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This is the theme song from the
Hbo special band of brothers,
which came out in 2001.
I still don't know of
a better
day and after
series
that's been produced
yet,
we just returned from
France
Normandy,
and
Can you believe it's been a month?
Well,
whatever that credit I caught on the
plain war or
going over,
that was a fog when we got back,
but
respiratory,
whatever. But anyway,
I had never been to normandy. So
I do wanna talk a little bit bit
about that, but
I'm gonna start with a psalm. Psalm 77.
I cried unto god with my voice, even
unto god with my voice, and he gave
ear unto me.
In the day of my truck, it says
with my voice by the way,
doesn't say,
with my mind.
In the day of my trouble, I saw
the lord, my sore ran in the night,
and cease not. My soul
refused to be comforted. Have you ever been
in that spot
where
day and night,
you were unable to find comfort.
I have.
I understand
now
the words of the Psalm when.
Because most people said, Oh, just say a
prayer and you'll fall asleep.
Sure.
It doesn't always work like that.
Verse 3, I remembered God and was troubled.
I complained and my spirit was overwhelmed,
been there.
Thou hold us mine eyes waking. I am
so troubled that I cannot speak.
Been there.
I have considered the days of old.
The years of ancient times.
I call to remembrance my song in the
night. I commune with my own heart.
And my spirit made diligent search, meaning
when I am in that spot of difficulty.
I don't just give up
and relax and say, oh, it'll go away.
No.
That's when I search
diligently
for comfort.
Verse 7, Will the Lord cast off forever?
And will he be favorable
no more?
So this is
the mind of the Psalm is playing tricks
on him
because
the answer is the Lord has not cast
him off
and he has not ceased to be favorable.
Indeed,
sometimes it is the greatest difficulty
that
basically cultivate,
the kind of character
that
is unable
to be cultivated
any other way.
Verse 8 is his mercy clean gone forever.
Death is promise.
Fail forever more.
As God forgotten to be gracious, hath in
anger,
shut up
his tender mercy.
And I said,
this is my affirmative, but
I will remember the years of the right
hand
of the most high.
I will remember the works for the lord.
Surely, I will remember that Wonders of old.
I will meditate also of thy work and
talk of thy doing.
Thy way o God is in the sanctuary,
who is so great a God
as our God.
Thou art the god that do us wonders.
Thou has declared thy strength.
Among the people. Okay. That's Psalm 77
versus 1 through 14,
I wanna talk a little
about
some of the lessons
of d day of
Sacrifice
in light
of what we see
today in our
country.
I don't know if you've ever watched
the
series
band of brothers.
You know, there are some people out there
who've sworn off all media,
and they
don't subscribe to
something like Hbo or they don't look at
Youtube. They don't
watch Tv. They don't
look at movies. What network could you... Or
what did you say Band brothers is on
christ? Hbo o Max.
Okay.
Now,
I have been that way.
I've said, I wanna watch all that crap,
you know,
and it's wrong.
Categorically
wrong.
For for people like me,
who
don't wanna
watch history books or
watch. See. Listen to that.
Who don't wanna a read deep
600 page books about history and every detail
about the leaders and that kind of thing
pictures
are better
than a lot of words. It's why Shakespeare,
the
was so popular.
And, Elizabeth in English, England because of the
lesser
educated
people,
in society. Like myself,
we're able to go and basically see a
picture of a play
and get something out of it.
Certain
movies
or in in the case of
Band brothers. It's a mini series
or able to illustrate
the war.
Better,
than reading tome and tome of history. Now,
that's not to say you shouldn't read history
books. I do.
I read history books.
I'm working on 1 right now.
Thucydides
thucydides,
the pe nation war.
And I... You know, there's never been a
movie made about the
war than I know of anyway.
And I'll read world war 2 books. I'll
read civil war books.
But every now and then somebody comes along
that can embody,
you know, the action and the story.
As well as anybody.
Now,
what you see
is
a willingness
to sacrifice
one's own
life.
Really, they throw their lives at it. It
it it finally gets to a point where
death
and mai and
Injury becomes so
prevalent that it's just part of the deal.
You're constantly faced with death.
This movie is a lot better. At showing
it than many of the other were. And
I'd had watched it years ago and it
kinda went in
1 eye and out the other. I'm now
revisiting it
after years
and it means something new
to me,
the level of sacrifice.
