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Gino (Part 1) drugs, mental health, homelessness, life on the streets, recovery, faith · Aired Out

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  Speaker 1: Good morning, Good morning everybody either side of forty five
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  Speaker 1: degrees right now in Mary and most of central Vermont,
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  Speaker 1: we're looking at hey, happy Monday, the nineteenth. We're looking
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  Speaker 1: at mostly cloudy skies today and maybe some afternoon rain showers.
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  Speaker 1: Forty five, forty six right now for the daytime high.
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  Speaker 2: How much is it going to warm up?
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  Speaker 1: Maybe another degree for the high the high that's it.
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  Speaker 2: So what you see is what you get right now weatherwise.
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  Speaker 1: All right, cloudy tonight forty my notes, Tomorrow cloudy fifty three,
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  Speaker 1: I know where are the seventies, and then Wednesday cloudy
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  Speaker 1: and sixty degrees, So we're going to warm up a
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  Speaker 1: little bit. Hey, Bikers for Beth yesterday what in event,
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  Speaker 1: Bikers for Beth hundreds of motorcycles turning out to try
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  Speaker 1: to support Eddie c and.
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  Speaker 2: And they did in a big way.
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  Speaker 1: Nine thousand, three hundred and fifty three dollars raised in
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  Speaker 1: just a matter of a couple of hours. As I
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  Speaker 1: posted up this morning, that is tremendous. Almost ten grand
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  Speaker 1: is what our community can put together in a few
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  Speaker 1: hours for somebody that we love who's suffering from colon cancer.
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  Speaker 1: That's incredible way to go. Thanks Gustas, Thanks Cindy, Donna,
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  Speaker 1: Jerry Portress, everybody that's that's part of the committee that
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  Speaker 1: makes this happen. Happy birthday today, Megan Gravel, Donna Sherman,
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  Speaker 1: Tierra Lynn, Beth Cody, Brittany Bauers, Jennifer Blanchard, Elijah Reid,
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  Speaker 1: Trent Sharquette, Ashley Lynch, Abby Maguire, Britney Weston. Happy birthday
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  Speaker 1: from Diana. Yeah, so let's take you into the streets.
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  Speaker 2: We're out and about it this morning, aired out in about.
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  Speaker 1: Hope you can all hear me, just fine, and welcome
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  Speaker 1: to a new day, a new week.
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  Speaker 2: Geo, All right, Jady, can you can everybody hear it?
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  Speaker 2: Just fine?
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  Speaker 1: I'm guessing that you can give me your thumbs up
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  Speaker 1: here or something, give.
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  Speaker 2: Me a something that you can hear. It's just fine.
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  Speaker 2: I believe that you can.
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  Speaker 1: We still have got a few people hopping on this morning, Gino.
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  Speaker 1: But good morning. The hell are you.
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  Speaker 2: Well?
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  Speaker 1: You can see the comments there, so people will comment,
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  Speaker 1: they'll say whatever the hell they want to say.
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  Speaker 3: That's fine.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, it's good.
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  Speaker 1: Freedom of speech can be dangerous, though, can't it sometimes?
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  Speaker 3: Once?
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  Speaker 1: Well, good morning everybody, Yeah, all right, Stacy said, we're
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  Speaker 1: sounding good here.
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  Speaker 2: Just want to make sure jail here. How long have
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  Speaker 2: I known you? Early days of.
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  Speaker 1: I can't say early days of Sherry Lamberton because Sherry
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  Speaker 1: Lamberton goes back like a couple hundred years.
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  Speaker 3: I'm known Serry about eighteen years.
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  Speaker 2: Cheese. Wow. And that's where I met you.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, And I think the last time I may have
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  Speaker 1: seen you was over at the Carry Park.
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  Speaker 2: Was a Currer park, was at the American Legion.
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  Speaker 4: Was carry a park really on vacation, and I went out,
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  Speaker 4: bug deack, what what?
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  Speaker 2: God? Listen.
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  Speaker 1: I think it's great that we're here. We're out on
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  Speaker 1: the We're out on the streets of Barry. We're out
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  Speaker 1: on main street this morning. Even though it's cloudy and
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  Speaker 1: a little drizzly and a little windy, it's a beautiful day, man,
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  Speaker 1: and we're alive.
