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  Speaker 1: Sat and Contu.
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  Speaker 2: All right, good morning, gang, it's gonna be a sunny
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  Speaker 2: and hot one today. We're at sixty three degrees and
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  Speaker 2: I'll say this, enjoy it while you can. We're getting
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  Speaker 2: up to eighty five today. It is gonna be yes
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  Speaker 2: sunny and hot, right back to summertime. Please don't keep
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  Speaker 2: your dog in the car today. Make sure your pets
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  Speaker 2: are at home and have plenty of water and some
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  Speaker 2: shade and are safe. It is so easy to get
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  Speaker 2: distracted when you have your pet in the car and
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  Speaker 2: you forget. It happens to so many of us, So
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  Speaker 2: just keep that in mind. Today and tomorrow too. Partly
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  Speaker 2: cloudy tonight, sixty seven Tomorrow, rain and thunderstorms in the forecast,
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  Speaker 2: but still going to be muggy. Eighty two Wednesday. Middle
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  Speaker 2: of the week mostly sunny and eighty three similar to today,
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  Speaker 2: just a pinch cooler, and then we get back to
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  Speaker 2: the scattered thunderstorms with some sun and some clouds on Thursday.
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  Speaker 2: Finish up the week with a little bit of a
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  Speaker 2: cooler weather on Friday. Well, Thursday and Friday actually with
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  Speaker 2: the sun and the clouds and the seventies upper seventies
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  Speaker 2: by the end of the Week again, Thursday and Friday.
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  Speaker 2: Birthdays today Jason Fleoreri on the birthday list, Teena Hastings,
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  Speaker 2: Ralph Perkins, Scott Hutchins, Emily Quinn, Bert Wendell, Emmy Lynn,
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  Speaker 2: Barb Gerlach Boy, there's a lot of people here, Nate Houseman,
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  Speaker 2: Emma Whedon, Dustin Jean. I'm sure I'm screwing some of
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  Speaker 2: these names up, and I apologize. Sarah Sikio, Brian Smith.
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  Speaker 2: There's an easy one, Cecil Johnson, Janey Evans, and Cassandra Ann.
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  Speaker 2: Red Sox last night fell to the Blue Jays five
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  Speaker 2: to three. They're going to start it up with the
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  Speaker 2: Reds Tonight. Yankees crushed the Athletics twelve to five. Blue
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  Speaker 2: Jays tonight. Mountaineers got to the ballpark yesterday Ocean State
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  Speaker 2: and Vermont, splitting the doubleheader and the season series. Sunday
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  Speaker 2: evening Waves took the the first game eight to one,
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  Speaker 2: then the Mountaineers split the series with a five to
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  Speaker 2: win in Game two. And it was just so nice
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  Speaker 2: to be at the ballpark last night and to see that.
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  Speaker 2: It was amazing. I loved it and I can't wait
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  Speaker 2: to get back from Mont's gonna get today off. They're
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  Speaker 2: going to travel to Upper Valley to take on the
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  Speaker 2: night Hawks for this second of six games in this
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  Speaker 2: season series Lake Monsters. They broke open a two run
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  Speaker 2: lead to beat the Nashaua Silver Knights thirteen to nine.
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  Speaker 2: So the next game is going to be tomorrow against Worcester.
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  Speaker 2: They're getting ready for the next worst, which is going
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  Speaker 2: to be starting up here at the next CDL training course.
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  Speaker 2: It's just a couple of days. If you haven't yet
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  Speaker 2: learned more about it, do so, it's not too late.
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  Speaker 2: A two two, seven, nine thirty three, twenty five. Uh.
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  Speaker 2: And of course Washington County Mental Health. I'm wearing one
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  Speaker 2: of their shirts this morning. I love Washington County Mental Health.
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  Speaker 2: And there's a an individual right next to me who
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  Speaker 2: absolutely loves Washington County Health as well. Gino, Good morning,
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  Speaker 2: j Man. I'm so happy to see you in here.
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  Speaker 2: How this year you're your first time in the studio.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, we usually do it else high.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, right. That was the first time that that I
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  Speaker 2: had had you on aired out we were sitting on
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  Speaker 2: the steps down down the road a little bit.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, and then we also did the Pierre Paloozone. Yeah
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  Speaker 4: to Washington County.
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  Speaker 2: That's right. You love Washington County Mental Health just like me.
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  Speaker 2: We both do really love them.
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  Speaker 3: They've helped me out a lot so well.
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  Speaker 4: They help me get my apartment, they help me get
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  Speaker 4: on meds, help me go through that program Sunrise, yes,
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  Speaker 4: case manager therapist, so they keep me in line.
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  Speaker 2: Are you still connected with them? Yes? Good, Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I go to Sunrise probably about three.
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  Speaker 4: Days a week nowacause I'm usually at heading church volunteering,
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  Speaker 4: doing what I need to do over there.
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  Speaker 3: So so I.
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  Speaker 2: Wanna, I wanna. We're gonna be talking about, uh, we're
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  Speaker 2: gonna take it to the streets this morning, even though
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  Speaker 2: you're sitting on this beautiful couch, but but street life
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  Speaker 2: here in central Vermont, and what's we're gonna every now
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  Speaker 2: and then I'm gonna have you on the air. We're
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  Speaker 2: gonna do kind of a little snapshot of what the
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  Speaker 2: hell's going on in Barry City, specifically Barry City, because
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  Speaker 2: you are very connected to the streets every day. You
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  Speaker 2: every single day, seven days a week, and you know
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  Speaker 2: everybody and their.
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  Speaker 4: Brother about and maybe some of their family members I've
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  Speaker 4: never met.
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  Speaker 3: They tell me about.
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  Speaker 2: People people drive down the road and yell out to Gino.
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  Speaker 3: I don't even know them.
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  Speaker 2: You don't even all the time, though, yeah, just about
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  Speaker 2: you are very very very well known. Oh yeah, So
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  Speaker 2: tell us a little bit about your your life, which
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  Speaker 2: has not been easy. However, you have made some great
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  Speaker 2: strides and you're now really got it. You got it together.
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  Speaker 2: Now tell me about it. Where did you Where did
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  Speaker 2: you grow up?
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  Speaker 4: I'm the old Boston Okay. My mom had six kids,
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  Speaker 4: six kids, Yeah, raised us all on our own.
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  Speaker 2: All right. So did you go to elementary school down there?
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  Speaker 4: I went to elementary and middle school, and then we
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  Speaker 4: moved to Keen, New Hampshire. I went to the high
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  Speaker 4: school and that's where I graduated in nineteen eighty four.
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  Speaker 2: In where New Hampshire, in Keene, New Hampshire, all right,
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  Speaker 2: graduated in eighty four. Yes, those were good, No, No,
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  Speaker 2: those were good years.
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  Speaker 3: Oh I loved it.
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  Speaker 2: Those were good. The music was great back then. Were
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  Speaker 2: you listening to what were you listening to a little
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  Speaker 2: Duran Durant.
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  Speaker 3: No, it was mostly country.
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  Speaker 2: Oh you were a country girl.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean I knew some of the soft talk
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  Speaker 4: it and it's you know, I was thinking about it
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  Speaker 4: the other day that I actually I think did that
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  Speaker 4: back in school?
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  Speaker 2: Okay?
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  Speaker 3: Help people.
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  Speaker 2: How so.
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  Speaker 3: Well?
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  Speaker 4: Homework if they didn't want to walk home alone? You know,
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  Speaker 4: just talking.
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  Speaker 2: Did you have a lot of did you have a
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  Speaker 2: lot of friends?
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  Speaker 4: You're kidding me, everybody, all right, I had a lot
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  Speaker 4: of friends.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, So then what you you finish up high school?
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  Speaker 2: And then what you do?
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  Speaker 3: Well?
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  Speaker 4: I went stay with a friend of mine for a while,
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  Speaker 4: and then I came back to Barry and actually I
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  Speaker 4: did ln A for twenty years. You were in LA
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  Speaker 4: for twenty years whereabouts New Hampshire. Okay, I'm here in Barry,
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  Speaker 4: Saint John's Berry. I get home out.
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  Speaker 2: That's tough work, man, That's like, that is really tough work.
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  Speaker 3: Well now you know.
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  Speaker 4: And then I got pregnant. I had my son in
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  Speaker 4: nineteen eighty nine, and it's his mom.
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  Speaker 2: It's his birthday July third, July third, which is like
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  Speaker 2: coming up real soon here in a couple of days.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I told him the other day he was getting
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  Speaker 3: to be a no fart.
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  Speaker 2: Sorry, So, so you're you're pregnant here.
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  Speaker 3: In nineteen eighty eight.
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  Speaker 4: I got pregnant, had John in eighty nine, single mom, worked,
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  Speaker 4: went to college.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, where'd you go to college?
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  Speaker 3: I went to CCV and I did my.
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  Speaker 4: LNA, you know, classes and stuff like that, and I
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  Speaker 4: actually got ninety nine on the written and one hundred
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  Speaker 4: on the oorl So.
