11⧸24⧸17 - We Believe in Capitalism and Free Markets.
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1 hour and 50 minutes
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170.08215
Summary
America was founded on the principles of freedom and capitalism. That's why it's one of the greatest countries in the history of the world, and that's why we should all be striving to live by those principles every day of our lives.
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The Blaze Radio Network, on demand, love, courage, truth, Glenn Beck.
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When you boil it all down, it's really a simple concept.
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Freedom of ideas and people, freedom of will, freedom of activity.
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Regardless of all the debates we have over the years, country, country, area to area, even within America.
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Everybody knows in their heart of hearts that they want freedom.
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They may say, well, we need less freedom for this, for the greater good of society, or maybe they're a tyrant or whatever.
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But they know that's what's right and that's what should happen.
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And we all, as human beings, desire to have that freedom.
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And that's one of the simple concepts America was founded on.
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The idea that you could take place in commerce for yourself and cast your net upon the waters and reap the benefits that all it brings in or suffer the losses of what you don't bring in.
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And you really can't have one without the other.
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Milton Friedman wrote about it in a book by the same name.
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As much as countries and people around the world try to badmouth America to take us down.
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Look at you with your laws and your gun laws and your capitalism and socialism is the way forward.
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How has America done by virtually every measure compared with your country?
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How's America doing now by virtually every measure compared with your country?
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Even in recent years, as much as we've lost freedoms, we've lost free markets, we have a more oppressive government, we have a debt.
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Those are not failures of capitalism or freedom.
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Those are failures of men and failures of ideas who've moved away from those simple concepts of freedom and capitalism.
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Our road back is partially through those simple concepts, freedom and capitalism.
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Our road back to greatness in economy, thinking, education.
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So while colleges today, unfortunately, are primarily focused on things like, how do you feel?
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Let's bring in kittens and puppies during exams so you feel better.
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While they're focused on that, I'm going to continue to focus on entrepreneurs and capitalism and free markets.
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That's what we're doing here on the Glenn Beck program.
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And that's what we're going to keep doing at The Blaze as well.
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Focusing on those things that we know are right and we know will help.
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There are a few people or companies in the world that will give you anything for free.
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And there are a few broadcast media companies that will give you commercials for free.
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But that's what we're going to do today on the program.
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On my morning broadcast on The Blaze Radio Network, go to theblazeradio.com to find out more about me.
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Regularly, we feature a segment called Building America.
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If you go on Twitter and look it up, you'll see past people we featured on this.
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We just give people airtime at times to promote their business.
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We recognize the importance of capitalism and entrepreneurship in building America.
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And we also know that's so difficult now for people when you're starting a business.
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Whether you have aspirations to make it a giant conglomerate in the future, a Fortune 500 company,
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or you just want a little side income to make life a little bit better for your family.
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Whatever it is, marketing, promotion, and advertising is one of the most difficult things out there.
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Because we have all of these areas where you can do it yourself.
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But there's also more people and more competition doing it.
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We've helped a lot of people over the years, and we're going to help people more today.
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All you have to do is call up if you own a business.
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Don't tell me about a product you like or something you used or somebody else's.
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And over the next couple of hours, we're going to let you talk about your business.
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The idea is people who dream and people who do.
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We've boiled the entrepreneurial spirit down to that.
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Ultimately, at some point, that's what you have to do.
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It should be something that you've studied and done your research on.
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But at some point, you do have to step off of that safe ground.
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888-727-BECK if you want to promote your business.
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Now, I would caution you to make sure your website is up and working and can handle the onslaught that it's going to get.
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Because this is a powerful, powerful radio broadcast with a number of people that listen.
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We want to get as many people there as possible.
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And also, please tweet with the hashtag Building America and promote your business there.
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I will try to retweet all of them out to make sure everybody gets theirs out.
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So if you miss somebody, you're like, oh, what was that sausage company or the gun company?
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It's at Doc Thompson Show or Building America and go back and check it out and find out what it was.
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And one final, if you don't make it through today, keep trying.
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Keep using that hashtag Building America, even in the future.
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Because as other people search on there, they'll likely see your business.
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What I do, I've been making candles for a dozen years.
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And this particular product I make out of upcycled beer bottle candles.
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It refers to a program here in the Raleigh-Durham area where we donate 20% of the proceeds to underage and binge drinking organizations.
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And not only are we recycling these beer bottles that would otherwise be thrown away, we give a portion of the proceeds for education.
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With this particular product, I've had it out for a year.
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I do make other products, but this one's been out for more than a year.
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But okay, we're going to tweet a link to it, and hopefully people keep checking it out.
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So, I'm calling about a novel that I recently published.
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It's a little bit of a dystopian tale about a sort of runaway federal agency that we call the Department of Social Responsibility.
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But it's also about a faithful family, a religious family that's doing its best to maintain its freedom of religion.
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And I won't get in too much about the details of that, but we want people to go ahead and read.
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The book's available on Amazon in paperback and as an e-book.
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I just published it and made it available in an Amazon store two weeks ago.
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Published a few other articles and have done some sort of technical writing, but this is my first novel.
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You know, from my perspective, the thing was diligence, right?
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Just write something every day and go back and revise.
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The biggest effort for me was research to make sure that all of the details feel real, as well as the dialogue.
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And I always thought about that because I've written some, you know, things for the show or whatever, even if it's just, you know, satire or whatever.
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And I want that historical reference to still be true, even though it's not really, you know, germane to the story, you know?
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Because if the details aren't there, everything sort of just falls flat.
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We got one other author here I want to check out, too.
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A little under the weather, so excuse my voice a little bit.
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We'll get through this and still get you some publicity.
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And it's a prehistoric, shape-shifting creature that the heroes have to find a way to beat in the book.
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Give me the name once again so I can look it up and make sure I tweet out the link to it.
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It probably won't be done until after the first of the year with some of those.
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And hopefully you excel at this through the holidays.
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I'm going to get a quick break in and back with more as we give you free commercials on this,
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On this Black Friday, lots of people are thinking about deals.
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We're offering you the ultimate deal, a free commercial for your business because we believe
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in entrepreneurs and we know that's the backbone of America.
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We provide a high level of service that seems to no longer exist.
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So, Explorer, we don't need any fake businesses, okay?
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We do everything from electric vehicle charging stations to basement finishes.
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If you bought a new light fixture or ceiling fan and you need it hung on the ceiling, I'm your guy.
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See, this is important because, see, I mean, I can do some of this stuff myself, Nate, but when it gets to certain things with electricity, I just, that's where I call you in.
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I mean, I could turn the power off and, you know, change a socket or a light switch, but it's a little difficult for me.
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It's a whole different story when you've got those wires staring you in the face.
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We have a Facebook page at Illuminate Electric.
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I tweeted it out and Chris said that he would get that retweeted.
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All right, Chris, going to redo it from my account.
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Mostly in the Atlanta area and northwest headed up toward Murphy, North Carolina as well.
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All right, you need an electrician, anybody who can handle any of that stuff for you, especially during the holidays.
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Well, I am an author and I have written a book called The Founder's Revolution, and it is the forgotten history and principles of the Declaration of Independence.
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Give me some examples or tell me a little bit more about it.
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It is from the words, I write as much as possible from the words of the founding fathers, as well as other original source documents, giving insight into every charge and claim that the founders made in the Declaration.
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And you will uncover what the founders intended America to become with their lofty yet practical ideals of the proper role of government.
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Now you're just talking crazy because we don't want that.
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But we truly have forgotten those principles, that history.
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And, of course, I have to make insight into how government is doing the same to us that King George III was doing to them, well, doing to us 200 years ago.
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You know, it's funny, I saw somebody tweeting over the weekend, and they were being critical of the president and something else, and mentioned, you know, how he hasn't respected the Constitution or whatever it was.
