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From Pain to purpose Common Ground. · Military Broadcast Radio | MBR Talk

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  adversity, you're in the right place.
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  Let's get started on this journey from pain to purpose.
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  Let's give veterans a voice through military broadcast talk.
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  Hey, how are y'all? Today is Saturday, July 12th,
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  the year of our Lord 2025 and I am recording today from McDaniel
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  College here in Westminster, MD and I'm in the green room of the
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  theater. It's pretty cool being live on
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  set, if you will. I have had a fabulous time this
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  past week expanding my boundaries on things.
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  I'm just stretching, stretching my wings and learning some new
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  stuff, including playing the guitar.
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  No, I didn't bring the guitar in with me to do the show.
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  I already had enough to carry and I've been carrying it all
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  week long, so maybe I will break it out on a different show when
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  I've had a little bit more practice.
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  And so I think we're going to have a pretty neat show today.
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  Like I said, I'm live here at Westmin.
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  What am I saying? McDaniel College in Westminster,
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  MD And so Jose is going to be popping.
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  His show just finished. He will be popping over and
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  we're going to Co host for a little bit because we know quite
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  a few people together. This is a pretty how do I say
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  it? It's a it's an adult camp.
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  And who knew that adult camps existed?
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  I, for one, really did not, not from this side of things
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  anyways. You know, I've gone to some
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  veteran events, been involved with a, you know, a variety of
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  nonprofits. So this is kind of a different
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  nonprofit, but they collaborate with an organization called
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  Common Ground and it's here at at this college.
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  I'm not sure how many other colleges do it throughout the
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  country. So back in December, I was
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  invited by Jose connect me with the leadership here to help be a
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  presenter for the women Veterans program.
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  And of course, I was happy to accept and, you know, deliver,
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  deliver some, I want to say training.
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  It's not really training. It's really it's, you know, so
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  this part of the the better it's called Veterans Initiative.
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  And that's really pretty key for I think it's really focused on
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  integration, not just with not just with this school
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  environment, if you will, but also with other veterans and
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  civilians and in a variety of different classes.
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  So the different classes that they've offered have been music
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  inclined. So I took, I took beginning
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  guitar and believe me, I'm very beginner and, and I'll touch on
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  that here in a couple minutes. And then there's banjo, there's
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  mandolin, there's harmonica, there's ukulele, probably other
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  instruments. I don't even know that they had
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  here. Probably, I think violin.
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  Let's see, they had some art classes, stained glass and I'll
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  be setting up a show at a different time for the stained
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  glass people. And then there's we'll see.
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  I think I saw a dugout canoe making.
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  There was bonsai tree pruning and stuff like that.
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  There's, let's see, we had both the veterans interactive, which
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  is Coed and then we had the class that I was leading was for
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  the women's, women veterans. There's common ground, which is
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  bringing different speakers and from the community that can talk
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  a variety of topics. One of the speakers we had was
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  from Palestine. So I thought that was very
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  interesting that she grew up in Palestine, but she's an American
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  and, and, and what her journey has been with, you know, the
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  travels, not just the travels, but some of the trials going on
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  in the Palestine area and you know, the community that's
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  involved there. Let's see.
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  I'm trying to think of some of the other classes. 01 of the
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  classes that I was also in was also there was a film class, you
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  know, just discussing filmmaking and looking at different
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  samples. So I did get to preview, preview
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  my film, my documentary From Pain to Purpose, her second
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  service story with the audience there.
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  And there was another filmmaker that presented their film too.
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  And oh, there was golf and so variety of different topics that
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  anybody could attend and, you know, and we stayed in the dorm.
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  So that was pretty cool staying in the dorms all week long.
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  I had the dining facility that we could go and eat at.
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  Let's see. But I, you know, of course I'm
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  on my diet this week and I had to had to kind of navigate hi,
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  hi you. Are you going to jump on the
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  show? What's that?
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  I'm live on? I'm live on radio.
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  You want to come and say hi to the audience?
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  No, I'm not. Part of the show.
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  OK. Maria, do you need so sorry.
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  We have some people coming and going and they are getting ready
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  for getting ready for a reception in the other room
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  because there's going to be a big veterans interactive concert
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  tonight and Josh Izel is going to be popping in as a drop in
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  guest here in a little while when he gets in.
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  And let's see who else you know. Hopefully there'll be some other
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  pop in guests as well. There are quite a few veterans
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  who are former students that are part of Common Ground and they
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  support what Common Ground is doing and they, so they've been
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  doing, you know, it's interesting to learn what
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  different communities do. So Common Ground has been around
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  for 30 years, and it was started by some former students and
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  quite of them, a few of them very musically inclined.
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  And it's going to be a great show tonight.
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  So I'll, you know, when the show ends at 7, when my show here
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  ends at 7:00, I'll be going upstairs and watching the
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  concert tonight. And I'm pretty excited.
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  It's it's just neat to see how things have evolved with this
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  organization. Get somebody else.
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  Oh, OK. Oh, OK.
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  All right, my roommate popped outside the door there.
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  So you're kind of in the. I know.
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  Yeah. So that's what I get for being
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  in the green room. But it we tried to put it in the
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  best place we could to be able to have the show tonight.
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  So anyways, it's fun. I'm trying to think of what
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  else? Oh, so the young girl that I was
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  talking to in the background, so she was one of my suite mates
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  and the guy that was just saying something to he that's her
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  grandfather. So they have this neat program.
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  Never. It's the first time I've ever
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  seen something like this where a lot of these are grandparents.
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  Some of them are going to be parents and they have their kids
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  or grandkids are in the youth camp version going through very
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  similar classes. Some of it is music, some of
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  it's art. So you know, what a neat, I want
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  to say generational way of having a camp and being able to
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  have, you know, have have have these generations that so this
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  young lady, she was in her own room right across the offer me.
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  Her grandfather was in the next room and bye.
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  And so that was kind of cool to be able to see that she's, you
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  know, being able to eat with him and spend quality time with her
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  grandfather while he's in his classes and, you know,
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  activities. And she was in her art classes
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  and music classes. They performed last night.
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  So it was really exciting to get to see the youth get up there.
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  There was about 10 of them. Jose had two of his grandkids up
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  there and they were singing and one little boy got to play the
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  harmonica in front of the whole crowd in the audience.
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  So it's that same, same, the same.
