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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Eight oh five, here a fifty five kr CD talk station,
allrient time of switching everyone a very happy Friday, and
welcoming to the fifty five KRSE Morning Show.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
Entrepreneurs.
Speaker 1 (00:10):
Retired soldier and author of the book we're gonna talking
about today, Welcome to the fifty five KRCY Morning Show.
Douglas Ernest. He he's written a book called The Spirit
of a True pat Patriot, The Inspiring Story of Retired
Captain Douglas Ernest. Douglas, welcome to the program. It's a
good heavy on today, sir.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
Great, Thank you very much, Brian. I appreciate you having
me on this beautiful morning.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
Well, and I do love corvettes, and we're going to
get into that. There's a reason I bring that car
up because that's what Doug does now. He is an entrepreneur.
We'll talk about his entrepreneuris Spere, because that's part of
what this book is about. How he transformed from PFC
Douglas Ernest to a successful businessman, Retired Captain Douglas Ernest,
and that's the story of the book. Now let me
(00:54):
ask you this just to and first off, thank you
very much to yours for your service to our country, Sir,
I respect anyone who serves in the America's military. It
means a great deal and I love helping and support
military causes. Here on the Morning show, I want to
ask you this. You obviously are a votivated man. You
wanted to use this book as an opportunity to tell
(01:15):
other people or teach other people to learn how they
can embrace a mindset to achieve greatness just like you did.
How do you motivate the unmotivated? You know, I always
joke about it. I've been at W two employee my
entire life. I have such profound respect for men like
you who build a business, who start from scratch, knowing
(01:36):
full well that creating a business is very difficult. Most
of them fail. But you got that drive, that motivation
that keeps you going day in and day out in
spite of the struggles and challenges. How do you tap
into that.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
Well, man, that's a great question, Brian, and I would
say the first thing that comes to my mind intuitively
is progress. I just remember as a kid, you know,
being twenty three, twenty four years old and start this company,
that it's about doing progress, setting your goals, coming up
with a vision and then finding a way to execute
and the way you could execute. I learned from you know,
my military experience was being able to do progress reports
(02:13):
then on the military that make you turn into progress
report every day. Hey, you got to turn in what
you did today, what you accomplished, what your goals were,
how far behind you are or how far ahead you got.
What it was was just progress. If you set your
goal to you know, say make fifty thousand dollars this year,
and you have a target. You know, there's a theory
in school I leaned years ago, also called goal setting
(02:35):
theory nineteen sixty four and empirical based results showed that
when people set a target, they have a much much
much higher chance of ending that target when they set
the goal. And if you readjust to hit that goal,
when you do or don't hit it, you have a
better chance of hitting it in the future. So it's
making progress. You get up every day you go to work,
and you know you're not always going to succeed. To
(02:57):
the contrary, you're only going to succeed, you know, all
one out of ten the most successful people that we
admire in society, it's like sech as baseball players. You know,
they hit three hundred and thirty out of a thousand,
they do a thirty three percent success rate, and they're
considered heroes because of that. It's just getting progress, trying it,
(03:20):
you know, going against the odds to find the odds,
and continuing to try and strive when things are.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
Tough, so it is worthwhile establishing these goals. Is the
planning for a future. I've always been sort of like,
I'll wake up tomorrow and I'll deal with tomorrow when
it finally gets there. Here it's that line from Cosablanca.
I never make plans that far in advance. You know, well,
I see you tonight, I don't know said so, you know,
I mean maybe that's where that folks don't have what
(03:46):
I'm calling motivation. They just don't have planning. And when
you have a plan, you then can say, as you
reflect back on the day, I at least did X,
Y or Z in furtherance of my goal to get
to where I want to be.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
Absolutely, and this type of goal setting theory, you know,
I didn't create it. It was someone like a scientist
made it in a university back like what sixty years ago,
and the army embraced it. They'd always talk about goal
sitting theory, goal setting theory, goal setting thor you set
your goal. You know, do you want to lose five pounds,
you want to lose ten pounds, go ahead and set
your goals. You're going to lose ten pounds in thirty days,
(04:23):
or you're going to in our case, you would want
to pass a physical training test or pass an obstacle course.