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  Speaker 3: That's right.
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  Speaker 1: You know you are doing you're you're a big part
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  Speaker 1: of the heading United.
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  Speaker 2: Methodist Church, right, Yes, I am okay.
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  Speaker 4: Pastor Ray over there, Yes, wonderful, wonderful person.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, it's great. Yeah. Yeah. What is she doing with you?
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  Speaker 2: She's doing some peer ministries.
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  Speaker 4: Well, she wants me to do peer ministries because, like
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  Speaker 4: you said, I'm on the streets. I have my own apartment,
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  Speaker 4: but I come down here talk to my friends. I
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  Speaker 4: call her my friends. Well actually to the point, now
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  Speaker 4: we're family. I mean I sit here in the middle
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  Speaker 4: and everybody surrounds me. Now I don't know if it's
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  Speaker 4: because I'm the oldest, but I was in I give advice,
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  Speaker 4: you know, I've helped with. Yes, I'm gonna med money, food,
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  Speaker 4: and a couple of.
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  Speaker 3: Stories real quickly.
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  Speaker 2: Please, how I were here.
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  Speaker 4: Last year, I was walking through the park. I saw
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  Speaker 4: some of my I'm gonna say family, okay, because they are.
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  Speaker 4: And one of them had these foot flops on and
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  Speaker 4: the straps were broken. I had just bought these brand
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  Speaker 4: new sneakers. I took them off and gave.
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  Speaker 3: Them to her.
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  Speaker 4: I walked home in my socks, you know. And it's
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  Speaker 4: not that I feel bad, but I've been there. I'm
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  Speaker 4: an ex add it. I've been homeless. I've been through
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  Speaker 4: some of.
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  Speaker 3: The stuff that they have been through.
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  Speaker 4: And I think it kind of helps them to know
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  Speaker 4: that I care and I will listen to their stories.
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  Speaker 4: You know, you have to have kindness, and that's what
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  Speaker 4: I do. And they highly respect me. When I'm sitting here,
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  Speaker 4: they all come over. They'll say hi to me going
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  Speaker 4: down the street. So Pastay came up with this thing
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  Speaker 4: about being a pay a minister ministry. Excuse me because
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  Speaker 4: I'm out here and you know, and it just in
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  Speaker 4: some ways it does break my heart because I know
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  Speaker 4: how it feels. You know, nobody was there for me
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  Speaker 4: when I was homeless and going through the stuff I
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  Speaker 4: went through. I want to be there for them.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, I'm not.
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  Speaker 4: Rich, but I have a heart and I think that's
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  Speaker 4: what you need. I was walking down the street last
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  Speaker 4: week and saw somebody. Yes they were an addict. I'm
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  Speaker 4: not going to mention no names, and I know her
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  Speaker 4: and we were talking. I went a cigarette together, and
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  Speaker 4: when we got done talking, I gave a hob as
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  Speaker 4: she cried.
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  Speaker 3: Now, I don't know if has anybody done that only
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  Speaker 3: or because you knows. I'm there And I volunteer at
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  Speaker 3: heading church.
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  Speaker 4: I do donations where I sort out clothes and stuff
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  Speaker 4: like that. So when they go to the community on
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  Speaker 4: Friday night, there's tables of clothes that you know, bacon
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  Speaker 4: grab and I make sure it's full every Friday night.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, we have the fruit shell.
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  Speaker 4: You know, diaper depot, I mean everything, and it's getting
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  Speaker 4: to me.
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  Speaker 3: A little bit. But that's okay. And you know, I
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  Speaker 3: don't know.
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  Speaker 4: I think, like I said, I think it's because I've
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  Speaker 4: been there, you know, I you know, did pills, snorted,
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  Speaker 4: did coke a couple of times, whiskey, vodka, beer, And
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  Speaker 4: I think at times that time it's because I felt
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  Speaker 4: like I was helpless and nobody was there.
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  Speaker 3: I have Friday commits suicide a couple of times.