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  What's my trying to think? I'm trying to think of the
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  upstairs. It's the same hall where y'all
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  watched me sing the song that my class created.
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  So you know, that was pretty neat.
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  So let me go ahead and talk about that.
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  That was one of my class. It was, was a songwriting class.
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  So we all we started working on our own individual song.
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  He put us through some prompting to help us be able to start
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  crafting, you know, writing a song.
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  And where do where do you start? Well, you, you it's really going
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  to start with you and whatever your topic is that you're
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  wanting to discuss. But typically it's going to it's
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  got to have that beginning, right?
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  It's going to have some kind of a family in here and it's going
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  to have a beginning. It starts with you, whatever it
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  is that you're wanting to sing about.
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  Yeah, you do an interesting search.
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  So I was on, you know, one of the music apps and you can
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  Google, you know, Google on their search on their folk, folk
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  songs. And it's a interesting to see
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  the different types of topics that might pop up.
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  I think there was one even about refrigerators, which is kind of
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  silly, right? But if you think about it, I
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  mean, you can pretty much think about anything and just find
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  whatever joy or crankiness that you want to out of it and sing
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  about it. It's you know, you could sing
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  about sitting around a fire and just enjoying the view and the
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  music that the song is, you know, the music that the fire
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  makes, you know, with the crackling, that could be a song.
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  So it really can be just about anything and let it occur, right
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  Some that's the way our instructor talked about it was
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  the song can just occur. So I think, you know, I made we
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  performed that song last night that we created as a group and
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  that was fun as a collaboration. Haven't ever done anything like
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  that before. So that was really kind of
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  empowering to not only finish the song, but then get up there
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  and be able to perform it. And then I have a song that I am
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  writing, which was kind of what I wanted to do it anyways, but I
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  just didn't know where to begin compared to writing a book.
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  And, you know, you just start writing it in as well and
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  editing and editing and everything.
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  So, yeah, you know, it's just kind of neat to explore these
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  different things. And I thought the idea of just,
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  you know, even taking the guitar class, since I have not ever
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  picked up a guitar before, really, other than, oh, it's
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  dad's guitar. Let me pluck hot in a little
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  bit. But I didn't really know
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  anything about chords. What am I trying to play?
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  And now I have a little bit better foundation to, you know,
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  start, you know, learning some more.
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  So anyways, I am going to go ahead and play a song and let's
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  see. I really like Die Tired, so I
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  think I'm going to go ahead and play them.
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  And this is the need to feed. So we'll be back after this
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  song. Oh.
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  Hey, what's going on? What happens?
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  When you hit a button up. Sorry.
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  As it happens. Stopped it mid song
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  accidentally. We're just looking at some of
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  the changes. Changes in stream yard.
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  Jose, join me. What's?
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  Up people how you doing if you don't know you better ask
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  somebody glad to be here with my girl Eva my battle right that's
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  right that's right that's right we've.
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  Had a good time this week. We have.
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  We have. It's been.
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  It's been stupendous. Yeah.
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  And now that I got plenty of time, I can, you know, in fact,
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  next year we got even better stuff, don't we even?
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  Yeah, we. Got I don't know, you talked
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  about that. No, I haven't really talked
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  about, you know, Yeah, because I was covering what I've been
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  doing all week long and writing a song, you know, we performed
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  it last night. And it was good for.
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  Being the photographer. It was so much fun.
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  I got this out a little bit in the class and just seeing the
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  magic happen from a couple of words or song.
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  What was it? What was his name?
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  The constructor. Oh, Bob.
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  Bob, Bob, yeah. Bob Bob Lucas is amazing looking
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  up. Apparently he's some of the bigs
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  on stage are singing his song. So this was not just a you know,
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  nothing burger song, even though the I The funny thing is that,
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  well, no, we get this fly in here.
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  It's attacking us. I must smoke it.
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  It's the. It's the perfect.
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  Yeah, yes. Absolutely so.
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  So apparently there are 700 songs with the title of Common
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  Ground. So this was Common Ground 70.
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  One. That's right, That's right.
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  Version 2.0. We got this.
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  Yeah, yeah, yeah. But I would tell you that, you
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  know, having even here and and some of the things we'll be
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  doing hopefully next year, I bring with this what's crazy, I
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  bring my kids here and I used to when I used to teach here ROTC
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  and then my kids came here, they grew up and now my grandkids
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  were singing last. Night, I know that was amazing.
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  That was amazing. And, you know, it's really back
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  back here. I mean, we're in the theater
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  room. It's pretty cool.
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  Yeah, we're in the green room and there's.
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  So many different little. Things in here, I mean, even
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  this chair looks like it was designed for Alice in
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  Wonderland. I haven't turned it around, but
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  there's prop stuff in here. It's all.
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  Really unique, got a skull in his side.
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  But yeah, but no, it's been, it's been stupendous having Eva
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  here and some of the other veterans as a veteran
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  initiative. When did when did you first
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  come? 2003.
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  Yeah. 2003 because and the first time I came here, it was as a
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  veteran with some issues before I got diagnosed.
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  But then after a while I really got into the groove of it and
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  just OK. Like I learned how to play
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  guitar, you know, and meeting people from all over the world,
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  you know, we have people from Ireland and just how to play.
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  The because I heard that it was much.
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  Different it was a few years ago.
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  And they changed it. I think part of it changed
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  because of some of the syllabus requirements or.
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  Something that. To get the credits, yeah,
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  college credits. So some of that changed, but I
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  think what we're looking at doing next year for the women
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  veterans program is going to be pretty stupendous it.
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  Is to Oh my God, because we know.
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  Lots of people that we can bring in a speaker.
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  So, you know, if you're in the DC Maryland area and want to
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  participate. I was even talking to my friend
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  Denise and see if we can. So she's, you know, maybe
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  hopefully I was talking with her today.
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  She's been helping out with this, all the Gulf War study
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  stuff and can kind of talk. About things from.
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  The health perspective. Absolutely, Absolutely.
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  Even though she lives in in Colorado that maybe we could do
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  her as a remote. Zoom in.
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  That would be great. We.
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  Could do her as a remote in and since it's just for an hour.
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  So I think there's some opportunities like that to be
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  able to talk to women veterans and not talk to but talk with
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  and different topics. And you know, I have a friend
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  that is over at the women's memorial that we could come in
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  she's an ambassador and see if she'd come in.
