1 00:00:00,040 --> 00:00:02,439 Speaker 1: For over ten years, I've been blessed with the opportunity 2 00:00:02,480 --> 00:00:05,679 to share conversations with those that have appeared on NBC's 3 00:00:05,919 --> 00:00:09,240 The Voice. It's time to showcase them. Put them all 4 00:00:09,320 --> 00:00:13,400 in one place. Arrow dot net a r r oe 5 00:00:13,919 --> 00:00:16,719 dot net. If you're a fan of NBC's The Voice, 6 00:00:16,800 --> 00:00:19,480 or if you're just discovering it, go listen to the 7 00:00:19,600 --> 00:00:23,760 roots of where we are today a r Oe dot net. 8 00:00:24,000 --> 00:00:27,039 Enjoy your exploration. Robert. I got to tell you that 9 00:00:27,160 --> 00:00:29,399 your book is inspirational to those of us that have 10 00:00:29,440 --> 00:00:31,480 been in the industry for decades. And the reason why 11 00:00:31,519 --> 00:00:34,359 I say that is because you're upfront and you're very honest, 12 00:00:34,479 --> 00:00:37,079 and we know as broadcasters you can take the four 13 00:00:37,119 --> 00:00:39,719 walls of terrestrial radio away from us, but you can't 14 00:00:39,719 --> 00:00:43,119 destroy the journalist. And your book is proving to those 15 00:00:43,159 --> 00:00:45,960 of us who are away from terrestrial radio that when 16 00:00:46,079 --> 00:00:48,679 something does happen, we've got a leader now that we 17 00:00:48,719 --> 00:00:51,119 can depend on, and that's you. That's you. You lived 18 00:00:51,159 --> 00:00:52,359 it and you're sharing it. 19 00:00:53,280 --> 00:00:53,479 Speaker 2: Well. 20 00:00:53,520 --> 00:00:54,520 Speaker 3: Thank you so much. 21 00:00:54,640 --> 00:00:57,200 Speaker 2: I mean, I mean, that's just the kindest compliment that 22 00:00:57,240 --> 00:01:00,079 you could possibly give, and I am so appreciative of it. 23 00:01:00,759 --> 00:01:01,320 Speaker 3: I mean, It's. 24 00:01:01,159 --> 00:01:04,079 Speaker 2: Certainly have been, you know, a baptism by fire over 25 00:01:04,120 --> 00:01:06,239 these last couple of years trying to learn about the 26 00:01:06,239 --> 00:01:07,280 world and myself. 27 00:01:07,400 --> 00:01:10,599 Speaker 3: But I'm really glad that this has resonated with you. 28 00:01:10,760 --> 00:01:12,519 Speaker 1: Well, you wouldn't trade it in for the world. I 29 00:01:12,560 --> 00:01:14,120 can feel that in your paragraphs. 30 00:01:15,640 --> 00:01:17,680 Speaker 3: Absolutely, I mean it has totally. 31 00:01:17,879 --> 00:01:19,920 Speaker 2: I'm sitting here in Cluven, Ohio right now, in my 32 00:01:19,959 --> 00:01:23,480 parents' home, and I've just never been more grateful, you know, 33 00:01:23,599 --> 00:01:26,159 to have people, you know, who love me in my 34 00:01:26,280 --> 00:01:29,560 life and have time with loved ones and family. 35 00:01:29,879 --> 00:01:32,000 Speaker 3: And I used to take call that for granted. 36 00:01:31,799 --> 00:01:34,280 Speaker 2: Just a couple of years ago, and sometimes you got 37 00:01:34,280 --> 00:01:36,519 to see people lose everything and meet people on their 38 00:01:36,560 --> 00:01:38,959 worst day in order to truly understand that. 39 00:01:39,359 --> 00:01:41,000 Speaker 1: Let me ask you this on a personal level with 40 00:01:41,040 --> 00:01:43,319 you being up there back in Ohio, because my very 41 00:01:43,319 --> 00:01:45,760 good friend Ben Ducin has been over there as a 42 00:01:46,079 --> 00:01:49,400 in Ukraine as a humanitarian, and when he comes home, 43 00:01:49,480 --> 00:01:51,400 that's my time to really get in and talk to 44 00:01:51,480 --> 00:01:54,000 him because he's got to readjust I want to know 45 00:01:54,040 --> 00:01:57,840 what your readjustment period is, because dude, you just don't 46 00:01:57,879 --> 00:02:01,640 replant yourself. You've got to go in there and regrow yourself. 