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Patriot Productions Memorial Day Weekend · The KFAB Comment Line with Jean Stothert

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Speaker 1: You know what that music means. Backup quarterback, substitute teacher,
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Speaker 1: just a game manager quarterback. Oh no, we're going to
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Speaker 1: be throwing some long bombs today. My name is Chim
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Speaker 1: Maxwell hit for Jean Stothard. It's the KFAB comment line
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Speaker 1: advantage of that talkback app on the free iHeartRadio app. Well, Peyton,
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Speaker 1: they've they've let me back in for today, tomorrow and
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Speaker 1: most of next week. We'll see how much mischief we
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Speaker 1: can make.
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Speaker 2: I'm glad to hear they give you your badge back.
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Speaker 1: Yes, right, right, Well, there was some concern about whether
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Speaker 1: Retire Smart would have me back after my last go
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Speaker 1: round here, but all is well, at least so far.
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Speaker 1: We'll see what wish if we can make today, tomorrow
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Speaker 1: and next week. I do not know. I don't know
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Speaker 1: if it's a secret, undisclosed, top secret thing. I don't
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Speaker 1: know where the Honorable Gene Stothard is, but I assume
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Speaker 1: it's related to the Memorial Day holiday, and she's having
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Speaker 1: some well deserved R and R and so we're gonna
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Speaker 1: it'll be me with you for the better part of
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Speaker 1: the next week or so. I'm very excited to have
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Speaker 1: with us in the studio today. I'm just gonna go
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Speaker 1: ahead and call it. He is the foremost local patriot
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Speaker 1: in our community, the one, the only Bill Williams. Bill,
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Speaker 1: Welcome to the show.
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Speaker 2: Please to be here, Chip, thanks for having me.
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Speaker 1: Bill and his wife Yvonne, of course started patriotic productions,
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Speaker 1: and I'm going to use this opportunity today Bill to
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Speaker 1: kind of review the whole history of patriotic productions. But
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Speaker 1: first in case, you know, we have a lot of
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Speaker 1: people who maybe can't listen to the whole show. There
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Speaker 1: are big doings at Memorial Park tomorrow night. It's the
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Speaker 1: latest iteration of patriotic productions celebrating Memorial Day weekend. Give
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Speaker 1: us the rundown on Tomorrow night.
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Speaker 3: So Friday night, we have the world's largest American flag
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Speaker 3: two hundred and fifty by five five one hundred and
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Speaker 3: twenty six thousand square feet, weighs three thousand pounds, takes
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Speaker 3: a minimum of six hundred and fifty people to unfurl it.
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Speaker 3: So we will combine that with a drone show from
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Speaker 3: Fantasy Drones out of Norfolk.
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Speaker 2: Who do they do?
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Speaker 3: Unl games and events all over the country. That will
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Speaker 3: be four hundred red, white and blue lights. And our
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Speaker 3: special guest from Ireland passing through Boston to get here
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Speaker 3: is doctor Ronan Tynan, and folks might remember him. He's
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Speaker 3: a former member of the Irish Tenors and he's famous
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Speaker 3: for singing God Bless America at Yankee Stadium after nine
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Speaker 3: to eleven, also funerals for Presidents Reagan and George Herbert
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Speaker 3: Walker Bush.
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Speaker 1: I'm a Yankee fan. I very well remember Ronan Tynan
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Speaker 1: becoming a thing. He would sing the whole there's a
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Speaker 1: little coda before the actual God Bless America. He would
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Speaker 1: sing the whole thing and was just gorgeous. So he'll
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Speaker 1: be there, So give us the run of show bill
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Speaker 1: because I know you're inviting people to come listen. I'll
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Speaker 1: be there, but I don't know if you and I
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Speaker 1: alone can handle the three thousand pound flag. We're gonna
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Speaker 1: need some help.
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Speaker 2: I think we're gonna need a lot of So six o'clock.
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Speaker 1: If you want to train, let's start there. Show up
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Speaker 1: at six to get some training for how tol the flag.
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Speaker 3: So the flag people and a it's on its way
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Speaker 3: from California. Last I talked to him, they were in Colorado,
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Speaker 3: and so they're coming in with this huge flag and
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Speaker 3: what'll happen tomorrow morning? It'll come out of the truck.
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Speaker 3: Apparently it's like a long worm that'll lay up against
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Speaker 3: the top of a memorial park. The plan is to
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Speaker 3: cover it in plastic to keep the rain off of it,
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Speaker 3: and then at six o'clock they'll be training, so to speak.
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Speaker 3: We won't unfurl it, but it's going to class for
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Speaker 3: five hundred people if we can get five hundred there
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Speaker 3: at six to learn how. The actual unfurling will take
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Speaker 3: place around nine o'clock. So we encourage folks to consider
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Speaker 3: coming at five to be part of this. We have
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Speaker 3: food trucks lined up. We have one hundred and twenty
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Speaker 3: foot tent set up yesterday down on the lower part
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Speaker 3: of a memorial park out of the footprint of those flags.
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Speaker 3: It's made it a little inner to make sure we
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Speaker 3: don't get into the space because when it comes down
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Speaker 3: the hill.
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Speaker 1: Five and five feet, that's that's almost two football, isn't it.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, Because people will say to us, oh, I've seen
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Speaker 3: it on a college or an NFL game, and I'll say, no, this.
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Speaker 2: Is too football.
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Speaker 3: Yeah right, right, So, and what's interesting. I mean, the
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Speaker 3: weather's it's a little iffy, it's a little effy. But
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Speaker 3: the flag guy told me, he said, look, if we
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Speaker 3: can just get a window from say nine pm to
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Speaker 3: nine thirty where it doesn't rain, he says, we can
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Speaker 3: do it now if it happens to get not soaked, hopefully,
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Speaker 3: But if it happens to get wet, he said, really,
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Speaker 3: that's not a problem because two nights later we do
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Speaker 3: this in Lincoln. Okay, so he said, any night's going
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Speaker 3: to be beautiful. Therefore it'll it'll dry and we'll be good.
