Speaker 1: Sighted week days at nine. It's going to be very
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Speaker 2: That's the approaching eight oh six here, fifty five KRC
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Speaker 2: the fifty five KRC Morning Show. I've got in studio
Speaker 2: from Patriots Landing, which is just a fantastic organization. Joe's
Speaker 2: been Joe Montgomery, he's been in the studio and he's
Speaker 2: talking on the fifty five Carssey Morning Show quite a
Speaker 2: few times over the years.
Speaker 1: Joe, welcome back, man. Always a pleasure to see you.
Speaker 1: Good morning, Brian same here.
Speaker 2: Your mission is an outstanding one, and let us talk
Speaker 2: about let's listen, pretend like the listening audience has never
Speaker 2: heard from you before, because I know that people listening
Speaker 2: to the program right now that don't know what the
Speaker 2: hell's Patriot Landing. Thomas Deep's wacking, waxing poetic about Patriots Landing.
Speaker 2: You started this because of the inspiration you got from
Speaker 2: your father, who probably served his country as a marine, right.
Speaker 1: Yes, sir, Yeah, good memory. We were just talking about that.
Speaker 3: But yeah, so and as you know, we lost him
Speaker 3: in November, and so I appreciate you starting out that
Speaker 3: way because one of the things were to do in
Speaker 3: twenty twenty five because of the passing of my father.
Speaker 3: And really the reason that I started this, I'm kind
Speaker 3: of like a Bill Gates or whomever, because we literally
Speaker 3: started cutting wood in my garage over in northern Kentucky
Speaker 3: and that was to make the burial flag cases that
Speaker 3: you're well aware of this.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Arlington Cemetery used to sell what they were Chinese made.
Speaker 1: Well, No, Arlington Arlington did not.
Speaker 2: No, I'm sorry. I I remember the story. You go
Speaker 2: ahead and tell it, but I do remember correcting myself
Speaker 2: in my head. We were talking off air about he said,
Speaker 2: how old are you now? And it's a lot of
Speaker 2: these sixteen September It's like it was unrelated. It was
Speaker 2: a fun fact about where the microphones are here in
Speaker 2: the studio. It's like, yeah, I should have committed that
Speaker 2: to memory by now, been here in these studios for
Speaker 2: a couple of years. I said, there's no more room
Speaker 2: in the hard drive. He said, yeah. It starts happening
Speaker 2: around this age, Like, ah, I know, the same age.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I know, I know, I know.
Speaker 2: Anyway, you look at the back to the flag busy,
Speaker 2: you know, to that point.
Speaker 3: It was in late twenty fourteen that I was at
Speaker 3: a veterans cemetery and down in Williams Soun, Kentucky, and
Speaker 3: I discovered there were sixteen indigent veterans that had been
Speaker 3: buried with no family and they just random Michael's God
Speaker 3: loved Michaels great organization, I'm sure. But when they bought
Speaker 3: the barrel flagcases there and put the veterans burial flags
Speaker 3: in them, they put their names on them in case
Speaker 3: the love one ever showed up, and that's that's when
Speaker 3: I discovered that they're At that time, at that one cemetery,
Speaker 3: there were sixteen American flags folded in cases with a
Speaker 3: big maiden China stick. And as you well know, we
Speaker 3: both feel very strongly about that, and that was the
Speaker 3: precipice to take me from where we had started doing
Speaker 3: things for veterans, which was making cornhole boards and bags
Speaker 3: and shipping them all over the world, just a little
Speaker 3: kind of like you know, care gift package for some
Speaker 3: fun for our troops, moved into the burial flightcases. And
Speaker 3: then that that's what kicked us into the becoming a
Speaker 3: five to one C three. So we've been now a
Speaker 3: five o one c three actually coming up next month,
Speaker 3: it'll be years.
Speaker 1: Has it been that long? Ten years?
Speaker 3: Yeah, So I look back at that journey, and I
Speaker 3: look back at, you know, prior to that, doing the
Speaker 3: the corn hole boards for probably a good five years.
Speaker 3: You know, I'm a good fifteen sixteen years into this,
Speaker 3: which I think is part of the reason, just because
Speaker 3: of sticking with it and having this strong desire to
Speaker 3: continue to grow. Uh, is why we are where we
Speaker 3: are today. But one of the themes that I wanted
Speaker 3: to talk to you today about, Brian, and it's really
Speaker 3: relative to what we even talked about earlier, is there
Speaker 3: we're a faith based organization and I think that, you know,
Speaker 3: trusting in God's plan for us, for our families, for
Speaker 3: really everything is one hundred percent the reason we are
Speaker 3: where we are. And I kind of might do this backwards.
Speaker 3: I wanted to talk about a new thing with to
Speaker 3: share with your listeners, but I brought another gift for
Speaker 3: you today, and this literally was created within the last
Speaker 3: three or four days. We get these inspirations in the
Speaker 3: shop and it's not me ninety nine percent of time anymore.
Speaker 3: It's not me, it's one of our veteransans they're like, Joe,
Speaker 3: you know, I really this, or they see something or this,
Speaker 3: and then well you've had miss Lynn Arnold in Oh
Speaker 3: Young Greens.
Speaker 1: She's a wonderful, wonderful lady.
Speaker 3: She's awesome. She really also happens to be my better half.
Speaker 3: So yeah, I'm.
Speaker 1: Gonna look on your face. I never made the connection.
Speaker 2: You're out of your element, man, you out kicked your coverage.
Speaker 1: Yeah, she's she's uh, she is awesome.
Speaker 4: Wow.
Speaker 3: And and actually she got in trouble this morning because
Speaker 3: she's a good west Side girl. I'm a near west
Speaker 3: Side boy, being from Cole Raine. But you know her, her,
Speaker 3: her and her dad used to come to your breakfast
Speaker 3: all the time. She lost her dad actually last year
Speaker 3: as well.