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  Speaker 2: You're you're really frankly kicking ass here. You're a single mom,
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  Speaker 2: you're going to college and you're in LNA.
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  Speaker 3: Yep.
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  Speaker 2: Wow.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: I did home, my health, I did hospice, worked in
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  Speaker 4: nursing homes.
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  Speaker 2: And then so then then what you got? You got
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  Speaker 2: a little boy.
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  Speaker 4: Just do the best I could. Okay, he had everything
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  Speaker 4: you wanted. And if it wasn't for you know, my
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  Speaker 4: mom and my dad too helping out.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: My dad was like amazing with John. Took him fishing
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  Speaker 4: and bottom, you know, places went to the store bottom
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  Speaker 4: because every time I turned around he needed new sneakers.
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  Speaker 3: His feet were going too fast.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, so what happened then? Did?
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  Speaker 3: I stayed at Saint Johnsbury for a while.
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  Speaker 1: And.
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  Speaker 2: John's a little a little kid now he's a little
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  Speaker 2: a toddler and how is life going good? And and
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  Speaker 2: then what.
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  Speaker 4: I'm telling you, I was very hard though working during
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  Speaker 4: my life, my nursing taking care of him. But you
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  Speaker 4: know what, that little boy got everything he wanted.
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  Speaker 2: And then what happened after that? Did you?
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  Speaker 4: I went back down to New Hampshire because I was
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  Speaker 4: offered a job at Woodridge.
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  Speaker 3: Urs Home in Wolfboro, Okay.
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  Speaker 4: And stayed with a good friend of mine for a while,
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  Speaker 4: and so I got on my feet, got an apartment.
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  Speaker 4: I worked in Wolfboro I think, I want to say,
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  Speaker 4: almost three years, and then my family wanted me to
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  Speaker 4: come back up here, so I came back up here
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  Speaker 4: and then I worked for Caledonia Home Health for ten years.
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  Speaker 2: Did did everything go? Was? Was everything going well? Were
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  Speaker 2: you want to?
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  Speaker 1: Well?
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  Speaker 3: Off?
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  Speaker 2: And on?
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  Speaker 3: I mean there was days that.
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  Speaker 4: I just couldn't understand Why here I am with this
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  Speaker 4: you know child?
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  Speaker 3: Why did his father.
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  Speaker 4: Father only has bothered with John two times in thirty
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  Speaker 4: six years. And it's sad. You know, he's a good kid,
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  Speaker 4: real good kid. Yes it's downfalls, but everybody does. And
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  Speaker 4: he still comes to Mama for advice and help, which
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  Speaker 4: I'm always gonna do I'm never going to turn my
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  Speaker 4: son down.
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  Speaker 3: I don't care if he's fifty.
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  Speaker 4: Good for you and he knows.
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  Speaker 3: You know. I did drink, but it wasn't like when
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  Speaker 3: he was a baby.
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  Speaker 2: No.
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  Speaker 3: Never, Yeah, when you get older, you know, ten twelve
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  Speaker 3: years old?
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  Speaker 2: What happened with the drinking? Did it get out of control?
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  Speaker 3: Yes?
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  Speaker 4: And I had to quit my job because it was
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  Speaker 4: just getting you know, get up in the morning and
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  Speaker 4: have a beer, have some pot, go to work, and
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  Speaker 4: I just I just couldn't do it anymore. I loved
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  Speaker 4: my job, I loved what I was doing, but it
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  Speaker 4: was taking a toll. I mean, my son was seeing it,
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  Speaker 4: you know, and I was going through all that, and but.
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  Speaker 2: It was he here to quit the job that it was. Yes,
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  Speaker 2: the booze and the pot hot and the pills and
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  Speaker 2: the pills, but.
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  Speaker 4: You know, I almost My son was about ten or twelve,
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  Speaker 4: no ten, sorry, and I ended up in the psych ward.
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  Speaker 4: So he stayed with my brother. And it was the
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  Speaker 4: hardest thing for me to do, but it was either
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  Speaker 4: that or lose him to the state, and that was
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  Speaker 4: not going to happen.
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  Speaker 3: They would have had to fight me.
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  Speaker 2: So when your son was ten that's when you we
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  Speaker 2: really started kicking it into a gear of life getting
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  Speaker 2: really hard and complicated for you with.
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  Speaker 4: Addiction, Yes, and the burning and what's burning? Burning my
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  Speaker 4: arm with cigarettes? And I just I guess I was
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  Speaker 4: just lost. I mean, don't get me wrong. I mean,
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  Speaker 4: I don't want to have my kid go somewhere. But
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  Speaker 4: it wasn't good for him. Sure, you know to me, yes,
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  Speaker 4: it was bad for me, but it was probably worse
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  Speaker 4: on him.
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  Speaker 2: I've I've never admittedly, I uh, I'm extremely ignorant with
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  Speaker 2: regard to understanding burning, cutting self harm. I don't. I
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  Speaker 2: don't understand it. I know that it's a it's a
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  Speaker 2: real diagnosable mental illness. It is that some people can
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  Speaker 2: never get beyond. But this, I just I want to
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  Speaker 2: ask you, like, what made you start to burn yourself
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  Speaker 2: with with this?
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  Speaker 4: I think most is because I wasn't you know, connected
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  Speaker 4: to Austin County Mental Health at the point. But you know,
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  Speaker 4: you ask sometimes someone did ask me that time, why
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  Speaker 4: do you do it? I said, if I burned my arm,
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  Speaker 4: then maybe the stuff that's going on will come out
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  Speaker 4: and I don't have to deal with it. But you
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  Speaker 4: know what, it was still there yeah, and a lot
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  Speaker 4: of people I think, feel the same way I do.
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  Speaker 4: If you cut yourself, maybe whatever your feeling is going
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  Speaker 4: to drain.
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  Speaker 2: Out, yeah, or distract you for a while and distract you.
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  Speaker 4: I had blackouts sometimes, you know, I didn't even know
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  Speaker 4: what I was doing. I used to trash my place
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  Speaker 4: and punch walls.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I just couldn't control what was going on in my head.
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  Speaker 2: And when I chatted with you, when we sat out
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  Speaker 2: here on the streets, you told me that you had
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  Speaker 2: attempted suicide.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, a couple of times.
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  Speaker 2: A couple of times.
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  Speaker 4: Pills cutting myself. I took pills and then I drank alcohol.
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  Speaker 4: I had to go up to the hospital and they
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  Speaker 4: had a pump my stomach. I had to drink that
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  Speaker 4: tackle that's not very good a few times.
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  Speaker 2: Gino, What about other drugs?
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  Speaker 4: I tried colked a couple of times, but that was it, Okay.
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  Speaker 4: My main thing was drinking and pills.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 4: Actually, a couple of years ago, they finally trusted me
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  Speaker 4: to take my own.
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  Speaker 3: I used to have.
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  Speaker 4: One of the nurses from Washington County would have to
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  Speaker 4: come and deliver my pills for the day morning and
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  Speaker 4: and I hated it. Yeah, you know, I felt like
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  Speaker 4: I was a child again. It just didn't feel right.
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  Speaker 2: You, at some point were able to get back on track,
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  Speaker 2: you say, with much help from Washington County Mental Health.
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  Speaker 2: But you were able to turn the corner and Gino.
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  Speaker 2: You know that that is not something that happens to
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  Speaker 2: a lot of people that are able to turn that
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  Speaker 2: corner and to see the light. That doesn't happen to most.
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  Speaker 2: Once you get on a road, it's tough to get off.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it is. It took me a long time.
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  Speaker 2: But you you got it together.
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  Speaker 3: Well. You know, like I said last time, j D.
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  Speaker 4: You know, when I was in the homeless shelter on
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  Speaker 4: the streets, my son, you know, stay with his girlfriend,
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  Speaker 4: but it was he couldn't come over and visit his mom.
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  Speaker 4: We couldn't spend a lot of time together. And I say,
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  Speaker 4: you know what, I got to get my crap together.
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  Speaker 4: My son already went through enough. I don't want him
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  Speaker 4: to go through it the rest of his life. Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: and that was my main focus was my kid.
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  Speaker 2: You uh, you are somewhat of now you have just
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  Speaker 2: you've seen you seem like you've become somewhat of a crusader.
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  Speaker 2: For lack of a better term, someone who's mission in life,
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  Speaker 2: goal purpose has been to try to help others that
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  Speaker 2: have been on a similar road as you are. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: all of our roads are unique. But when it comes
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  Speaker 2: to substance use disorder, when it comes to mental health,
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  Speaker 2: when it comes to homelessness, and they're all interconnected so
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  Speaker 2: so well and tightly. Unfortunately you you, you have a
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  Speaker 2: sense of relatability that is massive, and you've teamed up
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  Speaker 2: with the Heading Church. Yes, Pastor Ray, tell me about
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  Speaker 2: Pastor Ray. Pastorray, first of all, is amazing. I was
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  Speaker 2: at the one of the community meals a couple of
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  Speaker 2: weeks ago and we were talking about me being out there,
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  Speaker 2: and Pastor Ray actually gave me a first aid kid
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  Speaker 2: and it's gotten our candidet. I carry it every day
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  Speaker 2: in my backpack and she checks in. Actually, Wednesday at
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  Speaker 2: ten o'clock, Pastorray and I are gonna meet. I'm studying
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  Speaker 2: not a trend. What's this?
