BEHAVIOR AND AGAIN IM NOT HERE TO HAVE ANY KIND OF TX POLI LIKE THAT. BUT IF YOU DONT WANT IT TO GROW, TAX IT AND YOULL RUN IT OFF. I THINK KENTUCKYS DONE A BETTER JOB IN RECENT YEARS TRYING TO ATTRACT BUSINESS, THE LEGISLATURE AND GOVERNOR FLETCHER AND GOVERNOR BESHEAR HAVE TRIED TO ENCOURAGE BUSINESS. >> YOU KNOW, THEYRE SO MANY THINGS THAT COMPETING FOR ATTENTION TODAY. >> YEAH. ABSOLUTELY, BILL. AND I DONT UNDERSTAND I READ COACH CALIPARI TTTERS AND THIS COACH TWITTERS AND I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT IT IS. BUT I WILL TELL YOU THAT ALL OF THAT SAID THE TECHNOLOGY GROWING UP, I NEVER DREAMED THAT PEOPLE LIKE ME WOULD BE ABLE T WOULD BE ABLE O DO THE THINGS THAT I DO. YOU REMEMBER IN OUR DAYS IF YOU HAD TO MAKE A PHONE CALL, YOU WERE DRIVING IN THE CAR, YOU DROVE OFF THE SIDE OFHE ROAD, PUT A QUARTER IN THE PAY PHONE SOME PEOPLE WONT UNDERSTAND THIS, WATCHING THIS. >> IF YOU CAN FIND ONE. >> YEAH, YOURE READY TO STEAL ONE BUT AT THE SAME TIME TODAY THE WORLD IS SO DIFFERENT, EVERYTHINGS MUCH FASTER. BUT IT ALSO ENABLES US AS REGULAR ORDINARY PEOPLE OUT THERE IT ENABLES US TO PARTICIPATE IN THAT, WITH THAT, AND WITH THE GROWTH OF THE ECONOMY IN THOSE AREAS. SO WHEN THEYRE SETBACKS ALONG THE WAYR FOR OTHERS, YOU SEEM TO HAVE THE THEORY THAT THINGS COME ALONG FOR A REASON AND OFTEN IT REPRESENTS AN OPPORTUNITY TO REPRIORITIZE YOUR LIFE. THOSE DEALING WILLNESS OR A JOHN LOSS OR TOUGH ISSUES. FOR THEM IT CAN BE VERY DIFFICULT TO SEE THAT. HOW DO YOUURGE PEOPLE TO SEE BRIGHTNESS IN A TOUGH SOMETIME IN. >> WELL, BILL, IM NOT HERE TO PREACH BUT I BELIEVE FIRST PETER 412 ITS ON MY LIST EVERY DAY DO NOT THINK ITS A STRANGE OCURRENCE WHEN YOU GO THROUGH FIRERY TRIALS. THEYRE PLACED THERE TRAGEDY STRATEGICALLY IN YOUR LIFE FOR A REASON. I BELIEVE THAT WITH ALL MY HEART. I BELIEVE WE GO THROUGH FIRERY TRIALS AND TYPICALLY I THINK LIFE IS FULL OF POP QUIZZES. WE PASS THE POP QUIZ, GET TO GRADUATE. THAT DOESNT MEAN WERE THREW WITH POP QUIZZES THE REST OF OUR LIVES BUT MEANS WE GET TO TAKE ANOTHER POP QUIZ ON THE SUBJECT. AND THOSE POP QUIZ KEEP COMING. I JUST WANT TO KEP AS BEST I CAN WITH THE GOOD LORDS HELP, I WANT TO KEEP PASSES THE POP QUIZ SET IN FRONT OF IT. THE PROBLEM, BILL, IS YOURE SETTING IN HISTORY CLASS AND SOMEBODY PRESENTS WITH YOU A MATH POP QUIZ. THEYRE NEVER ON THE SUBJECT YOU THINK THEYLL BE ON. WEVE HEARD THE STORIES AND, YOU KNOW, I WAS MARRIED FOR 20 YEARS. I HAD NO IDEA THAT THIS WAS WRONG IN MY MARIAGE, AND BOOM, COME HOME ONE DAY AND MY WIFE TEELS ME OR MY HUSBAND THINGS WERE GOING WELL AND I FOUND OUT SOMEBODY IN MY PLACE OF EMPLOYMENT WAS TAKING MONEY FROM ME. POP QUIZZES COUNSEL, AND THEY COME UP IN DIFFERENT WAYS. BUT HOW WE DO IS HOW WELL DO IN LIFE, HONESTLY. >> YOU TALK ABOUT YOOR OWN BATTLE WITH CHANCE CAME IN THE MID40s. DIFFICULT TIME? YOU GOT THROUGH. >> ABSOLUTELY. I GOT THROUGH WITH THE GOOD LORDS HELP. A LOT F PEOPLE PRAYING FOR ME. AND I GOT THROUGH THAT, BUT I THINK IF I HAD SUCCUMB TO THAT IT WOULDNT HAVE MEANT ANY LES. I READ ONE TIME IM FOR MORE INTERESTED IN THE DONATION OF MY LIFE THAN THE DURATION OF MY LIFE. I52 YEARS OLD TODAY, IF I DIED YESTERDAY IVE DONE MORE THAN I HAD A RIGHT TO EVER EXPECT TO DO. BUT, YES, SIR, WITH THE HELP OF A LOT OF OF FOLKS, INCLUDING SOME GREAT DOCTORS AND ALSO A LOT OF PRAYER, I CAME THROUGH THAT. I DONT TAKE ANY TYPES OF MEDICATIONS. NOT ON ANY TREATMENTS. I CAME COMPLETELY THROUGH THAT. >> DO YOU THINK KENTUCKIANS SORT OF HAVE A WAY WORDS AND DO YOU APPRECIATE PULLING SOME OF THE WORDS THAT HAVE BEEN SAID BY FAMOUS PEOPLE AND MAKING THEM APPLY TODAY? >> KENTUCKYS SUCH A UNIQUE PLACE, AND ITS HOME TO ME AND HOME TO YOU AND HOME TO SO MANY PEOPLE. BUT KENTUCKY WERE MADE FUN OF WHEN WE TRAVEL. WHEN I GO TO CAFORNIA, ILL HAVE PEOPLE SAY TO ME, BILL, THEYLL SAY, JUST SAY SOMETHING. JUST TALK. WE JUST WANT TO HEAR YOU TALK. AND THEY ALL STAND AROUND LIKE WERE PETS OR SOMETHING. THEY THINK MOST OF US DONT WEAR SHOES. WEVE GOT THIS REPUTATION THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY BUT I THINK KENTUCKY PEOPLE, I THINK