47 00:02:02,359 --> 00:02:03,319 Speaker 3: One hundred percent. 48 00:02:03,439 --> 00:02:05,480 Speaker 2: We grow is such a good way of putting it, 49 00:02:06,000 --> 00:02:08,520 and I mean it's it's it's one of those experiences 50 00:02:08,560 --> 00:02:11,639 that you spent your whole life going through college, you know, 51 00:02:11,719 --> 00:02:14,319 building yourself up and building into your mind. You know, 52 00:02:14,520 --> 00:02:17,599 I've got this figured out. I understand the world. And 53 00:02:18,080 --> 00:02:20,159 then it's one of those moments that really tears you 54 00:02:20,240 --> 00:02:23,439 down to your baseline and realize and you realize we 55 00:02:23,520 --> 00:02:26,680 are all mortal human beings. You know, we all have 56 00:02:26,719 --> 00:02:29,879 a finite amount of time on this planet. And now 57 00:02:29,960 --> 00:02:32,719 you start to really do those internal audits of okay, 58 00:02:33,159 --> 00:02:36,560 what is actually important in life? And those are the 59 00:02:36,560 --> 00:02:38,719 big things that I found, you know, having in these 60 00:02:38,800 --> 00:02:41,759 you know, two different theaters here is wow, actually the 61 00:02:41,800 --> 00:02:45,159 most important things. I mean it's it's not accolades, it's 62 00:02:45,159 --> 00:02:48,759 not followers on Instagram or any the vanity that's out there. 63 00:02:49,159 --> 00:02:52,199 I mean, it is the people in your life, you know, 64 00:02:52,280 --> 00:02:55,560 who are family. It is home and those are the 65 00:02:55,560 --> 00:02:58,639 things that are priceless. And that's that's been my finding. 66 00:02:58,800 --> 00:03:00,599 Speaker 1: Do you ever just want to look at them when 67 00:03:00,639 --> 00:03:02,599 you're out there getting the story, you look at them 68 00:03:02,599 --> 00:03:04,879 and you say, I need your story, or I'm going 69 00:03:04,960 --> 00:03:07,120 to write a story and I need it from you 70 00:03:07,240 --> 00:03:09,280 because you've got it and I don't want to have 71 00:03:09,360 --> 00:03:10,039 to make it up. 72 00:03:11,680 --> 00:03:13,759 Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, it's that's the thing. 73 00:03:13,800 --> 00:03:15,639 Speaker 2: It is. So many of these people that you meet 74 00:03:15,680 --> 00:03:20,719 in Ukraine and Israel and Gaza, these are not professional spokespeople, 75 00:03:21,120 --> 00:03:21,319 you know. 76 00:03:21,360 --> 00:03:24,360 Speaker 3: These are people who have probably never spoken to. 77 00:03:24,319 --> 00:03:26,560 Speaker 2: A journalist in their life, and they're telling their own 78 00:03:26,680 --> 00:03:30,560 organic story. But what I tell everyone is the world 79 00:03:30,599 --> 00:03:33,639 actually can look like a very simple place, black and 80 00:03:33,639 --> 00:03:35,520 white place when you stay. 81 00:03:35,280 --> 00:03:36,840 Speaker 3: In the forty thousand foot view. 82 00:03:37,280 --> 00:03:40,080 Speaker 2: But when you look people into their eyes and you 83 00:03:40,120 --> 00:03:44,360 see the terror and the pain, this all becomes complicated. 84 00:03:44,840 --> 00:03:48,520 And it's those complicated stories are the ones, you know, 85 00:03:48,560 --> 00:03:52,159 that really paint the real picture of what war does 86 00:03:52,199 --> 00:03:54,479 to people. You know, And sometimes I think that we 87 00:03:54,520 --> 00:03:57,400 have a bad habit of keeping wars in the forty 88 00:03:57,400 --> 00:04:01,280 thousand foot view. It's geopolitics. This is right, this is wrong. 