Speaker 2: Well.
Speaker 1: The listener lunches.
Speaker 3: The listener lunches, and her mom, Miss Dell Arnold, straight
Speaker 3: up west side, west Side price Hell texted her the
Speaker 3: morning Joe's gonna be on Brian's show, and you didn't
Speaker 3: let me know. Oh no, yeah, so you dropped the ball. Well,
Speaker 3: that family is very much a fan of yours, as
Speaker 3: we all are. But so anyway, one of the things
Speaker 3: that I'm gonna do this year to re engage and
Speaker 3: help me. Remember my dad uh Is get back as
Speaker 3: he was a you know, life long parishioner at Saint
Speaker 3: Anne's Engross Back and did everything and gave everything and volunteered.
Speaker 3: Is we're gonna try to embrace and create more products
Speaker 3: based on our faith based organization. So this little bogger
Speaker 3: right here and I'll see if you can see it.
Speaker 3: Let's see what that is there? Beautiful?
Speaker 1: So that's that's obviously Jesus, and it is on thorns.
Speaker 2: Ways though it takes you a second for it to
Speaker 2: come into focus, it does.
Speaker 1: It does. It's a beautiful piece of artwork.
Speaker 2: It's a it's it's a cross and it's got so.
Speaker 1: The top part of that you go to the jigs Arnold. No, nope.
Speaker 3: So we now because of our growth, we've grown in
Speaker 3: products and equipment and we have a laser engraver at
Speaker 3: the shop.
Speaker 1: Now, oh that's how you have turned that.
Speaker 3: I saw that and I said to miss Lynn, I said,
Speaker 3: can you make this? And she of course can do
Speaker 3: anything like that, and she created that file and we
Speaker 3: started cutting that out. Now, all everybody I've shown that
Speaker 3: to in the last probably three or four days, has
Speaker 3: seen it. We have one air force vendor and he's
Speaker 3: eighty eight. We call him Wild Bill. He comes down
Speaker 3: twice a week. He's a machine. He will outwork anybody there.
Speaker 3: He's eighty eight years old. Oh by, for the life
Speaker 3: of me, he cannot he sees a tree. He cannot
Speaker 3: come up.
Speaker 2: Well, listen that he can't see Jesus after staring at
Speaker 2: it for a while.
Speaker 1: That's one thing.
Speaker 2: But initially my reaction was I thought it was some
Speaker 2: type of foliage or maybe a tree when you first
Speaker 2: held it up. It's almost like one of those those
Speaker 2: paintings where you have to kind of stare at it
Speaker 2: until he image finally appears to you. That's how the
Speaker 2: subtleness of it is cool. I think it's amazing. Joe,
Speaker 2: I'll tell you what. Listening on you and You're like,
Speaker 2: what the hell are they talking about? I wish I
Speaker 2: could see it. Joe's gonna put a picture of it
Speaker 2: up on my blog page fifty five Caracy their Comedies.
Speaker 1: In the process of doing that.
Speaker 2: Right now, Joe, I could probably take a better picture
Speaker 2: with my camera and shoot it to you and text
Speaker 2: it to you over the break.
Speaker 1: Anyway, Sorry, I brought one for you.
Speaker 3: I appreciate for Joe because he's my good old thesal man,
Speaker 3: and I know he's a he's a good man. So
Speaker 3: this literally was made in the last three days. I
Speaker 3: thought about it, and I wanted to bring you little something,
Speaker 3: and I wanted to talk about our journey and being
Speaker 3: a faith based organization, how important it is to us
Speaker 3: and to all of our veterans that come down and
Speaker 3: all the people that visit us. And I just think this.
Speaker 3: I'm in love with this little thing. And I literally
Speaker 3: threw it online this morning. It doesn't have a picture up.
Speaker 3: We're gonna start making the we're gonna start selling them. Obviously,
Speaker 3: this is how we share ourselves. But maybe I could
Speaker 3: take a picture of you holding it and I'll put
Speaker 3: it on the website today until we get a better picture.
Speaker 1: You absolutely can do that.
Speaker 2: A lot of my listeners are gonna want to get
Speaker 2: one of these, and again, help support your organization. And
Speaker 2: real quick here, just not to move away from this,
Speaker 2: and we can come back to this, but close the
Speaker 2: loop on the flag box because I had mentioned Arlington,
Speaker 2: but ultimately you started making the flag boxes because of
Speaker 2: your experience at that Kentucky cemetery. But you got Arlington
Speaker 2: to start buying your flagcases made in your shop in
Speaker 2: northern Kentucky exclusively.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so well they had you know, I didn't know
Speaker 3: anything about flagcases. I'd never been in that market, and
Speaker 3: so I thought, who can I call that would know
Speaker 3: the most, and Arlington came to mind.
Speaker 1: I just picked up the phone and called and got
Speaker 1: a whole the right person.
Speaker 3: You know, God had a plan for that, because I
Speaker 3: could have called and had somebody say, I don't know
Speaker 3: what you're talking about.
Speaker 1: We don't see you later, Joe.
Speaker 3: But I got a whole the right person and I
Speaker 3: shared my story and on that same phone call, as
Speaker 3: you know, it wasn't even a MultiPhone call email thing.
Speaker 3: It was I told my story and what we were
Speaker 3: doing and the fact that they're made by veterans. They
Speaker 3: just fell in love with it, and we, you know,
Speaker 3: we made four cases and I grabbed my dad and
Speaker 3: we road tripped up to Arlington. And it was one
Speaker 3: of the most memorable few days of my life because
Speaker 3: we went through all the memorials and all the everything
Speaker 3: up in DC and then to Arlington.
Speaker 2: And now it's very special, special times. And I know
Speaker 2: you are so glad that you spent that time with
Speaker 2: your father. I see you know I missed my dad
Speaker 2: to this day. You know, spend time with your loved
Speaker 2: ones while you can, because it's always Maybe you aren't
Speaker 2: anticipating it, but you know buses hit people every day too.
