969 - Bo Gritz Part One

Summary

Episode Summary: The Dollop with Dave Anthony and Gareth Reynolds - Episode 969: Bo Gritz Part One

Release Date: August 12, 2025
Podcast: The Dollop with Dave Anthony and Gareth Reynolds
Hosts: Dave Anthony and Gareth Reynolds
Topic: Bo Gritz – A Controversial American Military Figure

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1. Introduction to Bo Gritz

The episode kicks off with Dave Anthony introducing the concept of The Dollop, where he narrates intriguing and often obscure stories from American history to Gareth Reynolds, who remains unaware of the subject beforehand.

Dave Anthony [04:43]: “In World War II, there were fairies and they needed people to pilot them.”

Gareth humorously engages with Dave, setting a lighthearted tone for the deep dive into Bo Gritz’s life.

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2. Early Life and Military Aspirations

Bo Gritz was born on January 18, 1939, in Enid, Oklahoma. His childhood was marked by the disappearance of his father during a World War II mission, leaving his mother, a wartime ferry pilot, often absent. Raised primarily by his grandparents, Bo developed an early obsession with the military, influenced by his grandmother's fictional war hero stories.

Gareth Reynolds [05:04]: “Well, there we go. So there it is.”
Dave Anthony [05:04]: “Grandma sent him on nightly make-believe missions with the ghost of his dead father.”
Timestamp: [05:04]

Bo's relentless pursuit of military greatness led him to enlist in the Army, bypassing traditional staff roles to rise through the ranks via active combat and special operations.

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3. Military Career and Hyperbolic Achievements

Bo Gritz's military career is embellished with numerous accolades, many of which are contested. He claims to have received over 60 medals, including distinctions like the Distinguished Flying Cross and multiple Purple Hearts. However, Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests reveal discrepancies, suggesting he may have awarded himself multiple medals, potentially even duplicating some.

Dave Anthony [17:16]: “But a Freedom of Information act request later seemed to show that Bo basically gave himself many of the medals.”
Gareth Reynolds [17:22]: “Oh, my God.”
Timestamp: [17:16]

His heroics reportedly include leading a daring raid to recover a lost U2 spy plane's black box in Cambodia, although accounts from fellow soldiers vary, with some asserting minimal or no confrontation during the mission.

Gareth Reynolds [14:13]: “Bo said he led his team behind enemy lines to the crash, but the box was gone.”
Timestamp: [14:13]

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4. Post-War Struggles and Moral Conflicts

After the Vietnam War, Bo experienced significant moral turmoil, grappling with the lives he ended during his service. This internal conflict propelled him into advocacy for missing in action (MIA) soldiers, though his methods and credibility came under scrutiny.

Dave Anthony [17:01]: “I think if people like you, you get those easier.”
Gareth Reynolds [17:03]: “Yeah, Yeah, you do.”
Timestamp: [17:01]

His attempts to assist MIA families were marred by questionable operations and alleged fabrications, leading to skepticism from both the military establishment and the public.

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5. Operation Velvet Hammer: A Misguided Rescue Mission

In a bid to rescue alleged POWs in Laos, Bo Gritz orchestrated Operation Velvet Hammer. The mission was characterized by its lack of proper planning, reliance on unverified intelligence, and incorporation of unconventional team members like psychics and hypnotherapists.

Dave Anthony [36:00]: “Operation Velvet Hammer. Soft Hammer.”
Gareth Reynolds [36:02]: “I'm gonna hit you with a soft Hammer so soft.”
Timestamp: [36:00]

The operation, fueled by Bo's determination and dubious funding sources—including supposed support from Federal Express—fell apart almost immediately. Miscommunications, logistical failures, and the absence of any real intelligence led to an ambush where Bo's team, ill-equipped and underprepared, faced significant setbacks.

Gareth Reynolds [74:03]: “He just goes straight to Reagan.”
Timestamp: [74:03]

The mission ultimately failed to locate any POWs, revealing the depth of Bo's misconceptions and the inefficacy of his covert operations.

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6. Controversial Public Persona and Media Exploits

Despite the failures, Bo Gritz managed to cultivate a controversial public image. He appeared on national TV shows, asserting he had proof of POWs still held in Laos. However, media inquiries into his claims often resulted in vague responses, such as undeveloped film rolls that he promised to reveal later.

Dave Anthony [87:06]: “So that's the end of part one.”
Timestamp: [87:06]

His theatrical antics and persistent assertions kept him in the public eye, ironically reinforcing his status as a "hero" despite the lack of substantive evidence supporting his missions.

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7. Conclusion of Part One

The episode concludes with Bo Gritz facing mounting pressure from governmental bodies and skepticism from the media. As his missions consistently falter, his reputation as a military icon continues to deteriorate, leaving listeners eager for the continuation in Part Two.

Gareth Reynolds [89:15]: “We are so incapable of anything. Yeah. I mean, it is shocking.”
Dave Anthony [89:17]: “Yeah.”
Timestamp: [89:15]

Dave Anthony [89:26]: “America, we did it.”
Timestamp: [89:26]

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Notable Quotes with Timestamps

• Dave Anthony [04:43]: “In World War II, there were fairies and they needed people to pilot them.”
• Gareth Reynolds [05:04]: “Well, there we go. So there it is.”
• Dave Anthony [17:16]: “But a Freedom of Information act request later seemed to show that Bo basically gave himself many of the medals.”
• Gareth Reynolds [17:22]: “Oh, my God.”
• Gareth Reynolds [36:02]: “I'm gonna hit you with a soft Hammer so soft.”
• Dave Anthony [87:06]: “So that's the end of part one.”
• Gareth Reynolds [89:15]: “We are so incapable of anything. Yeah. I mean, it is shocking.”

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Final Thoughts

This episode delves into the enigmatic and controversial figure of Bo Gritz, presenting a narrative filled with ambition, moral conflict, and questionable endeavors. Through humorous banter and critical analysis, Dave and Gareth unravel the complexities of a man who straddled the line between heroism and delusion, setting the stage for an intriguing continuation in the subsequent episode.

Transcript

[Dave Anthony]

You're listening to the Dollop on the All Things Comedy Network. This is an American history podcast where each week I, Dave Anthony, read a story from American history to my worker.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Gareth Reynolds, who has no idea what the topic is going to be about.

[Dave Anthony]

And how do you feel today working for the Dollop?

[Gareth Reynolds]

I have a. I'm furious at Luke and have a new respect for him.

[Dave Anthony]

There's a lot of wires.

[Gareth Reynolds]

A lot of wires.

[Dave Anthony]

There's software happening. There's cameras. There's a lot going on.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Freaking smiley face balloon for crypt.

[Dave Anthony]

You brought that in?

[Gareth Reynolds]

No, this is just.

[Dave Anthony]

What, are we walking right through the door with it? And I said, why are you doing that?

[Gareth Reynolds]

Doesn't sound like me.

[Dave Anthony]

Where did you get the smiley face balloon?

[Gareth Reynolds]

I don't want to tell you.

[Dave Anthony]

Well, we're just going to sit here.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Quietly, then I will do a balloon off any day of the week, my friend.

[Dave Anthony]

Well, welcome to the Dollop.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Let's say this is someone's first episode and the intro is pretty clear, but I know nothing. You're going to walk me through it. We've been doing this for almost 11 years. 11 years over.

[Dave Anthony]

English 17.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah, so just over, huh? We've been doing this for 11 years, you know, and it's just. It's fun. We're having fun with it. I think you're going to like it. And. And if you don't like it, all right, you know, that's fine. It's not a big deal. But I think you. I think if you hang in there, I understand. I think if you hang in there, I think you'll. You'll learn to like it and give it a minute.

[Dave Anthony]

Do you consider this to be a sales pitch?

[Gareth Reynolds]

Well, you know, I started thinking that. I'm telling the new listener, hey, welcome here.

[Dave Anthony]

You're making the podcast. You're broccolini.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Broccolini is delicious. Brussels sprouts delicious.

[Dave Anthony]

No, people do not start off. Most people are like, all right, that's a great appetizer. Asparagus, also an acquired.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Dave, please. Right now, new listeners, is not a food show, so you're probably a little throne, and you're going, hey, I thought they said there was some history in here. There is. Dave just took it to a Brussels sprout level, ignoring the fact that Brussels sprouts are often a fantastic app at any good restaurant. That many people.

[Dave Anthony]

That's not what I said. I said we're not doing acquired taste.

[Gareth Reynolds]

It's not an acquired taste. You could go there and have it for the first time. Because they put so much stuff on it. It's delicious. So. But that's not what it is. You tell me. I'm blowing the sales pitch. You're blowing the sale here.

[Dave Anthony]

Adding sauces.

[Gareth Reynolds]

I'm adding a. So think of this show like Brussels sprouts, and I'm the sauce. Boom. Go, go, go.

[Dave Anthony]

We're gonna be on tour.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Oh, my God. North stuff.

[Dave Anthony]

We're gonna be on tour. Yeah. We're going on tour, man. So go to dollarpodcast.com tour and. And there will be all our tour dates. Midwest, Midwest, Indianapolis, Chicago, places like that.

[Gareth Reynolds]

But let's just take a minute to say, to Milwaukee, this is your last chance.

[Dave Anthony]

There's a balloon string hanging off.

[Gareth Reynolds]

This is it for you. Milwaukee.

[Dave Anthony]

It's really bad.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Okay. You better show up to Turner Hall.

[Dave Anthony]

Yeah. Milwaukee. You're.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Because you're. You're embarrassing. I'm from there.

[Dave Anthony]

Yeah.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Where's this treatment of Come on.

[Dave Anthony]

Yeah.

[Gareth Reynolds]

What are you doing? You is.

[Unknown]

I've been.

[Gareth Reynolds]

I'm from there. You're not saturated with entertainment to the point where you're just going like me, go to Turner Hall. My God.

[Dave Anthony]

I don't know if that's a sales pitch.

[Gareth Reynolds]

I know I'm blowing it. I just. It's all things bad.

[Dave Anthony]

Do you think that was better with the balloon?

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah.

[Dave Anthony]

You can't really control a balloon. A balloon control.

[Gareth Reynolds]

On the contrary, hot air controlled. Go ahead.

[Dave Anthony]

January 18, 1939. Year of our Lord J. Town. James Bo gr was born in Enid, Oklahoma. James Bogue writes James Bo Wrights. At 5, Bo's dad disappeared flying a mission in World War II, becoming missing in action, or as it's known, MIA mission in action. His mom wasn't around much as she worked full time as a wartime ferry pilot. Go ahead, we're taking questions.

[Gareth Reynolds]

What is it?

[Dave Anthony]

In World War II, there were fairies and they needed people to pilot them.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Ticker bell move.

[Dave Anthony]

That's correct.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Okay.

[Dave Anthony]

So he's mostly raised by his grandparents.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Okay.

[Dave Anthony]

All he wanted to talk about as a kid was the military. And his dad, he. He was obsessed.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Okay.

[Dave Anthony]

Grandma read him stories of fictional war heroes and Beau would like to say he was going to be a real life war hero like his dad.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Okay.

[Dave Anthony]

So grandma sent him on nightly make believe missions with the ghost of his dead father.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Well, there we go. So there it is. I was letting you cook for a minute and there we are. So. Yeah, go ahead. So, well, ghost, ghost, ghost dad and regular boy off on war mission.

[Dave Anthony]

That's right. Yes.

[Gareth Reynolds]

1910. Roughly yeah.

[Dave Anthony]

Night. Nighttime. Ghost.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Ghost. Dad.

[Dave Anthony]

War mission.

[Gareth Reynolds]

War mission.