89 00:04:01,840 --> 00:04:04,360 When you see people on the ground level, you're like, wow, 90 00:04:04,479 --> 00:04:08,240 I mean, these are human beings whose lives are being 91 00:04:08,919 --> 00:04:13,479 utterly destroyed by conflict, by armed conflict, and that changes 92 00:04:13,520 --> 00:04:15,199 your whole calculus. 93 00:04:14,639 --> 00:04:16,680 Speaker 1: On a personal level. What is it like for you 94 00:04:16,759 --> 00:04:19,120 to be back here in the States and even the 95 00:04:19,160 --> 00:04:22,120 slightest sound of a drone that somebody's playing with at 96 00:04:22,120 --> 00:04:24,519 a nearby park, you you've got to go have your 97 00:04:24,560 --> 00:04:26,360 PTSD kick in at that moment. 98 00:04:28,199 --> 00:04:30,480 Speaker 3: There are actually things that I do here. I mean 99 00:04:30,480 --> 00:04:31,360 one of them is drones. 100 00:04:31,360 --> 00:04:33,639 Speaker 2: I mean, especially in the It's just in the Ukrainian 101 00:04:33,720 --> 00:04:36,639 don Bass a couple of weeks ago, and the sound 102 00:04:36,720 --> 00:04:39,839 of drones, you know, that the kind of drone that 103 00:04:39,879 --> 00:04:41,720 you could pick up at a Best Buy for a 104 00:04:41,759 --> 00:04:45,959 couple of hundred bucks. That sound, that mizzing sound, is 105 00:04:46,000 --> 00:04:48,759 a death sentence for so many people. And so when 106 00:04:48,759 --> 00:04:51,560 you come back, you know, to my local park in Cleveland, Ohio, 107 00:04:51,680 --> 00:04:53,759 and see people playing with drones, it's like wow. 108 00:04:53,879 --> 00:04:54,439 Speaker 3: I mean, a. 109 00:04:54,439 --> 00:04:57,680 Speaker 2: Couple of weeks ago, people were rigging those with explosives 110 00:04:57,680 --> 00:05:00,600 and using those to destroy tanks and F thirty five 111 00:05:00,720 --> 00:05:01,800 jets or whatnot. 112 00:05:02,639 --> 00:05:03,920 Speaker 3: Now it's a different ballgame. 113 00:05:04,279 --> 00:05:06,279 Speaker 2: But I mean, I think that what brings me back 114 00:05:06,439 --> 00:05:10,000 the most are the simplest of things, and it is 115 00:05:10,160 --> 00:05:13,519 just time with family, and it is a recognition that 116 00:05:13,959 --> 00:05:17,040 I can if I'm having a bad day, I can 117 00:05:17,199 --> 00:05:19,800 leave the conflict zone and I'm two flights one to 118 00:05:19,839 --> 00:05:22,120 two flights away from Cleveland, Ohio, and I can go 119 00:05:22,160 --> 00:05:25,279 see my loved ones. There are people who grow up 120 00:05:25,319 --> 00:05:28,959 in Mariupel and Melitopol, Ukraine who still hold on to 121 00:05:29,079 --> 00:05:32,959 their last train tickets because those are now occupied towns 122 00:05:33,000 --> 00:05:36,360 and they can't go home. That is the difference between 123 00:05:36,480 --> 00:05:37,759 our lives and theirs. 124 00:05:38,279 --> 00:05:40,480 Speaker 1: One of the things that readers and listeners need to 125 00:05:40,560 --> 00:05:42,920 understand about your book, Lessons from the Front, is that 126 00:05:42,959 --> 00:05:45,920 you paint the picture of all people being real people. 127 00:05:45,920 --> 00:05:48,639 There are no lines inside your book. So therefore I've 128 00:05:48,639 --> 00:05:50,319 got I'm going to ask you a technical question, and 129 00:05:50,360 --> 00:05:52,240 if you want to walk away, I understand. But my 130 00:05:52,399 --> 00:05:54,920 question is is that when you've been to Ukraine, that 131 00:05:54,959 --> 00:05:57,319 means Ukraine, Russia, Israel means you've also got to think 132 00:05:57,319 --> 00:06:00,399 about Gaza and now we've got Iran in the picture here. 133 00:06:00,720 --> 00:06:03,839 I pray for all people, I mean all people, and 134 00:06:03,879 --> 00:06:06,160 I feel like that you've been on the front and 135 00:06:06,519 --> 00:06:10,600 you're bringing back that message. This is about all people, people. 