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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Sighted week days at nine. It's going to be very
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Speaker 2 (00:08):
That's the approaching eight oh six here, fifty five KRC
DE talk station. What a great, great thing to end
the fifty five KRC Morning Show. I've got in studio
from Patriots Landing, which is just a fantastic organization. Joe's
been Joe Montgomery, he's been in the studio and he's
talking on the fifty five Carssey Morning Show quite a
few times over the years.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
Joe, welcome back, man. Always a pleasure to see you.
Good morning, Brian same here.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
Your mission is an outstanding one, and let us talk
about let's listen, pretend like the listening audience has never
heard from you before, because I know that people listening
to the program right now that don't know what the
hell's Patriot Landing. Thomas Deep's wacking, waxing poetic about Patriots Landing.
You started this because of the inspiration you got from
your father, who probably served his country as a marine, right.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
Yes, sir, Yeah, good memory. We were just talking about that.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
But yeah, so and as you know, we lost him
in November, and so I appreciate you starting out that
way because one of the things were to do in
twenty twenty five because of the passing of my father.
And really the reason that I started this, I'm kind
of like a Bill Gates or whomever, because we literally
started cutting wood in my garage over in northern Kentucky
(01:13):
and that was to make the burial flag cases that
you're well aware of this.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
Yeah, Arlington Cemetery used to sell what they were Chinese made.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
Well, No, Arlington Arlington did not.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
No, I'm sorry. I I remember the story. You go
ahead and tell it, but I do remember correcting myself
in my head. We were talking off air about he said,
how old are you now? And it's a lot of
these sixteen September It's like it was unrelated. It was
a fun fact about where the microphones are here in
the studio. It's like, yeah, I should have committed that
to memory by now, been here in these studios for
a couple of years. I said, there's no more room
in the hard drive. He said, yeah. It starts happening
(01:47):
around this age, Like, ah, I know, the same age.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
Yeah, I know, I know, I know.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
Anyway, you look at the back to the flag busy,
you know, to that point.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
It was in late twenty fourteen that I was at
a veterans cemetery and down in Williams Soun, Kentucky, and
I discovered there were sixteen indigent veterans that had been
buried with no family and they just random Michael's God
loved Michaels great organization, I'm sure. But when they bought
the barrel flagcases there and put the veterans burial flags
in them, they put their names on them in case
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the love one ever showed up, and that's that's when
I discovered that they're At that time, at that one cemetery,
there were sixteen American flags folded in cases with a
big maiden China stick. And as you well know, we
both feel very strongly about that, and that was the
precipice to take me from where we had started doing
things for veterans, which was making cornhole boards and bags
(02:41):
and shipping them all over the world, just a little
kind of like you know, care gift package for some
fun for our troops, moved into the burial flightcases. And
then that that's what kicked us into the becoming a
five to one C three. So we've been now a
five o one c three actually coming up next month,
it'll be years.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
Has it been that long? Ten years?
Speaker 3 (03:02):
Yeah, So I look back at that journey, and I
look back at, you know, prior to that, doing the
the corn hole boards for probably a good five years.
You know, I'm a good fifteen sixteen years into this,
which I think is part of the reason, just because
of sticking with it and having this strong desire to
continue to grow. Uh, is why we are where we
(03:24):
are today. But one of the themes that I wanted
to talk to you today about, Brian, and it's really
relative to what we even talked about earlier, is there
we're a faith based organization and I think that, you know,
trusting in God's plan for us, for our families, for
really everything is one hundred percent the reason we are
(03:46):
where we are. And I kind of might do this backwards.
I wanted to talk about a new thing with to
share with your listeners, but I brought another gift for
you today, and this literally was created within the last
three or four days. We get these inspirations in the
shop and it's not me ninety nine percent of time anymore.
(04:06):
It's not me, it's one of our veteransans they're like, Joe,
you know, I really this, or they see something or this,
and then well you've had miss Lynn Arnold in Oh
Young Greens.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
She's a wonderful, wonderful lady.
Speaker 3 (04:20):
She's awesome. She really also happens to be my better half.
So yeah, I'm.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
Gonna look on your face. I never made the connection.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
You're out of your element, man, you out kicked your coverage.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
Yeah, she's she's uh, she is awesome.
Speaker 4 (04:38):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (04:39):
And and actually she got in trouble this morning because
she's a good west Side girl. I'm a near west
Side boy, being from Cole Raine. But you know her, her,
her and her dad used to come to your breakfast
all the time. She lost her dad actually last year
as well.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
Well.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
The listener lunches.
Speaker 3 (04:52):
The listener lunches, and her mom, Miss Dell Arnold, straight
up west side, west Side price Hell texted her the
morning Joe's gonna be on Brian's show, and you didn't
let me know. Oh no, yeah, so you dropped the ball. Well,
that family is very much a fan of yours, as
we all are. But so anyway, one of the things
that I'm gonna do this year to re engage and
(05:15):
help me. Remember my dad uh Is get back as
he was a you know, life long parishioner at Saint
Anne's Engross Back and did everything and gave everything and volunteered.
Is we're gonna try to embrace and create more products
based on our faith based organization. So this little bogger
right here and I'll see if you can see it.
(05:38):
Let's see what that is there? Beautiful?
Speaker 1 (05:40):
So that's that's obviously Jesus, and it is on thorns.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
Ways though it takes you a second for it to
come into focus, it does.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
It does. It's a beautiful piece of artwork.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
It's a it's it's a cross and it's got so.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
The top part of that you go to the jigs Arnold. No, nope.
Speaker 3 (06:02):
So we now because of our growth, we've grown in
products and equipment and we have a laser engraver at
the shop.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
Now, oh that's how you have turned that.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
I saw that and I said to miss Lynn, I said,
can you make this? And she of course can do
anything like that, and she created that file and we
started cutting that out. Now, all everybody I've shown that
to in the last probably three or four days, has
seen it. We have one air force vendor and he's
(06:31):
eighty eight. We call him Wild Bill. He comes down
twice a week. He's a machine. He will outwork anybody there.
He's eighty eight years old. Oh by, for the life
of me, he cannot he sees a tree. He cannot
come up.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
Well, listen that he can't see Jesus after staring at
it for a while.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
That's one thing.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
But initially my reaction was I thought it was some
type of foliage or maybe a tree when you first
held it up. It's almost like one of those those
paintings where you have to kind of stare at it
until he image finally appears to you. That's how the
subtleness of it is cool. I think it's amazing. Joe,
I'll tell you what. Listening on you and You're like,
what the hell are they talking about? I wish I
could see it. Joe's gonna put a picture of it
(07:10):
up on my blog page fifty five Caracy their Comedies.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
In the process of doing that.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
Right now, Joe, I could probably take a better picture
with my camera and shoot it to you and text
it to you over the break.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
Anyway, Sorry, I brought one for you.
Speaker 3 (07:23):
I appreciate for Joe because he's my good old thesal man,
and I know he's a he's a good man. So
this literally was made in the last three days. I
thought about it, and I wanted to bring you little something,
and I wanted to talk about our journey and being
a faith based organization, how important it is to us
and to all of our veterans that come down and
all the people that visit us. And I just think this.
(07:44):
I'm in love with this little thing. And I literally
threw it online this morning. It doesn't have a picture up.
We're gonna start making the we're gonna start selling them. Obviously,
this is how we share ourselves. But maybe I could
take a picture of you holding it and I'll put
it on the website today until we get a better picture.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
You absolutely can do that.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
A lot of my listeners are gonna want to get
one of these, and again, help support your organization. And
real quick here, just not to move away from this,
and we can come back to this, but close the
loop on the flag box because I had mentioned Arlington,
but ultimately you started making the flag boxes because of
your experience at that Kentucky cemetery. But you got Arlington
to start buying your flagcases made in your shop in
(08:25):
northern Kentucky exclusively.
Speaker 3 (08:27):
Yeah, so well they had you know, I didn't know
anything about flagcases. I'd never been in that market, and
so I thought, who can I call that would know
the most, and Arlington came to mind.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
I just picked up the phone and called and got
a whole the right person.
Speaker 3 (08:41):
You know, God had a plan for that, because I
could have called and had somebody say, I don't know
what you're talking about.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
We don't see you later, Joe.
Speaker 3 (08:48):
But I got a whole the right person and I
shared my story and on that same phone call, as
you know, it wasn't even a MultiPhone call email thing.
It was I told my story and what we were
doing and the fact that they're made by veterans. They
just fell in love with it, and we, you know,
we made four cases and I grabbed my dad and
we road tripped up to Arlington. And it was one
(09:09):
of the most memorable few days of my life because
we went through all the memorials and all the everything
up in DC and then to Arlington.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
And now it's very special, special times. And I know
you are so glad that you spent that time with
your father. I see you know I missed my dad
to this day. You know, spend time with your loved
ones while you can, because it's always Maybe you aren't
anticipating it, but you know buses hit people every day too.
You never know, and your number is going to be
(09:37):
called up. Let's pause. We will bring Joe Montgomery from
Patriots Landing. Folks at Patriots Landing dot org is where
you find them. You're not going to see a picture
of the cross yet, but I just sent Joe Struker
a better picture of the full cross you can put
up on the blog page. But five Carsey dot com.
