podcast
details
.com
Print
Share
Look for any podcast host, guest or anyone
Search
Showing episodes and shows of
Bill Enyart
Shows
Reflections from the River
Strategic Importance of Taiwan; a primer
The strategic importance of Taiwan Should China take control of Taiwan it would represent a breach of the Western Pacific strategic line the US holds from South Korea to Japan through Okinawa to the Philippines. Although the US no longer has military forces on Taiwan, it counts Taiwan as a staunch ally and sells military equipment, including F16s, to Taiwan. This would enable China to more easily project power, both military and economic, throughout Southwest Asia and the western Pacific. Japan would almost certainly feel more threatened, thus remilitarizing. Japan and China ha...
2022-09-12
07 min
The Dominic Enyart Show
Enyart Calls for Aid!
For today’s show, you’re going to want to check out kgov.com for more details, but Dominic is inviting you to come testify at the Denver Capitol on Wednesday the 9th, against the most extreme pro-abortion bill in the nation. Even if you’re from out of state, you can help out! So check out today’s show and kgov.com!
2022-03-08
30 min
Reflections from the River
High stakes poker or Putin and Ukraine
An old general's musings on where the world may or may not be headed in the next several weeks. CAUTION: probably not a good idea to listen to this before bed.
2022-01-19
16 min
Reflections from the River
Learning to live with loss
When you’re eighteen-years-old, you're gonna live forever. Only old people die. Well, except for car accidents and war. Fall of 1967. Seatbelts wouldn’t be required in new cars for another year...
2022-01-18
08 min
Reflections from the River
Warsaw 2007 to Ukraine today
Russian tanks are poised and ready to roll. It's not the first time...
2022-01-11
09 min
Reflections from the River
Old wooden tool box
2021-12-28
04 min
Reflections from the River
Fine wrist watches...a first world problem
Let’s talk about first world problems.I just ordered myself a Valentine’s Day present on Amazon. It would be a Christmas Day present but with delivery times, it’ll be a Valentine’s Day present...
2021-12-21
07 min
Reflections from the River
Holiday food fight
With Thanksgiving dinner over and the dishes done and Christmas dinner not yet planned, let’s have a conversation that guarantees a family food fight in Southern Illinois. Or at least it would in my family...
2021-12-16
07 min
The Dominic Enyart Show
CRTL & WRTL Debate Fetal Pain Bill - Pt. 3
Today, on Bob Enyart Live, we’re giving a telethon update and continuing our debate series with Wyoming Right to Life about abortion. They, along with most pro-lifers in America, believe we should be fighting for laws which compromise on the abortion issue. They will fight tooth and nail to get laws on the books that end with, “and then you can kill the baby.” All of that and more, today on Bob Enyart Live. * The Problem of Pain: The debate concludes between Colorado Right to Life and Wyoming Right to Life over the terrible unintended consequences of "pr...
2021-12-01
31 min
The Dominic Enyart Show
CRTL & WRTL Debate Fetal Pain Bill - Pt. 2
* Don't Talk Consequences: Part Two of the debate between Colorado Right to Life and Wyoming Right to Life exposes the terrible unintended consequences of HR 6099 which would offer fetal pain killer for late-term abortions. * Ertelt's Revealing Answers: The president of Wyoming Right to Life was repeatedly asked, "Is it POSSIBLE that offering pain medication for unborn children might encourage some women to go ahead and abort their baby?" Steven Ertelt repeatedly replied, "I don't think it's possible at all... this bill will NOT convince any woman to have an abortion..." * Ertelt's Denial: Ertelt, also the publisher of Li...
2021-11-22
30 min
Reflections from the River
Put me in coach!
I may not be a starting linebacker any longer, but I’m still on the team, so I’ll show up and be ready to go in the game, just in case...
2021-11-13
08 min
Reflections from the River
A veteran's thanks to the nation on Veterans' Day 2021
Veterans’ Day is the day our nation thanks its veterans for what they have done for our country. This Veterans’ Day of 2021 let me, as a veteran, thank our country and the state of Illinois for what they have done for me.