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And I just saw, I was sitting there with my jaw on the floor thinking, okay, even if you question him on that, how are you on the left not holding past presidents accountable?
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We seem to be one-sided, you know, whatever camp we're in, calling out people for some of the same things, when across the board we have a lot of people that are not, you know, respecting the Constitution, for example.
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And there is plenty of blame to go around in all parties and with most individuals.
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So, okay, your last name is Law, is that right?
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It's michaellawauthor.com, and that is correct.
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And you can also find it on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Kindle, if you want a Kindle.
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Well, I want to make sure to get that out there, though.
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michaellawauthor.com, because if you look it up by title, which I tried to do, it gets a little muddy because there's similar titles, even though they're not the same.
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So the Founder's Revolution is what it's called, right?
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And just FYI, it is currently for pre-sale everywhere.
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However, if some people don't want to wait, I do have not too many, but a couple thousand of my author advanced copies for sale now.
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Well, I'm going to go ahead and tweet this out, Michael.
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Appreciate the call, and hopefully this will all work for you.
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So, thank you for the opportunity to introduce myself and my company.
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I'm a 14-year military veteran, and I founded CompuDev Solutions about three years ago.
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We are based out of southern Florida in Punta Gorda, Florida.
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We provide information technology services to small businesses that otherwise wouldn't be able to afford it.
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CompuDev, they can reach us by doing CompuDevSolutions, that's C-O-M-P-U-D-E-V-Solutions.com.
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And there's a contact form on there, or they can reach us through our phone number, 941-356-9335.
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All right, so I have this on there, Ken, and it's CompuDev, D-E-V, CompuDevSolutions.
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I'm going to tweet out a link to it with the hashtag Building America.
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I wish you the best of luck, and Merry Christmas.
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Don't forget, look it up with the hashtag Building America.
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My excuse, Cal, is they've never told me not to.
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I started this a couple years ago, giving commercials away on Black Friday, and they never said not to.
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And, I mean, you've given a lot of forewarning.
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I've been promoted for a week or whatever, so let's just get back to it before they shut us down.
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And, Shelly, thanks for holding you on the Glenn Beck Program.
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What is your business that you would like to promote?
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Well, I have a gluten-free bakery called Moondance Desserts that I started in my kitchen 12 years ago.
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And it has grown to be a national brand, and we make delicious cheesecakes, brownies, coffee cakes, and every type of cookie, including holiday cookies, this time of year.
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Okay, I have to apologize for Chris Cruz, too, because I think you were the one he was on the phone with during the break, and I heard him.
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I was like, give the studio address so we can share the love around here.
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People send stuff in, and they never make it from Chris's house, so, all right.
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Well, you know, that's what happens with desserts.
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Why did you say, okay, I'm going to do desserts?
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Well, because I found out about 15 years ago that I couldn't eat gluten, and it was a pretty sparse market back then.
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And I figured out that a lot of people don't really know how to bake or like to bake, and everyone wants dessert.
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So I started out to give people gluten-free desserts that don't taste gluten-free.
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And like I said, I started on my own in my kitchen.
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And we have wonderful customers all over the country.
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And we sell in retail stores from Ohio to California to Florida to Texas.
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So you managed to get Whole Foods in some other stores as well.
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We just launched in 350 Kroger stores two weeks ago in Ohio, Kentucky, and Indiana.
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But see, this is, and I want to spend just an extra minute with you, too.
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But a moment of advice to get some advice for other people as well.
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Obviously, you can do stuff online, be very successful.
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For your type of product, though, to be able to get in stores is really important.
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Because you can imagine how many businesses are trying to get in the doors of buyers.
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And I, you know, just kept emailing, just kept calling.
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Because the main, I think the main thing is to get the food in their mouth.
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And I don't know how much you know about gluten-free, but a lot of the food out there, it just doesn't taste good.
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And, you know, that was the most important thing to me is if they taste it, they will come.
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And I have had people, you know, really question, you know, how do you make this gluten-free because it tastes so good.
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I just test and I test and I test until people can't tell it tastes gluten-free.
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But, you know, when you're selling something you believe in, you know, it just makes you feel good.
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And when I think sometimes, you know, we ship out product every week on, you know, big semi-trucks.
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And I think this that I made with my own hands is going to be in California.
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Well, Shelly, I appreciate you sharing a little bit more of your story because I hope it's an inspiration to other people.
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And thanks so much for calling and checking in.
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And you guys have a great Christmas and great holidays.
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She touched on a couple of regular things we've learned over and over from people on our Building Americas during our morning broadcast.
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And that is persistence has to be a part of it.
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If you have a passion for what you do, it's going to help you be persistent.
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Hopefully with education, some calculated risks, right?
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And we are a rock climbing company that has come up with a product that solves a common issue in rock climbing.
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That is that climbers have to leave their gear outdoors on the wall when they can't finish a climb for whatever reason.
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And it helps climbers get their gear off the wall.
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So if a climber can't finish a lead climb for any reason, it's too hard or the weather gets bad or they have to bail for any reason, they usually have to leave their gear up on the wall.
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To get off the wall, they have to repel off of that.
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So what we've done is we've developed a small little piece of equipment that attaches to that carabiner.
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And with a cord, they repel down and then they pull on the cord and it pops off their quick draw or their carabiner right off the wall.
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And they can clean the wall every time and get their gear back.
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And this is another thing we like really, Keaton.
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So we just talked to a woman who's a little further down the road starting her business than yours.
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And, you know, she's experiencing some more of the success.
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But you're at another stage that we've got this product.
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Just, you know, help us get it off the ground, right?
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And, you know, we're doing really good, but we need some more help to be able to make this a reality for all climbers.
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It says the Firefly is now available on Kickstarter.
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So, you know, somebody who's a rock climber, somebody that wants to be involved in this, or you just want to help Keaton out.
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A couple of bucks is going to go a long way for him to get up over that.
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We'll try to get you up over that $15,000 today, okay?
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But, see, I like helping the people that are early on in the campaigns as well.
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And the crowdfunding or crowdsourcing funding for stuff is really a great way to go because...
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A lot of times they're saying, you're just getting...
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You're just going to be one of the first ones who get the product.
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Plus, if you're one of the first, you know, quote-unquote investors and pledgers, you get some extra stuff, you know, that they give out as part of it, not just the item itself.
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Think about, like, what, 50 years ago when someone started a business, there was no crowdfunding.
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There was no way to reach people and ask to see if they wanted to, you know, buy into your product.
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In fact, if you try to get money, the ironic thing is there's so many people out there that want to invest their money.
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And there's so many people out there that need money.
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Getting them together is crazy because if you're an investor, there's so many bad, risky things that are horrible to get through them.
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So a buddy of mine years ago, he takes, like, his last couple of bucks and he takes this trip to New York.
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He rides the train from Virginia up to New York.
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And he'd been traveling in some circles with some big money people and got to know a couple of them and had this pitch.
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And he scrounges up his last, like, 80 bucks, takes the train in New York.
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He's only had enough money to be up there for the day.
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Goes to this big meeting and finally runs into the guy he wants to.
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Now, this was his whole, everything was out there for it.
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And I immediately went out on the street and bought a pack of cigarettes.
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For, like, $14 of the dollars or $16 of the dollars.
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He goes, I had to wait around for the train, like, eight hours.
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I couldn't even afford the peanuts on the menu.
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He goes, so I waited there for hours just smoking the cigarettes because I was so miserable.
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That story was six, seven years ago, five years ago, six years ago, something like that.
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But he goes, that was one of the darkest moments of my life.
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I mean, being an entrepreneur is definitely a tough journey.
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He's actually got something big coming out in the next couple of months we may end up sharing with you.
