we ll be watching her. on a day where i needed it. thank you, my friend. thank you. and thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. really happy to have you here. so have you watched the sopranos? if not, hit pause and watch all seasons and then come back in a couple weeks and start this again. the first season of the sopranos is 13 episodes long. the sopranos obviously is one of the greatest achievements ever in american drama, in contention for one of the greatest television shows ever made in any country on any subject. but in season one of the sopranos you have to get through like half the whole season, i think you have to get to the seventh episode or something before you get anything that seems like it is a back story on your lead character. so, i mean, here s a story about a man in therapy, yes, he s a gangster, but he s a man in therapy. you think right from the very start of the very first episode you re going to get, you know, therapy speak, tell me about yo
smiles. alright. [ laughter ] -i would see the crew daily. -perfect. -let me take my glasses off. -that ll be in here. [ laughter ] i m not a star-struck kind of person, right? but you fly 12,500 miles an hour? i was like, yeah! i like you. [ laughs ] -whoo-hoo, baby! [ laughter ] -when they got selected as a crew, i went and got their astronaut bio and i read what they did, what they liked. [ laughter ] i went over and i m like, ah, doctor. ah. dr. dave brown, surgeon. dr. kalpana chawla, phd. laurel laurel was a submarine doctor. i thought that was so cool. mike he s air force pilot. and then willie he was like a test pilot. rick he d already been up to space. and then there was ilan. you know, he was already a hero in his country.
raising hands? let s ask him. please welcome back to the show g.o.p. presidential candidate vivek ramaswamy! [applause] we ve got more great questions, so let s get right to it. vivek, i like you. if you re not going to be selected as our general presidential candidate, will you agree to a vp selection? vivek: well, i appreciate that. by the way, i m talking to you from a gas station in western iowa in the middle of the blizzard where we pulled over, so just to provide some context here. kat: that was my question! s before i wanted to address the elephant in the room there. [laughter] a gas station. greg: vivek, can you give me a 2-liter bottle of fanta? vivek: i was always a
and with foreign publics with the united states. when we re traveling, like in iowa, there are no active duty bases in iowa, so when the united states air force band goes there, we represent the air force. when we travel overseas, some of the people may have never met an american, so we represent the united states of america. we were performing in ukraine, in kharkiv, and a gentleman came up after the concert and through the interpreter said, i do not like america, but i like you. wow. yeah. again, building these connections and partnerships. that is so special, and we appreciate not only that representation but your service overall. what does the fourth of july mean to you personally, colonel? growing up, it was an opportunity for us to pause and have a day off and reflect on the birth of our nation. as a professional military musician, we re able to be a part of that celebration. i had a really neat moment last night during our sound check. i was talking to people in the au