2021-11-09
05 min
Reflections from the River
Memories of "The Bear"
As Billy Joel sang; "Only the good die young."
2021-10-29
08 min
Reflections from the River
Basement memories
Why is it so difficult to get rid of stuff? I’ve read Marie Kondo’s book on paring down possessions and want to follow all its prescriptions. But somehow the stuff just hangs on.
2021-10-23
05 min
Reflections from the River
9-11: Honoring America's Own
Valor and sacrifice, twenty years later.
2021-09-10
08 min
Reflections from the River
Otherness
Otherness Every now and then in life you meet someone you just know is going somewhere. Someone who is smart and talented and has the ability to talk with anyone. Someone, who with all those gifts, doesn’t have an ego that gets in the way.I had lunch with a person like that last week...
2021-09-10
05 min
Reflections from the River
Kabul fell
Kabul fell Eerily like Saigon fell forty-six years ago...
2021-09-03
06 min
Reflections from the River
An August birthday she won't be here for
With the fall of Kabul to the Taliban, my mind returns, as it does most days, to the soldiers that I trained, equipped and ordered to Afghanistan during the five years of that two-decade long war that I commanded the Illinois National Guard...
2021-08-29
07 min
Reflections from the River
The love affair ended badly...
She left me without a word, MS Word that is...
2021-08-12
10 min
Reflections from the River
The aid of a stranger
A good Samaritan on a dark, rainy Italian highway.
2021-07-22
08 min
Reflections from the River
Legends of an old yardstick
An old house. An old yardstick. An old legend.
2021-07-16
11 min
Reflections from the River
Sportswriter...dream job or nightmare?
Writing about sports sounds like a dream job to lots of folks. Imagine...going to sports games for free, sitting in the press box, access to the locker room, interviewing players and coaches and fans. Watching games, then writing about it. And getting paid, although not much, to tell the stories. What a life!Except I hated it.
2021-07-01
09 min
Reflections from the River
Fourth of July thoughts from an old veteran
Memorial Day, Fourth of July, Veterans’ Day. The holy trinity of American patriotic holidays. As Independence Day approaches let us remember and think about the final clause of the thirty-one words of the Pledge of Allegiance. “With liberty and justice for all”.
2021-06-30
07 min
Reflections from the River
Gifted conversationalist...
A curly-headed girl from Belleville, Illinois, and an hour with Colin Powell...
2021-06-24
07 min
Reflections from the River
A watchful eye...
Sometimes you've got big shoes to fill and eyes watching over you remind you of the right thing to do.
2021-06-17
07 min
Reflections from the River
The price and cost of cheating
Some life lessons are hard. Ethical lapses by people you thought honorable are some of the hardest.
2021-06-10
12 min
Reflections from the River
Old tales and new prophets
Tales are meant to be told, not read. There are few who cannot hear, although many who do not listen. And even more who read, but do not understand.This podcast tells of old tales and new prophets.(c) William L. EnyartEmail: bill@billenyart.com
2021-04-21
06 min
Reflections from the River
Mentors worth having
Great mentors have blessed me through life with the occasional bits of wisdom that have proven benchmarks. Here are two of those hard-earned bits of wisdom and one lesson learned from them.
2021-04-16
05 min
Reflections from the River
High school on Capitol Hill or the comeuppance of Paul Ryan
2021-03-31
06 min
Reflections from the River
Life and death watching the river
This morning, the fog fills the river bottoms from Illinois bluffs to Missouri hills. Above, blue-sky peeks through but from my perch halfway up the rocky bluff I see nothing but the gray fog swallowing all that lies a hundred yards away....
2021-03-26
05 min
Reflections from the River
Colorado River rafting
It's all fun and games until disaster looms...
2021-03-17
06 min
Reflections from the River
Nikki's crocuses
Harbinger of spring. The crocuses of Abend Street.
2021-03-12
08 min
Reflections from the River
Bailing Dad out of jail
Some mistakes cost more than others...
2021-03-08
05 min
Reflections from the River
Nikki's Keyway Terrace
Falling in love with old brick streets and the houses that populate them.