We'll be back right after these brief words.
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Speaker 2 (10:45):
Eight nineteen fifty about KRCDE Talk Station a Happy Friday,
Inspirational Friday too. I got Jill Montgomery from Patriots Landing
dot org hearing at studio and the picture of the
cross that he was described trying to describe on air,
and it is absolutely extraordinary to look at is on
my blog page nofifybove Karsey dot com. Actually two pictures,
the one Joe initially took through the video monitor and
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then the follow up that I took, and I think
it comes through crystal clear what you're looking at there.
And this is one of the products sold by Patriots
Landing to support their mission, and Joe, I wanted you
to dive a little bit more into that mission, because
you are really providing veterans with an extraordinary valuable service,
and that's just really quite literally by merely bringing them
(11:30):
together in your workshop.
Speaker 3 (11:33):
Yeah, and again, as you know, this was not by design.
We just you know, not through happenstance, but like minded
people in particular the brotherhood and sisterhood that are veterans.
And you know this well because you've talked to hundreds,
if not thousands of them and been around them.
Speaker 1 (11:52):
It's a unique segment. It's just a unique segment.
Speaker 3 (11:55):
They've gone through things that most of us couldn't imagine, indeed,
and so that bond that that it's almost like an
immediate friendship right air Force. It doesn't matter what branch,
it really doesn't.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
You're in the club.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
You're in the know. You know what your fellow veteran
has experienced because you've been through it yourself. I can
certainly understand that immediate connection. And it's an exclusive club.
You signed on the line that you were willing to
give your life for this country, and I know how
you feel about that, and I know how I feel
about it. And you know, my dad, my uncles did it,
and it just it just works. There's a sense of calm,
(12:34):
there's a sense of and there's a lot of laughter,
a lot of camaraderie. Everybody makes fun of the Air Force.
Speaker 3 (12:41):
Sorry, sorry, man and women out there from the Air Force,
but you know, we got a coast Guard down there
and they pick on the Marines and it's just a
it's a camaraderie. But at the same time, they're keeping
their hands and their minds busy, right, mind.
Speaker 1 (12:56):
Old hands the Devil's workshop. Yeah, there's no question about that.
Speaker 2 (12:59):
And of course, if you're a veteran that's struggling emotionally,
we always we have major concerns about the suicide rate
among veterans, suicidal ideology. Obviously, some are struggling with maybe
post traumatic stress, maybe they saw the horrors of combat,
maybe they lost buddies or friends while they were serving,
you know, in the emotional baggage that goes along with that,
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stewing in your own juices and not having something to
do and not having people to talk to that have
experienced the same kind of thing. That just exacerbates an
already terrible problem.
Speaker 3 (13:30):
And it's difficult in this day and age to go
out and meet people that you can become close with.
Or trust or do a lot of different things. And
you know, we're a wood shop where we create things,
and we create a camaraderie and we pray and we support.
We were talking a little bit about Lieutenant Dan that
just came in, who was in a very rough spot,
who signed the cross that I gave you there, sir.
Speaker 1 (13:51):
Yeah, And that's the other cool thing.
Speaker 2 (13:52):
The veteran who made the woodworking item that you can
buy at Patriots Landing dot org signs it. It's so
it's I consider the sort of a work of art,
So it's like the artists signing it, so credit it's
given were credit dude, Dan Smith, and wonderful that I
was honored to see that.
Speaker 1 (14:09):
It's like a bonus.
Speaker 2 (14:10):
You get the cross in this beautiful work it would work,
but you also get that connection with the veterans.
Speaker 1 (14:15):
It truly is what separates our products.
Speaker 3 (14:16):
There's a lot of things that we make, flags and
different things that you could go on Etsy and find
a million of them, but you're not gonna You're not
gonna find one made from a nonprofit supporting veterans by
the veterans. But it's it's you know, and we have
incredible partners have been doing this as long as I've
been doing it. The DAV is a huge partner of ours.
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So when you get into those cases where camaraderie and
a wood shop and this and that and a paycheck
isn't enough, you know, we have the resources to connect with.
And it goes from the DAV all the way down
to Vets and brus It gives the men and women
a good time, to theis projects, to the local American Legions,
Chuck Wills and some of the guys that uh in
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the American Legions, uh Jared Bondville, and I could I
could name a thousand thousand people, some of whom I'm
just mentioned. When we brought our newest veteran in Dan
that I spoke of, lost his job right for the holidays.
He lost two brothers and then lost his sister maybe
two weeks ago, who was like his mother.
Speaker 1 (15:20):
Oh my word.
Speaker 3 (15:21):
And it puts him in a bad place quickly. And
so UH, Dan in particular was an instance where we
need to get him in in a hurry and get
him on the payroll. And you know this is public knowledge,
but he had gotten a little bit behind on some
rent and a few of the people that I just mentioned,
and some other groups just they reach out to me,
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how can we help and it's usually writing a check,
how can we help support this particular vetteror this particular
mission anything. And it's amazing, amazing community once you're once
you're in, you know everything from well you've met with
the Young Marines just it's it's just an incredible structure,
for lack of a better word, that we've built around
this whole organization.
Speaker 2 (16:04):
Well, I suppose in many respects. You know, there's different organizations.
They have their own veteran related mission, but it's it's
completely different than yours. So they want to help you,
and you obviously can refer the veterans in your organization
over to them. It's it makes perfect sense that all
these pieces of the puzzle puzzle are working together so well, and.
Speaker 3 (16:25):
We've we've we've identified and grouped with and I don't
want to go to the other side. But the sad
reality in some instances is that some of these nonprofits
they don't quite mesh. Sometimes it's more of a The
way I describe it is, hey, don't look over here.
You know, you might take this dollar that somebody wants
to give me. That's just the way I describe it.
I've been doing a long time territorial maybe little, maybe little,
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but but but uh. All of the groups that we
associate with and that we've been blest to partner with
believe the same thing I do that the rising tide
raise all ships. And that's how you help these men
and women, because I can't do everything in a wood shop,
and you know, the dav can't do how they do
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most everything, but they can't do everything, and Bets and
Bruce has a certain thing, and the Young Marines and
their support of everything does a certain thing. And when
you tie it all together, I'm telling you, it's just
an incredible, incredible experience from top.
Speaker 2 (17:23):
To bottom, rewarding. I think probably sums that up amazing.
We'll continue with Joe Montgomery Patriots Landing dot org. Help
support the mission and buy one of the amazing products
they have. They're knowing full well that it was made
by one of these American veterans in their wood shop.
We'll talk more about what they're doing in the shop.
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Very happy Friday to you, extra special and uplifting Friday,
A Positive Message Friday with Joe Montgomery from Patriots Landing
at the started this wood shop inspired by his father's
service to his country and wanted to do something in
recognition of that. And so you opened a wood shop
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and started out with some smaller projects, became a five
on one three C. And there's been a five on'
one three C now for you said fifteen or ten years,
ten years making the flagcases and a whole host of
other wood wooden products, and you can find them all
at Patriots Landing dot org. And by purchasing one of
these products, you're supporting the American veteran in the wood
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shop and providing them this this safe space where they
can do projects and commiserate and share their experiences and
put a smile on their face and some in what
can be really desperate times for some of these folks.
So there's an opportunity there, I suppose for some veterans
in the audience if they want to help out along
those lines.
Speaker 3 (19:42):
So yeah, absolutely, whether you have free time you want
to volunteer, whether you're looking for some part time work,
whether you know what I what I always tell folks
is just you know, just come down and see what
we're doing. Just come down. Let me give you a
little tour, let me introduce you to the men and
women that we work with. And if it flots about, great,
If it doesn't, you know, not every shoe fits every
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foot or however you want to say that.
Speaker 1 (20:04):
But yeah, our doors are always open. You can reach
out to me right through the website.
Speaker 2 (20:11):
You guys are close to the arc exhibit right, three
minutes three minutes away, all right, So if you plan
on a trip to that, then stop over a Patriots Landing.
Even if you don't, you're not a veteran, you don't
have any intention of, you know, maybe volunteering or something.
Stop in. They got a shop there. You can look
at what the men are and maybe do you have
women working there too? Sure, but I didn't. I didn't
think you discriminated. This isn't just a you know, I
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said fraternity, So social clubs most of well the two
that are there the most are both Navy veterans. So
got a couple of h and as in everything in life,
they're kind of the glue that keeps it from getting
too crazy. I'm sure your wife and understand that. No,
I get friend understand that. I get that all day long.
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You still see you are so far out of your
coverage and on that three point thirty is it albic
my back? Yeah, I apologize. That's now eye there, Ibec
Lane three thirty, I BEC Lane, Williamstown, Kentucky for one
zero ninety seven. That is the physical location. What a
beautiful building you have there, thank you, Right man, it's
just Corty. You know.
Speaker 1 (21:11):
One of the things we do is we do a
lot of group tours now, which is big.
