SCV CHAT SEASON 6 EPISODE 27- SCV CHAT 2025

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Speaker 1 (00:04):
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Speaker 2 (00:32):
Pup at.

Speaker 3 (00:43):
Aden as and capitals of the.

Speaker 1 (00:53):
Ata a and as in adamantan of.

Speaker 2 (01:29):
A Well, isn't you boys talking and out across dicks

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and lands? Isn't you send me up?

Speaker 4 (02:35):
Send the chap in man.

Speaker 2 (02:39):
A lock of fred train rolling, bring a truth bombs down,
the nihilating the.

Speaker 4 (02:48):
Southland water Way out of time, week at time?

Speaker 2 (03:11):
Chance not Now?

Speaker 5 (03:18):
Somebody played with the intro. I like it. I like it,
I like it. I like it. Yeah, our software has
really stepped up with some of the things they allow
us to do. So we Uh, that's why we take
two weeks off after national reunion, is to to play
on things and get things working back, but before we

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get kicked off. If us an opinions expression of this
broadcast are not now necessarily those of the SCV HGC
or any division, brigade, camps or other subsidiaries. Strictly those
of us who are expressing them, especially not that of
that executive director who won't return my call. That's tragic. Yeah,
well he is a busy man. It's it's hard. It's

(04:04):
hard being a velvet elvis.

Speaker 3 (04:07):
Uh does that look like velvet? Elvis to you right there.

Speaker 5 (04:12):
That that no, that is that is that is the
venerable and elite past Commander in Chief Mason bou Cheers,
who just happens to be with us this week as
we start back from National Reunion and our two week break.
It was a great, great, great time. We'll talk about
that some more tonight. I am sure.

Speaker 2 (04:35):
Uh.

Speaker 5 (04:36):
Well, Paul Gram, Paul Grant or Paul Ling. Uh it
was uh aren't you lucky? Oh?

Speaker 3 (04:50):
Uh it Uh that picture was made with the championship belt.
I was Fort Donaldson on Saturday, and uh, we had
a great event up. There was a great turnout. National
Park Service did a wonderful job of allowing us to
come in. We had about one hundred and twenty people
there and we went over to see I don't know

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a lot of you have probably heard of Jackkinson's One
Man More. You know that's where you know the sniper,
the man that come in They killed his two young boys,
young teenage boys like a eleven, twelve thirteen. They saw
them out they were squirrel hunting and the Federals had
a mock trial, executed them, cut their heads off and

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put them on the post. But we went and visited
Jackkinson's grave. When we went and visited Jackinson's grave, as
you know, there were Kyle Thompson, whose Kentucky Division commander,
is a huge wrestling fan. And if you've ever if
you've watched up with wrestling, this is not wrestling. This
is wrestling wrestling. You know that we lost Hult Cogan

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and he was huge Hulk Cogan fan. And he had
that belt, you know, kind of a replica copy of it,
and I'm he just handed it to me, so I
just threw it over my shoulder and he took the picture.

Speaker 5 (06:10):
You look like a natural with it too, did you
at least?

Speaker 2 (06:15):
Wow?

Speaker 5 (06:16):
I mean, I know you're talking about a Hul Cogan,
but I mean, well no, Rick Flair held that belt too,
And that's you know who Jason Moore reminds me of
is is the nature boy?

Speaker 3 (06:29):
The nature boy? Okay, I've been called a lot of things.
I've never been called a nature boy Rick Flair. But
all I can say, you have to beat the man
to be the man.

Speaker 5 (06:42):
Can that be the next T shirt? Just Jason, you
gotta beat me.

Speaker 4 (06:47):
To be the man.

Speaker 3 (06:48):
Yeah, to be the man, To be the man, you
gotta beat the man.

Speaker 5 (06:54):
I mean, I'm okay with it as long as it's
like copyrighted. I'll put I'll put anything. Oh, that reminds me.
I was supposed to take down the Moose Hunt shirts.
They're off the website. Oh, man, I forgot about that.
Darn it, darn it, darn it.

Speaker 6 (07:15):
What's Jason's wrestling name? Uh, Jason the t Rex Bouchiers.

Speaker 3 (07:24):
Yeah, okay, what would be my finishing move? Though? You know, uh,
all the wrastlers have to have a finishing move, you know,
like a tombstone, pile driver or jackhammer or something like that.

Speaker 6 (07:38):
You know, it would be funny Jason does, like the
F five, He picks someone up on his shoulders and
benches them and it's just called armageddon.

Speaker 5 (07:49):
Arm I'm glad you called.

Speaker 3 (07:58):
Yeah, the dry Sarrah Tops, you know something like that.
Did you do that?

Speaker 5 (08:12):
Derek Glover has good when the t Rex Suplex?

Speaker 3 (08:15):
I like it, Yes, yeah, I actually like Carl Jones
talking about throwing biscuit bones, brisket bones. That would work.

Speaker 5 (08:24):
Let's say there's an R in there, summers a brisket.

Speaker 3 (08:27):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (08:29):
Well, did you have a good time at National Reunion Jabo?

Speaker 3 (08:34):
I actually did it? Was really busy. I was hoping,
uh to have a more laid back since I was
now no longer in the chair as either LT or CE.
I say, uh, there was still a lot to do,
with still a lot of things that needed to be doing. Uh.
I actually had a very good time. I helped PREVETI
a tomato with getting credentials, and I thought that was

(09:00):
quite a bit of fun. I might actually start doing
that every time. I enjoyed it. Yeah.

Speaker 5 (09:08):
I used to help with credentials, but just just got
out of the habit.

Speaker 6 (09:14):
But you know, because he got confused with being Adam Southern,
people kept coming up.

Speaker 5 (09:19):
To him and asking how things were at headquarters. And yeah,
I mean that that that did happen at their credentials table.
Thank you for reminding me about that, Moos. I think
I was in the SEV system twice. How'd you do that?

Speaker 6 (09:40):
Back when I joined as a cadet, they didn't give
you a membership number, so they still had me in
there with my cadet number, and then I was in there,
of course with my regular membership number.

Speaker 5 (09:52):
Well, okay, but it was good see in all of
our patriots, and I just want to again throw a
huge shout out to Michael Hurley. Michael did a fantastic job.

(10:12):
He did a lot of stuff behind the scenes to
help us out. So Michael, job, job, very well done,
and you earned the you earned the break. I'm I'm
excited to see what Chris and the Kentuckians are going
to do next year. That that should be a very
I hope it's gonna be a very good reunion.

Speaker 6 (10:32):
And we do have a little video on that, so
go check that out.

Speaker 5 (10:36):
Hey, Yeah, we did. We did sit down for a
little bit and uh talked to Chris on Saturday before
the reunion let out, and I got a good play
by play what they're planning on doing detail of next
year in Kentucky.

Speaker 3 (10:53):
Yeah, uh, there, They've got a lot of things very
very well planned out there. Uh. And you know, as
far as what happened in Texas, did I have a
lot of fun. Yes, it was a busy reunion, it was,
but it was a friendly reunion. So a lot of
people there that I haven't seen since last year's reunion,

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and I always spent some time catching up, you know,
getting getting to talk to people. Didn't get to stay
out late any of the nights. I think I probably
called it quits, you know, somewhere between eleven and one
every night, which was actually pretty quick for us. But
you met sitting around talking to people. Uh, it was

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a very good reunion, I thought. I thought Texas did
a great job. Thought Michael Dirt Hurley did an excellent job.
The Texas division was good. Enjoyed the tours, enjoyed visiting
with everybody. Uh, it was a good reunion. And I've
worked a lot with Chris Hawkins coming up on the

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twenty twenty six reunion, and they are they're really doing
a fantastic job and doing having a lot of things planning.
You're gonna have something to do all week long there
if you wanted.

Speaker 5 (12:10):
To come in early. Hey, did mclooney ever figure out
which entrance, uh what to the hotel was the correct
entrance to the hotel?

Speaker 3 (12:20):
I didn't know that it was in ever an issue
with that? Was there an issue?

Speaker 5 (12:23):
Well? When we first showed up, we were following behind y'all.
Y'all just came back from lunch summers and uh, Larry
drove into the wrong and we were following. Yeah, that's
that's mclooney. He knows what he's doing he drove in
the exit side.

Speaker 3 (12:44):
Yes, I was aware that. Well. I kind of picked
at him about it too, but I didn't want to
say too much in case I made the same mistake.
Because if you were just be bopping down through their
mind and your own business, it jumped up on you
in a hurry. You had to be aware of just
right past those that line of trees as there it is.

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By the time you see the sign, it's too late
to turn in.

Speaker 5 (13:08):
Did you get to go to the Alamo?