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So I am the co-founder chef of Personal Chef To Go.
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And at Personal Chef To Go, we bring back the family dinner hour with fresh, never frozen,
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fully prepared meals that are delivered nationwide.
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So we're kind of an innovator in this market before, you know, when we first started out,
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You know, I've heard of frozen steaks and stuff.
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But we had to, you know, by carefully preparing the food, packaging it, we were able to sort
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of grind it out through recessions, through a lot of different industries.
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And, you know, we're struggling a little bit because the kit meals are getting all the attention,
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But we tend to say, you know, that's great for people that have that lifestyle.
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But we care to a lot of people who are, can't prepare food, seniors, busy professionals.
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Oh, so the difference to yours is yours are more prepared than some of the others where
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They're chef-created meals that are fully cooked.
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They're sealed in a special way so that they provide through an oxygen-free packaging so
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that they maintain their freshness and flavor for 12 days.
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In fact, when Glenn was in town, I prepared some food for him.
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And then he said, hey, you know, let me try some of your meals.
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And I think Tanya, because she's a talk with her hands Italian, Glenn said, she wasn't
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as really thrilled about the pasta dishes, but everything else they loved just because,
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you know, she had to let, you know, she couldn't give up her own pasta.
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Again, any of these, if you want to look up, go to Twitter, look up hashtag Building America
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or follow me at DocThompsonShow and I'll tweet them all out.
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Real quick, a buddy of mine, Chef Patrick, who's on, Patrick Mosier, who's on with us
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regularly during the week, has tried to start and probably 15 years ago tried to start something
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similar and the market wasn't ready for it yet.
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But it looks like you've come into an era where a whole generation of people don't cook.
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It is, but I really appreciate the opportunity because we still are sort of a, you know,
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a small business that's struggling to cut through, you know, a lot of the advertising.
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And, you know, we're two guys that believe in what we do.
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Well, hopefully, hopefully this is going to help you out.
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Doc Thompson in for Glenn on this Black Friday.
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You want to plug your business on this Black Friday?
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Do what we can because we support entrepreneurs and free markets and freedom in this program.
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Line number 10 now, standing by in the Minton State.
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It was started about a year ago with me and my wife.
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I'm the blacksmith, so anything made out of metal, pretty much I can make it.
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The wife, Rita's furniture and makes custom furniture.
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Give me your website before I ask you anything else so we can start getting people on it.
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It's rustic design and blacksmithing at facebook.com.
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So it'd be facebook.com slash rustic design and blacksmithing, right?
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I found the Facebook page and then I'll send out a link to it too so people can find it.
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Yeah, we started the business about a year ago.
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Go to facebook.com slash rustic design and blacksmithing.
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Got to get a break in here and then we're going to come back and right after the top of the hour,
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Just roll these off to help you promote your business.
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You can also look up ones that we've had on using the hashtag building America
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and look up my account on Twitter because I'll retweet them all out at Doc Thompson Show.
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It's kind of become a tradition when I fill in for Glenn on the Friday after Thanksgiving
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because it's Black Friday and kind of a focus on commerce and entrepreneurship that I give
00:37:07.440
So when I've done it, they've never said don't do that again in the future.
00:37:10.000
So until they tell me not to, I'm just going to give away free commercials.
00:37:14.080
We believe in building America by starting businesses.
00:37:17.920
And when I say business, it doesn't necessarily mean for profit.
00:37:23.940
People who dream and then actually do, who try things.
00:37:27.740
There's lots of very successful people in the world who tried all kinds of things and failed.
00:37:33.380
People started business after business and failed.
00:37:36.180
You may not have the idea of starting a business that's going to be your primary focus.
00:37:40.320
Maybe that's just not you, but the future is likely going to be what they call the gig economy.
00:37:50.560
When my father was growing up, you didn't even need to have a high school education.
00:38:01.240
Depending on the factory, you could usually make pretty good money.
00:38:05.140
And then you needed a high school education, then a college education.
00:38:07.860
And now a college education and many people end up with $60,000, $80,000 in debt by the time they start the business world.
00:38:15.480
A job that will start you at maybe, if you're lucky, $40,000 a year with no job security.
00:38:30.360
Throughout history, the future has at times looked very bleak.
00:38:33.540
But when you look back, you go, well, I recognize their fears, but hindsight, I know what really happened.
00:38:41.460
We know automation is going to take over huge portions of our world, many sectors of the economy.
00:38:49.860
Right now, most states, the number one job in most states, the most common job most states is truck driver.
00:38:58.380
That's going to be one of the first things to go.
00:39:04.740
And every company is working on some sort of automated big delivery truck.
00:39:09.440
Oh, that's an industry that's going to get hit pretty hard in the next 10 to 20 years.
00:39:14.640
And trucking, if you're a hustler, you can make some cash.
00:39:26.140
So maybe you have a big career change coming in the future because of this.
00:39:29.420
Or maybe your job is safe, but you need a little extra money.
00:39:32.480
Whatever it is, that entrepreneurial spirit is what's going to see you through.
00:39:36.280
So let's open up the phone lines and just go through as many of these as we can, giving people some free commercials.
00:39:40.960
If you miss any of them, follow me on Twitter at DocThompsonShow and look up the hashtag Building America.
00:39:45.860
Russell, joining us now from Florida, how are you, sir?
00:39:56.460
I went back to school, became an engineer, and now I sell skincare as well as be a real estate agent.
00:40:09.500
Well, we purchased this company, Liberty Health Network, and we had a product called V-Lise.
00:40:14.680
Back then it was called Beau Visage, but we had to get it trademarked and branded.
00:40:20.800
And we started getting pictures from our customers before and after, and we said, we can't use these.
00:40:28.280
And what our product is, it's a facelift without surgery, a non-surgical facelift mask.
00:40:33.060
And I actually tried the product myself and said, you know, this thing works.
00:40:42.340
We've been selling on Amazon for about five years.
00:40:44.400
We've never had a negative company feedback on Amazon, but we have a special offer for the Glenn Beck listeners.
00:40:51.820
If you go to our corporate website, not only will you get the lowest price with the Black Friday pricing,
00:40:57.980
if you put the promo code Beck, B-E-C-K, we're going to give another 50% off on the product.
00:41:04.120
And the company website is vilisee.com, V-I-L-I-S-S-E.com.
00:41:21.160
See, the reason I want to bring that up is because, if you've just heard my monologue,
00:41:24.340
we can't rely on anything anymore as far as a job or business goes, you know?
00:41:30.520
And any business you have may be going gangbusters and at some point could change.
00:41:38.500
The landscape continually changes, and you've got to change with it or we're going to be left behind.
00:42:19.100
We do the articulating gates like at the Cleveland Clinic or maybe the big mansion gates that
00:42:28.860
Been in business for about four and a half years now.
00:42:32.780
You can contact us at www.citywidesolutionsinc.com.
00:42:58.940
I'm going to get some more information from you as well.
00:43:00.620
Pennsylvania, Paul, you're on the Glenn Beck program.
00:43:17.720
The name of the business is Aircraft and Avionics Sales.
00:43:21.180
My son and I started this business nine years ago, and we repair aircraft avionics, which
00:43:28.480
is aviation electronics, and install new avionics in aircraft.
00:43:33.140
And we also are busy doing ADS-B in each aircraft.
00:43:38.040
This is a mandate from the FAA that all aircraft need to have it installed.
00:43:43.500
And we're located in New Cumberland, PA, at Capital City Airport.
00:43:47.260
And we are the only company in the country that repair narco radios.
00:43:59.380
Well, I've been doing it for 50 years, but our business we have now has been nine years.