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  I'm sure she'd be happy to talk. And so if this is something that
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  you're interested in and want to be able to do this, neat.
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  I call it an adult camp. It is.
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  It is with, yeah, that little camp with Yeah, yeah, with long
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  leashes like they used to put your kids on.
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  But. Yeah, but you know.
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  It's really nice. It's neat, but it's it's their
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  full days. They're if you know bottle of
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  mine is a devil's playground. There is not any time in the day
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  to really have an idle mind because the first class starts
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  at 9. You they have the chow hall, you
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  know, the dining facility is so bad.
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  So they have the dining facility opens up at 7:45.
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  First class is at 9. Obviously you don't have to sign
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  up for, you know, all right, right.
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  There are five classes that you can take.
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  They're an hour and 15 minutes long and a decent sized lunch
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  and. Then every night don't they have
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  we have a. Yeah, so so actually.
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  But they have that Angel choir. I didn't participate in that.
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  They have an Angel choir that you can, if you think that you
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  can sing. And probably I should have, I
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  should have signed up for it, but.
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  You were good, Eva. You were good.
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  I got. You I used that time as going
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  and taking my nap so I could go to the concert.
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  I'm used to, you know, I'm used to getting up at 3:30 in the
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  morning and taking the commuter bus, so.
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  My. Sleep schedule has been all off.
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  You know you. You it was up.
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  Harry and Harry. Harry, come here.
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  Come here. Harry, Tell them who you are.
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  We're live. Tell them who you are.
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  Harry, I'm Harry. You're loved.
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  And I have a gig to do, so I need to leave.
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  We'll be watching it. Hi, brother.
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  I see. That's one of one of the guys
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  who plays the guitar. And and also we when we talked
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  about the the for the female veteran.
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  It's open to, You don't have to be a veteran to attend the
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  class, right? So you can, you know, if you're
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  interested in, you don't have to be a female, right?
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  You can be, anybody can attend and we're going to provide
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  education. We do question and answers
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  something so you can leave with. So yeah, it's not just for
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  veterans we want to open it to. Every well we have the Veterans
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  Initiative Coed class, we have the women veterans class and
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  then all of these other classes. I mean, even though we have
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  civilians that can attend these classes too, but all the other
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  classes that are offered in common ground are open to any.
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  I mean, there is a fee. Of course there is a fee.
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  Apparently, registration will open up next spring in 2026.
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  So if you're looking for something that's a little
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  different to do with your time and be around a great group of
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  people, you know, it's been phenomenal camaraderie and
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  meeting lots of people, enjoying the music, you know, concerts
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  and, yeah, the jam session concert.
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  Yeah. There's the jam sessions that
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  you go to like midnight and then everybody's like struggling to
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  get to go in the next morning. They say if by Thursday and
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  Friday you're not almost just dragging, you didn't have a good
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  time. So, you know, that's one of the
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  things like, you know, But talk about Dan Collins, the
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  filmmaker. Oh, yeah.
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  I talked briefly about Dan, you know, so he's a filmmaker, I
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  guess. He's done quite a few
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  glassblowing films that, that. Yeah, the the famous, the famous
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  glassblowers who are out there making different.
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  What do I say? They they have, they're bongs,
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  but there's other pieces of art, you know?
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  The one with the guy takes the flower and puts it in that is.
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  Amazing. Oh yeah, that was neat too.
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  That was neat too. And it was just interesting to
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  see that, you know, the documentary and what's his name,
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  though, the guy who was the new, the one who works with Josh
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  Simi? Simi.
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  And he did a, he did a Remember, he was a first director.
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  Yeah, yeah, yeah. He's an assistant director and
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  so he's took it. He's taking over the program, so
• 26:15
  we got a good taste of his style.
• 26:17
  Very fair. Josh Heisel is still
• 26:20
  participating in the program, but Josh is doing some other
• 26:24
  stuff too. So, you know, there's, I think
• 26:28
  in a good way that Sammy coming on is younger, you know, younger
• 26:33
  generation of veterans getting out.
• 26:36
  So this will be, you know, good. I think it's a good strategy to,
• 26:41
  I want to say pivot and be able to open up to other younger
• 26:47
  veterans getting out and show that, you know, there's
• 26:51
  something here for you to be able to grasp on and enjoy
• 26:58
  exploring some things that are, I want to say, you know, that
• 27:04
  are soothing. I don't have a better word where
• 27:06
  it's it's an alternative like learning how to play the guitar.
• 27:11
  And I was interested, you know, in learning how to play the
• 27:14
  guitar because for as an, you know, from teenager to adult, I
• 27:21
  was focused on being in the military or being a mother and
• 27:27
  then being in school and working.
• 27:30
  And and I'm finally finding some of this extra time to do Eva.
• 27:35
  Me time. Yeah me time and so yes well,
• 27:41
  it's not like I don't have other things to do like studying
• 27:43
  that's OK I'm. Getting.
• 27:47
  Getting into all these other things, sometimes it's nice to
• 27:50
  sit there. I've discovered in this process
• 27:54
  this week to sit there for 30 minutes and distract myself and
• 27:59
  kind of look at the music and I'm doing something.
• 28:02
  These sounds are very soothing, right?
• 28:05
  They help me focus and just enjoy the process of learning
• 28:13
  something new, even if I'm only perfecting Happy birthday right
• 28:16
  now and. Yes, yes.
• 28:19
  I will get there. I will get there.
• 28:22
  We'll figure out how to have a jam session.
• 28:24
  Yes, I'll bring my guitar. I remember the first one of the
• 28:27
  first class, I think guitar took spoken word and that was
• 28:30
  stupendous because you got a person who you start off that
• 28:33
  first. We just get in that words and by
• 28:34
  the end of the week you're doing a poem and spoken word.
• 28:37
  It's really nice. And you do it in up here, you do
• 28:41
  it on the stage. So you know they recognize that.
• 28:43
  And it's really, really, if you want something different that
• 28:46
  you've done it never done, this is the place to get out of your
• 28:49
  comfort zone. Or if this is something you've
• 28:51
  been looking for, but give it a try.
• 28:53
  And Eva and I will be pushing this once registrations open up.
• 28:57
  You know you can shoot us an e-mail because, you know, we'll
• 29:00
  talk more as we get more information about the.