2021-03-06
07 min
Reflections from the River
The Mighty Blue Max
Some people measure their lives by their kids' birthdays. For others, it's their wedding anniversaries. For some, it's their jobs. For me and all those other working -class boomer guys li me, it's the cars we drove. Here's the (mostly) true story of the Mighty Blue Max...
2021-02-19
06 min
Reflections from the River
DNA: Dangerous Truths
Oh the surprises you find when you get your DNA tested to see where your ancestors came from...
2021-02-17
05 min
Reflections from the River
A Polish piglet
Now don’t get me wrong, I love bacon just as much as anyone, in fact, there is no smell in the world better than that of bacon frying in the morning. You can have your roses, your Chanel and even the smell of sun on a beautiful woman’s skin. I’ll take the scent of bacon crisping and popping in an iron skillet...
2021-02-14
06 min
Reflections from the River
Busted shoulders and broken bicycles
Sometimes even having eyes in the back of your head isn't enough to protect a bicyclist from the broken bones and bleeding body parts...
2021-02-12
11 min
Reflections from the River
I've cleaned toilets for a living.
“Have any of you ever worked cleaning toilets for a living? Or as a waitress?”
2021-02-01
08 min
Reflections from the River
Inauguration Day 2013
Here's how the peaceful transfer of power is supposed to work.
2021-01-30
08 min
Reflections from the River
Christmas in January
January 20th felt like Christmas all day.
2021-01-27
04 min
Reflections from the River
From telegram to Facebook
The pain of losing a loved one in wartime has not changed, but the method of finding out of the loss has dramatically changed.
2021-01-13
06 min
Reflections from the River
How to pick a child's name...
The (mostly) true story how are younger son got his name. You may want to use a different method!
2021-01-12
05 min
Reflections from the River
One way to pick a child's name
Everybody's got a story about how they picked their kids' names. This one is more or less true.
2021-01-10
06 min
Reflections from the River
A veteran's thoughts on the Capitol assault on democracy
It’s time to face facts folks. Everybody gets to have their own opinion. You do not get to have your own facts.You can have your opinion that Donald J. Trump is the greatest thing since sliced bread. Fine. I have my opinion as to your mistakenness in that opinion. I full well understand that I cannot change your opinion...This podcast published as an op-ed in the St. Louis and Southern Illinois Labor Tribune, January 27, 2021.
2021-01-08
05 min
Reflections from the River
Speaking heresy
I’m going to speak heresy here. We should be glad we are so politically divided as a nation...
2021-01-04
05 min
Reflections from the River
Snowstorm in a faraway land
There's free fire zones and cold fire zones. A free fire zone means you're locked and loaded, safety off, and eyes in the back of your head. Cold fire zone is a term I made up. It's one of those places American soldiers get sent to keep the peace, or enforce the peace, or make the peace. Some places the weather's cold. Most places the people are cold. Ain't no heroes in keeping people from killing each other. Just another day in doin' the job Uncle Sugar sent us to do.
2020-12-20
12 min
Reflections from the River
Christmas card memories
Some Christmas cards you tuck away. You tuck them away because you can't bear to throw them away. You tuck them way because the memories they bring back haunt you. This is the story of that one card.
2020-12-16
08 min
Reflections from the River
Snipers above the flight line
As the attack unfolded in real time on our radios, I realized we were but a few hundred yards away from the attackers, sitting unarmed, in an unprotected warehouse with gaping twelve-foot wide doors blocked open to ventilate the heat...
2020-12-09
08 min
Reflections from the River
Three am dreams
The dreams that wake you at three am...
2020-12-06
07 min
Reflections from the River
Abend Street autumn
The thirty-fourth autumn of life on Abend Street, street of brick, of tall trees, of century-old homes, is rapidly approaching. The leaves have not yet begun to turn on the towering oaks but summer’s heat has begun to dissipate. The hummingbird’s flight a bit more frenetic as they dart about gathering sweet nectar for their long journey south...
2020-12-03
08 min
Reflections from the River
Freedom rings: Fort Kaskaskia Fourth of July
Although divided we stand politically, united we stand in our belief in democracy, our belief in equality, our belief in freedoms of speech, religion, press and right to petition our government.