Speaker 3 (21:14):
So if you're a church, if you're a Boy Scout group,
if you're a youth organization, a business, and you know,
we've had all just about all the management groups from
the art come over and take the tour tourism groups.
So that's always an option too that we can set
up just a short little tour and it's fun. They
have a lot of fun. They could see all our
products and getting the back and the shop and watch
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how they're made. Oh yeah, that's that hard work.
Speaker 2 (21:38):
Yeah, and how many I guess I'm wondering because I
know you have the nine and the twenty two flags.
Speaker 1 (21:46):
Right, twenty two is relatively new.
Speaker 3 (21:47):
You're talking about another powerful piece that's that's our veteran
suicide awareness flag.
Speaker 1 (21:53):
Oh Ida, And I asked that out loud.
Speaker 3 (21:55):
And as you know, the VA study a few years
ago is that on average, twenty two veterans a day
take their lives.
Speaker 1 (22:07):
And that gives me the chills. Just a day, that's
on average. You've literally described my reaction, and so again,
not me.
Speaker 3 (22:16):
I believe this was mister Gary Kaufman. We call him
the Jungle Cat. He's a shop manager. And we make
a nine and we want to make a smaller flag,
just like we want to make a smaller cross. Just options,
put this over your kitchen count or do whatever. Yeah,
and the nine millimeter shell casings work on that size flag.
When you make a smaller when they're just gigantic too big,
(22:37):
well guess what caliber fit twenty two? So they're just
with twenty two caliber shells.
Speaker 4 (22:42):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (22:42):
And it's just now we've got onto a third just
incredibly powerful piece that you know, I don't know how
we keep stumbling upon them, but.
Speaker 2 (22:52):
Yeah, well one can only pray that you know, you'll
have to go down at some point two like seventeen
as opposed to the twenty two, because that numbers just
wear just atch some stars in there well, and then
there's that it's coming up at eight thirty five, we'll pause.
We'll bring Joe back talk a little bit more about
some of the folks he's helped out in his mission.
And I got some other questions to talk with Joe
(23:13):
about Patriots Landing dot org. Just get over there and
buy something. You'd be glad you did. Beautiful work. A
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Eight thirty eight at fifty five kr CD Talk Station.
Very Happy Friday too, Tech Friday with Dave Hadters early
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that one. He's always providing us with wonderful information. Dave
Hatter and Tech Friday. Congressman Warren Davidson was on at
seven oh five, and of course Donna Murphy, Heaven's Gate
Ministries are gain ministries. I thought there was a unique parallel.
(24:40):
I got Joe Montgomery from Patriots Landing in here, veterans,
you know, join together in his workshop making these just
absolutely gorgeous handmade works of art that you can buy,
veteran made, signed by the veteran that made them, brought
to them with wonderful opportunity to commiserate and share experiences
and you know, get peace of mind. They together so
(25:01):
a faith Baith organization, Heaven's Game Ministries. Joe just I
don't know if you heard me talking to to Donna
provides that, you know, woodshop type caskets and services for
women who've lost their child in pregnancy. It's just the
horror of that and to know that, you know she
was inspired by God to start that, and that that's
(25:23):
out there. It's just kind of comparable experiences. And I
suspect Joe Streker put them back to back for that reason.
And thank you Joe Strecker, particularly for bringing Joe back
to the studio to talk about this. So Patriots Landing
dot Org, as I've been mentioning a bunch of times,
I encourage my listeners to purchase one of your products
because it does help you fulfill your mission. And you've
got this beautiful thing going on here. Cornhole bags. You
(25:46):
have corn hole bags with the branches of the service
on them. That is really cool. And those are hands
sewed in the shop as well, made by one of
our Air Force veterans. It's probably been making bags for
fifteen years. There could still called cornhole bags. There's no
corn in them. It's like plastic pellet weighs exactly a pound.
They're probably what would most in the corn whole world
would consider pro bags. Uh, they're just the nicest bags.
(26:08):
You ever call that cornhole pretty bag? I know, I
just I'm sorry. It's pretty big in America.
Speaker 1 (26:15):
Well, when you see.
Speaker 3 (26:15):
Cups stacking on ESPN, then then you think you're like, okay,
the door has been open.
Speaker 1 (26:19):
Yeah the oo for those who've seen Dodge.
Speaker 3 (26:23):
Yeah, so yeah, we've made a lot of custom bags,
and you and I talk briefly off the air. Custom
products are difficult, but if if you ever you know,
I put dogs and cats on bags. I've put pepperoni
pizza from pizza places. We can, we can put anything
that there's a picture of we put. We had when
we send in our boards over to our troops, which
is how we started, which if you would have known me,
then you'd have probably called me cornhole Joe because that's
(26:44):
what I did.
Speaker 1 (26:44):
That's what we did.
Speaker 3 (26:46):
And when we started sending these boards and bags of
our troops, we are coming up with unique custom bags.
And one of one of the young women that was
actually serving over in Iraq, they had I don't know
what's calls it, it's it's it's usually on a ship.
But it's one of those those guns that just shoots
a million rounds a second. Just oh sure, And she
had a picture of that on her base over there
(27:07):
and she sent it. We put that on one of
the bags.
Speaker 1 (27:09):
Just cool, cool stuff like cat one gun, right, kind
of like that.
Speaker 3 (27:13):
It's a yeah, I don't want to sound it's too
late for me to sound ignorant, but see something.
Speaker 1 (27:18):
Or it doesn't everybody out there but us will know.
Speaker 4 (27:21):
Yeah, they're all.
Speaker 1 (27:22):
Streaming at the radio, going, you idiots, what.
Speaker 3 (27:24):
Kind of morons on today? But just just different things
like that. And we do, we do take some custom
projects on, but most of our work is in what
we can put online and sell.
Speaker 1 (27:34):
Understood it.
Speaker 2 (27:35):
Obviously, if you had a thousand people called today and
asked for a custom product, then.
Speaker 1 (27:40):
You have patient overwhelmed. They need to be patient.
Speaker 2 (27:43):
But yeah, oh and the other thing is, folks, since
we were talking about this, this beautiful cross that he
brought in me.
Speaker 3 (27:49):
Come up with a name for that, because right now
I just threw it on. Literally, I'm eating breakfast with
my son this morning and I'm like, Buddy, I said,
I'm going to see Brian. I'm going to take him
this we're going to talk about. I probably should put
it on online because people are gonna want one. And
I think it's called us Jesus Cross online. I just
put in Jesus Cross.
Speaker 2 (28:08):
It is, and I wanted to let my listeners know
because you now have two pages of products. So if
you scroll down the product list on your browser, click
on page number two and it's the only item there.
And yeah, as of right now, there is no photograph,
but you can see it again on fifty five cares
dot com my blog page. Just can I put the picture?
I just suck at you up there, Brian, Well, if
(28:28):
you want or you can have the picture that I
took of the cross. It's a very clear image and
you don't have to have my.
Speaker 3 (28:33):
Other I think for the next four d eight hours
we'll have you out there until I can get a
picture of it taken.
Speaker 2 (28:37):
I haven't taken a picture of it yet. I don't
want it to be off putting for people. I want
them to want to buy the cross, So I got
to really, you have my permission to use a photograph
anyway you want.
Speaker 3 (28:47):
But well, let me let me bring this up, Brian,
if you don't mind, real quick, but this is something
that we're very very excited is new for twenty twenty five.
We readd our website and thank you for pointing out
that that is on page two.
Speaker 1 (28:57):
I didn't know that.
Speaker 3 (28:58):
That just shows to the growth that works experiencing. But
we have what we're just calling an affiliate marketing program.
So our first client is the Young Marines. Go figure,
and I'm actually going to Atlantic excuse me, Dallas third
week of April to go to their national leadership convention.
(29:19):
So what this is is an avenue for nonprofits, for schools,
for churches, for groups, for businesses, for any do gooders
that want to do essentially a fundraiser. So they can
go on our website. On the very bottom of the
of the homepage there's a link it says affiliate marketing,
and if they click on that link, it takes maybe
(29:41):
thirty seconds to sign up, and I contact them and
they get a unique link to our website. So they
go out to their flock, to their congregation, to their business,
to their company, to whatever and say, hey, go on
this link, buy a Jesus cross or some cornhole bags
(30:01):
or a twenty two flag. And then our new website
tracks that and they get a percentage of sales and
once a quarter we write them a check. It's kind
of big boy pants for us. I'm very excited about
it because it's such a win win. You get to
support a nonprofit that supports veterans, that makes veteran crafted products.
(30:24):
Your potential supporters gets to buy a really cool product.
They get something tangible instead of just writing a you know,
a twenty dollars check, which I put these online for
twenty dollars.
Speaker 1 (30:35):
Believe or not. Oh, that's what you really expected it
to be. More, it's not. So our goal is volume.
Speaker 3 (30:41):
Our goal is we want a bunch of people buying
a bunch of products so that we have additional work
and additional veterans in the shop. It's not the make
these massive you know, revenues and profits and buy new stuff.
Speaker 1 (30:57):
So our goal is to.
Speaker 3 (30:58):
Bring more veterans and get more veterans engage. So this
affiliate marketing program really opens up what a win win.
