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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Pat, Where are you calling from, buddy.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
I'm calling from Charlotte, beautiful Charlotte.
Speaker 1 (00:07):
Yeah, I love it.
Speaker 3 (00:08):
Tony's familiar with that. But all right, let me ask
you this here.
Speaker 4 (00:11):
Here's what Yeah, So is it true you've got this
uh Van Morrison tribute man, which I think is fantastic
because I love Van Morrison and a few and far
between are the chances of scene. But have you ever
played Louis for your hometown before? Is this first time?
Speaker 5 (00:28):
I have not? It is the first time.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
We are we are we're lining up something with John
Grants who is putting this on. And John goes, Pat,
this is perfect for you, he said. I can't believe
he went to Saint X. I went to Trinity. And uh,
even though even though he went to Saint X, he
included me in and I'm tickled to death.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
Yeah, in the lineup again. Uh, folks, we have in
the heart of rock and roll, Huey Lewis in the
news is right before you, Cheryl Rowles. That's Smoke Town,
the Rugbyes or trim you to the Beatles, and then this,
that and the other, which is a great local band.
But you are the headliner there? Why Van Morrison.
Speaker 5 (01:08):
That's a great question. I don't know.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
Some guys say I look like him, some guys say
I sound like him.
Speaker 5 (01:13):
So I guess that just fits you, know, right?
Speaker 4 (01:16):
How easy is it when you're single. I don't know
if you're single or married now, but when you were single,
bar sit down next to a girl and starts singing
Tupelo Honey.
Speaker 3 (01:26):
Oh yeah, it's.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
Gotta be Oh yeah, oh yeah, yeah.
Speaker 5 (01:30):
I mean it never worked for me. It never worked
for me, but I tried it a lot.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
Uh So, with that said, have you ever met Van
Morrison and or what is your what's your go to
Van Morris? What's your favorite song to sing of his?
Speaker 5 (01:47):
Like it's it's all over the place. I'd like to
say Tupelo Honey would be one of the best, But
there you go. All of all of them are good.
All of them are good.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
I hate the thing, I hate the thing some of
the the real popular ones. But but for the most part.
Speaker 5 (02:06):
Too blow Honey's good.
Speaker 3 (02:08):
So we love Van Morrison, the Wittings do. As a
matter of fact, our first dance with someone like.
Speaker 4 (02:14):
You, Oh come on, absolutely, yeah.
Speaker 3 (02:18):
Someone exactly. I just have Van Morriston. We're doing it.
We're doing it.
Speaker 5 (02:23):
We're doing it in Louisville.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
We're doing it in Louisville, and I'll reach it out
and to make sure you're included in that.
Speaker 4 (02:29):
Oh yeah, I'm coming out. I listen, man, I'm not playing.
I gotta see you all because Susan and I are
both are gigantic Van Morrison fans.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
But this will be your first time.
Speaker 4 (02:40):
You're from Louisville, Trinity graduate in nineteen seventy three Van
Morrison tribute band, and this is the first time you're playing.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
Yeah, it's awesome, man, it's awesome.
Speaker 4 (02:49):
You gotta do you gotta do a call to action
with Trinity, right, Yeah?
Speaker 5 (02:53):
I am? I am and I grew up in Saint Matthews.
I mean, oh, there you go. All that all that's
just great?
Speaker 1 (03:00):
Yeah, broh. And you know this, Brown Eyed Girl is
the one song that the DJs get the girls up
to dance, uh, and that's the one everybody dances. Glory
is one of my favorites.
Speaker 6 (03:12):
Eye Girl.
Speaker 4 (03:13):
Brown Eyed Girl is also the song that every single
UH band.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
That just goes to play, Oh yeah, right, hate you pass? Yes,
what about you do you hate playing the song?
Speaker 4 (03:25):
Say?
Speaker 3 (03:25):
Hey, we just gotta do it.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
We hate, we hate playing it, but once you play it, once.
Speaker 5 (03:31):
You play it, everybody goes crazy.
Speaker 6 (03:33):
So what do you do. You have to play it?
Speaker 3 (03:35):
You gotta play it.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
Yeah. My two favorites are and It Stoned Me and
Days like This are two of my favorite Van Morrison songs.
Speaker 5 (03:45):
Is that the both of them?
Speaker 1 (03:48):
Yes, perfect, perfect, Well, we cannot wait.
Speaker 5 (03:52):
But we can't wait either. I'm so excited to.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
Be back in Louisville, good golly, and hopefully get another
place to play there, uh down the road here, So
we're excited as heck up.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
Well, we're so proud of you and and everything you've accomplished.
And I know I talked to some trity folks that
went around to school about the same time, and they
love you, and they're gonna be there on June seventh
at Brown Park Man. It's gonna be a great welcome
home for you, and you are the headliner for that night,
and it's gonna be a lot of fun. Pack Garvey,
We'll see you June seventh on stage.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
Buddy, you got it, Thank you guy, thanks so much.
Speaker 3 (04:28):
We can't wait to see you.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
Yeah, yeah, I can't wait see you, buddy.
Speaker 5 (04:31):
Win can't wait to be there. Thank you. Oh you goat.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
I'm gonna out Van Morrison.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
No, don't do that.
Speaker 4 (04:36):
I'm gonna bring my own mister microphone. I'm gonna seek
into their pa and this is gonna be my got
your moment.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
Yeah, uh, they've got He's got so many hits again
and it stoned me and uh and and days like
this are my two favorites. Gloria of course when he
was with them. Into the Mystic is the one everybody.
Speaker 4 (04:55):
Oh no, Heather Fresh Henry says, cleaning Windows. Rick, do
you have Van Morrison song called cleaning Windows? She also said,
Into the Mystic, which I love.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
Yes, that's gonna be a lot of funck.
Speaker 3 (05:09):
Have you ever heard of a Van Morrison song called
cleaning Windows? Maybe he's looking up.
Speaker 5 (05:13):
No, I've never heard of that. I'll have to research that.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
See if you can find her right now.
Speaker 4 (05:16):
Because Heather French Henry just okay, it's curiosity.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
It really is a perfect headliner for that day because
it's gonna be a lot of fun. June seventh, uh
noon until ten pm. It all starts with like yoga
in the morning, rise and shine yoga. I know, Dwight
will be there for that.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
I'll be skipping that part, you know why. All right,
I've got something wrong.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
With my eye.
Speaker 3 (05:43):
They have a zipline talking like that. They didn't like
it like that.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
They said, they have a zip line that can take
your weight. So you're good.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
Two percent of charities.
Speaker 4 (05:54):
And these folks, they're rated by Charity Navigator year.
Speaker 3 (05:58):
After year after year.
Speaker 5 (06:00):
Here at the table.
Speaker 4 (06:00):
If you get money, it gets to the veterans, let
me tell you. And like for example, if if they
can't make their bank note for their home, they'll go
fore clothes on it. USA Cares they step in. They
don't give the man or the woman the money. They
just pay it on their behalf to the bank. That's
what they do. They keep veterans from getting evicted. They
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keep electric on, water on groceries. Will you name the
need USA Care doesn't.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
All right, here's some news and notes from today. We
haven't gotten to of course, they will talk more about
this tomorrow. But JCPS has chosen their superintendent. That was
last week, doctor Brian Earwood. And he has not come
in with some controversy. From his last stop as a superintendent,
he was making double what he will make here. I
(06:49):
don't understand sounds very similar to the lampd Oh, Terry
Miners is my god?
Speaker 3 (06:54):
Probably fifty bucks. Oh, but got fifty bucks.
Speaker 6 (07:00):
Birthday out us.
Speaker 4 (07:07):
Oh golly, I feel like I wish a dream kid.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
I asked for Kerry Miners in the show up Uh.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
So uh.
Speaker 7 (07:20):
All good and enjoying your show. I like I love
this cause Yes, Yes cares such a great organization.