2020-11-26
07 min
Reflections from the River
There is hope.
How we can all work to realize the vision set forth in the Declaration of Independence.
2020-11-22
06 min
Reflections from the River
Italian November
The war hasn't started yet. 9-11 has happened. The last few days of the peace-time National Guard helping out the Army in Italy
2020-11-19
16 min
Reflections from the River
Veterans' Day 2020
A tribute to veterans and their families and a request to honor them and all Americans in our great nation's unique diversity.
2020-11-11
08 min
Reflections from the River
Gentle fathers
Who are these men headed to war? And who will they be when they return home?
2020-11-06
08 min
Reflections from the River
Flight line memories
A long time ago, on a flight line a long way from home, the smell of jet fuel lingers like memories that won't be forgotten.
2020-11-01
02 min
Reflections from the River
Not just any summer job
There's summer jobs, then there's summer job. July days on the mudbanks of the Mississippi River with the humidity trying to outdo the temperature, cutting rusty old barges in to scrap steel is not the summer job of a young man's dreams. But when you need a paycheck you trade your sweat for what you need.
2020-10-30
10 min
Reflections from the River
My momma's people
2020-10-23
07 min
Reflections from the River
Road Trip to History
There’s not much all of America can agree on, but maybe we can all agree that 2020 has been a really tough year so far, and doesn’t look to get much better with the election and all of the divisiveness. Maybe a road trip to take part in history will help.
2020-10-20
17 min
Reflections from the River
Boys and their swords
Yardsticks and broken maple limbs are the pirate swords of boys' dreams. Hammered Toledo steel brings back a warrior's faded memory.
2020-09-27
09 min
Reflections from the River
To my Republican friends
Yankees or Cardinals. Bears or Patriots. Red Wings or Blues. The teams play on.
2020-09-23
08 min
Reflections from the River
A veteran's thoughts on 9-11
There are days that define a generation. Pearl Harbor Day. November 23, 1963, the day President John F. Kennedy was assassinated. And 9-11. Days that reverberate through history. And the aftermath of those days haunt us today. Twenty-two veterans a day take their own lives. We, as a nation, owe them more. This podcast is adapted from a speech Bill Enyart made to the employees of Aledade, a nation-wide primary care physician health care management practice to honor 9-11 and focus attention on the issue of veteran suicide. Special thanks to Erica Lanter-Stewart, Illinois Army National Guard veteran and A...
2020-09-11
09 min
Reflections from the River
Advice on how to write a good speech
Sound advice on writing good speeches, KISS and KISS leads to quicker kisses.
2020-09-06
07 min
Reflections from the River
Late summer signs
Tomatoes ripening on a windowsill mean it's late summer in the Midwest.
2020-09-03
10 min
Reflections from the River
Summer of '67
A summer job, a girlfriend with a white convertible and clouds of war on a teenager's horizon. The summer of '67.
2020-08-31
11 min
Reflections from the River
The Legend of Bob Neal
Friday night football, Mogen David and fish sandwiches...another legend created.
2020-08-25
08 min
Reflections from the River
The Wish Book
The Wish Book, everything you always wanted before Amazon Prime.
2020-08-23
06 min
Reflections from the River
Gold Star Mission- riding for a purpose
A five-hundred mile bicycle ride in four days to honor the fallen. A story of veterans seeking solace through remembrance.
2020-08-20
09 min
Reflections from the River
Regrets, I've had a few...
...she resembles a country and western singer, with her long blonde hair cascading over her right shoulder and her pale blue eyes.
2020-08-20
07 min
Reflections from the River
The Pink Pagoda
There's trailer living, then there's the Pink Pagoda. A Midwest summer in a single-wide.
2020-08-20
06 min
Reflections from the River
Major General (ret) Bill Enyart speaking to the Veterans and Military Families Council, Democratic National Convention
Major General (ret) Bill Enyart speaks to the Veterans and Military Families Council at the Democratic National convention on improving the VA and reducing veteran suicides.
2020-08-19
04 min
Reflections from the River
The Day Summer Ended
The forty pounds of Kevlar body armor pulling on my neck and shoulders will do little good...
