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Scott DeLuzio: 00:44 Hey everyone. Today, my guest is Jeff Daley. Jeff is a Marine Corps Veteran and also a cohost of the Tango Alpha Lima podcast, which explores current events, interesting trends, and quirky stories of interest to the Veteran community. Tango Alpha Lima is produced by the American Legion and gives a Veteran’s view on current events, particularly as it relates to the military and Veteran community. So, Jeff, thanks for joining me today. Why don’t you tell everyone a little bit about yourself and your background?
Jeff Daly: 01:17 All right. Well, you said my name and that I was a Marine. I grew up in Kalamazoo, Michigan, that big metropolis in the Midwest and I went to the Marine Corps, came back to Kalamazoo. I couldn’t get enough, went to college there and a brief stop in Chicago to do the second city conservatory and then moved to Los Angeles to pursue fame and fortune. And that pursuit is still happening.
Scott DeLuzio: 01:53 Well, you’re on this podcast, so you’ve made it. Was Kalamazoo one of those cities that like when I was growing up, I grew up in Connecticut, I wasn’t very familiar with Michigan or really much of the other rest of the country. I know Kalamazoo, when I was growing up, it was just a made-up name for just someplace that someone went to. It never was an actual place to me, but then, over the years, I’ve started to meet people who have been to Kalamazoo. I have seen it on a map. Things have happened in Kalamazoo and this is actually a place. This is amazing to me. So anyways, that was just my little side note into where you’re from.
Jeff Daly: 02:32 I’ve met people who thought that Kalamazoo was a place that their parents threatened to send them if they were bad.
Scott DeLuzio: 02:38 Yeah. That’s pretty much what it was. You’re either going to military school or you’re going to Kalamazoo. And so, I’ve always been afraid of Kalamazoo and the people who come from it and, I’m shaking over here just talking. So, you talk about after you got out of the military, you went to college; based on your bio, on the Tango Alpha Lima podcast, I got to learn a little bit about you. I know that you like long walks on the beach, but that’s not what we’re talking about. Today we’re talking about you and your background and what it is that you do here. You went to school, you studied economics and political science back in Michigan. After college you got into acting, you said the second conservatory, is that what it was the second city in Chicago.
Jeff Daly: Second City.
Scott DeLuzio: Second City in Chicago. What pushed you in that direction? I know there are politicians who have acting backgrounds, but you have a political science degree and now you’re getting into acting. So, what pushed you in that direction?