• 29:02
  Scholarship you. Know we'll get and we'll see how
• 29:04
  that works, but this scholarships for for veterans,
• 29:07
  you know, give it a try. But the cool thing is, is guess
• 29:10
  what? You're not coming here knowing
• 29:12
  no one because you know, what are you right?
• 29:16
  And don't worry, you know? So they do their best to make
• 29:20
  accommodations for people too. We had some people with scooters
• 29:25
  and were able to get around. There are it there's there's
• 29:30
  some elevation. We'll check, you know, but so
• 29:33
  you're going to get some steps in.
• 29:34
  Don't be afraid of that. But the weather has been very
• 29:37
  cooperative this week and the classes are, you know, nice.
• 29:43
  The dorms are pretty. They're dorms, you know, they're
• 29:45
  nothing, nothing. They're better than many hotels.
• 29:49
  Oh yes, absolutely. In, in, in Westminster.
• 29:53
  We have everything. Tell them where you went off the
• 29:54
  Installation 0. Yeah, SO is nearby.
• 29:58
  Oh, I went shopping today at the discount mall.
• 30:01
  Yeah, yeah, yeah, I got some good bargains, not gonna lie.
• 30:05
  Got some good bargains. So.
• 30:06
  We got all the big, you know we got.
• 30:07
  What's that one with the steak place?
• 30:09
  I'll take the Australian one. What is it?
• 30:11
  Australian Outback. Outback, Outback in Texas
• 30:15
  Roadhouse and we have Olive Garden.
• 30:18
  She got everything here in case you didn't want to here and go
• 30:20
  out. Yeah, you don't want to.
• 30:21
  You have options. That's the key is having
• 30:23
  options. It, it will change you, it will
• 30:26
  change you by the end of it. There's a lot of discussions
• 30:29
  that will have, it will challenge you if you wanted to,
• 30:32
  you know, and The thing is like if I say common ground.
• 30:35
  Finding I think the biggest thing is you know you're not
• 30:38
  coming here and let's say you know how to do.
• 30:42
  Let's say you've never like I, I never played played the guitar
• 30:47
  before. I know we have basics.
• 30:49
  Now I can go home and I can keep practicing.
• 30:52
  I can watch YouTube videos and you know, I know that the VFW
• 30:58
  that I go to that I'm a member of over in Arlington, they have
• 31:02
  guitar for vets on Saturdays. Look at that.
• 31:05
  So I can go over there and now I'm not feel like I'm just brand
• 31:10
  new amongst amongst all these. Veterans.
• 31:12
  That's right. That's right.
• 31:14
  No pressure. But I, you know, the neat thing
• 31:17
  is even even in the guitar class that I was in this week, I was
• 31:22
  the newest. I was not holding back the other
• 31:25
  three people who are very versed at playing guitar because the
• 31:30
  instructor, Amy, Amy, shout out to Amy Ferriby.
• 31:34
  So Amy was stupendous. Yeah.
• 31:36
  Yeah, she, she was able to teach it in a way that even though I
• 31:41
  was the newest of new guitar players, I wasn't holding back
• 31:46
  the other players from learning new stuff too.
• 31:49
  And, you know, now they have these takeaways and some very
• 31:53
  basics. She's very well educated on
• 31:57
  classic guitar and she's she's, you know, just phenomenal.
• 32:02
  But there are all these other classes as well.
• 32:04
  Yeah, there's some. You don't have to be an expert
• 32:07
  or know anything about it. They're going to teach you, Eva.
• 32:11
  The Rug Lady. The rug lady?
• 32:13
  Oh yeah. What's the name of that?
• 32:15
  RYA RYA rug. I had never heard of that
• 32:17
  before, but it was oh. My God, take a class and learn
• 32:20
  how to make rug so you know how. Remember there is the latchuck
• 32:23
  thing. Well, this is the old fashioned
• 32:27
  really needle and canvas and special yarn Ryo rugs.
• 32:35
  There you go. We were trying to get her on.
• 32:37
  I don't know. I haven't seen her all week, no.
• 32:39
  No, but then we have a car, though.
• 32:41
  I got a car. We do have a car.
• 32:42
  So she was willing to do that. Yeah, do have her.
• 32:44
  Car. So.
• 32:45
  Yeah, so there's a lot that you can do here that's going to
• 32:47
  stretch, you know, stretch you and, and learn something and
• 32:51
  you'll leave with something. Meet.
• 32:52
  Oh my God, you're going to leave you with a lot of friends.
• 32:55
  You're going to meet some great people.
• 32:56
  And every instructor you meet here is is they will take the
• 33:00
  time. They are experts.
• 33:01
  Yes, they are. They really are.
• 33:03
  In their fields, you know, like the guy, Guy Davis, who's
• 33:06
  playing tonight. Guy Davis looking up.
• 33:08
  Yeah, look. Linda Ronstadt Linda Ronstadt
• 33:12
  Nephew is a nephew or brother What?
• 33:14
  Is he nephew? I think nephew, yeah.
• 33:16
  So Michael Ronstadt, I think is the same.
• 33:20
  Michael Ronstadt. Did you talk about your your,
• 33:23
  your roommate, the one that's doing the Dolly Parton?
• 33:26
  Oh yeah, so he retired 2 days ago.
• 33:28
  I found out this. Morning.
• 33:30
  Yeah, he used to work for work with.
• 33:34
  Dolly Parton, Look at that work with Dolly.
• 33:36
  Parton. That's amazing.
• 33:37
  That is just amazing, the amount of people you meet that you
• 33:40
  would never know what's behind the scenes, how things happen
• 33:43
  and then the stories you hear, especially at the at the jams.
• 33:46
  Afterwards and. It's like, yeah, that's what
• 33:48
  things. Happen.
• 33:49
  But they are just people too, yeah.
• 33:51
  That's it. What is what is it?
• 33:52
  You know what when we come back at 6:33, When we come back,
• 33:56
  let's talk about what has been your favorite class that you
• 34:00
  ever took here? Or we can do that.
• 34:02
  Yeah. So let me, I'm going to go
• 34:05
  ahead. And mess with that.
• 34:07
  Like we did before, I know we're going.
• 34:08
  To let the whole thing play. I don't want my glasses on.
• 34:11
  I'm sorry. Let me play.
• 34:13
  How about Mr. Red, White and Blue?
• 34:14
  OK, copy, Anderson. We'll be right back.