[Dave Anthony]

So that's not gonna up a kid at all. That's gonna.

[Gareth Reynolds]

I. No, I think, you know, that's one of those things where it's like in the moment, you're like, yeah, that he's happy.

[Dave Anthony]

He's happy, but long term.

[Gareth Reynolds]

But maybe just talk to him a.

[Dave Anthony]

Little bit as an adult. He's going to be weird.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Dad, what do you think? I can't right now. My dad and I have to go around the neighborhood to make sure there's no enemies. Dad, we got a trench over there. He's like 35.

[Dave Anthony]

So she. She encouraged Beau to recreate his dad dead dad's flights with his father's spirit beside him in an imaginary cockpit.

[Gareth Reynolds]

It's like there's a thread there that I understand. But again, when you see it once, you'd be like, this is horrible.

[Dave Anthony]

This is a terrible.

[Unknown]

What do you think, dad? Here we go, dad. Here we go.

[Dave Anthony]

Okay.

[Gareth Reynolds]

All right.

[Unknown]

On another mission.

[Gareth Reynolds]

A boy and his dad.

[Dave Anthony]

Buddy. So listen.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Look at this scum. More air scum.

[Unknown]

Dad.

[Dave Anthony]

Yeah. We've talked about this before, but I would.

[Unknown]

Anything I should put on, Son, I.

[Dave Anthony]

Wouldn'T bring a child with me on any missions.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Look, dad, I don't want to be rude to you, but right now we're on a mission. It's not time for stuff like that. Might never be time for stuff like that.

[Dave Anthony]

Boo.

[Unknown]

Huh?

[Dave Anthony]

I'm a ghost.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah, dad, focus. What's with you today?

[Dave Anthony]

Well, I'm a ghost.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Oh, boy. Oh, dad, they got us on the wing. What should we do? I'm thinking water landing.

[Dave Anthony]

I don't know.

[Unknown]

Oh, dad. Here we go.

[Dave Anthony]

Is any of this real? Like, what is real?

[Gareth Reynolds]

Oh, no. There's so much water coming in.

[Dave Anthony]

I would like to.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Here, dad, get out of the glass with me.

[Dave Anthony]

Whatever. Spiritual. Yeah, I'm in trapping here.

[Gareth Reynolds]

The further we swim into the ocean, the further away we get from our actual feelings. And I Down here there's not feelings.

[Dave Anthony]

I have come to the conclusion down.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Here there's not feelings that the reason down here there's not feelings Ghost I.

[Dave Anthony]

Am still bound to this hell earth is because you won't let me go.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Dad and a boy Boy and a dad fly in the plane that he once had Boy and a dad fly in the plane oh, dad looks like he's going insane.

[Dave Anthony]

I hate the song.

[Gareth Reynolds]

But long term, I'll be fine.

[Dave Anthony]

You're not gonna be fin.

[Gareth Reynolds]

This will turn out and I'll shine.

[Unknown]

Oh, yeah.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Boy and Ghost.

[Dave Anthony]

Yeah. Okay. I wish I could take the play down again.

[Gareth Reynolds]

We should drown grandma.

[Dave Anthony]

Jesus Christ.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah. Don't you think?

[Dave Anthony]

No.

[Gareth Reynolds]

She's coming up with a lot of stupid ideas lately.

[Dave Anthony]

Well, okay.

[Gareth Reynolds]

You and I can figure it out.

[Dave Anthony]

No.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Can you cook?

[Dave Anthony]

I don't think I can lift things up.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Teach me how to shave other.

[Dave Anthony]

So other than, like, the ghost dad stuff, he had a pretty normal childhood.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Okay.

[Dave Anthony]

But then he starts to act out as a teen.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Okay.

[Dave Anthony]

So he did pranks, he built hot rods, and he'd speed around town, stole motorcycles, blew up the school auditorium with fireworks. Just things that kid hijinks that kids get into. One's bigger, like stuff like that.

[Gareth Reynolds]

One's bigger.

[Dave Anthony]

Yeah, but you were a rascal.

[Gareth Reynolds]

I'll be honest. I love fireworks.

[Dave Anthony]

How old were you when you blew up the school auditorium?

[Gareth Reynolds]

I just put in my house burned down once, but it wasn't me. But everyone in my school thought it was me.

[Dave Anthony]

Of course they did.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah. I love fireworks.

[Dave Anthony]

Yeah. Well, so in 1953, he was 14 years old and he was expelled from school.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Okay.

[Dave Anthony]

So he's got no father to discipline him.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Ghost dad. Yeah. They kicked me out.

[Dave Anthony]

Yeah, that's true. But ghost dad doesn't discipline. He goes along with you.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Exactly. That's why I love you, Ghost Dad.

[Dave Anthony]

So Bo had to sort of himself, and he picked. He decided to go to military school.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Oh, boy.

[Dave Anthony]

He's like, that's what I need.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Discipline. Maybe his dad's future.

[Dave Anthony]

What?

[Gareth Reynolds]

Worked in what way?

[Dave Anthony]

Well, in his senior year, he was offered a spot at West Point Academy.

[Gareth Reynolds]

God damn. I'll tell you what. We keep going to that West Point a lot, and seems to be a bit of a. A bit problematic.

[Dave Anthony]

The weirdos go through West Point.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Seems like it's not great.

[Dave Anthony]

Yeah. As he. As he was considering it going to West Point, he saw a Green Beret poster on campus, Right? So poster for the Green Berets. And he asked his recruiter, he goes, what do those guys do? And the recruiter said, quote, they go out into the woods, live off bark and lizards, snoop around, blow up bridges, and Garrett people and Bo could not sign up fast enough. No.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Garrett Gareth.

[Dave Anthony]

No, it's not you. It's the action of garroting Gareth thing. Beau enlisted in 1957, enrolled in officer Candidate School. Because this guy sounds like officer for the Green Berets. Yes.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Oh, boy.

[Dave Anthony]

By 1963, he was a captain just in time for the Vietnam War.

[Gareth Reynolds]

So he's good. Whatever he's doing, he's good at it.

[Dave Anthony]

You know, he's good. Quote I used to test my people once. They said they wanted to volunteer for my unit. I would sit across the table, take a hand grenade, place it on the table and say pull the pin and let it go.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Well the guy are allowed to do that.

[Dave Anthony]

I knew I had taken the blasting cap off the grenade, but they didn't know it. And when you're on special operations, they cannot let common sense rule their judgment. They have to believe in me.

[Gareth Reynolds]

I mean, I don't know, man. I feel like a lot of it is common sense too. You got to like, you know, there's got to be. By the way, I would definitely be like, he's full of it. I'll do it.

[Dave Anthony]

Yeah. I think most people would think, well, he's not going to blow us both.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah.

[Dave Anthony]

Right.

[Gareth Reynolds]

If you were like leaving there, you'd mouth to the other guys like.

[Dave Anthony]

They probably everybody. Probably everybody knew going in.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah. Like, yeah, he does this stupid grenade. Well, I need you to. Oh, you pulled that pretty quick. Yeah. I don't care.

[Unknown]

I trust you.

[Gareth Reynolds]

I think out there I've really got to listen to what you think.

[Dave Anthony]

That's right.

[Gareth Reynolds]

So.

[Dave Anthony]

So Bowdoin command many US soldiers. Instead he was given a detachment mostly of Cambodian mercenaries. That's cool. That's a sign normal.

[Gareth Reynolds]

I'm feeling that. Well, I think in retrospect we've been quite good to Cambodia.

[Dave Anthony]

Thank you. So if there's one country America has been good to, it's Cambodia.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah. No, I believe Anthony Bourdain's quote is if you want to hate America, go to Cambodia.

[Dave Anthony]

Yeah. Indeed. In 1966, a U2 spy plane crashed in Cambodia and its black box full of secret codes could fall into the hands of the USSR Real easy too is our enemy.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah. Yeah. Aren't you? Who's on your shirt?

[Dave Anthony]

That's Karl Marx.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Well, what's your deal?

[Dave Anthony]

What's the shirt say?

[Gareth Reynolds]

Told you so.

[Dave Anthony]

Yeah. President Johnson wanted the black box back, so he called in special force forces and that means Beau grights. When I was growing up, I always thought his name was Bo Gritz.

[Gareth Reynolds]

I've never heard of him.

[Dave Anthony]

You've never heard of Bo Grit?

[Gareth Reynolds]

No.

[Dave Anthony]

Or Bo Gr.

[Gareth Reynolds]

No.

[Dave Anthony]

Bo said he led his team behind enemy lines to the crash, but the box was gone.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Cambodians.

[Dave Anthony]

Cambodians. It didn't take him long to find sandal tracks leading to an enemy camp. Or as well them just Cambodians.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yep. But yeah, a Cambodian village an of Cambodian people living their lives. I the feeling this Isn't going to go great.

[Dave Anthony]

Well, he led a raid on the camp, successfully recovered the black box.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Okay.

[Dave Anthony]

Now, other green brays who were on that mission say that his version is absolute. They said the black box was just at the crash site and they got it without firing a shot or they had to attack an enemy camp.

[Gareth Reynolds]

He said that they went in there just attacking and that's how he found it. So he went on a Rambo mission.

[Dave Anthony]

To find the black box, followed the sandal tracks. Now, can I. Tracking? You've seen. You've seen video of a jungle. You've seen.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Sure.

[Dave Anthony]

Vietnam War movies. How do you think following sandal tracks goes in the jungle?

[Gareth Reynolds]

Well, I think you're probably looking. You're looking for some depressed leaves, some areas of. You know, I think you could. I could probably figure it out and probably follow it, but it's not the easiest. And here's why, Dave. It's.

[Dave Anthony]

It's quite.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Quite leafy and foresty and the ground is. And moist.

[Dave Anthony]

Moist.

[Gareth Reynolds]

And. And it's probably not that easy. And even if you can follow it for a minute, it's probably difficult to keep going.

[Dave Anthony]

Yeah. But interesting.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah.

[Dave Anthony]

So anyway, that's what happened, Bo. On some fellow soldiers. Quote, there are soldiers like myself who are not staff pukes. We didn't come up the ranks slow stroking the generals. Instead, we came up in the.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Is that a hand job?

[Dave Anthony]

Yeah.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Wow.

[Dave Anthony]

Instead, we came up in the foxholes and the field. We will not sell our time, our talent, our resources to anyone, regardless of. But we'll give them if the cause is right.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Who jacked off a general? I know.

[Dave Anthony]

I got.

[Gareth Reynolds]

These generals have an insatiable hunger for hand jobs.

[Dave Anthony]

Can I be a colonel? Can I be a colonel?

[Gareth Reynolds]

Drop and give me it. Oh, yeah.

[Dave Anthony]

General Westmoreland wrote of the raid in his memoir and portrayed Beau as a hero.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Okay.

[Dave Anthony]

Even though it's clearly not real, I'm still.

[Gareth Reynolds]

I'm. I'm open.

[Dave Anthony]

Francis Ford Coppola wanted to use a picture of Beau and his mercenaries for Apocalypse Now. Bose rose up to lieutenant colonel in Vietnam. Time magazine said he became, quote, the most decorated soldier in American history, with over 60 medals, including the Distinguished Flying Cross, two Purple Hearts, two Legion of Merits, three Silver Stars, four Bronze Stars, and 26 Air Metals.

[Gareth Reynolds]

I mean, that's crazy.

[Dave Anthony]

That's a lot. You could.

[Gareth Reynolds]

You're happy now, Daddy?

[Dave Anthony]

You could probably sell that for a lot.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Two Purple Hearts.

[Dave Anthony]

Yeah, well, yeah, but I think you get those pretty.

[Gareth Reynolds]

I don't think you do.