You set your goal, you want yourself. You try and
your mind locks onto a target, like when a you know,
a tank is in the battlefield and they have the
electronic GPS and it's going to lock onto the target
to want to get it. Your mind's going to continuously
(04:45):
want to go there. And you can use this application
anywhere in your life. And you know you would talk
about helping yourself, but you can also use it for
your kids. My kids. Now, I got my kids got
to read thirty six books for some headmaster's group that's
coming here. We set our goal like six months ago
that we were going to read these books, and my
kids on number twenty four or thirty six, and I
(05:05):
can't tell you how good I feel. I could tell
all my accomplishments are great, but my kid teaching her
at nine years old to be able to read twenty
four out of thirty six books, so she can be
in this group and you know, and just be you know,
I don't want to say success, yeah, a nine year old,
but it's just start the foundation, you know, because when
I was nine, I wasn't reading twenty four books in
(05:26):
thirty six, you know, thirty six, I was you know,
barely getting by, you know, getting sees and wasn't really
doing real good as a kid. So for me to
be able to instill that in my kids is so
just fulfilling, and I want to share this with the world.
The book talks about all these strategies. You know, I
didn't come up with them. I just been able to regurgitate,
(05:49):
if you will, what I was taught. The military taught
me all these skill sets, and it was a way
that I achieved success in the military, becoming a captain,
helping other soldiers learn how to do it, how other
soldiers make improve its in their lives. And this is
the way that I can do it. You know, it
works because I've watched thousands and thousands of soldiers improved
their lives. I've watched hundreds of people I've worked with
(06:11):
and my business improved their lives, and I've watched my
family and myself grow over the last thirty years that
I've had access to these methodologies, if that's the correct word. Methodologies,
these perspectives, these frameworks to be able to achieve. And
the other thing I'd like to say, Brian, is that
it's not hard. It's something that everybody does. If you
(06:33):
look at the world around you, you look at your neighbor,
you look at your friends, you look at people in
your life or people that you look up to, they've
achieved it. A lot of people that are successful, people
that started with nothing. They came from nothing and they
were hungry, and they learned skill sets how to achieve,
how to get where they wanted to go, how to
find the road to get to the endpath.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
I like that you keep turning to the fact that
you served in America's military and that those things that
you learn in the military are the very skill sets
that you applied in the private sector to build your
very successful business, which is Corvette Warehouse. You can find
them online at Corvette warehouse dot com. I was checking
out your C eight inventory. My friend, pretty nice looking,
sweet cars there, but because you know, I know, it's
(07:19):
suicide Awareness month, and I just had the Veterans Services
on the other day talking about, you know, some of
the reasons why you have post traumatic stress or why
many men and women who get out of the service
struggle with depression because they miss that camaraderie, that teamwork,
that working together, the cohesive, well oiled machine that is
(07:41):
the American military, and they come out here in the
sort of the real world and life is so completely different.
You paint such a positive spin on your time in
America's military and how it helped you. I think that's
just a great way of looking at it, because you
rarely hear that.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
Yeah, and Brian and nailed it on the cammmoraderie ship.
The most of the veterans that I served with and
people that I meeting in today's world, they tell you, oh,
when I got out, life was so boring. There was
no excitement, There was no bizaz anymore. And just because
you don't have a team, you're on your own. You
have to go find a new team to get on.
I got out of the military after two years, four months,
(08:18):
three weeks, and two days. I know my contract by heart.
Because I tell I got my college money when I
got out of there and I was back in. I
was back in like ninety days later. I signed up
because I missed it so bad. I got out of
the military, I went to college, got some classes, couldn't
connect with anybody, didn't have anything. I'm used to having
friends that God, they risked their lives to help me.