You want to raise money for your organization, you support us.
Speaker 1 (31:09):
We support you. That's the way it works. This is all.
It's it's really cool.
Speaker 2 (31:13):
I mentioned puzzle pieces come into place with all the
other organizations you work with but the success you've had
with this operation, and I know you're divinely inspired, and
I think maybe there is something to that. Maybe someone
has a plan, sir, and we know that it's playing
out really well for you Patriots. Landing dot org. We
have one more segment here with Joe Montgomery. I hope
(31:35):
you can stick around.
Speaker 1 (31:36):
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Speaker 2 (32:34):
A forty nine fifty five KR city talk station uplifting segment.
We've been having here with Joe Montgomery Patriots Landing. Wonderful
work they're doing helping out veterans, even and prediction, most
notably struggling veterans, guys that need a little boost and
a little help. He's got a wood shop, puts them
to work and making great products that we can support
the cause by buying. And yes, Eric, you were right
(32:54):
the gun. They made custom products too, So if you
have a photograph of something you want on a corn
hoole bag, they can make that happened. Cw S is
the name of that Gatlin gun, for lack of a
better way of describing it. So Eric, you win the prize.
Any instant message on Facebook, Wow, that's what the phone is.
I have to tell you right now.
Speaker 1 (33:14):
I think I've got three or four orders in the
last ten minutes.
Speaker 2 (33:16):
Oh fantastic. Thank you listening audience and a donation added.
God bless my listeners, I bless you, Brian. Well, now
it's just as this and man, you know you talk
about God having a mission for you. My dad told
me not to take this job. Don't do it, Brian.
I was practicing law, wasn't in house counsel of Anthem,
executive litigation, whatever the hell position I had at the time.
Speaker 1 (33:38):
I quit, and don't do it. Don't do it.
Speaker 2 (33:41):
I'm like, you know, remember that Mark Twain quote about
you know, you regret the things in life you didn't
do versus the things you did.
Speaker 1 (33:49):
So to the extent, God has a plan for me.
Speaker 2 (33:51):
I think one of his reasons that I took the
job is so that I could help the American veteran
I've always had just the most profounder as you mentioned earlier.
Signing up that alone, to me represents just an amazing
thing that you're signing up for a life or a
career or even you know, short term if you want
to serve you know, one tour one oh uh four years. Yeah,
(34:17):
you're still signing up for something. Your future is completely unwritten.
Infantry men, you could be responsible for, you know, sniffing
out bombs. I mean, you're putting your you're literally putting
your life in the hands of the American military, And
that to me is so just amazing because that's not
(34:37):
the type of.
Speaker 1 (34:38):
Guy I am.
Speaker 2 (34:38):
You know, No, no, I'm gonna go to college. I'm
going to go to law school. I'm going to practice law.
You know, like I know what's in store for me
generally speaking. But to know that you can end up
in Afghanistan or some you know, combat, someplace in one
of the four corners of the world, or any of
the number multitude of possibilities for you, that's and and
no guarantee.
Speaker 3 (34:58):
Yeah, it's probably that mindset, that particular mindset that you
just described so well, that that that helps what we
do work because they're just they're just like minded. They
did something that the majority of Americans haven't, right, And
you know, you can't can't speak to something. I tell
my son this all the time. You can't speak to
something unless you've lived through it. I don't know, they've said.
(35:21):
And you can't walk in another man's shoes or whatever
whatever that is. But you know, and in life, if
you have not had an illness, or if you have
not experienced death, or if you have not experienced a
separation or a divorce or something significant in your life,
you can't speak to it because you can think you
know what it feels like or and that times ten
(35:42):
is what happens in our shop, because at any given time,
I'll walk in the shop and I'm in and out
a lot they're chit chatting about something that's relative to
their experience or and you want to talk about people
that can immediately picture a boardroom and a new board
(36:02):
member comes in, man or woman, doesn't matter. I doubt
that there's an immediate connection connection and I'm going to
work closely.
Speaker 1 (36:11):
It bar none.
Speaker 3 (36:13):
Somebody new walks into our shop like Dan, and it's
you can just see it, Ryan. They're comfortable, they're accepted
because they're a veteran. And that's the group that we have.
And again, we're so so so blessed to have the
men and women we do and always looking for more.
But it's I think it's that ability that someone said
I'm going to sign on the line and I'm willing
(36:34):
to give my life for this country that separates them
from you know, Joe and whoever else. And and I
think that's what helps it just hard experiences. It helps
with the camaraderie and and and just the immediate He's
one of us, she's one of us. Let's get to work.
It's amazing.
Speaker 2 (36:51):
Well and and as I as you were talking about that,
if you haven't had the experiences and that we can
understand it. I mean, how many movies have I seen?
Combat movies, war movies, and yes there's death, and you
can even and graphic depictions of death on the screen,
I imagine, don't come close to actually witnessing it happen
(37:12):
right there next to you.
Speaker 1 (37:13):
Can't. There's no way.
Speaker 3 (37:15):
They just couldn't recreate it, especially I as a friend
or someone that you just trained with, or exactly like
losing a brother or a mother.
Speaker 1 (37:22):
It's just you can't.
Speaker 2 (37:24):
Yeah, well, and that's what Patriots Landing is all about.
Folks that have those shared experiences getting together and helping
each other out with camaraderie and of course working on
these great craft products and you know, putting a smile
on a lot of people's faces too, because I imagine
the tour groups are coming there and the visitors just
are probably experience an uplifting moment kind of like I'm
feeling right now.
Speaker 1 (37:42):
I need I need to get some of the you
just made a good point.
Speaker 3 (37:45):
I need to get some of the reviews and some
of the comments we've had from our groups to come
in on our website because you know, as my son
put it a few months ago, he was off school
and we had a group of fifty or so seniors
from I think Georgia ann and uh, he says, Dad,
you're you're you're bat in a thousand still after the tour.
Speaker 1 (38:02):
And I said, what do you mean, buddy?
Speaker 3 (38:03):
And uh, he says, every time I'm here and you
have a tour group in here, and you talk about
the flycases, you talk about this, you talk about the veterans,
there's a whole bunch of he said, ladies, because it's
a lot of ladies on these tours.
Speaker 1 (38:14):
But crying.
Speaker 3 (38:15):
Oh yeah, And I said, buddy, that's because it's real.
That's because especially in that generation that you have celebrated
so much, the greatest generation, and there long their mothers, brothers, sisters, cousins,
dads served, or they know somebody that's served. They're the
most patriotic group of Americans there are. And I don't
(38:38):
know any other way to say, it's just a powerful
It just is because of what it is. It's not
because I'm talking or anybody's doing anything. But it's just
a powerful connection that to people that come down have
with what we do. It's fun, it's blessing, it's great.
It's as you would you say earlier, and that's why
I love coming to studio because we can chat offline.
But it is for me personally, just me personally, right,
(39:02):
It's it's just a your anxiety kind of comes off.
You trust in the Lord's plan. You're around this type
of atmosphere. You're not in a sitting as an attorney
doing this or that. Yeah, you're you're hopefully creating a
better space or place on this earth for somebody.
Speaker 2 (39:18):
It gets you out of bed with a smile on
your face in the morning, hitting the ground, running purpose, purpose, Well,
a lot of us lack that, but you know what,
you can see it on full display. Patriots Landing dot org.
Please buy a product, help support the mission. Veterans get
on over there, help out in the workshop, and any groups,
seniors groups, you know, school groups, church groups. Put together
(39:40):
a group of folks and head on over there. Maybe
head under the arc exhibit if that appeals to your not,
but it's worth a trip to Patriots Landing and all
the information again Patriots Landing dot org. Brother, it has
been a distinct pleasure having you back, love hearing about it.
Speaker 1 (39:53):
It's bless you.
Speaker 2 (39:55):
Send me of the weekend with a positive vibe. Podcast
online fifty five krs dot com Tech Friday with Dave
had Our, Congressman Warren Davidson, Donna Murphy with Heaven's Game Ministries,
and of course this full hour with Joe Montgomery and
the link and the photograph of what they're calling at
least for right now, the Jesus Cross you can get
at fifty five krs dot com. Joe Stracker. God bless you,
(40:16):
my friend, Thank you for all that you do. And folks,
hope you all have a wonderful weekend and stick around
because Glenn Beck's coming right up.
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Speaker 2 (00:08):
That's the approaching eight oh six here, fifty five KRC
DE talk station. What a great, great thing to end
the fifty five KRC Morning Show. I've got in studio
from Patriots Landing, which is just a fantastic organization. Joe's
been Joe Montgomery, he's been in the studio and he's
talking on the fifty five Carssey Morning Show quite a
few times over the years.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
Joe, welcome back, man. Always a pleasure to see you.
Good morning, Brian same here.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
Your mission is an outstanding one, and let us talk
about let's listen, pretend like the listening audience has never
heard from you before, because I know that people listening
to the program right now that don't know what the
hell's Patriot Landing. Thomas Deep's wacking, waxing poetic about Patriots Landing.