Speaker 3 (13:12):
No, But I've been to the Alamo four or five
times already. I was there with the Order of Southern Cross.
We had Order Southern Cross had their reunion in son
in Tone several years ago, and got to spend several
days there. Stayed in the Manger Hotel, which is right
across the street, went and over there every day. Just

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have to go. That's Alamo is one of those places
you have to go. And to be there where the
Tennessee boys were. I was talking to one of the
guides there, told him I was from Tennessee, and he goes, hey,
let me let me tell you where they take you
to where the Tennessee boys were, And you know, that's
just it makes the hair stand up and just it's

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one of those moments. And go to that. I did
go to San Jacinto. I did that as a private
tour myself. And did you go all the way to
the top, Yes, sir, I did.

Speaker 2 (14:07):
We We we went.

Speaker 5 (14:08):
And of course the San Jacinto Monument is the currently
the tallest obelisk in the in these United States, but
hopefully one day we'll build one even taller. Susie, I
did not know this. My sister is afraid of heights,
and so when we were like, we can go all

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the way to the top, she was like, no, no,
I'm not.

Speaker 3 (14:33):
And we go up and.

Speaker 5 (14:37):
She's staring out the window, terrified, petrified, trying to take pictures,
and of course, me being me being who I am,
went up behind her and pushed her and she about
threw me off the top of the obelisk. We almost
lost him.

Speaker 3 (14:53):
It was well deserved, was what it was, you know.

Speaker 5 (14:59):
I laugh. Mother laughed. That was two thirds of our group, so,
you know, majority of fools at least, That's what I'm
telling her.

Speaker 3 (15:10):
So yeah, yeah, well that's awesome that y'all got to
do that. And I enjoyed San Jacinto. Uh, it was.
We went down and spend a few days in Galveston,
because I've never been to Galveston, so I went down
there and stayed a few days.

Speaker 2 (15:26):
It was.

Speaker 3 (15:28):
Ourselves in the mclooney's past commander in chief, Larry mccluney
and his wife Andette, and then we just took a
drive up to San Jacinto and spent several hours there
just on our own, just doing tours. And it was
really a good day. It was really a great battlefield,
and I think they've done a great job. The only
thing that I was missing and I was wanting to

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see the Texas and it was moved and I was
looking forward to see it, but it wasn't there. So
that was the only thing that we missed. But I
think it had been moved to have Martin done to it.

Speaker 5 (16:01):
Yeah, I believe she's still in dry dock. Yeah, so
you know, but I would rather I mean, it just
gives us an excuse to go back at some point.
So yeah, speaking speaking of going back, we've talked about Mobile,
or excuse me, we've talked about Kentucky. But Mobile is

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hosting the reunion.

Speaker 3 (16:26):
After that.

Speaker 5 (16:28):
Flash back to my past I'm I'm looking forward to that.
That was my dad's last national reunion, so I'm looking
forward to going back to Mobile. Joe ring Offer and
the SIMS Camp do a great job putting it on.
And then twenty twenty eight the Mississippi Division is hosting
it at a location to be determined announced lator okay good.

Speaker 3 (16:52):
And then twenty nine Tennessee is going to put in
for it. And right now we're looking at hosting it
and Franklin where we did twenty eighteen.

Speaker 5 (17:01):
Yeah, that was that was a good location.

Speaker 3 (17:04):
Yes, I think was a very good location. We toyed
with the idea of going to Chattanooga because it's been
a number of years since there has been an sc
B reunion in Chattanooga, but we don't know. Let's uh,
it was so good there in Franklin, and you know,
there's so much there to say. Plus it's closer to
our national headquarters. There would come on, you're going to

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be you know what, twenty miles away from our general headquarters.
So this is haven't been yes, you know, so if
you're going to be that close, come on down and
come to GHQ. And that's the reason why the we
ended we decided to go there, but Tennessee is going
to put in for it. We're working on the details
now that will all come before the GC and have

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the GC vote on it, and then we'll take it
before the membership next year in Kentucky and that should
give twenty seven, twenty twenty six, and twenty nine, so
we have the next four years.

Speaker 5 (18:06):
Well that's uh, we we have to have that, I
mean constitutionally of course, and then three years out, uh
or something something along that nature.

Speaker 3 (18:17):
Yes, yes, you're supposed to be three out. When I
first went in, I got it to three out. And
then when mister Ringhoffer and them stepped up last year
that made us three out. So yes, and then this year, look,
we had to pop up this year. So that's that's great, wonderful.

Speaker 5 (18:40):
Yeah, and it's and.

Speaker 3 (18:42):
All of them is going to be great reunions. I
know Mississippi's going to pick a great spot. I know
there's been several places debated already, just like in Tennessee
we debated a couple of places. But you know, we'll
end up we'll end up getting this and it'll be good.

Speaker 5 (18:57):
Yeah, I'm looking for I enjoy the Franklin reunion in
twenty eighteen. That was that was a really good one.
Of course. I loved going Franklin, and I remember some
little t rex man kept me up until about three
am one morning. Now I did not stay at the
host Hotel, but if you remember, the Host Hotel was

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growing tomatoes in the smoking area. I don't know if
you remember that or not. And I was afraid that
Carl was gonna grab him for a spam sandwich at
some point, but he didn't. But you know, at I
look at my phone. The next thing I know, it's
three am, and Jason and I are still talking. We're

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the only ones down in the lobby. I mean, hotel
staff is all checked out. Everybody else has checked out.
It was just and I was like, hey, I've got
to get back to the Lakinta so I can be
back for the Army meeting tomorrow. I'll talk to you
later and then and then we still talk for another
thirty minutes after we say it bye.

Speaker 3 (19:58):
Yes, Yes, you know how it goes.

Speaker 2 (20:02):
Yes.

Speaker 3 (20:03):
And you know that's what I love about the national reunions.
It's to me, it's fellowship. I didn't get to do
as much of that this year. As I would like.
But I did get to talk to a bunch of people,
which made me feel good. In the past, Uh, you know,
the last four or five six years, always had meetings
to do, you know, especially the last two years, our

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meetings with the museum board, the museum committee, with the
finance committee. And I'm going, Okay, maybe I can get
back to hanging around everybody and having a good time.
And that was what's attracted me to this organization was
the brotherhood that you shared with so many people. And
you know, like Connor is standing there having that conversation,

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and it went on. We started we started saying, hey,
we need to call it a night. We started saying
that outside and it went all the way.

Speaker 5 (20:59):
Through the lobby and then all the way to the
front door.

Speaker 3 (21:02):
Yes. Yes. The one thing about it was I did
not have to wait on the elevator to go up
because there was nobody out there but us.

Speaker 5 (21:11):
Yeah, and that's that's one thing I'll give about this Uh,
I'll give about this hotel. Normally we have an elevator
break and you know the chat, the chat folks, we
kind of play bingo and that we didn't want to
jinx anybody, so We did not put that on our
Bingo card this year, but uh yeah, I was very

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very pleased about that, very very pleased about that.

Speaker 3 (21:38):
Yes, yes, and then you're right, you're correct. We normally
lose at least one elevator and even some of our
members have even got stuck on an escalator overnight, you.

Speaker 5 (21:52):
Know, yes, yeah, but heart one thing that somebody did
miss was he missed our two hundredth anniversary episode.

Speaker 6 (22:05):
And a five year anniversary.

Speaker 5 (22:07):
Kind of still salty about that, but you know, we'll
get over it.

Speaker 6 (22:11):
He was there at the beginning, but he wouldn't show
up for the two hundredth episode and five year anniversary.

Speaker 5 (22:16):
But that's because Jaybo has an announcement to make about
a new venture that it's kind of a joint venture
between us and his home division. So you want to
talk about it now, Jaebo. Whatever makes y'all happy, Scotch
what you say, scotch or actually bourbon makes me happy.