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  Speaker 3: Whatding crosses?
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  Speaker 2: Are you making?
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  Speaker 5: Those?
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  Speaker 3: No?
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  Speaker 4: Somebody made them years and years ago when they redid
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  Speaker 4: Heading Church. He actually took a piece of the wood
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  Speaker 4: from Heading Church and made crosses. So like I gave
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  Speaker 4: somebody one of my favorite crosses, but it didn't matter
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  Speaker 4: to me. And you know some people are out there
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  Speaker 4: asking about crosses. So I talked to Pastor Ray Wednesday
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  Speaker 4: morning at ten o'clock. We're gonna say a prayer over
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  Speaker 4: the crosses. I'm gonna find some strength put in my
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  Speaker 4: backpack when somebody asks me about a cross.
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  Speaker 2: There you go, wow, just the other day you were
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  Speaker 2: out Barry City Park and you met this guy doc.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, actually I just had barely met him the night
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  Speaker 4: before at the community meal and we clicked right off.
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  Speaker 2: You had a brief conversation with him on camera, but
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  Speaker 2: a long, long chat.
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  Speaker 3: About an hour and a half.
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  Speaker 2: Let's uh can replace some of it. Sure, here it is.
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  Speaker 6: And I have emotional uh uh so brey cats, I
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  Speaker 6: have wicked BEDSD and I don't harm anybody WoT in
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  Speaker 6: Washington two one five, But I have to get back
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  Speaker 6: in and get my babies, my cats.
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  Speaker 3: And you're also a vetteranter.
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  Speaker 7: Yes, m And I went to my doctor social worker
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  Speaker 7: ding dong and know I'm almost and right here in
• 22:32
  Speaker 7: the park very Vermont should be obviously, but I care
• 22:40
  Speaker 7: about people, care about.
• 22:42
  Speaker 5: Babies obviously, and uh yeah, uh, I'm just diagnosed more
• 22:52
  Speaker 5: likely have Parkinsons as well.
• 22:56
  Speaker 7: But I'm stayed my feet and hopefully, uh these work
• 23:08
  Speaker 7: out right. I'm trying to nick it Shimble advent through
• 23:15
  Speaker 7: a lot of okayn and uh. I want to pass
• 23:25
  Speaker 7: on to people. Please stay true to your self. The Lord,
• 23:31
  Speaker 7: the Creator, he's always with. Do you want to let
• 23:36
  Speaker 7: us to be a heck?
• 23:37
  Speaker 4: Okay, I'll tell you right now, people, this is one
• 23:46
  Speaker 4: of the strongest guys I have ever met. He is real,
• 23:49
  Speaker 4: he is true, and he's amazing. This is what's happening
• 23:54
  Speaker 4: in Barry. We nearly need to help these people out.
• 23:58
  Speaker 4: If you see anybody a Shadows, say you care.
• 24:02
  Speaker 8: Twenty eight of June twenty twenty five. Right now, I'm
• 24:13
  Speaker 8: Mark James too close. But I'm known as Doc because
• 24:17
  Speaker 8: I can smack you or I choose you, saved you.
• 24:20
  Speaker 8: That's why I'm known as doctor. So that's why I'm
• 24:23
  Speaker 8: an asag Doc.
• 24:26
  Speaker 4: If you guys see him, give him a hand out,
• 24:29
  Speaker 4: give him a shake of the hand. Veteran right here
• 24:33
  Speaker 4: served our country, homeless, he needs to help. See him
• 24:38
  Speaker 4: walk over, give him a handshake, give him a prayer.
• 24:42
  Speaker 3: I love you, Doc. Everybody take care. Bye.
• 24:49
  Speaker 4: Wow and when was when was hot Saturday? Okay, I
• 24:56
  Speaker 4: went over. Well, actually I went and grabbed the coffee first,
• 25:00
  Speaker 4: I went to heading charge looked around, and then I said, well,
• 25:04
  Speaker 4: I'm going to head to the park. I saw Doc
• 25:06
  Speaker 4: from across the street actually, and I said, well, I'm
• 25:10
  Speaker 4: going to go over.
• 25:11
  Speaker 3: And that's all it took.
• 25:12
  Speaker 2: Yeah, normally, that's all it does take is just an
• 25:22
  Speaker 2: open heart of willingness just to have a conversation with someone.
• 25:27
  Speaker 2: And we often don't and for various reasons, and we
• 25:33
  Speaker 2: often can't, and we're hesitant as a as a society
• 25:43
  Speaker 2: to approach folks. We're not sure what their story is.
• 25:49
  Speaker 2: We're not sure if they're high on drugs, we're not
• 25:52
  Speaker 2: sure if they're mentally ill, if they're violent. I mean,
• 25:56
  Speaker 2: we are protective of ourselves, as we should be, but
• 26:03
  Speaker 2: sometimes it just takes a tiny little bit, yes, it does,
• 26:09
  Speaker 2: to have a conversation with someone and learn that they're
• 26:17
  Speaker 2: not necessarily a threat, No they're not, they're not necessarily
• 26:23
  Speaker 2: high on drugs, and that they've got a real story.
• 26:33
  Speaker 4: Well, you know, a lot of the homeless people that
• 26:35
  Speaker 4: do meet they're good people, and some of them do
• 26:40
  Speaker 4: not do drugs. They're just down and out right now,
• 26:45
  Speaker 4: you know. And I actually basically can walk up to anybody. Hey,
• 26:52
  Speaker 4: how's it going. You guys having a good day today?
• 26:54
  Speaker 4: And you know you have to set your boundaries. Yes, now,
• 27:00
  Speaker 4: if you see someone that is HI or anything like that,
• 27:08
  Speaker 4: just wave, So how's it gone?
• 27:10
  Speaker 3: Let them come to you.
• 27:13
  Speaker 4: And yesterday I waited and I waited like within an
• 27:16
  Speaker 4: hour to feel out how Doc was and I was
• 27:20
  Speaker 4: to get that connection and we got along great. And
• 27:27
  Speaker 4: I asked him can I interview you for ad out?
• 27:30
  Speaker 4: And I explained to him what it was. I showed
• 27:33
  Speaker 4: him a little bit of what you and I did
• 27:35
  Speaker 4: on my phone and I said, well, you don't have
• 27:38
  Speaker 4: to use your real name, and I said, and I
• 27:42
  Speaker 4: don't even have to show you. I'll put it on
• 27:45
  Speaker 4: where it just shows me. And he said, now that's fine,
• 27:49
  Speaker 4: tape me. I'll use Doc. And then before we started,
• 27:54
  Speaker 4: I said, it's your lead. You tell me what you
• 27:59
  Speaker 4: want to say.
• 28:02
  Speaker 2: Some people are are very up for speaking publicly, and.
• 28:08
  Speaker 3: Yes, Doc is one of them. They already talked to him.
• 28:11
  Speaker 2: There's plenty others that are not.
• 28:14
  Speaker 3: Well, I think what it is JD.
• 28:16
  Speaker 4: You got to approach him at a certain time, you
• 28:19
  Speaker 4: know what I mean, talk to him for a while
• 28:22
  Speaker 4: and then kind of like slowly put it in there
• 28:26
  Speaker 4: like I did yesterday.
• 28:32
  Speaker 2: What do you know about Brandon Carbo?
• 28:37
  Speaker 4: I know he's still in jail, and I really hope
• 28:41
  Speaker 4: that when he gets out, you stay on the straight
• 28:44
  Speaker 4: and arrow. But the only thing is you just have
• 28:49
  Speaker 4: to wait and see. You know, he's gonna have to
• 28:52
  Speaker 4: make that choice, not anybody else.
• 28:55
  Speaker 2: What got him into jail.
• 28:58
  Speaker 4: You know, I'm not sure because it's when you're on
• 29:01
  Speaker 4: the street. You hear so many stories, you know, so
• 29:04
  Speaker 4: I don't know exactly, you know, I just listen, and
• 29:11
  Speaker 4: you know, one person will say, well, Brandon went to
• 29:14
  Speaker 4: jail for this, so you want to joie for that,
• 29:15
  Speaker 4: And I'm like, okay.
• 29:17
  Speaker 2: Yeah, clearly he's he was still using. In the weeks
• 29:28
  Speaker 2: that followed my brief sit down with him, I saw
• 29:33
  Speaker 2: him several times, yeah, and he was clearly impaired, and
• 29:40
  Speaker 2: a few times right up close and he didn't recognize me.
• 29:47
  Speaker 2: But it's a there's a lot of a lot of
• 29:55
  Speaker 2: feelings that get evoked from this from so many of
• 29:59
  Speaker 2: us in the commun unity, and we see it all
• 30:03
  Speaker 2: the time, and we see it on Facebook all the time.