What
have people sacrificed
in order to be these days in in
leadership.
Well, let's just look at the current leadership.
We now have a guy who's is
doing all he can
and his wife is pushing him
to hang on to power.
It doesn't matter
what is happening with the rest of the
country. It all that matters that that this
person
Hang on to power. No sacrificing
of his life
for the good of the country.
I have my power, and I'm not gonna
let go of it.
And you have
a whole cad of of people in the
media, other
politicians,
all of whom,
their
jobs and livelihoods
depend upon
this
power structure staying in place,
and you have half of the voters,
who
get something from the government
and
believe a certain way and whose mental health
is dependent upon a certain cad,
certain power structure staying in place, and
the cracks are in it. And yet they
have proven that they will do anything to
maintain it, including veto a bill that's coming
through Congress right now,
All it says is you have to be
a natural... You have to be a Us
citizen
in order to vote.
And the Democrats
have all voted against this.
Gretchen W in
Michigan, the governor
has essentially ram through a bill, which makes
it legal for anybody to vote, including your
dog.
Now if you can't figure out what this
is aimed at,
you have no brain
It's aimed upon county illegal votes. That's that's
the only thing it can be aimed at.
It's about
gaining power
and keeping power
because
for certain political types,
And then I'm not just pointed at the
Democrats.
I think there's
probably 80 percent of the Republicans are this
way.
Because they get paid too
to show up and be the new... The
Washington generals
plan the Carlin globe charters. They always lose.
They still they're... They still get a paycheck,
which from
My son
played college football at a little school in
birmingham.
And 1 of the staff was a guy
that had played
On Alabama,
1 of Alabama national championship
football teams back in the nineties. This guy
was named.
Sam shade, big,
and
he was used to win it.
And
he got drafted by the bang.
Oh,
when they were the bang.
And
3 games into the season. I think they'd
lost all 3 of them.
He's sitting in front of his locker with
his head down and and a veteran comes
up and says,
What are you worried about, Rookie? And he
said, well, he said, I'm just not loose
used to losing football games.
He said,
Don't worry. We get paid tomorrow.
And
that was
Sam told me that was when he realized.
You know, that his mind and heart was
not with the way they thought in Nfl,
and this is the way most of our
political class thinks. For many of them, it's
a bigger job than they've ever had, they've
never created anything on their own. It's all
been in government.
That includes our president
who's been in government for
probably close to 50 years.
Did he ever do anything else? His never
had all had his son's done some things.
Yeah. Cut him in it. Yeah. No. I'm
talking to his his Joe Biden ever had.
His a corporate job. I have no idea.
That would be something to look into. I
don't know. I don't think so. I'm curious.
But
the
back to this example.
Of what we see in the band of
brothers.
We see a supreme
sacrifice
unto death
for
an idea, and I don't even know
if we could summon that kind of thing
in our country today.
Somebody took a poll
in the last year,
Don't know if it's legit.
But
they basically ask Republicans and Democrats.
If the country was under attack, would you
be willing to fight for our country. And
I think it said something like 47,
person percent of the Democrats democrat said no.
And it was segmented along political lines.
And I look at that, and and I
know there's a lot of Republicans that wouldn't
either.
You know, because fighting is ugly hard, difficult
and you get hurt or killed.
And when it's over with,
you're permanently changed.
You can never go back
from having been a soldier,
and those images are still left with you.
There's a...
Seen in there where,
captain Wen
who gets thrust into this
role because Lieutenant mee
goes down on 1 of the jump planes
on d
dies
along with the crew
and we went to that spot
in France,
where that c 47 went down,
we were led there by our guide.
And I
I wish I'd had watched band of brothers
before the trip, but it it wouldn't have
meant anything to me. It now means so
much more.
But when winters
takes 48 hours to go to Paris,
and
he sees these...
People
and the faces.
And then the faces of German show soldiers
that he's just shot,
get on the faces of these people. It
Band brothers shows an amazing.
Level of insight to the horrors and psychological
difficulties of war.
Now,
how does that translate to today?
I'm not exactly sure.
But
1 thing I do know. Is that this
willingness to sacrifice
for the good of the country
These guys weren't asking each other on the
battlefield? Are you a Republican or a democrat?