Speaker 3 (22:39):
But well, I think that makes a lot of people happy.
Welcome to the club and speaking about it. The Tennessee
Division has been talking to as you know, there's been
conversation about his host in the national reunion, and that's
proceeding only in twenty twelve, and there's been some conversation
with Tennessee Division Commander John blinkin Up about starting a

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chat as you know, look around Florida move to Wednesday night,
and that left Tuesday night open and batted around a
few names, and we decided to call it Tennessee Tuesday.
So we're going to start going live. We were going
to be working on this and was planning on starting
tomorrow night, but that's not going to be able to

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happen because it's still some things that we have to
get in place. Instead of just throwing it out there
and duct taping it together, we actually want to put
a show together that actually looks good. After talking with
John Blinkinship about it in detail, you know, we want
to set up a schedule on what we're going to
do on like the first Tuesday night, the second Tuesday night,

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And we actually asked and I want to thank Connor.
Connor has done something that is very nice. He has
set up and created through Canva and Intro for us,
and I'd like for him to play it if he
would so desire, But we're getting Mike done and Marlon
Rude to play us with some more intro music, because

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you saw the intro that they have here for Sev
Chad and then you go into Carl Jones playing and
singing and you know, talk to you know, we need
to do something that when people listen it sounds they
know they're listening to a Confederate program. When I talked
with Mike Done about it, they know as soon as
they mentioned it. You know, when you're going through the

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radio dial and you hit a country station, you know
immediately if it's a classic country you know it immediately.
You know it's you just know it. And that's what
we wanted. We wanted the intro like what Connor has
done because it's so much information and so much data
in it, which is very very good. Thank you for that, Connor,

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I thank you for it. And then doing the intro
music and it's to be very much Tennessee related. It's
going to be Mike Dunn and Marlon Rude playing instruments
and period instruments and doing period music such as the
Bodybo Blue Flag. And then we're going to be working
on our programs throughout. John Blinkingship and I are going

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to be hosting this, producing, co producing co hosting this together,
and we are going to be working with the two
gentlemen that you see here Moose and Connor working with them,
and we're even going to help back them up in case,
because we know everybody gets busy and you know you
need a show fill in, you need some help. I've

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helped these two gentlemen before hosting this program. And sometimes
it's very beneficial to have two people. Yes, one person
could do it, but sometimes it's more efficient to have
two people to do it. And John Blinkenship is very
very cordial about this. He was very much for this. Uh,

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this is just gonna be something, and we're gonna call
it Tennessee Tuesday. And right now we're looking at starting
next Tuesday, so we're not gonna be tomorrow night, but
we're gonna be next Tuesday night. So if you have
that intro ready, if you want to play it, please
do Yeah.

Speaker 5 (26:19):
Well, I'm having to do it a good old fashioned way.

Speaker 3 (26:23):
Okay, h h h.

Speaker 5 (28:29):
They've only been playing with it for about you know,
an hour.

Speaker 3 (28:33):
Yes, and now it's going to change between now and then.
Because you saw a lot of the stock footage that
you see in the regular SEV chat introduction. But you
saw at the very beginning what they had in there.
Uh as far as making it a Tennessee Tuesday program. Uh,
but it'll change between now and then, and uh, it
will develop over time. And I want to thank John Blankenship.

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Uh he's been when this idea first came up and
it was first mentioned. He was very much for it.
And I want to thank him for that because, as
y'all know, this is where a lot of people come
and get their information. Let's just be honest about it,
and you being current and up to date is a

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very good thing.

Speaker 5 (29:18):
I will say this that all the background videos behind
the ads, at least for like the friends and stuff
like that, that is all footage from Tennessee. So like
the stream and everything like that, that's all stuff inside
of Tennessee. To make it, you know, kind of head home.

Speaker 3 (29:38):
And you know, we'll have some stuff that will send
your way, like maybe some of the stuff that I
have pictures I took it for Donaldson, and maybe pictures
that have been taken at Shiloh, maybe pictures from Winstead
Hill and Franklin and all of those can be incorporated
into that intro show. Hey, this is really a Tennessee gig. Yes,

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and I'm just excited about it. I know this is
an opportunity. And yes, I did feel bad about not
attending the fifth and year anniversary since I was part
of it. Then we'll talk about that at another time.
But why that didn't happen, But we won't talk about

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that here. We'll talk about it at a different time
just because you don't love us. We know. Well, actually
I had a two Rex outfit there and things come
up and we'll just talk about it another time.

Speaker 6 (30:37):
Yeah, I was about to say the hold on, I
wasn't supposed to be the only one getting shot at
this year.

Speaker 3 (30:43):
Yes, and we'll talk about it at another time. But yes,
I had a my t Rex costume was there and
it did fit and uh yeah, well actually it was
too big for me. I had to kind of bounce
around in it to get the moving good. Uh, it
would have been hilarious to try a round in that thing.

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I h I might have had to somebody might have
had to dial nine one one because I'd hurt myself
in it, you know, but I think it would have
been fun. And uh, you know, we'll just as something
we'll talk about doing in the future.

Speaker 5 (31:19):
So I will say that for those that did participate
in the moose hunt, thank y'all because we raised two
hundred dollars in the span of about an hour for
for slash Rod. Yes, speaking of how was how was
that going?

Speaker 3 (31:35):
Wonderful that you should ask, General headquarters was very busy
today on site. We had the architect, uh, the person
that's doing the CAD drawings for us to be able
to get to the people that's going to be doing
the builders. We had him on site. He was working

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as you know they we have been told from the
very beginning there were cad drawings, We had architectural drawings
for us to be able to build this, and when
it actually came time, there were none. So we have
had to create them and doing them from pictures and
from drawings and from different things. He wanted to come

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and confirm the sizes of all of the pieces and
to make sure we had all of the pieces. Great news,
the architect told me today we have all the pieces
on site. We have been told that. But the architect
who is going to be responsible for drawing and putting

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this big lego piece lego structure back together, so to speak.
And I don't mean to call it a lego piece,
but it has got to be put back together, and
it's going to have to be put together with cranes
because some of these pieces are five tons three tons,
so we're going to have to put this thing together

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with cranes. And he said, yes, we have all of
the pieces. Every piece is accounted for. Now where he's
going to finish up the drawings. He is going to
get them to the structural engineer. Structural engineer has been
kind of giving him advice, asking him questions, this is

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what you need to take a look at. This is
what we need to take a look at, because there's
going to be a lot of weight we support with
this because you look, by the time it's all said
and done, top of Nathan Bedford forest head, he's going
to be nearly twenty one feet up in the air,
and there's a whole lot of weight that we're going
to have to disperse throughout this whole piece. With all

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of that being said, he's the structural engineer is waiting
to get all of the drawings and to make sure
everything's at So the architect was there today and he
was there, I'll shoot, he was there nine, nine thirty
this morning, and he left about four o'clock. So we

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spent the entire day looking at all of the different pieces,
measuring all of the different pieces, making sure we had
everything there that we need, Everything there is accounted for.
The next piece of this for him is to come
in and label it because the builders, and we're already

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starting to talk to some builders, and they don't want
to move a piece twice. What I mean by that
is they don't want to move it to a staging area.
They don't want to go get a piece and go
and move it to a staging area and then get
it again to put it up. It's gonna be one
of those things that when they go and get it,

(34:47):
they're gonna get it, bring it and put it in,
go get another piece. So we're gonna have to arrange
the pieces and label them so they know which piece
is to go get and in what order, because it's
gonna have to be put together in an order. So
that was one things did. Then we went him and
I and Lee Miller and our executive director Adam Southern

(35:11):
went to the actual site and talked about some of
the groundwork that's going to have to be done. We're
going to come in and have you know, where they
come in and they measure everything out. They tell the
slope of everything we're going to take. When we did this,
we had it for the museum. Now we're going to

(35:32):
complete it from the museum all the way to where
the slope goes off. We're going to do it all
the way from there so we can check our slopes
because we're going to have as you know, how all
of it drains off. If you stand at the gravesite
where the Looney family Cemetery or Semion Cummings, you'll notice
it goes off to the front and off to the

(35:53):
right toward the road down toward where the grove of
trees is down there. So we're going to you know,
have to. We've got a walkway coming through there, so
we're going to have to bring somebody in and once
what's the thing I'm thinking about. Where they come and
you know, they mark out how much acreage something is, uh,

(36:14):
and the slope of the land, and they do the
you know, the park and all the what'd you say,
it's a full survey and and everything like that. Yes,
a full survey. Uh. They're going to be doing that
because we've got to put a walkway. As you know,
the walkway is going to be going from the Robert E.
Lease that you headed out there to it. Uh So

(36:36):
all of that's going to have to be figured in.
Uh looking at the French strain system that we're going
to need to put in to move all of that
water around it. Uh So it's going to be a
lot of work with that. That was the conversation today.
Uh So we do have all of the pieces, and
right now we're going to have another survey done and

(36:58):
it's going to start where we finished off with the museum,
because the museum goes to about where the Looney Family
Cemetery is, and from the Looney Family Cemetery, we're going
to do it all the way out in front of
the grave sites, so we know the slope of the
land and we can control all of that. So that's
going to be on the next piece that we're doing,

(37:19):
and in the meantime going to start getting the architectural
drawings finished and get them to the structural engineer, get
everything exactly the way it needs to be, and we'll
be ready to go. Meanwhile, wile that was going on,
we had Varnetti, as you know, Venetti Casting and Casting

(37:41):
and Design was who the General Executive Council voted to
do the repair work on the Equestrian statue where they
showed up today as well. So yes, we had multiple
things going on. They did a full three D rendering
of the eighteen forties Cavalry saber that Forrest carried. They've

(38:07):
did an imaging of that, and that's cool, and I
think I've sent y'all pictures of it. I don't know
if I sent it to the cavalry. But there they
are doing the three D imaging of the tail. Now
this isn't They're not going to They are going we
are going to do a three D imaging of the
entire equestrian statue, but we can't do that until we

(38:29):
get the tailpiece fixed. So he is doing an imaging
of the tailpiece. You know, I showed a video of
the tailpiece as it was missing. I had it on Facebook,
and I showed the nut and where they had welded
on it and all of that. And now this was
where the peace had broken off. Think of it as
a bunch of us have broken teeth, chipped the tooth.