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Speaker 1: So the you know, I went online to watch the
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Speaker 1: New York Giants and some other NFL teams do this
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Speaker 1: as a regular feature. They unfurl a flag that covers
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Speaker 1: the field, and the unfurling once you get everybody lined
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Speaker 1: up and they start walking or running because they're excited
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Speaker 1: with the flag. I don't know that takes a minute
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Speaker 1: or two now putting it back. That's actually a little
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Speaker 1: more of a workout.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's kind of what I'm interested about. Although I
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Speaker 3: don't care so much about that. I'm more I'm more picture.
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Speaker 1: You got okay, so is it like? So we unfurl
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Speaker 1: it and I mentioned the drones above or taking pictures
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Speaker 1: or somebody's getting images of this for I don't know,
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Speaker 1: five or ten minutes, and then we roll it back up.
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Speaker 2: Okay, So let's back up a little bit.
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Speaker 3: So what'll happen is that we have entertainment under the tent,
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Speaker 3: food trucks, et cetera, from six thirty to eight thirty. Okay,
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Speaker 3: Scott Boorhi's emcy and Scott will be down on the
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Speaker 3: tent and he'll say, all right, everybody, time to head
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Speaker 3: up the hill and man your posts, so to speak.
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Speaker 3: And we have seventeen golf cards rented offering people in
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Speaker 3: the You know, if you're parking the neighborhoods, you need
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Speaker 3: a ride toodness brown out talbot u n O is
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Speaker 3: those parking lots unretod that helps. So think about these
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Speaker 3: golf carts that well, once people are down maybe watching
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Speaker 3: the entertainment, now it's time to go up to the
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Speaker 3: top of the hill. Golf carts will shuttle people up.
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Speaker 3: Oh nice to take their post and then.
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Speaker 1: Are the golf carts at the parking lots.
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Speaker 2: Or they will be all over the so you.
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Speaker 1: Could get a shuttle from the parking lot into the
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Speaker 1: park neighborhoods.
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Speaker 3: We'll send them to free walks north all right, because
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Speaker 3: these are mostly honor flight veterans that have helped us
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Speaker 3: going back.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, you know the two thousand and eight I want
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Speaker 1: to ask you about that. Let me let me roll
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Speaker 1: this out for people. So sometime around nine o'clock, whenever
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Speaker 1: the right window is is the actual unfriling of the flag.
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Speaker 1: We enjoy it and then we we've got to put
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Speaker 1: it back and that will conclude the festivities. So between
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Speaker 1: the training for unfurling the flag and the unfurling of
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Speaker 1: the flag, we've got a two hour or so window.
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Speaker 1: When you say entertainment, what's going on?
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Speaker 3: So we have there's a quartet called Grateful Heart. We've
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Speaker 3: used them numerous times over the years, and these guys
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Speaker 3: do patriotic music. So they'll be on the stage down
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Speaker 3: behunderneath the tent.
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Speaker 1: They've been at the Patriotic Parade in recent.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, numerous times.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, Yeah, they're excellent.
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Speaker 3: In fact, I think they were the they were the
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Speaker 3: opening act for Riley Gaines.
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Speaker 1: Well, now that also figures into our conversation about that
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Speaker 1: this morning. And then actually, just speaking of the parade,
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Speaker 1: the logistics got changed on you for the parade, and
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Speaker 1: so that's why the parade became unworkable.
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Speaker 3: Well let's let's talk about that a bit. So we
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Speaker 3: started the parade after the riots downtown and nationally and
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Speaker 3: a lot of the national narrative was what a horrible, hateful,
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Speaker 3: racist country America.
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Speaker 1: I remember you on the air with Gary Saddle. We
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Speaker 1: got to push back against this. This is a good country.
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Speaker 1: This is fundamentally good America.
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Speaker 2: Absolutely.
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Speaker 3: I mean we're you know, most of us buy and
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Speaker 3: large treat others the way we want to be treated.
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Speaker 3: We're the most diverse, most generous people in the world.
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Speaker 3: But the messi's the children and grandchildren get is you
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Speaker 3: live in this horrible place. So that's why we started
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Speaker 3: the Patriotic Parade. And we had first year, we had
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Speaker 3: the Budweiser Clydesdale's.
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Speaker 2: We had Lee Greenwood.
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Speaker 3: We had Glee Lee Greenwood another time for a back
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Speaker 3: to Blue events going support for law enforcement. He's great
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Speaker 3: to work with. And then we had who else, We
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Speaker 3: had the Marine Corps band. We had the Army's Fife
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Speaker 3: and Drum Corps. We had the fort Riley Mounted Guard.
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Speaker 1: Those guys look like they're riding right out of the
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Speaker 1: eighteen eighties. They look fantastic, very authentic, very respectful.
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Speaker 2: Uh yeah, great, great young men and women.
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Speaker 3: And we would send them over to spaghetti works and
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Speaker 3: tell the tell the owners, feed them, feed them as
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Speaker 3: much as they want. The horse yeah, and the horses. See,
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Speaker 3: the horses were down at the OPD stables.
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Speaker 2: So cool.
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Speaker 1: That was why it was a key staging area for you,
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Speaker 1: right right on the south the southeast edge of the
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Speaker 1: Old Market there.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: And then what happened was then the city decided no
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Speaker 3: more parades in the Old Market. Everybody's up now by
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Speaker 3: the what I consider no man's land up around the
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Speaker 3: stadium as far as businesses.
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Speaker 1: The north, the north downtown, I mean it.
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Speaker 3: Loses up there around the stadium. You know, they're all
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Speaker 3: the ambiance of the Old Market.
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Speaker 2: So we will.
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Speaker 1: And the horsepons, I mean, you got a lot of
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Speaker 1: horses in your parade, and that's staging area was important.
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Speaker 1: So that became that's too bad. That was the I remember,
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Speaker 1: I didn't really know you then I went just down
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Speaker 1: on my own. I went down. I actually climbed up,
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Speaker 1: you know the bridge, the tenth Street bridge. There's a
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Speaker 1: giant railing that I climbed up on there so I
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Speaker 1: could see to my left and my in that year,
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Speaker 1: in those years, the parade wound up at the Durham
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Speaker 1: and uh uh and uh and Lee Greenwood sang. He
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Speaker 1: performed a concert there and uh, oh my god. I
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Speaker 1: was blown away. And so when the opportunity came along
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Speaker 1: later for my employer retires Smart to get involved in sponsoring.
