Speaker Identification

Speaker 1 - Reverend Blake Rubie, Host

Speaker 1 - Reverend Blake Rubie:

Good afternoon, everybody.

This is Reverend Blake Rubie. Welcome to my show, The Church of the Soul's Evolution. I hope you had a great week last week. Happy July 4th to all Americans out there. I hope you enjoyed the rest of your day and your weekend too.

I was just talking with Thomas before the show and I told him that I've got to fill in at church tomorrow and sing "God Bless the USA." So I'm going to dedicate this show to singing a few songs for you and then talking between the songs about this or that, the usual kinds of spirituality and my thoughts on extraterrestrials, for example, and anything that comes to mind.

I'm a well-read person and I'm always trying to learn new things and improve myself. And don't let anyone tell you that they know everything. The only being that knows everything is an omnipotent and omniscient one and you know who I am talking about. Otherwise, if we humans were perfect, we would know everything.

We don't know everything. When you have discussions with people, it should be a sharing of beliefs. Of course, when you are listening to a radio show, you are mostly listening, but I have already told you that I recognize that I do not know everything.

I like to share my beliefs. I have learned from other people, and I am passing on what I have learned from them to you. You can take it or leave it. You have free will.

You have your own opinion, and I respect that.

Anyway, tomorrow in the church, probably toward the end, I will sing this song. I may sing one or another one besides this one, and maybe try to get about four or five songs in before the show is over.

So the first one is "God Bless the USA" by Lee Greenwood. I've known it for a while. I was actually going to take a trip on a cruise a few years ago and they had a karaoke contest. So I entered.

I entered that contest and decided to sing "God Bless the USA." However, I made a mistake because I hadn't practiced it that much. I practiced a lot, but this one particular song I hadn't practiced.

So I realized right from the beginning that I started up too high in a higher octave and needed to be in a lower octave. So fortunately, hopefully I won't make that mistake tomorrow. I practiced on Wednesday with the choir, though.

It should go well. Anyway, it will go something like this.

[Song/performance excerpt] If tomorrow, all the things were gone.

I worked for all my life.

And I had to start again with just my children and my wife.

I thank my lucky stars to be living here today because the flag still stands for freedom. And they can't take that away.

[Song/performance excerpt] And I'm proud to be an American, or at least I know I'm free.

And I won't forget the men who died who gave that right to me and I gladly stand up next

to you and the defend her still today. There's a ain't no doubt I love this land.

"God Bless the USA."

[Song/performance excerpt] From the lakes of Minnesota to the hills of Tennessee, across the plains of Texas, from

the to shining sea, Detroit down to Houston, and New York to LA. Well, there's pride in every American heart. And it's time we stand and say that I'm proud to be an American, or at least I know I'm free.

And I won't forget the men who died who gave that right to me and I gladly stand up next to

you and the defend her still today. There's a ain't no doubt I love this land.

"God Bless the USA."

[Song/performance excerpt] And I'm proud to be an American, or at least I know I'm free.

And I won't forget the men who died who gave that right to me and I gladly stand up next to you.

Next to you and the defend her still today. There's a ain't no doubt I love this land.

"God Bless the USA."

Well, there it is. I'm going to take a drink and I'll tell you the truth. I've practiced a lot of acapella things. I also like singing with my system here. I've got a couple of speakers.

I've got a fender amplifier slash mixer wireless microphone set, but it's nothing like good old fashioned acapella singing, my friends. And each one has its benefits. The thing about acapella singing is it's hard to do.

It's harder to do. Rather than sing along with music, you're breathing on your own instead of breathing to music. So I would recommend it for anybody with improve and enhance your vocal performance by adding a little bit of acapella singing to warm up.

Sometimes I've thought about calling myself acapella Blake because even when I was in the Army in 1982 to 2004, 22 years, that's when I recognized that I actually had a pretty good singing voice because I had to sing cadence, you know, either marching or running.

When I was at Fort Benning, Georgia in the summer of 1990, excuse me, 1982 in the infantry for three months, it was hot there.

And I always gave my cadence 100% effort.

And after I graduated from basic training, I went to Germany and then there were two years men to Fort Polk, Louisiana for two years.

And I reclassified, became an administrative specialist and then went to Korea, extended

those there for two years. When marching and running, I was always very good at that. So I could hold the tune. When you're running, it's harder, you know, you're kind of like, here we go.

All the way. Running. Feel good. Feels fine. Up the hill. Down the hill. Through the hill. Hey, you. Can you be like me? Infantry. One mile. No sweat. Two miles. Better yet. Lean and lean.

