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Bold American is Made in America and made for you. Two Veterans and a Gold Star sister dive into the Good, Bad, Ugly, and All-American topics. Military, Veteran, Culture Issues and yes…even politics. Bold conversations for all Americans. Hosted by Captain Cons. New episodes each weekYou can find every episode of this show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or YouTube. Prime Members can listen ad-free on Amazon Music. For more, visit barstool.link/ZeroBlog30
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Apr 24, 2020 • 1h 8min
ZBT #258: MattisMarine + Iran's Being A Dick
ROUND 1: Maybe he’s born with, (me & Cons:) Maybe it’s MattisMarine. Many folks were a bit surprised this week to see General Mattis modeling a jacket in ads for a clothing company… Do you think they’ll ask us next? (weird silence)
ROUND 2: Army base Ansbach has a colorful, winged fairy flitting around making sure soldiers are staying socially distant and we’re sure they are absolutely loving that and it doesn’t kill their souls a little bit in any way.
ROUND 3: Career Day Interview - Supply Marine Reservist Ali Van Zant
ROUND 4: Iran’s being a total dick on the high seas & Russia’s being an enormous asshole in the skies. Is the U.S. about to kick dick and blast ass? Or is this business as usual. (dare you to not smile saying blast ass)
ROUND 5: You might feel a little pissed off after we tell you about a nightmarish piss test on Fort Rucker. Maybe even moreso once we share your own military drug test horror stories to close out the episode!You can find every episode of this show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or YouTube. Prime Members can listen ad-free on Amazon Music. For more, visit barstool.link/ZeroBlog30

Apr 21, 2020 • 1h 23min
ZBT #257: Things We'd Rather Be Doing featuring Former Secret Service Agent Evy Poumpouras
Round 1: Coronavirus is still the top news in the world. It’s affecting the military too but it just might allow some navy boot camp recruits to do a little water-park goofin before their knot-tying lessons at boot camp.
Round 2: A luxury cruise ship is finally going to dock after 14 weeks at sea. The ship was going to go around the world but coronavirus made them shift plans. Would a 14 week cruise be good or bad?
Round 3: Former Secret Service Agent Evy Poumpours joins us to talk protecting the President, traveling the ole globe, and whether or not The First Kid is the most accurate Secret Service movie.
Round 4: A huge shoutout to our guy in Kenya. A governor there is facing backlash for including bottles of Hennessy in his food care packages. We salute him.
Round 5: I’m thinking about getting a hot tub. Is that a classless move???You can find every episode of this show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or YouTube. Prime Members can listen ad-free on Amazon Music. For more, visit barstool.link/ZeroBlog30

Apr 17, 2020 • 1h 34min
ZBT #256: Mess Night + Haircuts featuring Captain Charlie Plumb
ZERO BLOG THIRTY
Thursday, April 16th (Friday, April 17th)
ROUND 1: Cons, Kate and I are throwing a Mess Night and we’ve each invited three well known guests… but only the strong survive this group elimination challenge.
ROUND 2: Our Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff beefed with The Secretary of Defense at a live, televised press conference over - you guessed it - haircuts! The saga continues. Can anyone shave us?!
ROUND 3: An Airman is in deep trouble after flinging his propeller (PENIS) all over a Florida TJ Maxx. Buddy, flashing people is soooo out of style.
ROUND 4: Interview with Captain Charlie Plumb
ROUND 5: Military encounters of the animal kind. We asked for the weirdest wildlife you encountered and the answers were quite literally wild!You can find every episode of this show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or YouTube. Prime Members can listen ad-free on Amazon Music. For more, visit barstool.link/ZeroBlog30