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Speaker 2: This, I sponsor.
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Speaker 1: I thought it was just fantastic. So we're gonna do
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Speaker 1: the flag, the flag unfurling on Friday night. Now there's
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Speaker 1: also Memorial Day itself, so Sunday night in Lincoln, but
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Speaker 1: then you're back at Memorial Park on Monday right for
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Speaker 1: Memorial Day.
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Speaker 3: So last year we took the organization of Memorial Day
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Speaker 3: at Memorial Park and we turned it inside out, upside down,
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Speaker 3: so whole new format. We put up the one hundred
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Speaker 3: foot tent with a thousand chairs. We don't use politicians.
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Speaker 3: We have reenactors in uniforms and costumes portraying historical figures
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Speaker 3: and fallen military. We have a gold star a father
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Speaker 3: last year that just broke the crowd up into tears
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Speaker 3: because he was he said, I was my son's best
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Speaker 3: man when he got married. And we have a reenactor
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Speaker 3: portraying his son and speak as his fallen son. So
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Speaker 3: this year it'll be similar to that. We have the
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Speaker 3: skydivers coming in to bring in the colors. We created
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Speaker 3: Flanders Field of Flags. That's thirteen hundred small flags that
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Speaker 3: are representative of the one point three million Americans who
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Speaker 3: have died in all wars. So the flag and field
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Speaker 3: a flag is there. And the real draw to try
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Speaker 3: to get young people to come to understand the importance
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Speaker 3: of Decoration Day, which we now call Memorial Day. And
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Speaker 3: you know that's that's getting young people to come and
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Speaker 3: to realize how lucky they are to be American.
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Speaker 2: So we have free food this year.
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Speaker 3: It'll be three thousand free pancakes from high Ve's. This
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Speaker 3: is on Monday, this morning, Memorial Yeah, three thousand pancakes,
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Speaker 3: free coffee, free orange juice from Highland, free milk, and cookies.
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Speaker 3: So the draw is once again to get get the
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Speaker 3: family families to come so these kids get some understanding
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Speaker 3: of how lucky they are.
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Speaker 1: If Friday night nine o'clock is too late for you
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Speaker 1: for your little ones, circle back on Monday morning, and
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Speaker 1: that would be fantastic. Yeah, the you know, Bill, I'm
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Speaker 1: looking at my watch and I'm already going to ask
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Speaker 1: you if it's possible after we do the bottom hour break,
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Speaker 1: you think you could stick around with us a little longer,
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Speaker 1: because we're going to have more to cover because I'm
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Speaker 1: still not done with this weekend and what's coming. First
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Speaker 1: of all, if this is coming at people like we're
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Speaker 1: visiting with Bill Williams, by the way, he and his
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Speaker 1: wife Yvonna, the founders of course have patriotic productions. If
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Speaker 1: you've just joined us, and we're going to get into
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Speaker 1: the whole history of the organization here before we're done.
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Speaker 1: But while we're focused on Memorial Day weekend here, I
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Speaker 1: know one of the criticisms you've gotten from some circles
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Speaker 1: is why are you making such a fuss? Why are
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Speaker 1: you being so celebratory about Memorial Day? Isn't it supposed
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Speaker 1: to be heavier and somber and so forth. Now, I
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Speaker 1: think you've been able to strike the right balance between
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Speaker 1: celebrate America but in a respectful, Uh, you know, not
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Speaker 1: in a goofy clownish way. How have you struck that
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Speaker 1: balance over the years.
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Speaker 3: Well, we've gone to Memorial Day ceremonies for years and
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Speaker 3: generally it's the same format where it's usually one politician
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Speaker 3: follows another. Crowd is standing, in my opinion, goes on
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Speaker 3: too long, ninety minutes or more. It's just too much.
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Speaker 3: Crowd is older, not a lot of younger folks. So
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Speaker 3: we just thought there has to be a better way,
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Speaker 3: if we could make it more entertaining, so to speak,
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Speaker 3: and make it more of a history lesson and why
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Speaker 3: we have Memorial Day Decoration Day.
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Speaker 2: And so that's the idea.
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Speaker 3: And we drew two thousand last year, and so I
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Speaker 3: think the idea works, and.
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Speaker 1: We hope it's a huge crowd.
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Speaker 3: I mean, we think it'll be even bigger this year.
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Speaker 3: The weather will be great on Monday, and so we
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Speaker 3: just invite everybody bring those grandkids. I mean, I think
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Speaker 3: it's all well and good that there's a doubleheader Memorial
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Speaker 3: Day morning, but what's really more important here. Let's maybe
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Speaker 3: we'll put the soccer shoes away for one Saturday morning,
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Speaker 3: come down to Memorial Park and understand what Decoration Day is.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, well now this would be Monday morning, right,
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Speaker 1: the actual Memorial Daymorial Day. Yeah, yeah, go ahead and
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Speaker 1: play soccer on Saturday, but come join us on Monday
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Speaker 1: for the event. Now, you mentioned the weathers is supposed
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Speaker 1: to beautiful on Monday. It's ify for Tomorrow night, but
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Speaker 1: the show goes on rain or shine. Right. The only
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Speaker 1: question is if a storm breaks out at nine o'clock,
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Speaker 1: maybe the flag can't come out, but the event is
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Speaker 1: going to happen rain or shine.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, we thought about Yvonne and I talked about, well
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Speaker 3: do we try to move this to Saturday night and
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Speaker 3: then we have Lincoln Sunday night and then we have
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Speaker 3: Memorial Day. Yeah, and we just thought let's just go
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Speaker 3: for it here because sometimes all we need is that
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Speaker 3: break of rain from nine to nine thirty so that
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Speaker 3: the the drone show will happen, which is about twelve minutes,
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Speaker 3: followed by the unfurling. Well, as you had mentioned, the
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Speaker 3: unfurling really doesn't take very long because once it rolls
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Speaker 3: down the hill with everybody holding it and people underneath it,
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Speaker 3: then the drone captures still pictures of it and video
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Speaker 3: of it. So assuming it's not from outer space. People
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Speaker 3: should be able to look at the pictures on our
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Speaker 3: website Patriotic Productions dot org.
