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Speaker 1: Eve to you, and as I've been importing out all morning,
Speaker 1: very special happy day for me and my wife. I
Speaker 1: like to think she agreed, and she is because she
Speaker 1: texted me to say she was in agreement. It's our
Speaker 1: thirty third anniversary and we're both pretty happy with the
Speaker 1: fact that we were able to meet each other. And
Speaker 1: I'm certainly happy with the fact that I was able
Speaker 1: to convince her to go out with me, since she
Speaker 1: did say no a couple of times after when I
Speaker 1: first tried. Anyhow, so's a woman of she's smart, that's
Speaker 1: smarter than I am. Anyway back in studio, and it's
Speaker 1: always a pleasure to see Joe Montgomery, who's currently in
Speaker 1: a relationship where he's out kicked as coverage.
Speaker 2: He knew I was gonna say something. Linn is an
Speaker 2: outstanding woman. She's amazing. Morning congratulates all of the.
Speaker 1: Young Marines, And of course Joe Monk, if you don't remember,
Speaker 1: is involved with and the founder of a wonderful, wonderful
Speaker 1: organization called Patriots Landing located in northern Kentucky, real close
Speaker 1: to the the Arc Museum. Right, it's right count just
Speaker 1: Arc in County. That's kind of right around the corner
Speaker 1: for you guys. And let's start off before we get
Speaker 1: to your announcement. I know you've gotten something special to
Speaker 1: let my listeners know about. You're the reason behind Patriots
Speaker 1: Landing what you do each and every day, and we'll
Speaker 1: talk about some of the items you manufacture in your woodshop,
Speaker 1: which has expanded over the years. So let's start off
Speaker 1: with a little history lesson to remind my listeners or
Speaker 1: at least explain to them for those who aren't familiar
Speaker 1: with you.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, you know our mission statement is enhancing the
Speaker 2: lives of veterans and their families. And you and I
Speaker 2: have talked over the years about a lot of the
Speaker 2: things that happen in our shop with the camaraderie, with
Speaker 2: the purpose that we're providing for the veterans. It's so real,
Speaker 2: it's amazing to watch. One of the things I want
Speaker 2: to share with you this morning is we talk about
Speaker 2: this with our groups that visit all the time that
Speaker 2: a lot of times in most veterans, probably the far
Speaker 2: majority would acknowledge that, as we just discussed briefly, your wonderful, lovely,
Speaker 2: beautiful spouse has given you the ability to grow in
Speaker 2: your relationship and play caated a lot of different things
Speaker 2: and is not causing tons of stress for you right
Speaker 2: over the years and your relationship.
Speaker 1: Well, I couldn't be married to a woman who caused
Speaker 1: me stress all the time, Like if I was pulling
Speaker 1: in the driveway and I got a sinking feeling like
Speaker 1: oh no, done over with that's not me. But not
Speaker 1: having to deal with that or even think about it
Speaker 1: as a concept, That's one of the reasons why I'm
Speaker 1: so happy that I was able.
Speaker 2: To what a perfect segue with your previous guests are
Speaker 2: just amazing and had the pleasure right that It's just
Speaker 2: just the brain stress thing, which you and I have
Speaker 2: a lot of because we're just on go, go go
Speaker 2: all the time. But the spouses, and I'll say particularly
Speaker 2: maybe the wives. We have a lot of you know,
Speaker 2: women who serve obviously, and the husbands do now, but historically,
Speaker 2: you know, the spouse suffers equally a lot of times
Speaker 2: as much or even sometimes more than the actual veteran
Speaker 2: if they're deployed, that you know, they have to hold
Speaker 2: the house down with the kids and whatever else. And
Speaker 2: the stress there about one of the loved one being
Speaker 2: deployed and not knowing where they are than when that
Speaker 2: person comes home. And I forget if it's a song
Speaker 2: or a saying. That really hit me years ago when
Speaker 2: we talked about and bringing the families in, is that
Speaker 2: the mom, you know, sent her boy overseas and the
Speaker 2: boy never came home, but but her son came home.
Speaker 2: It was just a different person. And so that's what
Speaker 2: the families deal with. And I tell you all that
Speaker 2: because we we just recently brought into our shop a
Speaker 2: wonderful edition. Her name is well, we call her Goody.
Speaker 2: It's Goody. I believe I'm probably butchering that, but she
Speaker 2: is very much a German woman. She met her husband
Speaker 2: in Germany while he was serving. They got married, They
Speaker 2: spent twenty something years over there. She came to America,
Speaker 2: loves America. Her husband obviously was a veteran of the Army.
Speaker 2: Loved woodworking. Was you know that Veterans Cemetery is right
Speaker 2: across the street from our facility. Well, she came in
Speaker 2: a little over a year ago, having buried her husband,
Speaker 2: wanted to thank us for putting the flags out.