Speaker 4 (07:26):
I want to get back to the superintendent because I
tried to stay away from the news. The best I
could was on vacation. But you can't help but gleaning
a little bit. He came from one understand Uh.
Speaker 3 (07:38):
His last job.
Speaker 4 (07:41):
He left on terms that were kept under wraps or
something along the lines and yet not disclosure, and he
lost that job.
Speaker 7 (07:49):
It's the only question I've been asking is just like,
why don't we because we've been through this thing with
some police chief eleaders two times where things that happened
in Atlanta, Uh, and we just didn't do enough due diligence.
Just I'm gonna doce dig just below the sand on
the beach. It's just not that we're not excavated.
Speaker 3 (08:07):
Get suggestion, can make a suggestion. Maybe if j CPS
could raise our property taxes. Have fun. They had funny.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
I dug him.
Speaker 6 (08:19):
Every year I drive by taxes.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
But I'm gonna switch real quick. USA Cares is why
we're here. But the Crusade for Children are coming up soon.
We're gonna be there. You you've been already. I've seen
you already doing all of the bits that we're that.
Speaker 3 (08:34):
You do already.
Speaker 7 (08:36):
I've already visited l g and E. The employees are
so great. That's lg and E.
Speaker 3 (08:41):
N KU can't tell you something.
Speaker 4 (08:42):
Yeah, this show supports the lg and E Community's let
me to go on a.
Speaker 3 (08:46):
Record for that.
Speaker 6 (08:47):
Okay, that's going deep. That is that's a commitment.
Speaker 7 (08:51):
And I mean, but I love it that, Like, you know,
the people that at such a huge organization are mindful
of the Crusade for Children. It's you know, it's it's
it's fun to get churches and civic groups involved in it.
But when we get major, you know, groups like that,
I mean, got tens of thousands of employees and they
all go, yeah, I want to give right And we
went out and picked up a check for three hundred
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and thirty seven.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
Oh, oh my gosh, that is incredible. We had there
was someone here earlier today as a child. Crusade helped him.
He had bums with his legs. He was actually telling
him the procedure that Koseir did where they would pull
the bone apart and then the bones would grow together
to make that leg taw longer. And I said, and again,
a lot of these families. It touches so many people
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in this town. I always says it is. It's one
of the thing he gets me going every year.
Speaker 7 (09:39):
Cu Shade Well, I mean, I also do a segment
with Kevin Adams. I've already recorded. He is like a
helper with Fern Creek Fire Department. He's wheelchair bound, has
been his whole life. Started when he was nine years
old helping Fern Creek. This year he goes out and
collects every year, so he's done since he's nine. He's
about sixty seven, sixty eight years old. Now this year
(10:01):
for lifetime, he's going to cross the five hundred thousand.
Speaker 1 (10:04):
That's crazy. One man, that's crazy, one dude. One man
in a wheelchair, unlivable and again again at these organizations.
So the day after June eighth or whatever it is,
after the crusade, these organizations will start, uh, get the
money next year, and and it's an all year so
it's not like we everybody's like, wow, they raised money,
they raised six million in one weekend. No, this is
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a whole year long process. And the firefighters are so
important and I can't wait to see our old friends.
Speaker 7 (10:31):
Well, I just appreciate all of our people that show
up to the crusade is in our bone marrow and
it's important that we continue keeping it strong as we
go from generation generation. I love when I see Grandpa firefighter.
His son's a firefighter. His kid is in high school,
but he's there helping the crusade, learning the lessons.
Speaker 3 (10:50):
I'm trying to figure out which fire department excels the
most in this when it comes to.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
Oh don't know, I can't go there. We go.
Speaker 3 (11:00):
Me look it up on my Google machine. Which fire departners.
Oh it's prp.
Speaker 7 (11:06):
Oh yes, Fern Creek now is combined with so many
other groups they give all that they give them a run.
Speaker 4 (11:14):
They're like high View and Taylor. I call a bunch
of I call those pumpkin eaters. Cheater, pumpkin eater pulling
the resource. U.
Speaker 1 (11:23):
No, that's true, though they have combined a lot of
Saint Matthew's just a bunch of them.
Speaker 4 (11:27):
Were you pretty much automatic bough? I mean you've been
involved with the Crusade.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
Forty forty years years.
Speaker 7 (11:34):
Yeah, this would be my fortieth Crusade because this is
my completing my fortieth year at h A h Wow.
Speaker 1 (11:40):
One of my favorite memories with US two was he
I was doing my thing and Terry was on the
other side, and Hubers came in and they had a
thing of strawberries and you were thirty forty feet away,
and you said, I'm doing my thing, and you go,
you know, Terry, hey, don't he And you picked a
strawberry and threw it across the across the entire studio
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and I leaned down and it ran right into my mouth.
It was an increase and they got a eight you know,
eight shot b shot, see it right, they got the
shot of it. I couldn't believe it. But we we
like to have fun while we're doing this exactly right.
Speaker 7 (12:13):
It's just an important thing. I mean, we're helping out
special needs families. It's not just the children. It is
like Kevin, the guy just mentioned, has raised a half
a million dollars he's a he's almost seventy years old,
but he's he's needed the Crusade his whole life. And
he explained on TV the other day, and we were
recording this. Wheelchairs paid for, this therapy paid for and
I just can't thank people enough.
Speaker 6 (12:34):
That's why I go out and work.
Speaker 1 (12:35):
And those little so people are at a hospital. It's
the little medallions and I'm attached to saw the incubators
and all that.
Speaker 7 (12:41):
I saw that when my own second son was born,
son and there were some issues, and right away they
started wheeling in machines and I'll say, Crusader, wow, wow,
full circle.
Speaker 1 (12:50):
It's really cool and he can get it's fun, but
it also can get very emotional. And we'll be out there.
We're back in the studios. Yeah, but Kobe kind of
sent us out to a fire station for a while,
which was great, but we were back in w h
S studio. You can listen to it right here on
news Radio eight forty w h a S. We'll have
it broadcast live and then the big countdown on Sunday
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night about six thirty issues.
Speaker 6 (13:13):
Well, here's the good news.
Speaker 7 (13:14):
The NBA told us go off at seven because we
have a play on NBA Finals game.
Speaker 1 (13:20):
Okay, leave to go.
Speaker 7 (13:21):
On to like one of the Wayne Perky still be
there at three in the minute more, I want to interview.
He brought sps way, here's ano little tribune note there.
Just they're getting rid of the US penny. You know
they're gonna stop making Yes, yeah, every year, Dawn just
told me this. Every year the Crusade manages about thirty
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seven thousand dollars pennies.
Speaker 3 (13:43):
Wow, the Witns have it penny less for years.
Speaker 1 (13:49):
I know a lot of people did not want to
start the date with me on Sunday mornings because I
did a Milton Mets and I did it, and he
passed away that year, and then I had Wayne Perky
and then he passed away that year, and then the
next year was Tony Cruise and I go, good luck son.
Oh no, Tony Cruz is saying goodbye this week. He is.
Speaker 6 (14:09):
We all remember when he was a woman and he
was mooring.
Speaker 3 (14:12):
His name was.
Speaker 6 (14:15):
I thought it was Mediterranean Crew.
Speaker 1 (14:17):
I couldn't remember, Uh, mister Westboord High School, twenty years
in the seat at mornings. It's we all have done mornings.
Speaker 3 (14:26):
Morning morning. All three of us had done morning.
Speaker 7 (14:30):
I did eight years of morning radio, and I felt
like for the for the next ten years. After I
was finished, I still felt tired.
Speaker 4 (14:36):
Oh kid kidding, because when I was in my twenties
and thirties and it was horrible, then I'm not gonna
do this.
Speaker 1 (14:43):
It'll break your brain. It'll break your brain. But Terry
Miner's coming by to say happy birthday.
Speaker 6 (14:49):
I love you, Dwight. You're awesome. You were awesome.