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Speaker 2: And well there's our church group over here on the
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Speaker 2: left or here we are.
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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, you can identify yourself in the photo.
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Speaker 3: That's a that's the money show would be fun? Is
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Speaker 3: that still photo?
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Speaker 4: No?
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Speaker 1: My wife asked me, Wait, you mean they're not doing
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Speaker 1: it at six. They're doing it at nine. Will it
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Speaker 1: be too dark?
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Speaker 3: Oh, we have a generous donor has brought in lights.
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Speaker 3: We have six construction lights. Oh wow, we have one
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Speaker 3: in each corner and we have two in the middle.
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Speaker 1: Oh, that's going to be dramatic. Flag lit up at
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Speaker 1: night and oh my gosh. Actually a little sprinkle of
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Speaker 1: rain might even add some dramatic effect if this is
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Speaker 1: all coming at you like a fire hose. Friday, Sunday, Monday.
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Speaker 1: Patriotic Productions dot org. Right, that's where you can go
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Speaker 1: to see it all laid out for you and find
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Speaker 1: out where you may want to plug in and what
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Speaker 1: time things are happening. I'm going to look across at
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Speaker 1: Peyton for a second and see maybe can we go
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Speaker 1: to our break just a little early now? The bottom
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Speaker 1: hour break, and then I've asked Bill if he could
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Speaker 1: stick around. I want to put this all in context
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Speaker 1: and look at what Bill and Yvonne and Patriotic Productions
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Speaker 1: have been doing over these It's been what ten fifteen
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Speaker 1: years now? All right, patriotic bumpers, here's a little battle
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Speaker 1: of New Orleans for you, Patriotic bumpers in honor of
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Speaker 1: Patriotic Productions. Bill Williams is in the studio with us,
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Speaker 1: Ship Maxwell in for Jeans Stothard Peyton, high lots at
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Speaker 1: the controls. It's the kfab comment line on news radio
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Speaker 1: eleven ten KF A B. Yeah, the rent through the through.
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Speaker 2: And the rent through the voices where rabbit the rents
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Speaker 2: so fast that the house couldn't catch a ball down
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Speaker 2: the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico.
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Speaker 1: Here comes Memorial Day weekend.
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Speaker 4: S.
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Speaker 1: Patriotic bumpers, Patriotic bumpers in honor of Patriotic Productions. My
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Speaker 1: name is Chip Maxwell. I'm filling in for the honorable
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Speaker 1: Gene Stuthard. It's KFAB comment line on news radio eleven
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Speaker 1: ten KFAB Peyton, high luck at the controls. Bill Williams
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Speaker 1: in the studio with US Bill and Evon Williams, founders
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Speaker 1: of Patriotic Productions. By the way, if you have a
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Speaker 1: question or a comment for Bill or for the show
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Speaker 1: today four oh two, five five, eight eleven ten, comment
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Speaker 1: at kfab dot com, or take advantage of the talkback
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Speaker 1: mic on the iHeart app. Now, I want to get
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Speaker 1: to the history of Patriotic Productions, Bill, but before that,
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Speaker 1: we've got to do a little Red Oak reunion here.
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Speaker 1: We've got some Red Oak, Iowa turf to cover here.
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Speaker 1: It turns out that there's a connection here between you
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Speaker 1: and young Peyton.
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Speaker 3: Ohell totally, but this is the first time we've met,
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Speaker 3: but his grandparents. I'm from Red Oak Retal class of
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Speaker 3: nineteen sixty nine. Well, his grandparents are Larry and Marty
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Speaker 3: Barnett of Red Oak, and they're sixty four grads and
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Speaker 3: we've been friends for over fifty years and they've been
21:14
Speaker 3: involved with our patriotic parade. They always I always assigned
21:19
Speaker 3: them to have Hal Dobb and Mary Dobb in their
21:23
Speaker 3: golf cart. Oh my goodness, tomorrow night we probably announce
21:26
Speaker 3: in the parade once again.
21:28
Speaker 1: They're on duty hunt tomorrow night. Yea torow shuttles that
21:32
Speaker 1: you've got going and they're the party.
21:35
Speaker 2: They'll be carrying Hal and Mary.
21:37
Speaker 1: Oh that's fantastic. I was really these are Peyton's grandparents.
21:42
Speaker 1: We're talking. Oh yeah, goodness.
21:43
Speaker 5: Yeah.
21:45
Speaker 2: So I'm very pleased to finally meet him.
21:47
Speaker 6: You know.
21:48
Speaker 1: You know, we're happy and proud our metro area expanding
21:51
Speaker 1: to a million or something like that, but it's still
21:53
Speaker 1: a small town at heart, you know, and I love
21:56
Speaker 1: these connections Peyton. You mentioned during the break' you've heard
22:01
Speaker 1: some buzz about the drone show that drone shows are
22:05
Speaker 1: really the thing right now.
22:07
Speaker 5: Yes, well, this is something that is really gaining popularity.
22:11
Speaker 5: But I would say Patriotic Productions was really the first
22:14
Speaker 5: time that I'd seen it here. There's some big, big
22:18
Speaker 5: metropolitan cities that have put on drone shows in the
22:20
Speaker 5: past for say the Fourth of July or something. But
22:23
Speaker 5: I think what Patriotic Productions has done with the drone show,
22:27
Speaker 5: especially here in the metro area and Omaha, has been
22:30
Speaker 5: really really cool.
22:31
Speaker 3: Tomorrow Night, Tomorrow Night, Memorial Park, four hundred red, white
22:34
Speaker 3: and blue lights.
22:35
Speaker 2: Didn't that something?
22:36
Speaker 1: Bring it on? Bring it rain or shine? All right?
22:39
Speaker 1: So Bill, thank you for sticking around with us. By
22:43
Speaker 1: the way, today because I really want to do this.