00:44:03.880
So you've still been around a little while, and it's tough to roll through the changes,
00:44:18.300
Well, and that's part of the reason we focus so much on this, because like I said, in the
00:44:21.400
future, everybody's going to have to have a little bit more of that, because it's not
00:44:27.200
You know, it may be a situation where we're all farmers on some degree again, where you
00:44:31.860
have a little garden to take care of some of that.
00:44:38.360
My website is aircraft, and the word N spelled out, A-N-D.
00:44:48.820
And I just tweeted out a link to it, Paul, in Pennsylvania.
00:44:51.580
It's aircraftandavionics.com, aircraftandavionics.com.
00:44:57.620
Roy, what's happening in the Commonwealth this morning?
00:45:00.500
Hey, I'm here just to give you guys a little update on our Massageville in Florence, Kentucky.
00:45:07.120
We've been in business almost four years and just trying to grow and grow each year, and
00:45:13.140
We do offer them a special discount with anybody retired military, our heroes locally, firemen,
00:45:20.760
We do offer a program, unlike the chains, we do try to reward our customers that are clients,
00:45:26.520
and we offer them a program where they can purchase a small VIP card and get 20% discounts and
00:45:32.360
then actually receive free massages without any monetary or commitment to payments each
00:45:38.080
I think this is one of the businesses, more retail businesses, you know, as opposed to
00:45:45.760
Because I think more and more people are going to get massages, not just for, oh, I feel pretty
00:45:51.400
But as we get older, bodies, you know, getting beaten up over the years, it really helps.
00:46:02.040
They just come in and they just want some time by themselves.
00:46:04.340
They want a chance to just relax and they have some rest and just do away some stress.
00:46:08.580
I know that's something that we're just seeing more and more people that come in just for
00:46:12.080
that benefit of just having some rest and relaxation and stress relief.
00:46:16.660
And then, of course, also health care and health maintenance in business as well.
00:46:20.420
We go out to businesses and do chair massages or tail massages as well.
00:46:23.980
So northern Kentucky or I guess southeast Indiana, southwest Ohio, you're located in
00:46:32.760
Massageville.biz, your ultimate passport to relaxation.
00:46:39.180
And by the way, Roy, if you get a chance, please check out theblaze.com.
00:46:50.840
If anybody sees him walk into massageville.biz.
00:47:03.780
He said I have to go to Kentucky, so I'm not going to Kentucky for a massage.
00:47:32.560
And the story behind it is when I retired from the Army after 24 years in 2010, I saw where
00:47:39.400
the country was going and I kind of didn't like it.
00:47:41.760
So I started the Patriot Institute as a school to inform people about America's founding
00:47:47.940
and our principles and convictions that made America great.
00:47:51.260
And we've grown and we've partnered with Hillsdale College and we've got over 200 classes on there
00:47:58.640
from Hillsdale College and we've got a number of writers and all of our commentary and political
00:48:07.340
And we've launched a clothing line recently called American Patriot Wear and it's on the
00:48:16.640
You're certainly doing the Lord's work here with the Patriot Institute and the fact that
00:48:20.380
you've partnered up with Hillsdale so people know they're getting really quality stuff if
00:48:30.180
And I've since authored a book called Of Faith and Freedom, which talks about our Christian
00:48:35.660
Judeo founding and the principles and what made America great and capitalism and how the
00:48:42.500
And I really believe in this and we have continued to grow and we're always looking for original
00:48:50.580
And we've got 19 columnists right now who write daily in a newsletter and it's fantastic.
00:49:07.220
It's funny when I said the Lord's work, a couple of guys kind of looked at me and it was my monologue
00:49:11.260
at the top of the broadcast that capitalism and freedom go hand in hand.
00:49:16.180
And if you think about the foundations of America, Joe, and I'm sure I can find representations
00:49:25.340
America has left lifted more people out of poverty and oppression than any society that
00:49:32.820
And it's based on those principles of freedom and free markets.
00:49:40.080
We talked about this yesterday with the pilgrims and their experimentation with socialism and
00:49:44.940
its failure and only turning to free market capitalism did they prosper.
00:49:50.300
So I have tweeted out a link to Patriot Institute dot org.
00:49:53.380
If I can help you in the future, you let me know, buddy.
00:49:56.320
It's just our only revenue stream right now is American Patriot wears the T-shirts and
00:50:01.600
coffee cups and products that we have on sale for there.
00:50:04.840
So make sure to pick up the products if you want to help fund it and make sure I get it
00:50:12.740
So if you want to help them out, go there and read the stuff.
00:50:14.680
But if you want to help fund and keep it going, you purchase the hat, the shirt, whatnot.
00:50:26.420
It's great to see the entrepreneurial spirit alive and well in the 21st century.
00:50:32.000
We are picking up that torch and we're holding it high for you, Rich.
00:50:44.860
We take 55 gallon steel drums and recycle them, repurpose them into amazingly comfortable
00:50:57.920
We're available nationwide with our retail partners such as Wayfair, Amazon, Houzz, Hayneedle,
00:51:11.180
You turn drums into furniture and it's really cool looking too.
00:51:20.480
Some of it, Rich, looks almost an Art Deco style, which I love.
00:51:32.620
We use nothing but top grade materials in manufacturing our furniture.
00:51:37.980
We're located here in the furniture capital of the world, High Point, North Carolina.
00:51:54.340
No, we have to be very careful about what we use.
00:51:57.900
We source the drums from an industrial recycling company that recycles steel drums for industrial
00:52:06.620
So when we get them, they're all cleaned and they only had oil in them to begin with.
00:52:19.900
Yeah, imagine you walk into somebody's garage and you see a 55-gallon drum, but it's really
00:52:25.060
well-finished, you know, cleaned up where you can kind of set stuff up on the top.
00:52:28.800
But the front of it opens and they're shelving in there.
00:52:31.940
So you got a little bar to put your supplies and whatever, too.
00:52:44.360
I'm going to send a link of this to Glenn because Glenn loves furniture and creative stuff
00:52:50.140
So who knows, maybe you get a knock on your door someday from him.
00:53:00.000
Back with more on this, the Glenn Beck program.
00:53:41.600
We're giving people some free commercials on this Black Friday.
00:53:44.280
You want to plug your business, give you 60 seconds or so to talk about your business.
00:53:50.320
If you miss anybody and you want to check it out, follow me on Twitter, at Doc Thompson
00:53:54.740
And I'm tweeting out a link to all of the ones we talked to.
00:53:58.980
And Brandon, line number eight, how are you, sir?
00:54:11.040
And I appreciate the opportunity to promote my mom.
00:54:13.420
But there is nobody more deserving than I think, you know, what she's done.
00:54:19.360
And, you know, I got to say, there's nothing better than to teach your kids hard work and
00:54:25.360
She's worked full time, you know, our whole life.
00:54:30.780
And, well, she would come home after a long day and make us all, you know, a home-cooked
00:54:36.400
And, you know, there's just so much that she was, you know, she said throughout the
00:54:43.140
And, you know, and I got to say, it's really raised the bar for me with, you know, with
00:54:46.940
And it's just so important that you work hard and, you know, you set that example for your
00:54:52.820
But anyway, so she's early into retirement and she still works because she can't, you
00:54:58.420
know, she just can't be still and she's got to stay doing something.
00:55:05.060
And, you know, I got to say, I mean, honestly, she's one of the most interesting person that
00:55:11.520
Let me get back to what you're promoting, though, so we don't lose that in the...
00:55:34.140
And she just keeps writing them and she keeps pumping them out.
00:55:36.360
And I keep asking her, well, how are you doing as far as selling them?
00:55:38.680
And she's like, oh, not too well, but it's kind of hard, you know, it's kind of hard to
00:55:43.400
So she's just like, I just keep writing and I just enjoy putting them out there.