• 30:06
  Speaker 2: Primarily it seems like there's a sector of us that
• 30:11
  Speaker 2: is very angry. We're frustrated. We have lost our tolerance
• 30:18
  Speaker 2: for this. We've had enough. It's a situation that has
• 30:26
  Speaker 2: grown out of control right here in our immediate city,
• 30:30
  Speaker 2: but in other surrounding communities as well Vermont as a
• 30:34
  Speaker 2: whole the country. And we have a lot of finger
• 30:44
  Speaker 2: pointing that's going on, a lot of reasoning behind this situation,
• 30:56
  Speaker 2: this drug epidemic, homeless epidemic, hearing fromont We have our own,
• 31:05
  Speaker 2: our own problems, which are not necessarily unique to other states.
• 31:11
  Speaker 2: But man, we've we've got some stuff that's pretty stacked
• 31:14
  Speaker 2: up high.
• 31:15
  Speaker 3: Yeah, but you know what, It's like a lot of things.
• 31:21
  Speaker 3: What do we do?
• 31:23
  Speaker 2: You know?
• 31:24
  Speaker 4: And I have connected with Turning Point. They gave me
• 31:30
  Speaker 4: some flyers which I've given out, and two Fridays ago,
• 31:38
  Speaker 4: after the community meal, they have a class for addiction upstairs.
• 31:44
  Speaker 3: Yeah, the room was full. Now.
• 31:48
  Speaker 4: I don't know if it's because they see what's going
• 31:53
  Speaker 4: on with people odin and dying, yeah, or is it
• 31:57
  Speaker 4: a combination of me talking to them and give them
• 32:00
  Speaker 4: the flyers. But I tell you what, when I saw
• 32:04
  Speaker 4: that room fault, sure, and and I knew them all.
• 32:11
  Speaker 2: There's there's and there's a there's a few programs like
• 32:15
  Speaker 2: I mean the Phoenix right here on Summer Street, right
• 32:19
  Speaker 2: in the Wellness building is another one. The other sentiment
• 32:28
  Speaker 2: that we see and hear so much on social media
• 32:34
  Speaker 2: along with it, seems primarily frustration and anger. We see
• 32:44
  Speaker 2: a lot of that emotion. I'm I'm moving out of here,
• 32:48
  Speaker 2: pulling my family up, We're getting the hell out of here.
• 32:50
  Speaker 2: Blah blah blah. And again there's always plenty of finger pointing.
• 32:57
  Speaker 2: It's the city's fault, it's the police's fault. The police
• 32:59
  Speaker 2: is understaff. Uh, the the laws aren't tough enough. You know,
• 33:04
  Speaker 2: we need more, we need more cameras, we need the
• 33:14
  Speaker 2: there's just you know what I'm saying. And then there's
• 33:19
  Speaker 2: another side that is folks who are empathetic, who just
• 33:29
  Speaker 2: want people to be better, to get better, to be
• 33:36
  Speaker 2: more productive, to have a purpose, to have some drive,
• 33:42
  Speaker 2: some some hope.
• 33:44
  Speaker 3: That they're going to look forward to.
• 33:46
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's hope. It's hope. It is that they will
• 33:50
  Speaker 2: turn their lives around.
• 33:51
  Speaker 3: Well, there has been a couple that has with me
• 33:54
  Speaker 3: being out there.
• 33:55
  Speaker 2: Well, you're you're but you're one of them, Gino, you're
• 34:00
  Speaker 2: one of them, however, And I'm just being real here,
• 34:09
  Speaker 2: Folks like you are few and far between. It's not
• 34:14
  Speaker 2: the majority of people like you who have turned their
• 34:21
  Speaker 2: lives around, gotten clean, gotten sober, got an apartment. It's
• 34:27
  Speaker 2: just not the majority. And I think there's there's a
• 34:30
  Speaker 2: real sense of discouragement that many of us feel in
• 34:38
  Speaker 2: not not just here in Berry, but surrounding communities as
• 34:42
  Speaker 2: well well, that we're losing, we're losing the fight, and
• 34:49
  Speaker 2: it's it's getting worse. It's it has been for quite
• 34:53
  Speaker 2: a while now, not not just since COVID pre COVID,
• 34:57
  Speaker 2: but maybe COVID shifted stuff into a different gear. I
• 35:03
  Speaker 2: don't know, but there's folks out there that are either
• 35:11
  Speaker 2: totally intolerant of this or they have hope. They want
• 35:20
  Speaker 2: they want something either more programs, which I mean, my gosh,
• 35:26
  Speaker 2: you know we have so many programs around here.
• 35:28
  Speaker 3: Yeah, and I've been talking about turning point.
• 35:30
  Speaker 2: It's turning point. It's Phoenix. I mean, look at look
• 35:33
  Speaker 2: at the churches, look at enough ministries, look at heading.
• 35:38
  Speaker 3: Oh yeah, they know by heading.
• 35:41
  Speaker 2: I mean there's just Washington County Mental Health Capstone. I mean,
• 35:48
  Speaker 2: my god, I mean the list goes on and on
• 35:51
  Speaker 2: and on. I mean, there's so many programs right here
• 35:56
  Speaker 2: in just within walking distance to turn your life around,
• 36:01
  Speaker 2: to get better.
• 36:03
  Speaker 4: Well, I see a couple of Fridays ago, I talked to,
• 36:07
  Speaker 4: you know, a couple of people I know, and this
• 36:10
  Speaker 4: kid is about twenty three, maybe talking to him for
• 36:14
  Speaker 4: the last month. He hooked up at Washington County Good
• 36:18
  Speaker 4: and he's waiting for a case manager. I told him
• 36:21
  Speaker 4: about Sunrise, okay, you know, and when we did the prayer, Yeah,
• 36:26
  Speaker 4: he actually took his hat off at the meal. And
• 36:29
  Speaker 4: then I looked at all the other guys and they
• 36:32
  Speaker 4: took their hats off. They knew, Yeah, they knew. Gina
• 36:35
  Speaker 4: will tell them.
• 36:38
  Speaker 2: The thing I the thing I love about you is
• 36:48
  Speaker 2: your personality. You've You've got a cheeky laugh, You're gonna
• 36:54
  Speaker 2: smile on your face, You're always up for a hug,
• 36:58
  Speaker 2: You're positive, You're full of hope. Do you do you
• 37:05
  Speaker 2: also feel frustration?
• 37:08
  Speaker 3: Yes?
• 37:09
  Speaker 4: But you know what, I don't like to show it.
• 37:11
  Speaker 4: I mean, I'm not gonna go out there and talk
• 37:14
  Speaker 4: to people talk. I call them kids, you know, in
• 37:17
  Speaker 4: their twenties. They are kids, they're younger than my son,
• 37:21
  Speaker 4: and I don't want to go out there being down.
• 37:25
  Speaker 3: They're already down and out.
• 37:27
  Speaker 2: You know.
• 37:27
  Speaker 4: We laugh, we talk, and we still to this day
• 37:32
  Speaker 4: hug each other say I love you. I can't do that.
• 37:36
  Speaker 4: I'm not going to go out there and be angry
• 37:40
  Speaker 4: and frustrated. They don't need that. They're already going through enough.
• 37:47
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I just got to comment here. I'm gonna read
• 37:50
  Speaker 2: this JD. The drugs are too strong and some people
• 37:53
  Speaker 2: are just born victims.
• 37:58
  Speaker 3: I don't know.
• 37:59
  Speaker 4: There is a lot more stuff that's going into the
• 38:02
  Speaker 4: the crack, that's the word on the street, and it's
• 38:07
  Speaker 4: making it harder and harder now with the I think
• 38:11
  Speaker 4: someone said is like three drugs being put into the
• 38:16
  Speaker 4: crack now, So basically the ad diction is going to
• 38:20
  Speaker 4: be higher.
• 38:22
  Speaker 3: To me, that's what I feel.
• 38:28
  Speaker 2: All you have to all you have to do is
• 38:31
  Speaker 2: is glance through local news and you see plenty of
• 38:39
  Speaker 2: of busts that are happening. Not just here in Berry City, man,
• 38:43
  Speaker 2: but it's like even in the outskirts, even out in
• 38:46
  Speaker 2: the country. We have plenty of folks who are living
• 38:52
  Speaker 2: in our community who don't have roots here. They've come
• 38:56
  Speaker 2: up here with a sole purpose to distribute and to
• 39:01
  Speaker 2: make a lot of money.
• 39:03
  Speaker 3: I know. And it's sad.
• 39:04
  Speaker 2: And it's not just coming out of Springfield, Massachusetts.
• 39:08
  Speaker 3: New York, New Jersey.
• 39:10
  Speaker 2: New New York and New Jerseys. Yeah. And now I've
• 39:17
  Speaker 2: heard about a new line coming from the east, coming
• 39:24
  Speaker 2: off of the coast New Hampshire. That's that's coming across
• 39:30
  Speaker 2: into Vermont. So there's rings everywhere. I think we all
• 39:37
  Speaker 2: know that. Yes, but it seems like, you know, we
• 39:46
  Speaker 2: get a bust here, we get a bust there, but
• 39:52
  Speaker 2: then there's there's three more that have not been discovered yet.