Speaker 1: That we put out. Oh yeah, cemetery.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and was just bawling and needed a burial flight case.
Speaker 2: So we assisted her with that process and picked out
Speaker 2: the right one for her husband. She says, oh, my
Speaker 2: husband was a wood worker. Blah blah blah. Well, Brian,
Speaker 2: about every couple of months she would come down to
Speaker 2: visit her husband. She would come in and every time
Speaker 2: she was crying, she was emotional. And I started a
Speaker 2: conversation about our mission statement, our wall. You know, we
Speaker 2: we would love to have you come in if you
Speaker 2: love woodworking. And oh, she says, I like to scroll
Speaker 2: saw and bos I said, I said, goodie. We have
Speaker 2: a scroll sall in the back that's literally collecting dust,
Speaker 2: you know, pardon the pun, but it never gets used.
Speaker 2: We don't have time for it. And so about a
Speaker 2: month and a half ago she came in and she
Speaker 2: was she looked a little different, and she says, she says, Joe,
Speaker 2: she says, she says, it's been a year. It's been
Speaker 2: a year today and she says, I think I'm ready.
Speaker 2: I'm like goodie whenever I said pack a lunch, come down,
Speaker 2: And she's come down every week since then. And she
Speaker 2: gets in the back and she's smiling, and she's she
Speaker 2: doesn't take any crap from the boys. I can tell
Speaker 2: you that well she's German. She is. And it is
Speaker 2: absolutely gives me chills and amazing to see how our
Speaker 2: veterans have just welcomed her as the spouse of a veteran.
Speaker 1: And she just part of the family.
Speaker 2: She launched. She laughs, she tells jokes, and so I
Speaker 2: got to witness from the but loved when it was
Speaker 2: a sudden, very quick passing jeez. One of those found
Speaker 2: out a cancer was was gone month and uh, you know,
Speaker 2: to have air quote a non veteran come into our shop,
Speaker 2: but a family member who lived and literally was brought
Speaker 2: to America from a vetter now on the back in
Speaker 2: our shop scroll and stuff, and she makes all kinds
Speaker 2: of cool stuff. So uh that that's a that's another
Speaker 2: step into progression of how we're helping veterans and their
Speaker 2: families really and it was just fun to watch.
Speaker 1: Well and just sort of an explanation on the value
Speaker 1: of your organization. Obviously, a woman struggling with her emotional situation,
Speaker 1: given the loss of her husband. You were a welcoming
Speaker 1: environment for her. You did something nice for her in
Speaker 1: this in the form of getting very flag uh veterans
Speaker 1: of flag burial box or flatcase, flatcase struggling with the words,
Speaker 1: which is one of your original ideas. You are the
Speaker 1: exclusive provider of flagcases for Arlington National Cemetery, which I
Speaker 1: think is just an amazing thing. But that stepping stone,
Speaker 1: and you stuck with it. And she obviously was impacted
Speaker 1: by that encounter since she kept showing up. So she
Speaker 1: did and she had one foot in the door that
Speaker 1: little experience with the Patriots landing.
Speaker 2: And we've had a Vietnam veteran with a very similar
Speaker 2: experience where when they come in with their wives, the
Speaker 2: families again, you know, I could tell the veteran will say, oh,
Speaker 2: I like woodworking, blah blah blah, and collectively they'll say,
Speaker 2: you know, well I need to get down here. But
Speaker 2: you can see it in the wives like he needs
Speaker 2: to get down here.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: And it's a purpose, right, it's a purpose. It's like
Speaker 2: they see them around the house modeling, not quite sure
Speaker 2: day to day, cutting the grass. They have their honeydew list. Sure,
Speaker 2: but they don't have you know, cutting the grass is
Speaker 2: not a purpose coming down and hang out in a
Speaker 2: shop and shooting the crap and laughing and telling war stories.
Speaker 2: As we've discussed many times, it's just happens. There's a
Speaker 2: purpose there for them.
Speaker 1: Then, Ben, they also can engage in the woodworking activities
Speaker 1: because you make these really cool handmade wood products, and
Speaker 1: I love how the veterans' names on them, the veteran
Speaker 1: who made any individual item, and you if I've been
Speaker 1: the recipient of several of these over the years, the flag,
Speaker 1: the Passion Cross which you gave me last time. That
Speaker 1: thing is amazing, and the Patriot Cross, which I have
Speaker 1: proudly displayed out of my favorite spot in the in
Speaker 1: my house, my screened in porch.
Speaker 2: Ok.
Speaker 1: Yeah, oh yeah, I see it every day, so they're there.