00:56:03.480
And at the top of my head, I know my wife's been reading.
00:56:05.860
I don't read, but my wife reads them and she says they're actually really good.
00:56:14.400
And I'm going to tweet out a link to it so they can check out all of the books for themselves.
00:56:18.140
And I'll give you another plug right when we come back, Brandon.
00:57:07.900
I was looking up and I didn't find your mom's stuff.
00:57:19.380
I got him confused with somebody else I saw on our screen.
00:57:22.540
And then second of all, he wasn't as clear where we were going with that.
00:57:25.140
Quite a few Robin Rant's came up in our search.
00:57:27.480
Yeah, it just wasn't clear, but I want to get it out there.
00:57:37.760
Bella, I was confusing our previous guest with yours.
00:57:49.780
Most people hate talking to me, but thank you so much.
00:57:58.700
BorenCastlesauce is literally the best sauce on the planet.
00:58:07.420
We have been in business for nearly 90 years, almost 100.
00:58:12.680
The Boren Castle used to be like America graffiti type place in Greensboro for about 50 years.
00:58:20.240
They had the car hops and the people would cruise.
00:58:37.660
You can cook with it, marinate, dip, season, grill.
00:58:43.620
It's the sauce that made Castle Burgers famous at the Boren Castle.
00:58:47.580
But it was so good, they ended up putting it on everything, like burgers, shrimp, chicken, ribs, just everything.
00:58:54.900
And I see you have the story up at the website as well.
00:59:03.440
And I think a lot of people like to sample stuff like this that is regional, that they're not familiar with,
00:59:10.640
and you'll find something new usually that you like.
00:59:18.540
And also like our Facebook page, BorenCastlesauce, and you'll see all the old pictures with the old cars.
00:59:42.900
Well, I am a health and wellness coach, and I have gotten certified in order to help people who are dieting or are trying to get over that hump.
00:59:56.020
They can't get that last stubborn 10, 15 pounds off, or they are overweight.
01:00:03.340
About three years ago, I was 470 pounds, and since then, I've lost 200.
01:00:10.380
And I want to give back to everyone that has helped me in the past and helped me go through this journey.
01:00:18.140
So I want to give back and help others so that I can make it through and get to their goal.
01:00:52.000
If you're out of the market, I've done Skype, FaceTime sessions via that.
01:01:10.900
You were tipping the scales there a little bit, weren't you?
01:01:15.700
Maybe I had too many of those moonbeam desserts.
01:01:37.560
So my name is Gwen Rich, and I'm the founder of The Rich Solution.
01:01:44.080
So it's a women's handbag collection that connects with the cancer community.
01:01:47.520
And so we raise awareness and money for breast cancer research.
01:01:50.820
And you can find us at GwenMarieCollection.com.
01:01:56.020
So my business started about three years ago with a mission to specifically address education
01:02:03.300
So I'm really excited to tell you that we have grown since then on taking the business
01:02:08.640
So in addition to selling handbags to raise money for cancer research, we are focusing
01:02:13.640
on celebrating living with meaning and my real journey as a teacher.
01:02:18.520
So we are starting an online teaching community called The Rich Solution.
01:02:24.800
And it is a place where people in our own community, as well as the extended community,
01:02:29.380
we will be building can come and learn from our journey.
01:02:36.880
And this month is really exciting because I have reached a major milestone with my health.
01:02:41.780
And so I just celebrated my five-year anniversary of my diagnosis.
01:02:46.000
And this is really significant because less than one out of four women with an incurable
01:02:51.440
breast cancer diagnosis makes it to this five-year milestone.
01:03:03.040
So also I want to tell you that we are, um, our first, first book is being released in
01:03:10.620
And it is to help people thrive in all areas of their life.
01:03:13.960
No, no matter how hard their struggle, because what I know to be true, doc, is that there
01:03:23.660
Yeah, there, there are, there are, it's pretty awful, but, uh, but yeah, so it's the Gwen
01:03:36.680
So the handbags, um, I launched three years ago after I was diagnosed with my cancer and,
01:03:43.520
uh, it starts with five handbags that are named specifically after cancer survivors that
01:03:50.340
And since then we've gotten to a total of 10 handbags, which they all raise money for breast
01:04:00.360
A lot of women feel very alone, um, once they've been diagnosed.
01:04:04.280
So this is definitely a way to feel that connectivity and, um, a sense of belonging.
01:04:11.600
And, uh, so the book and that are coming out, but is that at a different website or will
01:04:18.600
Um, it will be a different website, but I know once it starts next month, it's all going
01:04:23.860
So just for right now, it'll be the Gwen Marie collection.
01:04:26.780
Uh, when it, when we launch a next month, it'll be the rich solution.com.
01:04:33.100
So people will be able to find it in the future then too, right?
01:04:55.340
And that's part of the reason I tell you, if you follow me on Twitter at doc Thompson show,
01:04:59.040
you'll be able to go back, uh, look through the hashtag building America or after back
01:05:04.040
through everything I've tweeted out and see everybody who called it.
01:05:09.380
Now line number four, Greg, welcome to the program.
01:05:18.700
Uh, we are the taught to walk, uh, innovative baby walking aid taught to walk.com.
01:05:30.220
So taught to walk.com, an innovative baby walking aid.
01:05:39.200
We're bent over at the hip, holding our little one's hands while they learned to take those
01:05:43.560
first steps, uh, hours, weeks, and sometimes months of being bent over, straining our backs.
01:05:50.300
Well, no longer introducing the taught to walk taught to walk is the first baby.
01:05:54.820
walking aid on the market that doesn't have a harness or a strap, a very sleek design,
01:06:02.200
Uh, taught to walk is designed to allow the caretaker to steady the toddler while standing
01:06:08.960
No more bending over at the hip child simply grabs the taught to walk by its carefully
01:06:14.000
designed handles and initiates the learning process.
01:06:19.520
I'm, I'm at the website right now and it's one of those people have to go to see it, to
01:06:24.760
Once you go there and Cal, Cal's got a little one, um, he's got a couple, one we'll be learning
01:06:32.140
This one, this, I think the best way to describe it is kind of like a little handlebar for your
01:06:36.760
kids where, uh, there's two little handles when they hold on and then one handle for you
01:06:41.080
And instead of having to strain over, you just hold it there and they hold on and you
01:06:44.860
know, you, you kind of drag them along, teach them to walk.
01:06:49.380
My wife had suffered from a bad back of Vanessa and my daughter, Stella.
01:06:55.060
She just was stubborn, didn't learn the old fashioned way, didn't push carts or any of
01:07:00.840
the, the normal things you see with toddlers learning.
01:07:04.380
And one day she just picked up a toy that was in a similar shape.
01:07:08.120
And all of a sudden my wife's walking comfortably around the house and Stella's in tow, just
01:07:14.580
Just like if you go to our website, you'll see, uh, videos and, and, uh, we're on Facebook.
01:07:19.420
We're on Amazon keyword taught to walk and taught to walk.com.
01:07:30.400
Check us out at Whaley's pharmacy in Jefferson city, Missouri, uh, all over the United States.
01:07:35.820
So interesting, this is, it's really cool that you've, uh, you develop something new too.
01:07:40.140
I mean, you know, a lot of businesses, um, sell other stuff, whatever there, but this
01:07:47.240
Um, did you, did, did you have to get this patented?
01:07:50.280
We're, we have patent pending and we have a, uh, trademark, the name obviously.
01:07:56.480
And yeah, that process of working in the baby industry is, uh, just, just for your listeners
01:08:07.520
There's a lot of, uh, difficult things to navigate through, especially the safety testing of which
01:08:12.940
we're all, you know, tested and, uh, it's absolutely persistent.