[Dave Anthony]

I think you can get them pretty easy if you know the right people.

[Gareth Reynolds]

I. I got a bunch of them.

[Dave Anthony]

I think if, you know, I think if people like you, you get those easier.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah, Yeah, I got a bunch of Purple Hearts. You want one? No problem.

[Dave Anthony]

That's not how you get them.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah, yeah, you do.

[Dave Anthony]

You can steal a Purple Heart and then you are officially injured in Vietnam. People don't know that.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Were you alive for Vietnam? No. Crazy.

[Dave Anthony]

But a Freedom of Information act request later seemed to show that Bo basically gave himself many of the medals.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Oh.

[Dave Anthony]

Sometimes awarding himself twice for the same thing.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Oh, my God.

[Dave Anthony]

People just aren't checking paperwork.

[Gareth Reynolds]

How is he able to do that? He's just do it.

[Dave Anthony]

Send in paperwork once, sending medals again, change some of the details, get it again.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Jesus Christ, this guy needs a lot of Purple Hearts.

[Dave Anthony]

Imagine what his uniform look.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Oh, that whole thing is like grown up Cub Scouts.

[Dave Anthony]

After the war, he had a crisis of conscience and he said he had killed 400 men.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Jesus Christ.

[Dave Anthony]

And he was trying to grapple with it, but couldn't.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Can you imagine killing 400 people?

[Dave Anthony]

Yes.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Okay, I have a list, but I mean, I may. You've never killed.

[Dave Anthony]

Well, okay, now I have not killed a human being. Yeah, I accidentally killed the possum once. Ah, that's sad. Quote. I went to the top of a mountain in Mexico. I had one bullet in my nine millimeter. I come to shot one Mexican.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Dirty, dirty Mexican. I saw from the bluff, and I shot him.

[Dave Anthony]

I come to some sort of realization. Had all of the loss of life that I had precipitated in Vietnam. Was it excusable?

[Gareth Reynolds]

No.

[Dave Anthony]

Luckily, Beau came to a conclusion. Quote, searching back. If you take life and do it in the course of duty, that kind of wrongful death is excusable.

[Gareth Reynolds]

How. How can you possibly.

[Dave Anthony]

I did soul searching is what I did.

[Gareth Reynolds]

How can but imagine if.

[Dave Anthony]

I mean, look, what I realized was if you're wearing a uniform and you cut off someone's head, be it a soldier or a child, you're doing it for your country. And therefore it is what is officially termed okie dokie.

[Gareth Reynolds]

What you don't understand, God was. I was told to.

[Unknown]

Oh, my.

[Dave Anthony]

Well, go on here.

[Gareth Reynolds]

But I really think, like, I mean, there are so many soldiers who have come back from, you know, whatever warrior, like, what the fuss?

[Dave Anthony]

What did I do?

[Gareth Reynolds]

I mean, they.

[Dave Anthony]

And.

[Gareth Reynolds]

And you have. I mean, how are you. You got to like, find a way to be like, all right, I'm just. I mean, they told me to. They told them to. They lied to him.

[Dave Anthony]

Yeah. And. But although he's not lied to.

[Gareth Reynolds]

No, he's, he's.

[Dave Anthony]

A lot of them are lied to and they have to do stuff that's absolutely horrendous.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah. And then you have to like come back and actually like, you know.

[Dave Anthony]

Yeah.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Figure that out, which is impossible.

[Dave Anthony]

And then you become a cop. Bo started doing a karate and that, that is when he met a beautiful woman.

[Gareth Reynolds]

He gave him something like four black beautiful woman. Okay.

[Dave Anthony]

They were married that year.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Okay.

[Dave Anthony]

She's 16, 20 years younger. She's 16, 20 years Younger.

[Gareth Reynolds]

16.

[Dave Anthony]

Fertile Gareth.

[Gareth Reynolds]

16. She's 16.

[Dave Anthony]

She is just out of childhood, you know, the whole.

[Gareth Reynolds]

The. How long until Trump just lowers the fuck age.

[Dave Anthony]

I don't think they call it the fuck age.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Well, soon enough it's called the age.

[Dave Anthony]

We'll call it the. Yeah, that's how he might get around everything. So.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah, he really might.

[Dave Anthony]

Bo was transferred to Special Forces Commander of South America, where he served until 1977.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Okay.

[Dave Anthony]

Now, if you have heard the doll before, you'll remember some very bad was going on in South America that time, may I say, very, very bad shit. Concentration camp shit, right by us.

[Unknown]

Okay.

[Gareth Reynolds]

All right.

[Dave Anthony]

So amazed and frustrated, he watched the US shield ruthless Panamanian dictator, Manuel Noriega. Have I done a doll upon Noriega?

[Gareth Reynolds]

I don't think so, no.

[Dave Anthony]

He had a major role in a joint operation by the CIA and the Mossad to create the cocaine boom in the US which led to millions of dollars going to buy weapons for antisocialist contras in Central and South America.

[Gareth Reynolds]

It really is, like shocking to me once again, the length of time we've just been doing the exact same shit and being lied to about it. I mean, overall, Mossad and CIA are pippin Jordan. I mean, just one's always like, I'll cook.

[Dave Anthony]

Yeah. From Panama, Beau learned, quote, 10% of acquired CAA covert funds come from congressional appropriation. The other 90% is made up from extra legal means.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Extra legal means, Right.

[Dave Anthony]

So if you really look into the CIA, you'll see that they do get a lot of money from the government, but they make a lot of money on their own. Is that right? Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Gareth Reynolds]

How are they making that money?

[Dave Anthony]

Well, right here, it's drugs.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Hello, CIA. I'd like to donate drugs. That's so cool.

[Dave Anthony]

Yeah, Shortly.

[Gareth Reynolds]

I've never liked them more.

[Dave Anthony]

Yeah, they're pretty fun.

[Unknown]

They, they do drug deals.

[Dave Anthony]

Shortly after his 22 year career ended under mysterious, mysterious circumstances. So Beau said a general asked him to retire to focus on civilian prisoner of war POW rescue missions.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Let me guess.

[Dave Anthony]

He was forced out, but the general died right after that.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Hmm. Pull this pin.

[Dave Anthony]

So Beau showed people a letter he said proved the general wanted him doing POW rescue missions. And the FBI said the letter was a forgery.

[Gareth Reynolds]

What do they know?

[Dave Anthony]

Who's to believe? Who are you going to believe? There's decorated. This guy's got 7,000 metals.

[Gareth Reynolds]

15 purple hearts, three on the same day.

[Dave Anthony]

Yeah, yeah.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Really tossing them out.

[Dave Anthony]

Pentagon sources said Beau retired because his superiors pressured him into leaving after believing that he'd done a Colonel Kurtz.

[Gareth Reynolds]

A Colonel Kurtz.

[Dave Anthony]

Go ahead, Colonel Kurtz. I will show you.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Oh, God.

[Dave Anthony]

Josh is gonna be mad at you.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Josh is pretty much constantly mad.

[Dave Anthony]

It's true.

[Gareth Reynolds]

You want to read it? Oh, yeah. Oh, dear. So he did a Colonel Kurtz. He did. He Apocalypse Nowed.

[Dave Anthony]

Yeah. So Colonel Kurtz is Marlon Brando in.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Apocalypse now, as I call him the straight man in the movie. Just like a real chill character.

[Dave Anthony]

Okay, so I'll read it. Walter Kurtz was a career officer in the US Army. He's a third generation West Point graduate who had risen through the ranks and was seen to be destined for top post in the Pentagon. So, yeah. So. So. And then he goes bananas and not. So they think that. So they think that's what happened.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Right?

[Dave Anthony]

So the. That's. That's what some people in Pentagon say that they. They. They were like, okay, but yeah, out you go, buddy.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Buddy.

[Dave Anthony]

That's a bit like. We love a lot of in. In the army, but wow.

[Gareth Reynolds]

We were meant to do it. Tell him, dad.

[Dave Anthony]

The issue of. Of prisoners of war soldiers missing in action who were left behind in Vietnam was pretty big amongst veterans, and now.

[Gareth Reynolds]

He'S going to be involved in that and the.

[Dave Anthony]

Amongst veterans and their families.

[Gareth Reynolds]

So Colonel Kurtz is like, I was reassigned, but it's a sham. Right.

[Dave Anthony]

There's just people having hope. Right. And they can't let go.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Oh. Oh, that's a.

[Dave Anthony]

Families and whatnot in 19. Here's. Here's how it happened, though. So in 1972, the Nixon administration lied. He did one bad thing, and it's this. But he didn't do anything.

[Gareth Reynolds]

So he did tell a lie.

[Dave Anthony]

He was on the up and up for the most part.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah.

[Dave Anthony]

Yeah. But this is one thing.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Everything I've heard has been pretty soft.

[Dave Anthony]

So he said there were around 1300 prisoners of war.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Is he just trying to cover for death?

[Dave Anthony]

No, if you can imagine this. So he wanted to say there were prisoners of War. So he could justify a Christmas bobbing campaign. Right. If you can imagine a country saying there were.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Right.

[Dave Anthony]

And he would use it as leverage in peace talks. So that. That's what. So he lied, right? This is Kissinger. Who else could it be?

[Gareth Reynolds]

Just cr. It's so crazy how it. Like, if we can just put our minds towards doing proper things that help people, but instead we're like, how can we buy my Christmas? Like, it's just the evil, most evil.

[Dave Anthony]

There were actually half as many POWs. According to both the North Vietnam and American intelligence. After the war, Nixon only brought home 591 soldiers, which is probably the amount there actually were. But now people are like, well, there's 700 still there because that. Because of the fake numbers.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Right?

[Dave Anthony]

So Nixon now says, no, all POWs have been freed, which makes everyone super suspicious.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah.

[Dave Anthony]

Why is he saying that? And created a cottage industry of people determined to bring our boys home.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Oh, no, no. Not a cottage industry of POW hunters. Oh, no.

[Dave Anthony]

Ross Perot.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Oh, my God.

[Dave Anthony]

Short Texas billionaire obsessed with bringing every prisoner of war back.

[Unknown]

We're gonna find him. We are gonna find your boys. Okay?

[Dave Anthony]

He called the Nixon White House so often that an exasperated aide finally said, quote. God damn it, stop calling.

[Unknown]

Now hold on a minute. Hold on a minute. Hold on. Put me on hold.

[Gareth Reynolds]

I like the music, guys. Paper.

[Dave Anthony]

He organized a private.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Oh, my God.

[Dave Anthony]

Paramilitary operation, Ross Perot, to free two employees from an Iranian prison.

[Unknown]

Now, where can find me, boys?

[Dave Anthony]

But in an incredible. In an act of incredible timing, someone else freed the prisoners right before Perot's team arrived.

[Unknown]

I think we still go. Okay. I think we should still make the trip. Get the ghost one. All right. The only thing that we're look. We might find more pals. Okay. Yeah, I think we'd look over at. We turn over every rock, every stick, every log, everything we can find. Every tree trunk. Maybe a guy be under our shoe.

[Dave Anthony]

Can I just.

[Unknown]

We gotta find them.

[Dave Anthony]

Can I just ask you to stop calling them POWs?

[Unknown]

POWs now? What are you talking about? What do you call.

[Dave Anthony]

Never mind. It's like the Batman w. I call him.

[Unknown]

It's like when Batman hits a guy. Pow. It's not going to get him.

[Dave Anthony]

It's not really.

[Unknown]

And when we break the door down, we're going to make a POW on the pow. Okay? We're gonna find these boys no matter what.

[Dave Anthony]

I've never seen you so excited to be able to do Ross Pro. Like.