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  Speaker 4: I'm a burner with cigarettes cutter and the only way
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  Speaker 4: that I really got help is through Washington County Mental
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  Speaker 4: Health client and I go to Sunrise Awesome some program. Yes,
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  Speaker 4: And my kind of my attitude is if I'm sitting
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  Speaker 4: here with my I call them my family.
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  Speaker 3: Doesn't mean it doesn't matter if they're homeless.
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  Speaker 4: They have a place to live, but they're going through problems.
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  Speaker 4: I don't want to lose out, you know, because they
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  Speaker 4: know that I will be there. I might not have
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  Speaker 4: money all the time. I'm not rich, but I have
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  Speaker 4: a rich heart. And I think with the experience, I mean,
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  Speaker 4: knowing what they're going through is helping me help them.
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  Speaker 3: Of course, And you know, and if there's a bunch
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  Speaker 3: of us, even.
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  Speaker 4: A few of us, sit and we all say goodbye.
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  Speaker 4: We give everybody a hug saying, we say I love you,
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  Speaker 4: and then they'll say, do you know we'll see it
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  Speaker 4: tomorrow so we can talk.
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  Speaker 3: You know.
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  Speaker 4: And someone said to me that don't focus on yourself. Well, JD,
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  Speaker 4: I'm not focusing on myself.
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  Speaker 3: I'm not looking for glory. I'm not looking for anything.
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  Speaker 4: I just want to let people know that these people
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  Speaker 4: on the street do need help.
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  Speaker 3: They don't know where to go.
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  Speaker 4: If we can let them know where to go where
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  Speaker 4: they can get help, then we.
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  Speaker 3: Have accomplished something.
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  Speaker 4: And that's what I wanted them. You know, if one
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  Speaker 4: of them comes over and reaches a hand out to
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  Speaker 4: me and say, GINO, I really need help.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, come with me and we'll do what we can.
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  Speaker 3: And I pray to God every day to give.
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  Speaker 4: Me the strength and the courage to do what I'm doing.
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  Speaker 4: I will always love them. I was always sit with them.
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  Speaker 4: I'll always listen and give them advice. Maybe it's not
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  Speaker 4: the best advice, but I try.
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  Speaker 2: You know, you're the real deal.
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  Speaker 1: You know, you know you're you're the You're the the
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  Speaker 1: example of someone who's on a real glassroots level, a
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  Speaker 1: mover and a shaker. You're you're the one that's You're
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  Speaker 1: also you know, really somewhat of an example of kind
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  Speaker 1: of a success story of you can you can get
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  Speaker 1: an apartment, you can kind of turn your life around,
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  Speaker 1: you can get clean.
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  Speaker 2: Are you clean?
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  Speaker 3: Yes? I am nine years May.
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  Speaker 2: First, really nine years.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: I tell my life around, not just for me, but
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  Speaker 4: for my son, you know. And I know it was
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  Speaker 4: rough on him seeing me that sometimes the way I was,
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  Speaker 4: and it hurt me.
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  Speaker 2: But for someone to.
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  Speaker 1: For someone to get clean, get their life together, get
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  Speaker 1: an apartment, get some real things figured out, to be
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  Speaker 1: still connected with a community.
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  Speaker 2: That is on that dark road, that dark path that
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  Speaker 2: you were on.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, that's really that really says something about you, because
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  Speaker 1: a lot of people that get clean, they have to
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  Speaker 1: completely wipe the slate clean and start fresh and not be.
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  Speaker 2: Connected, you know, jay Dene, And they are connected.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, every day I'm out here, even if I don't
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  Speaker 4: need anything, I just come here.
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  Speaker 3: So they know that I am here, and they always.
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  Speaker 4: Say to me, some of them call me mom, com
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  Speaker 4: are you going to be.
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  Speaker 3: Here tomorrow at this time? Yes, I am meet me here,
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  Speaker 3: be here.
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  Speaker 4: In fact, before you showed up, somebody I know that
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  Speaker 4: is homeless, cold, want a cup of coffee, something to eat,
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  Speaker 4: and I gave fin dollars.
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  Speaker 3: I might not have it all the time and they
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  Speaker 3: know that, and they.