Speaker 2: You never know, and your number is going to be
Speaker 2: called up. Let's pause. We will bring Joe Montgomery from
Speaker 2: Patriots Landing. Folks at Patriots Landing dot org is where
Speaker 2: you find them. You're not going to see a picture
Speaker 2: of the cross yet, but I just sent Joe Struker
Speaker 2: a better picture of the full cross you can put
Speaker 2: up on the blog page. But five Carsey dot com.
Speaker 2: We'll be back right after these brief words.
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Speaker 2: Eight nineteen fifty about KRCDE Talk Station a Happy Friday,
Speaker 2: Inspirational Friday too. I got Jill Montgomery from Patriots Landing
Speaker 2: dot org hearing at studio and the picture of the
Speaker 2: cross that he was described trying to describe on air,
Speaker 2: and it is absolutely extraordinary to look at is on
Speaker 2: my blog page nofifybove Karsey dot com. Actually two pictures,
Speaker 2: the one Joe initially took through the video monitor and
Speaker 2: then the follow up that I took, and I think
Speaker 2: it comes through crystal clear what you're looking at there.
Speaker 2: And this is one of the products sold by Patriots
Speaker 2: Landing to support their mission, and Joe, I wanted you
Speaker 2: to dive a little bit more into that mission, because
Speaker 2: you are really providing veterans with an extraordinary valuable service,
Speaker 2: and that's just really quite literally by merely bringing them
Speaker 2: together in your workshop.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and again, as you know, this was not by design.
Speaker 3: We just you know, not through happenstance, but like minded
Speaker 3: people in particular the brotherhood and sisterhood that are veterans.
Speaker 3: And you know this well because you've talked to hundreds,
Speaker 3: if not thousands of them and been around them.
Speaker 1: It's a unique segment. It's just a unique segment.
Speaker 3: They've gone through things that most of us couldn't imagine, indeed,
Speaker 3: and so that bond that that it's almost like an
Speaker 3: immediate friendship right air Force. It doesn't matter what branch,
Speaker 3: it really doesn't.
Speaker 1: You're in the club.
Speaker 2: You're in the know. You know what your fellow veteran
Speaker 2: has experienced because you've been through it yourself. I can
Speaker 2: certainly understand that immediate connection. And it's an exclusive club.
Speaker 2: You signed on the line that you were willing to
Speaker 2: give your life for this country, and I know how
Speaker 2: you feel about that, and I know how I feel
Speaker 2: about it. And you know, my dad, my uncles did it,
Speaker 2: and it just it just works. There's a sense of calm,
Speaker 2: there's a sense of and there's a lot of laughter,
Speaker 2: a lot of camaraderie. Everybody makes fun of the Air Force.
Speaker 3: Sorry, sorry, man and women out there from the Air Force,
Speaker 3: but you know, we got a coast Guard down there
Speaker 3: and they pick on the Marines and it's just a
Speaker 3: it's a camaraderie. But at the same time, they're keeping
Speaker 3: their hands and their minds busy, right, mind.
Speaker 1: Old hands the Devil's workshop. Yeah, there's no question about that.
Speaker 2: And of course, if you're a veteran that's struggling emotionally,
Speaker 2: we always we have major concerns about the suicide rate
Speaker 2: among veterans, suicidal ideology. Obviously, some are struggling with maybe
Speaker 2: post traumatic stress, maybe they saw the horrors of combat,
Speaker 2: maybe they lost buddies or friends while they were serving,
Speaker 2: you know, in the emotional baggage that goes along with that,
Speaker 2: stewing in your own juices and not having something to
Speaker 2: do and not having people to talk to that have
Speaker 2: experienced the same kind of thing. That just exacerbates an
Speaker 2: already terrible problem.
Speaker 3: And it's difficult in this day and age to go
Speaker 3: out and meet people that you can become close with.
Speaker 3: Or trust or do a lot of different things. And
Speaker 3: you know, we're a wood shop where we create things,
Speaker 3: and we create a camaraderie and we pray and we support.
Speaker 3: We were talking a little bit about Lieutenant Dan that
Speaker 3: just came in, who was in a very rough spot,
Speaker 3: who signed the cross that I gave you there, sir.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And that's the other cool thing.
Speaker 2: The veteran who made the woodworking item that you can
Speaker 2: buy at Patriots Landing dot org signs it. It's so
Speaker 2: it's I consider the sort of a work of art,
Speaker 2: So it's like the artists signing it, so credit it's
Speaker 2: given were credit dude, Dan Smith, and wonderful that I
Speaker 2: was honored to see that.
Speaker 1: It's like a bonus.
Speaker 2: You get the cross in this beautiful work it would work,
Speaker 2: but you also get that connection with the veterans.
Speaker 1: It truly is what separates our products.
Speaker 3: There's a lot of things that we make, flags and
Speaker 3: different things that you could go on Etsy and find
Speaker 3: a million of them, but you're not gonna You're not
Speaker 3: gonna find one made from a nonprofit supporting veterans by
Speaker 3: the veterans. But it's it's you know, and we have
Speaker 3: incredible partners have been doing this as long as I've
Speaker 3: been doing it. The DAV is a huge partner of ours.
Speaker 3: So when you get into those cases where camaraderie and
Speaker 3: a wood shop and this and that and a paycheck
Speaker 3: isn't enough, you know, we have the resources to connect with.
Speaker 3: And it goes from the DAV all the way down
Speaker 3: to Vets and brus It gives the men and women
Speaker 3: a good time, to theis projects, to the local American Legions,
Speaker 3: Chuck Wills and some of the guys that uh in
Speaker 3: the American Legions, uh Jared Bondville, and I could I
Speaker 3: could name a thousand thousand people, some of whom I'm
Speaker 3: just mentioned. When we brought our newest veteran in Dan
Speaker 3: that I spoke of, lost his job right for the holidays.