[Unknown]

I don't know what you're talking about.

[Dave Anthony]

I've never, never done. I never brought back a character and seen you. I mean, you're.

[Unknown]

Now, hold on. Hold on a minute.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Hold on a minute.

[Unknown]

You're calling me a balloon?

[Dave Anthony]

Yes.

[Unknown]

I might be a little balloony right now. I'll tell you what. I got more helium inside of me than a big bunch on a birthday bash. Okay?

[Dave Anthony]

According to Bo, the director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, which is the Department of Defense's own CIA.

[Gareth Reynolds]

What the.

[Unknown]

Why?

[Dave Anthony]

Everybody needs one.

[Gareth Reynolds]

We're good.

[Dave Anthony]

Everybody needs one.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Good. Why?

[Unknown]

What?

[Gareth Reynolds]

The end of this country will just be everyone's in a military like service.

[Dave Anthony]

So he asked Ross Per. The director of the Defense Intelligence Agency asked Ross Pro to fund Bo's first POW rescue mission.

[Unknown]

Absolutely. You gotta. You absolutely have a deal.

[Dave Anthony]

As Bo entered Pro's office, the first thing he saw was a massive bronze statue of John Wayne. At top, a majestic steed with his gun out, looking very.

[Unknown]

Now, how good is this, huh?

[Dave Anthony]

From Bose Autobiography. So Pro gets right to the point. I should just have you read this?

[Gareth Reynolds]

Sure.

[Dave Anthony]

Okay, wait. Yeah, so there's two sentences here, but I'll let you read both.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Okay.

[Unknown]

Now, I want you to go over there and do everything necessary. You come back and tell me there aren't any POWs left alive. I'm not interested in bones. That's bones. B O N E S. Now how crazy is that that I just said that?

[Dave Anthony]

There's a second one?

[Unknown]

And as I pause a little more.

[Dave Anthony]

Ross Perot goes on to say, quote.

[Unknown]

When you get back, I have an additional task for you. Governor Clements and the head of the DEA have given me permission to have one man operate outside the law. I know you have extensive contracts in Central America. I want you to uncover and identify everyone dealing with cocaine. Everyone dealing cocaine between Columbia and Texas. Once you're sure you got them all, I want you to wipe them out in a single night, like an angel of death. Okay.

[Dave Anthony]

Like a little bit.

[Gareth Reynolds]

That little guy said that.

[Unknown]

I want you to ride in on like you're one of the four horsemen of the Apocalypse. Take your sword out of your sheep and I want you to cut the heads off these boys. You understand? And when the heads are off, I want the blood drained out of them. And I want you to put it in a big bucket. And I want you to cut the skulls out of the skin. And then I want you to drink the. Drink the blood out of the skulls like wine from a craft. Okay? You understand?

[Dave Anthony]

Yeah, but this goes because they have the skull.

[Unknown]

You will take the skull out of the Skin.

[Dave Anthony]

I'm holding it.

[Unknown]

Are you. Are you slow?

[Dave Anthony]

I'm holding it upside. So it's upside down, the skull. No way. It would hold.

[Unknown]

Of course it is.

[Dave Anthony]

The water.

[Unknown]

It's like a head bowl, but.

[Dave Anthony]

A head bowl.

[Unknown]

Yeah, it's like a. But, yeah, exactly.

[Dave Anthony]

I'm just thinking of the particulars of drinking.

[Unknown]

Well, some of it's going to spill down your neck. Yeah, but that's okay. You will be covered in blood at that point anyway.

[Dave Anthony]

Okay.

[Unknown]

So there's no need to worry about a napkin or anything like that.

[Dave Anthony]

Okay.

[Unknown]

Are you slow, son?

[Dave Anthony]

No, no, I'm just.

[Unknown]

You understand what I'm saying?

[Dave Anthony]

Just thinking this through.

[Unknown]

You will drink the blood out of the skull like it's blind from a big old bowl.

[Dave Anthony]

Okay?

[Unknown]

And that's what you'll do.

[Dave Anthony]

And this is legal. You said. You said something about legal.

[Unknown]

You said, oh, legality of all this.

[Dave Anthony]

Law is what you.

[Unknown]

Outside the law. But that is not illegal. So illegal is illegal. You're just working a little bit outside the law.

[Dave Anthony]

I guess my question is.

[Unknown]

I would rather you not have a question, but go ahead.

[Dave Anthony]

If you say the says they give permission or go outside the law, can they actually give that permission? It seems like yes. From a government perspective, you can't actually say work outside the law.

[Unknown]

Because then they're not saying it. I'm saying they gave me a head nod. I said to them, can these boys work outside the law? And one of them open a window. Okay, so we're 100% clear on this?

[Dave Anthony]

Yeah.

[Unknown]

All right.

[Dave Anthony]

Yeah.

[Unknown]

I want you to do stuff you've never done before. Make it dirty.

[Dave Anthony]

I've done most of this.

[Unknown]

And by the way, I want some of the skulls.

[Dave Anthony]

I've killed 400 people.

[Unknown]

That's awesome.

[Dave Anthony]

Drank from my head, though.

[Unknown]

Yeah. This is gonna be good for you.

[Dave Anthony]

Yeah.

[Unknown]

I'm telling you, I never drank wine out of a skull or blood out of a skull or anything like that.

[Dave Anthony]

Now what if I get.

[Unknown]

But you know what I did have once? An old bottle of merlot. 1951. Okay, yeah, real good. But they left it standing up, so it's kind of vinegary, but I didn't even care.

[Dave Anthony]

Are they making merlot in 51?

[Unknown]

What kind of question is that? How would you even. What. What year you think merlot was invented? Are you actually gonna Google this?

[Gareth Reynolds]

That is an inappropriate Google.

[Unknown]

Right now we have bigger fish to fry. Right now we're a grill covered in fish, and you're telling me you're making room for a little bit Of a Google. That doesn't make any sense.

[Dave Anthony]

Yeah, they probably had it, right?

[Unknown]

Probably. Of course they had it. I can't wait for you to eat crow.

[Dave Anthony]

Yeah, it doesn't really say. Oh, history. Here we go.

[Unknown]

Here you go. History of Merlot.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah.

[Dave Anthony]

No, it's.

[Unknown]

Now. Look at you, boy.

[Dave Anthony]

1824.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah.

[Unknown]

1820. What do you think they just made merlot? Like 1975? It seems like it's not Sunkiss Fool.

[Dave Anthony]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Unknown]

It seems like out here acting like Merlot's Cheetos. It's been around for a long time. Mugs probably made it. Monks probably drinking. Speaking of monks, I want you to take a vow of silence when it comes to talk back with me. Now, on my table, I have a grenade. I want you.

[Dave Anthony]

That's my thing.

[Unknown]

I want you to do me a favor and eat it.

[Dave Anthony]

I'm not eating the fucking.

[Unknown]

Eat the grenade. Okay, I will eat it.

[Dave Anthony]

Okay.

[Gareth Reynolds]

All right.

[Dave Anthony]

So there's no record of this being true at all. That. Oh, there's no record that most of the stuff that Bo says, there's no record of it being true.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Is that problematic?

[Dave Anthony]

Well, there's no record of Pro ever giving Beau a dime. But I. My memory is of Perot. How is Perot and liking Bo a lot. Like, he pushed.

[Gareth Reynolds]

How is he involved? Like.

[Dave Anthony]

Well, the same way Elon gets involved. He's just a rich billionaire rich guy.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Who'S just now, like, having fun.

[Dave Anthony]

Yeah.

[Unknown]

Now you listen to me.

[Dave Anthony]

But Bo did get a quasi go ahead from the Army's version of the CIA. The Intelligence Support Agency.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Oh, my. What?

[Dave Anthony]

It's gotta have another one. The ISA was formed in 1979 to plan the failed rescue of American hostages in Iran. Oh, when we sent two helicopters and they weren't, right. They weren't ready for the desert and they crashed. Yeah. In two years, the agency outwarts welcome in the Pentagon.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Mostly because can you imagine the Pentagon.

[Dave Anthony]

Being like, you know, what the are these guys doing?

[Gareth Reynolds]

You're a little crazy.

[Dave Anthony]

It was deemed a rogue operation, accountable to no one, so they got rid of it. It's the perfect organization, however, for bog rights.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Oh, Jesus. How are they? They're just fighting each other.

[Dave Anthony]

Yeah.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Like a war crimes bumble.

[Dave Anthony]

Bose, old army buddy at the isa, Codename Shipman.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Hello.

[Dave Anthony]

Gave him the green light and Bo was ready to form his first big mission. Operation Velvet Hammer. Velvet Hammer. Soft Hammer.

[Gareth Reynolds]

That's what Mel Torme called his.

[Dave Anthony]

I'm gonna.

[Gareth Reynolds]

What happened, bud? What happened?

[Dave Anthony]

I'm gonna hit you with a soft Hammer so soft.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Velvet hammer.

[Dave Anthony]

You're gonna want this hammer to hit.

[Gareth Reynolds]

You over and in this corner, O.

[Dave Anthony]

So the velvet. Based on the findings of a Vietnamese man named low who approached U.S. agents about a POW camp in Laos. Okay, so the U.S. when they hear this, they send a spy plane to take a picture. And the picture shows there is a large facility with walls, fences, and guard towns.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Well, well, well, well, welly well. Told ya.

[Dave Anthony]

There were standing figures whose shadows seemed to indicate that they were, quote, taller than Asians.

[Gareth Reynolds]

How do you make spy plane pictures racial? Jesus Christ. It is just the.

[Unknown]

You know what?

[Gareth Reynolds]

It's actually kind of nice to see the racism trip up intelligence.

[Dave Anthony]

And there were sitting figures who, quote, don't squat like Asians.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Mother of God. Get it all out.

[Dave Anthony]

This is called proof.

[Gareth Reynolds]

That is.

[Dave Anthony]

Hey, no. That guy's sitting like a white.

[Gareth Reynolds]

No, I mean, I want to go.

[Dave Anthony]

So we analyze the photo, General, and you can see here that this is white sitting.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Absolutely. Those men are not squatting, and they're tinier than regular men.

[Dave Anthony]

Asians sit with their bottom down and their legs over their shoulders. These men are sitting with their Just legs out.

[Unknown]

Yep.

[Gareth Reynolds]

That is not an Asian. They don't even know about that technology yet. They haven't heard about legs going straight out and Ruskis.

[Dave Anthony]

One more thing, Gareth. The Symbols B and 52 seem to be stamped out in the grass.

[Gareth Reynolds]

B. And so they're saying. Stamped out. What do you say? They're saying they saw someone stamp out an imprint.

[Dave Anthony]

No, they didn't see it, but someone had done it.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Someone had done it.

[Dave Anthony]

And then grass.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Right. But they're. So they're saying it's a part of.

[Dave Anthony]

It's a. The code. The prisoner of war is sending a message.

[Gareth Reynolds]

The prison of.

[Dave Anthony]

He didn't stand by the S.O.S. no, he stamped out B52. He's the spy plane.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Love shack.

[Dave Anthony]

Love shack.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Oh, my God.

[Dave Anthony]

So the military hire Ty and Louis Laoshant.

[Gareth Reynolds]

I have a low bar for the military war crimes. Ah. And.

[Dave Anthony]

The military hire Thai and Laotian operatives to stake out the camp, and they find no evidence of POWs.

[Gareth Reynolds]

They're compromised.

[Dave Anthony]

In fact, it looks like it's been deserted for a long time. Just like they want you to believe.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah. You fell for it.

[Dave Anthony]

The dia.

[Gareth Reynolds]

The dia, that is. Oh, the Defense Intelligence Agency.