Speaker 7 (14:52):
Yes, And I posted something on your wife's Facebook thing
where she's congratulating on your birthday, and it said something
about you and me and all the nights we've spent together,
and I said this check GPT.
Speaker 1 (15:04):
Thank you Terry Miners today at three pm. More on
their crusade a little bit later with that, but.
Speaker 4 (15:09):
Here at Harty Harry could tell you how the Witting
Home is just checked out with beautiful Sims Furniture, Sims
one am In Sims Furniture, Dixie Highway, Preston Highway.
Speaker 3 (15:20):
You're gonna love it. What kind of deals are we
talking about? I don't know. How about this?
Speaker 4 (15:24):
How about a seven piece bedroom set only nine hundred
and ninety nine dollars. Just go ahead and upgrade that
sofa in the living room, the dining room, the kitchen,
the bedroom. And by the way, you got financing, just
tell them Dwight whitting the financier has approved you Sims furniture.
Speaker 3 (15:40):
You're gonna love it.
Speaker 1 (15:41):
Yeah, Dwight used to just steal furniture from people that
would leave it out on the silent road. And then
you found Simms.
Speaker 3 (15:46):
Yeah, I did early yards, so was my motif.
Speaker 1 (15:48):
It's fantastic. Back after this on News Radio eight forty
whas can we bring in Todd Murphy and Jim Lockerrow.
Speaker 4 (15:54):
Before we talked to Todd and Jim, let me say
two things. I'm getting sick and tired of God name Todd.
Second of all, we were talking about it. Second of all,
we were talking about how miserable it is do mornings
on the air. And that's when Nick Coffee says, uh, hey,
awesome to hear my great morning gig is going to
be so much.
Speaker 1 (16:14):
He is replacing Hey, Tony.
Speaker 4 (16:16):
Next, Hey, we didn't tell you how bad it sucks
until until you committed to the job.
Speaker 3 (16:20):
Let's do this. How we going, guys?
Speaker 6 (16:22):
Doing great morning?
Speaker 3 (16:23):
All right?
Speaker 1 (16:24):
We're talking about the transition that you may tell me
your story.
Speaker 8 (16:27):
Sure, Uh so, Uh, this is Jim and uh just
retired out of the army last summer summer twenty four.
Speaker 6 (16:33):
After thirty years years.
Speaker 1 (16:37):
That's amazing.
Speaker 8 (16:38):
I served as an infantry officer. Best best, uh best experience,
you know, all the deployments and everything still is a great,
great experience. But you get to that end of that point.
It doesn't matter if you served four years or you
serve thirty years. When you transition out of the military,
you you can lose your sense of purpose, and you
can lose your tribe and you because you have you
have a tribe that's built around you, that that supports
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system that's around you, and that that can be a challenge.
It's not a challenge for everybody. A lot of folks
transition and do great, but a lot of folks do struggle,
especially senior folks for some reason. It's interesting, a lot
of senior folks do struggle with that transition. Things were
a certain way for so long, and you're expecting certain
things or and you expected certain kinds of support that's
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just not there when you get out, and that can
be very very difficult. That mental transition can be very
very difficult for folks.
Speaker 1 (17:24):
So, and how did you find USA Cares?
Speaker 8 (17:26):
So I was, you know, that that crusty old colonel
who thought I had this all figured out. Can I
did my own adventure on this career skills program. So
I just made my own one one up that didn't
quite work out. And so at the end of the
day I didn't have a job. So I contacted USA Cares,
Trace and Matt and they met with Todd here and Todd.
Todd helped me out, went through my resume and got
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me sorted out.
Speaker 9 (17:49):
Todd, you've heard the story report. Yeah, last time we
were on we kind of talked about this and the
beauty of this program. It allows us to look at
that skill set that those service members have. I really
tried to put them in the direction that they want
to go. It's a second career, you know. It's kind
of like we were talking in the break. It's kind
of like if I told you too, you're not gonna
do radio anymore, but you're gonna do something different. That
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creates a whole new anxiety of Okay, what I do well,
what things do I want to do?
Speaker 3 (18:17):
What's going to make me do?
Speaker 5 (18:17):
Cartwill more point of reference.
Speaker 3 (18:20):
Our bosses do tell us that every day. God, but.
Speaker 4 (18:26):
It is extremely difficult because it's a brand new life,
especially you know, if you retire, if you go to
do thirty years. A friend of mine just about five
years ago dropped his papers after around thirty years and
he was Special Forces, and quite frankly, I worried about him.
I worried about him deeply because he would come over
for the holidays with Susan and I and I thought,
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what in the world is his life going to be
like without this part missing? And thank god he he
got connected with veteran organizations. But I cannot say enough
good stuff about USA Cares And I want to say
this again one more time and the hell out.
Speaker 3 (19:00):
And I don't care.
Speaker 4 (19:02):
They get rated on Charity Navigator. Charity Navigator, they're going
to rate the top two percent.
Speaker 3 (19:08):
That's it man.
Speaker 4 (19:09):
And USA Cares. They're rated on Charity Navigator year after
year after year after year. USA cares dot Org.
Speaker 1 (19:16):
So when they find you, sorry, when they find you,
how's the process work and how do they get a
hold of you and all that stuff? So where do
we go from the beginning?
Speaker 9 (19:23):
Yeah, So part of that is they can do it
through the service organization that they're in. I do job
fairs and I do CSP briefings at Fort Knox and
Fort Campbell, So there's a way I connect with service
members as well. Our reputation speaks for itself, so we
kind of walk the walk and talk to the talk
and so career transition. We have service members that recommend
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us right, hey, you should look into the USA cares.
Todd might not be able to promise you anything, but
he can help point you in those directions that can
help with that anxiety. And we talk about those things.
So that's the key, and that's what we did with Jim, is, Hey,
what do you want to do, Jim, what's the second
half of life look like outside the military? And then
we just talked. We spent probably an hour on the
phone the first time we talked talking about what you
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want to do, you want to go about doing it?
Is that feasible coming out of the military being a
senior leader. There's sometimes that the civilian world says, oh,
you've got great still set, But there's nothing in the
civilian world that I can go to my bosses and say,
we need to hire this person or it's the anxiety
of doing that too. Yeah, I want to hire this person,
but I don't know what to do with the veteran.
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This person is so skilled that it's tough for me
to try to find a place for you sometimes.
Speaker 5 (20:32):
So that's the key there.
Speaker 1 (20:33):
Well, I think the anxiety word here. I want to
ask you. You probably didn't. I don't know. I can't
speak for you. For when you went into the service,
you were young, gong hold, ready to go. So now
what was coming after you? You were gonna take care
of it. Did you have more anxiety leaving the service
than you did going in it?
Speaker 6 (20:51):
Absolutely?
Speaker 8 (20:52):
Yeah, it was unbelievable. I was very, very anxious getting
out because you start wondering. I mean, at the end
of the day, the paycheck, when you're on ACTI duty,
it's coming in. Yeah, honestly, it's just going to come in, right,
That's not the case on the outside, So he start
second guessing yourself. You know, I've been doing this for
thirty years and I've been told what to do, and
I just go do that and you can be successful.
And I did not see that path.
Speaker 1 (21:14):
There was at one of the galos about five or
six years ago, we had a general speak, and he
said he knew his transition was going to be different.
When you go do your paperwork to lead and he's
a general and there's a private barking at him and
yelling at him that you're gonna sit down until I
call your name, and he goes that's his brain went click.
I'm about to go into a new world because the
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private's yelling at him to do what he said to do.
Speaker 8 (21:38):
I remember sitting at the in the parking ride at
Fort Knox when I signed out finally and I sat there,
I was like, I don't know where to go right now.
Oh I didn't have a place I needed to be.
I didn't, So that was kind of like that's when
it really hit me out here. I got my paperwork
and it's like, I don't have anywhere I need to
be right now.
Speaker 1 (21:53):
I think your purpose driven? Yes, yes, so obviously your colonel.
You don't get to be a colonel without being purpose driven.
So what did you find that match?