• 37:50
  Hey, we are back. This is Eva.
• 37:53
  I'm your host from the Pain to Purpose radio show, and we've
• 37:57
  got Jose here from the Motivated Mindset classes.
• 38:01
  Classes back on. Yes, yes, yes.
• 38:05
  So we are live here today at McDaniel College in Westchester,
• 38:12
  MD, Westminster. Maryland, but Westchester's
• 38:15
  close enough. It's good enough for government
• 38:18
  work. That's right.
• 38:21
  For government work is good. Westminster, MD.
• 38:24
  And this has been a cute little town.
• 38:28
  You know, I, I had my back went out earlier this week.
• 38:32
  I was pretty miserable and I had a lot of very nice people
• 38:36
  helping me with my guitar, toting it, you know, to class.
• 38:41
  And I was fortunate and able to find a massage spot down the
• 38:48
  street and went and did that during lunch.
• 38:49
  So, you know, if you're worried about being able to get
• 38:53
  amenities for things like that, I was able to get an appointment
• 38:57
  and I got right in during lunch. And that my question before I
• 39:04
  went to commercial was what has been your favorite class so far
• 39:09
  and why? Yeah, so I think it was maybe
• 39:11
  2005 when I came back, one of my classes was taking African
• 39:15
  drumming. And at that time I had my two
• 39:17
  kids, Jose and Sydney, and we were all taking African
• 39:21
  drumming. And the reason I liked it
• 39:23
  because I thought it was just banging on the drums, but
• 39:26
  there's more to it. You got to use your, this part
• 39:28
  of your hand and you got to do timing and everything.
• 39:31
  And then you got to be coordinating with everybody else
• 39:34
  who's with you. And it was just a it brung
• 39:37
  everybody together, You know, everybody was working and
• 39:40
  singing and then we did some dancing, African dancing and
• 39:43
  that, that whole class. That was probably one of my
• 39:45
  favorite classes that I really enjoyed.
• 39:47
  And I made friends with, with the with the instructors and
• 39:50
  every year they came back. I don't think they're here this
• 39:52
  year. And that was really nice.
• 39:53
  But they have drums set up to be a big thing.
• 39:56
  Maybe, maybe they were here. There's a big thing they said,
• 40:00
  like there's 50 drums. Wow, there's a whole bunch of
• 40:02
  drums. Maybe there Yeah, make sure you
• 40:04
  got your ear plugs you got. And then I that was my favorite
• 40:08
  class, even that one was yeah, because it was physical, but it
• 40:11
  was still also mental. You had to pay attention to
• 40:14
  everything. It was really, really good.
• 40:16
  But it sounds like it's not just an individual thing.
• 40:18
  No, it was. It's a team or.
• 40:20
  Team to work, yes. But you know what I mean?
• 40:23
  You are hitting it individually, but it's like part of the band.
• 40:27
  You're still doing it as a team effort, which is a lot of life,
• 40:30
  what we did in the military. But that reminds me of something
• 40:35
  that Sammy had talked about when he was, you know, that's who I
• 40:39
  mentioned him earlier. He's taking over as leading the
• 40:42
  classes for Veterans Initiative is.
• 40:46
  So he's an assistant director in the film industry and he saw for
• 40:51
  him the parallel wells of what he has seen in the hierarchy.
• 41:01
  A the hierarchy of military ranking is, is very similar to
• 41:09
  the film industry. And, and when he was talking, I
• 41:12
  was like, oh, that makes so much sense.
• 41:14
  It does because a lot of that hierarchy came from the guys
• 41:19
  that got out and gals, but they got out of World War. 2.
• 41:24
  World War and War 2, when the film industry was starting and
• 41:27
  they shifted the people with that rank structure to the film
• 41:32
  industry and that way it wasn't just chaos putting a film.
• 41:36
  Together there was order to. It there was order to it with,
• 41:42
  you know, so that it made sense and things could get done
• 41:45
  effectively and not just random and you know, like I said, the
• 41:51
  chaos. Yeah, yeah, organized chaos like
• 41:53
  we have in a military. I don't know.
• 41:56
  I think it really depends upon the unit.
• 41:58
  Right. It really.
• 41:59
  Depends upon the unit because at the end that you're trying to
• 42:02
  still get a film done on time, under budget and, you know, be
• 42:08
  quality just like our military, you know, have been.
• 42:14
  But that's also the same thing that we experience even in I've
• 42:18
  been working for the federal. Government.
• 42:19
  Absolutely. That you know there are still
• 42:23
  parameters that we're supposed to.
• 42:24
  Operate. Yeah.
• 42:27
  It, it was just, I know for me when I first got out, my first
• 42:31
  job was working on Fort Meade DoD.
• 42:33
  So it was an easy transition because, you know, DoD is a
• 42:36
  structure we had I, I knew my place, my roles and what I had
• 42:40
  to do. But when I came up with a HUD,
• 42:42
  thank God that I had my ICS. My leaders were all military
• 42:48
  prior. So it was an easier transition
• 42:50
  because they walked me through and that made life so much
• 42:53
  easier. They once I knew my left and
• 42:55
  right limit, they let me go because they knew.
• 42:57
  OK, now I know what I can and cannot do, you know?
• 42:59
  And one thing I learned was about because in DoD there's no
• 43:02
  what you call that presidential appointees as it like it is in
• 43:06
  our job. Political appointment.
• 43:08
  Yeah. And that was something I
• 43:09
  learned. So, you know, there's different
• 43:10
  things, but in the end it's just having structure.
• 43:12
  And he was able to show us from what the director and compared
• 43:17
  to a first Sergeant or something like that.
• 43:19
  So, yeah, it was a lot of a lot of similar things.
• 43:21
  Like in Rosebud. Come on in.
• 43:24
  Hey, what's up? Going on.
• 43:25
  What's up? Hey, Josh, What's up?
• 43:30
  Hey. There's.
• 43:32
  Josh And then I go to my former. To my former.
• 43:35
  Guys, we've talked about you guys and,
• 43:51
  and getting more veterans to come and females, you know,
• 43:55
  civilians, anybody, yes. Yes, that person, yeah.
• 43:59
  Absolutely. So we'll be talking all about
• 44:01
  that. That's that's what's up, you
• 44:03
  know, so. We are here to expand the
• 44:05
  middle. Yes, yes, expand the.
