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The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show

Richard Casper: The Secret Weapons of Music and Art (Pt 1)

The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show

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Politics, News, Society & Culture, News Commentary, Daily News

4.511.4K Ratings

🗓️ 9 April 2024

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Richard is a Marine veteran who was subject to 4 IED explosions and concussions in Iraq, his best friend being killed next to him, a traumatic brain injury, and post traumatic stress. He came home dealing with a lot and the arts ultimately saved his life. Richard felt called to bring this secret weapon of healing to his fellow veterans and this year alone his nonprofit CreatiVets will serve over 800 veterans!

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0:00.0

I only told was able to tell my story through song because I met a guy at a bar who's doing a

0:06.6

writer's round and he has nine number one hits I think he wrote Alan Jackson's first

0:11.0

number one here in the free world.

0:14.0

And I said, hey, I've been trying to tell my story

0:17.2

through song for a year, and I just can't write,

0:19.7

I can't put Luke on a pedestal he needs to be on. If I come to you in Nashville just drive down there

0:24.8

will you sit with me and help me tell my story? Because there's got to be easier way to do this than

0:28.4

me trying on my own. You obviously doing this for a living. And he said, yeah, to me and nobody from Chicago just like okay

0:35.0

and I didn't know how big of a deal that actually was two months later I come down

0:39.2

there and we write a song and a half in like three hours so the first hour and a half we write a song and a half in like three hours.

0:43.0

So the first hour and a half we had a song and I'm sitting here

0:46.0

I've been trying this for a whole year and you took my words and put it in a

0:50.0

song an hour and a half.

0:51.0

This is insane. So now that experience on top of me

0:55.6

graduating and being like I'm almost back to normal was like how do I now just

1:00.6

bring veterans to Nashville to tell their story because it

1:04.0

absolutely saved my life.

1:07.0

Welcome to an army of normal folks. I'm Bill Courtney. I'm a normal guy. I'm a husband, a father, an entrepreneur, and I've been a

1:16.5

football coach in inner city Memphis and the last part. Somehow it led to an

1:21.5

Oscar for the film about our team. It's called Undefeded.

1:26.0

I believe our country's problems will never be solved by a bunch of fancy people in nice suits talking big words that nobody ever uses on CNN and Fox, but rather

1:36.1

an army of normal folks, us, just you and me deciding, hey, maybe I can help. That's what Richard Casper, the voice we just heard, is done.

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