22:45
Speaker 1: I don't know if everybody realizes how long you and
22:50
Speaker 1: Yvonne have been at this at Patriotic Productions and the
22:53
Speaker 1: range of people and events that you have sponsored brought
22:58
Speaker 1: to Omaha put on take us all all the way
23:00
Speaker 1: back to the beginning. You mentioned your conversation with Gary
23:03
Speaker 1: Seidemeier on these airwaves saying we got to push back
23:06
Speaker 1: against the negativity in this country. Let's go from there.
23:09
Speaker 2: Well, let's back up a bit, so back what started it.
23:13
Speaker 3: Yvonne and I had the privilege of organizing thirteen honor
23:17
Speaker 3: flights taking thirty five hundred Nebraska veterans to DC to
23:22
Speaker 3: see their memorials. I reached across the river and took
23:27
Speaker 3: a few from southwest Iowa, including Peyton's grandfather.
23:31
Speaker 1: Well, now that I know you're from Redoak, of course. Yeah.
23:34
Speaker 3: So anyway, thirty five hundred had the opportunity to go
23:37
Speaker 3: to d C. The first seven flights were all World
23:42
Speaker 3: War Two guys, fifteen.
23:44
Speaker 2: Hundred of them.
23:44
Speaker 3: Then we did two for Korea vets, two for Vietnam.
23:48
Speaker 3: Did an all female flight, which is quite unique, female pilots,
23:52
Speaker 3: female flight attendants, all veterans female. Otis was a ninety
23:55
Speaker 3: eight year old World War Two vet from Council Bluffs.
23:59
Speaker 3: All help ropers on board. We called them Guardians female,
24:03
Speaker 3: all media female. The sign over the door no boys allowed.
24:08
Speaker 3: And the special guest on board for the trip was
24:11
Speaker 3: Loretta Sweatsh who most folks remember, a Hottulahan from mash
24:17
Speaker 3: And then our final flight was about what six years
24:21
Speaker 3: ago now Purple Heart recipients Iraq and Afghanistan.
24:26
Speaker 2: So people over the.
24:28
Speaker 3: Years they'll say, well, what was your favorite flight? Well,
24:30
Speaker 3: that's difficult, but the most therapeutic, hands down, were the
24:34
Speaker 3: Vietnam flights. So the first one was D Day, June sixth,
24:38
Speaker 3: twenty seventeen. Three planes designated Red, White and Blue. Clever
24:43
Speaker 3: Yvon thought of that, five hundred and ten all combat vets.
24:48
Speaker 3: It was the largest group of Vietnam vests from one
24:50
Speaker 3: state to ever visit the Wall. And so we got
24:54
Speaker 3: back that night because we always went out and back
24:56
Speaker 3: same day, so we got landed back in Epley eleven o'clock,
25:00
Speaker 3: five thousand people. We followed that one up on May
25:04
Speaker 3: one of seventeen four planes designated Red, White, Blue and
25:09
Speaker 3: Uncle Sam two six hundred and fifty three Vietnam vets.
25:14
Speaker 3: We had the planes leave from Omaha, but Land and
25:17
Speaker 3: Lincoln so that folks down that way could show their appreciation.
25:20
Speaker 3: Seven thousand people. One example of the effect of combat
25:24
Speaker 3: vet came.
25:25
Speaker 1: Wait wait, wait, you're saying you're saying seven five thousand
25:27
Speaker 1: and seven thousand people like celebrating.
25:31
Speaker 2: Celebrating their veterans their return.
25:34
Speaker 1: See I'm flashing on. I don't know which one one
25:36
Speaker 1: of those Rambo movies. At the end of it, Rambo
25:39
Speaker 1: says something like, uh, I don't want anything special. I
25:44
Speaker 1: just want our country to love us as much as
25:46
Speaker 1: we love it. You know, Well, here's taking a while.
25:49
Speaker 1: We're getting there.
25:50
Speaker 3: This heavy combat vet came to our house a few
25:53
Speaker 3: months after his combat flight and he says, I want
25:56
Speaker 3: to tell you something. He says, I've had nightmares for
25:59
Speaker 3: forty five plus years, sleeping two three hours a night
26:03
Speaker 3: ever since we got back. And all the people at
26:05
Speaker 3: the airport and the band playing and the flags flying
26:09
Speaker 3: and the signs and my family there. He said, I
26:13
Speaker 3: now sleep eight hours a night. I wake up refreshed.
26:16
Speaker 2: I'm a new man.
26:17
Speaker 1: Fantasy, Isn't that?
26:18
Speaker 2: Isn't that something?
26:19
Speaker 3: All? Because one they went as a shared experience. Yeah,
26:25
Speaker 3: a lot of people, a lot of veterans have been
26:27
Speaker 3: to the Vietnam Wall, but they went with others with
26:30
Speaker 3: a similar experience, and at eleven o'clock at night, having
26:35
Speaker 3: this huge crowd there to clap as they as they
26:38
Speaker 3: walk through.
26:39
Speaker 2: So yeah, very touching.
26:41
Speaker 1: Some amazing stories have come out of your process. I
26:45
Speaker 1: remember a couple of years ago, actually I was guest
26:47
Speaker 1: hosting on KFAB at the time of the Memorial Day weekend,
26:51
Speaker 1: and I remember interviewing this guy was like eighty five
26:55
Speaker 1: or pushing ninety of a former Tuskegee Airman, and he
26:58
Speaker 1: was super shit right on it. The gentleman's name escapes me,
27:03
Speaker 1: but the Tuskegee Airman were featured. Now, the military is
27:10
Speaker 1: prominent in what you celebrate, but you've expanded to include
27:15
Speaker 1: law enforcement, first responders, basically anybody putting his or her
27:19
Speaker 1: life on the line for the nation.
27:21
Speaker 2: Well you, like I did touch on that.