2020-08-16
05 min
Reflections from the River
You won't melt...
Summer sweat, summer rain, summer jobs.
2020-08-14
06 min
Reflections from the River
I want my Daddy back...
The story of Jill Biden helping heal veterans families from the effects of combat deployments.
2020-08-12
09 min
Reflections from the River
It's a family tradition
Fighter pilots on bicycles, Roy Rogers cap pistols, toy soldiers, the gut wrenching sixties, it's a family tradition.
2020-08-09
08 min
Reflections from the River
Grandma Dallas' kitchen table
Farmhouse kitchen tables are meant for family gatherings, saying grace, lumberjack breakfasts but not for spittin' watermelon seeds.
2020-08-08
06 min
Reflections from the River
Tell me a story Grandpa
2020-07-27
04 min
Reflections from the River
Charm school
2020-07-25
11 min
Reflections from the River
Bicycling the Natchez Trace
Natchez Trace. Four hundred forty miles of gently, rolling pavement runs from Natchez, Mississippi, to Nashville, Tennessee. It's a great way to spend several days on a bicycle...if you don't break it.
2020-07-22
07 min
Reflections from the River
Military Entrance Processing Station 1969
Spring 1969. America in another of what has become, in the last seventy years, one of its never ending, never winnable wars. The social divisions, the racial divisions, the political divisions even greater then than today.
2020-07-20
11 min
Reflections from the River
Walking the beans
Not many farm kids today know the phrase “walking the beans”. Certainly, no town kids do...
2020-07-15
07 min
Reflections from the River
Corvette summer
Some summer days just don't work out the way you plan...
2020-07-13
06 min
Reflections from the River
The last Scout campout
Mixing day-old donuts and whiskey while winter camping.
2020-07-10
04 min
Reflections from the River
The Sweet Williams
Saying goodbye to one of the four Sweet Williams.
2020-07-08
06 min
Reflections from the River
The smell of poverty
Poverty smells. It smells like yesterday’s cigarettes on today’s clothes. Like unwashed bodies. Like stale sweat. Like half-burnt motor oil from aging cars with bad mufflers and rusted out floorboards. Like overflowing toilets and full diaper pails. Like coal smoke and chemical factory fumes.
2020-06-28
06 min
Reflections from the River
The recruiting sergeant's good advice
Once in basic military training, we all cursed the lies the recruiting sergeants told us to entice us to enlist, but sometimes they gave good advice...
2020-06-25
12 min
Reflections from the River
Growing up country, or the shack out back
Adventures of a three-year-old on his way to the outhouse.
2020-06-22
05 min
Reflections from the River
Randy and the Rolex: a Father's Day story
A Father's Day story of the gift from a combat veteran father to his combat veteran son.
2020-06-19
08 min
Reflections from the River
Falling in love with Mrs. Michaels
There's love, then there's young love...
2020-06-10
10 min
Reflections from the River
Thunderstorms over Middle America
2020-06-07
11 min
Reflections from the River
The Price
A soldier's nightmare.
2020-06-04
05 min
Reflections from the River
Thankless Job
They say a dog can smell fear. I can't smell fear, but I know it when I see it...
2020-05-28
09 min
Reflections from the River
More thoughts on Memorial Day 2020
Most Americans have seen the evening news clips of the president standing at Dover Air Force Base as an American servicemember comes home for the final time. Yet few know what happens after that. As a Memorial Day remembrance this podcast tells the rest of the story.
2020-05-20
06 min
Reflections from the River
Talking with Mr. Lincoln
Conversations with Mr. Lincoln on a winter Springfield night.
2020-05-19
09 min
Reflections from the River
Memorial Day 2020 Reflections
Memorial Day reflections in a time of pandemic. The former commander of the Illinois Army and Air National Guard provides insights into the meaning and history of Memorial Day from the perspective of a long-serving veteran. The episode is a tribute to Gold Star families and veterans, as well as servicemembers who have fallen in our country's service.