Speaker 1: You know what sounds really cool to me just the
Speaker 1: idea of hanging out with a bunch of cool guys
Speaker 1: you have this connection with by virtual military service in
Speaker 1: a wood shop, because you know, I've done some wood
Speaker 1: projects myself over the years, so it's like guys hanging
Speaker 1: out in a garage working on cars. This is guys
Speaker 1: hanging out in the wood shop working on wood projects,
Speaker 1: but having that opportunity to you know, bustwevos and swap
Speaker 1: stories and you know, decompressed, perhaps making friends.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we didn't invent reinvent the wheel, take take veterans
Speaker 2: out or whatever your listener lunches. You know, like minded
Speaker 2: people coming together, enjoying their time together. Y yeah, similar
Speaker 2: thoughts talking. Probably a stress reliever.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, without question, going back to my friends or yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't feel a lick of stress at a listener lunch.
Speaker 1: Thank you for pointing that out. I mean, they see,
Speaker 1: I have one more reason to look forward to it.
Speaker 1: We'll continue with Joe Montgomery. It's Patriots Landing dot org.
Speaker 1: Patriots Landing dot org. They have a whole bunch of
Speaker 1: different products that they make. The proceeds go to benefit
Speaker 1: this organization, and they've expanded over the years, and obviously
Speaker 1: more and more veterans are discovering Patriots Landing and all
Speaker 1: the benefits of they hanging out in the shop. Age fifteen.
Speaker 1: Right now that you have ksee the talk station at
Speaker 1: Gate of Heaven Catholic Cemetery of Montgomery. It is beautiful,
Speaker 1: There is no question about it. The landscaping, the trees,
Speaker 1: the paths, and the environment is just a perfect place
Speaker 1: to reflect on life, the sacredness of life, you know,
Speaker 1: a place for prayer, a place for healing, a place
Speaker 1: for meditation, to spend a full hour talking with George
Speaker 1: and Keith on stress, a place to decompress. For a
Speaker 1: tranquil landscape, surrounded area for all of this, you know,
Speaker 1: mental health to occur, and also a wonderful spot for
Speaker 1: you to consider for your final resting place. Kate of
Speaker 1: Heaven excuse me, Catholic Church. Find them online learn more
Speaker 1: at gateof Heaven dot org.
Speaker 2: Fifty five KRC our iHeart.
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Speaker 1: amazing organization that he found it.
Speaker 2: Have you been around fifteen years now? I was just
Speaker 2: looking at the other day. I'm not real good with dates,
Speaker 2: but it's closer to seventeen because it's just a slightly
Speaker 2: older than my boy. Update your website another thing, which
Speaker 2: is Patriots Landing dot org. Try not to stress me out, brother, Oh.
Speaker 1: No, you know, I'm not going to try to do that.
Speaker 1: Just bust and play those again anyway. A place for
Speaker 1: patriots and families to spend time together to work in
Speaker 1: the workshop to make these wonderful products, and most notably
Speaker 1: the flagcases, which are the exclusive flagcases for Arlington National Cemetery.
Speaker 1: Maybe a loved one, a military veteran passing your home
Speaker 1: and you're looking for something special to display the flag in.
Speaker 1: You have come to the right place when you go
Speaker 1: to Patriots Landing dot org. And you also do some
Speaker 1: custom items too, don't you.
Speaker 2: We do, we do. We have made all kinds of
Speaker 2: different tables in the past. It was just at the
Speaker 2: DAV headquarters, which is a gorgeous, gorgeous facility there in
Speaker 2: Erlanger a couple of days ago. It's actually dropping off
Speaker 2: a couple of small we have small flagcases for like
Speaker 2: memorial flags. Sure to an Air Force veteran who happened
Speaker 2: to be there and I and I and I went
Speaker 2: upstairs and happened to run into Barry Jasinowski, who's the
Speaker 2: head of the DAV and Cody van Box, a very
Speaker 2: good friend, executive director, and we talked. We talked for
Speaker 2: about a half an hour. Just great, great guys. I mean,
Speaker 2: you can imagine they run this huge organization. And Joe
Speaker 2: walks in and the man gives me thirty minutes of
Speaker 2: his time and we talk family, We talk all kinds
Speaker 2: of stuff. We were looking. We made six or seven
Speaker 2: custom walnut live edge coffee tables for their new headquarters.
Speaker 2: They are out the executive thing and we're going to
Speaker 2: actually kind of redo him. I was telling Barry, we'll
Speaker 2: start one at a time and sand him down and
Speaker 2: put I've discovered a different type of oil that we
Speaker 2: can put on these live edge stuff that just just bang,
Speaker 2: and so we've we've done some of that with live
Speaker 2: edge stuff. Uncle LeRoy's fudge. If you've ever been to
Speaker 2: the Creation Museum or arc Encounter, they saw fudge there,
Speaker 2: answers and Genesis is opening a new facil build in
Speaker 2: Pigeonforge and in Branson, Missouri. So he needed to fudge tables,
Speaker 2: which need to hold that seven hundred and fifty pound marble.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so we had to make sure we built some
Speaker 2: beefy tables there. We do all kinds of little different tastes,
Speaker 2: so it's not just the items that we're seeing on
Speaker 2: your website. I guess the only point I wanted to
Speaker 2: make because I know you do some custom creations for
Speaker 2: other special order. You did bring a bag of tricks
Speaker 2: with you today, and you were going to spring that on.