• 39:58
  Speaker 3: Well that's just said.
• 39:59
  Speaker 4: I mean, if somebody gets busted, okay, who's to say
• 40:04
  Speaker 4: that not within a couple of days they got a
• 40:06
  Speaker 4: new batch. How much more do you bust people and
• 40:11
  Speaker 4: bust people and bust people. I mean it's out there.
• 40:13
  Speaker 4: I mean everybody that you know is doing it or whatever.
• 40:18
  Speaker 4: They'll find their way. Yeah, they'll find their way.
• 40:24
  Speaker 2: I see your short your shirt you are.
• 40:31
  Speaker 3: John three sixteen. One of my favorite scriptures.
• 40:35
  Speaker 2: Go ahead.
• 40:38
  Speaker 3: It says for God so.
• 40:40
  Speaker 4: Loved the world that he gave his one and only
• 40:42
  Speaker 4: begotten Son, hold on that whoever believes in him should
• 40:49
  Speaker 4: not perish, but have everlasting life.
• 40:52
  Speaker 2: When did you find faith? How what was.
• 40:56
  Speaker 4: The I think I always had the faith, but a
• 40:59
  Speaker 4: couple of years ago, I think it was a heritage festival.
• 41:05
  Speaker 4: I was walking around, came up to this table and
• 41:10
  Speaker 4: there was Pastor Ray, and I believe my friend Pat
• 41:16
  Speaker 4: was there, and we just started talking and Pastor Ray said, well,
• 41:22
  Speaker 4: once you come check out the church zam.
• 41:27
  Speaker 3: Two years later, I have a quick story. Can I
• 41:32
  Speaker 3: say it real quick?
• 41:33
  Speaker 2: Absolutely please.
• 41:34
  Speaker 3: A couple of.
• 41:35
  Speaker 4: Weeks ago, when it was one of those hot hot days, yep,
• 41:39
  Speaker 4: my friend Pat and her husband but two cases of
• 41:44
  Speaker 4: water left it at the park.
• 41:49
  Speaker 3: I went over handed out water. Make sure.
• 41:52
  Speaker 4: I told everybody do not throw your water bottle up,
• 41:55
  Speaker 4: because there is places where you can fill them. And
• 42:00
  Speaker 4: then I put some of my water, some of the
• 42:01
  Speaker 4: water in my backpack and went over to the library. Amazing,
• 42:08
  Speaker 4: amazing people. Now you know it's so it's not just me.
• 42:17
  Speaker 4: I mean, you get the Pastoray, Pat, you got Phillis,
• 42:21
  Speaker 4: who's a coordinator. So people can go there and say
• 42:27
  Speaker 4: I need help maybe with this or that. You know,
• 42:30
  Speaker 4: the diaper depot, the food shelves and the community meals.
• 42:34
  Speaker 4: So it's more we have to say. And we don't
• 42:39
  Speaker 4: go to church, we have the church, and it's it's
• 42:43
  Speaker 4: that kind of connection in the church. You know, we're
• 42:50
  Speaker 4: family too and we want to help, you know. And
• 42:55
  Speaker 4: just because we go to church does not mean that
• 42:58
  Speaker 4: we don't feel it. Well past the race as a
• 43:01
  Speaker 4: prayer every Sunday for the homeless people who were addicted.
• 43:08
  Speaker 4: And like yes Saturday, when I gave Doc the necklace
• 43:13
  Speaker 4: I had on I had just gotten this cross, we prayed.
• 43:18
  Speaker 3: I put it on him and he cried. Actually I
• 43:21
  Speaker 3: found him a hat.
• 43:24
  Speaker 4: He was a United States Army and he was airborne.
• 43:29
  Speaker 4: So I found him a hat says the United States Army,
• 43:33
  Speaker 4: brand new. And you know what that's going on his head,
• 43:37
  Speaker 4: that it's gonna go on his head like this. I
• 43:44
  Speaker 4: will put it on his head this morning. I'm not sure, ye,
• 43:47
  Speaker 4: I gotta go back to my house first, but I'm
• 43:50
  Speaker 4: taking that winter hat off him and putting this on him.
• 43:55
  Speaker 3: He deserves it.
• 44:00
  Speaker 2: You found Doc in the park yesterday Saturday, Saturday. You
• 44:08
  Speaker 2: got a chance to chat with him for well over
• 44:10
  Speaker 2: an hour. Yes, have you told him about the Heading Church.
• 44:17
  Speaker 4: I told him by Heading Church. Actually he went to
• 44:20
  Speaker 4: the community meal Friday night. That's how I met him.
• 44:25
  Speaker 3: How often is that community meal every Friday? Every Friday
• 44:29
  Speaker 3: except for this Friday because of the holiday.
• 44:31
  Speaker 2: Okay, and what time does that start?
• 44:33
  Speaker 3: Doors open at four? Meal starts at five thirty.
• 44:36
  Speaker 2: Okay.
• 44:39
  Speaker 4: Anyone's welcome, anybody, no matter who you are, what you are,
• 44:43
  Speaker 4: it doesn't matter to the Heading Church.
• 44:45
  Speaker 2: Okay. Are you doing something with pastor Ray where you're
• 44:52
  Speaker 2: having a meeting.
• 44:54
  Speaker 4: Or well Wednesday, Yeah, we're gonna get together and we're
• 44:57
  Speaker 4: gonna blast the crosses. Well, yes, today, but and then
• 45:01
  Speaker 4: I'm gonna find some straying and put them in my bag.
• 45:05
  Speaker 4: And then when I'm out there when someone says, hey, Geno,
• 45:08
  Speaker 4: you get a cross, here you go.
• 45:11
  Speaker 3: Actually I'm where on one today?
• 45:12
  Speaker 2: Okay? Are you going to have some type of group
• 45:17
  Speaker 2: meeting with.
• 45:19
  Speaker 4: Yes, Past Toray wants to come up with a class
• 45:23
  Speaker 4: on PM ministry. So me and my friend Pat is
• 45:27
  Speaker 4: gonna do it a couple other people.
• 45:31
  Speaker 1: Is it?
• 45:31
  Speaker 2: So that hasn't started yet, No.
• 45:33
  Speaker 3: Her schedule is pretty busy right now.
• 45:36
  Speaker 2: Where where would that be helped?
• 45:37
  Speaker 7: Right?
• 45:38
  Speaker 2: Right at the church.
• 45:42
  Speaker 4: So I mean, I just mentioned that past to Ray
• 45:46
  Speaker 4: yesterday about crosses. I text her sent me a picture.
• 45:50
  Speaker 4: I already knew they were there, but she's been holding
• 45:53
  Speaker 4: on and she said, meet me here.
• 45:56
  Speaker 3: Wednesday ten o'clock.
• 45:57
  Speaker 4: Yeah, we will put our hands on it, say a prayer,
• 46:02
  Speaker 4: and then in mine.
• 46:03
  Speaker 3: To take out.
• 46:06
  Speaker 2: Wednesdays here unaired out. We always hit hard on the
• 46:15
  Speaker 2: subject of hope with Sweethearts and Heroes every Wednesday at
• 46:23
  Speaker 2: nine o'clock, and we're gonna do that again this coming Wednesday.
• 46:28
  Speaker 2: And I look forward to having a loud and on
• 46:29
  Speaker 2: the air with me. But how do you feel about that?
• 46:36
  Speaker 2: That word hope?
• 46:38
  Speaker 3: Hope?
• 46:40
  Speaker 4: I believe this hope for anybody, you know. And when
• 46:47
  Speaker 4: I was an addict, I kind of gave up my
• 46:51
  Speaker 4: faith because I didn't think, you know, why God am
• 46:56
  Speaker 4: I going through this?
• 46:56
  Speaker 3: Why aren't you helping me? And I gave it up.
• 47:01
  Speaker 4: And then, like I said, when I met Pastoray that
• 47:04
  Speaker 4: day at the Heritage Festival, something just clicked. Two years later,
• 47:08
  Speaker 4: here I am and in church. Every Sunday. I go
• 47:12
  Speaker 4: to church, I help up getting people clothes. I go
• 47:17
  Speaker 4: to the community meals and walk around talk to people.
• 47:20
  Speaker 4: I go to the church, maybe a couple of days
• 47:22
  Speaker 4: a week to go and see if there's any donations.
• 47:25
  Speaker 4: And I need to put on the table where people
• 47:28
  Speaker 4: come in for their meals, it's clothes and they take
• 47:31
  Speaker 4: what they need.
• 47:33
  Speaker 2: How do you get around? Do you drive?
• 47:35
  Speaker 3: Walk? You know?