[Dave Anthony]

Yes. Which. The Department of Defense is CIA, Cole. The DIA asked Lowe to take a lie detector test. Okay, this will do it.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Lie detectors work or not, this will do it.

[Dave Anthony]

Well, he did fail several times.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Okay.

[Dave Anthony]

In this case, I guess it did.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Okay.

[Dave Anthony]

I think they do sometimes, but I think there's way to.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah, right.

[Dave Anthony]

Yeah, yeah. Like I put something on my ass.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Huh?

[Dave Anthony]

There's a particular butt plug.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Huh?

[Dave Anthony]

You can also just press. Put a pebble up under your toe and push on that.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Why would you not go with that route? Don't answer. Do not answer. Don't answer.

[Dave Anthony]

It looked scissor. Okay, jump. Jump. So the DIA concluded that the figures had been set up by low or they were just shadows. I want to talk about technology at this point because. Why are you even doing it? Because if you can't tell the difference between. If you can't tell the difference between a shadow and a man, and you are pretending you can tell the difference between a white guy and an Asian guy, maybe you shouldn't be using that technology. Maybe that technology is not actually that good.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Now, look, we're all excited for you guys to come up with that tech, obviously. The drone era, we're all very pumped up for it. But right now it feels like maybe you're not there yet.

[Unknown]

The isa, however, it's not only Asians that can be tiny.

[Dave Anthony]

Ross Perot is Asian sized.

[Unknown]

I am. I don't think you're allowed to say something like that, according to this. I don't think you're allowed to say something like that.

[Dave Anthony]

No, according to this.

[Unknown]

There's many things you can compare me to, according to spy photo dressage pony.

[Dave Anthony]

Proization, I'm the size of a fire.

[Unknown]

Hydrant, but not one of those ones that's in the ground fully. It's got the little base sticking up out like it's a little dress. You know what I'm talking about? I'm half a mailbox. I'm a newspaper stand size.

[Dave Anthony]

Okay?

[Unknown]

I'm pocket friendly.

[Dave Anthony]

So the isa, which is the army's version of the CIA, feels differently. Shipman thought that Shipman is his contact at the isa. Shipman thinks it's an active camp and sends the classified picture to Bo Gritz. Bo.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Let me guess. What? Both things.

[Dave Anthony]

Well, he agrees. He's like, this is a active prison camp. Look at it.

[Gareth Reynolds]

You give him the ink, blood test, everything. He's like, camp, we need to go in.

[Dave Anthony]

And clearly some of her boys are there. They're sitting down. They're. They're making B52 in the grass.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Bingo, baby. Get moving. What's taking so long?

[Dave Anthony]

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[Gareth Reynolds]

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[Dave Anthony]

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[Gareth Reynolds]

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[Dave Anthony]

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[Gareth Reynolds]

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[Dave Anthony]

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[Gareth Reynolds]

That's a great business model.

[Dave Anthony]

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[Gareth Reynolds]

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[Dave Anthony]

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[Gareth Reynolds]

Was trying to do before you hired them to do that. I'd been trying to renegotiate your Internet for a while. And those.

[Dave Anthony]

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[Gareth Reynolds]

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[Gareth Reynolds]

No, no, I just want to say that, you know, obviously use them for all the stuff we're talking about, but if you, if anyone needs me to get in their wires, I'm available to get in the Wire zone and I really have no problem kind of picking away at stuff and I'll. I'll get under the house for a little while. A lot of this can be solved by if I'm allowed to go into the crawl space.

[Dave Anthony]

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[Gareth Reynolds]

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[Gareth Reynolds]

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[Gareth Reynolds]

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[Gareth Reynolds]

Okay. But. Well, either way. But, but and also it's like the way there is not a better customer service. They are the best. The Chewy. From employees to delivery to the fact that if you have something on an auto subscription and your animal for whatever reason like you know, if your animal passes away, Chewy's like we are not going to bother you. They are the best company. Chewy is the best.

[Dave Anthony]

Yeah. They got over 100,000 products from top pet brands and make it easy to find everything from food to treats to beds to toys, on and on to your door in one to two days. They got stuff for birds and fish and reptiles and Gareths and other small pets that you might have under your house.

[Gareth Reynolds]

90% of the seeds I eat comes from Chewy.

[Dave Anthony]

They have auto ship which lets you schedule recurring deliveries of essentials you use most, which is great for food and prescriptions and meds and flea medicine.

[Gareth Reynolds]

All the stuff human seeds regularly seeds for man.

[Dave Anthony]

I mean like you said, they got 247 customer support, phone or chat, expert advice. All. All that good stuff.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Truly.

[Dave Anthony]

Yeah. And I use them for everything that I get for the. The. I have like seven dogs. So it's all chewy.

[Gareth Reynolds]

You just found another one a couple weeks ago.

[Dave Anthony]

Yeah, I'm. They're coming. They keep coming out of me.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah.

[Dave Anthony]

Chewy has everything you need to keep your pet happy and healthy. And right now you can save 20 on your first order and get free shipping by going to chewy.comdollop that's chewy.comdollop to save 20% on your first order with free shipping chewy.comdollop minimum purchase required new Customers only. Terms and conditions apply. See site for complete details. Gareth. We are also brought to you by Hydro.

[Gareth Reynolds]

The best.

[Dave Anthony]

Well, hydro, you know, a lot of people are enjoying the exercise these days, trying to work out, trying to stay healthy. And then there's guys like Gareth, who's hydrowing.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Love the hydro for so many reasons. It's a. It's a home rowing machine. But that really doesn't even state most of what it does. It is. It's got a. It's got the screen, it's got the. I would imagine hundreds, if not thousands of classes you take with online rowing instructors all preloaded. You can go how long you want it, how many miles you want. But what's great is that a lot of them, not all of them, but a lot of them are like the rowing instructor is going through a body of water. It just. I don't know, there's something about it, it teaches you good form. You, it. And rowing is such a good workout. As far as if you're looking for something that's low impact but still good burn, full body. It's like. What is it like 97% of your muscles get worked when you row?

[Dave Anthony]

86.

[Gareth Reynolds]

86% if you take, if you involve me in hydro, I can get up to 97. That's just the pitch for me to hydro. But no, if they're listening. But, but it's full body. I mean, there is the reason why it's low impact is because you use everything. So I, I love the hydro. I'm always on the hydro a few times a week and it's just the best.

[Dave Anthony]

And sometimes Gareth comes over, I go to his house and we hydro together.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah, we do a hydro built for two. And we should point out that they have asked us to not talk about that. But that's our reality.

[Dave Anthony]

Sorry, it's not their reality, it's ours. Like, we make it happen.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yep.

[Dave Anthony]

Skip the gym, not the workout. Stay on track with Hydro for a limited time. Go to hydro.com and use code dollop to save up to 450 off your hydro pro rower. That's H Y-D R O W.com code dollop to save up to $450. Hydro.com code dollop. So Bo gets funding and starts putting together a team.

[Gareth Reynolds]

I need a team.

[Dave Anthony]

So news of this gets to the DIA's admiral who hates Bo. So right now you have the. You have the Department of Defenses, CIA now working opposed to the army CIA, which is cool. He would later, the admiral would later tell Congress Quote, the best thing GR could do for the POW issue is find another activity.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Just something else.

[Dave Anthony]

Oh, because you don't want to be rescued because you left our boys.

[Gareth Reynolds]

They're not there.

[Dave Anthony]

Never stop.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah.

[Dave Anthony]

No matter what they say, you can never.

[Gareth Reynolds]

You can't win.

[Dave Anthony]

Never end.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Can't win.

[Dave Anthony]

And all because Nixon said, There's 1300 there.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Jesus Christ.

[Dave Anthony]

And this went on for. This was like, a lot started in my childhood, but went on and on for you. The. The POW thing. There's PO Dude. There's movies missing in action with Chuck Norris. That's all based on this, but great movie.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Those are old movies. I mean, it's just like, you would watch War Crimes and be like, let's go. Like, that was like the 80s and 90s. You were like, awesome. Our guy just killed a bunch of villagers.

[Dave Anthony]

Well, have you ever seen Black Hawk Down?

[Gareth Reynolds]

Oh, yeah. It's crazy.

[Dave Anthony]

Like, who am I supposed to be rooting for?

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah.

[Dave Anthony]

So the Admiral declares that no one in the government is allowed to cooperate with Beau and ordered Beau to return the photo.

[Gareth Reynolds]

No.

[Dave Anthony]

That's right. Beau refuses. And now, because he said that he's more motivated to carry on, he's like, these.

[Gareth Reynolds]

I will show them.

[Dave Anthony]

So he called old Special Forces buddies and offers 7,000 war crimes expendables and offers $7,000.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Christ. Poultry.

[Dave Anthony]

For a cool secret mission.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Do you guys want to go on a mission? I don't have a lot.

[Dave Anthony]

That's actually a lot back then.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Is it?

[Dave Anthony]

That's a pretty good amount of money back.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Okay.

[Dave Anthony]

The new team also has green. It has Green Berets, but it also has some unconventional type of people you might not expect to be on a POW rescue mission.

[Gareth Reynolds]

This is arm.

[Dave Anthony]

They had a famous POW MIA advocate, Ann Mills Griffith.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Hello.

[Dave Anthony]

A psychic.

[Gareth Reynolds]

I sense that there are war crimes coming.

[Dave Anthony]

A hypnotherapist.

[Gareth Reynolds]

I. Look into the. Where's that watch? Look at the watch. There you go.

[Dave Anthony]

They all got together at a.

[Gareth Reynolds]

So you're gonna take a psychic to find POWs that don't exist?

[Dave Anthony]

Yeah. You bring a talking head lady who's just like, I don't know, Ann Coulter of POWs, and you take a hypnotherapist and a psychic. And a psychic.

[Gareth Reynolds]

What do you say?

[Dave Anthony]

We're ready to go.

[Gareth Reynolds]

They're definitely Asian.

[Dave Anthony]

Are they Asian?

[Gareth Reynolds]

You two don't work together anymore. You. You two steer clear of each other. You're kind of. You're kind of ruining each other's JoJo over there.

[Dave Anthony]

So move apart so they go and train at a Florida cheerleading camp.

[Gareth Reynolds]

All right, guys, now we're doing a pyramid. And we're gonna get it right. And we're gonna beat those girls from Clarkton.

[Dave Anthony]

Fuck Clarkton.

[Gareth Reynolds]

That's exactly what I'm talking about. Hypnotherapy. Lady.

[Dave Anthony]

Beau invited two reporters to watch the training, as you would do for Secret.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Well, he's probably just trying to get ahead of the terrible things. No, this is a PR stunt.

[Dave Anthony]

Well, he threatened to kill them if they compromise it by reporting too early. He. He was like, we're going to rescue POW guys, so we want someone to get the whole story. So when we get back, it'll be superhero.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Right.

[Dave Anthony]

Where other missions like this involved rehearsing raids in exact replicas of prison compounds. Which is harder if you're. Because a chilling camp doesn't really. It's not really the same. Bo did. So Bo did it differently. He refused to show anyone the surveillance photo. So all of the guys who are working with him.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Can we just see the picture?

[Dave Anthony]

They don't. He won't show them the photo.

[Gareth Reynolds]

No, but trust me, it's real bad. Then can we see it?

[Dave Anthony]

Can you draw a picture for us? Like make a map?

[Gareth Reynolds]

No, no, but believe me, we got to get these guys out of there. We really got to make them.

[Dave Anthony]

Can you give us some indication of where we're going in and how to get out?

[Gareth Reynolds]

I can't compromise the mission right now.

[Dave Anthony]

We're the.