Speaker 3: He lost two brothers and then lost his sister maybe
Speaker 3: two weeks ago, who was like his mother.
Speaker 1: Oh my word.
Speaker 3: And it puts him in a bad place quickly. And
Speaker 3: so UH, Dan in particular was an instance where we
Speaker 3: need to get him in in a hurry and get
Speaker 3: him on the payroll. And you know this is public knowledge,
Speaker 3: but he had gotten a little bit behind on some
Speaker 3: rent and a few of the people that I just mentioned,
Speaker 3: and some other groups just they reach out to me,
Speaker 3: how can we help and it's usually writing a check,
Speaker 3: how can we help support this particular vetteror this particular
Speaker 3: mission anything. And it's amazing, amazing community once you're once
Speaker 3: you're in, you know everything from well you've met with
Speaker 3: the Young Marines just it's it's just an incredible structure,
Speaker 3: for lack of a better word, that we've built around
Speaker 3: this whole organization.
Speaker 2: Well, I suppose in many respects. You know, there's different organizations.
Speaker 2: They have their own veteran related mission, but it's it's
Speaker 2: completely different than yours. So they want to help you,
Speaker 2: and you obviously can refer the veterans in your organization
Speaker 2: over to them. It's it makes perfect sense that all
Speaker 2: these pieces of the puzzle puzzle are working together so well, and.
Speaker 3: We've we've we've identified and grouped with and I don't
Speaker 3: want to go to the other side. But the sad
Speaker 3: reality in some instances is that some of these nonprofits
Speaker 3: they don't quite mesh. Sometimes it's more of a The
Speaker 3: way I describe it is, hey, don't look over here.
Speaker 3: You know, you might take this dollar that somebody wants
Speaker 3: to give me. That's just the way I describe it.
Speaker 3: I've been doing a long time territorial maybe little, maybe little,
Speaker 3: but but but uh. All of the groups that we
Speaker 3: associate with and that we've been blest to partner with
Speaker 3: believe the same thing I do that the rising tide
Speaker 3: raise all ships. And that's how you help these men
Speaker 3: and women, because I can't do everything in a wood shop,
Speaker 3: and you know, the dav can't do how they do
Speaker 3: most everything, but they can't do everything, and Bets and
Speaker 3: Bruce has a certain thing, and the Young Marines and
Speaker 3: their support of everything does a certain thing. And when
Speaker 3: you tie it all together, I'm telling you, it's just
Speaker 3: an incredible, incredible experience from top.
Speaker 2: To bottom, rewarding. I think probably sums that up amazing.
Speaker 2: We'll continue with Joe Montgomery Patriots Landing dot org. Help
Speaker 2: support the mission and buy one of the amazing products
Speaker 2: they have. They're knowing full well that it was made
Speaker 2: by one of these American veterans in their wood shop.
Speaker 2: We'll talk more about what they're doing in the shop.
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Speaker 2: Very happy Friday to you, extra special and uplifting Friday,
Speaker 2: A Positive Message Friday with Joe Montgomery from Patriots Landing
Speaker 2: at the started this wood shop inspired by his father's
Speaker 2: service to his country and wanted to do something in
Speaker 2: recognition of that. And so you opened a wood shop
Speaker 2: and started out with some smaller projects, became a five
Speaker 2: on one three C. And there's been a five on'
Speaker 2: one three C now for you said fifteen or ten years,
Speaker 2: ten years making the flagcases and a whole host of
Speaker 2: other wood wooden products, and you can find them all
Speaker 2: at Patriots Landing dot org. And by purchasing one of
Speaker 2: these products, you're supporting the American veteran in the wood
Speaker 2: shop and providing them this this safe space where they
Speaker 2: can do projects and commiserate and share their experiences and
Speaker 2: put a smile on their face and some in what
Speaker 2: can be really desperate times for some of these folks.
Speaker 2: So there's an opportunity there, I suppose for some veterans
Speaker 2: in the audience if they want to help out along
Speaker 2: those lines.
Speaker 3: So yeah, absolutely, whether you have free time you want
Speaker 3: to volunteer, whether you're looking for some part time work,
Speaker 3: whether you know what I what I always tell folks
Speaker 3: is just you know, just come down and see what
Speaker 3: we're doing. Just come down. Let me give you a
Speaker 3: little tour, let me introduce you to the men and
Speaker 3: women that we work with. And if it flots about, great,
Speaker 3: If it doesn't, you know, not every shoe fits every
Speaker 3: foot or however you want to say that.
Speaker 1: But yeah, our doors are always open. You can reach
Speaker 1: out to me right through the website.
Speaker 2: You guys are close to the arc exhibit right, three
Speaker 2: minutes three minutes away, all right, So if you plan
Speaker 2: on a trip to that, then stop over a Patriots Landing.
Speaker 2: Even if you don't, you're not a veteran, you don't
Speaker 2: have any intention of, you know, maybe volunteering or something.
Speaker 2: Stop in. They got a shop there. You can look
Speaker 2: at what the men are and maybe do you have
Speaker 2: women working there too? Sure, but I didn't. I didn't
Speaker 2: think you discriminated. This isn't just a you know, I
Speaker 2: said fraternity, So social clubs most of well the two
Speaker 2: that are there the most are both Navy veterans. So
Speaker 2: got a couple of h and as in everything in life,
Speaker 2: they're kind of the glue that keeps it from getting
Speaker 2: too crazy. I'm sure your wife and understand that. No,
Speaker 2: I get friend understand that. I get that all day long.
Speaker 2: You still see you are so far out of your
Speaker 2: coverage and on that three point thirty is it albic
Speaker 2: my back? Yeah, I apologize. That's now eye there, Ibec
Speaker 2: Lane three thirty, I BEC Lane, Williamstown, Kentucky for one
Speaker 2: zero ninety seven. That is the physical location. What a
Speaker 2: beautiful building you have there, thank you, Right man, it's
Speaker 2: just Corty. You know.