CUTTING RIGHT THROUGH ALL THE BIG WORDS SOMETIME AND GETTING TRITE IT IS KIND OF WHAT NTUCKY PEOPLE EXPECT. AND CERTAINLY THE WAA I HAVE TO TALK BECAUSE I DONT HAVE A BIG VOCABULARY. >> PEOPLE JUST ASK YOU TO TALK WHEN YOURE TRAVELING. >> A LOT OF FINANCIAL ADVICE IN THESE TOUGH TIMES, THE RADIO, PFIZER DAVE RAMSEY TELLS A LOT OF PEOPLE TO LIVE BELOW YOUR MEANS AND YOU IIDICATE THAT THATS SOMETHING THAT YOU EMBRACE. >> ABSOLUTELY. BUT IF YOU DT SAVE SOME YOUR MONEY, YOURE NO BETTER THAN THE PERSON WHO HARDLY MAKES ANY MONEY CAUSE YEAR AFTER YEAR YOURE SPENDING IT ALL SO YOU HAVE NOTHING. SO YOU WANTED TO LIVE WITHIN YOUR MEANS. PUT SOME BACK FOR THAT RAIN DAY. AS WE TALKED ABOUT A MINUTE AGO, OUR ECONOMY, OUROUNTRY IS EXPERIENCING THESE TOUGH MOMENTS BUT YOURE REALLY STARTING OVER EVERY DAY. SO ITS DEFENSIVE DO TAT DECADE AFTER DECADE AFTER DECDE. >> WHY DO THESE LESSONS HAVE TO BE RETAUGHT? >> WOULDNT IT BE BETTER IF THEY DIDNT HAVE TO? >> AND EVERY GENERATION APPEARS TO LEARN IT, YOU KNOW. >> AND NOT JUST EVERY GENERATION, BILL BUT IF YOU GO BACK AND STUDY OUR COUNTRY SINCE THE LATE 170s, THIS HAD TO BE TAUGHT TWO, THREE TIMES TO THE SAME GENERATION OF PEOPLE. WE JUST DO. ITS THE NATURE OF US. WEREOPTIMISTIC BY NATURE, MOST OF US. MOST OF US. THE PROBLEM WITH IT, BILL, AS I SEE IT, TRY TO OPERATE A BUSINESS ALONG WITH TOMMY MILLS ALONG WITH OTHER PEOPLE IN LEXINGTON HELPING ME, DO THAT, OR ACTUALLY ME HELPING THEM. THE PROBLEM WITH IT, PAIN AND SUCCESS ARE IN THE SAME STREET. THEYRE JUST DIFFERENT HOUSES. >> PAIN AND SUCCESS WE TEACH OUR FOLKS ARE TEMPORARY. THEYRE ON THE SAME STREET, SEPARATE HOUSES HOUSES AND IT WIL ROTATE BUT DONT THINK YOURE GONNA STAY IN EITHER VERY LONG. >> SO YOU THINK IN OTHER WORDS, ONCE AGAIN, THEYRELE ANDS. >> ABSOLUTELY. ABSOLUTELY. I BELIEVE THAT. >> HISTORY IS WHAT HISTORY IS, YEAH. >> PAUL OVERSON IS WITH US. HES AN INTERPRETER AND BUSINESSMAN HERE IN KENTUCKY. WERE GONNA COME BACK IN JUST MOMENTS AND LEARN SOMETHING ABOUT THE BUSINESS HE HAS BUILT HERE AND IS THROUGHOUT THE

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AIRDATE: 08-01-2009
TRANSCRIPT: behavior and again im not here to have any kind of tx poli like that. but if you dont want it to grow, tax it and youll run it off. i think kentuckys done a better job in recent years trying to attract business, the legislature and governor fletcher and governor beshear have tried to encourage business. >> you know, theyre so many things that competing for attention today. >> yeah. absolutely, bill. and i dont understand i read coach calipari ttters and this coach twitters and i have no idea what it is. but i will tell you that all of that said the technology growing up, i never dreamed that people like me would be able t would be able o do the things that i do. you remember in our days if you had to make a phone call, you were driving in the car, you drove off the side ofhe road, put a quarter in the pay phone some people wont understand this, watching this. >> if you can find one. >> yeah, youre ready to steal one but at the same time today the world is so different, everythings much faster. but it also enables us as regular ordinary people out there it enables us to participate in that, with that, and with the growth of the economy in those areas. so when theyre setbacks along the wayr for others, you seem to have the theory that things come along for a reason and often it represents an opportunity to reprioritize your life. those dealing willness or a john loss or tough issues. for them it can be very difficult to see that. how do youurge people to see brightness in a tough sometime in. >> well, bill, im not here to preach but i believe first peter 412 its on my list every day do not think its a strange ocurrence when you go through firery trials. theyre placed there tragedy strategically in your life for a reason. i believe that with all my heart. i believe we go through firery trials and typically i think life is full of pop quizzes. we pass the pop quiz, get to graduate. that doesnt mean were threw with pop quizzes the rest of our