Rough and tough. Up the hill. Down the hill. All the way. Never quit. Never stop. Going to make it. Going to take it. I can be airborne. Infantry. Ranger. One mile. Easy run. Two miles.

I can make it. Hey, you. Can you hang? Can you make it? In the front. Keep the pace. In the middle. Keep it tight. In the rear. Bring it up. Everybody. Sound off. One, two, three, four.

Left, right, left, right. All the way. Never quit. Never stop. So that, my friend, is an example of cadence while running in the army. And that was good at it. That's what you call kind of extemporaneous.

You're doing whatever comes to your mind. And if the mind goes blank, you go back to the basics which is left, right, left, because you're keeping the formation, whether it's a squad or a platoon or a company, even.

You know, maybe 30, 40, 50 men or women and women in marching cadence, you know, keeping them in step. And so I had a lot of practice staying in the army. And then in 1994, I went to my first karaoke event.

It was with some people I work with that six army in San Francisco, for sure the absence of the first song I sang, I believe, was Song Sung Blue by Neil Diamond.

And I sang Hotel California.

And then throughout the years, I used to go to karaoke and I built up a small repertoire of songs. And then when I moved to San Antonio in 2010, I was so obsessed with singing a cappella that I sang, driving all the way from Alexandria, Virginia to San Antonio.

No kidding. I sang just about all the way, singing to my car. It was just a lot of fun for me.

And I thought, you know, this is going to give me the personal and professional growth that

I'm looking for because, you know, there's so many benefits to staying besides standing your lungs and remembering the words, you know, it's like a mind activity. But anyway, and then in 2013, I bought a karaoke machine and I went to the Wounded Warriors on Fort Sam Houston where I worked at the Warrior and Family Support Center.

And I set up my equipment and I sang for the Wounded Warriors for about an hour and a half

right there in front of everybody. And they were coming by and, you know, men and women that had lost an arm or leg or I could get at some of them lost both legs. And it was a very casual atmosphere, people getting their lunch because I'd always go there when they had lunch.

And they would get their lunch, he'd sit down and watch TV and they'd be listening to me and I could tell them, and they were kind of cool about it. You know, they didn't want me to feel awkward.

And so I kept that up for six years and I built up a repertoire, even greater repertoire of songs that I've dealt with, God, love, and nature, some of my favorites that I would enjoy singing to them songs by the Beatles, by the Eagles, rock and roll songs.

All together, the last count, it could be around 150 songs that I learned, I memorized, the double go there. I wouldn't look at the screen. I would just remember the songs, you know.

So then at church, I joined the choir in 2012, about a year before I went to the Wounded Warriors. And then we learned new songs all the time. I've learned a well over a hundred gospel songs, you know.

Although we haven't practiced a lot of them, but some I've got down pat. Anyway, just to keep up the singing today, kind of like a show, I'm going to take a drink first and then send you another song.

Now this song is about the blood of Jesus. I consider myself mainly a Christian, but I kind of think outside the box. I'm always a truth seeker. I wanted to find out what is the truth with all aspects of what happened in our past.

You have so many different religions in the world, and each one, they know the truth, you know, they've gone to war before in the past. I'm not that kind of a person. I am content and secure with my knowledge.

I don't need to prove to anybody the number like you're entitled to your opinion. But I can say that if you are going to engage people in a conversation in an argument, and try to impress upon them your opinion, then you are not secure in your beliefs.

It's what you believe in then apparently is not the truth. If you know the truth, then you don't need to try to convert somebody to what you believe in, come naturally. They will see that.

They will see that you're a role model. Then you set the example. So again, and I said it's respectfully, and I don't want to judge anyone, but if you are secure in what you believe in, then you won't need to convince anybody of what your truth is, because you will know and you will feel in your soul that is the truth.

And if anyone disagrees with it, then you won't feel badly because still it is the truth. But if you do feel badly about it, and you want to argue and debate over it, then apparently what you know is not the truth.

Does that make sense? You might not agree with that. That's okay. Here we are again. It's your opinion. But I know that I am secure in my beliefs, and I know a lot of truth. I don't know all the answers, but I'm working on finding out as much as I can about certain things.

And regarding Jesus, I believe among other things that we wouldn't be here today at this station in life, 2,000 years later, if what happened with Jesus, all those events that happened, the birth in Bethlehem, the star of Bethlehem up above, all the miracles of Jesus, the resurrection, the ascension, if all that hadn't happened, you and I would not be alive today.