01:08:18.880
And it's things like this, these little opportunities that you have to seize and take advantage of.
01:08:29.540
Well, Greg, have you tried something like shark tank?
01:08:31.680
You know, like you get in front of those investor guys and try to get some, uh, yes, we were
01:08:36.080
finalists on, uh, or semi-finalists for shark tank season nine last year.
01:08:43.780
So, you know, we're wanting to get out there, get our name taught to walk.com.
01:08:48.120
Um, so that way people can take a look and, and this is a really helpful tool and it's
01:08:54.000
You're going to, you're going to be shocked at the response you get from this program,
01:08:57.020
Greg, it's going to do well for you, but thank you so much.
01:09:03.400
Go there, check it out because if you, uh, you really got to see it to, to understand it.
01:09:09.000
And I think it's going to help a lot of people.
01:09:14.140
I know you guys give us an address and we see a couple in the mail.
01:09:18.180
I know you've got a little one on the way, so good luck.
01:09:31.200
Back in a minute with more on the Glenn Beck program.
01:10:09.740
Back to the phones we go, getting people an opportunity to promote their business in Ohio.
01:10:20.220
Uh, my business is keepsake solution solutions.
01:10:23.600
We help people, uh, relive their memories of people that have recorded stuff throughout time.
01:10:29.400
Uh, slides, negatives, photos, old eight millimeter film.
01:10:41.520
My wife even has, you know, boxes of stuff that we don't know what to do with.
01:10:47.860
And with, uh, technology changing as fast as it is, uh, you know, most people don't have
01:10:56.000
Uh, the old eight millimeter film, when's the last time you've seen one of those projectors?
01:11:00.560
So do they set, they contact you and then send them to you and you digitize them?
01:11:07.040
We put everything on DVD and then we also put everything on hard drive, flash drives
01:11:11.100
as a MP4 file that they can play in their computers or Apple TVs or whatever they want and give
01:11:21.000
So then they can go back and get, uh, more copies that they want to at some point.
01:11:26.760
And that it's the most economical way to do it because you don't have to buy DVDs or anything
01:11:32.800
You're just going to make a copy of it and give it to a family member.
01:11:43.700
You would not believe how much of that we do on cassette tape.
01:11:56.940
In Pennsylvania now, Ken, uh, welcome to the program.
01:12:08.360
Ken's Lawn and Stump, uh, specialized mainly in, uh, taking out tree stumps.
01:12:13.680
And, uh, this year started taking down small trees as well.
01:12:27.980
It's, uh, facebook.com slash Ken's Lawn and Stump.
01:12:32.840
I'm going to make sure I go there and then I'll, uh, tweet that out.
01:12:37.640
Uh, we're out of Lebanon, Pennsylvania, but, uh, I go all over where the money takes me.
01:12:49.320
Ken's Lawn and Stump, uh, we'll, uh, tweet that out.
01:12:53.700
If you find it and you're, uh, in need of such services, contact Ken.
01:13:04.280
You can see I'm tweeting out a link to it or look up hashtag building America.
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If you don't get your business on today, tweet it out with the hashtag building America.
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It's Doc Thompson in for Glenn Beck and it's black Friday.
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So we decided to just open up the phone lines as we've done in years past and just give people
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free commercials because we believe in capitalism and freedom and free markets.
01:13:46.420
We believe in that entrepreneurial spirit that helped drive America.
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Before we get back to the phone lines, 888-727-BECK and to some more businesses.
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Got to take a moment and update some of the things happening and going ons in the, in the
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Not a lot going on, pretty much a lot of the same stuff.
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But one item of note that I got to mention and stress, not only how awful it is, but
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This morning in Egypt, a gunman broke into a mosque and shot the place up.
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I don't know if it was a single gunman or if it was, uh...
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Um, and Cal's regularly heard on my morning broadcast on the Blaze Radio Network.
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Give me an idea of, um, what's going on in Egypt right now with...
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Yeah, there's a really, uh, um, in the Sinai, in northern Egypt, there's, um, uh, an Islamic
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Yeah, and they've been, they've been set up over there and, and he's been running a pretty
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Uh, the military's involved and they're just rooting them out and just getting rid of them.
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And I think this is probably in retaliation to that because they've been, they've been
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coming down pretty hard and just kind of, uh, the, the military goes in and just wipes
01:15:13.740
So 235, how many people were killed recently at the church in Texas?
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Uh, it was about 48, 48 is Martin's telling me.
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Uh, the gunman had set up an ambush locations, open fire on ambulance.
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Now, a lot of Christians are going to hear that and go, oh, they wouldn't wish bad on
01:15:43.800
Certainly a lot of American Christians, um, may have a certain sense of, well, it's over
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And although you may not, um, identify with their religion, that's fine.
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You have a right to worship and should worship the way you see, you know, the way you
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And most of the people in the middle East are not terrorists.
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I don't mean in a whole debate about the Quran, but just to say, these are human beings who
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suffered similarly to the way the, the Christians were killed at the church in Texas recently.
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These are people that they're most vulnerable on a holy day because Friday is the same as,
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It's the, the end of the week gathering for prayer.
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So you're at your most vulnerable worshiping and people bust in and shoot the place up.
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It's, it's a horrible, I mean, cowardly thing to do.
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Well, first of all, hearts and prayers go out to the people in Egypt.
01:17:06.140
Um, you know, you got Columbine and you got Sammy hook.
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My brother and I, we said, we got to do something about it.
01:17:17.460
We've been working on it for probably five years now, where it's a key fob.
01:17:23.820
Let's say, example, teachers in a classroom, something goes on, there's a threat.
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Everybody in this school can be notified through text, through email, that there's a problem.
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And then they can take a, uh, the correct course of action.
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So we can probably, we can't stop all threats, but maybe we can stop a few less body bags and more people, more family walking out safe.
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I'm going to go ahead and tweet out a link again.
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We, we started working with a company out of California called Iantra and they kept telling us, no, we can't do it.
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And we started getting, we started working and said, well, maybe it can work.
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And we, we really got it within the last two, three months.
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We can, for, um, real estate people that go on, on showings by themselves.
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I'm going to tweet out a link to it, but I want to put you on hold one second.
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DM is somebody who has appeared on my program in the morning blaze.
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When you were just starting off your, uh, coffee company and, uh, I love it.
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It's the official coffee of the morning blaze, but give me a quick rundown of how you started.
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Regale us with the story of how you decided to start brewing coffee.
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Well, several years ago, almost 10 years ago, I was brewing coffee for myself.
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I was roasting it out of little, uh, air pop, popcorn poppers.
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And it was just kind of a hobby, something for fun, able to get good coffee for a cheap price.
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And just over five years ago, I lost my job and had spent a few months unemployed.
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I mean, we were, we were doing okay financially, but things were starting to get a little tight,
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but we're trying to maintain a normal lifestyle.
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We were out west in South Dakota and, uh, our transmission went out on our excursion.
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And all of a sudden reality hit that I needed to do something for myself right now.
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And that's, that was our solution was roasting coffee and trying to figure out how we could make it
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turn it from a hobby into something a lot bigger.
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And you have a special right now, a Christmas special.
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For, for black Friday and 12 business Saturday, we're doing a couple of different things.
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If you buy two pounds of coffee, we'll give a free bag of the Calvin Coolidge as well
01:20:24.240
And you have to, they actually named one after me, uh, the doc Thompson bacon blast, which
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I just thought it was a, like a banana leaf or plantain or something like that.
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And, um, if you miss any of these, just go to bill, uh, look up the hashtag building
01:21:15.460
So I personally hand make pocket squares for men's suits in my home studio here in small
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I have 81 solid colors and 165 prints to choose from.
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So pretty much find something that suits every man.
