 those initial months that I was there,

01:02:24.660 knowing that my family was going to really look out and take care of me,

01:02:28.920 and they allowed me to go home to recover from March until that September of 2011,

01:02:38.640 when a new, very nice, Wounded Warrior barracks building was going to open up on Walter Reed

01:02:44.660 that they were currently under construction.

01:02:47.220 And so it was March-April time frame,

01:02:54.600 and it was around 10 o'clock at night,

01:02:59.380 another long day of therapy.

01:03:02.460 And anyone listening to clarify,

01:03:07.820 the agreement was that I could go home and recover,

01:03:09.960 get mom's food,

01:03:12.420 hang out with the dog,

01:03:13.380 lay on the couch,

01:03:14.200 as long as we agreed that mom would drive me back up to D.C.

01:03:19.180 every two weeks to get another surgery.

01:03:21.960 And I would do therapy at my local clinic in Lexington, South Carolina.

01:03:26.240 And so I was at home,

01:03:29.780 again, about 10 o'clock at night,

01:03:32.000 and I went to take on the daunting task of making myself a bowl of cereal.

01:03:43.020 And at the time,

01:03:45.380 I hadn't had the nerve surgeries to repair those,

01:03:50.700 what are now connections,

01:03:52.820 but at the time were breaks in my nerves,

01:03:57.680 so my wrists hung really bad.

01:03:59.980 I was down on my weight,

01:04:01.360 no muscle on my arms.

01:04:03.540 The milk might as well have been a 100-pound dumbbell.

01:04:07.460 I got it out.

01:04:09.020 I poured the cereal,

01:04:10.760 but it was a struggle to hold the spoon.

01:04:15.200 The grenade blew most of my teeth out,

01:04:17.660 and I was still many facial and oral reconstructive surgeries away

01:04:22.200 from having any sort of form or teeth in there.

01:04:27.620 Because my face was damaged so badly,

01:04:30.780 the nerves in my face were severed as well.

01:04:34.800 And so I finally championed the task,

01:04:38.540 mission accomplished,

01:04:39.480 I made the bowl of cereal,

01:04:41.480 but that was only half the battle.

01:04:43.120 Now I had to try to eat it.

01:04:44.520 I'm sitting in the kitchen counter,

01:04:47.540 and I can't really feel it,

01:04:50.560 but I know milk is going everywhere.

01:04:54.000 And in that moment,

01:04:57.460 I completely broke.

01:05:00.560 I mean, to my core.

01:05:02.900 And I know it was because

01:05:05.800 not only was I frustrated with the task at hand,

01:05:08.960 but for the previous three or four months,

01:05:11.440 I had been so strong,

01:05:15.700 forcing myself to be so strong and positive,

01:05:19.400 not show any pain,

01:05:20.740 put a smile on my face every day.

01:05:22.600 Because I'm the one that joined.

01:05:26.120 I raised my right hand.

01:05:28.120 Now my parents are visibly suffering

01:05:33.580 through this burden of recovery with me.

01:05:36.060 And that has been by far the hardest part of my whole journey,

01:05:40.100 seeing them on the other side of that hospital bed.

01:05:43.420 And as a caretaker,

01:05:45.520 wounded warrior or not,

01:05:47.220 I think at times it's harder

01:05:49.080 to be on the other side of that bed,

01:05:50.780 to not be able to help with the pain,

01:05:54.440 to see that person

01:05:55.760 trying to breathe through that tube

01:05:57.980 and straw in their neck 0.91

01:05:59.480 for every breath,

01:06:01.160 to see the tears come

01:06:02.880 because the pain is so great

01:06:05.120 you can't even pretend to mask it.

01:06:08.060 And so I had been so strong,

01:06:09.520 but in that moment,

01:06:10.560 it was also the first time,

01:06:13.780 probably since I joined the Marine Corps,

01:06:17.240 that I had been completely by myself.

01:06:21.780 In silence,

01:06:23.400 with only me,

01:06:25.180 my banged up body,

01:06:26.820 and the thoughts that were in my head,

01:06:28.680 and the ringing in my ears.

01:06:32.340 And so I completely broke.

01:06:34.740 My mom ran in,

01:06:35.800 she was in the other room,

01:06:36.900 in the living room.

01:06:38.440 She rushed in,

01:06:39.340 she thought I was in pain,

01:06:41.760 asking me,

01:06:43.160 you know,

01:06:43.400 what happened?

01:06:44.140 What's wrong?

01:06:45.600 And through the sobs,

01:06:47.660 I just choked out,

01:06:49.180 look at me,

01:06:50.400 who's ever going to love me again?