Speaker 5 (22:03):
After the service?
Speaker 8 (22:04):
So I played around a little bit with a few
different things.
Speaker 5 (22:06):
Nothing Really I got to the point.
Speaker 8 (22:08):
Where I didn't want to chase a dollar because it
was just not was wasn't meaningful for me, and that's
when I got pulled over. And actually I was able
to take over Matt's position for VP for Government Corporate Relations.
And that's been huge.
Speaker 5 (22:21):
I spent its challenge. It's you know, it's it's been
a challenge.
Speaker 8 (22:24):
One thing I'd like to throw out through a real
quick too, is, you know, interesting times we're in right
now economically around the country. But if folks will say, hey,
we was gonna watch and see how things settle out
over time, we need those donations.
Speaker 5 (22:38):
We need those donations. We absolutely because if you think.
Speaker 8 (22:41):
That that's it's stressful there, how about those veterans out
there that are hurting right now?
Speaker 5 (22:45):
Is twice as bad for them.
Speaker 4 (22:46):
So and by the way, when you get to USA
cares dot org USA cares dot org and you make
a donation, the donation it's getting to the veteran. I
want to stress this again, I'm beating a dead horse.
I don't care.
Speaker 7 (22:58):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (22:59):
Rated by you already, navigator, year after year after year,
that's just the top two percent charities that there is.
Speaker 3 (23:05):
This charity is as good as gold.
Speaker 4 (23:07):
When you donate your you can rest assured your money's
going to the veterans.
Speaker 1 (23:11):
Serve Memorial Day yesterday. You've been in the service thirty years.
I'm sure you have friends that aren't with us anymore.
Speaker 6 (23:17):
Yes, yes, I do.
Speaker 8 (23:20):
Actually found a lot, shared a lot with friends, especially
in the last appointment Afghanistan that was very tough, and
just sharing those memories and you don't have to use
a lot of words with the folks you were there with,
but just remembering, Hey, you remember so and so. Do
you remember so and so? And I looked, honestly, but
to keep a little that whole part private, but sure
you do. You share that, and I'm glad we got
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to remember what Memorial Day is and what Veterans Day
is or two different things.
Speaker 1 (23:47):
And so you know it is different. I went to
a change in command with my buddy and he it
was different from the ones he was in combat with,
like his battalion. Those guys were crying. They were literally
trying yep that the changing command was happening because they
were in combat for so long together. It's crazy.
Speaker 8 (24:03):
It does you get that bond, Like I said, and
back to my point on transitioning out, you lose that
bond and until you run to another veteran, you don't
know what you who you're talking to really and your
regards up a little bit and you are like, I
don't know you, you know, but you find that other
veteran out there and you can latch on.
Speaker 6 (24:21):
So it's a it's real, it's real.
Speaker 4 (24:23):
I think it's a very important angle to veteran community
because again, a buddy mine and Tony retire Special Forces.
He's part of Veterans MC, the motorcycle clubs, sure, and
that gives him a community where they could all talk
together and actually helped heal together. Because if you you
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could talk to me all day long about different experiences, I.
Speaker 3 (24:48):
Could be a good ear. But you know, I know
exactly nothing about your trials and tribula.
Speaker 1 (24:53):
Dwyke would relate to the bar gigs of the nineteen nineties, yes,
and that he would have to talk to a bartender
from the nineteen nineties of Phoenix. Todd again, tell us
how people can get a hold of you or corporate
corporate side of that.
Speaker 9 (25:05):
Yeah, yeah, absolutely, Yeah, us cares dot org. They can
reach out there, connect with us. My email address is
Todd dot Murphy at us acres dot org. Would love
to reach out. You know, the beauty of this, this organization,
and this fellowship is it's small, medium, large sized companies.
Right of G appliances locally is great, great resource for us.
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The beauty that is they can take logistics and operations
and IT people and and that vast network that they have,
and they have a great veterans resource group. I would
also recommend if you're a company and you have three
veterans five veterans, start a veterans resource group and empower
those veterans to say, hey, you might want to look
at some of these veterans that are coming out of
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the service for these positions. And I think that snowball
starts very very quickly.
Speaker 1 (25:57):
I think we get lost sometimes. And I may have
this percentage wrong, but I believe that only one or
two percent of the military is combat. The personnel, Right,
you have electricians and plumbers and other people that work
on trucks and airplanes. They have skill sets, true absolutely.
Speaker 9 (26:16):
You know if you if you go to Fort Knox,
you have senior leaders, different different skill set. You go
to Fort Campbell, much more different skill set, two different
army bases, right, and so just a different dynamic. And
I think that's the skill set that you can look
for and some people make it a lifetime and retirement
of it. And you have a lot of service members
that are coming out after six ten years that have
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great qualifications. They have those soft skills already done right right,
the easy stuff.
Speaker 4 (26:43):
So what's your story, Todd? How did you get connected
with USA Cares?
Speaker 9 (26:46):
Oh, I'm a Chamber of Commerce guy. I was meeting
with Tray Chesser, the former CEO and TRACE and was
talking about how to get involved. I know that the
Chamber was doing stuff with with the army and talking
about this program. How do we keep vets in the
state right, instead of turning out of Fort Campbell and
turning right and going to Tennessee, we want them to
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turn left and stay in Kentucky.
Speaker 5 (27:10):
And so, but there's a tax advantage to leave.
Speaker 1 (27:12):
The Fort Campbell's like split, isn't it? Yeah? The whole
the base is one sides in Tennessee, one sides in Kentucky.
And most people retire and go to Tennessee.
Speaker 4 (27:23):
Holy knew, if only we knew that Kentucky straight representatives.
Speaker 3 (27:29):
What a shame.
Speaker 4 (27:30):
And there's there's a tax advantage after starving being in
Kentucky and leaving Kentucky we're losing veterans.
Speaker 9 (27:36):
And coming from the Chamber of Commerce where it was,
let Frankfurt's doing a great job of looking at all
those facets of how do we keep our veterans and realistically,
how do we recruit veterans to come and move into that. Yeah,
money goes a lot further. You know, it's a great
place to live, raise a family. So I think that's
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the one thing we're for US corporations to which you
gographically located right ups learned it many many years ago,
Like this is a great spot to start building companies,
And so I think we have a talent workforce that
we are trying to tap into. The hard part is
just like with transition, it's finding the right fit with
the skill set, with the right organization, and that just
takes a little bit more work than what sometimes we're
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realizing a.
Speaker 1 (28:18):
Big corrected hang on from our newsroom. John Shannon, twenty
five year vet in the Army, he says ten to
fifteen percent our military combat arms, not one or two,
So center fifteen.
Speaker 4 (28:28):
Can a chamber of commerce people fixed parking tickets?
Speaker 1 (28:33):
That's one of many.
Speaker 3 (28:34):
I don't know if you know anybody in there.
Speaker 6 (28:35):
One of many.
Speaker 3 (28:36):
I just hand this to you.
Speaker 1 (28:39):
No, he's just gonna leave it there with some cats
that might have fallen onto the ground. We appreciate your service,
Thank you so much. And guys coming in today and
USA Cares is part of our show and it's part
of our mission too, So we appreciate you guys so much.
Speaker 5 (28:53):
Thank you, thanks so much.
Speaker 4 (28:54):
Has you at usacres dot org, USA Cares dot org.
Speaker 3 (28:58):
And one more time, good to see it, Todd.
Speaker 4 (29:00):
I'm getting sick and tired of guy's name time.
Speaker 3 (29:05):
George Carlin, thank you, Jim.
Speaker 1 (29:07):
All right, man, we're just about gonna wrap this thing
up before we go. I don't know, give me one,
give me one, Rick.
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Speaker 1 (29:44):
Didn't you get a big endorsement this week from someone
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Pat, Where are you calling from, buddy.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
I'm calling from Charlotte, beautiful Charlotte.
Speaker 1 (00:07):
Yeah, I love it.