• 44:08
  Middle. As long as you still keep
• 44:10
  working out, you know what I'm saying.
• 44:14
  And there's even a gym here too. I didn't even got to go.
• 44:20
  So this is Dan. I mentioned him a while ago with
• 44:23
  the filmmaking class and yeah, you know, lots of great projects
• 44:29
  that you've done and you're teaching now and we're.
• 44:33
  So we're. Well, I don't know if you want
• 44:35
  to talk about where you teach. What do you do?
• 44:36
  Yeah, pull up. Please.
• 44:40
  Wow, this was unexpected. This is these are the best.
• 44:43
  Ones Dan Collins. Everyone.
• 44:46
  I'm friends with these crazy people.
• 44:48
  Yes, yes, yes, yes. I'm a film maker out of
• 44:50
  Philadelphia. I do video production work for
• 44:55
  university upstate, pay the bills while I do grad school.
• 44:57
  But mostly I'm a documentary storyteller and done a lot of
• 45:01
  work with a lot of different topics, but my work with
• 45:04
  veterans. Specifically, all you is.
• 45:08
  And what? What's the name of the
• 45:10
  documentary that you made? With From War to Wisdom.
• 45:13
  Yeah. Yeah.
• 45:14
  So we released that in 2017. It's on Amazon.
• 45:16
  It's on a couple of those channels.
• 45:19
  And yeah, it was a, it was like cathartic experience for
• 45:22
  everybody involved. I think me probably most of all,
• 45:25
  but I think it it helped a lot of these guys feel heard in a
• 45:28
  way that people transitioning back to society sometimes have a
• 45:31
  hard time being. Heard so which is great.
• 45:33
  I mean, that's why I wanted you guys to stop by because we are
• 45:37
  about giving veterans a voice, you know, and, and telling that
• 45:41
  story. And I think it's, you know, it
• 45:46
  is, it's not always about the end result of the documentary.
• 45:50
  It's the process that it took getting there, right?
• 45:53
  And, and you have to remember, making a documentary is not
• 45:56
  something you can just turn on a dime because there is a process
• 46:00
  to it. That one was about 6 years I
• 46:04
  think really from start to finish.
• 46:06
  I do them a little quicker now. Part of it is the learning
• 46:10
  curve. I had my own learning curve when
• 46:13
  I did mine so. And we would gather here
• 46:15
  annually. So each year I'd follow up and
• 46:17
  try to get a little further in this story and you raise funding
• 46:21
  piece meal. So you're like a couple little
• 46:24
  bit of change that pays for a trip to LA to go see little
• 46:27
  riders working with homeless veterans.
• 46:28
  Alright, a little while later, common ground on the border.
• 46:31
  Let's go down there and, you know, see what's happening
• 46:33
  there. So it takes a while, but you
• 46:35
  know, you just stick with it till you, like I said in my
• 46:37
  class, sometimes you get the ending you're looking for.
• 46:40
  Yeah, sometimes you don't. And you just go, well, real life
• 46:43
  doesn't always have, but here, years later, I'm seeing results.
• 46:50
  So so say hi here. I'm going to compound because I.
• 46:52
  Got to do a couple things. You're really just kind of
• 46:59
  thinking you're Facebook Live in a way.
• 47:02
  It's also going to be on LinkedIn, but you're really just
• 47:06
  kind of think about you're talking to us and it's just and
• 47:10
  it'll, it'll go out to YouTube and yeah.
• 47:12
  Hi, brother. So.
• 47:15
  I'll just introduce. Myself, yeah.
• 47:17
  Yeah, yeah, Hans, I work as a lighting director at the 9:30
• 47:21
  Club in Washington, DC Live music, it's pretty rad.
• 47:28
  I was Marine Corps infantry and I fought in Armani Wreck in
• 47:32
  2004, in 2005 and again in 2007. Wow, so when did you get out of
• 47:39
  the military? 09/09 I was in 03 to 09 and I re
• 47:45
  enlisted and halfway through my second enlistment I got kicked
• 47:48
  out for smoking weed. Oh.
• 47:50
  You know, I, I re upped and I decided to get out of the
• 47:54
  infantry, take a break from getting shot at for a little
• 47:56
  bit. That was probably the worst
• 47:57
  decision I could have made. I feel like because it's a whole
• 48:00
  different Marine Corps on the the non infantry side, right?
• 48:03
  Right, right. It's.
• 48:04
  A lot slower pace, do you know what I mean?
• 48:07
  It is and. I was at the non deployable unit
• 48:09
  so like it was nothing but time to let all that shit catch up,
• 48:13
  you know what I mean? I don't.
• 48:14
  I don't. Mine is a devil's playground.
• 48:16
  Yeah, yeah. Yeah, that is so true.
• 48:20
  But you know, it's fine. Like I got my benefits and.
• 48:22
  Yep. Are you at 100%?
• 48:24
  No, where you at now 80? Okay, keep working.
• 48:27
  You're still working it. No, I'm like, I feel like we all
• 48:32
  know the VA game, you know what I mean?
• 48:34
  I feel like if I try to like up it or whatever, they're just
• 48:39
  going to be like, Oh no, we made a mistake without Haiti back
• 48:41
  down at. 30 you know what I mean, so.
• 48:44
  I'm happy with it, it pays my rent.
• 48:45
  Got you. You.
• 48:46
  Know what I mean? So all my all my job money is.
• 48:48
  Yeah, that's cool. Also for bills, but.
• 48:51
  I know I got you bro. It's rough out there right now,
• 48:53
  especially at DC. It's a crazy city.
• 48:55
  It is. I know we worked down there.
• 48:57
  What was what was What was your best take away out of coming
• 49:01
  through Common Grounds? Oh.
• 49:08
  Was it the camaraderie? I mean, I moved.
• 49:10
  Here from Texas after I got divorced because I didn't really
• 49:16
  have anything going on for me back home.
• 49:18
  And like, I knew a bunch of people out this way.
• 49:20
  So I was like, Austin ain't ain't it for me right now.
• 49:24
  I'm going to change the scenery. I moved to Westminster, MD.
• 49:30
  It is. That is quite a yeah, but.
• 49:32
  I did Westminster and then I moved even further out to the
• 49:35
  middle of nowhere with with my parents partner at the time,
• 49:39
  Manchester, Maryland. I don't know.
