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Speaker 2: happy to bring Joe Montgomery on the program. He's the
Speaker 2: founder of and board chair for a group called Patriots Landing,
Speaker 2: which you can find online at Patriots Landing dot org.
Speaker 2: They make what they call products with a purpose. Joe,
Speaker 2: Welcome back to the Morning show Man. It's always good
Speaker 2: talking with you.
Speaker 3: Brian. Good Friday morning, my friend. Yeah, bless you. How
Speaker 3: are you, sir?
Speaker 1: I'm doing well.
Speaker 2: I understand your mobile right now here to bust somewhere.
Speaker 3: Well, you know, things that's just been going so well, sir,
Speaker 3: we've talked, you know, over the last couple of years
Speaker 3: about Patriots Landing and our mission and.
Speaker 1: Our uh oh joe.
Speaker 3: You know. Burnett both Ends dropped my son off at
Speaker 3: a golf tournament this morning at six forty and then
Speaker 3: ran to the farm and picked up a trailer. And
Speaker 3: then we've had been blessed with a tremendous opportunity with
Speaker 3: a buddy of mine up in northern Kentucky to make
Speaker 3: a product out of it's actually one inch hdpe plastic.
Speaker 3: It's a long story short. I've got a twenty short
Speaker 3: trailer attached to the Patriots Landing truck and I'll be
Speaker 3: heading up north through northern Cincinnatia by top Golf and
Speaker 3: picking up a bunch of material this morning.
Speaker 1: So what are you going to be making out of that?
Speaker 1: What are you making out of that?
Speaker 3: So they're called cable blocks. So a very dear friend
Speaker 3: up in northern Kentucky owns a business. We go to
Speaker 3: church together, coach to his son and his daughter and
Speaker 3: archery and they run. They run very simply. They run
Speaker 3: these bus systems through these gigantic warehouses that they're just
Speaker 3: building everywhere. The Amazons, the Facebook, the data centers. They
Speaker 3: can't build them fasten up, Brian, because of all this
Speaker 3: information that everybody needs to collect. Well, they basically make
Speaker 3: a maybe twelve inch tall by twenty inch wide piece
Speaker 3: of one inch thick black plastic. And now that we
Speaker 3: have a CNC machine, which I think I shared with
Speaker 3: you on our last conversation, we're able to see and
Speaker 3: see these parts out and then you basically cut the holes.
Speaker 3: You split the holes in half, and there's four or
Speaker 3: five pieces and they stack them and then they run
Speaker 3: cables room, and then they stack them and then run
Speaker 3: cables room and any of these systems that you ever
Speaker 3: Have you ever seen Jurassic Park the movie, Brian, Yeah,
Speaker 3: might recall there's when the young lady is trying to
Speaker 3: find the master switch to turn the switchback on to
Speaker 3: get the power. The guys over there, look up top.
Speaker 3: You see all those cables running through there. You know,
Speaker 3: to follow the cables. That's what I always like.
Speaker 1: In it too.
Speaker 3: But they have to run one of these blocks when
Speaker 3: they go vertically every one foot, and when they go
Speaker 3: hoarz only every three feet. So he makes thousands and
Speaker 3: thousands of these blocks every year. And he always told me,
Speaker 3: I mean he loves what we were doing. This is
Speaker 3: pre our building, This is pre everything. Says. If you
Speaker 3: ever get the facility, Joe, and you get the ability
Speaker 3: to make these things, he says, I will throw you
Speaker 3: business to help support your organization. So it started about Oh,
Speaker 3: it's amazing. It's about three months ago, and you know.
Speaker 3: One of the things that I'm most proud of with
Speaker 3: our organization is that we are very unique as a
Speaker 3: five oh one Cet three is that we're self supportive.
Speaker 3: So people buy a flag, if by a fly case,
Speaker 3: by a nine flag, I buy a T shirt. That
Speaker 3: is how we support ourselves. So having this opportunity for
Speaker 3: really our first kind of if nobody buys a T
Speaker 3: shirt this week or across you know, we have a
Speaker 3: steady reps.