Speaker 1: One of the things we do is we do a
Speaker 1: lot of group tours now, which is big.
Speaker 3: So if you're a church, if you're a Boy Scout group,
Speaker 3: if you're a youth organization, a business, and you know,
Speaker 3: we've had all just about all the management groups from
Speaker 3: the art come over and take the tour tourism groups.
Speaker 3: So that's always an option too that we can set
Speaker 3: up just a short little tour and it's fun. They
Speaker 3: have a lot of fun. They could see all our
Speaker 3: products and getting the back and the shop and watch
Speaker 3: how they're made. Oh yeah, that's that hard work.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and how many I guess I'm wondering because I
Speaker 2: know you have the nine and the twenty two flags.
Speaker 1: Right, twenty two is relatively new.
Speaker 3: You're talking about another powerful piece that's that's our veteran
Speaker 3: suicide awareness flag.
Speaker 1: Oh Ida, And I asked that out loud.
Speaker 3: And as you know, the VA study a few years
Speaker 3: ago is that on average, twenty two veterans a day
Speaker 3: take their lives.
Speaker 1: And that gives me the chills. Just a day, that's
Speaker 1: on average. You've literally described my reaction, and so again,
Speaker 1: not me.
Speaker 3: I believe this was mister Gary Kaufman. We call him
Speaker 3: the Jungle Cat. He's a shop manager. And we make
Speaker 3: a nine and we want to make a smaller flag,
Speaker 3: just like we want to make a smaller cross. Just options,
Speaker 3: put this over your kitchen count or do whatever. Yeah,
Speaker 3: and the nine millimeter shell casings work on that size flag.
Speaker 3: When you make a smaller when they're just gigantic too big,
Speaker 3: well guess what caliber fit twenty two? So they're just
Speaker 3: with twenty two caliber shells.
Speaker 4: Wow.
Speaker 3: And it's just now we've got onto a third just
Speaker 3: incredibly powerful piece that you know, I don't know how
Speaker 3: we keep stumbling upon them, but.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well one can only pray that you know, you'll
Speaker 2: have to go down at some point two like seventeen
Speaker 2: as opposed to the twenty two, because that numbers just
Speaker 2: wear just atch some stars in there well, and then
Speaker 2: there's that it's coming up at eight thirty five, we'll pause.
Speaker 2: We'll bring Joe back talk a little bit more about
Speaker 2: some of the folks he's helped out in his mission.
Speaker 2: And I got some other questions to talk with Joe
Speaker 2: about Patriots Landing dot org. Just get over there and
Speaker 2: buy something. You'd be glad you did. Beautiful work. A
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Speaker 2: twenty five fourteen overnight with a few clouds or partly
Speaker 2: cloudy sky. Then a partly cloudy day tomorrow with a
Speaker 2: high of thirty eight. Cloudy overnight on Saturday as well,
Speaker 2: twenty seven and yes, clouds on Sunday with a high
Speaker 2: of thirty five eleven degrees. Right now, it's time for
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Speaker 4: SEE Health Traffic Center.
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Speaker 2: Eight thirty eight at fifty five kr CD Talk Station.
Speaker 2: Very Happy Friday too, Tech Friday with Dave Hadters early
Speaker 2: in the program at six thirty. That's a worthy podcast,
Speaker 2: that one. He's always providing us with wonderful information. Dave
Speaker 2: Hatter and Tech Friday. Congressman Warren Davidson was on at
Speaker 2: seven oh five, and of course Donna Murphy, Heaven's Gate
Speaker 2: Ministries are gain ministries. I thought there was a unique parallel.
Speaker 2: I got Joe Montgomery from Patriots Landing in here, veterans,
Speaker 2: you know, join together in his workshop making these just
Speaker 2: absolutely gorgeous handmade works of art that you can buy,
Speaker 2: veteran made, signed by the veteran that made them, brought
Speaker 2: to them with wonderful opportunity to commiserate and share experiences
Speaker 2: and you know, get peace of mind. They together so
Speaker 2: a faith Baith organization, Heaven's Game Ministries. Joe just I
Speaker 2: don't know if you heard me talking to to Donna
Speaker 2: provides that, you know, woodshop type caskets and services for
Speaker 2: women who've lost their child in pregnancy. It's just the
Speaker 2: horror of that and to know that, you know she
Speaker 2: was inspired by God to start that, and that that's
Speaker 2: out there. It's just kind of comparable experiences. And I
Speaker 2: suspect Joe Streker put them back to back for that reason.
Speaker 2: And thank you Joe Strecker, particularly for bringing Joe back
Speaker 2: to the studio to talk about this. So Patriots Landing
Speaker 2: dot Org, as I've been mentioning a bunch of times,
Speaker 2: I encourage my listeners to purchase one of your products
Speaker 2: because it does help you fulfill your mission. And you've
Speaker 2: got this beautiful thing going on here. Cornhole bags. You
Speaker 2: have corn hole bags with the branches of the service
Speaker 2: on them. That is really cool. And those are hands
Speaker 2: sewed in the shop as well, made by one of
Speaker 2: our Air Force veterans. It's probably been making bags for
Speaker 2: fifteen years. There could still called cornhole bags. There's no
Speaker 2: corn in them. It's like plastic pellet weighs exactly a pound.
Speaker 2: They're probably what would most in the corn whole world
Speaker 2: would consider pro bags. Uh, they're just the nicest bags.
Speaker 2: You ever call that cornhole pretty bag? I know, I
Speaker 2: just I'm sorry. It's pretty big in America.
Speaker 1: Well, when you see.
Speaker 3: Cups stacking on ESPN, then then you think you're like, okay,
Speaker 3: the door has been open.