• 49:41
  Yes, out there in sticks. Dude, gotcha, gotcha.
• 49:45
  And then I moved to Frederick. Awesome little city.
• 49:47
  Yeah, yeah. Frederick lived with Frederick
• 49:49
  for five years. OK, Yeah.
• 49:51
  So yeah. Well, Dietrich's out there.
• 49:53
  Yeah, yeah. It is.
• 49:54
  Yeah. Yeah.
• 49:54
  Cool. Cool.
• 49:57
  What was your favorite class? Dan Collins, his documentary
• 50:03
  class, he always found the most engaging, most interesting, most
• 50:07
  riveting, most heart wrenching, most like intense documentaries.
• 50:12
  I don't know how he does it, probably.
• 50:14
  Because he's a yeah, yeah. Yeah, just no shit like that.
• 50:17
  You. Know what I mean?
• 50:18
  Yeah. Yeah.
• 50:18
  So it's. True or do you have any?
• 50:21
  You have to like. No beat.
• 50:23
  Out my leg. No, no, no, no, no, no, not
• 50:24
  here. No, it's they're all veterans.
• 50:27
  Yeah, yeah. Those are the ones you can see.
• 50:34
  Where? On the side right here, yeah.
• 50:35
  Right down. Oh yeah, yeah.
• 50:36
  Cool. Right on.
• 50:37
  Yeah. But but it gets it.
• 50:40
  It's the live numbers, but then it's going to get reshared and.
• 50:43
  You know, yeah, not a numbers guy anyway.
• 50:46
  Just do it for the love, right? That's it, that's it.
• 50:48
  That's what we do. It's to me this is about if it
• 50:52
  reaches one person and it can identify with something we just
• 50:56
  say and that helps them through today and that's all that
• 50:59
  matters. Do a dance movie.
• 51:01
  Because. For a while it felt like nobody
• 51:05
  had seen it. I mean, but like, every once in
• 51:08
  a while I got a contact from my dad, like out of the blue,
• 51:13
  hadn't talked to him in years. And he was like, hey, someone at
• 51:17
  work saw saw you in this documentary.
• 51:20
  It's really cool. You know, I understand.
• 51:22
  A little bit of where where? You're coming from now, you know
• 51:25
  what I mean? I was like, well, I guess
• 51:27
  somebody saw it, you know what I mean?
• 51:29
  Yeah, but but that hopefully that brought you and your dad
• 51:34
  together a little. Bit closer.
• 51:35
  That's okay, we don't have to get into that.
• 51:37
  But yeah, yeah, yeah. Sorry.
• 51:39
  That's okay. Yeah, it's fine.
• 51:41
  At least you reached out and told you that.
• 51:43
  Sure. Yeah.
• 51:43
  That's important. I mean, that's a blessing.
• 51:45
  Yeah, absolutely. Absolutely.
• 51:48
  Oh my goodness, I know. Bring the fucking vibe down.
• 51:50
  No, no. No.
• 51:53
  No, no, no, no, not even now, brother.
• 51:56
  This is This is what it's about. No, but did you enjoy you enjoy
• 51:59
  doing lighting? Oh, yeah, I'm like, I kind of
• 52:02
  stumbled ass backwards into it, into the job.
• 52:06
  A friend of mine I met here at Common Ground, actually, Phillip
• 52:09
  Spies. OK, he was living in DC at the
• 52:14
  time when I moved there and he was like, bro, apply to be a
• 52:17
  stagehand at the 9:30 Club. And I was like, I don't know
• 52:20
  anything about, I'm not a musician.
• 52:22
  I'm not an artist. On that, I'm not that crew or
• 52:24
  anything like that. It's like, doesn't matter.
• 52:26
  You can push a case. You're not strung out on heroin.
• 52:28
  You're a golden dude. You know what I mean?
• 52:31
  You can show up on time. And like push a.
• 52:33
  Case you're good, dude. And I did and I finally like I
• 52:36
  needed a job and they they hired me for as a stagehand and I did
• 52:41
  that for about a year and I was good at it.
• 52:44
  I mean, it doesn't take much. You just show up and follow
• 52:47
  instructions. Right, right, right, right.
• 52:49
  We're good at that. Right?
• 52:50
  Yeah, yeah. But they, they needed, I got in
• 52:53
  there at the right time because like there's this mass exodus of
• 52:56
  all the lighting and audio guys about a year before I got there.
• 52:58
  So they were. They needed some some roles to
• 53:01
  fill. You know.
• 53:03
  Now, I've been lighting at the 9:30 club for two years.
• 53:06
  That's cool. I.
• 53:07
  Also worked the anthem, the Lincoln Theatre and the the
• 53:13
  Atlantis. Wow, there we need tickets.
• 53:15
  Start today. No, what's where's the Atlanta?
• 53:17
  What kind of club is the? Atlantis is a it's our smallest
• 53:20
  venue, 450 personal cap is what we call it, and it's made to
• 53:29
  like, bring emerging artists. Onto the it's the nine. 30.
• 53:33
  Atmosphere. I see what you're saying.
• 53:35
  No, no, I have to now that I'm. I got time on my hands.
• 53:38
  Yeah, for sure. Yeah, no, I'm sure.
• 53:39
  Definitely. You know, I would like to go
• 53:40
  there, I think to check it. Out or venues?
• 53:43
  Check them out. You see any show you want to go?
• 53:44
  OK, OK. In.
• 53:45
  Contact with Hazel or Yeah, yeah.
• 53:47
  Yeah, before we leave. Yeah, that'll be cool.
• 53:49
  That'll be cool. Habit from 10 years.
• 53:51
  Ago you made my #8 change. Some things don't change.
• 53:55
  Some things don't change, man. It's 443.
• 54:00
  Well, that's OK. OK. 443.
• 54:03
  Yeah. And this is how we do it guys.
• 54:05
  We are live, right? It's this is connections.
• 54:09
  You know, it's pretty cool to get to do.
• 54:12
  This and just, you know. Talk, talk to people this.
• 54:16
  I couldn't imagine not being able to do a live after after
• 54:23
  being in class all week long and being able to see, you know,
• 54:30
  just kind of do this recap and and meet, you know, say goodbye
• 54:35
  to all these people. It'll be pretty cool when you
• 54:40
  when you after you finished your class, you know, back when you
• 54:45
  went here, common ground. Did you stay in contact with
• 54:49
  other people though? I've been here for 13 years now,
• 54:53
  I just couldn't make it this year.