(38:50):
You had to have a cap put on, our crown
put on you know, they stick that imaging wind in
your mouth and create something. That's what he's doing. So
he did are every day imaging of the tail, and
he's gonna fix the tail and they're going to cast
a tail forced and then they're gonna go ahead and
start casting the eighteen forties cavalry saber. And when they

(39:11):
did a full three D imaging of that, they did
it with one of the men wearing it so you
would be able to see how it would hang properly,
and then what's seeded so you would know how it
would hang properly, and then going to put all that
back together. As soon as they get those pieces down,

(39:31):
they'll be down to do the rest of the repair work.
So they did not give us a timeframe other than
said that they're going to start casting the tail and
they did the three D imaging, so that piece is
going to be a piece that can be recreated in
case it needs to be so and uh, you know,
multiple times so to speak. But ye, now, because I

(39:52):
was talking with somebody the other day and they said, well,
if you're going to do that, how about making a
couple of extra ones of them and kind of sell
those for fundraisers. You know, this is a you know,
we created the tail wan not create that because you
know we're talking about creating the Bron's miniatures. And so

(40:12):
it's uh, there was a lot of activity at General
Headquarters today and uh, it was a long day. It started, yes,
and that is the architect and Lee Miller. Uh. You
can see the first block there in front. That block
right right there weighs three thousand pounds and that has
Nathan Bedford Forrest and uh and his information on it.

(40:36):
That's one of the things when you were facing the
equestrian statue you were and where it was in Memphis
when you were facing it, that was the piece that
was on the left side of the base and what
were there, Uh the that's the architect that is standing
on the other piece. We've been he's been measuring and
marking off all the different pieces that we need. So

(40:58):
that is uh, from where the architect was doing his work.
So today was a busy day. Once we got you know,
the bid approval, uh, and you know it took us
a while to get the beds. Uh, it took us
about it took I started contacting him after a commander

(41:19):
in chief. Donny and Kennedy put me in charge of
the build of the bed build and uh, it just
took a while. And it took three months to get
all of the beds in because we needed at least
three bids. And by the time we got the bids in,
then of course work's going to progress on it pretty quick.
And as you can see, it's moving and it's moving

(41:41):
pretty quickly. Now.

Speaker 5 (41:42):
Yeah, I was about to say, it seems like everything
is moving pretty quick, which is good. We we definitely
don't want I don't want to wait on it. No, yeah,
it's uh, excuse me. Uh, it's something I can't I
can't wait for, as is the rededication or the unveiling.

Speaker 3 (42:04):
Oh, you know that's going to be you know. I
took the architect and I took him down, put him
in the truck, took him down to the bottom of
the hill. And we know the video I WOSCA Talk
video and you do at the very beginning where it
has that reveal shot. And I took him down to

(42:27):
in front of that and drove up and I said,
you think about what we're going to be building. You know,
it's fifty feet seventy five feet. This is going to
be a huge structure that we're going to be building,
and so it's going to cover quite a bit of
territory and forrest is going to be twenty nearly twenty
one feet up in the air. This is going to

(42:48):
be an impressive pace. And then you take the house,
you know, and here he is out in front of
all of it, and you have the house and the
museum silhouetted. It's going to be impressive. Uh. And that
was the conversation that we have had with the architect,

(43:09):
with with the you know people, Venetti, people that are
doing the work. You know, this is going to be
a show piece. This is one of these things that's
extremely humbling to work on. As I told them today,
we're making history when we are rebuilding this. You know.

(43:31):
It's uh. And they picked on me a little bit
at National Reunion because I said reconstruction.

Speaker 4 (43:36):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (43:36):
And they didn't like the term reconstruction. But they also
didn't like another term that I that that I used
because I was calling it a resurrection. We're going to
resurrect it and that's well, that's too biblical. How about let's,
you know, we'll call it reconstruction, and then you get
the reunion that they go, oh, it's not reconstruction, let's
do you know, rebuild. So when we're rebuilding it, you know,

(44:00):
this is when we had this discussion about it. This,
this thing needs to last to the rapture. You know.
I want people, I want our members one hundred years
from now, Connor Moose, your kids and your grandkids to
be able to come to this and see this and
go those boys knew what they were doing. This hasn't moved.

(44:24):
And it's like I was telling the architect, you know,
we know the issues that they had in Memphis with
the water coming in and coming into the grave sites,
and you know, we don't want any of that. We
can't have any of that. I don't want any of
this stuff washing out from under it. I don't want
this thing sinking or leaning. It needs to be If

(44:45):
anything has to be perfect, in my opinion, this is
the thing that has to be perfect. You know, this
has to be beyond the shadow of a doubt. I
know everybody's in a hurry for it. I know everybody
wants it done, but this has to be done right,
and if not, I don't want somebody to you know,
ten years from now to pull me to the front

(45:08):
at a national reunion. Then just what in the world
where y'all boys thinking it's coming apart, it's sinking, it's
you know. Now, everything's got to be done and done
correctly and thought of and talked about. That's the reason
why we're talking to architects and all these other people
who have done it, because they know what they're doing.

(45:28):
And we're when some of the builders that we're going
to be talking to, they have done this work. Vanetti
has done this work, you know. So we're dealing with
people who are veterans in this.

Speaker 5 (45:42):
Well. I mean I remember at the pre GEC meeting
you talking about them and how not only were we
getting this for Bedford Forrest, but also the Jeff Davis statue, Yeah,
and a couple of others, and just how friendly the
uh the company seemed to be working with us. That was,

(46:04):
Oh yeah, that was very very very nice.

Speaker 2 (46:08):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (46:09):
Bananti's has done work for us before. And the people
that we're working with, the architects and all of that,
they're s CV members.

Speaker 5 (46:18):
Okay, I need I need that, and uh especially like
the cost uh estiment from the from the architect, and
I feel for him with CAD. I've had to work
in CAD before with some of the stuff. You know,
you with my Yeah, it's it's a booger to figure out. Yes, yes,

(46:40):
but uh, we're going to take a really quick commercial
break and when we get back, Moose has some updated numbers. Uh.
We normally give our give a report at national Reunion.
Just because of time constraints this year we could not,
so some some what we've done from July to July

(47:00):
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I got the Sava Chat sticker, yes, but I haven't
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Speaker 7 (49:11):
There is a place nestled in the rolling farmland of
southern Middle Tennessee. A home constructed in eighteen thirty seven,
nearly lost to the ravages of war, saved by.

Speaker 5 (49:29):
A servant.

Speaker 7 (49:32):
And a Confederate general. A place where families loved and lost.
If walls could talk, what stories could be told. If
a place a home can feel love, loss, pain. Surely

(49:57):
this is one of those places. Nearby is a more
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stories of battles won and lost, stories of sacrifices made
by the people of its native soil. A place that

(50:18):
will tell the true and complete story of the Southland
and the war fought for its freedom, from the causes
that led to the conflict, to the modern day struggles
to protect Southern history. Historic Elm Springs in the Confederate

(50:41):
Museum at Olm Springs are the general headquarters for the
Sons of Confederate Veterans, a place where the story of
the Southland and its historic struggle is preserved and told.
Come and discover your history.

Speaker 3 (51:08):
Boy, can you imagine what that forest plaza is going
to look like? Folks? It's going to be a reality.
Now we're going to get it together. We're going to
put it together, right, don't have a date, don't have it,
you know, working on the timeline. Uh So when anybody
goes to ask, and I've already been asked repeatedly, when

(51:28):
are you going to put and dedicate it up? You'll
be known as as soon as we go. So we're
going to be uh I took some videos and pictures
and things today. I'm going to start putting that stuff.
I started a Facebook page called Forrest Last Ride, and

(51:48):
I'm going to be putting some things on it, and
uh so that'll be the place that you can go
and keep up to date. Plus here on that CV
chat with the gentleman's permission, when news comes on, I'd
like to come and break it on here, you know,
and then again on you know, Tennessee Tuesday. So you're

(52:12):
going to get up to date information because the pictures
that you saw them earlier they were today and tomorrow, well,
Tennessee State Museum is going to be bringing more artifacts
to put on loan at the museum. So we're going
to have the Tennessee State Museum there. I don't know

(52:33):
what they're going to be planning, if they're doing any rotating,
or what they're going to take back with them. But
they do have several good artifacts that they're going to
bring in put on display. So today I spend all
day at our national headquarters, and tomorrow I'll be there
most of the day with the Tennessee State Museum getting
all of that worked out and to work on cabinets.