Speaker 3 (00:08):
Tony's familiar with that. But all right, let me ask
you this here.
Speaker 4 (00:11):
Here's what Yeah, So is it true you've got this
uh Van Morrison tribute man, which I think is fantastic
because I love Van Morrison and a few and far
between are the chances of scene. But have you ever
played Louis for your hometown before? Is this first time?
Speaker 5 (00:28):
I have not? It is the first time.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
We are we are we're lining up something with John
Grants who is putting this on. And John goes, Pat,
this is perfect for you, he said. I can't believe
he went to Saint X. I went to Trinity. And uh,
even though even though he went to Saint X, he
included me in and I'm tickled to death.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
Yeah, in the lineup again. Uh, folks, we have in
the heart of rock and roll, Huey Lewis in the
news is right before you, Cheryl Rowles. That's Smoke Town,
the Rugbyes or trim you to the Beatles, and then this,
that and the other, which is a great local band.
But you are the headliner there? Why Van Morrison.
Speaker 5 (01:08):
That's a great question. I don't know.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
Some guys say I look like him, some guys say
I sound like him.
Speaker 5 (01:13):
So I guess that just fits you, know, right?
Speaker 4 (01:16):
How easy is it when you're single. I don't know
if you're single or married now, but when you were single,
bar sit down next to a girl and starts singing
Tupelo Honey.
Speaker 3 (01:26):
Oh yeah, it's.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
Gotta be Oh yeah, oh yeah, yeah.
Speaker 5 (01:30):
I mean it never worked for me. It never worked
for me, but I tried it a lot.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
Uh So, with that said, have you ever met Van
Morrison and or what is your what's your go to
Van Morris? What's your favorite song to sing of his?
Speaker 5 (01:47):
Like it's it's all over the place. I'd like to
say Tupelo Honey would be one of the best, But
there you go. All of all of them are good.
All of them are good.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
I hate the thing, I hate the thing some of
the the real popular ones. But but for the most part.
Speaker 5 (02:06):
Too blow Honey's good.
Speaker 3 (02:08):
So we love Van Morrison, the Wittings do. As a
matter of fact, our first dance with someone like.
Speaker 4 (02:14):
You, Oh come on, absolutely, yeah.
Speaker 3 (02:18):
Someone exactly. I just have Van Morriston. We're doing it.
We're doing it.
Speaker 5 (02:23):
We're doing it in Louisville.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
We're doing it in Louisville, and I'll reach it out
and to make sure you're included in that.
Speaker 4 (02:29):
Oh yeah, I'm coming out. I listen, man, I'm not playing.
I gotta see you all because Susan and I are
both are gigantic Van Morrison fans.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
But this will be your first time.
Speaker 4 (02:40):
You're from Louisville, Trinity graduate in nineteen seventy three Van
Morrison tribute band, and this is the first time you're playing.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
Yeah, it's awesome, man, it's awesome.
Speaker 4 (02:49):
You gotta do you gotta do a call to action
with Trinity, right, Yeah?
Speaker 5 (02:53):
I am? I am and I grew up in Saint Matthews.
I mean, oh, there you go. All that all that's
just great?
Speaker 1 (03:00):
Yeah, broh. And you know this, Brown Eyed Girl is
the one song that the DJs get the girls up
to dance, uh, and that's the one everybody dances. Glory
is one of my favorites.
Speaker 6 (03:12):
Eye Girl.
Speaker 4 (03:13):
Brown Eyed Girl is also the song that every single
UH band.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
That just goes to play, Oh yeah, right, hate you pass? Yes,
what about you do you hate playing the song?
Speaker 4 (03:25):
Say?
Speaker 3 (03:25):
Hey, we just gotta do it.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
We hate, we hate playing it, but once you play it, once.
Speaker 5 (03:31):
You play it, everybody goes crazy.
Speaker 6 (03:33):
So what do you do. You have to play it?
Speaker 3 (03:35):
You gotta play it.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
Yeah. My two favorites are and It Stoned Me and
Days like This are two of my favorite Van Morrison songs.
Speaker 5 (03:45):
Is that the both of them?
Speaker 1 (03:48):
Yes, perfect, perfect, Well, we cannot wait.
Speaker 5 (03:52):
But we can't wait either. I'm so excited to.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
Be back in Louisville, good golly, and hopefully get another
place to play there, uh down the road here, So
we're excited as heck up.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
Well, we're so proud of you and and everything you've accomplished.
And I know I talked to some trity folks that
went around to school about the same time, and they
love you, and they're gonna be there on June seventh
at Brown Park Man. It's gonna be a great welcome
home for you, and you are the headliner for that night,
and it's gonna be a lot of fun. Pack Garvey,
We'll see you June seventh on stage.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
Buddy, you got it, Thank you guy, thanks so much.
Speaker 3 (04:28):
We can't wait to see you.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
Yeah, yeah, I can't wait see you, buddy.
Speaker 5 (04:31):
Win can't wait to be there. Thank you. Oh you goat.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
I'm gonna out Van Morrison.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
No, don't do that.
Speaker 4 (04:36):
I'm gonna bring my own mister microphone. I'm gonna seek
into their pa and this is gonna be my got
your moment.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
Yeah, uh, they've got He's got so many hits again
and it stoned me and uh and and days like
this are my two favorites. Gloria of course when he
was with them. Into the Mystic is the one everybody.
Speaker 4 (04:55):
Oh no, Heather Fresh Henry says, cleaning Windows. Rick, do
you have Van Morrison song called cleaning Windows? She also said,
Into the Mystic, which I love.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
Yes, that's gonna be a lot of funck.
Speaker 3 (05:09):
Have you ever heard of a Van Morrison song called
cleaning Windows? Maybe he's looking up.
Speaker 5 (05:13):
No, I've never heard of that. I'll have to research that.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
See if you can find her right now.
Speaker 4 (05:16):
Because Heather French Henry just okay, it's curiosity.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
It really is a perfect headliner for that day because
it's gonna be a lot of fun. June seventh, uh
noon until ten pm. It all starts with like yoga
in the morning, rise and shine yoga. I know, Dwight
will be there for that.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
I'll be skipping that part, you know why. All right,
I've got something wrong.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
With my eye.
Speaker 3 (05:43):
They have a zipline talking like that. They didn't like
it like that.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
They said, they have a zip line that can take
your weight. So you're good.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
Two percent of charities.
Speaker 4 (05:54):
And these folks, they're rated by Charity Navigator year.
Speaker 3 (05:58):
After year after year.
Speaker 5 (06:00):
Here at the table.
Speaker 4 (06:00):
If you get money, it gets to the veterans, let
me tell you. And like for example, if if they
can't make their bank note for their home, they'll go
fore clothes on it. USA Cares they step in. They
don't give the man or the woman the money. They
just pay it on their behalf to the bank. That's
what they do. They keep veterans from getting evicted. They
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keep electric on, water on groceries. Will you name the
need USA Care doesn't.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
All right, here's some news and notes from today. We
haven't gotten to of course, they will talk more about
this tomorrow. But JCPS has chosen their superintendent. That was
last week, doctor Brian Earwood. And he has not come
in with some controversy. From his last stop as a superintendent,
he was making double what he will make here. I
(06:49):
don't understand sounds very similar to the lampd Oh, Terry
Miners is my god?
Speaker 3 (06:54):
Probably fifty bucks. Oh, but got fifty bucks.
Speaker 6 (07:00):
Birthday out us.
Speaker 4 (07:07):
Oh golly, I feel like I wish a dream kid.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
I asked for Kerry Miners in the show up Uh.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
So uh.
Speaker 7 (07:20):
All good and enjoying your show. I like I love
this cause Yes, Yes cares such a great organization.
Speaker 4 (07:26):
I want to get back to the superintendent because I
tried to stay away from the news. The best I
could was on vacation. But you can't help but gleaning
a little bit. He came from one understand Uh.
Speaker 3 (07:38):
His last job.