You started this because of the inspiration you got from
your father, who probably served his country as a marine, right.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
Yes, sir, Yeah, good memory. We were just talking about that.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
But yeah, so and as you know, we lost him
in November, and so I appreciate you starting out that
way because one of the things were to do in
twenty twenty five because of the passing of my father.
And really the reason that I started this, I'm kind
of like a Bill Gates or whomever, because we literally
started cutting wood in my garage over in northern Kentucky
(01:13):
and that was to make the burial flag cases that
you're well aware of this.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
Yeah, Arlington Cemetery used to sell what they were Chinese made.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
Well, No, Arlington Arlington did not.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
No, I'm sorry. I I remember the story. You go
ahead and tell it, but I do remember correcting myself
in my head. We were talking off air about he said,
how old are you now? And it's a lot of
these sixteen September It's like it was unrelated. It was
a fun fact about where the microphones are here in
the studio. It's like, yeah, I should have committed that
to memory by now, been here in these studios for
a couple of years. I said, there's no more room
in the hard drive. He said, yeah. It starts happening
(01:47):
around this age, Like, ah, I know, the same age.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
Yeah, I know, I know, I know.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
Anyway, you look at the back to the flag busy,
you know, to that point.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
It was in late twenty fourteen that I was at
a veterans cemetery and down in Williams Soun, Kentucky, and
I discovered there were sixteen indigent veterans that had been
buried with no family and they just random Michael's God
loved Michaels great organization, I'm sure. But when they bought
the barrel flagcases there and put the veterans burial flags
in them, they put their names on them in case
(02:19):
the love one ever showed up, and that's that's when
I discovered that they're At that time, at that one cemetery,
there were sixteen American flags folded in cases with a
big maiden China stick. And as you well know, we
both feel very strongly about that, and that was the
precipice to take me from where we had started doing
things for veterans, which was making cornhole boards and bags
(02:41):
and shipping them all over the world, just a little
kind of like you know, care gift package for some
fun for our troops, moved into the burial flightcases. And
then that that's what kicked us into the becoming a
five to one C three. So we've been now a
five o one c three actually coming up next month,
it'll be years.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
Has it been that long? Ten years?
Speaker 3 (03:02):
Yeah, So I look back at that journey, and I
look back at, you know, prior to that, doing the
the corn hole boards for probably a good five years.
You know, I'm a good fifteen sixteen years into this,
which I think is part of the reason, just because
of sticking with it and having this strong desire to
continue to grow. Uh, is why we are where we
(03:24):
are today. But one of the themes that I wanted
to talk to you today about, Brian, and it's really
relative to what we even talked about earlier, is there
we're a faith based organization and I think that, you know,
trusting in God's plan for us, for our families, for
really everything is one hundred percent the reason we are
(03:46):
where we are. And I kind of might do this backwards.
I wanted to talk about a new thing with to
share with your listeners, but I brought another gift for
you today, and this literally was created within the last
three or four days. We get these inspirations in the
shop and it's not me ninety nine percent of time anymore.
(04:06):
It's not me, it's one of our veteransans they're like, Joe,
you know, I really this, or they see something or this,
and then well you've had miss Lynn Arnold in Oh
Young Greens.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
She's a wonderful, wonderful lady.
Speaker 3 (04:20):
She's awesome. She really also happens to be my better half.
So yeah, I'm.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
Gonna look on your face. I never made the connection.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
You're out of your element, man, you out kicked your coverage.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
Yeah, she's she's uh, she is awesome.
Speaker 4 (04:38):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (04:39):
And and actually she got in trouble this morning because
she's a good west Side girl. I'm a near west
Side boy, being from Cole Raine. But you know her, her,
her and her dad used to come to your breakfast
all the time. She lost her dad actually last year
as well.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
Well.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
The listener lunches.
Speaker 3 (04:52):
The listener lunches, and her mom, Miss Dell Arnold, straight
up west side, west Side price Hell texted her the
morning Joe's gonna be on Brian's show, and you didn't
let me know. Oh no, yeah, so you dropped the ball. Well,
that family is very much a fan of yours, as
we all are. But so anyway, one of the things
that I'm gonna do this year to re engage and
(05:15):
help me. Remember my dad uh Is get back as
he was a you know, life long parishioner at Saint
Anne's Engross Back and did everything and gave everything and volunteered.
Is we're gonna try to embrace and create more products
based on our faith based organization. So this little bogger
right here and I'll see if you can see it.
(05:38):
Let's see what that is there? Beautiful?
Speaker 1 (05:40):
So that's that's obviously Jesus, and it is on thorns.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
Ways though it takes you a second for it to
come into focus, it does.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
It does. It's a beautiful piece of artwork.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
It's a it's it's a cross and it's got so.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
The top part of that you go to the jigs Arnold. No, nope.
Speaker 3 (06:02):
So we now because of our growth, we've grown in
products and equipment and we have a laser engraver at
the shop.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
Now, oh that's how you have turned that.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
I saw that and I said to miss Lynn, I said,
can you make this? And she of course can do
anything like that, and she created that file and we
started cutting that out. Now, all everybody I've shown that
to in the last probably three or four days, has
seen it. We have one air force vendor and he's
(06:31):
eighty eight. We call him Wild Bill. He comes down
twice a week. He's a machine. He will outwork anybody there.
He's eighty eight years old. Oh by, for the life
of me, he cannot he sees a tree. He cannot
come up.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
Well, listen that he can't see Jesus after staring at
it for a while.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
That's one thing.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
But initially my reaction was I thought it was some
type of foliage or maybe a tree when you first
held it up. It's almost like one of those those
paintings where you have to kind of stare at it
until he image finally appears to you. That's how the
subtleness of it is cool. I think it's amazing. Joe,
I'll tell you what. Listening on you and You're like,
what the hell are they talking about? I wish I
could see it. Joe's gonna put a picture of it
(07:10):
up on my blog page fifty five Caracy their Comedies.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
In the process of doing that.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
Right now, Joe, I could probably take a better picture
with my camera and shoot it to you and text
it to you over the break.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
Anyway, Sorry, I brought one for you.
Speaker 3 (07:23):
I appreciate for Joe because he's my good old thesal man,
and I know he's a he's a good man. So
this literally was made in the last three days. I
thought about it, and I wanted to bring you little something,
and I wanted to talk about our journey and being
a faith based organization, how important it is to us
and to all of our veterans that come down and
all the people that visit us. And I just think this.
(07:44):
I'm in love with this little thing. And I literally
threw it online this morning. It doesn't have a picture up.
We're gonna start making the we're gonna start selling them. Obviously,
this is how we share ourselves. But maybe I could
take a picture of you holding it and I'll put
it on the website today until we get a better picture.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
You absolutely can do that.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
A lot of my listeners are gonna want to get
one of these, and again, help support your organization. And
real quick here, just not to move away from this,
and we can come back to this, but close the
loop on the flag box because I had mentioned Arlington,
but ultimately you started making the flag boxes because of
your experience at that Kentucky cemetery. But you got Arlington
to start buying your flagcases made in your shop in
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northern Kentucky exclusively.
Speaker 3 (08:27):
Yeah, so well they had you know, I didn't know
anything about flagcases. I'd never been in that market, and
so I thought, who can I call that would know
the most, and Arlington came to mind.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
I just picked up the phone and called and got
a whole the right person.
Speaker 3 (08:41):
You know, God had a plan for that, because I
could have called and had somebody say, I don't know
what you're talking about.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
We don't see you later, Joe.
Speaker 3 (08:48):
But I got a whole the right person and I
shared my story and on that same phone call, as
you know, it wasn't even a MultiPhone call email thing.
It was I told my story and what we were
doing and the fact that they're made by veterans. They
just fell in love with it, and we, you know,
we made four cases and I grabbed my dad and
we road tripped up to Arlington. And it was one
(09:09):
of the most memorable few days of my life because
we went through all the memorials and all the everything
up in DC and then to Arlington.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
And now it's very special, special times. And I know
you are so glad that you spent that time with
your father. I see you know I missed my dad
to this day. You know, spend time with your loved
ones while you can, because it's always Maybe you aren't
anticipating it, but you know buses hit people every day too.
You never know, and your number is going to be
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called up. Let's pause. We will bring Joe Montgomery from
Patriots Landing. Folks at Patriots Landing dot org is where
you find them. You're not going to see a picture
of the cross yet, but I just sent Joe Struker
a better picture of the full cross you can put
up on the blog page. But five Carsey dot com.
We'll be back right after these brief words.
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Speaker 2 (10:45):
Eight nineteen fifty about KRCDE Talk Station a Happy Friday,
Inspirational Friday too. I got Jill Montgomery from Patriots Landing
dot org hearing at studio and the picture of the
cross that he was described trying to describe on air,
and it is absolutely extraordinary to look at is on
my blog page nofifybove Karsey dot com. Actually two pictures,
the one Joe initially took through the video monitor and
(11:07):
then the follow up that I took, and I think
it comes through crystal clear what you're looking at there.