(52:56):
And we have more things that are being donated.

Speaker 5 (53:00):
We have a.

Speaker 3 (53:01):
Mostly original forge that has been donated and we're going
that's coming. Lee Miller informed us today that he has
a field ambulance that he is looking at donating that
he has has got some rotten wheels and I've done

(53:24):
some work with that, so we're going to be getting that.
So you know, we've got some big artifacts coming. Our
membership has taken care of this. They've taked our membership
has taken care of us very well. Guys. If you
got anything, we have empty cabinets order Southern Cross has
been very generous with us about cabinets. We need good artifacts.

(53:45):
If you've got something, put it on loan to the
National Confederate Museum. You know, let everybody know it's out
there your name would be put on a card that
says on loan from or donated to, uh, donated to
the National Federate Museum from you know, but we need
artifacts and bring them on.

Speaker 5 (54:09):
There's one thing that we we we never were able to.
We try not to mention it strictly because of you know,
the monetary. You know, we don't disclose how much we
are budget is and stuff like that. But one thing
that and correct me if I am wrong in my understanding,

(54:29):
but with the budget that was passed by the organization,
we now have it to where the museum will be
open on weekends.

Speaker 3 (54:39):
Right, Uh, that is going to have The first quick
answer is yes, but there is a however and however
is they have to get someone hired because, as you know,
you have to be bonded to be able to take money.
And if you're going to be in the museum and

(55:01):
you're going to be selling merchandise and you're gonna be
selling tickets, they're gonna people say where you can get
a volunteer to do it. No, a volunteer cannot take
money in this. Uh, there's gonna have to be a
licensed to. It's gonna have to be a dedicated employee
that is bonded to be able to handle the money.

(55:21):
So when they get that person hired and trained, yes,
we will be open on Saturdays every Saturday, but they
have to get that person hired and get them trained
and then that will happen. Yeah, I look forward to
happen in a couple of months.

Speaker 5 (55:41):
Well, I'm excited about it. And of course if you
are interested, uh, I guess, contact headquarters if that sounds
like a job that you know you'd be interested in.

Speaker 3 (55:54):
Yes, And of course it'll be a part time position
and it could just be Saturday only, but it could
be one of those things if you're close by, you
might work another day a week, you know, or you know,
depends on how membership needs help, you know. So it's
you know, we could always use an extra person to

(56:15):
answer the phone. I've worked up there before answering the
phone's doing this, and everybody's on the phone, and other
phones are still ringing, and your phone's beeping in your ear,
and you've got somebody on the line. So we could
always use an extra person up there just to answer
the phone. And we've all heard and we've all had

(56:35):
the frustration of trying to call up there and not
get anybody. And it's not their fault they're on the phone,
you know, they're just not enough of us, and so
you know, could be an opportunity for that. The answer
to your question is yes, that was in the budget

(56:55):
with the intent, and it's in the budget to hire
another employee.

Speaker 5 (57:02):
So good things are coming, Yeah, great, great, great things
are coming. And you know that's that's something that at least,
you know, I hear from I've heard from members of
you know, man, I tried to go up there, but
they were closed the day I could make it so
and and you know that'll that'll help, you know, the
the museum step up another level. I mean, it's it

(57:24):
has done great over the past. You know, it is
from from the very first Adam video to that one.
There's so much you know, improvement that happened on those
grounds that you know, we can't you know even I mean,
it's it's I remember well, I remember I was there
for the groundbreaking under strains administration and to see where

(57:47):
we are now, I mean, it just didn't happen overnight.
And our membership does deserve a good pat on the
back for that.

Speaker 3 (57:55):
Yes, yes, and more things are coming, uh, you know,
and what has made it so far, folks, we have
not gone out and we have not bought artifacts. We've
not This is going to be things that have been
loaned to us from the from Beauvois, from the Tennessee
State Museum, from the Sam Davis Home, and things that

(58:18):
our members and like minded people have donated or loaned
to us. So this isn't one of those things that hey,
we've gone out and we've bought this. Now this is
our membership, and thank goodness, our membership has done what
they've done. And you know, I talked to them and
they say they have more stuff, and okay, guys, bring it.

(58:41):
You know, it's this is an opportunity for and it's
going to be put on display and people are going
to see it, and you know, that's the point of
this is and to be able to tell the story.
If you have an artifact that's got some promenades, you
know it was to a particular persons, say it was
your great great grandfather and when he had this musket,

(59:04):
let's just make it a musket. And he's got this musket, Okay,
all of a sudden, we get to tell his story
and we get to tell the story of the unit
that he was with. That's the purpose of having the artifacts.

Speaker 5 (59:17):
So anyway moves. So how about our numbers?

Speaker 3 (59:23):
All right?

Speaker 6 (59:24):
So I do want to point out we kind of
have gotten into a habit either if we do an
update at National or not of the Monday after the break,
we come in and do the numbers. And first I
want to thank y'all for five glorious years of sev
chat and over just two hundred episodes of our flagship show.

(59:49):
I started doing some of the math and if you
combine look around and some of the events we've covered,
or just live streams, at least for YouTube's point of things,
we are at almost five hundred episodes, live streams and videos,

(01:00:09):
and so we couldn't have done this without y'all.

Speaker 5 (01:00:11):
But here's some of the stuff.

Speaker 6 (01:00:13):
So I actually messed up when someone did ask me
the numbers at National. I do have some new stuff.
First off, I wanted to point out we are reclaimed
the narrative because when people search stuff like Confederate Soldier
Dixie SCV two twenty twenty three, specifically Confederate North Carolina

(01:00:36):
Confederate flag and stuff like that, we have started popping up,
so people are starting to hear our message across the
world where we have a strong audience in India, Canada, Britain, France.

(01:00:56):
We have started breaking out all over the world and
of course if you've watched a couple of our updates,
this is nothing new. But those numbers have steadily grown.

Speaker 3 (01:01:05):
This year.

Speaker 6 (01:01:06):
We did a lot of good shorts. Thank y'all for
reporting us in that and please continue to because those.

Speaker 5 (01:01:12):
Are reaching some high numbers.

Speaker 6 (01:01:15):
But overall this year, scv chat has reached one point
six million people.

Speaker 3 (01:01:26):
That is up six.

Speaker 6 (01:01:28):
Hundred thousand views from last year which was one million
to one point one million. And this year we actually
came so close to hitting the one point seven million
mark in views. So scv chat is steadily growing. Connor
will talk about some of the other stuff we're doing

(01:01:49):
in a second, but the numbers I have phenomenal.

Speaker 3 (01:01:55):
Again.

Speaker 6 (01:01:55):
We are continuingly to break down the mark appearing in
like when someone just types into history, sev chat appears now.

Speaker 5 (01:02:05):
Stuff like that.

Speaker 2 (01:02:06):
I mean, we have.

Speaker 6 (01:02:08):
Really crushed it this year. We are up let's see here,
sixty one percent in viewership on Instagram. As I said,
up thirty percent on Facebook again, getting more than almost
another million more than what we got last year. Again,

(01:02:29):
sixty six thousand or six hundred and sixty thousand more
views this year. That is from of course July to July.
The numbers are just crazy. As I said, I sit
down today and redid my math a couple times to
make sure the number wasn't off like I had it national.

(01:02:51):
But nope, this year we have reached over one point
six million people on this show.

Speaker 5 (01:03:00):
And it has just been a crazy journey, which is
one reason why we've launched our Patreon. We've had several
people ask, you know, well, are several people comment that
they don't want to do a pay per view or
something like that for our content. It's not so much
for us to do a pay per view. It's for
us to be able to take our episodes and you know,

(01:03:22):
pay to boost them on YouTube and on Facebook and
things like that. It's for us to buy better equipment
so that when like these microphones and like the webcams
I'm currently shopping for, it's a way for us to
be able to afford that so that we put out
a better quality and just like just like the new
introduction video, or the introduction video yea saw for Tennessee Tuesday,

(01:03:47):
or the new introduction video that we'll have for look
Around next week. If it's it's for it's for that,
you know, or you know, if we make an intro
for Commander's comments, you know, it's it's it's for us
to be able to put a more better spend on
our stuff, well, you know, just.