Apr 14, 2020 • 1h 15min
ZBT #255: Mind Control + Losing Our Minds
Round 1: Stuck inside for the past month has made me realize that I essentially have zero hobbies besides golf. The golf course is closed. Let talk about some things we should bring back from childhood.
Round 2: A French VIP retiree did the one of the only things you cant do in a fighter jet; he pulled the ejection lever much to the chagrin of the pilot.
Round 3: Career day goofin continues with an operations specalist from the US Navy. You dont know what an operations specalist is? I didnt either so dont feel bad.
Round 4: throw on your decoder rings, boots. We are gonna do a little spy goofin and talk about the CIA’s Mid-Century Mind Control ProjectSayyid Qutb
Round 5: Because of coronavirus, things will change for possibly ever. If Dr. Fuaci has his way, we wont be shaking hands anymore. We have some possible replacements!You can find every episode of this show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or YouTube. Prime Members can listen ad-free on Amazon Music. For more, visit barstool.link/ZeroBlog30

Apr 10, 2020 • 1h 30min
ZBT #254: USS Roosevelt Update + Dan Crenshaw
ROUND 1: An Iraq war Veteran with Purple Heart tags had his truck stolen right outside his house yesterday and he’ll be joining us to talk about the ordeal because, ope, it was me. While we’re on the topic, ZBT listeners told us what they’ve had stolen from them and we’ll share the best ones with you!
ROUND 2: Try as we might, we can’t escape Coronavirus scuttlebutt as it’s had a massive effect on all the branches. Earlier this week SecNav Modly resigned after major d-rama on the USS Roosevelt.
ROUND 3: CAREER DAY - Marine welder turned law school student
ROUND 4: Steve Carrell has a new show coming out about the Space Force. Will it actually be good or will we have to go into full-out The Code mode on their asses?
ROUND 5: Dan Crenshaw
ROUND 6: No more brass, trash, or saved rounds, ma’am… The Army & Marine Corps are finally on the verge of dumping brass cased ammo. What will this mean for our beloved police calls??.You can find every episode of this show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or YouTube. Prime Members can listen ad-free on Amazon Music. For more, visit barstool.link/ZeroBlog30

Apr 7, 2020 • 1h 33min
ZBT #253: A Motivated Mental Refresher
BONUS - We open the show today with something a little different, providing a little mental refresher for everyone out there listening at home. A Zero Blog Thirty first. Then, we get into the rounds and we have a full show!
Round 1: Andrew Yang talked to a friend who was a soldier and we all had to read the dumbest tweet as a result. Hey Andrew, you got firewatch, bitch
Round 2: Huge shoutout to our friends down under. They might be providing an escape for the entire world right now by utilizing a private island for Sports. Our beloved, beloved sports.
Round 3: Motivator, motivator come on out. We wanna hear Cpl Greg Fisher, who we post on social media every monday, scream and shout.
Round 4: As many of you know, toilet paper can be hard to get your hands on. So can eggs, milk, and lysol. One industry is booming during quarantine season, you guessed it. It’s baby chick time.
Round 5: The Career Fair continues and we talk to a Chaplain
Round 6: The leader of ISIS in Afghanistan was arrested with 19 other militants. We arent going to spend much time on it, I just really wanna mention how fucking ugly this dude is. Buzz, your girlfriend… WOOOF
Round 7: I finally got around to watching Captain America from 2011 and I have some thoughts about this American hero.You can find every episode of this show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or YouTube. Prime Members can listen ad-free on Amazon Music. For more, visit barstool.link/ZeroBlog30

Apr 3, 2020 • 1h 7min
ZBT #252: Roosevelt Skipper Fired
ROUND 1: Allll aboard… We are goin’ off the rails to tell you the story of a man who tried to take out the USNS Comfort this week… with a train!
ROUND 2: Social distancing is pretty much impossible on Navy ships and that’s become apparent as over 100 Sailors on an aircraft carrier have come down with Coronavirus. As the situation worsens one Captain on the ship has put their neck out to plead with officials to do the right thing and take steps to stop the spread.
ROUND 3: Thousands of folks still stuck on cruise ships might get excited when they see the Coast Guard coming but they shouldn’t get their hopes up because they’re droppin’ a big ‘ol basket of bad news on ‘em.
ROUND 4: Career day
ROUND 5: Another game from Kate and she’s informed me that this time it’s a quiz of random military questions from WWII to veteran Porn that popped into her head with no rhyme or reason. Sounds awesome & you can play along, too..You can find every episode of this show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or YouTube. Prime Members can listen ad-free on Amazon Music. For more, visit barstool.link/ZeroBlog30