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And some bow ties, a few bow ties thrown in there.
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Oh, Hey, well, so, uh, my life got a little tricky and found myself to be a single mom.
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And, and so I'm just trying to do my best to provide what my kids need.
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So many people, you know, are forced because of bad moments in their life or negative things
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And you're like, I got to come up with some way to take care of the family, right?
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Well, and I come from a really long line of, you know, creative and artistic people that
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do, that did handwork, you know, my grandma, my mom all the way along.
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So, you know, I've got, I've got the skills that I need to do it.
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Uh, bow ties, you got the pocket squares, you got a whole collection up here too.
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And if you notice there, I've got a, I've got some PDF sewing patterns that are, they're
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I've gone and taken some classes so that I can design those patterns for home sewists so
01:22:37.460
Well, hopefully we are going to get you some business here to help your business grow.
01:22:40.840
Get some eyes on your website, narrativeatlas.com, right?
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I'm going to tweet out a link to it, um, include a little picture of that, but hopefully people
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will go there and help you out and help grow your business, Karen.
01:22:58.700
It's bow ties, pocket squares, a lot of different cool designs.
01:23:02.760
All right, let me go to another Utah, Utah in line number five, Jared.
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So, uh, it's dirt to dream.com and you know, when my wife and I got married 11 years ago,
01:23:21.320
we set a goal to build a home together and it's taken a decade of a lot of hard work.
01:23:27.380
Um, and, uh, we actually recently purchased a dirt lot and we're in the process of building
01:23:32.840
And even though I own a software company for about eight years, we're doing exactly what
01:23:39.560
And we decided, Hey, let's document this entire process to help others to, you know,
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inspire them to dream big and pursue their dreams.
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And, uh, so we're just, uh, putting it all out on YouTube, our personal lives with our
01:23:52.200
five kids, their ages, nine, eight, six, four, and two.
01:23:55.000
So everything about the build process and we homeschool and, you know, running my own
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We just kind of share it all to hopefully, you know, share some light and uplift others
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and have some positive entertainment out there.
01:24:06.300
At first glance, I'm not sure how water skiing, uh, is building a house.
01:24:11.720
Uh, that sounds like a house that I need to build.
01:24:17.040
I'm so glad you mentioned that as part of the dream, one of our favorite places to be
01:24:22.800
And the, the, the, the lot that we were able to secure is about three minutes from a lake.
01:24:26.960
And so that was a big part of the dream was how can we do more of the things we love?
01:24:32.300
And I see you do have the YouTube video up there.
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So if they go to dirt to dream.com, does it tell you the story?
01:24:40.940
So that the very next video, you probably saw the intro.
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Site being built to right now, the domain will redirect you to YouTube and you can also just
01:25:10.680
My business is a film called Abby's List, a documentary.
01:25:15.500
About a year ago, my dog, Abby, a 16 year old with it, 15 at the time, was really going
01:25:21.940
We decided to pack up everything and travel the country doing her bucket list and decided
01:25:29.060
to shoot some video for friends and to post online.
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And we had such an enormous response that her bucket list has turned into a film.
01:25:43.920
And that little film is now turning into a big film.
01:25:47.540
Now, you've had an amazing run on just the videos while you were making it, right?
01:25:53.300
Four and a half million views in the last three months.
01:26:03.680
So she could pee on one of the tallest trees in the world, which was pretty remarkable.
01:26:13.780
We went to Vegas so she could do room service in a high roller suite overlooking the lights
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Please tell me she was like Rain Man and helping you count cards.
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But the coolest thing about it is we did something for the right reasons.
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And now that little film has become a big film.
01:26:58.360
We're hoping to finish at the White House with a meet and greet with the president or the
01:27:04.560
Now, real quick, Chris Cruz told me that you have a request about the president, right?
01:27:10.340
You're trying to get in touch with the president to see if you can finish up your film there.
01:27:17.740
I know usually it's difficult teaching an old dog new tricks.
01:27:21.220
But I've just recently, at 16, I've just recently taught her to shake.
01:27:26.360
And I figure, what would be better than having her shake the hand of the most powerful person
01:27:36.680
If anybody has, that's the one thing that we haven't been able to put together yet.
01:27:42.260
You know, this is a very busy White House, and we haven't been able to get the attention
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So if anyone has connections and can connect us to the White House, we'll be driving up
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And maybe they can share the link with the president or anybody else connected with the
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Even if you can't help us reach the White House, great.
01:28:29.560
It's heartwarming, but it's also, you know, tongue-in-cheek and fun.
01:28:34.380
And we're just, you know, we're blessed to be a part of it and blessed that people are
01:28:42.560
You know, and if that's not a commercial for the American dream, I don't know what is.
01:28:52.440
Back in a minute with more as we give people some free commercials on this Black Friday on
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I'm a little embarrassed just in post-production.
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My business is helping people learn how to print T-shirts,
01:30:19.060
start their own business at home, printing T-shirts.
01:30:26.480
I've probably started thousands of people in the business.
01:30:30.700
And I invented a new type of silkscreen printer that you can print multiple colors.
01:30:57.440
But I do, I have a lot of videos on how to build different stuff that you need for silkscreening
01:31:08.440
and how to build your own silkscreen shop at home.
01:31:12.020
I'm on the site right now, and I see your mug right there and a couple of videos.
01:31:21.000
Yeah, I have over 2 million views on YouTube and over 10,000 subscribers.
01:31:27.300
And, you know, people call me, even if they don't buy equipment from me, I help them.
01:31:38.080
Yeah, and I really enjoy helping people in business.
01:31:43.440
And, you know, I really appreciate you doing this.
01:32:15.120
Well, I was in the Air Force during Desert Storm.
01:32:23.700
And we would make tags for the road kits on a dog tag machine.
01:32:27.900
I thought, well, you know, if a guy had one of these on the outside,
01:32:32.540
he could make some money on the side just making tags for people.
01:32:39.740
I'm looking at it now, and they're reasonably priced and make a good gift for people.
01:32:55.200
And thank you so much for joining us today in the Glenn Beck program.
01:33:42.780
We go get as many people as we can, giving them some free airtime, free commercials
01:34:01.760
And the most popular doll we have selling, I'm happy to say, is a Jesus doll.
01:34:14.220
We've been doing this for, well, since our children were born and our son is 34.
01:34:27.580
Before we had kids, we kept our nieces and nephews over and we told them stories.
01:34:34.560
And we, at one time, had a big contract with a plush company that was making our dolls.
01:34:43.500
And then we stopped, we homeschooled, we took care of our aging parents.
01:34:49.480
And then a few years ago, we decided to get back into it and started just a website with
01:34:58.000
thought we could, you know, try to sell it that way directly.
01:35:14.700
And it's, we, all the dolls that we make, we do in prayer for the people that we make them for.
01:35:34.400
So you even do some custom dolls as well for weddings or different things, right?
01:35:40.480
We just got an order for a doll that a couple recently lost their daughter and they wanted
01:35:51.060
So we take faces, photographs, and we try to match the, the personality and the look of
01:36:02.340
I just tweeted out a link to halotoys.com and I wish you the best.
01:36:20.240
My business is called Auto Import Specialist and I just recently purchased it and we specialize
01:36:27.700
in German and Asian used car sales and service here in Northern Indiana.
01:36:45.380
That's our website and then we also have a Facebook page at Facebook.com slash Auto Import
01:36:52.020
So, you have an interesting story in the fact that you bought it, which a lot of people
01:36:56.620
that have called today have started businesses.
01:36:58.280
So, you bought one that already at least somewhat existed?
01:37:02.600
I had been in the car business for almost 25 years now in this area and got an opportunity
01:37:09.060
to purchase this business who had actually been in business for about 16 years and I
01:37:14.840
knew the gentleman and was able to purchase it and so we have a team of five guys working
01:37:19.540
here with over 70 years of experience between the five of us added together.