136 00:06:12,120 --> 00:06:15,399 Speaker 2: All people. I would absolutely agree with that. And again 137 00:06:15,480 --> 00:06:17,040 it comes back to what lens do you look at 138 00:06:17,079 --> 00:06:20,199 all this through? Is it a geopolitical lenss Well, that's 139 00:06:20,240 --> 00:06:22,720 when you could say that there's black and white in 140 00:06:22,759 --> 00:06:25,680 the world. But when you are looking people in the eyes, 141 00:06:26,240 --> 00:06:30,240 it's just hard to stand in Gaza and see the 142 00:06:30,319 --> 00:06:33,839 destruction and see people starving and look at a potato 143 00:06:34,040 --> 00:06:36,759 as the best thing that they've seen in their entire 144 00:06:36,839 --> 00:06:39,680 lives and say it should be this way. 145 00:06:39,759 --> 00:06:40,000 Speaker 3: You know. 146 00:06:40,199 --> 00:06:44,000 Speaker 2: Or to stand in kabutsber Ri in southern Israel and 147 00:06:44,160 --> 00:06:46,639 sand in a fruit of ash, some of it is 148 00:06:46,720 --> 00:06:50,519 someone's home and some of it is bodily remains and 149 00:06:50,560 --> 00:06:54,120 say this is good, this is okay. You can't possibly 150 00:06:54,199 --> 00:06:56,879 do that when you've stood in both of those places. 151 00:06:57,319 --> 00:06:59,959 And that's my main message there. War is not political. 152 00:07:00,079 --> 00:07:03,639 War is human. It impacts every people. And that's the 153 00:07:03,720 --> 00:07:05,319 lens that I try and look at this through. 154 00:07:05,920 --> 00:07:08,879 Speaker 1: Please do not move. There's more with Robert Sherman coming 155 00:07:08,959 --> 00:07:14,319 up next, the name of his book, Lessons from the Front. 156 00:07:14,519 --> 00:07:18,319 We are back with journalist and author Robert Sherman. Robert, 157 00:07:18,319 --> 00:07:19,959 I want to know how you were able, though, to 158 00:07:20,040 --> 00:07:22,920 set aside the journalist in you, because you've got real 159 00:07:23,079 --> 00:07:25,759 Robert speak here. This is not you standing there on 160 00:07:25,800 --> 00:07:28,759 a camera or with a microphone. This is you sharing 161 00:07:28,800 --> 00:07:31,160 a story as if I have lived on your block 162 00:07:31,240 --> 00:07:33,120 for the past twenty five years. I want to know 163 00:07:33,160 --> 00:07:35,319 how you were able to put away that journalist and 164 00:07:35,399 --> 00:07:39,120 talk to me as Robert I see what is. 165 00:07:39,079 --> 00:07:41,920 Speaker 2: Going on in the world today, and there's just such 166 00:07:42,519 --> 00:07:46,160 a focus on this. I'm right, you are wrong. You know, 167 00:07:46,279 --> 00:07:49,759 I understand everything kind of situation. And you know the 168 00:07:49,800 --> 00:07:51,800 reason that I've been able to put away all of 169 00:07:51,839 --> 00:07:55,160 that is because I really had it ripped away. It's because, 170 00:07:55,240 --> 00:07:57,759 I mean, I went over to Ukraine that first time, 171 00:07:58,240 --> 00:08:00,800 you know, with my pedigree being a I did well 172 00:08:00,839 --> 00:08:02,879 in school and I got a couple of a's on 173 00:08:02,920 --> 00:08:05,519 a couple of papers in Alisi class, and I thought, oh, 174 00:08:05,560 --> 00:08:09,399 I understand the world. And it takes one day on 175 00:08:09,439 --> 00:08:12,000 the ground in any of these conflict zones to meet 176 00:08:12,000 --> 00:08:16,319 people of different communities, to learn about communities that exist 177 00:08:16,480 --> 00:08:20,319 that you admittedly and ashamedly didn't even know existed until 178 00:08:20,319 --> 00:08:23,000 you got dead before. I mean, how can you possibly 179 00:08:23,040 --> 00:08:24,920 say that you have the world figured out? You know, 180 00:08:24,959 --> 00:08:28,120 when you've when you've had those experiences. So that's my view. 181 00:08:28,199 --> 00:08:30,120 I mean, this is this is more of a story 182 00:08:30,160 --> 00:08:32,360 of you know, not a kid talking about how right 183 00:08:32,440 --> 00:08:32,759 he is. 184 00:08:33,159 --> 00:08:35,159 Speaker 3: But a kid that's like, wow, I just consumed my 185 00:08:35,279 --> 00:08:37,360 humble pie. Here's what I learned. 186 00:08:37,799 --> 00:08:39,720 Speaker 1: You know you're going back. There's no way you're going 187 00:08:39,799 --> 00:08:41,879 to hide that from me, because I watch Ben dou 188 00:08:41,960 --> 00:08:44,159 scene as well as I watched Jodelensley, who are two 189 00:08:44,200 --> 00:08:46,759 of my very closest friends in Ukraine. Right now, I 190 00:08:46,799 --> 00:08:48,480 know you're going back, But how do you tell the 191 00:08:48,480 --> 00:08:51,960 people of Ohio? I have to. It's not a question 192 00:08:52,039 --> 00:08:53,919 of do I want to? I have to. 193 00:08:56,440 --> 00:08:58,279 Speaker 3: And it is always a hard conversation. 194 00:08:58,559 --> 00:09:00,159 Speaker 2: And you know, I mean everyone in my life here 195 00:09:00,159 --> 00:09:02,720 in Cleveland, Ohio is saying, well, hopefully that's the last one. 196 00:09:02,720 --> 00:09:05,480 Speaker 3: And of course it's never the less one's big. 197 00:09:06,240 --> 00:09:08,919 Speaker 2: The big thing for me is, you know, I just 198 00:09:08,960 --> 00:09:11,559 now have such a curiosity to the world of why 199 00:09:11,720 --> 00:09:14,399 is the world the way it is? Why does Russia 200 00:09:14,440 --> 00:09:17,240 think the way that they do? Why does North Korea 201 00:09:17,320 --> 00:09:20,440 think the way that they do? And I want the 202 00:09:20,440 --> 00:09:23,440 American public to be armed with that information as we 203 00:09:23,519 --> 00:09:27,320 make tough political choices in the United States. That's why 204 00:09:27,399 --> 00:09:30,200 I do with That's why I do what I do. 205 00:09:30,279 --> 00:09:34,080 It's that curiosity that drives me. For people and cultures, 206 00:09:34,519 --> 00:09:37,320 and you know, the opportunity to share the things that 207 00:09:37,360 --> 00:09:40,080 I've learned, not necessarily what I know or believe, but 208 00:09:40,120 --> 00:09:42,360 the things that I've learned and seen along the way 209 00:09:42,399 --> 00:09:44,559 that I hope have an impact on people. 210 00:09:44,720 --> 00:09:47,279 Speaker 1: When you have made a presence on that war torn dirt, 211 00:09:47,559 --> 00:09:51,080 do you see a lequll lenses style person there, because 212 00:09:51,120 --> 00:09:53,639 you know, Lek came from the ashes of war to 213 00:09:53,720 --> 00:09:56,919 become a leader of people. I mean, you're right there 214 00:09:56,919 --> 00:10:00,000 on the front lines. Are you seeing that kind of leadership? 