lives but means we get to take another pop quiz on the subject. and those pop quiz keep coming. i just want to kep as best i can with the good lords help, i want to keep passes the pop quiz set in front of it. the problem, bill, is youre setting in history class and somebody presents with you a math pop quiz. theyre never on the subject you think theyll be on. weve heard the stories and, you know, i was married for 20 years. i had no idea that this was wrong in my mariage, and boom, come home one day and my wife teels me or my husband things were going well and i found out somebody in my place of employment was taking money from me. pop quizzes counsel, and they come up in different ways. but how we do is how well do in life, honestly. >> you talk about yoor own battle with chance came in the mid40s. difficult time? you got through. >> absolutely. i got through with the good lords help. a lot f people praying for me. and i got through that, but i think if i had succumb to that it wouldnt have meant any les. i read one time im for more interested in the donation of my life than the duration of my life. i52 years old today, if i died yesterday ive done more than i had a right to ever expect to do. but, yes, sir, with the help of a lot of of folks, including some great doctors and also a lot of prayer, i came through that. i dont take any types of medications. not on any treatments. i came completely through that. >> do you think kentuckians sort of have a way words and do you appreciate pulling some of the words that have been said by famous people and making them apply today? >> kentuckys such a unique place, and its home to me and home to you and home to so many people. but kentucky were made fun of when we travel. when i go to cafornia, ill have people say to me, bill, theyll say, just say something. just talk. we just want to hear you talk. and they all stand around like were pets or something. they think most of us dont wear shoes. weve got this reputation throughout the country but i think kentucky people, i think cutting right through all the big words sometime and getting trite it is kind of what ntucky people expect. and certainly the waa i have to talk because i dont have a big vocabulary. >> people just ask you to talk when youre traveling. >> a lot of financial advice in these tough times, the radio, pfizer dave ramsey tells a lot of people to live below your means and you iidicate that thats something that you embrace. >> absolutely. but if you dt save some your money, youre no better than the person who hardly makes any money cause year after year youre spending it all so you have nothing. so you wanted to live within your means. put some back for that rain day. as we talked about a minute ago, our economy, ourountry is experiencing these tough moments but youre really starting over every day. so its defensive do tat decade after decade after decde. >> why do these lessons have to be retaught? >> wouldnt it be better if they didnt have to? >> and every generation appears to learn it, you know. >> and not just every generation, bill but if you go back and study our country since the late 170s, this had to be taught two, three times to the same generation of people. we just do. its the nature of us. wereoptimistic by nature, most of us. most of us. the problem with it, bill, as i see it, try to operate a business along with tommy mills along with other people in lexington helping me, do that, or actually me helping them. the problem with it, pain and success are in the same street. theyre just different houses. >> pain and success we teach our folks are temporary. theyre on the same street, separate houses houses and it wil rotate but dont think youre gonna stay in either very long. >> so you think in other words, once again, theyrele ands. >> absolutely. absolutely. i believe that. >> history is what history is, yeah. >> paul overson is with us. hes an interpreter and businessman here in kentucky. were gonna come back in just moments and learn something about the business he has built here and is throughout the