Speaker 3 (01:04:06):
To have a stream yard subscription and then you know
that's well, let's just be honest, y'all know what that
number is. It pushes a grand, you know, to be
able to do that, you know, and that's a grand
that comes out of y'all's pocket. That money has to
come from somewhere. And then to create the content you're

(01:04:28):
doing Canva and everything else, and that you know that
none of that all that you have to pay for.
And I know just what little I do and it's
nothing compared to what y'all what I've spent on cameras, laptops, equipment, tripods,
you know, cameras for them. I mean, just it it

(01:04:50):
runs into money, and it's uh, that's the reason one
that I became a member of Patreon, because you know, okay,
I just give ten dollars a month. But that helps
them to do, you know, to create the content to
do this because they're doing the work for free. But
it just takes money to be able and you're doing

(01:05:11):
I know you're doing the work for free, but it
takes money to be able to have a stream Yard subscription.
It takes money to have a subscription to Canvas, and
that has to come from somewhere. And that's the reason
why Patreon is important. And here's the reason why I
did it, because I was buying stuff to help out

(01:05:33):
with y'all and I'm going, Okay, I need to do
something to help more, you know, because I know it's
not cheap, and I've got a Canvas subscription, and you know,
all I can say is go float alone when you're
going to try to do stream Yard or something like that.
And just what I've spent on computer equipment, monitor, monitors, laptop,

(01:05:57):
new laptop, new monitors, new camera, I mean, just what
I've spent on technology just to be able to get ready,
you know, to do this. And it's but what else
are you going to do? It's something that you know,
if you believe in, and this is how we reach
out and get people what one point six million dollars

(01:06:20):
know who moves one point six million people know who
moves is.

Speaker 5 (01:06:24):
That's a scary thought. That really, that really is a
scary thought that you know, all the women know who
Moose is now.

Speaker 6 (01:06:34):
And like I know, we actually went up in families
watching us this year, so they can break down on.

Speaker 5 (01:06:45):
Our equipment.

Speaker 6 (01:06:46):
I can see. And of course we have a good male,
a strong male audience, a good strong female audience.

Speaker 3 (01:06:52):
But I notice this.

Speaker 6 (01:06:53):
Year numbers of families watching the show, bringing their kids
to watch every Monday, to watch every Thursday, look around
the confederation in sev chat. So again I can't thank
y'all sharing, commenting, liking. That helps us out a crazy amount.

(01:07:14):
And again you know Jabo has talked about it. You know,
everything we produce on the show costs money. Again, that's
the reason we got the Patreon is because we wanted
to do more. And that new content that we've started
making are adding on to what we've already done. It
is also blowing up.

Speaker 5 (01:07:32):
I don't want to throw that down.

Speaker 6 (01:07:35):
The new stuff that y'all have let us started doing
with the Patreon is also getting out there, and so
these numbers are just extraordinary. And again I can't thank
y'all for five years, because you know me, Connor and
Jabo talked about it. You know, it's been weird if
this has been five years and we got like five

(01:07:56):
people watching, but we get about three thousand people episode
usually watch. Sev Chat's two hundredth episode, by the way,
is now the most watched episode in that history, with
over fourteen thousand views. A lot of our short content
is getting up there in the one hundred thousand views,

(01:08:20):
and we're only growing that. We have not had a
quote unquote down month. We always keep steady numbers and
always grow, and we have been growing for five years.
It's crazy to think about it, but I have the
numbers for all five years. I've always kind of been
the numbers guy, which is ironic if you know me.

(01:08:45):
I still don't understand why Connor did that to me.
But you know, we started out with just one hundred
and twenty five thousand people watched that first year, barely
over hundred thousand views in a year, and now this
year we've reached one. And we were excited, Oh my gosh,

(01:09:07):
we were just rolling in it and our first platform.
I remember when they told us that we broke three
thousand views. Yeah, we were like, that was a big
deal to us because on that old platform, for those
who don't know, if you start bringing in three thousand
views or back then at least in twenty twenty, you

(01:09:28):
could start really pushing that platform would really start pushing
you to the homepage. So that was a big thing
back then. But now that we do those numbers in
a month, Yeah, the first year's total, we doubled that

(01:09:49):
in just one month with in just the past three
or four weeks, and we were on a break so
reruns were playing. We are already have gotten three hundred
thousand views towards the next year's total. And again we
haven't been producing new content, we haven't been posting. That's

(01:10:09):
just y'all helping us get out there to the public.
And I do want to point out, yeah, we have
a strong SEV audience, but our audience of just Southerners
wanting to know more about Southern history is also steadily growing, which, of.

Speaker 5 (01:10:26):
Course for those that are watching that are not in
the SCV, come on come on.

Speaker 3 (01:10:32):
In and play. Yeah, please come on in, and I'll
go ahead and tell you this. I'm a dosin up
there on some Wednesdays given tours at the house, and
there have people that have come in and do a tour, okay,
and I always ask the question, where are you from?
How did you hear about us? I have had one
that come in and said, and it was a husband

(01:10:56):
and wife that were in their retirement years, and they go,
you remember the SCV no, or you remember the UDC No.
Where'd you found out about us? Our grandkids were watching
you on SCV chat because their grandkids had come and
stayed with them during the holiday like Christmas, and they

(01:11:21):
had watched They would sit in there and their grandkids
were watching s CV chat and that's how they found
out about the SCV. That's how they found out about
the museum. And they go, well, and they lived thirty
miles from there. They didn't know anything about the house.
They did not know the museum was even there, and
they found out about it on sv chat because their

(01:11:44):
grandkids were watching it. Yeah, Connor, I know that look.
I probably had about the same look on my face.

Speaker 5 (01:11:54):
Yeah, that's the first time I heard that story, which
I'm glad you didn't tell me that before now because
and played my ego even more.

Speaker 6 (01:12:02):
Yeah, and it doesn't need any help. Five long years
and I can tell you it doesn't need any help.

Speaker 3 (01:12:08):
But you know that that's how they that you're talking
people my age and older. I'm retirement age. Okay, I'm
an old man. But when you know, but that's what
you know that my age and older and they were
in there on a Tuesday at ten o'clock in the morning.
I mean, excuse me, a Wednesday at ten o'clock in
the morning. Yeah, and grandkids, and that's how we decided

(01:12:29):
to come. Okay, So you know that that kind of
stuff happens. And you know because and we think about
it about the kids watching it, but the grandparents heard
the kids watching it. Yes, Adam, I know I'm old, okay,

(01:12:53):
or I'm going to start calling you Castle Row.

Speaker 5 (01:12:56):
So I don't think. I don't think that was Adam.
I don't think Athos Adam commenting. I think Kayla stole
Adam's phone and she does hate you. She told us
that at the two d episode.

Speaker 3 (01:13:08):
Actually, yes, yes, she does hate me, and uh if
she stole Adam's phone, I'm just going to be quiet
because Kayla scares me, you know. So I'm just gonna
go ahead and let that go. But if Adam did it,
thank you, Cassiro. Oh okay, yeah, we all know better

(01:13:35):
than that. Okay.

Speaker 6 (01:13:39):
He's trying to dig himself out of that hole, Kayla
dug and man, he realized that you're gonna come up
there at some point this week and.

Speaker 3 (01:13:47):
Tomorrow, I'll be there tomorrow and be there Wednesday. Well,
but and that CD chat, you know, we we think about, well,
the kids are watching it, and here there are the grandkids. Here,
the kids watching it, and they're curious, they're wanting to know.
And then they said, yeah, we'd like to go through

(01:14:07):
the museum after this, you know. And when they went
in there, I saw them a little later, and they
were interested. They were reading, and tell the truth, they
had learned some stuff from their grandkids because the grandmother
had her cell phone out and was scanning QR codes

(01:14:31):
and I'm going okay, and they were reading more of
the story that was involved in all of this. That is,
you know, so this has an effect and we think
about it, well, it's just gonna be on the younger people.
But grandkids, i mean grandparents saw this because of grandkids,
and they knew y'all too.

Speaker 5 (01:14:53):
And now that's scary.

Speaker 6 (01:14:54):
But I do know that me and Connor feel the
same way on this that we are blacked and happy
to have this show SCV chat and do it every week.
I told Connor before we went live that, dude, I was,
it actually feels weird not to do the show now, yeah,

(01:15:15):
really it really does. Like on Mondays and Thursdays, like
I wake up and you know, I get to my office.

Speaker 5 (01:15:25):
Here's Audrey by the way, and.