(08:41):
They were my brothers, my sisters. They were like, they'll
do anything performed to say, Hey, I need money. Oh,
here's some money. Just take it. It's yours, you know,
it was you didn't have any friends like that in
the civilian world. And I went back in and immediately
and went into the National Guard unit and I got
them walk Wisconsin, and immediately I conected with other fellows
(09:01):
that had the same interest as me, and I have
that network again. I had those friends, and I bound
up staying in for all those years, and even today
at fifty three, my networks of best friends or my
bellow veterans, fellow veterans that I connect with, I don't.
I connect good with people in the regular world, don't
get me wrong, but my when I need a veteran
and the guy says, I was in Homesville, Germany, and
(09:22):
I was an operation. Doesn't start pamp Me and him
are friends. We write instant connections.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
Oh yeah, that's my that's my philosophy of life. You know,
if if all you need to do is start from
a point of agreement, like I like to ride motorcycles.
If you ride a motorcycle and you go someplace where
other motorcycles are, you immediately are sort of friends with
them because you have that one point of connection. Hey
might sit down and figure out your different religions or
your different political perspectives, but you'll start off on a
(09:51):
positive thing, which is that one connection that you know
you have, because you can always move over and start
talking about motorcycles again. The things go south when you
move into the area or religion.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
And over time you've learned to develop skill sets to
create rapport with people, especially those that are self employed
or want to be self employed. You have to be
able to get along with people, your suppliers, your vendors,
your buyers, your community, your stakeholders. You have to get
along with everybody. And then you learn these skill sets
from the military. And yet veterans do suffer right now
(10:24):
they get out, They don't have direction, they don't know
where they're going, they don't have friends, they don't have
a network, and then you're coupled with the alcohol and
the drugs. Right now, Americans have access to illicit drugs
more than ever in the history of mankind. Our border
is wide open. You can come across the border right now.
Actually you're welcomed, You're given benefits to come here, So
(10:45):
people are invited to come here. That also invites an
open road of illicit drug trade, and those drugs are
porn into our country. Where my office is at in Dallas,
twenty five years ago, you'd rarely see a person on drugs,
homeless or the worst you'd see of someone under the
influence of alcohol from time to time wandering the streets.
(11:05):
My streets around where I work. A course, that warehouse
right now has thousands of drug addicts, warner on the streets, homeless,
And it's like that in the city all these every
metropolitan city has that now. Where you go I go
to California on vacation with my kid is insane. What
you see. And a lot of these homeless people are veterans.
(11:26):
They are You'll see a guy on the street with
a sign and says that turned homeless police help, and
it's a sixty year old man that has been served
in the military that just got hooked on drugs or
whatever whatever he got himself into. And once you get
on that path, you can't get out. It's like the
the the you know, path dependent theory. I get people
theory to talk about in the military, but once you start,
(11:48):
you can't stop. You get momentum's both good and bad.
Speaker 1 (11:51):
Yeah, it's that idea of self medication. If you're struggling
with with psychological stress issues post traumatic stress, for example,
if you you're having issues with your time and your
service in the military, your combat service most notably comes up,
or anything else. A lot of people self medicate. Alcohol
was kind of one of the self medication things traditionally speaking.
But you're right with the type of drugs and the
(12:15):
quantity of drugs and how addictive modern drugs are. I
think that's what you got. People start with just self medication,
they look and take an edge off of the edge
in their life, and the next thing you know, they've
got a powerful fentanyl addiction. It's a horror show, absolute
horror show.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
And I hope that in time we have a government
of bureaucracy that's created to help combat this in a
more advantagious way, because it has become awful and it's
now inflicted every school, every kid. When I was a kid,
I didn't even know what cocaine was. I didn't know
what stettonol was. I don't know what heroin was. My
kids are nine and they're trained at school identify it.
(12:56):
Because kids in school at twelve hand these drugs and
it's like you don't You can't like not address it
and say, oh, it doesn't exist, because your kids might
touch it and might try it and might get it.
You know, you've got to address it. You have to
be educated. You have to be able to identify and
understand so that you don't ever become sucked into it.
And again, we talked about some things that are you know,
(13:18):
maybe not the most positive on the show, but I
believe you have to have it. And it's become such
a huge part of a society that we have now
that's integrating the society, and the drugs have gotten much
much worse. Setanol deaths are over one hundred thousand where year.