Speaker 2: And we have a couple of a few minutes remaining
Speaker 2: in the segment, so me, let's open the goodie box.
Speaker 2: He's gonna get his tissues out.
Speaker 1: An allergy moment, No, no, And you did it and
Speaker 1: the gate of yeah, well on the heels of that
Speaker 1: conversation about that wonderful woman, the German woman that comes in,
Speaker 1: and timing I guess was.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and then you segued into the gate of heaven.
Speaker 2: And that's where you know, my dad, who I founded
Speaker 2: this for, we buried him there and then a few
Speaker 2: months later we buried my mom there. And so I
Speaker 2: just wow, I just feel that it's just it's just why,
Speaker 2: It's just why I come and talk to you.
Speaker 1: Lord works serious ways, my friend, I had no idea.
Speaker 1: The timing could not have been more perfect and considering
Speaker 1: the subject matter, but it was there on the schedule
Speaker 1: all morning.
Speaker 3: So so, uh, what I did is I always like
Speaker 3: to bring you something, brother, So this is uh, this
Speaker 3: is a Kentucky bourbon barrel American flag.
Speaker 1: Oh, that's where the wood coloring comes from.
Speaker 2: That's that's the that's the charcole inside of the barrel,
Speaker 2: so the charcoal represents the red and the outside the
Speaker 2: outside represents the white.
Speaker 1: That is cool.
Speaker 2: And you mentioned the signatures on the back always means
Speaker 2: so much, so we put some on there for everybuddy.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, you're gonna make me have an allergy up.
Speaker 2: Right now, here's the Kleenex brother to our dear friend.
Speaker 1: An amazing support of Brian Thomas cheers.
Speaker 2: Yeah, oh man, And I signed that one for you.
Speaker 2: I made that one up and uh and you know
Speaker 2: you you experienced some of our stuff being a faith
Speaker 2: based the Patriot Cross which always has a faith based saying,
Speaker 2: the Passion Cross, which is definitely so this is this
Speaker 2: is something that we used to make quite a bit
Speaker 2: of and we just got back into it and I
Speaker 2: brought you a little stand here. But literally, without further ado,
Speaker 2: I've been working on something for about eighteen months, so
Speaker 2: I kind of thought the Kentucky bourbon barrel flag might
Speaker 2: be apropos. Oh, it's awesome. This is this is what
Speaker 2: we're launching today, sir. Oh no, yeah.
Speaker 1: Patriots Landing straight bourbon whiskey. You've got your own whiskey.
Speaker 1: We have our own private label burb. That is awesome.
Speaker 1: Where can my listeners we're almost running out of times.
Speaker 1: Where can my listeners get this and support your organization.
Speaker 1: I'm sure it probably tastes out.
Speaker 2: And it was hands selected by a young lady named
Speaker 2: Erica Krause who's well known in North Kentucky as a
Speaker 2: bourbon expert. My buddy Jeremy Armbrewster came down. He's a
Speaker 2: Bourbon Bourbon officionado. And so right to our website, Patriots
Speaker 2: Landing dot org, you're found the founder's edition eighty eight
Speaker 2: and the eighty eight Brian, there's gonna be eighty eight
Speaker 2: limited edition bottles. Okay, you're gonna get a number of
Speaker 2: different cool little things when you buy this bottle shipped
Speaker 2: to you for your support. The eighty eight is because
Speaker 2: that's how Pops was when he.
Speaker 1: Passed macounter's edition bottles and a special thing for his
Speaker 1: service to our country. And again he's the impetus behind
Speaker 1: the existence of Patriots Landing, which you started in your
Speaker 1: father's honor for after his service of his country. This
Speaker 1: is number one of eighty eight.
Speaker 2: I'm keeping that one.
Speaker 1: Buddy.
Speaker 2: You can have the flag, but that comes back with me.
Speaker 2: Fair enough, fair enough, I'll get over and get one
Speaker 2: before they go. YEA cool and congratulations man. That is
Speaker 2: a wonderful, wonderful offering.
Speaker 1: Folks. Do your help, do your best to help support them.
Speaker 1: If you're a veteran, you know where to turn. Go
Speaker 1: to Patriots Landing the information at patriots Landing dot org.
Speaker 1: Check out the products. Just support him by buying one.
Speaker 1: You'll be thoroughly impressed with them. I love this bourbon
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Speaker 1: seeing you again. Keep up the great work around. So inspiring.
Speaker 1: Thank you press, so inspiring. God bless you, God bless you.
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