Speaker 1: Yeah the oo for those who've seen Dodge.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so yeah, we've made a lot of custom bags,
Speaker 3: and you and I talk briefly off the air. Custom
Speaker 3: products are difficult, but if if you ever you know,
Speaker 3: I put dogs and cats on bags. I've put pepperoni
Speaker 3: pizza from pizza places. We can, we can put anything
Speaker 3: that there's a picture of we put. We had when
Speaker 3: we send in our boards over to our troops, which
Speaker 3: is how we started, which if you would have known me,
Speaker 3: then you'd have probably called me cornhole Joe because that's
Speaker 3: what I did.
Speaker 1: That's what we did.
Speaker 3: And when we started sending these boards and bags of
Speaker 3: our troops, we are coming up with unique custom bags.
Speaker 3: And one of one of the young women that was
Speaker 3: actually serving over in Iraq, they had I don't know
Speaker 3: what's calls it, it's it's it's usually on a ship.
Speaker 3: But it's one of those those guns that just shoots
Speaker 3: a million rounds a second. Just oh sure, And she
Speaker 3: had a picture of that on her base over there
Speaker 3: and she sent it. We put that on one of
Speaker 3: the bags.
Speaker 1: Just cool, cool stuff like cat one gun, right, kind
Speaker 1: of like that.
Speaker 3: It's a yeah, I don't want to sound it's too
Speaker 3: late for me to sound ignorant, but see something.
Speaker 1: Or it doesn't everybody out there but us will know.
Speaker 4: Yeah, they're all.
Speaker 1: Streaming at the radio, going, you idiots, what.
Speaker 3: Kind of morons on today? But just just different things
Speaker 3: like that. And we do, we do take some custom
Speaker 3: projects on, but most of our work is in what
Speaker 3: we can put online and sell.
Speaker 1: Understood it.
Speaker 2: Obviously, if you had a thousand people called today and
Speaker 2: asked for a custom product, then.
Speaker 1: You have patient overwhelmed. They need to be patient.
Speaker 2: But yeah, oh and the other thing is, folks, since
Speaker 2: we were talking about this, this beautiful cross that he
Speaker 2: brought in me.
Speaker 3: Come up with a name for that, because right now
Speaker 3: I just threw it on. Literally, I'm eating breakfast with
Speaker 3: my son this morning and I'm like, Buddy, I said,
Speaker 3: I'm going to see Brian. I'm going to take him
Speaker 3: this we're going to talk about. I probably should put
Speaker 3: it on online because people are gonna want one. And
Speaker 3: I think it's called us Jesus Cross online. I just
Speaker 3: put in Jesus Cross.
Speaker 2: It is, and I wanted to let my listeners know
Speaker 2: because you now have two pages of products. So if
Speaker 2: you scroll down the product list on your browser, click
Speaker 2: on page number two and it's the only item there.
Speaker 2: And yeah, as of right now, there is no photograph,
Speaker 2: but you can see it again on fifty five cares
Speaker 2: dot com my blog page. Just can I put the picture?
Speaker 2: I just suck at you up there, Brian, Well, if
Speaker 2: you want or you can have the picture that I
Speaker 2: took of the cross. It's a very clear image and
Speaker 2: you don't have to have my.
Speaker 3: Other I think for the next four d eight hours
Speaker 3: we'll have you out there until I can get a
Speaker 3: picture of it taken.
Speaker 2: I haven't taken a picture of it yet. I don't
Speaker 2: want it to be off putting for people. I want
Speaker 2: them to want to buy the cross, So I got
Speaker 2: to really, you have my permission to use a photograph
Speaker 2: anyway you want.
Speaker 3: But well, let me let me bring this up, Brian,
Speaker 3: if you don't mind, real quick, but this is something
Speaker 3: that we're very very excited is new for twenty twenty five.
Speaker 3: We readd our website and thank you for pointing out
Speaker 3: that that is on page two.
Speaker 1: I didn't know that.
Speaker 3: That just shows to the growth that works experiencing. But
Speaker 3: we have what we're just calling an affiliate marketing program.
Speaker 3: So our first client is the Young Marines. Go figure,
Speaker 3: and I'm actually going to Atlantic excuse me, Dallas third
Speaker 3: week of April to go to their national leadership convention.
Speaker 3: So what this is is an avenue for nonprofits, for schools,
Speaker 3: for churches, for groups, for businesses, for any do gooders
Speaker 3: that want to do essentially a fundraiser. So they can
Speaker 3: go on our website. On the very bottom of the
Speaker 3: of the homepage there's a link it says affiliate marketing,
Speaker 3: and if they click on that link, it takes maybe
Speaker 3: thirty seconds to sign up, and I contact them and
Speaker 3: they get a unique link to our website. So they
Speaker 3: go out to their flock, to their congregation, to their business,
Speaker 3: to their company, to whatever and say, hey, go on
Speaker 3: this link, buy a Jesus cross or some cornhole bags
Speaker 3: or a twenty two flag. And then our new website
Speaker 3: tracks that and they get a percentage of sales and
Speaker 3: once a quarter we write them a check. It's kind
Speaker 3: of big boy pants for us. I'm very excited about
Speaker 3: it because it's such a win win. You get to
Speaker 3: support a nonprofit that supports veterans, that makes veteran crafted products.
Speaker 3: Your potential supporters gets to buy a really cool product.
Speaker 3: They get something tangible instead of just writing a you know,
Speaker 3: a twenty dollars check, which I put these online for
Speaker 3: twenty dollars.
Speaker 1: Believe or not. Oh, that's what you really expected it
Speaker 1: to be. More, it's not. So our goal is volume.
Speaker 3: Our goal is we want a bunch of people buying
Speaker 3: a bunch of products so that we have additional work
Speaker 3: and additional veterans in the shop. It's not the make
Speaker 3: these massive you know, revenues and profits and buy new stuff.