Think about that, Vietnam fifty thousand soldiers died, put their
life on the battlefield and passed away. In our country,
one hundred thousand people die a year from just vetanol. Now,
(13:42):
think about all the loss of opportunity, All the people
that could have been doctors, lawyers, you know, soldiers, you know, scientists, teachers, professors,
All those people that could have been are now dead
because of these freaking drugs. Oh, and that we pray
we get a society that we can give us a bureaucracy,
a government that can help actually combat this and bring
(14:04):
it to an end, or at least give us some
type of cure.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
Well, my guest today, author of the Spirit of a
True Patriot, The Inspiring Story, Retired Captain Douglas j Ernest
my guest today, author of the book as well as
successful businessman. If you like Corvette's he's your guy Corvette
Warehouse dot com. Check out his website and see the
business that he built from scratch. Inspiring Story. Douglas, It's
been a real pleasure having you on the program. I
(14:27):
appreciate your spending time with my listeners of Me Today,
and I put a link to your book on my
blog page of fifty five carece dot com. So my
listeners know exactly where to get a copy.
Speaker 2 (14:37):
All right, Brian, if you could please let me just
plug the book. If you go to Douglas Ernest dot
com again, that's Douglas Ernest dot com. There's a link
to get the book or some pictures of the story
of Operation Judges Storm, and it gives a chance for
veterans to get money because all proceeds and royalty from
the book do go to veterans groups one hundred percent
so that we can help my brothers and sisters that
need help.
Speaker 1 (14:58):
Bright you just sold a bunch more books with that comment.
I was not aware of that. So the proceeds going
to help veterans causes, that is awesome. Yeah, that link
will take that My link on my page will take
them directly to the link you just mentioned. So either way,
go directly or go through fifty five cars dot com.
Douglas real pleasure, my friend. Thank you so much again
for your service to our.
Speaker 2 (15:17):
Contrick Brian, appreciate you, sir. A great weekend. You do
the same
Eight oh five, here a fifty five kr CD talk station,
allrient time of switching everyone a very happy Friday, and
welcoming to the fifty five KRSE Morning Show.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
Entrepreneurs.
Speaker 1 (00:10):
Retired soldier and author of the book we're gonna talking
about today, Welcome to the fifty five KRCY Morning Show.
Douglas Ernest. He he's written a book called The Spirit
of a True pat Patriot, The Inspiring Story of Retired
Captain Douglas Ernest. Douglas, welcome to the program. It's a
good heavy on today, sir.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
Great, Thank you very much, Brian. I appreciate you having
me on this beautiful morning.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
Well, and I do love corvettes, and we're going to
get into that. There's a reason I bring that car
up because that's what Doug does now. He is an entrepreneur.
We'll talk about his entrepreneuris Spere, because that's part of
what this book is about. How he transformed from PFC
Douglas Ernest to a successful businessman, Retired Captain Douglas Ernest,
and that's the story of the book. Now let me
(00:54):
ask you this just to and first off, thank you
very much to yours for your service to our country, Sir,
I respect anyone who serves in the America's military. It
means a great deal and I love helping and support
military causes. Here on the Morning show, I want to
ask you this. You obviously are a votivated man. You
wanted to use this book as an opportunity to tell
(01:15):
other people or teach other people to learn how they
can embrace a mindset to achieve greatness just like you did.
How do you motivate the unmotivated? You know, I always
joke about it. I've been at W two employee my
entire life. I have such profound respect for men like
you who build a business, who start from scratch, knowing
(01:36):
full well that creating a business is very difficult. Most
of them fail. But you got that drive, that motivation
that keeps you going day in and day out in
spite of the struggles and challenges. How do you tap
into that.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
Well, man, that's a great question, Brian, and I would
say the first thing that comes to my mind intuitively
is progress. I just remember as a kid, you know,
being twenty three, twenty four years old and start this company,
that it's about doing progress, setting your goals, coming up
with a vision and then finding a way to execute
and the way you could execute. I learned from you know,
my military experience was being able to do progress reports
(02:13):
then on the military that make you turn into progress
report every day. Hey, you got to turn in what
you did today, what you accomplished, what your goals were,
how far behind you are or how far ahead you got.