[Gareth Reynolds]

We're part of it. Yeah, a big part of it.

[Dave Anthony]

Well, we're gonna have to do it, boys.

[Gareth Reynolds]

A big part of it. But I will not be. This is a picture time. Trust me, okay? I know what I'm doing. Okay.

[Dave Anthony]

It seems like not.

[Gareth Reynolds]

I want you to take this gun on my table.

[Dave Anthony]

So instead of showing everyone the photo, he turned things over to the psychic who described the layout of the camp as she saw it from a vision.

[Gareth Reynolds]

There are many POWs and many Asians.

[Dave Anthony]

Oh, it's bad at this point about needing $7,000. I guess you're doing it because you really think there's POWs over there. But maybe there are.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Some are probably just, like, had something to do.

[Dave Anthony]

There are red flags.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah. Yeah, for sure. A psychic is a red flag. How sure are we in the mission? Well, this lady can count guards pretty good.

[Dave Anthony]

Are we going through. Are we going to come up on in boats? Are we going to go by foot?

[Gareth Reynolds]

I'm seeing us on rockets on our backs.

[Dave Anthony]

What's your son named? Tony.

[Gareth Reynolds]

I think he's here. It's a T name.

[Dave Anthony]

She described barbed wire tunnels, cell doors with dog tags on them. And seeing soldiers out in the jungle digging up bamboo shoots.

[Gareth Reynolds]

They're in the jungle? Well, bamboo mainly grows underground and is.

[Dave Anthony]

There is bamboo mostly Japanese thing. Is it in Vietnam?

[Gareth Reynolds]

Not right now. I'm seeing a lot of bamboo. But the Vietnam bamboo grows underground towards the earth's core. And they're making our poor boys dig it up.

[Dave Anthony]

Why?

[Gareth Reynolds]

Because they want them to go make really cool. A really cool tiki bar. They really want a tiki bar.

[Dave Anthony]

Do you see pandas?

[Gareth Reynolds]

There are a lot of pandas there too. And they are eating the bamboo. And. Oh, no. But one of our boys is in trouble.

[Dave Anthony]

Is it Tony? Is it my son?

[Gareth Reynolds]

It is Tony. Tony's there and the panda is trying to get the bamboo out of Tony's hands, but Tony turned it into like a bow weapon. Oh. And he's. He's poking the. The panda with it. The Vic. Pandas. Pandas have a taste for humans and fighting and flesh and. And they. And.

[Unknown]

And he's.

[Gareth Reynolds]

And he put it through the panda's heart. Oh. And the panda's dead. And Tony's. Okay. And he. And he's taken the heart out.

[Dave Anthony]

Tony's seven, by the way.

[Unknown]

And Tony.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Tony took the heart out. And he's playing with it like it's a little train.

[Dave Anthony]

Okay.

[Gareth Reynolds]

He's on the ground and he's making choo choo noises. Okay. Yeah.

[Dave Anthony]

That's my Tony.

[Gareth Reynolds]

And wow, what a. I'm retired. Very tired.

[Dave Anthony]

Yeah.

[Gareth Reynolds]

It really takes it out of me.

[Dave Anthony]

Yeah.

[Gareth Reynolds]

There's so much creativity I have to do.

[Dave Anthony]

Yeah.

[Gareth Reynolds]

It's difficult.

[Dave Anthony]

Yeah. Why don't you take a nap for a long time? Now that they know exactly what to expect at the prison camp from the psychic.

[Gareth Reynolds]

We've got this.

[Dave Anthony]

It was time.

[Gareth Reynolds]

I know just where we'll park.

[Dave Anthony]

It was time for Beau to reveal how they'd get there from the jungle. Bo just received a state of the art experimental transportation device. An inflatable airplane.

[Gareth Reynolds]

So.

[Dave Anthony]

So just think about that.

[Gareth Reynolds]

No, no.

[Dave Anthony]

Think about it from a physics standpoint.

[Gareth Reynolds]

It's all I'm thinking about.

[Dave Anthony]

So.

[Gareth Reynolds]

We will be floating over there.

[Dave Anthony]

Yes.

[Gareth Reynolds]

A 747 balloon.

[Dave Anthony]

Well, it looks like a big flamingo.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yes.

[Dave Anthony]

It's also in the summer. It's using a pool.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Is this. What does it. What am I?

[Dave Anthony]

I don't know. I have no answers. One team member.

[Gareth Reynolds]

If you weren't. Or you're like, man, I'm kind of getting cold feet. Hey, hear him out. We will be leaving the jungle on an inflatable plane.

[Dave Anthony]

Will they be shooting at us?

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yes. We will all have to stop down and blow it up. And we'll probably get a little light headed from doing it. And when you take your lips off, make sure to put your thumb over the little pluggy bit. Otherwise you'll lose your breath. Work, work.

[Dave Anthony]

Okay.

[Gareth Reynolds]

All right. This is gonna be great. This is gonna work out good.

[Dave Anthony]

One team member imagined hiding in the jungle under the COVID of darkness, fervently blowing air into the nozzle. Morale was not great.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Nope.

[Dave Anthony]

Now, once they made it into the enemy camp, Beau had a plan for the assault. They'd kill the guards.

[Gareth Reynolds]

We have inflatable guns.

[Dave Anthony]

Rescue the pow.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Everything here is inflatable.

[Dave Anthony]

Yeah, it's.

[Gareth Reynolds]

This is a big easy to get in picture. A pool party for an eight year old. Everything here will be blown up with our mouths.

[Dave Anthony]

They'd rescue the pow as easy as that. But how would they get out, you might ask? And Beau imagined it going like this. The team would send word through a series of relay stations to the base commander at their hotel, who would call.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Great job in this.

[Dave Anthony]

Anna Mills Griffith, who was in Washington D.C. who would call her people at the DIA. Who would call the White House. And then the President would call the 7th Fleet to send in helicopters to rescue everyone. It's a good. It's solid. It's a solid. There's no way that communication could break down to preserve.

[Gareth Reynolds]

I'm starting to think this guy doesn't know what he's doing to preserve.

[Dave Anthony]

Mission secrecy. Nobody in the government, including the president, was to know anything about the mission until those calls went out.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Now see, that's a problem. No, no, no. The President's supposed to know that stuff. That's how you get reassurance. They'll come pick you up.

[Dave Anthony]

No, it's outside the law. Oh, no, that was the other thing. But this is also outside the law. We can't. The President can't know because it's. You can't have soldiers in another country.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Well, boy, do I have a future for you.

[Dave Anthony]

So bro Bo brings in more reporters to observe the training, which consisted of more.

[Gareth Reynolds]

The White House can't know about this, but he's doing press conferences.

[Dave Anthony]

No, no, he's just bringing the reporters. Like embed him? Yeah, yeah.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Oh, are they going with them?

[Dave Anthony]

No. Well, they're just. They're just coming to the training camp, Right? Okay, they might go with them, but.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Still it's like you're, like you Have a couple. Yeah, a couple reporters know about it. Now you're just like, we need a team.

[Dave Anthony]

We need a bunch of reporters.

[Gareth Reynolds]

So who is not familiar with inflatable plane? It's pretty exciting.

[Dave Anthony]

So the training consisted of morning and evening exercise sessions, group hypnosis, and church.

[Gareth Reynolds]

It's like an Eat, Pray, love.

[Dave Anthony]

Well, if they had done this from the beginning of Vietnam, they would have won.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Absolutely.

[Dave Anthony]

Bo was the preacher, oh God, telling his team, quote, he had been ordained by God to rescue POWs and that team members were his disciples. So it's fine. It's all. This is what you want to hear when you're about to go on a mission of this type which isn't real.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Who ordained you?

[Dave Anthony]

God got.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Don't you have to take some sort of training? God said, I don't.

[Dave Anthony]

No, he's good with it.

[Gareth Reynolds]

We're fine.

[Dave Anthony]

One reason you don't invite journalists to see your training, Kind of obvious they checked your sources, right? So Bo bragged that the operation was being funded with 300. $300,000 from Federal Express.

[Gareth Reynolds]

What the fuck?

[Dave Anthony]

The shipping company.

[Gareth Reynolds]

So he's just out of his mind. This guy's just out of his mind about to go rescue POWs that don't exist on a plane that is inflatable. And it's all funded by somewhere that mails packages.

[Dave Anthony]

Federal Express.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Like, if you're a reporter and you're like, I'm a little skeptical. Don't worry. This whole thing's being funded by Arby's.

[Dave Anthony]

Federal Express obviously heard about the operation. When reporters called to ask them about it before. That's how they found out about it. That's how the.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Oh, okay. Right.

[Dave Anthony]

No, yeah. Before it's happened. Yeah.

[Gareth Reynolds]

The reporters call, so the White House can't know about this, but Federal Express is like, wait, sorry, there's a powder. Wait, what? We need to seal every lip except for these 18 journalists who can follow up the source.

[Dave Anthony]

We'll get it there overnight, including POWs.

[Gareth Reynolds]

If the plane doesn't inflate. Federal Express has agreed to shift bus at half the rate.

[Dave Anthony]

Bo still sent two team members to collect the money. So he. So from Federal Express. So he lied. Reporters checked up on it and said, federal Express doesn't know what the you're talking about.

[Gareth Reynolds]

And he was like.

[Dave Anthony]

And to double down, he sent two men to get the money.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Go get it. Where did they go? Just to a Federal Express Kos headquarters. What the fuck? We're here to meet Mr. Federal Express.

[Dave Anthony]

And the two team members get screamed at by a corporate executive. And then they quit. The mission, not Federal Express, is never part of it. The two team members.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Are you guys hiring? Oh, my God.

[Dave Anthony]

We're not ups.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Oh, my God.

[Dave Anthony]

So broke.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Why are you quitting? What do you mean? It's all been pretty good so far.

[Dave Anthony]

So broken. Nervous that word of the mission would get out, Bo changed course and move them to a hunting lodge. So now they're out of nature. And Beau felt the word of the Lord running through him.

[Gareth Reynolds]

How old is Bo right now?

[Dave Anthony]

I want to say. No, no, no, no, no.

[Gareth Reynolds]

45.

[Dave Anthony]

Yeah, around. Oh, yeah. Around middle age.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Wow.

[Dave Anthony]

So he feels the Lord running through him, being in this nature sort of area. He held services. He forced the men to hold hands and sing hymns. Five men quit. They're like, okay, that's. I was with you. Everything but the holding hands thing.

[Gareth Reynolds]

I'm out.

[Dave Anthony]

The chairman of the National League of Families, which is the biggest organization devoted to POWs and MIAs, came to visit the camp and don't tell anyone. He was immediately horrified to learn that zero of the men had been paid. So no one's been paid. These guys have been at training camp for a while. Nobody's been paid. And they had all a bunch of been convinced to quit their jobs to participate. So the chairman right there writes a check for 20 grand for them and their families.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Wow.

[Dave Anthony]

And three days later, the Orlando Sentinel went ahead and published their story on the front page.

[Gareth Reynolds]

This is for the mission that we can't tell anyone about.

[Dave Anthony]

That's right.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Right.

[Dave Anthony]

So B scraps the mission. Well, I guess you didn't want the poy Pow is enough.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Imagine when, like, someone tells him it's on the COVID of the, like, an Orlando paper. Like, wow.

[Dave Anthony]

It's like you can't invite reporters to your clandestine training camp anymore.

[Gareth Reynolds]

How the hell they find out someone here squeal killed.

[Dave Anthony]

So he didn't kill a reporter.

[Gareth Reynolds]

He didn't kill a reporter.

[Dave Anthony]

Remember he said he's gonna kill. He didn't kill.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Right.