Speaker 1: So our goal is to.
Speaker 3: Bring more veterans and get more veterans engage. So this
Speaker 3: affiliate marketing program really opens up what a win win.
Speaker 3: You want to raise money for your organization, you support us.
Speaker 1: We support you. That's the way it works. This is all.
Speaker 1: It's it's really cool.
Speaker 2: I mentioned puzzle pieces come into place with all the
Speaker 2: other organizations you work with but the success you've had
Speaker 2: with this operation, and I know you're divinely inspired, and
Speaker 2: I think maybe there is something to that. Maybe someone
Speaker 2: has a plan, sir, and we know that it's playing
Speaker 2: out really well for you Patriots. Landing dot org. We
Speaker 2: have one more segment here with Joe Montgomery. I hope
Speaker 2: you can stick around.
Speaker 1: Fifty five KRC dot com your hand.
Speaker 2: At eight fifty five KRCD Todd Station. One more time
Speaker 2: for the night, first morning by the forecast. Oh look,
Speaker 2: it's the same same one I've been reading. No morning,
Speaker 2: mostly Sunday skuys today with a high twenty five down
Speaker 2: to fourteen overnight with some clouds, partly clouded. Tomorrow thirty eight,
Speaker 2: twenty seven overnight with clouds and a mostly Fiday Sunday
Speaker 2: with a high thirty five twelve degrees. Right now, time
Speaker 2: for final traffic, Chuck Ingram.
Speaker 4: You see how traffic center and you see healthy.
Speaker 5: You'll find comprehensive care and that's so personally and makes
Speaker 5: your best tomorrow possible. That's boundless care for better outcomes,
Speaker 5: expect more. And you see health dot com seth pound
Speaker 5: seventy five for running just a bit slow. After you
Speaker 5: come out of Lachlan towards the lateral northbound seventy five.
Speaker 5: I'm seeing no delays at all, doing fine through the
Speaker 5: gut and then bound seventy four looks good too, Chuck
Speaker 5: Ingram on fifty five KROOC the talk station.
Speaker 2: A forty nine fifty five KR city talk station uplifting segment.
Speaker 2: We've been having here with Joe Montgomery Patriots Landing. Wonderful
Speaker 2: work they're doing helping out veterans, even and prediction, most
Speaker 2: notably struggling veterans, guys that need a little boost and
Speaker 2: a little help. He's got a wood shop, puts them
Speaker 2: to work and making great products that we can support
Speaker 2: the cause by buying. And yes, Eric, you were right
Speaker 2: the gun. They made custom products too, So if you
Speaker 2: have a photograph of something you want on a corn
Speaker 2: hoole bag, they can make that happened. Cw S is
Speaker 2: the name of that Gatlin gun, for lack of a
Speaker 2: better way of describing it. So Eric, you win the prize.
Speaker 2: Any instant message on Facebook, Wow, that's what the phone is.
Speaker 2: I have to tell you right now.
Speaker 1: I think I've got three or four orders in the
Speaker 1: last ten minutes.
Speaker 2: Oh fantastic. Thank you listening audience and a donation added.
Speaker 2: God bless my listeners, I bless you, Brian. Well, now
Speaker 2: it's just as this and man, you know you talk
Speaker 2: about God having a mission for you. My dad told
Speaker 2: me not to take this job. Don't do it, Brian.
Speaker 2: I was practicing law, wasn't in house counsel of Anthem,
Speaker 2: executive litigation, whatever the hell position I had at the time.
Speaker 1: I quit, and don't do it. Don't do it.
Speaker 2: I'm like, you know, remember that Mark Twain quote about
Speaker 2: you know, you regret the things in life you didn't
Speaker 2: do versus the things you did.
Speaker 1: So to the extent, God has a plan for me.
Speaker 2: I think one of his reasons that I took the
Speaker 2: job is so that I could help the American veteran
Speaker 2: I've always had just the most profounder as you mentioned earlier.
Speaker 2: Signing up that alone, to me represents just an amazing
Speaker 2: thing that you're signing up for a life or a
Speaker 2: career or even you know, short term if you want
Speaker 2: to serve you know, one tour one oh uh four years. Yeah,
Speaker 2: you're still signing up for something. Your future is completely unwritten.
Speaker 2: Infantry men, you could be responsible for, you know, sniffing
Speaker 2: out bombs. I mean, you're putting your you're literally putting
Speaker 2: your life in the hands of the American military, And
Speaker 2: that to me is so just amazing because that's not
Speaker 2: the type of.
Speaker 1: Guy I am.
Speaker 2: You know, No, no, I'm gonna go to college. I'm
Speaker 2: going to go to law school. I'm going to practice law.
Speaker 2: You know, like I know what's in store for me
Speaker 2: generally speaking. But to know that you can end up
Speaker 2: in Afghanistan or some you know, combat, someplace in one
Speaker 2: of the four corners of the world, or any of
Speaker 2: the number multitude of possibilities for you, that's and and
Speaker 2: no guarantee.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's probably that mindset, that particular mindset that you
Speaker 3: just described so well, that that that helps what we
Speaker 3: do work because they're just they're just like minded. They
Speaker 3: did something that the majority of Americans haven't, right, And
Speaker 3: you know, you can't can't speak to something. I tell
Speaker 3: my son this all the time. You can't speak to
Speaker 3: something unless you've lived through it. I don't know, they've said.
Speaker 3: And you can't walk in another man's shoes or whatever
Speaker 3: whatever that is. But you know, and in life, if
Speaker 3: you have not had an illness, or if you have
Speaker 3: not experienced death, or if you have not experienced a
Speaker 3: separation or a divorce or something significant in your life,
Speaker 3: you can't speak to it because you can think you
Speaker 3: know what it feels like or and that times ten
Speaker 3: is what happens in our shop, because at any given time,
Speaker 3: I'll walk in the shop and I'm in and out
Speaker 3: a lot they're chit chatting about something that's relative to
Speaker 3: their experience or and you want to talk about people
Speaker 3: that can immediately picture a boardroom and a new board
Speaker 3: member comes in, man or woman, doesn't matter. I doubt
Speaker 3: that there's an immediate connection connection and I'm going to
Speaker 3: work closely.