What it was was just progress. If you set your
goal to you know, say make fifty thousand dollars this year,
and you have a target. You know, there's a theory
in school I leaned years ago, also called goal setting
(02:35):
theory nineteen sixty four and empirical based results showed that
when people set a target, they have a much much
much higher chance of ending that target when they set
the goal. And if you readjust to hit that goal,
when you do or don't hit it, you have a
better chance of hitting it in the future. So it's
making progress. You get up every day you go to work,
and you know you're not always going to succeed. To
(02:57):
the contrary, you're only going to succeed, you know, all
one out of ten the most successful people that we
admire in society, it's like sech as baseball players. You know,
they hit three hundred and thirty out of a thousand,
they do a thirty three percent success rate, and they're
considered heroes because of that. It's just getting progress, trying it,
(03:20):
you know, going against the odds to find the odds,
and continuing to try and strive when things are.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
Tough, so it is worthwhile establishing these goals. Is the
planning for a future. I've always been sort of like,
I'll wake up tomorrow and I'll deal with tomorrow when
it finally gets there. Here it's that line from Cosablanca.
I never make plans that far in advance. You know, well,
I see you tonight, I don't know said so, you know,
I mean maybe that's where that folks don't have what
(03:46):
I'm calling motivation. They just don't have planning. And when
you have a plan, you then can say, as you
reflect back on the day, I at least did X,
Y or Z in furtherance of my goal to get
to where I want to be.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
Absolutely, and this type of goal setting theory, you know,
I didn't create it. It was someone like a scientist
made it in a university back like what sixty years ago,
and the army embraced it. They'd always talk about goal
sitting theory, goal setting theory, goal setting thor you set
your goal. You know, do you want to lose five pounds,
you want to lose ten pounds, go ahead and set
your goals. You're going to lose ten pounds in thirty days,
(04:23):
or you're going to in our case, you would want
to pass a physical training test or pass an obstacle course.
You set your goal, you want yourself. You try and
your mind locks onto a target, like when a you know,
a tank is in the battlefield and they have the
electronic GPS and it's going to lock onto the target
to want to get it. Your mind's going to continuously
(04:45):
want to go there. And you can use this application
anywhere in your life. And you know you would talk
about helping yourself, but you can also use it for
your kids. My kids. Now, I got my kids got
to read thirty six books for some headmaster's group that's
coming here. We set our goal like six months ago
that we were going to read these books, and my
kids on number twenty four or thirty six, and I
(05:05):
can't tell you how good I feel. I could tell
all my accomplishments are great, but my kid teaching her
at nine years old to be able to read twenty
four out of thirty six books, so she can be
in this group and you know, and just be you know,
I don't want to say success, yeah, a nine year old,
but it's just start the foundation, you know, because when
I was nine, I wasn't reading twenty four books in
(05:26):
thirty six, you know, thirty six, I was you know,
barely getting by, you know, getting sees and wasn't really
doing real good as a kid. So for me to
be able to instill that in my kids is so
just fulfilling, and I want to share this with the world.