Mar 31, 2020 • 1h 46min
ZBT #251: Career Day featuring Mark Hertling
a list of resources on our website: https://getheadstrong.org/covid19/
Additionally, Headstrong has gone to full tele-health with clinicians in Colorado, so cadets can reach out: https://getheadstrong.org/get-help/
Vets4Warriors, which 247 peer support that can link the cadets to other resources: https://www.vets4warriors.com/author/vets4warr/
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ROUND 1: Over the weekend President Trump issued an order permitting the Pentagon to bring some veterans & reservists back to active duty to assist with the Coronavirus pandemic and we got the details for ya.
ROUND 2: In the first of our career day interview series, we are gonna hear from a pilot who flies the refueling planes.
ROUND 3: A Colonel had a meltdown over ice cream so you won’t be finding much of it around Afghanistan chow halls anymore. Looks like those troops are in for a rocky road regarding their dessert section.
ROUND 4: Lt General Mark Hertling joins the show to talk about his career, shooting with a chicken wing in a viral CNN clip, how he was injured in tank battle during Desert storm and much much more.
Round 5: Sacre Blu! The last people on earth to know about coronavirus are some french submariners who are deep in the sea and have zero idea about what is happening up here on dry land.
ROUND 6: Kate has another game for us and this time it’s all about acronyms. Let’s hope it’s not SNAFU!You can find every episode of this show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or YouTube. Prime Members can listen ad-free on Amazon Music. For more, visit barstool.link/ZeroBlog30

Mar 27, 2020 • 1h 42min
ZBT #250: Military Suspension featuring Rocky Bleier
ROUND 1: The military has suspended all travel, deployments, and exercises for the entire force and we’re gonna give you a quick, light, roundup ending with the most pressing issue of all. Haircuts!
ROUND 2: A bit of panic ensued on Twitter when a DJ named Kray-Z-K tweeted a photo of hundreds of tanks rolling through San Diego & asked if martial law was upon us. Is there a government conspiracy afoot?! Or is this DJ just spinning a wack track. Big bonus on this round, too… more tank talk!
ROUND 3: As someone who’s had diarrhea since ____ I know how tough it is to unclog a toilet. But at least I’m not the Navy who has two new ships costing them $400,000 EVERY SINGLE TIME there’s a plumbing issue. Money down the shitter, amiright folks? Ha ha
ROUND 4: Rocky Blier
ROUND 5: MINDLESS GAME-SHOW ALERT: Kate has a fun little name-game for us called “Country Singer, Nascar Driver, or Kate Made It Up” and you & your buddies can play along too.You can find every episode of this show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or YouTube. Prime Members can listen ad-free on Amazon Music. For more, visit barstool.link/ZeroBlog30

Mar 24, 2020 • 56min
ZBT #249: Military Olympics + The Future
Round 1: The Canadians are leading the way again. Our friends up north announced they are not gonna be in the Olympics. The Summer Olympics. Kinda slaps differently when Canada says that arent playing beach volleyball!
Round 2: With ESPN Ocho dominating the sports scene this weekend, we took to social media to see what military sports should be on the next slate of games. Watching people fill sandbags as fast as they can would be must-watch tv.
Round 3: For the next two rounds, we are gonna step into the future. We’d all like to fast-forward the present, so we are gonna do that. People are currently designing the future. Whoa. Meta as fuck.
Round 4: Multi-Azimuth Defense-Fast Intercept Round Engagement Systems. Buddy, the future is violent AF..You can find every episode of this show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or YouTube. Prime Members can listen ad-free on Amazon Music. For more, visit barstool.link/ZeroBlog30