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  Speaker 4: Respect me because I respect them no matter who they are.
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  Speaker 3: I don't put them down.
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  Speaker 4: I don't look at them differently because I know, I
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  Speaker 4: know how hard it is, you know, and addiction is
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  Speaker 4: one of the most hardest things that you can get over.
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  Speaker 4: I relapsed, got back on my feet. I relapsed, got
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  Speaker 4: back on my feet. It might take, you know, a
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  Speaker 4: few times to do it, but you can do it.
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  Speaker 4: Just reach out, ask somebody for help, ask me. I'm here,
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  Speaker 4: I will help you. We can make phone calls Dali Vista.
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  Speaker 4: These places in New YMA. This place is in Massachusetts,
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  Speaker 4: you know. And you got Washington County, this therapist, outcatient,
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  Speaker 4: anything that you think you need.
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  Speaker 3: And I look at it like if I sit here fifteen.
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  Speaker 4: Minutes, an hour, two hours, the hours you're not doing
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  Speaker 4: it because you're with me, and that itself, JD JD
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  Speaker 4: is an accomplishment to them, not to me.
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  Speaker 1: You know, you know, I had a conversation in the
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  Speaker 1: car yesterday with with with Lily and were she was
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  Speaker 1: talking about things that she wants to be or could be,
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  Speaker 1: and you know, she talked about being a veterinarian, she
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  Speaker 1: talked about being a firefighter.
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  Speaker 2: I even said, you know, you could be an astronaut,
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  Speaker 2: and she looked at me and she was like really bad,
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  Speaker 2: you know.
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  Speaker 1: But I mean we talked about all these things that
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  Speaker 1: she could do with her life, and I said to her,
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  Speaker 1: you can do anything that you want to do.
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  Speaker 2: If you want to do it badly enough.
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  Speaker 1: And that's one of the big takeaways that we've had
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  Speaker 1: in conversations with folks that are using and trying to
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  Speaker 1: get clean or whatever. You can have all of the
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  Speaker 1: resources in the world. There's tons of resources around here,
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  Speaker 1: my god. I mean they're everywhere on a state level,
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  Speaker 1: on a local level. I mean, you've got Capstone, You've
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  Speaker 1: got all these churches, but you've got Value Vista and
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  Speaker 1: many other rehab centers and whatnot. But man, it's like,
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  Speaker 1: if you don't want to do it badly enough, you
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  Speaker 1: can have all the resources in the world and that
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  Speaker 1: ain't gonna amount to shit. That's I think You've got
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  Speaker 1: to You've got to want it. Men, You've got to
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  Speaker 1: really want to do it.
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  Speaker 5: It's not going to be really heard.
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  Speaker 2: I think some don't know where to go.
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  Speaker 3: They're confused within themselves.
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  Speaker 2: They think that.
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  Speaker 4: Maybe they're bad because of the things that they do.
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  Speaker 4: But I'm telling you, you've all had a rough life.
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  Speaker 3: I know.
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  Speaker 4: When I was growing up, you know, it was like physical, sexual, mental,
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  Speaker 4: emotional reviews. And I think that's what made me turn
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  Speaker 4: to popping pills, drinking whiskey vodka.
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  Speaker 3: I'm I'm and I'm a runner, and things bother me.
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  Speaker 4: I used to run and not tell anybody because I
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  Speaker 4: had to be in my own mind and figure out
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  Speaker 4: what is going on and there is how if you
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  Speaker 4: don't know where to go or what to do for
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  Speaker 4: the next step, come to me. I'm new in PA ministry,
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  Speaker 4: but like I said.
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  Speaker 3: You're my family. I'll be here. You know, I'm here
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  Speaker 3: every day. Come to me.
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  Speaker 4: We'll talk, ask me for advice, anything to get you
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  Speaker 4: through what is going what you're going through. And people
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  Speaker 4: don't realize that maybe there's a lot of stuff that's happened.
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  Speaker 3: In their life that made them turn to an addiction.
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  Speaker 1: We don't know that, but my god, it could happen
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  Speaker 1: to any of us. Man, yes, and I will that.
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  Speaker 1: I don't care if you're some fancy bank executive where.
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