The book talks about all these strategies. You know, I
didn't come up with them. I just been able to regurgitate,
(05:49):
if you will, what I was taught. The military taught
me all these skill sets, and it was a way
that I achieved success in the military, becoming a captain,
helping other soldiers learn how to do it, how other
soldiers make improve its in their lives. And this is
the way that I can do it. You know, it
works because I've watched thousands and thousands of soldiers improved
their lives. I've watched hundreds of people I've worked with
(06:11):
and my business improved their lives, and I've watched my
family and myself grow over the last thirty years that
I've had access to these methodologies, if that's the correct word. Methodologies,
these perspectives, these frameworks to be able to achieve. And
the other thing I'd like to say, Brian, is that
it's not hard. It's something that everybody does. If you
(06:33):
look at the world around you, you look at your neighbor,
you look at your friends, you look at people in
your life or people that you look up to, they've
achieved it. A lot of people that are successful, people
that started with nothing. They came from nothing and they
were hungry, and they learned skill sets how to achieve,
how to get where they wanted to go, how to
find the road to get to the endpath.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
I like that you keep turning to the fact that
you served in America's military and that those things that
you learn in the military are the very skill sets
that you applied in the private sector to build your
very successful business, which is Corvette Warehouse. You can find
them online at Corvette warehouse dot com. I was checking
out your C eight inventory. My friend, pretty nice looking,
sweet cars there, but because you know, I know, it's
(07:19):
suicide Awareness month, and I just had the Veterans Services
on the other day talking about, you know, some of
the reasons why you have post traumatic stress or why
many men and women who get out of the service
struggle with depression because they miss that camaraderie, that teamwork,
that working together, the cohesive, well oiled machine that is
(07:41):
the American military, and they come out here in the
sort of the real world and life is so completely different.
You paint such a positive spin on your time in
America's military and how it helped you. I think that's
just a great way of looking at it, because you
rarely hear that.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
Yeah, and Brian and nailed it on the cammmoraderie ship.
The most of the veterans that I served with and
people that I meeting in today's world, they tell you, oh,
when I got out, life was so boring. There was
no excitement, There was no bizaz anymore. And just because
you don't have a team, you're on your own. You
have to go find a new team to get on.
I got out of the military after two years, four months,
(08:18):
three weeks, and two days. I know my contract by heart.
Because I tell I got my college money when I
got out of there and I was back in. I
was back in like ninety days later. I signed up
because I missed it so bad. I got out of
the military, I went to college, got some classes, couldn't
connect with anybody, didn't have anything. I'm used to having
friends that God, they risked their lives to help me.
(08:41):
They were my brothers, my sisters. They were like, they'll
do anything performed to say, Hey, I need money. Oh,
here's some money. Just take it. It's yours, you know,
it was you didn't have any friends like that in
the civilian world. And I went back in and immediately
and went into the National Guard unit and I got
them walk Wisconsin, and immediately I conected with other fellows
(09:01):
that had the same interest as me, and I have
that network again. I had those friends, and I bound
up staying in for all those years, and even today
at fifty three, my networks of best friends or my
bellow veterans, fellow veterans that I connect with, I don't.
I connect good with people in the regular world, don't
get me wrong, but my when I need a veteran
and the guy says, I was in Homesville, Germany, and
(09:22):
I was an operation. Doesn't start pamp Me and him
are friends. We write instant connections.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
Oh yeah, that's my that's my philosophy of life. You know,
if if all you need to do is start from
a point of agreement, like I like to ride motorcycles.
If you ride a motorcycle and you go someplace where
other motorcycles are, you immediately are sort of friends with
them because you have that one point of connection. Hey
might sit down and figure out your different religions or
your different political perspectives, but you'll start off on a
(09:51):
positive thing, which is that one connection that you know
you have, because you can always move over and start
talking about motorcycles again. The things go south when you
move into the area or religion.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
And over time you've learned to develop skill sets to
create rapport with people, especially those that are self employed
or want to be self employed. You have to be
able to get along with people, your suppliers, your vendors,
your buyers, your community, your stakeholders. You have to get
along with everybody. And then you learn these skill sets
from the military. And yet veterans do suffer right now
(10:24):
they get out, They don't have direction, they don't know
where they're going, they don't have friends, they don't have
a network, and then you're coupled with the alcohol and
the drugs. Right now, Americans have access to illicit drugs
more than ever in the history of mankind. Our border
is wide open. You can come across the border right now.
Actually you're welcomed, You're given benefits to come here, So
(10:45):
people are invited to come here. That also invites an
open road of illicit drug trade, and those drugs are
porn into our country. Where my office is at in Dallas,
twenty five years ago, you'd rarely see a person on drugs,
homeless or the worst you'd see of someone under the
influence of alcohol from time to time wandering the streets.