Speaker 2: So you've turned into it's like a manufacturing operation making
Speaker 2: these for him. You've earned a profit, and that of
Speaker 2: course funds your organization. I was a little written or
Speaker 2: missing my obligations to the listeners to remind those who
Speaker 2: might not be familiar with Patriots Landing this is a
Speaker 2: place where veterans get together. They create what they call
Speaker 2: products with a purpose, which include the flag cases burial
Speaker 2: flag cases, which are the only ones that are sold
Speaker 2: at Arlington National Seminary. It's kind of our cemetery. It's
Speaker 2: kind one of the reasons that Joe started all this.
Speaker 2: First of all, it was in memory of his father,
Speaker 2: who served his country proudly as a marine between eineteen
Speaker 2: fifty six and fifty nine, and he wanted to make
Speaker 2: his father proud for what he did, so he started
Speaker 2: this organization to help other veterans. So what they do
Speaker 2: is the veterans come in, they enjoy the camaraderie that
Speaker 2: they no longer have because they're no longer active military service.
Speaker 2: They're hanging out with military buddies, sharing their you know,
Speaker 2: their concerns and you know, their their issues, and so
Speaker 2: it gives them a comfortable environment. And they manufacture these
Speaker 2: wood products, including some of the as you mentioned the cases,
Speaker 2: the Patriot Cross, which I've got one of those. It's
Speaker 2: a beautiful Christian Cross with the American flag sort of
Speaker 2: depicted on it, the nine which is a full American flag,
Speaker 2: and the nine part comes from nine millimeter casings which
Speaker 2: served as the stars on it. But you've recently expanded
Speaker 2: the shop too, haven't you, Joe.
Speaker 3: Yes, sir, Yeah, we've you know, the things that we
Speaker 3: discussed as a board of directors that we might be
Speaker 3: able to budget, you know, for our three year budget
Speaker 3: literally happened within probably fifteen months of us opening. And
Speaker 3: that's just you know, we've been boots on the ground
Speaker 3: for fifteen years, Brian. You know, I've gone to so
Speaker 3: many different veterans, small veters, organizations, supporting them, meeting people,
Speaker 3: talking to folks like you regularly has just you know,
Speaker 3: the snowball is rolling downhill now, so it love it.
Speaker 3: It's just been amazing.
Speaker 2: I listen mans the reward that I truly get the
Speaker 2: best reward of being on the morning show. I love
Speaker 2: talking with people, I love talking politics, but supporting an
Speaker 2: organization like you and elevating it to people's attention because
Speaker 2: so many people out there want to help.
Speaker 1: And if you don't know about an organization.
Speaker 2: Like yours it's doing all this great stuff for the
Speaker 2: American veteran, then nobody's going to know about it. Once
Speaker 2: they hear about it, it's like, oh, how can I help?
Speaker 2: I want one of those nine flags. I want a
Speaker 2: Patriot cross, I want a memorial flagcase, or I want
Speaker 2: to join the Got Your Sixth program, which I'm going
Speaker 2: to encourage my listeners to do. Go to Patriots Landing
Speaker 2: dot org, click on the got your six button six
Speaker 2: bucks a month, which you'll spend more in Starbucks in
Speaker 2: five minutes. You're going to help out this organization and
Speaker 2: the bottom line for them. And it's such a cool
Speaker 2: things because we all know veterans and some of them
Speaker 2: struggle and have issues and concerns and needs, and this
Speaker 2: gives them a comfortable environment where they can make things,
Speaker 2: enjoy each other's camaraderie and you know, get a sense
Speaker 2: of belonging and being in the world.
Speaker 3: Right, Joe hey man, brother, I mean, I'm going to
Speaker 3: hire you know what you've you know, encapsulated in the
Speaker 3: last you know, one hundred and twenty seconds. There is
Speaker 3: the essence of what we do. So I'm very grateful
Speaker 3: for that. Oh do it because you're inspiring. I mean,
Speaker 3: this is the thing you had an idea, and look
Speaker 3: what happened in no time.
Speaker 2: You've expanded. You're going concern five o' one c three.
Speaker 2: All the money's going to help the veterans and the
Speaker 2: causes in your shop. It's just there's nothing, there is
Speaker 2: no downside to any of this. God bless you for
Speaker 2: the inspiration. Man, It's it'll keep me going for another day,
Speaker 2: you know what I mean, Joe, Well.