Speaker 1: It bar none.
Speaker 3: Somebody new walks into our shop like Dan, and it's
Speaker 3: you can just see it, Ryan. They're comfortable, they're accepted
Speaker 3: because they're a veteran. And that's the group that we have.
Speaker 3: And again, we're so so so blessed to have the
Speaker 3: men and women we do and always looking for more.
Speaker 3: But it's I think it's that ability that someone said
Speaker 3: I'm going to sign on the line and I'm willing
Speaker 3: to give my life for this country that separates them
Speaker 3: from you know, Joe and whoever else. And and I
Speaker 3: think that's what helps it just hard experiences. It helps
Speaker 3: with the camaraderie and and and just the immediate He's
Speaker 3: one of us, she's one of us. Let's get to work.
Speaker 3: It's amazing.
Speaker 2: Well and and as I as you were talking about that,
Speaker 2: if you haven't had the experiences and that we can
Speaker 2: understand it. I mean, how many movies have I seen?
Speaker 2: Combat movies, war movies, and yes there's death, and you
Speaker 2: can even and graphic depictions of death on the screen,
Speaker 2: I imagine, don't come close to actually witnessing it happen
Speaker 2: right there next to you.
Speaker 1: Can't. There's no way.
Speaker 3: They just couldn't recreate it, especially I as a friend
Speaker 3: or someone that you just trained with, or exactly like
Speaker 3: losing a brother or a mother.
Speaker 1: It's just you can't.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, and that's what Patriots Landing is all about.
Speaker 2: Folks that have those shared experiences getting together and helping
Speaker 2: each other out with camaraderie and of course working on
Speaker 2: these great craft products and you know, putting a smile
Speaker 2: on a lot of people's faces too, because I imagine
Speaker 2: the tour groups are coming there and the visitors just
Speaker 2: are probably experience an uplifting moment kind of like I'm
Speaker 2: feeling right now.
Speaker 1: I need I need to get some of the you
Speaker 1: just made a good point.
Speaker 3: I need to get some of the reviews and some
Speaker 3: of the comments we've had from our groups to come
Speaker 3: in on our website because you know, as my son
Speaker 3: put it a few months ago, he was off school
Speaker 3: and we had a group of fifty or so seniors
Speaker 3: from I think Georgia ann and uh, he says, Dad,
Speaker 3: you're you're you're bat in a thousand still after the tour.
Speaker 1: And I said, what do you mean, buddy?
Speaker 3: And uh, he says, every time I'm here and you
Speaker 3: have a tour group in here, and you talk about
Speaker 3: the flycases, you talk about this, you talk about the veterans,
Speaker 3: there's a whole bunch of he said, ladies, because it's
Speaker 3: a lot of ladies on these tours.
Speaker 1: But crying.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, And I said, buddy, that's because it's real.
Speaker 3: That's because especially in that generation that you have celebrated
Speaker 3: so much, the greatest generation, and there long their mothers, brothers, sisters, cousins,
Speaker 3: dads served, or they know somebody that's served. They're the
Speaker 3: most patriotic group of Americans there are. And I don't
Speaker 3: know any other way to say, it's just a powerful
Speaker 3: It just is because of what it is. It's not
Speaker 3: because I'm talking or anybody's doing anything. But it's just
Speaker 3: a powerful connection that to people that come down have
Speaker 3: with what we do. It's fun, it's blessing, it's great.
Speaker 3: It's as you would you say earlier, and that's why
Speaker 3: I love coming to studio because we can chat offline.
Speaker 3: But it is for me personally, just me personally, right,
Speaker 3: It's it's just a your anxiety kind of comes off.
Speaker 3: You trust in the Lord's plan. You're around this type
Speaker 3: of atmosphere. You're not in a sitting as an attorney
Speaker 3: doing this or that. Yeah, you're you're hopefully creating a
Speaker 3: better space or place on this earth for somebody.
Speaker 2: It gets you out of bed with a smile on
Speaker 2: your face in the morning, hitting the ground, running purpose, purpose, Well,
Speaker 2: a lot of us lack that, but you know what,
Speaker 2: you can see it on full display. Patriots Landing dot org.
Speaker 2: Please buy a product, help support the mission. Veterans get
Speaker 2: on over there, help out in the workshop, and any groups,
Speaker 2: seniors groups, you know, school groups, church groups. Put together
Speaker 2: a group of folks and head on over there. Maybe
Speaker 2: head under the arc exhibit if that appeals to your not,
Speaker 2: but it's worth a trip to Patriots Landing and all
Speaker 2: the information again Patriots Landing dot org. Brother, it has
Speaker 2: been a distinct pleasure having you back, love hearing about it.
Speaker 1: It's bless you.
Speaker 2: Send me of the weekend with a positive vibe. Podcast
Speaker 2: online fifty five krs dot com Tech Friday with Dave
Speaker 2: had Our, Congressman Warren Davidson, Donna Murphy with Heaven's Game Ministries,
Speaker 2: and of course this full hour with Joe Montgomery and
Speaker 2: the link and the photograph of what they're calling at
Speaker 2: least for right now, the Jesus Cross you can get
Speaker 2: at fifty five krs dot com. Joe Stracker. God bless you,
Speaker 2: my friend, Thank you for all that you do. And folks,
Speaker 2: hope you all have a wonderful weekend and stick around
Speaker 2: because Glenn Beck's coming right up.
Speaker 4: Donald Trump the next four years, it's gonna be incredible.
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