2020-05-19
07 min
NutriMedical Report
NutriMedical Report Show Thursday April 11th 2019 – Hour One – Dr Bill Deagle MD, Prolife Texas at Conception and Heartbeat Bills, Courts Try to Block Prolife States, Tuesday Hour 2 Bob Enyart and Southern California Pro Life League Next Week,
Dr Bill Deagle MD, Prolife Texas at Conception and Heartbeat Bills, Courts Try to Block Prolife States, Tuesday Hour 2 Bob Enyart and Southern California Pro Life League Next Week, Free Starter Protocols, How to Get a Video Telemedicine Consult, Labs Worldwide, Imaging Reviews, Consult with Doctors Special Clinics Worldwide, A to Z NutriMeds Review How to Use and Unique Properties,Dr Bill Deagle MD AAEM ACAM A4M, NutriMedical Report Show, www.NutriMedical.com, www.ClayandIRON.com, www.Deagle-Network.com,NutriMedical Report Show, For information regarding your data privacy, visit Acast.com/privacy
2019-04-12
59 min
NutriMedical Report
NutriMedical Report Show Thursday April 11th 2019 – Hour One – Dr Bill Deagle MD, Prolife Texas at Conception and Heartbeat Bills, Courts Try to Block Prolife States, Tuesday Hour 2 Bob Enyart and Southern California Pro Life League Next Week,
Dr Bill Deagle MD, Prolife Texas at Conception and Heartbeat Bills, Courts Try to Block Prolife States, Tuesday Hour 2 Bob Enyart and Southern California Pro Life League Next Week, Free Starter Protocols, How to Get a Video Telemedicine Consult, Labs Worldwide, Imaging Reviews, Consult with Doctors Special Clinics Worldwide, A to Z NutriMeds Review How to Use and Unique Properties,Dr Bill Deagle MD AAEM ACAM A4M, NutriMedical Report Show, www.NutriMedical.com, www.ClayandIRON.com, www.Deagle-Network.com,NutriMedical Report Show, For information regarding your data privacy, visit Acast.com/privacy...
2019-04-12
59 min
NutriMedical Report
NutriMedical Report Show Tuesday April 9th 2019 – Hour Two – Bob Enyart, Prolife Radio Host, Show 3 MST M-F, https://kgov.com/, American Right to Life RTL, http://americanrtl.org/, Personhood from Conception, TOTAL Abortion Ban in Texas SOON,
Bob Enyart, Prolife Radio Host, Show 3 MST M-F, https://kgov.com/, American Right to Life RTL, http://americanrtl.org/, Personhood from Conception, TOTAL Abortion Ban in Texas SOON, No to Heart Beat Excuses Abortion Bill in Georgia, STOP Accepting Lies by GOP Republican Supreme Court, STOP POTUS Funding Planned UN-Parenthood Tomorrow, Bob Back Next Week on SHow, Write State Legistlators Pres Trump Senate Congress and Churches, GET REAL LIFE Christians, Pray for Unborn, Never to Late to Abort NEXT if Not Stopped with Demon-Rat National Health Bills, Dr Bill Deagle MD AAEM ACAM A4M, NutriMedical Report Show, www...
2019-04-12
59 min
NutriMedical Report
NutriMedical Report Show Tuesday April 9th 2019 – Hour Two – Bob Enyart, Prolife Radio Host, Show 3 MST M-F, https://kgov.com/, American Right to Life RTL, http://americanrtl.org/, Personhood from Conception, TOTAL Abortion Ban in Texas SOON,
Bob Enyart, Prolife Radio Host, Show 3 MST M-F, https://kgov.com/, American Right to Life RTL, http://americanrtl.org/, Personhood from Conception, TOTAL Abortion Ban in Texas SOON, No to Heart Beat Excuses Abortion Bill in Georgia, STOP Accepting Lies by GOP Republican Supreme Court, STOP POTUS Funding Planned UN-Parenthood Tomorrow, Bob Back Next Week on SHow, Write State Legistlators Pres Trump Senate Congress and Churches, GET REAL LIFE Christians, Pray for Unborn, Never to Late to Abort NEXT if Not Stopped with Demon-Rat National Health Bills, Dr Bill Deagle MD AAEM ACAM A4M, NutriMedical Report Show, www...
2019-04-12
59 min