27:24
Speaker 3: We organized two back the Blue events, one down by
27:28
Speaker 3: Lincoln the other one here at Memorial Park after all
27:32
Speaker 3: the chaos a few years ago to show support for
27:34
Speaker 3: law enforcement. And then we've over our speaker series over
27:39
Speaker 3: the years, we brought in the actual kissing couple from
27:43
Speaker 3: the famous Times Square VJ. Day Alfred Eisenstadt photo of
27:49
Speaker 3: the kissing couple Pike iconic. So it's Greta Friedman who
27:54
Speaker 3: looks to be a nurse, but she's actually a dental
27:57
Speaker 3: assistant in the photo. And then George Jamin donza A
28:02
Speaker 3: turned out to be a longshoreman from Rhode Island, so
28:05
Speaker 3: we flew him in along with an author who had
28:09
Speaker 3: proof in his book that this was in fact the
28:12
Speaker 3: actual couple. So up on the stage of Papilion High School,
28:16
Speaker 3: never forget it, we have the actual couple sitting on
28:19
Speaker 3: the stage with a huge blow up of the actual
28:23
Speaker 3: photo behind them. Then we had a high school girl
28:26
Speaker 3: a high school boy dressedes them stage left, stage right,
28:30
Speaker 3: came out.
28:31
Speaker 2: Now they faked it, but they they made the pose.
28:35
Speaker 2: I mean it was dig chills. I mean it was
28:38
Speaker 2: the neatest thing.
28:39
Speaker 1: Oh great.
28:40
Speaker 3: So you know we've had We've had a lot of
28:45
Speaker 3: Colonel Frasier Batan Deathmarch Survivor. We had Bud Day, who
28:51
Speaker 3: was Hanoi Hilton seven years, five months tell made of
28:54
Speaker 3: John McCain. McCain sent us an email and he says,
28:57
Speaker 3: Bud Day's the toughest.
28:59
Speaker 2: Man I've ever met my life.
29:01
Speaker 3: So we've had a variety of Bander brothers, Marines from
29:05
Speaker 3: the flag raising unit on Iwo Jima.
29:07
Speaker 1: You had the doctor that worked on.
29:11
Speaker 3: Ben, Doctor Ben Aaron, we had in and he talked
29:14
Speaker 3: about that day that that Reagan was shot and he
29:18
Speaker 3: got this call and they said, we need you over
29:20
Speaker 3: an er stat and he goes over there, secret Service
29:24
Speaker 3: guns out, pulls the curtain aside and there's Reagan and uh,
29:29
Speaker 3: he's looking down. He's talking to him and he looks
29:32
Speaker 3: up and that the famous line was, I hope all
29:35
Speaker 3: you guys are a Republican.
29:37
Speaker 1: So that's true. That isn't just apocryphal. Boy, wouldn't it
29:40
Speaker 1: be great? A frak is he really did say that
29:43
Speaker 1: you guys are Republican.
29:46
Speaker 3: The neat part of the story was, you know, they
29:48
Speaker 3: opened up Reagan and he couldn't find the peace of
29:53
Speaker 3: the of the of the of the bullet. And the
29:57
Speaker 3: other doctor was saying, Doc, you gotta get out. You're
29:59
Speaker 3: gonna as him on the table, and he stops and
30:02
Speaker 3: says a prayer, and then he lifted up Reagan's heart
30:06
Speaker 3: and he found the underneath his heart I mean he
30:09
Speaker 3: was fat.
30:10
Speaker 1: Giving me chills. Here Bill, we've we've got a listener
30:14
Speaker 1: who wants to get into the conversation, Peyton. Do we
30:15
Speaker 1: have time to get Jim in here before our next break? Jim,
30:18
Speaker 1: welcome to the show.
30:21
Speaker 4: Good morning. It's Jim McCartney and Emerson. I bet you
30:24
Speaker 4: know who I am.
30:27
Speaker 1: Let's see, let's get to can you Bill? Okay, I'm
30:33
Speaker 1: gonna hand my headphones over to Peyton's got a magic fix.
30:36
Speaker 1: Hang on just a second, Jim, quick technical glitch here, make.
30:41
Speaker 2: Sure we're good.
30:43
Speaker 1: All right, Jim, why don't you introduce yourself again? Because
30:46
Speaker 1: I don't think Bill heard it.
30:48
Speaker 4: Jim Carney Emerson, IOWA.
30:52
Speaker 2: Gold star father.
30:53
Speaker 1: Oh God bless you.
30:57
Speaker 4: I remember when you guys got going and created the
31:01
Speaker 4: Remember the Fallen with.
31:05
Speaker 2: The university there to the South Bellevue University helped us. Yep.
31:11
Speaker 4: Yeah. I want to say thanks for all your work
31:20
Speaker 4: and hope that somehow these memorials continue to move around
31:25
Speaker 4: instead of being just retired.
31:28
Speaker 3: Well, I hope you can come up this weekend, because
31:31
Speaker 3: yesterday we set up the National Remembering our Fallen.
31:34
Speaker 2: Towers along Dodge Street.
31:36
Speaker 3: Jim, and there's thirty five towers, as you know, including
31:40
Speaker 3: your son, and there's fifty five hundred and that was
31:45
Speaker 3: all the work of Yvonne. People will say to us,
31:48
Speaker 3: did the government give you all those pictures? That's hundreds
31:51
Speaker 3: of hours by Yvonne tracking the families to ask them
31:55
Speaker 3: for the pictures. And Jim, you were there from the beginning.
31:58
Speaker 3: You remember of what a chore, what a lift that
32:02
Speaker 3: was to get all those pictures. And so that's our
32:05
Speaker 3: mission all these years. That was twenty eleven when we
32:10
Speaker 3: created the is one the Nebraska and they've been all
32:15
Speaker 3: over well, the National has been all over the country,
32:17
Speaker 3: from New York City to the Pentagon to Shanksville thanks
32:22
Speaker 3: to Senator Ricketts, Wrigley Field, New England, Patriots, Army Navy
32:27
Speaker 3: Game twice, all kinds of different places, Rose Bowl Week twice.
32:32
Speaker 3: So that's been our mission, is that these men and
32:36
Speaker 3: women who paid the ultimate Iraq Afghanistan will.
32:40
Speaker 2: Not be forgotten.
32:42
Speaker 4: I appreciate the efforts the way I see. It's going
32:48
Speaker 4: to be scheduled to be in Shnnandah at the end
32:50
Speaker 4: of Junal.