[Dave Anthony]

So Bo canceling the operation isn't great news for the remaining mercenaries. Operators, wherever they are, they're stuck in Florida. They have no money and they have no way home. They're just stuck. So the National League of Families chairman again opens a checkbook and writes them all checks so they can get home to their families.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Like, if you're there where the guy's like, dude, I'm gonna buy him plane tickets they don't need to fly. I might have an inflatable jeep they can all go on that. It'll be fine.

[Dave Anthony]

But also embarrassing for the guys who did this. Going back to the families and going.

[Gareth Reynolds]

You make it up. You make it up.

[Dave Anthony]

Make it up. You make it.

[Gareth Reynolds]

How was it? You look great, considering what you must have gone through.

[Dave Anthony]

I didn't eat much.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Oh, my God.

[Dave Anthony]

We know. We trained and we were like in the jungle. All right, well, you must have.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Oh, come here, you. You need a nice clean bath. So there were in a blowjob?

[Dave Anthony]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Gareth Reynolds]

How tough was the mission?

[Dave Anthony]

Well, it was like being a cheerleader at a camp. Really?

[Gareth Reynolds]

What?

[Dave Anthony]

Yeah, it was hard. Wow. And then we were camping in the forest.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Ah, the jungle.

[Dave Anthony]

No.

[Gareth Reynolds]

And then how did you get to the POW base?

[Dave Anthony]

We didn't.

[Unknown]

How many.

[Gareth Reynolds]

How many gu did you release?

[Dave Anthony]

You say? Nine.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Nine men.

[Dave Anthony]

Yeah.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Well, get that dong out of your pants.

[Dave Anthony]

Okay. It's my network, cuz. It's sad.

[Gareth Reynolds]

What?

[Dave Anthony]

It's been humiliated by our country.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Are you looking directly into your camera?

[Dave Anthony]

Yeah. Isn't that what we do for this kind of thing?

[Gareth Reynolds]

No.

[Dave Anthony]

12 years. 12 years later. Okay, the guy was still mad at Bo, the guy who wrote the checks.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah. I bet he's furious.

[Dave Anthony]

He told the Senate committee that Bo had hoodwinked him and the men. And he wasn't angry about wasting 30,000 on a mission and ever off get off the ground. He just wanted accountability. Quote, this committee has a responsibility to investigate and where necessary, prosecute these incredible liars because. Yeah, because when there's something like a belief that there's POWs out there, then, and there isn't, then all that comes out of the woodwork is grifters.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah. Now he's a grifter for sure.

[Dave Anthony]

Well, that's a. I mean, I don't know.

[Gareth Reynolds]

He's also just maybe nuts. He's wore nuts.

[Dave Anthony]

Yeah, he's nuts. Like, he's nuts.

[Gareth Reynolds]

He wants there to be a mission.

[Dave Anthony]

Yeah, he does.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Big time.

[Dave Anthony]

Boat. Quickly recoup.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Dad, what do you think? Where are you at on this one? Dad?

[Dave Anthony]

I'm just really disappointed. And I wish I had died twice. Once as a person and then again as a ghost, so I didn't have to see any of this.

[Gareth Reynolds]

My father thinks two men should go to Federal Express.

[Dave Anthony]

So he recoups his losses and sets off on another mission, officially called Operation Grand Eagle, code name Boa Bend over. Here it comes again.

[Gareth Reynolds]

What? Like, come on, you're doing Concept Wars.

[Dave Anthony]

Former Laotian General Vang Pao and Congressman Robert Dornan. Okay, that's a bad sign. When Robert Dornan comes in on. Robert Doran was one of the OG magas.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Oh, wow.

[Dave Anthony]

Before maga, he was mad. Right. Congressman Robert Dornan were both behind the plot, as was the CIA. When Dornan called the CIA to get a lowdown on the funding, CIA Deputy Director Bobby Ray Inman told him this is the first he was hearing about it and the mission was immediately canceled.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Oh, what the Bend over one.

[Dave Anthony]

So he did it again. He did it again. He started up another one. No one was actually doing it.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Found out earlier.

[Dave Anthony]

He keeps saying there's funding and there's never funding.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah, yeah. He's doing pyramid missions.

[Dave Anthony]

Bo, he's not. He's not going to give up on the POWs now. He's going to take another crack at it. This time for money. He would raise himself.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Oh, no.

[Dave Anthony]

He called this Operation Lazarus. He made contacts overseas like the Deputy Premier of Laos who would rent bow his army.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Rent bow his arm.

[Dave Anthony]

That's correct. An American professional POW hunter and low. The guy who had grifted everyone about Peter in the first place.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah.

[Dave Anthony]

So Bo is, you know, the CIA or the DIA or any other three letter group get in his way.

[Gareth Reynolds]

This nobody's allowed to. Yeah. Death. There's really.

[Dave Anthony]

Obviously that means he has to go straight to Reagan. He just needs someone who can access.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Right.

[Dave Anthony]

The President.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah.

[Dave Anthony]

Somehow, some way, he finds one actor. Clint Eastwood.

[Gareth Reynolds]

What.

[Dave Anthony]

Right wing lunatic who would later talk to a chair. Clint was so into the idea of this mission that he gave both 30,000 to fund it.

[Gareth Reynolds]

We will find them.

[Dave Anthony]

We're gonna get them. Bo now realizes Hollywood is a good source for money.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Oh my God.

[Dave Anthony]

So he sets up actors. He sets up a $10,000 sale of a book and movie rights with another actor, William Shatner. I will get them.

[Gareth Reynolds]

I can't believe there's P. Oh W's.

[Dave Anthony]

Hollywood likes bo, which is why. Idiots, he would later say they made the Rambos movie after him.

[Gareth Reynolds]

No, because he went on missions.

[Dave Anthony]

Of course. The first Rambo movie is based on a book written before Bo did a POW rescue mission.

[Gareth Reynolds]

That. That doesn't mess with what I said.

[Dave Anthony]

But Rambo 2 kind of seems based on the type of operation Bo was raising money for, so.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Right.

[Dave Anthony]

So Lytton Industries, which is now part of Northrop Grumman, which is a weapons maker. We're great. One of our best. Ponied up 50 grand and use of their high tech equipment.

[Gareth Reynolds]

This is again to go find people who aren't there.

[Dave Anthony]

Yeah. Including a set of sophisticated communication devices. Designed for use in a nuclear war. And they are worth millions of dollars.

[Gareth Reynolds]

BO must have jizzed his army.

[Dave Anthony]

Oh, my God. He bowed all over his pants.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Oh, he bowed A load.

[Dave Anthony]

They bought a load from Prisoners of Hope by Susan Katz Keating, quote. Through a series of mishaps, grights wound up grossly unprepared for a cross border foray. The former Deputy Premier swindled. So the guy who was going to help and give him men swindled, gripes out of 6000 and are nagged on the offer to rent GR his army.

[Gareth Reynolds]

So he just. This is. This is before the mission though.

[Dave Anthony]

Yeah. So the grifter got grifted.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah.

[Dave Anthony]

Yeah. The.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Where are the men?

[Dave Anthony]

The professional POW hunter who was paid 5,000 for use of his boat and never got the boat. Clint Eastwood did not tell Reagan to send in rescue helicopters. A contact who was supposed to supply guns apparently lost the key to the locker that held the weapons.

[Gareth Reynolds]

What?

[Dave Anthony]

That happened?

[Gareth Reynolds]

This is like.

[Dave Anthony]

That happened.

[Gareth Reynolds]

This is the opposite of the Ocean's eleven crew.

[Dave Anthony]

How are you going to get into a gun locker if you don't have the key? There's no way. It's over. The mission's over.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah, unfortunately, all the guns are in there. I'd shoot the lock off.

[Dave Anthony]

That's a combination.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah. Sucks too. We're so close to being able to do this.

[Dave Anthony]

And finally, the $27,000 payroll for the men of Operation Lazarus mysteriously disappeared.

[Gareth Reynolds]

FedEx. Go get it, boys.

[Dave Anthony]

So it's looking like the Miss Miss this Mission, like the other ones would end before it even started.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Damn it. This is Lazarus.

[Dave Anthony]

Yeah. But Mo makes up his mind. They're going to go on.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Well, none of this.

[Dave Anthony]

None of this shit's going to stop him. Why would it?

[Gareth Reynolds]

Because of everything that they need is gone.

[Dave Anthony]

Well, they still have feet.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Feet.

[Dave Anthony]

And so they marched through the jungle 65 miles despite vocal objections from the men. Between the 19 of them, they had three weapons. Well, because the guy lost the key. So.

[Gareth Reynolds]

The rest of you boys just hold. Hold leaves.

[Dave Anthony]

We're going to snap next.

[Gareth Reynolds]

The others will massage the others. We'll do massage trains.

[Dave Anthony]

They were going to meet with a team of hastily hired Laotian mercenaries at a rendezvous point and then march to the rescue site, at which at this point, doesn't exist. There's no rescue site. So that's a problem.

[Gareth Reynolds]

I think everything's a problem.

[Dave Anthony]

But two days in, they were ambushed.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Been the easiest ambush ever. They're like, lay down your gun, all of you.

[Dave Anthony]

That's all that's all we have.

[Gareth Reynolds]

All of you.

[Dave Anthony]

We were sharing.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Put all of you. There's only three here. There's 19 of you. Put your guns down.

[Dave Anthony]

We are. We believe in sharing.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Put your guns down.

[Dave Anthony]

We did.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Search them, boys. They don't have any guns. You have three guns. Yeah. You didn't. What are you doing?

[Dave Anthony]

We're going to get.

[Gareth Reynolds]

We're gonna let you go.

[Dave Anthony]

I just want to get paid, man. I just want to get paid. I left my job.

[Gareth Reynolds]

That's what we want, too.

[Dave Anthony]

I worked at Handles. Handles Ice cream.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Handles Ice cream.

[Dave Anthony]

Yeah.

[Gareth Reynolds]

I'm barely speaking English. I'm just not doing the accent.

[Dave Anthony]

You're not doing. Why aren't you doing the accent?

[Gareth Reynolds]

Stop asking.

[Dave Anthony]

Please do Laotian.

[Gareth Reynolds]

No.

[Dave Anthony]

Please do your layers.

[Gareth Reynolds]

I will not be doing that.

[Dave Anthony]

How about improv is a little more real than this?

[Gareth Reynolds]

I don't think it.

[Dave Anthony]

Okay, so one American is captured, and the team gets ready for a counterattack. But Bo, finally, for the first time, in a position to actually rescue a pow, orders them to retreat.

[Gareth Reynolds]

He has a pow.

[Dave Anthony]

I think they got guns from the Laotians that they met up with. They must have more guns at this point. Anyway, they leave the guy behind.

[Gareth Reynolds]

So that's what you're supposed to do.

[Dave Anthony]

They run back to Thailand, help. And that. That actually escaping didn't go well. For example, one of the guys impaled his foot on a tree branch. Other men got swept away by the Mekong river and almost died. So the retreat was also bad.

[Gareth Reynolds]

So he's losing men on a mission to save men that don't exist.

[Dave Anthony]

That's right. So. So they get back to Thailand. Good news, bad news situation here. The good news is the prisoner's okay. The guy.

[Gareth Reynolds]

The prisoner they created.

[Dave Anthony]

Yeah. The bad news is that he's being held for ransom for 17,500 now by the former deputy premier who had helped plan the mission. Oh, my God.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Was like, where do you think you'll be? Where are you looking to meet up?

[Dave Anthony]

So he's the one who sent the. He's the one.

[Gareth Reynolds]

So clearly.

[Dave Anthony]

So he got. He already got 6,000 by scamming them, and now he's getting.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Okay, so, by the way, there's our hero. Yeah, that guy's the best.