Because the world probably would have destroyed itself back then. That's why there was intervention of that kind, because the world was in a pretty bad state of affairs, so to see, back then.

Right? Right. Okay, now take another drink and hit this song. It's called, Thank You Jesus for the Blood. Okay.

[Song/performance excerpt] I was a wretch.

I remember who I was. I was lost. I was blind. I was running out of time. And separated, the bleach was far too wide. But from the far side of the chasm, you held me in your sight so you made a way across the great divide left behind heaven's throne.

Build it here inside. There, at the cross, you paid the debt I owed. I broke my chains, freed my soul for the first time I had all. Thank You Jesus for the blood applied. Thank You Jesus.

It has washed me white. Thank You Jesus. You have saved my life. Brought me from the darkness into glorious light. You took my place, laid inside my tomb of sin. You were buried for three days.

But then you walked right out again. And now death has no strain and life has no end. For I have been transformed by the blood of the land. Thank You Jesus for the blood applied. Thank You Jesus.

It has washed me white. Thank You Jesus. You have saved my life. Brought me from the darkness into glorious light. There is nothing stronger than the wonder-working power of the blood.

The blood that causes sons and daughters. We are ransomed by our father to the blood. The blood. There is nothing stronger than the wonder-working power of the blood. The blood that causes sons and daughters.

We are ransomed by our father to the blood. The blood. Thank You Jesus for the blood applied. Thank You Jesus. It has washed me white. Thank You Jesus. You have saved my life. Brought me from the darkness into glorious light.

[Song/performance excerpt] Thank You Jesus for the blood. Charity Gayle, I believe her name is. Let me take a drink. Just imagine you had been there when Jesus was crucified. You see the blood pouring out of the holes in his wrist and his feet and blood pouring down his face from the crown of thorns that he wore.

And when they pierced him in the side with a sword and that blood and water that came out, think about that blood. It is a very beautiful kind of blood. belonging to Jesus.

He was just like me and you in many ways. And then he died on the cross. But then he came back to life.

And I know how it was done.

Except I don't want to talk about it right now. If you've heard of other shows, I've explained it. If you've heard of my other shows, I've explained it and some of them, how it happened.

And that's what I'm talking about when I say I want to know the details. How did Jesus turn water into wine? I just can't accept not knowing how he did that. How did he cure a leper?

Someone that had that crud on their bodies on their faces for years. We're not talking about like Harry Potter. Here, magic, the magic wand. We're talking about universal laws and principles, my friends.

And how did he walk on the water? How did he do that? I want to do it too. How did he calm the sea? How do you calm the storm? Were the words that he spoke, "Peace, be still." But there's something behind that.

And I know what it is.

But I want to sing some songs today. I'm not going to get into the details. I'll explain it later if you tune into a future show. How do you feed the people on the Sermon on the Mount?

5,000 people. He did that twice. And from 5,000 people, and then another time, 4,000 people, how do you take two fish and three loads of bread and turn it into about 200 or 3,000? 3,000, 4,000 or 5,000 fish and 5,000 pieces of bread.

How do you do that? You ever thought about it? Some people don't think about it because they don't care. They don't want to know. But just like everything that deals with quantum mechanics or gravity or physics, it can be explained in rational logical terms if you're interested to find out, if you want to know, and people don't want to know.

If you want to know, Google it in the internet, then may I suggest if you really want to know, there's a book that will tell you everything you need to know. My favorite book of all time, even more favorite than the Bible for me, and I actually will choose what I want, it's called Abduction to the Ninth Planet, or otherwise known as the Phyauuba Prophecies, or the Golden Planet.

It will tell you all about Moses and Jesus and how that wastes a extra treasure without there in the Milky Way galaxy, or technologically, spiritually way, way, way more advanced than we are.

I mean, we're like in kindergarten. They're like, well, they graduated from college. They have PhDs, they have PhDs in how to travel around the universe, things like levitation and telekinesis and teleportation and traveling back in time.

Anyway, so it's the name of the book. Now, I'm going to think of another song this thing. How about God Bless America? Because I hope in that prayer that God will continue, the Creator of the universe will continue to bless the United States, because my friends, I've seen so many good people in this country, and they take a drink.

I see so many good people all the time. Unfortunately, there are some bad people, and they are a minority. They're not the majority. But my prayer is that God will continue to bless the United States and not give up on its great experiment that God helped start back 250 years ago when our founding fathers were inspired by God to create a nation where people could pursue happiness and live in freedom and have equality among human beings, both men and women.