32:51
Speaker 2: That's right, you heard about that, that's right.
32:53
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm going to be helping. We're going a few
32:59
Speaker 4: leech miners. Patriot Garden members are going to be not
33:03
Speaker 4: officially but kind of being in the area to help
33:07
Speaker 4: stave off potential.
33:11
Speaker 1: For those motorcycle riders.
33:13
Speaker 4: Patriot gard we've heard rumors of potential vandalism, so.
33:19
Speaker 3: We're gonna, you know, all the travels of our memorials.
33:25
Speaker 3: We've never had any incident like that with the national
33:30
Speaker 3: or the State exhibit. So that's uh, that's sad, Jim,
33:34
Speaker 3: if that is in fact true. But you guys will
33:37
Speaker 3: be there too.
33:39
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, maybe you'll dissuade him just by your presence, James, Jim, Jim,
33:45
Speaker 1: We've got to take our next break, but thank you
33:47
Speaker 1: so much, gold Star father Jim. As a matter of fact, uh,
33:51
Speaker 1: some more Patriotic bumpers for Patriotic Productions. Speaking of possible pushback, Bill,
33:57
Speaker 1: I want to revisit the history of the organization. I
33:59
Speaker 1: want to ask you specifically about when Riley Gaines came
34:02
Speaker 1: a few years ago. And boy, that'll be the final
34:05
Speaker 1: segment of the show. This hour just flies by, but
34:09
Speaker 1: we'll make the most of it. Bill Williams of Patriotic
34:11
Speaker 1: Productions is in studio with us. I'm Jim Maxwell and
34:14
Speaker 1: for Jean Stothert Peyton, I looks at the controls. It's
34:17
Speaker 1: the kfab comment line on news Radio eleven ten KFAB
34:45
Speaker 1: Patriotic Bumpers in honor of Patriotic Productions. Here it comes
34:51
Speaker 1: Memorial Day weekend in the studio to visit with us
34:56
Speaker 1: about what's cooking. Bill Williams, he and his wife Yvon
34:59
Speaker 1: founders of Patriotic Productions. I'm Chip Maxwell, by the way,
35:02
Speaker 1: filling in for the honorable Gene Stouther. The rest of
35:05
Speaker 1: this week and most next week, it's the kfab comment
35:09
Speaker 1: line on news Radio eleven ten. KFAB. We can try
35:12
Speaker 1: to squeeze you in here final segment four oh two,
35:14
Speaker 1: five five, eight, eleven ten. Comment at kfab dot com,
35:18
Speaker 1: or there's a talkback like on the iHeart app. Well,
35:23
Speaker 1: the call from GM in the last segment triggered a
35:25
Speaker 1: call from Roger this segment. Let's go ahead and wave
35:29
Speaker 1: him in. Roger, welcome to the show.
35:32
Speaker 4: Thank you.
35:34
Speaker 6: How are you doing, coach?
35:36
Speaker 4: Coach?
35:38
Speaker 2: Yeah, this is Roger, Roger Krause.
35:44
Speaker 6: You got her.
35:47
Speaker 2: Wow, that's hilarious. That was a long time ago.
35:50
Speaker 3: Roger Chester Hubble Byron or actually it was Chester Hubble
35:54
Speaker 3: Bulldogs then, wasn't it.
35:58
Speaker 1: What are we talking about here? Your high high school?
36:01
Speaker 4: What?
36:01
Speaker 5: No?
36:01
Speaker 4: I was?
36:02
Speaker 3: I taught school down in southern Nebraska a couple of
36:05
Speaker 3: years and Byron, Nebraska. Okay, that's where Yvonne is from.
36:10
Speaker 3: And three years at Chester Hubble and I was the
36:14
Speaker 3: basketball coach and filled the milk machine and drove the
36:19
Speaker 3: bus part time and all for seven thousand dollars.
36:22
Speaker 1: Oh ks, Ransom, Roger, Roger, Now you're to any scores.
36:28
Speaker 1: You need to settle Roger with the coach.
36:30
Speaker 2: Yeah.
36:32
Speaker 6: No, I've been listening it to you here, and you
36:35
Speaker 6: know what you need to do. You need to sit
36:37
Speaker 6: down and write a book about all.
36:38
Speaker 2: Your just the breaks.
36:43
Speaker 1: Alike. Roger.
36:45
Speaker 3: I'll send you the check. Right, you're a good man.
36:51
Speaker 3: I appreciate you calling Pale.
36:53
Speaker 4: Yeah.
36:54
Speaker 6: You never never know what you and pull off. Next
36:57
Speaker 6: you think you've done it all and you can't top it,
36:59
Speaker 6: you do it again.
37:02
Speaker 1: Isn't that the truth?
37:03
Speaker 2: You're very kind? Thank you, Roger, thank you, thank you
37:06
Speaker 2: for that call.
37:07
Speaker 1: Roger. Oh my goodness, this is your life. Bill Williams. Yeah, yeah,
37:13
Speaker 1: you know all these Iowa references. Now I'm remembering that
37:16
Speaker 1: one of my grandfathers was from Shenandoah, the other ones
37:18
Speaker 1: from Council Bluff's my wife's parents. Her mother grew up
37:23
Speaker 1: in a farm outside of Carroll, and her dad's from Halber,
37:26
Speaker 1: part of the Carroll Metroplex. Helber and then young Peyton
37:31
Speaker 1: over here was mentioning, you know, you were talking about
37:33
Speaker 1: the crowds that would gather at airports to send off
37:35
Speaker 1: and receive the honored flights going back and forth the veterans, Peyton,
37:40
Speaker 1: Were you saying that your family was a part of
37:42
Speaker 1: one of these welcoming groups one time?
37:44
Speaker 5: Yes, So we went into the terminal at Eply and
37:47
Speaker 5: we you know, waited for a bit. We made some signs.