They weren't
fighting against their own countrymen based on
political
affiliation.
They were fighting for freedom.
Actually, somebody else's freedom,
that of France and that of Europe.
But Roosevelt realized
that with Japan on 1
side and Hitler on the other,
America could no longer remain neutral, especially after
pearl harbor.
And
that's why these men fought and they went,
and they died.
Many died. And then those that didn't.
Came back with
psychological,
spiritual, mental, physical wounds,
that
were really kind of incomprehensible
to
somebody like me
and others like me who have lived a
very pam,
protected
existence for most of our lives.
And so...
Somehow
tapping into this
spirit of sacrifice.
It's gonna
be what's required
to move our country forward.
From the log jam that we see today,
and
I'm gonna tell you something.
If you think it's violent. Now, you wait
until if Trump gets elected.
Half the country will be an open revolt.
The bureaucracy
will make it almost impossible.
For him to govern, and then they'll turn
around and blame it on him because that's
what Liberals do.
They create a problem and they blame it
on the other side.
So
just say your prayers
and do what you need to do.
And be truthful and honest
because the country will need
good people
doing good things.
So the answer to the Joe Biden question
that I asked earlier,
he was employed very briefly. After law school
for a law firm from 19 68 to
around 19 70, and I think from that
point on.
He's been in politics. Probably got fired.
Who knows.
He said he realized it wasn't for him.
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Okay. This
is a song by steel dan from the
album countdown to ecstasy, which
came out in the seventies.
It's a song that some people say,
Is their favorite steel dance song.
And there's a guy named
Jeff, Baxter that called sku baxter.
And he plays the pedal steel
on this...
He
Jeff Baxter is not a guy that
backs down from challenges. And
so Donald Fa and Walter Becker, or the
writers
and kinda
concept guys behind steel down, but they would
always hire and bring in other musicians to
actually play the parts and Sku Baxter played
on a bunch of their stuff as well
as he played with the Doo Brothers.
He also is into
Us defense systems. The the in the highest
form and the guy's brilliant. He's
you know? So this is
this is a song that you never hear
get played much, and, well, nobody. But it's
the people's favorite. They don't hear it much.
Well, yeah.
Because they do the research.
Okay. What do you think I'd do? Lots
of research. For our clients for our company,
and about music. Yeah. It's just... You read
a lot.
Sometimes it's at 03:00 in the morning. That's
right. It's quiet. But
speaking of research, so we stumbled on some
research
a while back
in terms of
totally innocent where we went over to...
They were sitting at a restaurant having dinner.
Yeah. And a a guy said, oh,
go over to the corner of Mason He
and
for sales Road, and we're thinking, Wait. That's
where the web used to live. He said,
you know, they're
they're doing a demo,
and there's a guy with there that knows
something about cabins.
I want you to meet him. Yeah.
So we drove over there and what we
found was that this...
House
that
had been owned, and I'm just, you know,
it's local developer. He sold it to the
school system for
actually a very
low price
compared to what you could say it's worth.
If they developed it into a neighborhood or
they were 3 or... But whatever. Anyway,
and and what we saw was this beautiful
house.
It was in perfect condition. Perfect condition. Whatever
being demolished.
And
the all the fixtures being taken out of
it,
and so
what we began to do some research and
realize that the school system had
made several plans regarding this. That it was
the Kentucky edu court of education?
Let's don't worry about details.
No. I'm that that is a good detail,
actually.
There had been a plan made that included
that house.
As part of what they were gonna do.
And then all of a sudden, it's just
like this unilateral decision to tear it down.
And that was paid very quickly and... Push
through with that much.
I at all. I think
part of the reason
is because somebody
in the school board wanted the fixtures
out of the house.
I think that is part of why
the house got torn down
because we... You really think that. Yeah.
As I look at these
people and
the way they behave in their own little
bubble
It it doesn't surprise me... And there were
several very...
Well, we were told that the
fixtures of the house, which were very valuable.
Were taken by 1 of the school board
members. We mentioned that some of them were
gone before they got there. They don't know
exactly where they went. They've been taken. We
do know that the kitchen
was removed from the property.
By a
member
of the staff of the Fed County. School
system. Somebody
came and got it.
So...
We talked about this 3 or 4 weeks
ago,
you know,
there was this level.