Right? Right? And so is the song God Bless America. So love goes like this. God Bless America. Land that I love can be tighter and giver. Do the night with the light from above, from the mountains to the prairies to the oceans, white with foam.

God Bless America. My home, sweet, oh, but God Bless America. My home, sweet, oh. God Bless America. My friends, indeed, please God continue to bless America. There's so many good people.

I've seen them. They take a drink. How about America the Beautiful? And it's true our country is this. We travel around, you know, rent an RV and go from one place to another, you know, hit those highways, go to camping grounds and national forest, Yellowstone, Yosemite, and so many other places.

There's so many beautiful places in the United States. And the lakes and the historic of the hills of Tennessee, across the plains of Texas, and the trees of shining trees. It's full of beauty everywhere, you know, the mountains, the rivers, the trees, the plains, the flowers.

It's totally beautiful, right? I want to respect Mother Nature and keep America looking beautiful, right? So here's America the Beautiful.

[Song/performance excerpt] Oh, beautiful, four-spacious guy, four amber waves of gray.

Four purple mountain majesty's, up above the footed plains. In that America, America, God shed his grace on thee and crowned by God would brother and sisterhood from sea to shining sea.

Let's take another drink. Well, my friends, you might have heard me say before, I started 22 years active duty, and I retired in 2004, and I continued working for the Army as a contractor for a little over six years.

And then in 2010, I became an Army civilian and just retired on 31 December 2025. So almost 16 years of the civilian for a total of almost 44 years working for the Army. I'm going to take a drink.

And one thing I could always do throughout years was sing the Army songs and sing it proudly. Whenever I go on a cruise, I'm always on a carnival cruise line cruise. I go to the military, not the military, what's it called? The military gathering.

They invite all the military to come and they honor all the different branches of the service. And we sing their songs, you know, the Army, Marine Corps, Air Force, Navy, Coast Guard.

And even the Space Force has their own song. And then at the end, they allow everyone to say something. They hand out the microphone and they can get up.

And I usually do every time and say, oh, my name is Blake.

And here with my son or my wife and we're from San Antonio.

And I serve 22 years back in duty.

Almost 44 years working for the Army.

And I might talk about where I went and how great the men and women have been.

Who I've worked with over the years. Very grateful to the Army and the Department of Veterans Affairs for the disability that I get now. I actually donated one of my kidneys to my son in 1995 while I'm on active duty.

And I get disability for that.

This is a blessing and I'm grateful. Anyway, so I usually take about a minute or so talking and looking around the audience, you know. And usually there's some pretty hardcore individuals there, you know, some that would sit in combat and be a non-veteran.

So not too many World War II or Korean veterans, but Desert Storm, you know, the Gulf War, Iraqi war veterans, Afghanistan War veterans. They're pretty amazing people, you know, and some of them been through hell.

And anyway, so I always sing the Army song proud and loud. And it goes like this. Let me take another quick drink. Because I love the Army. Did me well, treated me so well. They're like my second family over the years.

And I am what I am today thanks to the Army.

So I'll be internally grateful for what the Army did for me. Allow me to change my life for the better. And it goes like this.

[Song/performance excerpt] March along.

Sing a song with the Army. Of the free. Shout the truth. Shout the brave. Who have fought to victory. Where the Army and proud of our name. Where the Army and proudly proclaim. First to fight for the right and to build the nation's might.

And the Army goes rolling along. Proud of all we have done fighting till the battles won. And the Army goes rolling along. Then at high hey, the Army's on its way. Count off the cadence loud and strong.

For where we go, you will always know that the Army goes rolling along. I'm going to take another drink. That's the Army song. Hold on a second. I'm going to close the door. So I feel like I'm being distracted by some noises going on.

So give me a few seconds. I'll be right back. Okay, I'm back.

And I mentioned that I've got a repertoire of songs.

That I've learned.

And I think I mentioned some on a previous radio show.

The Beatles. The songs that I learned. I mean, I know some for the most part, it's just do not quite know some lyrics. Oh, there goes the door again. Well, I'll leave it the way it is. But songs that I know every word include.

A Jude. Let it be. If I fell, you want to know a secret yesterday.

And I love her.

I feel fine. I should have known better. "Please Please Me". "Love Me Do".

And I saw her standing there.

I want to hold your hand. I think I can include. ""She Loves You," too. And "Twist and Shout" for the most part. I think I haven't practiced those last ones too much. And then for the Eagles, also I know "Magical Mystery Tour" by the Beatles.

