We Were Soldiers
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Sep 25, 2026
MikeHOST
it.
MikeHOST
Nurse Betty, Dinner with Friends, We Were Soldiers, Autofocus,
TristanHOST
Friends,
MikeHOST
Stuck on You, which almost destroyed Matt Damon's career, if I'm not mistaken.
Justin StapleyHOST
I remember when I was a, a young kid working as a, at a grocery store, uh, there was an old janitor who was a Vietnam vet.
Justin StapleyHOST
And he says, "The only Vietnam movie you should watch is We Were Soldiers.
Justin StapleyHOST
It's a conservative Vietnam War movie, and it's a good one, and it doesn't pull punches, but it also doesn't make a political point." And so I watched it and, and, and something that, that brought tears to my eyes and made me proud of American, and something that was related to what Reagan used to say is, Mel Gibson says, "Look around you.
Justin StapleyHOST
In the 7th Cavalry, we've got a captain from the Ukraine, another from Puerto Rico.
Brandon SparksHOST
He's the referee in this film, I think in the last match, last game.
Brandon SparksHOST
But he's been a second year director on Wayne's World, The Replacements, The Waterboy, We Were Soldiers, and Jerry Maguire.
Brandon SparksHOST
Graff devised over 100 plays for the cast to learn.
Brandon SparksHOST
He also filmed practices and then reviewed the footage with them.
Lewis TrottGUEST
Sam Elliott.
Lewis TrottGUEST
We were soldiers once.
Lewis TrottGUEST
And at least PFC McDonald is part of that story.
Lewis TrottGUEST
Lieutenant Hess to a lesser extent.
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Matt CalleryHOST
What's the title of that
Lewis TrottGUEST
movie? The book.
Lewis TrottGUEST
We were soldiers once in young and young.
Lewis TrottGUEST
Yep.
Jersey RickHOST
Yeah.
Jersey RickHOST
Have you ever seen the movie We Were Soldiers Once?
Kurt UhlirGUEST
Yes.
Jersey RickHOST
Yeah, okay.
Jersey RickHOST
Well, I read the book.
Jersey RickHOST
And of course, like, you know, most movies where a book is based off of, the book is m- is much better.
Jersey RickHOST
But something that I, I learned from the book that then Colonel Hal Moore was practicing in that Battle of Ia Drang was he was asking Sergeant Major Plumley, and then also his platoon leaders, "What do you see that I don't see? What am I missing?"
Kurt UhlirGUEST
Yeah.
Brendan AgnewHOST
Yeah.
Brendan AgnewHOST
I think the last time I saw him was like in We Were Soldiers or something like almost 20 years ago, just right after he was done with Buffy.
Brendan FoleyHOST
Yeah, he's been around and stuff.
Brendan AgnewHOST
Yeah, I just haven't been really looking for him specifically.
AlexHOST
Ah, shit.
AlexHOST
What's a good example of this? Oh, We Were Soldiers with Mel Gibson.
AlexHOST
You'll see the radio guys carrying the radio around.
AlexHOST
He hands the commander, Mel Gibson, the handset, and he talks.
JeffHOST
be a preference of his could be yeah it totally could be i mean i like i did a look and it's not that he's not in anything like you know there's he's in you know the matrix reloaded and ladybird and joe dirt and peter rabbit funny um uh mr mr deeds mr deeds also has a counting crow song on it um going down to new yorktown um But there were only, I was looking for things where the songs only appeared in the movie or on the soundtrack.
JeffHOST
And I guess there's a song called For You that's a duet with Johnny Cash in a movie called We Were Soldiers.
JeffHOST
There's this.
JeffHOST
Oh.
Phil HendrieHOST
If you don't stop me, then it's just going to keep on going.
Phil HendrieHOST
Oh, my God, I just saw Mel Gibson with a promo for his new movie, We Were Soldiers.
Phil HendrieHOST
If you thought he looked stupid in his last movie, The Patriot, you ain't seen nothing yet.
Phil HendrieHOST
He was in a helmet.
Parker McCumberGUEST
So a, a forward observer, they are responsible for controlling artillery, uh, indirect fires assets, so mortars, artillery, rockets, missiles, bombs, all of that kind of stuff.
Parker McCumberGUEST
So you think about, uh, maybe the movie We Were Soldiers, the guy who calls Broken Arrow.
Parker McCumberGUEST
It's-
Eric GuyHOST
Yeah
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