Speaker 3: You've talked to me enough. You know I might not
Speaker 3: be the sharpest tool in the shed. It just this
Speaker 3: was not written down, Brian. It was in my heart,
Speaker 3: as you know, because of my dad. And I don't
Speaker 3: know if you're aware or that we've shared. I can't
Speaker 3: recall if we talked that we lost dad in November
Speaker 3: and uh suddenly and then uh, yeah it was that's
Speaker 3: a tough.
Speaker 1: One, and then mom.
Speaker 3: Mom was the one that was Bill. I lost both
Speaker 3: parents in five months. But it's it's it's a it's
Speaker 3: a homely world now for me and not having a
Speaker 3: parent here. And you know my dad, Gosh, he would
Speaker 3: just gleam in his eyes every time we talked about
Speaker 3: it or he got down here, we did anything with
Speaker 3: regards to that is all the motivation I need to
Speaker 3: you know, I'm as as committed as motivated. It could
Speaker 3: couldn't be more motivated. And and you're right, so the
Speaker 3: fact that you know, can somebody send us twenty dollars
Speaker 3: like they would to a normal charity, Sure they can't,
Speaker 3: but I'd rather have them, you know, spend thirty dollars
Speaker 3: on a T shirt or you know, forty dollars on
Speaker 3: a Patriot Cross, or purchase one of our items that
Speaker 3: they now have a keepsake or a gift, you know,
Speaker 3: for a loved one. You know, I promise you give
Speaker 3: a veteran or a patriot one of our products that's
Speaker 3: signed by the veteran on the back. Yeah, it's meaningful.
Speaker 3: It's not going to a big box store and getting them,
Speaker 3: you know whatever.
Speaker 1: No, I'm with you all day long.
Speaker 2: And I tell you what, there's rarely a day that
Speaker 2: goes by that I don't see my Patriot Cross because
Speaker 2: it's out on my screen and porch where I pretty
Speaker 2: much live my entire life. So yeah, it is a
Speaker 2: great thing. You make a great point with that, and
Speaker 2: you invite people to visit the shop too. This isn't
Speaker 2: you know, just order online if you want to go
Speaker 2: see this all unfold and how it works before your
Speaker 2: very eyes. You welcome people to come visit you.
Speaker 3: One hundred percent. And actually in about forty five minutes,
Speaker 3: I'm going to have a bus full of I think
Speaker 3: forty eight. We say it's seventy four year old women
Speaker 3: and they drag their husbands along. But they're coming in
Speaker 3: from my belief northern Pennsylvania, and they'll pull up. They're
Speaker 3: probably going to go to the Arc afterwards, but they'll
Speaker 3: come in for about an hour.
Speaker 1: Brian.
Speaker 3: And that generation is you know, very very very well,
Speaker 3: and just even speaking about the World War two era
Speaker 3: and that here this morning. You know, they are exceptionally
Speaker 3: They love God and they love country. And we'll we'll
Speaker 3: give them a tour, we'll explain the story, we'll kind
Speaker 3: of share what you the synopsis you gave about our
Speaker 3: burial flagcases in Arlington and helping the veterans. And then
Speaker 3: they'll run around back in the shop and then they'll
Speaker 3: come up front and they'll support the heck out of us.
Speaker 3: They buy lots of products and then they go back
Speaker 3: to Pennsylvania and tell everybody about us. So our group tours,
Speaker 3: we have churches, we have buses, we have a matter
Speaker 3: of fact, I just was contacted by I think they're
Speaker 3: called baird Den bair Den. It's like right before cub Scouts. Nowadays,
Speaker 3: there's something I know. Bairdan out of Fort Mitchell wants
Speaker 3: to come down in two Sundays and they want to
Speaker 3: do is a little thing on flag adiquit and all that.
Speaker 3: So we'll be down here in a Sunday for an
Speaker 3: hour and a half with a bunch of third graders
Speaker 3: and I'll tell you what, buddy, sleep good at night.
Speaker 3: It's just such a blessing to you know, you know,
Speaker 3: from from third grade, the seventy five year old ladies
Speaker 3: that come down from on their bus tours. It's a
Speaker 3: it's amazing.
Speaker 1: Well, that's wonderful.
Speaker 2: And maybe you inspired some organization that's hearing me right
Speaker 2: now to get a busload of folks that come down
Speaker 2: and busy. It's in Williams time, Kentucky. I have it
Speaker 2: right at three point thirty Ibeck Lane.
Speaker 1: Yes, sir, E I B E. C. K.