Speaker 6 (01:15:28):
I start thinking, Okay, well, let's go ahead and see
what tonight's game plan is. Let's pull up the schedule,
Let's get promotional out, Let's do this, Let's do that,
Let's make sure the website is still up and running.
Let's make sure if there's anything on the website that
needs to be edited or fine tuned, stuff like that.
I mean, when you don't do it for two weeks,

(01:15:49):
and I mean we only take off what maybe four
weeks a year officially, there's sometimes there's stuff that comes up,
but right.

Speaker 5 (01:15:58):
Officially too for where you're not going to have an episode,
You've got the two weeks after National and then two
weeks for Christmas and that's about it.

Speaker 6 (01:16:12):
And then after that it's every Monday and Thursday. Mm hmm,
and uh again, I wouldn't have it any other way.
I love my heritage. I love my history, and this
show gives me the opportunity to show everybody else, you know,
that love, and hopefully people who hadn't been introduced to

(01:16:33):
southern heritage are have only heard one side of it,
gets to hear a little bit of it. I mean,
this is this has been a blessing.

Speaker 4 (01:16:41):
Uh.

Speaker 6 (01:16:41):
I messed with Connor Connor a bit ago about you know,
our egos being inflated, but honestly, uh, this is that
that's a that's a humble pile right there that you
gave us well and and and to me, you know,
uh my, my pastor's been you know, harping on this

(01:17:02):
for or not harping that's the wrong thing to say.
He's been saying this for the past couple of weeks
that you can't reach anybody like yourself or the best
person you can reach to someone like yourself. So that's
that's all we're trying to do, is just reach people
like minded like us that are tired of hearing you know,

(01:17:22):
everything that they were taught, you know, generations ago, whether
it was you know our generation where they've never been
taught the truth or you know my well, my sister
and I are the same generation, but.

Speaker 5 (01:17:35):
You know, the next generation. What have you that you
can't reach anybody like yourself like yourself, or nobody can
reach somebody like yourself like yourself. So that's just, that's just,
you know, one week at.

Speaker 6 (01:17:45):
A time, we're claiming the narrative, one week at a time.
And I think if we've proven anything that there's people
crammering and craving the truth on our heritage. I mean again,
one we were just forty thousand views off one point

(01:18:06):
seven million, and you know we get forty thousand views
in like two weeks, sometimes maybe a week, So I
mean we came this close to hitting one point seven.
And I mean again, we've hit drastic jumps. It's not
even a small jump. Connor can attest to this. Every

(01:18:28):
viewership numbers have been a huge jump. It's never just
been a couple extra thousand views a year. So I'm
looking forward to next year. I think we'll hit at
least one point seven. As I said, we usually either
double it or get you know, one hundred forty or

(01:18:51):
four hundred thousand extra war views. So I'm looking forward
to the next year and I know with the new
Patreon levels that will definitely help get the message out there,
because we did talk about this when we started. But
we got the chathead level which is ten dollars a month,

(01:19:11):
got a merch level now for thirty dollars a month,
and of course our sponsorship level which is eighty a month.
And I believe we got another sponsor as the show
was going.

Speaker 5 (01:19:23):
Let me see, we'll say this that you know if
your camp division brigade other subsidiary, y'all can y'all can? Well,
we did get another Patreon member and another Patreon member,
Chuck mac No, Chuck, Chuck paid for the sponsorship. I think,

(01:19:43):
Oh okay, well Chuck, Thank you, Chuck, Thank you Chuck.
We'll have to talk to you about what you want
us to throw up there. Yeah, let's see here, because
that's because that's one thing that that your sponsorship does
give you is if you have a business, if you

(01:20:05):
have a camp, if you have a it's your division,
we'll throw we throw a title card up there, and
then you know, before we take our break, just like
we did with docs, uh thing, will we'll plug whatever
you want us to plug within reason, Yes there, yes, yeah, yeah,

(01:20:29):
Now like Maurice's Gentlemen's Club, we're not doing.

Speaker 3 (01:20:34):
Well. It's like on the bricks and pavers, I have
to you have to put on there that disclaimer that
says the uh uh GC and the SUNS Confederate Veterans
have the right to refuse any logos or any wordings
that you put on a brick or paver. And you
have to put that on there, just to make sure
somebody didn't come home and put something you know that

(01:20:56):
they shouldn't.

Speaker 5 (01:20:58):
Yeah, so we're not putting the picture of Frank Powell
shirt was at the oratory that would just viewership numbers
would just either skyrocket or come crashing down. Not to mention,
you know, getting in trouble with our platforms. Yeah, which
we kissed them off enough that and you know Frank

(01:21:19):
still edits the veteran and yeah, no, no, no, no, I.

Speaker 3 (01:21:27):
Think he's been doing it what twenty two years now? Yeah,
tell me that man is not very good at what
he does.

Speaker 5 (01:21:34):
Oh oh he is, Oh yeah, bless him man.

Speaker 3 (01:21:37):
And then you know publishes the other these other books.
He was at Supernog Publishing Supernog, supernog. Yeah. And he's
doing all these books and all this other stuff. Yeah.
Frank's a champion, that's for sure.

Speaker 5 (01:21:53):
And and he is coming to Mississippi along with Jason Bouchars.

Speaker 3 (01:22:01):
Uh.

Speaker 5 (01:22:01):
Y'all may have seen it a couple of or in
the intro slid, but we have a conference, a heritage conference.
We we we had this. There was a gentleman, uh or.
It was a couple Carl and Nancy Ford. They have
since passed on, but Carl and Nancy were fantastic and patriots.

(01:22:22):
Carl was a past division commander. He was just an
icon in Mississippi, and they held a heritage conference every
August since they passed on. It was one was right
before COVID, one was during COVID. The Missive Division has started.

Speaker 6 (01:22:41):
Uh.

Speaker 5 (01:22:42):
Last year was our inaugural. So this is our second
annual Carl and Nancy Ford Memorial Southern Culture, History and
Heritage and Education Conference. We will have four speakers uh
coming to speak. Jason is one of them, At is
one of them, Frank is one of them, and the
fourth one is a surprise. If you can ever get

(01:23:06):
his speech done, I assume he'll be working on that
this upcoming weekend after the dec meeting in Mississippi. But
if you'll email GCB m OSB double seven at gmail
dot com, I can send you a link to the
event bright It is forty dollars and that includes lunch.

(01:23:31):
Vendors are welcome. I know uh past Commander in Chief
Larry mclooney is coming as a vendor to sell some
of his books. I told Adam to bring some stuff
from headquarters to sell. So if you missed out, and
if you mean if you're in the Jackson area, and
it's not just war between states history, just like this
show is not war between state's history, we're going to

(01:23:52):
cover I am well, excuse me. The fourth Speaker is
currently working on the Battle of Calpens slide on his
talk in the American Revolution Southern Campaign. Jason is going
to talk about is are you doing Sam or are

(01:24:13):
you gonna do Pat.

Speaker 3 (01:24:16):
Well? Whichever one you want me to do. I was
thinking you asked me to do capture, trial and execution
of Sam Davis. But if you want me to, if
you that's what you want me to do, that's what
I'll do. If not, and you want me to do
Pat Clavern I'll be happy to do Pat Clavering.

Speaker 5 (01:24:31):
You heard it here. First he is doing Sam Davis,
and Sam Davis is like my favorite that you've given.

Speaker 6 (01:24:41):
Oh gosh, it's great.

Speaker 4 (01:24:43):
And then.

Speaker 5 (01:24:47):
Uh, but but Adam is going to talk about the
Southern agrarians from the nineteen forties at Vanderbilt that were
a movement to go back to our agrarian roots. And
then Frank is given the talk that he did at

(01:25:10):
sd LEE last year on Southern literature. So you're getting
a lot of different aspects of what makes the South
a unique our history as well as what makes us
a unique people as far as our culture goes. So
it's definitely worth the drive over. The War Memorial Building
where I am right now is a beautiful building. It

(01:25:31):
used to be headquarters of the SCV before we had
Home Springs.

Speaker 3 (01:25:34):
So yes, and I think about doctor McCain every time
I walk into the library because as you know that
our library at General Headquarters is named the Doctor William
McCain Research Library.

Speaker 5 (01:25:51):
Yeah, and I get to carry the portrait of doctor
McCain to every reunion from now on.

Speaker 3 (01:25:57):
Yes, Yes, and I think I think that is a
wonderful idea. I do because he was paramount and keeping
the organization going three thousand members to where we are now,
you know, and half of that of fifteen hundred, fifteen hundred.

Speaker 5 (01:26:15):
And less than one thousand dollars in the bank, and
to to where we are now and having a permanent
national headquarters, you know, because it was either Office number
five at the War of World building or down there

(01:26:37):
in Hattiesburg at his homestead.