• 47:38
  Speaker 4: I told somebody one day I took my shoes and
• 47:41
  Speaker 4: socks office started walking around and I, okay, Gino, why
• 47:46
  Speaker 4: do you have your socks and shoes off? I said, well,
• 47:48
  Speaker 4: first of all, I don't like it, and my feet
• 47:50
  Speaker 4: got hot. I said, you want to know something else,
• 47:52
  Speaker 4: Jesus walked with no shoes and did what he needed
• 47:57
  Speaker 4: to do.
• 48:01
  Speaker 2: You gave a pair of shoes that you were wearing
• 48:06
  Speaker 2: that were brand new, yep.
• 48:07
  Speaker 4: Just had botting them. Actually it was the first day
• 48:11
  Speaker 4: I put them on. Gave this girl that was homeless
• 48:15
  Speaker 4: flip flops were broken game to her, and then I
• 48:19
  Speaker 4: walked home in my socks. And at that point, you know,
• 48:26
  Speaker 4: I look at it like I can get another pair.
• 48:31
  Speaker 3: They can't.
• 48:35
  Speaker 4: I've given out shirts, I've given out jack gets gloves, hats,
• 48:40
  Speaker 4: took the night off bank.
• 48:41
  Speaker 3: Well, not my shirt, JD. Let's back that one up.
• 48:43
  Speaker 4: Hey, Hey, hey, easy, this is a clean show. But
• 48:48
  Speaker 4: you know, I've taken off winter gloves, my winter hat
• 48:52
  Speaker 4: and gained somebody that was cold. I went to coat,
• 48:56
  Speaker 4: walked home into cold. Actually I was sitting out here
• 48:59
  Speaker 4: the other day at this point raining out got soaked.
• 49:02
  Speaker 3: I didn't care. I mean, yes, you know a lot
• 49:08
  Speaker 3: of people are you know.
• 49:10
  Speaker 4: Saying well, they made the choice to be where they
• 49:14
  Speaker 4: are right now.
• 49:15
  Speaker 3: But we don't know that.
• 49:17
  Speaker 4: We don't know what their history is, their background, how
• 49:23
  Speaker 4: did they get there?
• 49:26
  Speaker 3: And I'm not judgmental. I can't be, you know, And.
• 49:36
  Speaker 4: Like I said, we don't know what happened in their
• 49:39
  Speaker 4: life and every day to get to where they are,
• 49:45
  Speaker 4: you know.
• 49:46
  Speaker 3: And the thing is is.
• 49:49
  Speaker 4: They tell me. They tell me certain things. I keep
• 49:54
  Speaker 4: it to myself. I don't go around and say, well
• 49:57
  Speaker 4: this one said that, and this one said that, this
• 49:59
  Speaker 4: one said that. You know, oh another quick one. I
• 50:06
  Speaker 4: ran into this kid. I think I had mentioned it
• 50:09
  Speaker 4: to you a couple of weeks ago when I came
• 50:11
  Speaker 4: in to check out your studio. His cousin thirteen years old,
• 50:20
  Speaker 4: and he was sitting on the the turf I called
• 50:25
  Speaker 4: it the turf where you and I met, had his
• 50:28
  Speaker 4: head down, which was unusual so I sat down next
• 50:33
  Speaker 4: to him and asked him, what was going on? Your
• 50:36
  Speaker 4: tears come out of his eyes. Cousin thirteen year thirteen
• 50:43
  Speaker 4: year old little boy, a baby. It happened in Chicago,
• 50:47
  Speaker 4: But you know what, it still got to me because
• 50:50
  Speaker 4: I know this kid, it's thirteen year old cousin, was
• 50:55
  Speaker 4: hanging out with a bunch of teenagers and the teenagers
• 51:01
  Speaker 4: gave this little boy fetnahl. I don't know if he
• 51:04
  Speaker 4: knew what it was or what he didn't know what
• 51:06
  Speaker 4: it was, yodeed he died right there. Yes, it happened
• 51:11
  Speaker 4: to Chicago, but it still got to my heart. This
• 51:14
  Speaker 4: is my friend's little cousin. A baby, you know. And
• 51:22
  Speaker 4: even if you see you know the news, you know,
• 51:25
  Speaker 4: kids getting hurt, you know, whatever the situation is, it
• 51:31
  Speaker 4: don't matter if they live here in Berry. It touches you,
• 51:37
  Speaker 4: especially the ones that have children. You know, you don't
• 51:41
  Speaker 4: want that to happen to their child. And I prayed.
• 51:48
  Speaker 4: I prayed for that little boy. And I don't even
• 51:52
  Speaker 4: know him. It was the story, and I thought about
• 51:56
  Speaker 4: him when I went home that night. You know about
• 52:00
  Speaker 4: my son when he was thirteen, I couldn't not imagine
• 52:06
  Speaker 4: to tell you the truth, j DNA. I couldn't thirteen
• 52:09
  Speaker 4: years old guide right there.
• 52:16
  Speaker 2: It's just sip unfathomable.
• 52:22
  Speaker 4: And I tell you I had tears coming on my
• 52:24
  Speaker 4: eyes and my friend I just held on the woman
• 52:27
  Speaker 4: he cried on my shoulder of cause that made it worse. Now,
• 52:31
  Speaker 4: the tears really were coming down, and I try to
• 52:33
  Speaker 4: be tough, but then everybody's like, come on, Geno, you'reso
• 52:37
  Speaker 4: a teddy bear.
• 52:39
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and this is someone who's right here in our community.
• 52:45
  Speaker 3: Yes, I don't want to give no names.
• 52:48
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, of course, of course not.
• 52:50
  Speaker 3: Yep.
• 52:53
  Speaker 2: Have you seen this first half since.
• 52:56
  Speaker 3: I saw him the other day and he's doing good. Okay,
• 53:01
  Speaker 3: he's clean. I don't know if maybe.
• 53:06
  Speaker 4: You know, I can't per se, but maybe what happened
• 53:10
  Speaker 4: to his cousin kind of put a little trigger in
• 53:13
  Speaker 4: his mind. But all I know is he cried. Now,
• 53:18
  Speaker 4: that's heart, and he's homeless.
• 53:28
  Speaker 2: You had a great point when you said that we
• 53:31
  Speaker 2: all have different stories and different different circumstances that can
• 53:37
  Speaker 2: lead up to homelessness, and that sometimes mental health is
• 53:43
  Speaker 2: connected to that, sometimes it's not. Sometimes substance use disorder
• 53:50
  Speaker 2: is connected to that, sometimes it's not. We all have
• 53:58
  Speaker 2: a story.
• 53:59
  Speaker 4: Yeah, we do, and I think maybe sometimes it could
• 54:03
  Speaker 4: be environment the way they were brought up. I mean,
• 54:07
  Speaker 4: if you're brought up in an addictive family, that's all
• 54:11
  Speaker 4: you knew.
• 54:15
  Speaker 2: You and I I think every time we chat we're
• 54:20
  Speaker 2: going to be bringing up the subject of hope and
• 54:30
  Speaker 2: prayer and belief. But also one of the big takeaways
• 54:43
  Speaker 2: for me in my first conversation with you is that
• 54:52
  Speaker 2: no matter who you are or what your your problem
• 54:57
  Speaker 2: may be, whether it's too much drinking, whether it's too
• 55:05
  Speaker 2: much eating, whether it's too much gambling, whether it's drugs,
• 55:11
  Speaker 2: no matter what it is, all of the programs and
• 55:17
  Speaker 2: all of the support systems can be there and in
• 55:22
  Speaker 2: place for you, and all of the hands in the
• 55:28
  Speaker 2: world can reach out to you and guide you. But
• 55:33
  Speaker 2: it doesn't matter unless you have a very very deep
• 55:40
  Speaker 2: commitment to wanting to change that. If you want that
• 55:49
  Speaker 2: badly enough, then you can tap into these programs, and
• 55:56
  Speaker 2: you can tap into the church, and you can receive
• 55:59
  Speaker 2: the hand of someone who's got it outreached to you
• 56:04
  Speaker 2: to help.
• 56:05
  Speaker 3: I always say baby steps, but you've got.
• 56:07
  Speaker 2: To you've got to want it. It's it's more than
• 56:12
  Speaker 2: you've just got to want it. You've got to want
• 56:14
  Speaker 2: it badly enough. It seems I'm I don't know, because
• 56:22
  Speaker 2: I've I'm not addicted to anything I've I've never experienced this.
• 56:31
  Speaker 3: Well.
• 56:32
  Speaker 4: I think it's also because I think it comes from caring.
• 56:38
  Speaker 4: You have to show them that somebody out there cares
• 56:40
  Speaker 4: when they've li were dying. Friday night, there was a
• 56:43
  Speaker 4: girl there. I know her, of course, I know how.
• 56:46
  Speaker 2: A lot of people, but you know everybody.
• 56:49
  Speaker 4: And she was sitting at the table eating. I sat
• 56:53
  Speaker 4: down next to her and we were talking. Then one
• 56:59
  Speaker 4: of the lay from the church came out and talk
• 57:01
  Speaker 4: to her, then one of the ladies from Turning Point.