And this is one of the products sold by Patriots
Landing to support their mission, and Joe, I wanted you
to dive a little bit more into that mission, because
you are really providing veterans with an extraordinary valuable service,
and that's just really quite literally by merely bringing them
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together in your workshop.
Speaker 3 (11:33):
Yeah, and again, as you know, this was not by design.
We just you know, not through happenstance, but like minded
people in particular the brotherhood and sisterhood that are veterans.
And you know this well because you've talked to hundreds,
if not thousands of them and been around them.
Speaker 1 (11:52):
It's a unique segment. It's just a unique segment.
Speaker 3 (11:55):
They've gone through things that most of us couldn't imagine, indeed,
and so that bond that that it's almost like an
immediate friendship right air Force. It doesn't matter what branch,
it really doesn't.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
You're in the club.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
You're in the know. You know what your fellow veteran
has experienced because you've been through it yourself. I can
certainly understand that immediate connection. And it's an exclusive club.
You signed on the line that you were willing to
give your life for this country, and I know how
you feel about that, and I know how I feel
about it. And you know, my dad, my uncles did it,
and it just it just works. There's a sense of calm,
(12:34):
there's a sense of and there's a lot of laughter,
a lot of camaraderie. Everybody makes fun of the Air Force.
Speaker 3 (12:41):
Sorry, sorry, man and women out there from the Air Force,
but you know, we got a coast Guard down there
and they pick on the Marines and it's just a
it's a camaraderie. But at the same time, they're keeping
their hands and their minds busy, right, mind.
Speaker 1 (12:56):
Old hands the Devil's workshop. Yeah, there's no question about that.
Speaker 2 (12:59):
And of course, if you're a veteran that's struggling emotionally,
we always we have major concerns about the suicide rate
among veterans, suicidal ideology. Obviously, some are struggling with maybe
post traumatic stress, maybe they saw the horrors of combat,
maybe they lost buddies or friends while they were serving,
you know, in the emotional baggage that goes along with that,
(13:22):
stewing in your own juices and not having something to
do and not having people to talk to that have
experienced the same kind of thing. That just exacerbates an
already terrible problem.
Speaker 3 (13:30):
And it's difficult in this day and age to go
out and meet people that you can become close with.
Or trust or do a lot of different things. And
you know, we're a wood shop where we create things,
and we create a camaraderie and we pray and we support.
We were talking a little bit about Lieutenant Dan that
just came in, who was in a very rough spot,
who signed the cross that I gave you there, sir.
Speaker 1 (13:51):
Yeah, And that's the other cool thing.
Speaker 2 (13:52):
The veteran who made the woodworking item that you can
buy at Patriots Landing dot org signs it. It's so
it's I consider the sort of a work of art,
So it's like the artists signing it, so credit it's
given were credit dude, Dan Smith, and wonderful that I
was honored to see that.
Speaker 1 (14:09):
It's like a bonus.
Speaker 2 (14:10):
You get the cross in this beautiful work it would work,
but you also get that connection with the veterans.
Speaker 1 (14:15):
It truly is what separates our products.
Speaker 3 (14:16):
There's a lot of things that we make, flags and
different things that you could go on Etsy and find
a million of them, but you're not gonna You're not
gonna find one made from a nonprofit supporting veterans by
the veterans. But it's it's you know, and we have
incredible partners have been doing this as long as I've
been doing it. The DAV is a huge partner of ours.
(14:38):
So when you get into those cases where camaraderie and
a wood shop and this and that and a paycheck
isn't enough, you know, we have the resources to connect with.
And it goes from the DAV all the way down
to Vets and brus It gives the men and women
a good time, to theis projects, to the local American Legions,
Chuck Wills and some of the guys that uh in
(15:00):
the American Legions, uh Jared Bondville, and I could I
could name a thousand thousand people, some of whom I'm
just mentioned. When we brought our newest veteran in Dan
that I spoke of, lost his job right for the holidays.
He lost two brothers and then lost his sister maybe
two weeks ago, who was like his mother.
Speaker 1 (15:20):
Oh my word.
Speaker 3 (15:21):
And it puts him in a bad place quickly. And
so UH, Dan in particular was an instance where we
need to get him in in a hurry and get
him on the payroll. And you know this is public knowledge,
but he had gotten a little bit behind on some
rent and a few of the people that I just mentioned,
and some other groups just they reach out to me,
(15:45):
how can we help and it's usually writing a check,
how can we help support this particular vetteror this particular
mission anything. And it's amazing, amazing community once you're once
you're in, you know everything from well you've met with
the Young Marines just it's it's just an incredible structure,
for lack of a better word, that we've built around
this whole organization.
Speaker 2 (16:04):
Well, I suppose in many respects. You know, there's different organizations.
They have their own veteran related mission, but it's it's
completely different than yours. So they want to help you,
and you obviously can refer the veterans in your organization
over to them. It's it makes perfect sense that all
these pieces of the puzzle puzzle are working together so well, and.
Speaker 3 (16:25):
We've we've we've identified and grouped with and I don't
want to go to the other side. But the sad
reality in some instances is that some of these nonprofits
they don't quite mesh. Sometimes it's more of a The
way I describe it is, hey, don't look over here.
You know, you might take this dollar that somebody wants
to give me. That's just the way I describe it.
I've been doing a long time territorial maybe little, maybe little,
(16:49):
but but but uh. All of the groups that we
associate with and that we've been blest to partner with
believe the same thing I do that the rising tide
raise all ships. And that's how you help these men
and women, because I can't do everything in a wood shop,
and you know, the dav can't do how they do
(17:10):
most everything, but they can't do everything, and Bets and
Bruce has a certain thing, and the Young Marines and
their support of everything does a certain thing. And when
you tie it all together, I'm telling you, it's just
an incredible, incredible experience from top.
Speaker 2 (17:23):
To bottom, rewarding. I think probably sums that up amazing.
We'll continue with Joe Montgomery Patriots Landing dot org. Help
support the mission and buy one of the amazing products
they have. They're knowing full well that it was made
by one of these American veterans in their wood shop.
We'll talk more about what they're doing in the shop.
Eight twenty six. Right now fIF the five KR City
Talk Station. I hope you can stick around.
Speaker 1 (17:43):
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Chuck ingramon fifty five KRC the talk station.
Speaker 2 (18:40):
It's a thirty year pit you about kerr see talk station.
Very happy Friday to you, extra special and uplifting Friday,
A Positive Message Friday with Joe Montgomery from Patriots Landing
at the started this wood shop inspired by his father's
service to his country and wanted to do something in
recognition of that. And so you opened a wood shop
(19:01):
and started out with some smaller projects, became a five
on one three C. And there's been a five on'
one three C now for you said fifteen or ten years,
ten years making the flagcases and a whole host of
other wood wooden products, and you can find them all
at Patriots Landing dot org. And by purchasing one of
these products, you're supporting the American veteran in the wood
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shop and providing them this this safe space where they
can do projects and commiserate and share their experiences and
put a smile on their face and some in what
can be really desperate times for some of these folks.
So there's an opportunity there, I suppose for some veterans
in the audience if they want to help out along
those lines.
Speaker 3 (19:42):
So yeah, absolutely, whether you have free time you want
to volunteer, whether you're looking for some part time work,
whether you know what I what I always tell folks
is just you know, just come down and see what
we're doing. Just come down. Let me give you a
little tour, let me introduce you to the men and
women that we work with. And if it flots about, great,
If it doesn't, you know, not every shoe fits every
(20:03):
foot or however you want to say that.
Speaker 1 (20:04):
But yeah, our doors are always open. You can reach
out to me right through the website.
Speaker 2 (20:11):
You guys are close to the arc exhibit right, three
minutes three minutes away, all right, So if you plan
on a trip to that, then stop over a Patriots Landing.
Even if you don't, you're not a veteran, you don't
have any intention of, you know, maybe volunteering or something.
Stop in. They got a shop there. You can look
at what the men are and maybe do you have
women working there too? Sure, but I didn't. I didn't
think you discriminated. This isn't just a you know, I
(20:32):
said fraternity, So social clubs most of well the two
that are there the most are both Navy veterans. So
got a couple of h and as in everything in life,
they're kind of the glue that keeps it from getting
too crazy. I'm sure your wife and understand that. No,
I get friend understand that. I get that all day long.
(20:53):
You still see you are so far out of your
coverage and on that three point thirty is it albic
my back? Yeah, I apologize. That's now eye there, Ibec
Lane three thirty, I BEC Lane, Williamstown, Kentucky for one
zero ninety seven. That is the physical location. What a
beautiful building you have there, thank you, Right man, it's
just Corty. You know.
Speaker 1 (21:11):
One of the things we do is we do a
lot of group tours now, which is big.
Speaker 3 (21:14):
So if you're a church, if you're a Boy Scout group,
if you're a youth organization, a business, and you know,
we've had all just about all the management groups from
the art come over and take the tour tourism groups.
So that's always an option too that we can set
up just a short little tour and it's fun. They
have a lot of fun. They could see all our
products and getting the back and the shop and watch
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how they're made. Oh yeah, that's that hard work.
Speaker 2 (21:38):
Yeah, and how many I guess I'm wondering because I
know you have the nine and the twenty two flags.