215 00:10:01,720 --> 00:10:03,480 Speaker 2: You know, it's one of those things in which you 216 00:10:03,519 --> 00:10:06,679 see it in the most unsuspecting of sorts, right, I mean, 217 00:10:06,720 --> 00:10:09,960 you see the leadership in the refugee camps in Gaza, 218 00:10:10,240 --> 00:10:12,879 in which you know, I mean it's like everyday people 219 00:10:12,960 --> 00:10:15,919 who you know, I mean, their job before the war 220 00:10:16,120 --> 00:10:19,320 was they had a convenience store, you know, in Rafa, 221 00:10:19,480 --> 00:10:20,879 and now all of a sudden, you know, they're in 222 00:10:20,960 --> 00:10:24,919 charge of distributing aid to people in Gaza. I mean, 223 00:10:24,960 --> 00:10:27,480 you see, and I think that there's a lesson to 224 00:10:27,519 --> 00:10:30,120 be learned there. You rise to the occasion and all 225 00:10:30,200 --> 00:10:34,200 these circumstances. Who circles the wagons in Israel? Who brings 226 00:10:34,200 --> 00:10:37,480 people together in Ukraine. In many cases, it's not the generals, 227 00:10:37,759 --> 00:10:40,399 you know, I mean, it's the everyday community leaders. And 228 00:10:40,440 --> 00:10:42,799 I think there's a lesson that we had there. You know, 229 00:10:42,879 --> 00:10:47,519 it doesn't matter where you are. You're in North Carolina, Ohio, California, Wyoming, 230 00:10:48,039 --> 00:10:50,320 you know, there are leadership opportunities there, and there are 231 00:10:50,320 --> 00:10:52,720 going to be times in which people may be looking 232 00:10:52,759 --> 00:10:55,519 to you, and it's a matter of rising to the 233 00:10:55,559 --> 00:10:57,679 occasion in those unsuspecting moments. 234 00:10:57,840 --> 00:10:59,159 Speaker 1: Is there a side of you that would like to 235 00:10:59,159 --> 00:11:01,759 take Bill Riley O'Riley over there with you, only because 236 00:11:01,799 --> 00:11:04,159 I love me some Bill O'Reilly. I know he loves 237 00:11:04,159 --> 00:11:06,960 to share a real story, and then he honors your book. 238 00:11:06,960 --> 00:11:09,159 I'm going you got to take Bill, take Bill with 239 00:11:09,200 --> 00:11:10,159 you on a short trip. 240 00:11:11,480 --> 00:11:11,679 Speaker 3: Yeah. 241 00:11:11,720 --> 00:11:14,919 Speaker 2: I'm very grateful for his support with this whole project 242 00:11:14,960 --> 00:11:16,879 here and what he wrote, you know, I mean, as 243 00:11:16,879 --> 00:11:19,559 someone who now says that he believes in journalism again 244 00:11:19,639 --> 00:11:23,559 for me this book, yes, yeah, I mean my whole 245 00:11:23,639 --> 00:11:26,480 view is I would love for anyone to come along 246 00:11:26,559 --> 00:11:29,320 and see this because I hear just so many people 247 00:11:30,080 --> 00:11:32,000 right wrong, They're indifferent talking about this is the way 248 00:11:32,000 --> 00:11:33,799 the world is, This is the way it should be, 249 00:11:33,840 --> 00:11:35,399 so convincing their souls. 250 00:11:35,840 --> 00:11:37,159 Speaker 3: You know, I went over to. 251 00:11:37,519 --> 00:11:40,879 Speaker 2: Ukraine, you know, convinced that I had a pretty good 252 00:11:40,960 --> 00:11:43,960 understanding of the world. And inexplicably, I've said so much 253 00:11:44,039 --> 00:11:46,399 over the last three to four years, and I have 254 00:11:46,480 --> 00:11:49,639 more questions than answers than when I began. And you know, 255 00:11:49,679 --> 00:11:52,600 I mean, that's that's that's what I would like people 256 00:11:52,600 --> 00:11:53,639 to see for themselves. 257 00:11:53,720 --> 00:11:56,919 Speaker 3: Is Wow, just how complicated all of this is. 258 00:11:56,960 --> 00:11:59,639 Speaker 2: It's not RS and D's, it's not black and white, 259 00:12:00,200 --> 00:12:01,320 very human in nature. 260 00:12:01,519 --> 00:12:04,080 Speaker 1: When that entire self of you sat down to write 261 00:12:04,159 --> 00:12:07,080 lessons from the front, who was sitting with you? Because 262 00:12:07,120 --> 00:12:09,799 there's no way that you've gone through what you did 263 00:12:09,879 --> 00:12:12,039 and then you have to write this alone. I don't 264 00:12:12,080 --> 00:12:14,679 believe it, because I believe that something came out of 265 00:12:14,720 --> 00:12:16,600 you and somebody had to be there to receive it 266 00:12:16,720 --> 00:12:18,840 the moment it was becoming words on a page. 267 00:12:19,639 --> 00:12:21,960 Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, for me, it's I feel so that 268 00:12:22,080 --> 00:12:24,759 so much of what I do is for that eighty. 