Speaker 3: Joe.
Speaker 2: Put the link up to your website on my blog
Speaker 2: page if you've got carecy dot com, so people can
Speaker 2: go right to it and get involved. So and you
Speaker 2: welcome veterans to join in the fun too, right.
Speaker 3: We we always always always have our you know, ear
Speaker 3: to the ground for any any veteran. You know, we
Speaker 3: have civilians that volunteer as well that do various projects
Speaker 3: around the shop. Our veterans all you know, of course,
Speaker 3: make the products. But we've got veterans as young as
Speaker 3: twenty six. We've got a Coast Guard veteran it's about
Speaker 3: twenty six or seven. And I've got an Air Force
Speaker 3: veteran that comes down once a week.
Speaker 1: It's eighty eight. That's all it is.
Speaker 3: Why wild Bill, it's just nickname.
Speaker 1: We all have.
Speaker 3: They all have their you know names. Wild Bill will
Speaker 3: outwork every single one of us.
Speaker 2: That does not shock me. Listen, I had Frank Welomcamp,
Speaker 2: the veteran. He was ninety seven years old, and I'm
Speaker 2: telling you, if he was in your shop, he probably
Speaker 2: outworked the twenty eight year olds too. Anyway, That's that's
Speaker 2: just awesome. And you know, and they get that.
Speaker 3: Let me tell you, let me tell you real quick.
Speaker 3: I want to you mentioned the nine flags, and we
Speaker 3: just we've been making a prototype and I've got the
Speaker 3: first one literally sitting in the back of my truck.
Speaker 3: But for a lot of years now, there's been organizations
Speaker 3: in the VA has recognized, you know, twenty two suicides
Speaker 3: a day is kind of the number. Unfortunately that that
Speaker 3: floats around. It goes up and down, obviously, but twenty
Speaker 3: two a day is kind of the number that's associating
Speaker 3: with the betteran suicide. So we are making and we'll
Speaker 3: have online hopefully within the next couple of weeks. We're
Speaker 3: calling it the twenty two a smaller flag. We are
Speaker 3: using the the twenty two caliber shell casings and it's
Speaker 3: going to be a suicide awareness type. I think people
Speaker 3: are really going to gravitate too, because it's a one
Speaker 3: off unique, it's fits anywhere. It's a smaller flag, and
Speaker 3: so I wanted to share that with you for folks
Speaker 3: that can go to our website here in a couple
Speaker 3: of weeks, and that's going to be a real, real,
Speaker 3: real powerful and special products product for our guys to make.
Speaker 1: That's absolutely wonderful.
Speaker 2: I'm glad you're doing that, and I wish to God
Speaker 2: that you didn't have a reason to have to do that, Joe,
Speaker 2: But you know there you are.
Speaker 1: Well and real quick. We're out of time.
Speaker 2: But I just want to mention I see that with
Speaker 2: the expansion of the products for the Purpose program you got,
Speaker 2: you're going to be doing furniture at some point.
Speaker 1: We do.
Speaker 3: We do so we do take on custom products like
Speaker 3: the dav headquarters. We made seven custom live edge black
Speaker 3: walnut tables. We have made kitchen tables and stuff in
Speaker 3: the past. It is it is because of the way
Speaker 3: our shop is set up, Brian. We love doing product
Speaker 3: projects like that. They just can't have.
Speaker 1: Their hair on fire. You know, wait for it. It's costing, Bill, Yeah,
Speaker 1: you gotta have.
Speaker 2: And the final analysis, you're gonna come out with a
Speaker 2: one off item made by the American veterans at Patriots Landing. Joe,
Speaker 2: God bless you, man. I am so like I said,
Speaker 2: I get inspired every time I talk to you, and
Speaker 2: this has been a day filled with inspiration and I
Speaker 2: think we could all use a lot of it. And
Speaker 2: you just put a whole bunch out there for us
Speaker 2: to enjoy. Patriots Landing dot org, go to fifty five
Speaker 2: Casey dot com, buy something from them, participate, take a
Speaker 2: group down there and see what they're all about. Joe,
Speaker 2: God bless you. Keep up the great work. Thanks for
Speaker 2: helping out the American veteran each and every day.
Speaker 3: God bless you, Brian.
Speaker 1: We're blessed. Thanks man, I know you are. Wow. I
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