Speaker 1 (21:46):
Right, twenty two is relatively new.
Speaker 3 (21:47):
You're talking about another powerful piece that's that's our veteran
suicide awareness flag.
Speaker 1 (21:53):
Oh Ida, And I asked that out loud.
Speaker 3 (21:55):
And as you know, the VA study a few years
ago is that on average, twenty two veterans a day
take their lives.
Speaker 1 (22:07):
And that gives me the chills. Just a day, that's
on average. You've literally described my reaction, and so again,
not me.
Speaker 3 (22:16):
I believe this was mister Gary Kaufman. We call him
the Jungle Cat. He's a shop manager. And we make
a nine and we want to make a smaller flag,
just like we want to make a smaller cross. Just options,
put this over your kitchen count or do whatever. Yeah,
and the nine millimeter shell casings work on that size flag.
When you make a smaller when they're just gigantic too big,
(22:37):
well guess what caliber fit twenty two? So they're just
with twenty two caliber shells.
Speaker 4 (22:42):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (22:42):
And it's just now we've got onto a third just
incredibly powerful piece that you know, I don't know how
we keep stumbling upon them, but.
Speaker 2 (22:52):
Yeah, well one can only pray that you know, you'll
have to go down at some point two like seventeen
as opposed to the twenty two, because that numbers just
wear just atch some stars in there well, and then
there's that it's coming up at eight thirty five, we'll pause.
We'll bring Joe back talk a little bit more about
some of the folks he's helped out in his mission.
And I got some other questions to talk with Joe
(23:13):
about Patriots Landing dot org. Just get over there and
buy something. You'd be glad you did. Beautiful work. A
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twenty five fourteen overnight with a few clouds or partly
cloudy sky. Then a partly cloudy day tomorrow with a
high of thirty eight. Cloudy overnight on Saturday as well,
twenty seven and yes, clouds on Sunday with a high
of thirty five eleven degrees. Right now, it's time for
a traffic updates from the U.
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com Southbound seventy five continued slow through Lachlan, but inbound
seventy four and northbound seventy five much improved over the
last few minutes, no doubt. Now northbound seventy five through
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the cut. Chuck Kingbram on fifty five KRC the talk station.
Speaker 2 (24:18):
Eight thirty eight at fifty five kr CD Talk Station.
Very Happy Friday too, Tech Friday with Dave Hadters early
in the program at six thirty. That's a worthy podcast,
that one. He's always providing us with wonderful information. Dave
Hatter and Tech Friday. Congressman Warren Davidson was on at
seven oh five, and of course Donna Murphy, Heaven's Gate
Ministries are gain ministries. I thought there was a unique parallel.
(24:40):
I got Joe Montgomery from Patriots Landing in here, veterans,
you know, join together in his workshop making these just
absolutely gorgeous handmade works of art that you can buy,
veteran made, signed by the veteran that made them, brought
to them with wonderful opportunity to commiserate and share experiences
and you know, get peace of mind. They together so
(25:01):
a faith Baith organization, Heaven's Game Ministries. Joe just I
don't know if you heard me talking to to Donna
provides that, you know, woodshop type caskets and services for
women who've lost their child in pregnancy. It's just the
horror of that and to know that, you know she
was inspired by God to start that, and that that's
(25:23):
out there. It's just kind of comparable experiences. And I
suspect Joe Streker put them back to back for that reason.
And thank you Joe Strecker, particularly for bringing Joe back
to the studio to talk about this. So Patriots Landing
dot Org, as I've been mentioning a bunch of times,
I encourage my listeners to purchase one of your products
because it does help you fulfill your mission. And you've
got this beautiful thing going on here. Cornhole bags. You
(25:46):
have corn hole bags with the branches of the service
on them. That is really cool. And those are hands
sewed in the shop as well, made by one of
our Air Force veterans. It's probably been making bags for
fifteen years. There could still called cornhole bags. There's no
corn in them. It's like plastic pellet weighs exactly a pound.
They're probably what would most in the corn whole world
would consider pro bags. Uh, they're just the nicest bags.
(26:08):
You ever call that cornhole pretty bag? I know, I
just I'm sorry. It's pretty big in America.
Speaker 1 (26:15):
Well, when you see.
Speaker 3 (26:15):
Cups stacking on ESPN, then then you think you're like, okay,
the door has been open.
Speaker 1 (26:19):
Yeah the oo for those who've seen Dodge.
Speaker 3 (26:23):
Yeah, so yeah, we've made a lot of custom bags,
and you and I talk briefly off the air. Custom
products are difficult, but if if you ever you know,
I put dogs and cats on bags. I've put pepperoni
pizza from pizza places. We can, we can put anything
that there's a picture of we put. We had when
we send in our boards over to our troops, which
is how we started, which if you would have known me,
then you'd have probably called me cornhole Joe because that's
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what I did.
Speaker 1 (26:44):
That's what we did.
Speaker 3 (26:46):
And when we started sending these boards and bags of
our troops, we are coming up with unique custom bags.
And one of one of the young women that was
actually serving over in Iraq, they had I don't know
what's calls it, it's it's it's usually on a ship.
But it's one of those those guns that just shoots
a million rounds a second. Just oh sure, And she
had a picture of that on her base over there
(27:07):
and she sent it. We put that on one of
the bags.
Speaker 1 (27:09):
Just cool, cool stuff like cat one gun, right, kind
of like that.
Speaker 3 (27:13):
It's a yeah, I don't want to sound it's too
late for me to sound ignorant, but see something.
Speaker 1 (27:18):
Or it doesn't everybody out there but us will know.
Speaker 4 (27:21):
Yeah, they're all.
Speaker 1 (27:22):
Streaming at the radio, going, you idiots, what.
Speaker 3 (27:24):
Kind of morons on today? But just just different things
like that. And we do, we do take some custom
projects on, but most of our work is in what
we can put online and sell.
Speaker 1 (27:34):
Understood it.
Speaker 2 (27:35):
Obviously, if you had a thousand people called today and
asked for a custom product, then.
Speaker 1 (27:40):
You have patient overwhelmed. They need to be patient.
Speaker 2 (27:43):
But yeah, oh and the other thing is, folks, since
we were talking about this, this beautiful cross that he
brought in me.
Speaker 3 (27:49):
Come up with a name for that, because right now
I just threw it on. Literally, I'm eating breakfast with
my son this morning and I'm like, Buddy, I said,
I'm going to see Brian. I'm going to take him
this we're going to talk about. I probably should put
it on online because people are gonna want one. And
I think it's called us Jesus Cross online. I just
put in Jesus Cross.
Speaker 2 (28:08):
It is, and I wanted to let my listeners know
because you now have two pages of products. So if
you scroll down the product list on your browser, click
on page number two and it's the only item there.
And yeah, as of right now, there is no photograph,
but you can see it again on fifty five cares
dot com my blog page. Just can I put the picture?
I just suck at you up there, Brian, Well, if
(28:28):
you want or you can have the picture that I
took of the cross. It's a very clear image and
you don't have to have my.
Speaker 3 (28:33):
Other I think for the next four d eight hours
we'll have you out there until I can get a
picture of it taken.
Speaker 2 (28:37):
I haven't taken a picture of it yet. I don't
want it to be off putting for people. I want
them to want to buy the cross, So I got
to really, you have my permission to use a photograph
anyway you want.
Speaker 3 (28:47):
But well, let me let me bring this up, Brian,
if you don't mind, real quick, but this is something
that we're very very excited is new for twenty twenty five.
We readd our website and thank you for pointing out
that that is on page two.
Speaker 1 (28:57):
I didn't know that.
Speaker 3 (28:58):
That just shows to the growth that works experiencing. But
we have what we're just calling an affiliate marketing program.
So our first client is the Young Marines. Go figure,
and I'm actually going to Atlantic excuse me, Dallas third
week of April to go to their national leadership convention.
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So what this is is an avenue for nonprofits, for schools,
for churches, for groups, for businesses, for any do gooders
that want to do essentially a fundraiser. So they can
go on our website. On the very bottom of the
of the homepage there's a link it says affiliate marketing,
and if they click on that link, it takes maybe
(29:41):
thirty seconds to sign up, and I contact them and
they get a unique link to our website. So they
go out to their flock, to their congregation, to their business,
to their company, to whatever and say, hey, go on
this link, buy a Jesus cross or some cornhole bags
(30:01):
or a twenty two flag. And then our new website
tracks that and they get a percentage of sales and
once a quarter we write them a check. It's kind
of big boy pants for us. I'm very excited about
it because it's such a win win. You get to
support a nonprofit that supports veterans, that makes veteran crafted products.
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Your potential supporters gets to buy a really cool product.
They get something tangible instead of just writing a you know,
a twenty dollars check, which I put these online for
twenty dollars.
Speaker 1 (30:35):
Believe or not. Oh, that's what you really expected it
to be. More, it's not. So our goal is volume.
Speaker 3 (30:41):
Our goal is we want a bunch of people buying
a bunch of products so that we have additional work
and additional veterans in the shop. It's not the make
these massive you know, revenues and profits and buy new stuff.