Somebody put it on Facebook,
and that's it.
We...
I tried to get coverage from a local
news station because I... Know some people there.
Neck. Nothing.
We talk to
people that know people at the newspaper?
Nothing.
We talked to people that know people with
the blue grass trust, nothing.
They said isn't it a shame. Yeah.
So
this is the kind of town we're living
in folks.
Are you comfortable with this? You know, there's
only so much... I mean, it's like a
football coach.
You know, it
let me tell you. My my children or
well both boys played
football,
as I was the most involved in their
sports when they were
10:12 years old.
And
they played for this team that
it was... I don't know what the name
of the league was. But
it was a Wood for County football league.
Yeah. And youth football league.
So the...
Some games they would go out, you know,
it's was like, wow, You know? And then
there was 1 or 2 teams that they
would play.
They would walk out on the field and
their heads were down.
And no amount of coaching,
would make them believe that they could win
that game.
It was almost...
It was like the Republicans versus the Democrats,
at the Washington generals versus the globe t.
You go out and on the field knowing
you're gonna lose. This at times is what
I feel like
that I'm talking to.
That I'm talking to the people that listen
to this show and live in Lexington and
could make a difference.
I'm talking to people who are walking out
on the field and their heads are down,
and they've already resigned themselves to the fact
that they're gonna lose that they can't make
a difference,
they can't change the way things are.
So my question is,
if you really feel that way,
don't listen to the show.
Save yourself the trouble?
Why would you listen to a show like
this?
If
if you just say, you know, I'm never
gonna make a difference.
Now,
There's another side to it.
That people who might listen to this show
might not know.
1 thing I've seen in Kentucky.
I don't care how many Republicans they elect
to
the
legislature.
This is a democrat run owned and driven
state.
And a democrat problem
finally has to get fixed by Democrats. Democrats
have to give the permission
to fix the problem. They'll let the Republicans
fix it
And then they'll come around and complain
about how this wasn't done right or that
1 done right it's it's the it's the
whole thing. It's what immature people do.
And is...
You gotta understand. I'm neither a republican or
democrat. I do not have a registration with
a political party. You wanna... You don't believe
me? You can go look.
I'm an independent, which means I'm non affiliated
with either party,
and I can be as
You know,
I know a lot of people like this
Damon T guy, but,
you know, oh, he's great.
Well,
he wanted to be on the show.
That wasn't in any anyway I was putting
him on the show because it would have
been a sales pitch.
The point is,
I don't... You know, and and Daniel Cameron,
that was 1 of the weakest candidates for
anything. I I feel like the fix was
in on that.
Maybe he had some deal going with Mcconnell.
Mcconnell, who the... The last thing he wants
is a conservative because he benefits
from the system,
And,
I'm with the Democrats on not liking him,
but they're never gonna
get out of locks, but they're getting out
of locks on Biden. Okay. I'm digress. Let's
go back to Lexington.
What is it?
I would simply ask the question.
Why is it that nobody in the media
will ask the question of the school system?
What's going on?
What is really happening
in our schools?
When
a lady ran for school board last time,
who...
I know she was put forth by the
Republican party.
I know her
nor her family.
Wonderful lady. Common sense.
When they were out canvas the neighborhood for
her all that they heard was, I don't
want book burners.
They don't
they the voters
don't seem to be concerned with the tremendous
levels of waste
going on,
with their tax dollars
because 93 cents at every
dollar you pay in property taxes goes to
the school system and guess what?
A bunch of you all
are gonna be paying 20 to 30 to
40 percent more this year,
in property taxes than you were last year.
Because if you don't know,
your boy, David O'neil
just raised
your
assessment... Assessments in a big way.
Myself included.
Alright. I'm gonna let it sit there. Next
time I... If I ever go to sell
my house and... Hey.
It's worth this. This is what David O'neal
says. This work. David O O'neal just... He
put bumps stamp of my my
my house price up by 30 percent.
The
the point I'm trying to make is
if you all can't get organized
and stay organized because I'm gonna tell you
something, you're opposition is highly organized.
They control everything,
which means
you got nowhere to go but up
All you gotta do is say this...
The point is
get
motivated.
Eddie Brown was on here.
Ed is a good guy, and he's organizing
some people
locally.