Speaker 4 (07:41):
He left on terms that were kept under wraps or
something along the lines and yet not disclosure, and he
lost that job.
Speaker 7 (07:49):
It's the only question I've been asking is just like,
why don't we because we've been through this thing with
some police chief eleaders two times where things that happened
in Atlanta, Uh, and we just didn't do enough due diligence.
Just I'm gonna doce dig just below the sand on
the beach. It's just not that we're not excavated.
Speaker 3 (08:07):
Get suggestion, can make a suggestion. Maybe if j CPS
could raise our property taxes. Have fun. They had funny.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
I dug him.
Speaker 6 (08:19):
Every year I drive by taxes.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
But I'm gonna switch real quick. USA Cares is why
we're here. But the Crusade for Children are coming up soon.
We're gonna be there. You you've been already. I've seen
you already doing all of the bits that we're that.
Speaker 3 (08:34):
You do already.
Speaker 7 (08:36):
I've already visited l g and E. The employees are
so great. That's lg and E.
Speaker 3 (08:41):
N KU can't tell you something.
Speaker 4 (08:42):
Yeah, this show supports the lg and E Community's let
me to go on a.
Speaker 3 (08:46):
Record for that.
Speaker 6 (08:47):
Okay, that's going deep. That is that's a commitment.
Speaker 7 (08:51):
And I mean, but I love it that, Like, you know,
the people that at such a huge organization are mindful
of the Crusade for Children. It's you know, it's it's
it's fun to get churches and civic groups involved in it.
But when we get major, you know, groups like that,
I mean, got tens of thousands of employees and they
all go, yeah, I want to give right And we
went out and picked up a check for three hundred
(09:12):
and thirty seven.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
Oh, oh my gosh, that is incredible. We had there
was someone here earlier today as a child. Crusade helped him.
He had bums with his legs. He was actually telling
him the procedure that Koseir did where they would pull
the bone apart and then the bones would grow together
to make that leg taw longer. And I said, and again,
a lot of these families. It touches so many people
(09:34):
in this town. I always says it is. It's one
of the thing he gets me going every year.
Speaker 7 (09:39):
Cu Shade Well, I mean, I also do a segment
with Kevin Adams. I've already recorded. He is like a
helper with Fern Creek Fire Department. He's wheelchair bound, has
been his whole life. Started when he was nine years
old helping Fern Creek. This year he goes out and
collects every year, so he's done since he's nine. He's
about sixty seven, sixty eight years old. Now this year
(10:01):
for lifetime, he's going to cross the five hundred thousand.
Speaker 1 (10:04):
That's crazy. One man, that's crazy, one dude. One man
in a wheelchair, unlivable and again again at these organizations.
So the day after June eighth or whatever it is,
after the crusade, these organizations will start, uh, get the
money next year, and and it's an all year so
it's not like we everybody's like, wow, they raised money,
they raised six million in one weekend. No, this is
(10:25):
a whole year long process. And the firefighters are so
important and I can't wait to see our old friends.
Speaker 7 (10:31):
Well, I just appreciate all of our people that show
up to the crusade is in our bone marrow and
it's important that we continue keeping it strong as we
go from generation generation. I love when I see Grandpa firefighter.
His son's a firefighter. His kid is in high school,
but he's there helping the crusade, learning the lessons.
Speaker 3 (10:50):
I'm trying to figure out which fire department excels the
most in this when it comes to.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
Oh don't know, I can't go there. We go.
Speaker 3 (11:00):
Me look it up on my Google machine. Which fire departners.
Oh it's prp.
Speaker 7 (11:06):
Oh yes, Fern Creek now is combined with so many
other groups they give all that they give them a run.
Speaker 4 (11:14):
They're like high View and Taylor. I call a bunch
of I call those pumpkin eaters. Cheater, pumpkin eater pulling
the resource. U.
Speaker 1 (11:23):
No, that's true, though they have combined a lot of
Saint Matthew's just a bunch of them.
Speaker 4 (11:27):
Were you pretty much automatic bough? I mean you've been
involved with the Crusade.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
Forty forty years years.
Speaker 7 (11:34):
Yeah, this would be my fortieth Crusade because this is
my completing my fortieth year at h A h Wow.
Speaker 1 (11:40):
One of my favorite memories with US two was he
I was doing my thing and Terry was on the
other side, and Hubers came in and they had a
thing of strawberries and you were thirty forty feet away,
and you said, I'm doing my thing, and you go,
you know, Terry, hey, don't he And you picked a
strawberry and threw it across the across the entire studio
(12:01):
and I leaned down and it ran right into my mouth.
It was an increase and they got a eight you know,
eight shot b shot, see it right, they got the
shot of it. I couldn't believe it. But we we
like to have fun while we're doing this exactly right.
Speaker 7 (12:13):
It's just an important thing. I mean, we're helping out
special needs families. It's not just the children. It is
like Kevin, the guy just mentioned, has raised a half
a million dollars he's a he's almost seventy years old,
but he's he's needed the Crusade his whole life. And
he explained on TV the other day, and we were
recording this. Wheelchairs paid for, this therapy paid for and
I just can't thank people enough.
Speaker 6 (12:34):
That's why I go out and work.
Speaker 1 (12:35):
And those little so people are at a hospital. It's
the little medallions and I'm attached to saw the incubators
and all that.
Speaker 7 (12:41):
I saw that when my own second son was born,
son and there were some issues, and right away they
started wheeling in machines and I'll say, Crusader, wow, wow,
full circle.
Speaker 1 (12:50):
It's really cool and he can get it's fun, but
it also can get very emotional. And we'll be out there.
We're back in the studios. Yeah, but Kobe kind of
sent us out to a fire station for a while,
which was great, but we were back in w h
S studio. You can listen to it right here on
news Radio eight forty w h a S. We'll have
it broadcast live and then the big countdown on Sunday
(13:11):
night about six thirty issues.
Speaker 6 (13:13):
Well, here's the good news.
Speaker 7 (13:14):
The NBA told us go off at seven because we
have a play on NBA Finals game.
Speaker 1 (13:20):
Okay, leave to go.
Speaker 7 (13:21):
On to like one of the Wayne Perky still be
there at three in the minute more, I want to interview.
He brought sps way, here's ano little tribune note there.
Just they're getting rid of the US penny. You know
they're gonna stop making Yes, yeah, every year, Dawn just
told me this. Every year the Crusade manages about thirty
(13:41):
seven thousand dollars pennies.
Speaker 3 (13:43):
Wow, the Witns have it penny less for years.
Speaker 1 (13:49):
I know a lot of people did not want to
start the date with me on Sunday mornings because I
did a Milton Mets and I did it, and he
passed away that year, and then I had Wayne Perky
and then he passed away that year, and then the
next year was Tony Cruise and I go, good luck son.
Oh no, Tony Cruz is saying goodbye this week. He is.
Speaker 6 (14:09):
We all remember when he was a woman and he
was mooring.
Speaker 3 (14:12):
His name was.
Speaker 6 (14:15):
I thought it was Mediterranean Crew.
Speaker 1 (14:17):
I couldn't remember, Uh, mister Westboord High School, twenty years
in the seat at mornings. It's we all have done mornings.
Speaker 3 (14:26):
Morning morning. All three of us had done morning.
Speaker 7 (14:30):
I did eight years of morning radio, and I felt
like for the for the next ten years. After I
was finished, I still felt tired.
Speaker 4 (14:36):
Oh kid kidding, because when I was in my twenties
and thirties and it was horrible, then I'm not gonna
do this.
Speaker 1 (14:43):
It'll break your brain. It'll break your brain. But Terry
Miner's coming by to say happy birthday.
Speaker 6 (14:49):
I love you, Dwight. You're awesome. You were awesome.
Speaker 7 (14:52):
Yes, And I posted something on your wife's Facebook thing
where she's congratulating on your birthday, and it said something
about you and me and all the nights we've spent together,
and I said this check GPT.