269 00:12:24,600 --> 00:12:28,240 Speaker 2: Year old version of myself who is sitting there in 270 00:12:28,240 --> 00:12:31,600 that rock and chair, looking back over past life and 271 00:12:31,759 --> 00:12:34,039 just wants the reassurance that you know, we gave it 272 00:12:34,080 --> 00:12:36,360 are all, and we did the most we could, you know, 273 00:12:36,440 --> 00:12:39,840 with the finite amount of time we have on this planet. 274 00:12:40,159 --> 00:12:42,240 Speaker 3: And I think that's that's who is there with. 275 00:12:42,159 --> 00:12:45,200 Speaker 2: Me, is making that eighty year old version of Robert 276 00:12:45,279 --> 00:12:49,000 proud that maybe he had an impact on some kids somewhere. 277 00:12:49,000 --> 00:12:51,679 Speaker 3: Who is struggling through his quarter. 278 00:12:51,480 --> 00:12:54,519 Speaker 2: Life crisis and doesn't know up from down, you know, 279 00:12:54,639 --> 00:12:58,000 just to give that reassurance. Look, it is okay to 280 00:12:58,720 --> 00:13:00,759 not know it is okay and not know where your 281 00:13:00,759 --> 00:13:02,720 life is heading. Because I didn't when I got on 282 00:13:02,720 --> 00:13:05,679 that plane to Ukraine, and in many cases I still don't, 283 00:13:06,000 --> 00:13:08,360 you know, but it's okay. And I hope that this 284 00:13:08,440 --> 00:13:11,879 helps guide young people, are those struggling to find their 285 00:13:11,919 --> 00:13:14,799 way to some light at the end of the tunnel. 286 00:13:15,080 --> 00:13:17,519 Speaker 1: Where can people go to find out more about you, Robert, 287 00:13:17,519 --> 00:13:19,559 because this is just the start of a brand new 288 00:13:19,559 --> 00:13:22,919 beginning for so many people when they get their hands 289 00:13:22,960 --> 00:13:25,240 on Lessons from the front, you. 290 00:13:25,200 --> 00:13:27,200 Speaker 2: Know, I mean, you can purchase it where most books 291 00:13:27,200 --> 00:13:30,600 are sold. Amazon is a great starting point. Bloomsbury is 292 00:13:30,639 --> 00:13:32,879 the publisher, and of course you can always watch us 293 00:13:32,879 --> 00:13:35,000 on News Nation every day as we've report on those 294 00:13:35,039 --> 00:13:38,399 stories across the globe that impact Americans everywhere. 295 00:13:38,440 --> 00:13:40,000 Speaker 1: You got to come back to this show anytime in 296 00:13:40,000 --> 00:13:41,799 the future, dude, because I'm going to put you right 297 00:13:41,840 --> 00:13:44,759 in there with Ben Doucin as well as Joe Linsley 298 00:13:44,799 --> 00:13:47,639 because I want to share the story of Ukraine as 299 00:13:47,679 --> 00:13:50,759 well as Israel, and you being there is so important 300 00:13:50,799 --> 00:13:51,440 to history. 301 00:13:52,519 --> 00:13:55,200 Speaker 2: Well, thank you so much. And I mean that is 302 00:13:55,240 --> 00:13:58,600 such a that is such a board of highly distinguished 303 00:13:58,639 --> 00:14:00,519 people that you've mentioned as well. It'd be in the 304 00:14:00,600 --> 00:14:01,960 honor to participate in that. 305 00:14:02,000 --> 00:14:04,279 Speaker 1: Will you be brilliant today and be safe. I don't 306 00:14:04,279 --> 00:14:07,240 want to sound like your damn dad, but be safe. 307 00:14:07,720 --> 00:14:09,240 Speaker 3: Thank you, my friend. Appreciate it.