• 57:05
  Speaker 3: So when they were done.
• 57:06
  Speaker 4: Talking, I started talking and she told me she doesn't
• 57:11
  Speaker 4: want to do it no more. I said, well, I
• 57:15
  Speaker 4: don't want you to do it anymore either. I said,
• 57:18
  Speaker 4: but you know, when you see me on the streets,
• 57:21
  Speaker 4: you can come talk to me. We'll find a way.
• 57:24
  Speaker 4: And I said, you know, I wasn't trying to be
• 57:28
  Speaker 4: a jerk. I said, I don't want you to be
• 57:31
  Speaker 4: a statistic I don't want to lose you. Next she
• 57:36
  Speaker 4: said she doesn't want to die, and that you know
• 57:41
  Speaker 4: I mean a lot of thing does touch my heart,
• 57:44
  Speaker 4: but at that moment, I felt like I was melting
• 57:46
  Speaker 4: in the chair.
• 57:49
  Speaker 3: I said, come to me, we'll talk.
• 57:53
  Speaker 2: How many how many friends have you lost? And how many?
• 57:57
  Speaker 2: How many people that?
• 57:59
  Speaker 4: Well, I know has been a lot of I'm not
• 58:02
  Speaker 4: sure the statistics, but I know turning point knows and
• 58:08
  Speaker 4: right at the moment, I've not personally, but fourteen.
• 58:17
  Speaker 2: Look at what we are seeing on social media, people
• 58:21
  Speaker 2: taking out their phones and videotaping locally, just the Barry
• 58:27
  Speaker 2: Barry Vermont Resident chat page alone.
• 58:30
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I know, I'm on there.
• 58:31
  Speaker 2: People nodding off in their cars yep. Presumably as a
• 58:38
  Speaker 2: result of some drug use. Yeah, I mean that. You know,
• 58:46
  Speaker 2: we're seeing video of people stumbling around the zombie walk.
• 58:54
  Speaker 2: There's theft, there's desperation too to keep feeding the addiction,
• 59:09
  Speaker 2: and all of this stuff is interconnected. Yes, crime, drugs,
• 59:14
  Speaker 2: mental health, homelessness, and the list goes on.
• 59:17
  Speaker 3: But you know, I can also.
• 59:20
  Speaker 4: Understand everybody else's point of view that they're scared. You know,
• 59:28
  Speaker 4: I get scared sometimes, but I kind of like have
• 59:33
  Speaker 4: to kind of like put it aside or put it away,
• 59:36
  Speaker 4: you know, And I don't blame you know families for
• 59:42
  Speaker 4: being scared. You know, you have children, you have grandchildren,
• 59:47
  Speaker 4: you have yourself protect.
• 59:52
  Speaker 2: Are Burry City streets safe to walk?
• 59:57
  Speaker 4: To me it is, but maybe to a lot of others,
• 1:00:01
  Speaker 4: they do have that fear.
• 1:00:02
  Speaker 3: And I don't blame him. You see it all the time, JD.
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 4: Like you said on media, you know, how is people
• 1:00:11
  Speaker 4: supposed to feel when they hear it on the street
• 1:00:15
  Speaker 4: that people are getting jacked.
• 1:00:18
  Speaker 3: I just heard the other day that another kid that
• 1:00:22
  Speaker 3: I know.
• 1:00:24
  Speaker 4: Actually told me yesterday he got jacked, got punched in
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 4: the eye and the knife to his throat and they
• 1:00:32
  Speaker 4: stole his stuff just see if he had any drugs.
• 1:00:37
  Speaker 3: He looked terrible.
• 1:00:39
  Speaker 4: I checked his throat, I checked his eye and he
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 4: was okay, but he was very shaken out. So you know,
• 1:00:46
  Speaker 4: it's not just the homeless and the addiction that are
• 1:00:55
  Speaker 4: doing this out with businesses and families now they're jacking
• 1:01:02
  Speaker 4: each other.
• 1:01:11
  Speaker 2: We hear about all of this aggressive panhandling around.
• 1:01:18
  Speaker 3: Oh yeah, I know a few of them.
• 1:01:23
  Speaker 2: What do you say to them?
• 1:01:25
  Speaker 4: Well, one of them said, oh guess right, Gino, I
• 1:01:30
  Speaker 4: made forty dollars just to say being on the street panhandling.
• 1:01:34
  Speaker 3: I said, oh, really, I said, for what food?
• 1:01:39
  Speaker 4: And this person does this every day, asking people for
• 1:01:42
  Speaker 4: money and cigarettes, and I got to the point I stopped.
• 1:01:48
  Speaker 4: You know, if you're out there panhandling money for drugs,
• 1:01:54
  Speaker 4: you're taking away and cigarettes.
• 1:01:57
  Speaker 2: Hey, I know you're a smoker.
• 1:02:01
  Speaker 4: But it's like, you know, like I'm not being mean,
• 1:02:05
  Speaker 4: but it's also taken away from those that have to support.
• 1:02:11
  Speaker 2: Their own family and work hard, and work hard and
• 1:02:15
  Speaker 2: are often struggling quietly. Yes, hey, I struggle to put
• 1:02:21
  Speaker 2: gas in the car. I struggle, but you know, when
• 1:02:25
  Speaker 2: I keep it to myself. The only one I talked
• 1:02:28
  Speaker 2: to about my struggling list is heating Church. I don't
• 1:02:31
  Speaker 2: let anybody else know out there. I can't.
• 1:02:35
  Speaker 4: I'm not gonna go out on the streets to feel
• 1:02:37
  Speaker 4: bad for myself because, you know what, I'm in a
• 1:02:40
  Speaker 4: good position right now.
• 1:02:41
  Speaker 3: Let's help other people.
• 1:02:44
  Speaker 2: Have you seen some of these traveling gypsies?
• 1:02:48
  Speaker 3: Yes?
• 1:02:49
  Speaker 4: I got hit up one day, said excuse me, ma'am.
• 1:02:55
  Speaker 4: I'm like, what's up? You know, and he goes, you
• 1:02:59
  Speaker 4: get twenty dollar? I need uh get a toe toe
• 1:03:04
  Speaker 4: from my card. You know what I did. I looked
• 1:03:06
  Speaker 4: at him. I know who you are. Don't do that
• 1:03:10
  Speaker 4: to me because I'm not giving you money. And now
• 1:03:16
  Speaker 4: your story has been changing, and now he's got his
• 1:03:21
  Speaker 4: girlfriend doing the same thing. And I told him, I said,
• 1:03:27
  Speaker 4: don't ever approach me again.
• 1:03:29
  Speaker 2: This guy I can't remember his name, but he's everywhere. Yes,
• 1:03:35
  Speaker 2: and I also can't remember who was with somebody video
• 1:03:39
  Speaker 2: tape to Yes. Yes, you know, be be vigilant, folks.
• 1:03:47
  Speaker 2: You know, keep your eyes open.
• 1:03:49
  Speaker 4: Keep your distance when you talk from the distance length.
• 1:03:53
  Speaker 4: But I gave it to him. I told him, I
• 1:03:55
  Speaker 4: know who you are. You can't play it with me.
• 1:03:57
  Speaker 2: What you say?
• 1:03:58
  Speaker 4: He goes, well, do you have all these fight all this,
• 1:04:01
  Speaker 4: and no, I just told you I know who you are.
• 1:04:04
  Speaker 4: You can't play with gino. So I suggest you need
• 1:04:10
  Speaker 4: to walk away, buddy. Oh okay, but thank you ma'am.
• 1:04:14
  Speaker 4: I'm like, come on, dude, you're ere here doing what
• 1:04:17
  Speaker 4: you're doing, but you're trying to be nice.
• 1:04:19
  Speaker 2: And don't call me ma'am because I'll kick your ass. H.
• 1:04:21
  Speaker 2: I'm not a man, right, I'll put you in a chokehold.
• 1:04:25
  Speaker 3: Yep.
• 1:04:27
  Speaker 4: But he was shocked when I put my finger at
• 1:04:30
  Speaker 4: him and said I know who you are. And the
• 1:04:31
  Speaker 4: thing was he goes, Oh, it's not me, it's Cabo.
• 1:04:35
  Speaker 4: As you know what, dude, Cabo has been in jail.
• 1:04:38
  Speaker 4: Stop blaming him because you've been found, You've been seen,
• 1:04:43
  Speaker 4: people have seen you in videos.
• 1:04:46
  Speaker 3: Why are you playing it?
• 1:04:52
  Speaker 2: I understand. Uh, Carlos Perez is out.
• 1:04:54
  Speaker 4: I haven't seen him. I haven't seen him.
• 1:05:00
  Speaker 2: Did some time up in Saint Jay. There's an aggressive
• 1:05:05
  Speaker 2: panhandler right there. That's a bad dude.
• 1:05:10
  Speaker 3: You know what. I haven't seen him at all.
• 1:05:14
  Speaker 4: Interesting, and I'm out there every day j D maybe sometimes.
• 1:05:18
  Speaker 3: Twice a day.