Speaker 1 (15:04):
Thank you Terry Miners today at three pm. More on
their crusade a little bit later with that, but.
Speaker 4 (15:09):
Here at Harty Harry could tell you how the Witting
Home is just checked out with beautiful Sims Furniture, Sims
one am In Sims Furniture, Dixie Highway, Preston Highway.
Speaker 3 (15:20):
You're gonna love it. What kind of deals are we
talking about? I don't know. How about this?
Speaker 4 (15:24):
How about a seven piece bedroom set only nine hundred
and ninety nine dollars. Just go ahead and upgrade that
sofa in the living room, the dining room, the kitchen,
the bedroom. And by the way, you got financing, just
tell them Dwight whitting the financier has approved you Sims furniture.
Speaker 3 (15:40):
You're gonna love it.
Speaker 1 (15:41):
Yeah, Dwight used to just steal furniture from people that
would leave it out on the silent road. And then
you found Simms.
Speaker 3 (15:46):
Yeah, I did early yards, so was my motif.
Speaker 1 (15:48):
It's fantastic. Back after this on News Radio eight forty
whas can we bring in Todd Murphy and Jim Lockerrow.
Speaker 4 (15:54):
Before we talked to Todd and Jim, let me say
two things. I'm getting sick and tired of God name Todd.
Second of all, we were talking about it. Second of all,
we were talking about how miserable it is do mornings
on the air. And that's when Nick Coffee says, uh, hey,
awesome to hear my great morning gig is going to
be so much.
Speaker 1 (16:14):
He is replacing Hey, Tony.
Speaker 4 (16:16):
Next, Hey, we didn't tell you how bad it sucks
until until you committed to the job.
Speaker 3 (16:20):
Let's do this. How we going, guys?
Speaker 6 (16:22):
Doing great morning?
Speaker 3 (16:23):
All right?
Speaker 1 (16:24):
We're talking about the transition that you may tell me
your story.
Speaker 8 (16:27):
Sure, Uh so, Uh, this is Jim and uh just
retired out of the army last summer summer twenty four.
Speaker 6 (16:33):
After thirty years years.
Speaker 1 (16:37):
That's amazing.
Speaker 8 (16:38):
I served as an infantry officer. Best best, uh best experience,
you know, all the deployments and everything still is a great,
great experience. But you get to that end of that point.
It doesn't matter if you served four years or you
serve thirty years. When you transition out of the military,
you you can lose your sense of purpose, and you
can lose your tribe and you because you have you
have a tribe that's built around you, that that supports
(16:59):
system that's around you, and that that can be a challenge.
It's not a challenge for everybody. A lot of folks
transition and do great, but a lot of folks do struggle,
especially senior folks for some reason. It's interesting, a lot
of senior folks do struggle with that transition. Things were
a certain way for so long, and you're expecting certain
things or and you expected certain kinds of support that's
(17:19):
just not there when you get out, and that can
be very very difficult. That mental transition can be very
very difficult for folks.
Speaker 1 (17:24):
So, and how did you find USA Cares?
Speaker 8 (17:26):
So I was, you know, that that crusty old colonel
who thought I had this all figured out. Can I
did my own adventure on this career skills program. So
I just made my own one one up that didn't
quite work out. And so at the end of the
day I didn't have a job. So I contacted USA Cares,
Trace and Matt and they met with Todd here and Todd.
Todd helped me out, went through my resume and got
(17:48):
me sorted out.
Speaker 9 (17:49):
Todd, you've heard the story report. Yeah, last time we
were on we kind of talked about this and the
beauty of this program. It allows us to look at
that skill set that those service members have. I really
tried to put them in the direction that they want
to go. It's a second career, you know. It's kind
of like we were talking in the break. It's kind
of like if I told you too, you're not gonna
do radio anymore, but you're gonna do something different. That
(18:12):
creates a whole new anxiety of Okay, what I do well,
what things do I want to do?
Speaker 3 (18:17):
What's going to make me do?
Speaker 5 (18:17):
Cartwill more point of reference.
Speaker 3 (18:20):
Our bosses do tell us that every day. God, but.
Speaker 4 (18:26):
It is extremely difficult because it's a brand new life,
especially you know, if you retire, if you go to
do thirty years. A friend of mine just about five
years ago dropped his papers after around thirty years and
he was Special Forces, and quite frankly, I worried about him.
I worried about him deeply because he would come over
for the holidays with Susan and I and I thought,
(18:46):
what in the world is his life going to be
like without this part missing? And thank god he he
got connected with veteran organizations. But I cannot say enough
good stuff about USA Cares And I want to say
this again one more time and the hell out.
Speaker 3 (19:00):
And I don't care.
Speaker 4 (19:02):
They get rated on Charity Navigator. Charity Navigator, they're going
to rate the top two percent.
Speaker 3 (19:08):
That's it man.
Speaker 4 (19:09):
And USA Cares. They're rated on Charity Navigator year after
year after year after year. USA cares dot Org.
Speaker 1 (19:16):
So when they find you, sorry, when they find you,
how's the process work and how do they get a
hold of you and all that stuff? So where do
we go from the beginning?
Speaker 9 (19:23):
Yeah, So part of that is they can do it
through the service organization that they're in. I do job
fairs and I do CSP briefings at Fort Knox and
Fort Campbell, So there's a way I connect with service
members as well. Our reputation speaks for itself, so we
kind of walk the walk and talk to the talk
and so career transition. We have service members that recommend
(19:44):
us right, hey, you should look into the USA cares.
Todd might not be able to promise you anything, but
he can help point you in those directions that can
help with that anxiety. And we talk about those things.
So that's the key, and that's what we did with Jim, is, Hey,
what do you want to do, Jim, what's the second
half of life look like outside the military? And then
we just talked. We spent probably an hour on the
phone the first time we talked talking about what you
(20:06):
want to do, you want to go about doing it?
Is that feasible coming out of the military being a
senior leader. There's sometimes that the civilian world says, oh,
you've got great still set, But there's nothing in the
civilian world that I can go to my bosses and say,
we need to hire this person or it's the anxiety
of doing that too. Yeah, I want to hire this person,
but I don't know what to do with the veteran.
(20:26):
This person is so skilled that it's tough for me
to try to find a place for you sometimes.
Speaker 5 (20:32):
So that's the key there.
Speaker 1 (20:33):
Well, I think the anxiety word here. I want to
ask you. You probably didn't. I don't know. I can't
speak for you. For when you went into the service,
you were young, gong hold, ready to go. So now
what was coming after you? You were gonna take care
of it. Did you have more anxiety leaving the service
than you did going in it?
Speaker 6 (20:51):
Absolutely?
Speaker 8 (20:52):
Yeah, it was unbelievable. I was very, very anxious getting
out because you start wondering. I mean, at the end
of the day, the paycheck, when you're on ACTI duty,
it's coming in. Yeah, honestly, it's just going to come in, right,
That's not the case on the outside, So he start
second guessing yourself. You know, I've been doing this for
thirty years and I've been told what to do, and
I just go do that and you can be successful.
And I did not see that path.
Speaker 1 (21:14):
There was at one of the galos about five or
six years ago, we had a general speak, and he
said he knew his transition was going to be different.
When you go do your paperwork to lead and he's
a general and there's a private barking at him and
yelling at him that you're gonna sit down until I
call your name, and he goes that's his brain went click.
I'm about to go into a new world because the
(21:35):
private's yelling at him to do what he said to do.
Speaker 8 (21:38):
I remember sitting at the in the parking ride at
Fort Knox when I signed out finally and I sat there,
I was like, I don't know where to go right now.
Oh I didn't have a place I needed to be.
I didn't, So that was kind of like that's when
it really hit me out here. I got my paperwork
and it's like, I don't have anywhere I need to
be right now.
Speaker 1 (21:53):
I think your purpose driven? Yes, yes, so obviously your colonel.
You don't get to be a colonel without being purpose driven.