Roll up, roll up for the mystery tour. Roll up, roll up for the mystery tour. That's an invitation. So make a reservation. Some songs really are not compatible to a cappella Singing.

But a song like yesterday is, you know, anything that song. I'm going to take a drink first. Okay, yesterday.

[Song/performance excerpt] Yesterday.

On the troubles seemed so far away. Now it looks as though they're here this day. Oh, I believe in yesterday. Suddenly. I'm not half the man I used to be. There's a shadow hanging over me.

Oh, yesterday. Then suddenly. Why she had to go? I don't know. She wouldn't say. I said something wrong now I longed for yesterday. Love was such an easy game to play. Now I need a place to hide away.

Oh, I believe in yesterday. By seeing it had to go. I don't know. She wouldn't say. I said something wrong now I longed for yesterday.

[Song/performance excerpt] Yesterday.

Love was such an easy game to play. Now I need a place to hide away. Oh, I believe in yesterday. Yes, I believe in yesterday. Hey. So one of the Beatles songs I know. Let me take a drink.

And then Eagle songs, songs by the Eagles I know include Shaquille, Sunrise, Lion Eyes, "Best of My Love", "Peaceful Easy Feeling". "Take It to the Limit". "Take It Easy". "Seven Bridges Road".

Did I say that for a rattle? Best of my love. Trying to remember if there are any other ones. Then I also know Don Henley's "Boys of Summer". But I think one of the Eagles songs I'm going to take a quick drink.

How about seven bridges rolled. It was like this.

[Song/performance excerpt] There were stars and stars.

penguins, dark foreseeors, Car affair. Then you learned down. Start in mars in the tree, down the bounce and spray to theming. Now I would let down the stars that I once to make me more.

I have loved you like a baby, like some long son child.

And I had loved you in the same way.

And I have loved you while, sometimes there's a part of me.

Once it turns from here and go, running like a child, on these warm stars, down the seven grey ages, go on. There are stars in the stars and sky. And if ever you decide you should go on.

There is a taste of time sweet and honey. And the seven grey ages warm. And then I know some oldies, oldies, but goodies, no thanks for not sure. I know my way, "Strangers in the Night", "Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing", "Fly Me to the Moon".

Let me take another drink, "Fly Me to the Moon" by Frank Sinatra.

[Song/performance excerpt] Fly me to the moon, let me play among the stars.

Let me see what spring is like on Jupiter and Mars. In other words, hold my hand. In other words, they be kissed me. Fill my heart with song and let me sing forevermore. You are all I long for, all I worship and adore.

In other words, please be true. In other words, I love you. La la la la la. La la la la la. Fill my heart with song and let me sing forevermore. You are all I long for, all I worship and adore.

In other words, please be true. In other words, in other words, I love you. Anyway, Let me take another drink. What are some of the other songs? There are so many of them. We are just thinking of dust in the wind by Kansas of...

I am going to look at some of these songs. I am going to write it down over here. Another one by John Denver I know.

[Song/performance excerpt] Sunshine of my shoulders, by the way,

walking out in high, taking me home country roads, back home again. Just one verse of sunshine goes like this. Another quick drink. I am going to do it on time. Oh man. Okay, here goes.

[Song/performance excerpt] Sunshine of my shoulder makes me happy.

[Song/performance excerpt] Sunshine in my eyes can make me cry.

[Song/performance excerpt] Sunshine on the water looks so lovely.

[Song/performance excerpt] Sunshine almost always makes me high.

If I had a song that I could sing for you, I'd sing a song to make you feel this way. If I had a day that I could give to you, I'd give to you a day just like today.

[Song/performance excerpt] Sunshine on my shoulder makes me happy.

[Song/performance excerpt] Sunshine in my eyes can make me cry.

[Song/performance excerpt] Sunshine on the water looks so lovely.

[Song/performance excerpt] Sunshine almost always makes me high.

[Song/performance excerpt] Sunshine almost all the time makes me high.

[Song/performance excerpt] Sunshine almost always, well,

it's a lot of water bottles. There are a minute left. My friends, I hope you enjoy the rest of your day and your weekend, July 4th weekend, creative, the universe. You are awesome and wonderful.

We love you. We know you love us. Please bless us all of your children, you're on earth. And if it could be your will, keep us safe and well. Help us in any way. We need it. We are awesome and great and wonderful.

Thank you for everything in Jesus' name. Amen. Goodbye everybody. Talk to you next week.