• 1:05:19
  Speaker 2: Do you know when Carbo's getting out?
• 1:05:22
  Speaker 5: No?
• 1:05:22
  Speaker 3: I don't.
• 1:05:23
  Speaker 2: You haven't heard anything on the streets. No, when you do,
• 1:05:28
  Speaker 2: will you let me know? Yeah, I would like to.
• 1:05:31
  Speaker 2: I'd like to sit down with him again.
• 1:05:34
  Speaker 4: You know, I think. I hope and pray, Brandon, you
• 1:05:40
  Speaker 4: get out of jail. You already went through the withdrawals.
• 1:05:44
  Speaker 4: Keep it straight, buddy.
• 1:05:47
  Speaker 2: Sometimes thirty sixty ninety days.
• 1:05:51
  Speaker 3: It's just zach rehab. Sorry what it is.
• 1:05:55
  Speaker 2: But sometimes it's not enough. No, And sometimes coming up
• 1:06:00
  Speaker 2: out of jail just makes you want to purge, for
• 1:06:07
  Speaker 2: lack of a better term. Sometimes, sometimes, maybe more often
• 1:06:10
  Speaker 2: than not, I don't I don't know, never been in jail.
• 1:06:15
  Speaker 2: I don't know me either.
• 1:06:16
  Speaker 4: I imagine that jailpe No, you know, I think everything changed,
• 1:06:26
  Speaker 4: not everything. The day my son was born. I didn't
• 1:06:32
  Speaker 4: want to fight. I was a fighter, a runner, not anymore.
• 1:06:40
  Speaker 4: I can't if I go out and fight, take off
• 1:06:47
  Speaker 4: every time I have a problem. What is that showing
• 1:06:52
  Speaker 4: to the folks out there that I'm trying to help?
• 1:06:54
  Speaker 3: Ye I can't, you know.
• 1:06:57
  Speaker 4: And it's to the point, you know, I'm going to
• 1:06:59
  Speaker 4: be fifty an't pretty soon here, and you know it's
• 1:07:07
  Speaker 4: time for me to just keep on putting my foot
• 1:07:10
  Speaker 4: down and say, Gino, you can look at the people
• 1:07:13
  Speaker 4: out there. And when I get a thought in my
• 1:07:15
  Speaker 4: head like that, you know what I do. I come
• 1:07:17
  Speaker 4: down street and look at elm the people my friends
• 1:07:21
  Speaker 4: are said with me. One of them girl two months,
• 1:07:26
  Speaker 4: no crack, and she feels a lot better.
• 1:07:29
  Speaker 2: Two months. Yeah, it's a long time.
• 1:07:32
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 1:07:33
  Speaker 4: Now the guy a month got his job back. I
• 1:07:38
  Speaker 4: told him keep it up, because you know, Gino, I
• 1:07:41
  Speaker 4: will find you and kick your butt.
• 1:07:45
  Speaker 2: I think it's remarkable that you're able to sit down
• 1:07:51
  Speaker 2: and have these conversations with folks that are struggling with life.
• 1:07:59
  Speaker 2: So many of us are, and it's constant work, no
• 1:08:03
  Speaker 2: matter who you are, where you are, or what's going
• 1:08:06
  Speaker 2: on in your life.
• 1:08:07
  Speaker 3: Hey, I struggle.
• 1:08:08
  Speaker 4: I struggle every day because I can go back and
• 1:08:12
  Speaker 4: be a be an attic again. But I you know,
• 1:08:16
  Speaker 4: my mind right now is focus on, of course, always
• 1:08:19
  Speaker 4: my son, heading church, being out there for people. What
• 1:08:25
  Speaker 4: would that say to them they see me now the
• 1:08:29
  Speaker 4: gino trying to help them, if they see me on
• 1:08:32
  Speaker 4: the streets messed up, Hey, let's follow gino. Hey, she's
• 1:08:37
  Speaker 4: our buddy. You know, I don't want to do that.
• 1:08:40
  Speaker 4: I do not want to do that.
• 1:08:41
  Speaker 2: How many years have you been cleaned?
• 1:08:45
  Speaker 3: No drugs, no pills?
• 1:08:50
  Speaker 4: Well yeah, because you know, like I said, I've been
• 1:08:53
  Speaker 4: to the hospital for and had my stomach pumped.
• 1:08:58
  Speaker 3: And they made me drink chacoal those ever gave me.
• 1:09:02
  Speaker 2: Have you ever odeite?
• 1:09:04
  Speaker 4: Yes, and that's why they had to pump my stomach. Okay,
• 1:09:07
  Speaker 4: but I heard they don't do that much anymore. But
• 1:09:09
  Speaker 4: I don't know. Like I said, when you're on the
• 1:09:11
  Speaker 4: streege and hear one thing and then you hear another thing,
• 1:09:13
  Speaker 4: you know, you just listen. You don't say, oh yeah, right,
• 1:09:18
  Speaker 4: you're wrong. Oh yeah, right, you don't do that, you know,
• 1:09:22
  Speaker 4: let him talk. Let them tell this story. If it's
• 1:09:25
  Speaker 4: true or not, does it really matter, Does it really matter?
• 1:09:33
  Speaker 4: Let them say what they want to say.
• 1:09:40
  Speaker 3: It's their life, their story. I've had mine.
• 1:09:46
  Speaker 2: It's what we need to do. Gino is listen more.
• 1:09:54
  Speaker 2: That's what we need to do.
• 1:09:56
  Speaker 7: You know.
• 1:09:56
  Speaker 3: I sit out there, jd. It could be an hour.
• 1:10:00
  Speaker 4: I sat out there one day for three hours to
• 1:10:01
  Speaker 4: just talk to people, and then you know, and I
• 1:10:06
  Speaker 4: try to get out there in the morning. Actually, I've
• 1:10:10
  Speaker 4: been checking a couple more spots. Courthouse, the Park, City Park,
• 1:10:16
  Speaker 4: Carryer Park. I'm still at my turf.
• 1:10:20
  Speaker 2: Where's your turf?
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  Speaker 3: You know where it is?
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  Speaker 2: Saturday, I know where it is.
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  Speaker 3: Shop Okaycross well Wable Julia.
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  Speaker 4: And now I'm going behind the churches down behind the library.
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  Speaker 4: One day, I did almost ten thousand steps. That's doing
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  Speaker 4: this and I have a bad hip in the leg,
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  Speaker 4: but I did it. Yes, I was sola that night,
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  Speaker 4: but you know what, the pain was good. I don't
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  Speaker 4: like pain, but the pain was good.
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  Speaker 2: I'd like to join up with you on one of
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  Speaker 2: these Friday night meals.
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  Speaker 3: I think that'd be awesome and.
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  Speaker 2: See in action and see Pastor Ray in action.
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  Speaker 3: And all the other ladies that cook.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, we'll go around and say did you
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  Speaker 4: have enough?
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  Speaker 3: Do you need any more? Do you want to talk about?
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  Speaker 4: So you know, when you go to the community mells,
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  Speaker 4: it's you know, like I said, it's a lot of
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  Speaker 4: the church members and we all volunteer. Sure, it's a
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  Speaker 4: volunteer program to help. Yeah, you know, some will bring
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  Speaker 4: some of the ladies from the kitchen will bring plates
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  Speaker 4: over to those who cannot walk.
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  Speaker 3: So it's a group of us.
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  Speaker 2: Shout out to Heading, shout out to my homegirls and
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  Speaker 2: Enough Ministries. I mean, yes, what they do on Tuesdays
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  Speaker 2: and Thursdays over there, but what they do seven days
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  Speaker 2: a week also for our community is remarkable.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, all the girls at Heading church that you know
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  Speaker 4: that I hang with and help out my homegirls.
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  Speaker 3: Hey, homegirls, ginotes.
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  Speaker 2: Here, Gino You're you're a trip and I just I
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  Speaker 2: love chatting with you.
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  Speaker 3: I love chatting with you. JD.
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  Speaker 2: You're an inspiration and God bless you. And let's do
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  Speaker 2: this again too.
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  Speaker 3: Oh yeah, definitely, let's let's.
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  Speaker 2: Let's hook up and do some stuff together. Okay, you
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  Speaker 2: really are. I've known you, my God for.
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  Speaker 4: It has to be about eighteen years or so. I
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  Speaker 4: knew you before you had your daughter.
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  Speaker 2: You knew me at the beginning of Frocky, which oh yes, Froggy,
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  Speaker 2: that's trying. It was two thousand, about twenty five years ago.
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  Speaker 3: God, Yeah, because of you.
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  Speaker 4: And I hooked up one day about talking about all
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  Speaker 4: the videos I did on Sherry lampat Yes, yeah, on YouTube,
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  Speaker 4: there's twenty of them.
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  Speaker 2: Great memories. Oh yeah, great, great memories. Thanks Gino, Thanks
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  Speaker 2: for coming in here.
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  Speaker 4: Hey everybody, please have hope, have faith. Yeah, come see
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  Speaker 4: me when you see me.
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