(11:05):
My streets around where I work. A course, that warehouse
right now has thousands of drug addicts, warner on the streets, homeless,
And it's like that in the city all these every
metropolitan city has that now. Where you go I go
to California on vacation with my kid is insane. What
you see. And a lot of these homeless people are veterans.
(11:26):
They are You'll see a guy on the street with
a sign and says that turned homeless police help, and
it's a sixty year old man that has been served
in the military that just got hooked on drugs or
whatever whatever he got himself into. And once you get
on that path, you can't get out. It's like the
the the you know, path dependent theory. I get people
theory to talk about in the military, but once you start,
(11:48):
you can't stop. You get momentum's both good and bad.
Speaker 1 (11:51):
Yeah, it's that idea of self medication. If you're struggling
with with psychological stress issues post traumatic stress, for example,
if you you're having issues with your time and your
service in the military, your combat service most notably comes up,
or anything else. A lot of people self medicate. Alcohol
was kind of one of the self medication things traditionally speaking.
But you're right with the type of drugs and the
(12:15):
quantity of drugs and how addictive modern drugs are. I
think that's what you got. People start with just self medication,
they look and take an edge off of the edge
in their life, and the next thing you know, they've
got a powerful fentanyl addiction. It's a horror show, absolute
horror show.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
And I hope that in time we have a government
of bureaucracy that's created to help combat this in a
more advantagious way, because it has become awful and it's
now inflicted every school, every kid. When I was a kid,
I didn't even know what cocaine was. I didn't know
what stettonol was. I don't know what heroin was. My
kids are nine and they're trained at school identify it.
(12:56):
Because kids in school at twelve hand these drugs and
it's like you don't You can't like not address it
and say, oh, it doesn't exist, because your kids might
touch it and might try it and might get it.
You know, you've got to address it. You have to
be educated. You have to be able to identify and
understand so that you don't ever become sucked into it.
And again, we talked about some things that are you know,
(13:18):
maybe not the most positive on the show, but I
believe you have to have it. And it's become such
a huge part of a society that we have now
that's integrating the society, and the drugs have gotten much
much worse. Setanol deaths are over one hundred thousand where year.
Think about that, Vietnam fifty thousand soldiers died, put their
life on the battlefield and passed away. In our country,
one hundred thousand people die a year from just vetanol. Now,
(13:42):
think about all the loss of opportunity, All the people
that could have been doctors, lawyers, you know, soldiers, you know, scientists, teachers, professors,
All those people that could have been are now dead
because of these freaking drugs. Oh, and that we pray
we get a society that we can give us a bureaucracy,
a government that can help actually combat this and bring
(14:04):
it to an end, or at least give us some
type of cure.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
Well, my guest today, author of the Spirit of a
True Patriot, The Inspiring Story, Retired Captain Douglas j Ernest
my guest today, author of the book as well as
successful businessman. If you like Corvette's he's your guy Corvette
Warehouse dot com. Check out his website and see the
business that he built from scratch. Inspiring Story. Douglas, It's
been a real pleasure having you on the program. I
(14:27):
appreciate your spending time with my listeners of Me Today,
and I put a link to your book on my
blog page of fifty five carece dot com. So my
listeners know exactly where to get a copy.
Speaker 2 (14:37):
All right, Brian, if you could please let me just
plug the book. If you go to Douglas Ernest dot
com again, that's Douglas Ernest dot com. There's a link
to get the book or some pictures of the story
of Operation Judges Storm, and it gives a chance for
veterans to get money because all proceeds and royalty from
the book do go to veterans groups one hundred percent
so that we can help my brothers and sisters that
need help.
Speaker 1 (14:58):
Bright you just sold a bunch more books with that comment.
I was not aware of that. So the proceeds going
to help veterans causes, that is awesome. Yeah, that link
will take that My link on my page will take
them directly to the link you just mentioned. So either way,
go directly or go through fifty five cars dot com.
Douglas real pleasure, my friend. Thank you so much again
for your service to our.
Speaker 2 (15:17):
Contrick Brian, appreciate you, sir. A great weekend. You do
the same
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