• 54:54
  If it, yeah, it's. It's our maintenance time.
• 54:57
  'Cause we're. We're in our slow season for
• 54:59
  shows so we've our rig is broken as fuck right now so.
• 55:03
  OK. Yeah, I've been fixing lights
• 55:06
  and shit. Yeah, yeah.
• 55:07
  So couldn't make it this year unfortunately.
• 55:10
  I'll be back next year. Probably, yeah.
• 55:11
  And that's all that might we connect like?
• 55:13
  I said I've been coming 13 years straight.
• 55:16
  This is the first year I haven't.
• 55:17
  Yeah, attended. Yeah, well, fantastic.
• 55:21
  I'm glad you found it. You know Jose, Josh who was
• 55:25
  interact with? Yeah.
• 55:27
  We used to play Battlefield 3 together and you know, we just
• 55:32
  get drunk and talk shit. At 2 minutes you want to come
• 55:37
  over and say hi? Absolutely.
• 55:39
  Yeah, I am. So we'll switch you guys out.
• 55:43
  Thank you for coming on. Yeah, thank you brother.
• 55:45
  I move my homie. Yep.
• 55:47
  Yep, Yep. So everybody, this is Josh.
• 55:50
  Hi. Hello.
• 55:51
  Hello. So I have glasses on my eyes it.
• 55:53
  Really sensitive today? Yeah, sure they are.
• 55:57
  We really are. Like, no.
• 55:59
  Got you, man. Yeah.
• 56:00
  How's everyone doing? We're doing great.
• 56:02
  It's been good. It's been good.
• 56:03
  It's been good. It's been a good week.
• 56:06
  Yeah, we're excited for Eva next year.
• 56:08
  We've got the program, you know, so learn some stuff.
• 56:12
  She enjoyed it. She's enjoyed it and meeting new
• 56:14
  people. So I'm just glad that we have a
• 56:16
  women in the military teacher, yeah, that we know is coming
• 56:20
  next year. We've had a hard time getting
• 56:24
  this. Class together.
• 56:25
  And as you know, I always have our own fused to be a male
• 56:29
  veteran to teach. I'll never do that.
• 56:31
  I don't think that's right. It should be from the lens of a
• 56:33
  woman. And I think that we have a lot
• 56:35
  to learn from them about their experience.
• 56:38
  And so it should never be me. You know what I mean?
• 56:41
  And So what that it took a few years to get it going.
• 56:44
  We have the right teacher. Thank you.
• 56:47
  You have the right person. Yes, it took time to get there.
• 56:50
  Yeah, she is stupendous and she's more like 3 trophies in
• 56:53
  karaoke, but that's another. She's freaking awesome.
• 56:56
  We won't go there right you. Heard me sing last night, right?
• 57:01
  Yeah, you're off next year. You don't get off the hook.
• 57:03
  You're coming to the gazebo. We're gonna sing together.
• 57:06
  There you go. And I get you on.
• 57:08
  Stage right. There you go.
• 57:09
  There you go. Yeah, I will.
• 57:10
  Plonk, plonk. Yeah, play some C's and D.
• 57:14
  'S well, but here's the thing. You're in class here too,
• 57:16
  correct? Yeah, we said.
• 57:18
  Yeah, taking very beginner basic guitar.
• 57:20
  So a year from now. I should be a little.
• 57:33
  Bit better give me. The give me the finger sheet.
• 57:43
  Thing. 16 years here. I've been here and I've never
• 57:53
  been more serious than I am about expanding the middle.
• 57:57
  And this week we did that hard work.
• 57:59
  We did, yeah. There was some uncomfortable
• 58:01
  days. Yeah.
• 58:02
  But those are those are the moments when you know it's
• 58:04
  working, when you have to go back and be alone and just take
• 58:09
  a minute. Yeah, You know you're doing
• 58:10
  that. Yeah.
• 58:11
  Absolutely. And Eva, I can't thank you
• 58:13
  enough for. For thank you.
• 58:15
  Like with the cancellations and all this shit and you were like,
• 58:18
  I got it. Yeah, that's that's.
• 58:20
  That's right, we don't walk past me.
• 58:22
  That's. Right.
• 58:22
  Yeah, it was great. Thank you for the opportunity.
• 58:27
  Yeah, and we have a show tonight.
• 58:29
  And yeah. So glad we got to be a part of
• 58:31
  this. Podcast here live.
• 58:34
  So it'll be on YouTube, LinkedIn, and it's out there.
• 58:38
  I'll make sure I tag you and. Everything.
• 58:39
  Yeah, yeah. Yeah, hey, if you're a veteran
• 58:42
  and you like music, art or conversation, come to Common
• 58:45
  Ground. Next, we're going to bring 30
• 58:50
  veterans. Next, that's what I'm.
• 58:51
  Talking. I love it, love it.
• 58:52
  That's a great. Thing what you and I are going
• 58:54
  to do is be marketing on our podcast.
• 58:56
  Every show, every show, hey, we're going to take 5 minutes
• 58:59
  and talk about common ground and put it out there and that's,
• 59:02
  that's it. And you know what?
• 59:04
  And I'll close with this, 30 vets doesn't matter.
• 59:08
  It doesn't matter if you're the music, doesn't matter if you're
• 59:10
  anything. But I think that it's our job as
• 59:12
  veterans to show these people how to expand the middle.
• 59:16
  Yep, Yep. All right.
• 59:17
  We're going to be living examples of what we expect to
• 59:20
  see in the world, and they're going to take.
• 59:24
  Yeah. That's the only way I know how
• 59:26
  to do it. Yeah, yeah.
• 59:27
  Well, I can't wait to hear you jam out tonight.
• 59:31
  And you know, he, he, they, they practiced while ago all day.
• 59:36
  I saw him at the pool as I was leaving.
• 59:39
  Yeah, that. Was.
• 59:42
  Nice. I wasn't Yeah, he was nice.
• 59:44
  So I it's time to close out guys.
• 59:49
  Thank you for joining us. I hope you all have a fabulous
• 59:53
  weekend and I have a full I am booked now through August 23rd.
• 59:59
  So you know, if you want to be on then contact me and you'll
• 1:00:04
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• 1:00:08
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• 1:00:14
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• 1:00:18
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• 1:00:22
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