Speaker 1 (30:57):
So our goal is to.
Speaker 3 (30:58):
Bring more veterans and get more veterans engage. So this
affiliate marketing program really opens up what a win win.
You want to raise money for your organization, you support us.
Speaker 1 (31:09):
We support you. That's the way it works. This is all.
It's it's really cool.
Speaker 2 (31:13):
I mentioned puzzle pieces come into place with all the
other organizations you work with but the success you've had
with this operation, and I know you're divinely inspired, and
I think maybe there is something to that. Maybe someone
has a plan, sir, and we know that it's playing
out really well for you Patriots. Landing dot org. We
have one more segment here with Joe Montgomery. I hope
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you can stick around.
Speaker 1 (31:36):
Fifty five KRC dot com your hand.
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At eight fifty five KRCD Todd Station. One more time
for the night, first morning by the forecast. Oh look,
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mostly Sunday skuys today with a high twenty five down
to fourteen overnight with some clouds, partly clouded. Tomorrow thirty eight,
twenty seven overnight with clouds and a mostly Fiday Sunday
with a high thirty five twelve degrees. Right now, time
for final traffic, Chuck Ingram.
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I'm seeing no delays at all, doing fine through the
gut and then bound seventy four looks good too, Chuck
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Ingram on fifty five KROOC the talk station.
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A forty nine fifty five KR city talk station uplifting segment.
We've been having here with Joe Montgomery Patriots Landing. Wonderful
work they're doing helping out veterans, even and prediction, most
notably struggling veterans, guys that need a little boost and
a little help. He's got a wood shop, puts them
to work and making great products that we can support
the cause by buying. And yes, Eric, you were right
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the gun. They made custom products too, So if you
have a photograph of something you want on a corn
hoole bag, they can make that happened. Cw S is
the name of that Gatlin gun, for lack of a
better way of describing it. So Eric, you win the prize.
Any instant message on Facebook, Wow, that's what the phone is.
I have to tell you right now.
Speaker 1 (33:14):
I think I've got three or four orders in the
last ten minutes.
Speaker 2 (33:16):
Oh fantastic. Thank you listening audience and a donation added.
God bless my listeners, I bless you, Brian. Well, now
it's just as this and man, you know you talk
about God having a mission for you. My dad told
me not to take this job. Don't do it, Brian.
I was practicing law, wasn't in house counsel of Anthem,
executive litigation, whatever the hell position I had at the time.
Speaker 1 (33:38):
I quit, and don't do it. Don't do it.
Speaker 2 (33:41):
I'm like, you know, remember that Mark Twain quote about
you know, you regret the things in life you didn't
do versus the things you did.
Speaker 1 (33:49):
So to the extent, God has a plan for me.
Speaker 2 (33:51):
I think one of his reasons that I took the
job is so that I could help the American veteran
I've always had just the most profounder as you mentioned earlier.
Signing up that alone, to me represents just an amazing
thing that you're signing up for a life or a
career or even you know, short term if you want
to serve you know, one tour one oh uh four years. Yeah,
(34:17):
you're still signing up for something. Your future is completely unwritten.
Infantry men, you could be responsible for, you know, sniffing
out bombs. I mean, you're putting your you're literally putting
your life in the hands of the American military, And
that to me is so just amazing because that's not
(34:37):
the type of.
Speaker 1 (34:38):
Guy I am.
Speaker 2 (34:38):
You know, No, no, I'm gonna go to college. I'm
going to go to law school. I'm going to practice law.
You know, like I know what's in store for me
generally speaking. But to know that you can end up
in Afghanistan or some you know, combat, someplace in one
of the four corners of the world, or any of
the number multitude of possibilities for you, that's and and
no guarantee.
Speaker 3 (34:58):
Yeah, it's probably that mindset, that particular mindset that you
just described so well, that that that helps what we
do work because they're just they're just like minded. They
did something that the majority of Americans haven't, right, And
you know, you can't can't speak to something. I tell
my son this all the time. You can't speak to
something unless you've lived through it. I don't know, they've said.
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And you can't walk in another man's shoes or whatever
whatever that is. But you know, and in life, if
you have not had an illness, or if you have
not experienced death, or if you have not experienced a
separation or a divorce or something significant in your life,
you can't speak to it because you can think you
know what it feels like or and that times ten
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is what happens in our shop, because at any given time,
I'll walk in the shop and I'm in and out
a lot they're chit chatting about something that's relative to
their experience or and you want to talk about people
that can immediately picture a boardroom and a new board
(36:02):
member comes in, man or woman, doesn't matter. I doubt
that there's an immediate connection connection and I'm going to
work closely.
Speaker 1 (36:11):
It bar none.
Speaker 3 (36:13):
Somebody new walks into our shop like Dan, and it's
you can just see it, Ryan. They're comfortable, they're accepted
because they're a veteran. And that's the group that we have.
And again, we're so so so blessed to have the
men and women we do and always looking for more.
But it's I think it's that ability that someone said
I'm going to sign on the line and I'm willing
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to give my life for this country that separates them
from you know, Joe and whoever else. And and I
think that's what helps it just hard experiences. It helps
with the camaraderie and and and just the immediate He's
one of us, she's one of us. Let's get to work.
It's amazing.
Speaker 2 (36:51):
Well and and as I as you were talking about that,
if you haven't had the experiences and that we can
understand it. I mean, how many movies have I seen?
Combat movies, war movies, and yes there's death, and you
can even and graphic depictions of death on the screen,
I imagine, don't come close to actually witnessing it happen
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right there next to you.
Speaker 1 (37:13):
Can't. There's no way.
Speaker 3 (37:15):
They just couldn't recreate it, especially I as a friend
or someone that you just trained with, or exactly like
losing a brother or a mother.
Speaker 1 (37:22):
It's just you can't.
Speaker 2 (37:24):
Yeah, well, and that's what Patriots Landing is all about.
Folks that have those shared experiences getting together and helping
each other out with camaraderie and of course working on
these great craft products and you know, putting a smile
on a lot of people's faces too, because I imagine
the tour groups are coming there and the visitors just
are probably experience an uplifting moment kind of like I'm
feeling right now.
Speaker 1 (37:42):
I need I need to get some of the you
just made a good point.
Speaker 3 (37:45):
I need to get some of the reviews and some
of the comments we've had from our groups to come
in on our website because you know, as my son
put it a few months ago, he was off school
and we had a group of fifty or so seniors
from I think Georgia ann and uh, he says, Dad,
you're you're you're bat in a thousand still after the tour.
Speaker 1 (38:02):
And I said, what do you mean, buddy?
Speaker 3 (38:03):
And uh, he says, every time I'm here and you
have a tour group in here, and you talk about
the flycases, you talk about this, you talk about the veterans,
there's a whole bunch of he said, ladies, because it's
a lot of ladies on these tours.
Speaker 1 (38:14):
But crying.
Speaker 3 (38:15):
Oh yeah, And I said, buddy, that's because it's real.
That's because especially in that generation that you have celebrated
so much, the greatest generation, and there long their mothers, brothers, sisters, cousins,
dads served, or they know somebody that's served. They're the
most patriotic group of Americans there are. And I don't
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know any other way to say, it's just a powerful
It just is because of what it is. It's not
because I'm talking or anybody's doing anything. But it's just
a powerful connection that to people that come down have
with what we do. It's fun, it's blessing, it's great.
It's as you would you say earlier, and that's why
I love coming to studio because we can chat offline.
But it is for me personally, just me personally, right,
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It's it's just a your anxiety kind of comes off.
You trust in the Lord's plan. You're around this type
of atmosphere. You're not in a sitting as an attorney
doing this or that. Yeah, you're you're hopefully creating a
better space or place on this earth for somebody.
Speaker 2 (39:18):
It gets you out of bed with a smile on
your face in the morning, hitting the ground, running purpose, purpose, Well,
a lot of us lack that, but you know what,
you can see it on full display. Patriots Landing dot org.
Please buy a product, help support the mission. Veterans get
on over there, help out in the workshop, and any groups,
seniors groups, you know, school groups, church groups. Put together
(39:40):
a group of folks and head on over there. Maybe
head under the arc exhibit if that appeals to your not,
but it's worth a trip to Patriots Landing and all
the information again Patriots Landing dot org. Brother, it has
been a distinct pleasure having you back, love hearing about it.
Speaker 1 (39:53):
It's bless you.
Speaker 2 (39:55):
Send me of the weekend with a positive vibe. Podcast
online fifty five krs dot com Tech Friday with Dave
had Our, Congressman Warren Davidson, Donna Murphy with Heaven's Game Ministries,
and of course this full hour with Joe Montgomery and
the link and the photograph of what they're calling at
least for right now, the Jesus Cross you can get
at fifty five krs dot com. Joe Stracker. God bless you,
(40:16):
my friend, Thank you for all that you do. And folks,
hope you all have a wonderful weekend and stick around
because Glenn Beck's coming right up.
Speaker 4 (40:23):
Donald Trump the next four years, it's gonna be incredible.
Speaker 1 (40:29):
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