So what did you find that match?
Speaker 5 (22:03):
After the service?
Speaker 8 (22:04):
So I played around a little bit with a few
different things.
Speaker 5 (22:06):
Nothing Really I got to the point.
Speaker 8 (22:08):
Where I didn't want to chase a dollar because it
was just not was wasn't meaningful for me, and that's
when I got pulled over. And actually I was able
to take over Matt's position for VP for Government Corporate Relations.
And that's been huge.
Speaker 5 (22:21):
I spent its challenge. It's you know, it's it's been
a challenge.
Speaker 8 (22:24):
One thing I'd like to throw out through a real
quick too, is, you know, interesting times we're in right
now economically around the country. But if folks will say, hey,
we was gonna watch and see how things settle out
over time, we need those donations.
Speaker 5 (22:38):
We need those donations. We absolutely because if you think.
Speaker 8 (22:41):
That that's it's stressful there, how about those veterans out
there that are hurting right now?
Speaker 5 (22:45):
Is twice as bad for them.
Speaker 4 (22:46):
So and by the way, when you get to USA
cares dot org USA cares dot org and you make
a donation, the donation it's getting to the veteran. I
want to stress this again, I'm beating a dead horse.
I don't care.
Speaker 7 (22:58):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (22:59):
Rated by you already, navigator, year after year after year,
that's just the top two percent charities that there is.
Speaker 3 (23:05):
This charity is as good as gold.
Speaker 4 (23:07):
When you donate your you can rest assured your money's
going to the veterans.
Speaker 1 (23:11):
Serve Memorial Day yesterday. You've been in the service thirty years.
I'm sure you have friends that aren't with us anymore.
Speaker 6 (23:17):
Yes, yes, I do.
Speaker 8 (23:20):
Actually found a lot, shared a lot with friends, especially
in the last appointment Afghanistan that was very tough, and
just sharing those memories and you don't have to use
a lot of words with the folks you were there with,
but just remembering, Hey, you remember so and so. Do
you remember so and so? And I looked, honestly, but
to keep a little that whole part private, but sure
you do. You share that, and I'm glad we got
(23:44):
to remember what Memorial Day is and what Veterans Day
is or two different things.
Speaker 1 (23:47):
And so you know it is different. I went to
a change in command with my buddy and he it
was different from the ones he was in combat with,
like his battalion. Those guys were crying. They were literally
trying yep that the changing command was happening because they
were in combat for so long together. It's crazy.
Speaker 8 (24:03):
It does you get that bond, Like I said, and
back to my point on transitioning out, you lose that
bond and until you run to another veteran, you don't
know what you who you're talking to really and your
regards up a little bit and you are like, I
don't know you, you know, but you find that other
veteran out there and you can latch on.
Speaker 6 (24:21):
So it's a it's real, it's real.
Speaker 4 (24:23):
I think it's a very important angle to veteran community
because again, a buddy mine and Tony retire Special Forces.
He's part of Veterans MC, the motorcycle clubs, sure, and
that gives him a community where they could all talk
together and actually helped heal together. Because if you you
(24:45):
could talk to me all day long about different experiences, I.
Speaker 3 (24:48):
Could be a good ear. But you know, I know
exactly nothing about your trials and tribula.
Speaker 1 (24:53):
Dwyke would relate to the bar gigs of the nineteen nineties, yes,
and that he would have to talk to a bartender
from the nineteen nineties of Phoenix. Todd again, tell us
how people can get a hold of you or corporate
corporate side of that.
Speaker 9 (25:05):
Yeah, yeah, absolutely, Yeah, us cares dot org. They can
reach out there, connect with us. My email address is
Todd dot Murphy at us acres dot org. Would love
to reach out. You know, the beauty of this, this organization,
and this fellowship is it's small, medium, large sized companies.
Right of G appliances locally is great, great resource for us.
(25:30):
The beauty that is they can take logistics and operations
and IT people and and that vast network that they have,
and they have a great veterans resource group. I would
also recommend if you're a company and you have three
veterans five veterans, start a veterans resource group and empower
those veterans to say, hey, you might want to look
at some of these veterans that are coming out of
(25:52):
the service for these positions. And I think that snowball
starts very very quickly.
Speaker 1 (25:57):
I think we get lost sometimes. And I may have
this percentage wrong, but I believe that only one or
two percent of the military is combat. The personnel, Right,
you have electricians and plumbers and other people that work
on trucks and airplanes. They have skill sets, true absolutely.
Speaker 9 (26:16):
You know if you if you go to Fort Knox,
you have senior leaders, different different skill set. You go
to Fort Campbell, much more different skill set, two different
army bases, right, and so just a different dynamic. And
I think that's the skill set that you can look
for and some people make it a lifetime and retirement
of it. And you have a lot of service members
that are coming out after six ten years that have
(26:39):
great qualifications. They have those soft skills already done right right,
the easy stuff.
Speaker 4 (26:43):
So what's your story, Todd? How did you get connected
with USA Cares?
Speaker 9 (26:46):
Oh, I'm a Chamber of Commerce guy. I was meeting
with Tray Chesser, the former CEO and TRACE and was
talking about how to get involved. I know that the
Chamber was doing stuff with with the army and talking
about this program. How do we keep vets in the
state right, instead of turning out of Fort Campbell and
turning right and going to Tennessee, we want them to
(27:08):
turn left and stay in Kentucky.
Speaker 5 (27:10):
And so, but there's a tax advantage to leave.
Speaker 1 (27:12):
The Fort Campbell's like split, isn't it? Yeah? The whole
the base is one sides in Tennessee, one sides in Kentucky.
And most people retire and go to Tennessee.
Speaker 4 (27:23):
Holy knew, if only we knew that Kentucky straight representatives.
Speaker 3 (27:29):
What a shame.
Speaker 4 (27:30):
And there's there's a tax advantage after starving being in
Kentucky and leaving Kentucky we're losing veterans.
Speaker 9 (27:36):
And coming from the Chamber of Commerce where it was,
let Frankfurt's doing a great job of looking at all
those facets of how do we keep our veterans and realistically,
how do we recruit veterans to come and move into that. Yeah,
money goes a lot further. You know, it's a great
place to live, raise a family. So I think that's
(27:56):
the one thing we're for US corporations to which you
gographically located right ups learned it many many years ago,
Like this is a great spot to start building companies,
And so I think we have a talent workforce that
we are trying to tap into. The hard part is
just like with transition, it's finding the right fit with
the skill set, with the right organization, and that just
takes a little bit more work than what sometimes we're
(28:17):
realizing a.
Speaker 1 (28:18):
Big corrected hang on from our newsroom. John Shannon, twenty
five year vet in the Army, he says ten to
fifteen percent our military combat arms, not one or two,
So center fifteen.
Speaker 4 (28:28):
Can a chamber of commerce people fixed parking tickets?
Speaker 1 (28:33):
That's one of many.
Speaker 3 (28:34):
I don't know if you know anybody in there.
Speaker 6 (28:35):
One of many.
Speaker 3 (28:36):
I just hand this to you.
Speaker 1 (28:39):
No, he's just gonna leave it there with some cats
that might have fallen onto the ground. We appreciate your service,
Thank you so much. And guys coming in today and
USA Cares is part of our show and it's part
of our mission too, So we appreciate you guys so much.
Speaker 5 (28:53):
Thank you, thanks so much.
Speaker 4 (28:54):
Has you at usacres dot org, USA Cares dot org.
Speaker 3 (28:58):
And one more time, good to see it, Todd.
Speaker 4 (29:00):
I'm getting sick and tired of guy's name time.
Speaker 3 (29:05):
George Carlin, thank you, Jim.
Speaker 1 (29:07):
All right, man, we're just about gonna wrap this thing
up before we go. I don't know, give me one,
give me one, Rick.
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Speaker 1 (29:44):
Didn't you get a big endorsement this week from someone
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All right, anybody for me, Rick, before we go to break?
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