Speaker 3 (01:26:40):
Yeah, that's just he was an incredible man. He did
the paramount work. And we have had so much coming
to the museum, but what we've had donated to the
library is even more impressive. When we did the imaging today,
there was some of the imaging that was done in
the library of the eighteen fortieth Cavalry Saber and we

(01:27:03):
were having to move stuff off the tables because we've
had so many books and all these other artifacts donated.
And we've had some SCV and UCB stuff come in,
which is really great to have.

Speaker 5 (01:27:16):
So oh yeah, yes, So anyway, well, Jabo, we appreciate
you coming on and next week we will see you
on Tuesday. The good Lord willing and the creek does
not rise, Moose, you have, I believe the first Commander's comment.
Since National Reunion this Thursday, we.

Speaker 6 (01:27:38):
Actually had to move it to the next Thursday, So
make sure to share this episode out and email SCVU
Withoutregigimo dot com so your camp news will be featured
on look Around the Confederation this Thursday.

Speaker 5 (01:27:54):
There's a potential episode with the Arizona Divisi. Go go
back and check the Facebook about that that I think
would be a good episode for UH or for look Around,
So we may can uh try to work that out
for week after next looking forward to it. So and

(01:28:23):
of course, if just like how How Tennessee is now
beginning of their show, if y'all want our help, all
you got to do is ask reach out to se
the youth Outreach gmail dot com our our goal. A
couple of years ago we said this that imperialism is
not always a bad thing, especially if we're building our

(01:28:47):
own media empire. So if if y'all want, if your
division is interested in doing something like this, reach out
to us. We'll be more than glad to help y'all
get set up and work on things and your division.
What's an entire episode? Just go ahead and.

Speaker 3 (01:29:09):
Yeah, and I'm glad you brought that up because when
we were you know, this was originally was the concept
behind this, was starting to create our own media because
we were trying to put things were happening and they go,
well you need to put a statement out. Where we
were putting statements out and they never get picked up
by anybody. And that was the reason why this program

(01:29:32):
came to be, was to start to create our own
media outlets. And this was the purpose of this. And
you know, now look at what with with one point
six nearly one point seven million viewers. We've gone from
being thrilled with one hundred and twenty five thousand people
that one point six million and a five year period.

(01:29:53):
But the point was was behind this was to be
able to create our own media empire. And then when
we already having the shows and people started watching, I'm
going we need to have something every day for people.

Speaker 5 (01:30:07):
When we do, we're getting there. We need well we
do we have we have u s CV Chat on Monday.
We now have Tennessee Tuesday, look Around Florida on Wednesday.
Excuse me, look around look around Florida on Wednesday. I'm
so used to that being a Tuesday show.

Speaker 2 (01:30:27):
Uh.

Speaker 5 (01:30:28):
Then we have uh look around the Confederation Thursday and
Douglas south Hall Freeman on Friday. The only thing we're
missing is Saturday.

Speaker 3 (01:30:40):
But Michael Michael Harty's on Sunday. Right, that's a great show.
Michael Hardy is an excellent show. And you know, I
just so we're everything but Saturday. And we need to
have content every day because the news is on every
day and row we have channels as dead headed to
nothing but the news. Yeah.

Speaker 5 (01:31:02):
So, and some that say they are but are not.
But that's my using opinion.

Speaker 3 (01:31:07):
Yes, yes, yes, And don't worry that those those will
be made. I've already been in contact and uh, you know,
they're not gonna be the They're gonna be the ones
people can afford instead of way you talked about. But
I say that and I have had so far five

(01:31:31):
people that have come up to me saying that they
want one of those eight to twelve inch ones on
that and they're I'm gonna look, we're not gonna cast
them ahead of time, you know, so you're gonna have
to pay for it and then it's gonna have to
be cast. So but there's people that want that, they

(01:31:52):
want that high dollar bronze instead of it made out
of any something else. So we're gonna see what this
is gonna bring. Guys, keeping just stay in touch with us.
Follow sev Chat Tennessee Tuesday's Look around Florida because you're
going to get all of the latest breaking news. Those

(01:32:14):
pictures are from today, you know. So I'll be doing
some stuff from the museum tomorrow, talking about the things
that the Tennessee State Museum has brought and has put
on along to us. So thank y'all for allowing me
to come on. Thank y'all for the allow and for

(01:32:37):
for being for being willing to work with us to
get this show up and get this going. I thank
you for it. Tennessee Tuesdays and the thing is talking
with John Blank and Ship the Tennessee Division Commander. We're
going to support y'all, and you know, we're going to
help y'all. And if y'all need us like to come
on and help fill in, we will. Uh. If not,

(01:32:58):
we're going to push people to your Patreon, you know.
So this is this needs to have.

Speaker 5 (01:33:04):
I just want to see how Alabama's going to react.

Speaker 6 (01:33:08):
Oh, Alabama's coming up, and I think Alabama already has
someone that.

Speaker 5 (01:33:13):
Should be hosting a show.

Speaker 3 (01:33:16):
I wonder who that could be.

Speaker 5 (01:33:18):
It would be fantastic bring in some views. I will
say this that we do have a celebrity now or well, uh,
I say a celebrity. I got his baseball cards, a
whole legend if you will. Yeah, the mayor, the mayor
of Koleoka himself is now a Patreon member.

Speaker 3 (01:33:40):
So yes, and uh I think he batted a thousand
that what is average was was he atted a thousand? Yeah?

Speaker 6 (01:33:49):
So an unstoppable Baseball Hall of Famers.

Speaker 3 (01:33:55):
You can't stop him. You can only hope to contain him.
And that is the reason why he's now college Sir Castro,
because you know, I've been calling him Velvet Elvis, but
after today he's CASTI row.

Speaker 5 (01:34:14):
As long as it is in Tuna Castro. Anyway, we've
been at it for a long enough time. We hope
that everybody. Jason, thank you again for coming on and
being a friend of the show. And like I said,
really looking forward to to getting this off the ground.
And I can't wait to celebrate five years of Tennessee Tuesday.
As a Tennessee fan, I really hope y'all can figure

(01:34:36):
out how to work rocket top in there. But if
you can't you know it is.

Speaker 3 (01:34:41):
I'll go ahead and tell you we were worried about
some copywriting.

Speaker 5 (01:34:44):
With all of that, it's a lovely problem. Yeah it really,
it really is. But we're gonna go ahead and wrap
it up here. Remember to submit your news tuning in. Guys,
we are dues are due, yes, every you know Robert E.

(01:35:05):
Lee said the duty is the most sublime word in
the English language. Man can ever do anything more? And
you should ever do anything less or something like that. Uh,
your duty, our most basic duty as members of this
organization is to pay our dues, pay them on time,

(01:35:26):
get them, get them, get them in. You know, we
we we've got to. That's how this organization operates. Yes,
so you know, get them out.

Speaker 3 (01:35:38):
And thank you for bringing that up. Dues redue July
thirty first, that's actual to day. August is the grace period.
Anything that that is sent in September you're gonna have
a five dollars penalty on it. But get your dues in.
And since we just went through our fiscal year, start

(01:36:00):
preparing to do your nine to ninety. It's going to
be due by December fifteenth. Every camp has to do
a nine to ninety. You have to do it. People
are going to say, oh, you don't have to do
it because we haven't raised me. Nope, you have to
do a nine ninety.

Speaker 5 (01:36:19):
Yeah. I was just about to mention that too, because
that does not just affect your camp, that affects the
entire confederation. Yes, you know, we are very lucky, in
my opinion, we are very lucky that we are still
a tax exempt organization. Yes, and we don't need to

(01:36:39):
do anything to hurt that.

Speaker 3 (01:36:44):
No, no, no, no. Then I would like to put
this out there from mister Christopher Rice. You don't want
to get hassled about you dudes. Get yourself a life membership, yes, no,
no kidding, yes, but please come on, guys, you get

(01:37:06):
your days in. You know what they went through. I
don't have to tell you what your ancestors went through.
You know what they went through. Take five minutes and
cut a check or pay online or do something you know,
and uh, adjutants, please start thinking about doing your nine

(01:37:26):
ninety Camp Adjutants nine nineties due by December fifteenth.

Speaker 5 (01:37:39):
All right, well we're gonna go ahead and wrap it
up here. Hope everybody's enjoyed this episode and Moose, did
you ever do a gag reel?

Speaker 6 (01:37:49):
I knew I forgot something.

Speaker 5 (01:37:51):
Yeah, yeah, it will be on some time this season.
And that is why I'm gonna tell everybody where Moose's
nickname really comes from. So, it was about four or
five years ago. We were watching the TikTok and there
was a video no sound, no fumar, no fumar.

Speaker 3 (01:38:11):
You sure,

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