To try to begin to ask questions regarding
what's going on. You know, the the 1
thing that these over overlords don't want
is taxpayers
asking tough questions
in an organized way.
Most taxpayers
refused to organize with other taxpayers
and actually do something. We had this
1 group of concerned women
come in here and they want to have
this meeting.
Find out all about all this stuff.
We did. We sat down with them. They
said, oh, this oh, that taken notes,
crickets.
Poof.
What did ever happen with that? Nothing 0.
I asked to 1 or 2 of them.
You wanna do this or that. I'll get
back to you.
Nothing.
It's
It takes a lot
to do something.
You have to get over some mental
hills.
There's a big thing that people are are
worried about what other people are gonna think
about them. Don't even think it's that a
lot of oil. Guarantee
that some of it is that...
Well, it's just like new legislature.
I people that that wind office.
They don't know the system when they first
enter, so they're very ineffective they don't know
how to navigate the system. I think that
breaking through to figure out how to navigate
the system,
is the biggest challenge for somebody that wants
to help initiate change.
No.
I think you were gonna say that. You're
wrong.
Okay. You go in.
And you get involved in the system,
and and that does not give the average
citizen
a pass on why they shouldn't be involved.
You just compared what I was talking
about
to some new legislative
person coming in. I'm not telling to become
a leg,
let's they want to. What I'm what I
saying is it's hard to navigate the system
if you don't know but you know what
start. As of as a...
As a citizen,
you're actually more effective
than as a legislature or an employee of
the system. Well, because you're taking a paycheck,
you know, these
most people nowadays,
it goes back to what we talked about
in the first,
half hour.
That was for the sacrifice for the country.
What these guys did at d day.
Most everybody that's in government now is there
because number 1, they draw a paycheck and
number 2, they want a job where they
don't have to work that hard. And that's
what you get with government.
They're not interested in really being productive. Now,
Does that mean there's not people in government
that are productive,
absolutely not. There are people out there in
government that work hard and do a good
job,
and they don't like the ones
that are slack,
but the system
lets them be there Okay. So, you know
who pops into my mind
that didn't know the system, but figured it
out was uni slogan.
You know why? She just got
pissed off. And tell tell the brief story
about Eunice. Well, Eunice
came to Ben Chandler
when when Ben was the,
congressman.
Ben is an okay guy, but he's...
Not very good with people. And, you know,
not a good at all with people. And
he just blew her off.
So
she said, well, maybe he was having a
bad day. So she
followed him and went to an another event.
And this time not only did he blow
her off. He kinda
talked down here. Well, that wasn't really a
good thing to do with Eunice.
And so she went nuts,
and
started this
website called c bin spend, and It was
a grassroots Yeah. Organ
and she
basically
helped Andy Barr elected.
She was relentless
So now Andy having been there for 14
years or whatever it he is.
He needs somebody to do a c band
spent on him.
Because if you saw show that we saw
not long ago,
you know, the
it's it's rotten. I mean, the the thing
is
it's not good. And
he has become a creature of the system.
It's that's exactly what Andy is now. And
so
you know, I tried to...
The Democrats put up these
communists.
I mean, you know, the
somebody that's a Democrat. I don't know if
they exist anymore that's not
you know, a socialist
should run against Danny, because I think you
could win.
I mean, if you get out there and
just talk to
the common people. He needs a challenge.
He not gonna get 1 from the Republican
side.
That ain't an admin.
Because the
the the Republicans in this state are asleep,
especially here in Faye County,
They're not much good.
And
so that's why I'm not 1.
It has to be... There's gotta be somebody.
That is willing to,
you know, lobby for change.
But the Eunice did
a good job. Now it's gotta be done
again.
Somebody up because they get comfortable and cozy.
And
that's just the nature of it. And it
needs to be done locally too with this
school board situation Well, that's gonna be the
toughest 1 of them That is...
Because you're dealing with people in Lexington who
are crazy.
That are voters. And
interesting... At school board, the stories that I
have heard in the past... It's a product
of the local voters. That's the. Or or
the lack of attention or interest even though
percent of our of our property tax dollars.
Are going
to that.
People get the government they deserve. And our
our test and our wanted anymore. Yeah. You
gotta make a change. And our test scores
continue to go down at Fiat County, which
is really the mission of the school system
is to educate... Start editing out my customers.
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