37:51
Speaker 5: Family was there, me and my brothers, and we were
37:54
Speaker 5: all waiting, and we were waiting, and at that time
37:56
Speaker 5: I was I was fairly young, twenty seventeen. I was
37:59
Speaker 5: probably fifteen years old or so. And you know, I
38:01
Speaker 5: don't think I truly understood the value of what was
38:05
Speaker 5: happening in that moment. My grandfather, like Bill said, I
38:10
Speaker 5: had never seen him as emotional as he was before
38:14
Speaker 5: that moment or since that moment has occurred. And you know,
38:18
Speaker 5: you think about the way that these men and women
38:19
Speaker 5: were treated when they came home after Vietnam, told not
38:24
Speaker 5: to wear your uniform, told.
38:25
Speaker 1: Not to.
38:27
Speaker 5: Explain to people that you were on duty and you
38:30
Speaker 5: were serving. I mean, how shameful is that? And it's
38:34
Speaker 5: easy to say now, but those men and women deserved
38:37
Speaker 5: that recognition. They deserve that moment.
38:40
Speaker 1: I don't know about you, Bill, but sitting here as
38:43
Speaker 1: the old timer boomer that I am, to hear somebody
38:45
Speaker 1: in his mid twenties talking like that gives me great
38:48
Speaker 1: hope for the future. The message is getting through. Yeah, yeah,
38:54
Speaker 1: in the time we have left. Bill. You mentioned in
38:57
Speaker 1: passing Riley Gaines a few years ago. She's, of course
39:02
Speaker 1: a former collegiate swimmer, one of the foremost voices in
39:04
Speaker 1: the debate saying women's sports should be for biological women.
39:10
Speaker 1: She has received some pushback around the country at like
39:14
Speaker 1: some of her appearances, right, yeah, I mean she's been
39:17
Speaker 1: physically attacked. I just yell that. And you were a
39:21
Speaker 1: little concerned when you brought her here. In fact, some
39:24
Speaker 1: of your usual corporate backers kind of shied away from
39:28
Speaker 1: that event. Now, the event itself, I was there, We
39:31
Speaker 1: were the retire smartest part of that event, and that
39:33
Speaker 1: it all went smoothly. But there was a little turbulence
39:38
Speaker 1: around that.
39:39
Speaker 3: Well, we never Yvonne and I never hesitated. I mean,
39:42
Speaker 3: it's it's so cut and dried, us so stupid to say,
39:46
Speaker 3: all right, is it fair to have men play in
39:48
Speaker 3: women's sports?
39:49
Speaker 4: Yes?
39:50
Speaker 2: Really, come on.
39:52
Speaker 3: So booking Riley Gaines was easy and I didn't care
39:57
Speaker 3: whether sponsors dropped or they didn't, because I'm I mean,
40:00
Speaker 3: we felt it was the right thing to do to
40:02
Speaker 3: bring her in.
40:03
Speaker 2: And you know, the last time we talked.
40:04
Speaker 3: To her, she said, that is still the largest crowd
40:10
Speaker 3: she's ever spoken in front of. It was sold out
40:13
Speaker 3: out at the Embassy, remember that night, and it was
40:17
Speaker 3: what was the thirteen hundred plus packed in there that
40:20
Speaker 3: was on a Sunday.
40:21
Speaker 1: Place was jammed.
40:22
Speaker 2: Yeah, and she was unbelievable then. And we had Jordi Ball.
40:27
Speaker 3: Jerdy from now but she was introduced and she's she's
40:33
Speaker 3: just the best young woman.
40:35
Speaker 4: And so it was.
40:36
Speaker 3: It was just a wonderful night and we have no
40:40
Speaker 3: regrets at all. I know we've lost sponsors. We even
40:43
Speaker 3: had a couple of legions says we'll never support you
40:46
Speaker 3: again because you wandered out of your lane.
40:49
Speaker 1: Don't care well, well, we know that if anything that
40:52
Speaker 1: reinforced our connection with you, it retired smart. But I
40:56
Speaker 1: remember Riley Gaines was also funny. I mean, she was quick,
40:59
Speaker 1: she was ever. Scott Vorhees was the MC that event,
41:03
Speaker 1: and he made some crack about so Yeah, Riley and
41:06
Speaker 1: I were saying to each other while we were changing
41:08
Speaker 1: in the locker room together before this event, you know
41:09
Speaker 1: when people left got it and she got up later
41:12
Speaker 1: and she just said, she just looked at him kind of,
41:15
Speaker 1: I like you. I think you and I get along
41:17
Speaker 1: very well, you know. I mean she just took it
41:18
Speaker 1: and stride and loved the humor.
41:20
Speaker 3: You know, she looked directly at Governor Pillen and we
41:23
Speaker 3: need to we need to do something about that. Well
41:25
Speaker 3: a three days later he signed that yeah resolution or
41:30
Speaker 3: whatever it was right before the big volleyball deal down
41:34
Speaker 3: at UH down in Lincoln at Memorial State And it
41:36
Speaker 3: was all the same week.
41:37
Speaker 1: Speaking of volleyball, you made the super Novas the feature
41:41
Speaker 1: of the parade. Was it the last parade or the
41:45
Speaker 1: one before? You were you were featuring that issue in
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Speaker 1: the parade. UH Peyton signaling this, we're down to the
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Speaker 1: final minute bill anything we haven't covered that you want
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Speaker 1: to talk about.
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Speaker 2: I think I think you hit it all. I'm glad
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Speaker 2: that you give me some it's time to well.
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Speaker 1: Thanks for being a good sport. I asked him to
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Speaker 1: just come in and tell us about this weekend. I
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Speaker 1: end up hanging on to him for the whole hour,
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Speaker 1: but I just there's so much there. As as Rogers said,
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Speaker 1: you're gonna have to start working on that book. Uh,
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Speaker 1: but I hear the music coming up, so that means
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Speaker 1: we're out of time. Bill. Thanks thanks a lot. So
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Speaker 1: six o'clock tomorrow night that's training for the Unfurling.
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Speaker 3: Block will be the actual Drone show and the Unfurling
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Speaker 3: Please come.
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Speaker 1: All kinds of entertainment in between that. That'll do it
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Speaker 1: for today. See you again tomorrow. This is Chip Maxwell
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Speaker 1: filling in for Gene Stothard. It's the KFAB comment Line
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Speaker 1: producer Peyton Hi look at the controls on news Radio
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