01:06:54.620 But,

01:06:55.460 in life,

01:06:57.600 many times,

01:07:00.300 the most difficult of times,

01:07:04.000 teach us the most beautiful of lessons.

01:07:07.320 And so I'm so thankful

01:07:08.980 that I decided to try to make that cereal

01:07:12.600 and eat it,

01:07:13.240 and I'm so thankful that I broke in that moment

01:07:15.940 because it gave me a lifelong lesson and realization

01:07:23.000 that I still carry with me every single day

01:07:26.080 and that I present to everyone,

01:07:30.480 anyone I talk to,

01:07:31.540 people that read the book.

01:07:32.740 And this is going to be

01:07:37.140 a tough pill to swallow for some people.

01:07:41.140 But you have to realize

01:07:43.020 that no matter what happens in life,

01:07:48.420 no matter how hard you get knocked down

01:07:51.460 or blown up,

01:07:53.940 you cut out the noise,

01:07:58.240 and you truly only have

01:08:04.760 two choices,

01:08:07.140 two options.

01:08:09.600 And that is,

01:08:11.400 this is what I'm so thankful I realized,

01:08:14.360 you can either get up

01:08:16.540 and take that small step

01:08:20.460 or you're going to sit at that kitchen counter

01:08:24.720 for the rest of your life.

01:08:25.940 And again,

01:08:27.380 you don't have to have a perfect plan.

01:08:30.000 You don't have to know exactly what you're doing,

01:08:32.020 what the next day holds,

01:08:33.420 what even the next hour of therapy

01:08:36.260 and that session holds.

01:08:38.080 All you have to know is again,

01:08:40.400 the smallest of steps

01:08:41.420 eventually completes the grandest of journeys.

01:08:44.360 And you can,

01:08:46.840 you might be physically,

01:08:48.360 mentally,

01:08:48.880 and emotionally different

01:08:50.100 after getting knocked down.

01:08:53.060 But even if you are,

01:08:54.620 it's completely okay.

01:08:56.260 We all have our own unique struggles.

01:09:00.020 We all heal in our own time.

01:09:03.560 But even after getting knocked down,

01:09:07.400 if you're physically,

01:09:08.260 mentally,

01:09:08.640 emotionally different,

01:09:09.880 you can still come back

01:09:11.780 better and stronger

01:09:13.560 than you were before.

01:09:15.740 You might be missing an eye.

01:09:18.240 You might have a lobster claw

01:09:20.360 for a hand.

01:09:23.180 But,

01:09:24.140 you can come back

01:09:26.220 and run a marathon.

01:09:28.240 Jump out of a plane.

01:09:30.780 Run a mud run 0.98

01:09:31.700 and drive your mom crazy. 1.00

01:09:33.080 It's okay to struggle.

01:09:38.480 It's okay to not be the same.

01:09:41.940 And with that said,

01:09:42.680 exactly what you're saying earlier,

01:09:46.100 learn from those times

01:09:48.060 that you get knocked down

01:09:49.580 and those hard moments.

01:09:52.040 Learn who you really are.

01:09:53.780 learn and know

01:09:56.720 and realize

01:09:57.320 that you can

01:09:58.000 push yourself

01:09:59.280 past any

01:10:00.640 limits that

01:10:02.300 you thought

01:10:03.780 were your limits.

01:10:05.320 You can

01:10:06.420 always strive

01:10:09.500 to become

01:10:11.080 the best version

01:10:12.820 of yourself.

01:10:13.780 It's an honor

01:10:14.860 to talk to you.

01:10:16.320 Thank you very much.

01:10:17.240 It's an honor

01:10:17.820 to meet you.

01:10:19.380 And

01:10:19.600 I can't wait

01:10:21.200 to see what your life

01:10:22.260 is like in 10 years

01:10:23.600 or 15 years from now.

01:10:25.700 Your journey

01:10:26.300 has just begun.

01:10:27.960 God bless.

01:10:28.660 I appreciate that, sir.

01:10:35.040 Just a reminder,

01:10:36.540 I'd love you to rate

01:10:37.960 and subscribe

01:10:38.540 to the podcast

01:10:39.440 and pass this on

01:10:40.280 to a friend

01:10:40.740 so it can be discovered

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01:10:48.940 I'll see you next time.

The Glenn Beck Program - March 21, 2020

Ep 72 ｜ A Medal of Honor for a Grenade I Can’t Remember ｜ Kyle Carpenter ｜ The Glenn Beck Podcast

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