01:37:25.460
That's nice that you got to that point where you said, okay, I can pull the trigger and
01:37:32.100
It's an adventure, but it's been a very exciting adventure.
01:37:35.080
Well, hopefully people will visit you in South Bend, Indiana.
01:37:38.580
You're on State Road, it looks like, Auto Import Specialists.
01:37:42.200
It's AISAutoCare.com and I'll tweet out a link to it, Mark.
01:37:54.220
Joey in Louisiana, thank you so much for calling the Glenn Beck Program.
01:38:05.720
That's the reason we're trying to help people out here.
01:38:21.860
Unfortunately, being new, it's hard to get some recognition.
01:38:30.680
The book examines how the fulfillment of biblical prophecy relates to human history by challenging
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conventional Christian ideology with fresh, innovative, alternative considerations.
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The book throws a few unexpected curveballs while it maintains perfect harmony with the scriptural message.
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It's written in a friendly narrative style that's easily understood by the average reader.
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It offers believers much to consider and presents a wealth of information for the serious Bible student.
01:39:09.460
I'm not sure if it's still up, but it would be at www.outskirtspress.com slash dawnofreason.
01:39:23.480
The book is also available, and more information can be found, a review and some other information at amazon.com.
01:39:34.700
Yeah, let me make sure I have your name so we can find it.
01:39:37.340
It's Dawn of Reason, and then what's your name, your author name, your pen name?
01:39:53.640
I think finding it, I found it at Barnes & Noble and Amazon.
01:39:57.040
I'm going to go ahead and tweet out one of those links, because I think that's probably the easiest for people to find.
01:40:04.460
Yeah, if they do Dawn of Reason and then letter J, Anthony Boves, B-O-V-E, they're going to find it.
01:40:11.760
But I wish you the best of luck, and hopefully people will check this out.
01:40:27.240
It's Dawn of Reason, a triple feature recognizing fulfillment of prophecy and harmony with human history.
01:40:41.220
What we do is we do custom Lego minifigures and parts.
01:40:53.260
So we buy Lego on the aftermarket, but it's brand new Lego.
01:40:56.680
We erase it, and then I print my own designs on them.
01:40:59.160
And we focus on, like, pop culture movies, video games.
01:41:04.200
Our top seller right now is Jesus Christ minifigure.
01:41:16.860
And graphics is spelled G-R-A-F as in Frank, X as in X-Ray.com.
01:41:28.480
Okay, and let me go ahead and tweet out a link to that as well.
01:41:34.660
Well, about seven years ago, my wife and I went on the honeymoon.
01:41:39.120
I rediscovered my love for Lego back then with my son.
01:41:42.820
And I started doing some research trying to find some Lego online use for him
01:41:47.740
because he was only about seven years old, and I didn't want to spend a whole lot on it.
01:41:52.940
And I discovered other people doing custom Lego minifigures.
01:41:57.080
But the issue with their stuff was it was very fragile.
01:42:02.220
So you would collect the novelty items just to display it.
01:42:04.620
And I couldn't spend $65 on a figure for my son just to watch it, you know, on a shelf.
01:42:10.140
And as a graphic designer, I thought, well, I can learn how to do this, do it better,
01:42:14.140
and make sure that our quality and durability is a lot better so that the kids can actually play with it.
01:42:18.940
And since then, we've actually helped drive the market price down on these items
01:42:24.380
where it's more competitive and people can actually get their hands on it.
01:42:43.600
So it's basically little Legos, and he really does a good job.
01:42:47.440
Of course, Kyle clicked on the horror movie one.
01:43:01.320
We also have a – I decided to create a coupon code for your listeners today.
01:43:22.580
And I'll tweet out a link to that, Victor, okay?
01:43:32.860
And my oldest son, you know, every once in a while when he needs money, he'll come down
01:43:45.400
Promo code Blaze, B-L-A-Z-E, and then the number 20.
01:43:53.280
We'll come back and get some more calls as we give people some free publicity.
01:43:56.580
on this Black Friday in the Glenn Beck program.
01:44:02.240
giving people some free commercials on Black Friday.
01:44:48.460
I think it's a nonprofit group, but I'll tweet out a link to it anyways.
01:45:12.640
As soon as there's some sort of phone issue all of a sudden.
01:45:39.280
All right, put Brent back on hold, and we'll get through.
01:45:41.460
All right, in the meantime, let me tell you, if you haven't had an opportunity, please go to Twitter and follow at DocThompsonShow.
01:45:49.740
All of the people we've had on today have retweeted or tweeted about them, tweeted a link to their company.
01:45:54.580
Also, with the hashtag Building America, if you can click on Building America, you'll also get an opportunity to just go through and cipher and decipher everything that everybody else has tweeted out.
01:46:05.140
If for some reason you get on the phones or our phones have died like they obviously had while we're trying to get them back up,
01:46:10.780
you can also use Building America and tweet it out, and hopefully everybody else will see that and check out the products and services offered there.
01:46:20.760
In the meantime, if you would like to be on one of our Building America segments for our morning broadcast, you can tweet BuildingAmericaAtTheBlaze.com.
01:46:35.700
We'll have somebody go through, monitor it, go through all the emails.
01:46:38.140
It may take a while, likely we're going to get quite a few.
01:46:40.620
But we'll have you on at some point on our morning broadcast and feature you and give you a little bit more time even.
01:46:46.880
We do it a couple times a week, at least once a week, and we just have people on for 10 minutes or so to talk about their business.
01:46:54.380
It's helping people promote their business at a time when it's so difficult to do because we believe in capitalism and entrepreneurship.
01:47:05.700
And you get to hear about some great products and services.
01:47:10.240
Products and services, inspiring people, and also helping promote.
01:47:15.220
We know that if we're going to change things, we have to do it ourselves.
01:47:22.560
If we are going to change the direction that America has been heading and all the things that we are so frustrated about on a daily basis, we're going to have to roll up our sleeves and do it ourselves.
01:47:32.600
And a lot of people have worked for years trying to get some of those people kicked out, some change there.
01:47:38.620
But as it stands, it's going to have to be done elsewhere as well.
01:47:43.620
So we're going to have to build up our resources, our supplies, our businesses individually, and we do that by helping each other as well.
01:47:55.420
If for some reason we don't, please email us because I don't think we're likely going to have time to get to the last couple that we're waiting.
01:48:05.000
Just put something bold in the heading, and we have a list of a couple of people that we wanted up there.
01:48:10.340
I tweeted out a couple of them, even though we didn't get to them, and we'll make sure to help promote.
01:48:15.420
It was just one of those weird tech things right at the end that it died.
01:48:22.700
I also tweeted out a link to another business that I'd like to share.
01:48:47.020
I'm just going to say it's out there somewhere.
01:48:50.480
I don't know because I feel bad that other people didn't get through, so I'm just going to go ahead and make sure it's out there.
01:48:56.580
No, because your wife bought, my wife made, so there's a little different there.
01:49:03.900
No, at some point, we'll end up talking about it on our radio broadcast in the morning.
01:49:08.380
At some point, you've got to put your money where your mouth is, right?
01:49:12.840
It's definitely, I do some of my own entrepreneurial stuff on the side, try to make some extra money.
01:49:22.260
And it's that time where you really got to try.
01:49:26.620
And by the way, did you see we were talking about Bitcoin yesterday?
01:49:33.300
Ethereum, one of the other three big ones, E-T-H-E-R-E-U-M, is at $460.
01:49:46.000
All right, join us Monday morning on the Blaze Radio Network, theblazeradio.com.
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Have yourself a great weekend, and enjoy yourself.