[Dave Anthony]

So Bo doesn't have the money, and he's too embarrassed to tell anybody that he didn't just fail the POW rescue mission.

[Gareth Reynolds]

He created a mission. He created his own mission.

[Dave Anthony]

Well, now there is.

[Gareth Reynolds]

He went on a fake mission, and now he has a mission, and now he doesn't know what to do.

[Dave Anthony]

And now there actually is a pow. Finally, there's.

[Gareth Reynolds]

We got to find money. Wait, why don't we go break him out? What are you talking about? We can't do that. It's impossible.

[Dave Anthony]

So he just goes. He just leaves. He goes back to America.

[Gareth Reynolds]

What the fuck? What the actual fuck?

[Dave Anthony]

What are you going to do?

[Gareth Reynolds]

Well, you.

[Unknown]

This is like what you've been training.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Everyone for for like 20 years.

[Unknown]

Earth.

[Gareth Reynolds]

So the family's like, how did the mission go? He sends a po. What?

[Dave Anthony]

The opposite happened. We made one.

[Gareth Reynolds]

We made one. We went there to stop him, but we made one. So you try to rescue him?

[Dave Anthony]

We just. We ran, we took off. They were tree branches.

[Gareth Reynolds]

We went to. Well, Clark hurt his foot real bad.

[Dave Anthony]

Bad.

[Gareth Reynolds]

So we had to go back real quick. And then we had three guns. Yeah, we. Well, well, no, we. More eventually. But. But that guy, the guy we got the guns from, eventually, well, he ripped us off and he took him back.

[Dave Anthony]

And then he took a pow.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah, well, yeah, yeah, that's where you're. Yeah.

[Dave Anthony]

So people are playing fair.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah. But the good news is if we get a little bit of funding, we can get over there and probably try to get your boy back.

[Dave Anthony]

Yeah.

[Gareth Reynolds]

No man left behind. That's what we say, man.

[Dave Anthony]

That's what we say. Except for him.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Well, yeah, yeah. Him we left behind.

[Dave Anthony]

We left him behind.

[Gareth Reynolds]

But because again, Clark's foot was so bad. I mean like a tree went through it. It's a freaking.

[Dave Anthony]

It freaked me out.

[Gareth Reynolds]

I don't know what you want like us to do, but he really hurt his foot. So do you have any money? We really need some.

[Dave Anthony]

So he's back in America trying to get money for his next mission called Operation Lazarus Omega.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Oh, because it's better.

[Dave Anthony]

But an opportunity presents itself. Litten Industries came calling after their million dollar equipment government sending an executive to Beau who would ban a pow. So this guy has been a pow. And Beau told him he kind of lost one of the million dollar boxes in Laos.

[Gareth Reynolds]

He did.

[Dave Anthony]

But he would give the rest of the boxes back for 50 grand.

[Gareth Reynolds]

I mean, there are flashes of me liking this guy.

[Dave Anthony]

The executive disagreed with this plan on.

[Gareth Reynolds]

The grounds that they loaned it to him and he lost one. And they're not going to pay him for the stuff they already have.

[Dave Anthony]

And he asked for his property back. He's like, that's my property. So Bo goes to the LA Times and places an ad for a one day discreet sale of highly valuable military equipment. And the executive caved. And gave Beau $40,000. Gareth, Operation Lazarus Omega is a go. We're gonna save POWs. Finally up funding.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Oh, my God.

[Dave Anthony]

So with this money right now, this is official. He's got real money now. So he brings in two blonde women. Once they were in Thailand, another team member asked Beau why he's bringing two young, attractive blonde women on a covert mission. And Bo said that the girls needed him to be their Lawrence of Laos. In part, to shut that team member up, Beau used operational funds to send sex workers to his rooms. So Beau brought two sex workers with him to.

[Gareth Reynolds]

And then when the guy was like, what are you doing here? Like, take sex workers. Wait, what? Trust me, we have money this time. We can have a little fun before we go on the mission. And is the mission. What is the mission now? To go save the guy that behind?

[Dave Anthony]

Oh, yeah, probably. Yeah, maybe.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Among others. He's still trying to go get the ones that don't.

[Dave Anthony]

Well, yeah, he's still trying to get the ones that don't aggress the guy. The. Finally, the guy that Bo abandoned is released, but not had nothing to do with Bo.

[Gareth Reynolds]

He was like, hey, we did it. We did it. Hey.

[Dave Anthony]

Well, while the prisoner is being held, he found an explosive device, and he put it around his neck, and he said he'd blow the place up if he wasn't freed. So they let him go.

[Gareth Reynolds]

That's the grenade trick. Just like I taught you.

[Dave Anthony]

So Beau is determined to get to that prison camp and free those POWs. So he and his team leaves, but instead of going to the jungle, they just hung out in a series of safe houses and a rock quarry. These are all owned by Low, the original grifter guy. Meanwhile, the Bangkok Post runs a front page story about Bo's current mission. And because of the story, Thai authorities have reason to believe Beau has had smuggled in illegal spy radio equipment.

[Gareth Reynolds]

100%.

[Dave Anthony]

He had or he had before. If he didn't this time, he did before for sure.

[Gareth Reynolds]

His missions, he. There's no covert nature to any of these missions. Everyone knows.

[Dave Anthony]

Everyone's talking. That's a problem.

[Gareth Reynolds]

I mean, you're on the front page with your covert mission.

[Dave Anthony]

You would think once burned.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah, it would be like we got a bat in the hatch.

[Dave Anthony]

So here's what I'm thinking. So I know we got burned because we brought in reporters. So this time I'm thinking reporters and sex workers.

[Gareth Reynolds]

So we're just going to bring sex workers for this one, right?

[Dave Anthony]

Because they don't.

[Gareth Reynolds]

They famously, as we all know, they.

[Dave Anthony]

Don'T say anything tight lipped.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Absolutely.

[Dave Anthony]

Well, so the Thai government raids one of Lowe's safe houses where they found a blonde woman, a team member and a ton of radio equipment. And they charged them and low posted their bond. So one of the sex workers got arrested for having spy radio equipment.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah, she was just like. Wait, what?

[Dave Anthony]

Still hiding in a rock quarry.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Bo never leave a sex work of a house.

[Dave Anthony]

Still hiding in a rock quarry. Bo wrote a letter declaring that he had found proof of POWs. He also said he was working with the DIA and CIA. And he handed the letter to a courier to give to the Bangkok correspondent of the LA Times and made him tell the correspondent that Beau brought this letter all the way from a secret camp in Laos.

[Gareth Reynolds]

What?

[Dave Anthony]

On the day his team members were supposed to turn themselves in because obviously the word's out. Now, Beau showed up allegedly right from the jungle to surrender. But photos taken of the event show Beau as completely clean shaven and freshly showered.

[Gareth Reynolds]

I was at a Holiday Inn. I'll be honest. I. Bear Grylls did.

[Dave Anthony]

Nobody thought he was more ready to believe his own defense attorney in a Thai courtroom than Bo grabbed his own. Yeah, he's gonna be his own. Of course he is.

[Gareth Reynolds]

This kid is checking every box.

[Dave Anthony]

Yes, every box. Of course he's gonna be his own.

[Gareth Reynolds]

If only we could. If I could have a thimble size of the confidence.

[Dave Anthony]

So he tries to show up in his military uniform with all the medals. House.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Right, See that?

[Dave Anthony]

But the Thai government won't let.

[Gareth Reynolds]

I got a lot of these from killing people.

[Dave Anthony]

I know it's not going to help you in a Thai courtroom.

[Gareth Reynolds]

You know, I guess in retrospect, you guys probably don't love this. These are.

[Dave Anthony]

This is for killing some of the people, you know, and that was I killed 400 people. Thinking quickly, Bo did the next best thing.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Naked.

[Dave Anthony]

Have Low show up to the courtroom with the uniform and paraded rest out so he couldn't wear it. But he had him.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Oh, gosh. Oh, come on. I don't know. Well, that's mine.

[Dave Anthony]

His antics went on there from there. He was basically so annoying that the Thai government promised to give up on any other punishments if he just left and never came back. No, that's their thing. They're like, you can never come back if you leave and go away forever. We will end this.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Objection.

[Dave Anthony]

He took the deal. Beau arrived back in America. There's a media firestorm. He does a tour of national TV shows promising that he'd reveal real evidence of POWs still being held prisoner in Laos. And when asked to produce the photos, both said the roll of film they were on was undeveloped. And this. I remember when he came. I remember this specifically because he is on all the shows and he is being talked about as this. He's there being. He's being treated like a hero instead of what he is, which is a fucking.

[Gareth Reynolds]

What are you doing? Yeah. Lunatic. Everyone's like, what's it like?

[Dave Anthony]

So that's the end of part one.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Part one is crazy.

[Dave Anthony]

Bo returns a military icon, a hero for doing nothing is wrong.

[Gareth Reynolds]

We are so incapable of anything. Yeah. I mean, it is shocking.

[Dave Anthony]

Yeah.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Talk shows.

[Dave Anthony]

Yeah.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah.

[Unknown]

We.

[Gareth Reynolds]

We were so primed for Trump.

[Dave Anthony]

We were.

[Gareth Reynolds]

I mean, we've just been like. We've just been making it. Just putting the butter in the pan for. It's time. Yeah, it was time.

[Dave Anthony]

Yeah.

[Gareth Reynolds]

God, are we seasoned.

[Dave Anthony]

This isn't the only one. I'm. I'm currently writing one up of another guy that's just like this. This.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Sources or whatever.

[Dave Anthony]

Oh, yeah, sources. So this was written by Josh and Adowski. And Revolution of Small Guns by Adam Parfait. Prisoners of Hope by. That's in the San Diego Reader. Prisoners of Hope by Suzanne Katz, Keating R. Oh, no, I don't want to read that one. That one's not a source yet. It'll be a source in part three. Yeah.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Well, there you go.

[Dave Anthony]

There you go. America, we did it.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Oh, my God. Oh, my God. All right, doll heads. Hope you're loving the dollop. I know I am.

[Unknown]

I don't know what episode this is. Anyway, listen, it's me, Gareth. I am on the road doing stand up comedy, which I know you all love. If you would like to see me go to GarethReynolds.com I'm gonna everywhere. Let's party. On July 24th, I will be at the Improv in Irvine, California. On August 5th, I'll be in Nashville at Zany's Lexington, Kentucky. And Comedy Off Broadway on August 6th. August 7th, I'll be in Huntsville, Alabama. Then I got a couple nights over at the Comedy catch in Chattanooga, Tennessee. August 8th through August 9th. I'll be in Atlanta, Georgia, August 10th.

[Gareth Reynolds]

10Th.

[Unknown]

Then I'll be at the Comedy Fort in Fort Collins. Last year, we broke the alcohol sales record. Let's do it again. That is August 22nd through the 23rd. And then I will be in Bozeman, Montana, September 5th through September 6th. That's Bozeman, Montana. Last best comedy. Then excited for a weekend at the comedy club. Of Kansas City, September 26th through the 27th, I'll be in Columbia, Missouri. September 28th, I'll be in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, September 30th. Come on, Milwaukee. You're my home place. I'll be at the skyline comedy club October 1st in Appleton, Wisconsin. Fort Wayne, Indiana. I'm gonna be there two shows on October 3rd, and then I will be at the den in Chicago, Illinois, on October 4th. And finally, Sunnyvale, California, November 6th through the 8th at Rooster T. Feathers. Garethreynolds.com for tickets and information. Let's go. You're part of the Garaforce.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Whoops.

[Unknown]

I almost messed that up.