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Talk Line 08-05-2026: SVVOR's Gerald Lott & Jordan Keene · WIXN AM 1460 - Shaw Local Radio

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  Speaker 1: Good morning, Sock Valley, and welcome back to the Waking
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  Speaker 1: crew here on FM ninety five one and AM fourteen
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  Speaker 1: sixty w i X And it's eight thirty seven on
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  Speaker 1: your Wednesday morning. Happy hump day to Y'allsalk Valley. It's
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  Speaker 1: time for talk line and we're joined in the booth
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  Speaker 1: once again by our good friends from the Salk Valley
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  Speaker 1: Voices of Recovery, Gerald Lottin Jordan Keene joining us this morning, folks.
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  Speaker 1: How are you doing doing well?
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  Speaker 2: How are you good?
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  Speaker 1: I am? I'm good. Hot coffee in hand, air conditioning
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  Speaker 1: in the booth, little space eater underneath, from my cult
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  Speaker 1: little calves. It's a it's a good life, man, I
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  Speaker 1: can't complain, Yes, sir, yes, sir. You guys are always
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  Speaker 1: busy with the important mission of recovery in the Sock Valley,
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  Speaker 1: expanding services, improving what you're doing, and so of course
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  Speaker 1: August being Overdose Awareness Month, is no exception to the
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  Speaker 1: busyness and what you guys have going on.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely, and you know this is something that's really near
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  Speaker 2: and dear to our hearts. We are allowing Tevan's Tribe
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  Speaker 2: to kind of take the lead for the month Tevin's
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  Speaker 2: Tribe is the memorial programming that Lauren put together in
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  Speaker 2: honor of her brother and then subsequently her mom to
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  Speaker 2: bring awareness to overdose, fitnel poisoning, alcoholism. She even kind
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  Speaker 2: of leans a little bit into suicide, but it is
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  Speaker 2: to bring awareness to that and to work on prevention,
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  Speaker 2: a little bit of harm reduction with some Narcan distribution,
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  Speaker 2: so you know, Soft Valley Voices or recovery jumps behind
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  Speaker 2: that one hundred percent. And so for August, every Monday,
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  Speaker 2: we will be out in the community doing some kind
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  Speaker 2: of outreach, hoping to lead towards our August thirty first
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  Speaker 2: event in Rock Falls.
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  Speaker 1: Awesome? Can you speak a litle little bit about the
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  Speaker 1: events leading up to the one in Rock Falls?
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  Speaker 2: Sure, on the tenth, So let me start at the beginning,
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  Speaker 2: because that's a good place to start. What we do
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  Speaker 2: is we set up our tent in our booth and
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  Speaker 2: we'll be out. Sometimes we're face painting for kids. Sometimes
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  Speaker 2: we are just handing out goodies Narcanon such. But what
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  Speaker 2: we're trying to do is just kind of interact with
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  Speaker 2: the community and let people know, Hey, are you familiar
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  Speaker 2: with Taverns Tribe? Are you familiar with Soft Valley Voices
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  Speaker 2: of Recovery. Obviously, if somebody is successful in their recovery,
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  Speaker 2: then we want them to take part in what Voices
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  Speaker 2: of Recovery is doing right, trying to build that recovery community.
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  Speaker 2: But if you have somebody who has not been successful,
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  Speaker 2: then they have left grieving family, then we want them
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  Speaker 2: to know that there is support available through Tavin's Tribe,
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  Speaker 2: their support, love and remembrance. Right, That's the main thing
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  Speaker 2: is we don't want these people to be forgotten because
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  Speaker 2: if any if nothing less, can their life be a
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  Speaker 2: cautionary tale. So we are out there just kind of
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  Speaker 2: gaining that awareness. And so on the tenth we'll be
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  Speaker 2: at food Truck Monday in Amboy, that's from four to
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  Speaker 2: seven pm. On the seventeenth, from one to three, we'll
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  Speaker 2: be out in the courtyard or the yard lawn area
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  Speaker 2: of the Oregon Courthouse right in a long route too there,
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  Speaker 2: and you know that's where they always have the protest
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  Speaker 2: and all that kind of stuff, So I guess we're
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  Speaker 2: protesting death right. And then on the twenty fourth, we'll
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  Speaker 2: be at the Rock Falls Walmart from twelve to four
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  Speaker 2: and we'll be distributing Narkin and then the thirty first
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  Speaker 2: is the big event at the Bandshell at RB ANDW
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  Speaker 2: Park there in Rock Falls, and that is from four
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  Speaker 2: thirty to six thirty. There's gonna be music, We're gonna
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  Speaker 2: have all of the Tevins tribe memorial signs out, There'll
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  Speaker 2: be food vendors, and there's a car that you'll be
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  Speaker 2: able to spray paint, you know, any kind of message
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  Speaker 2: you want on that to kind of destroy property and
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  Speaker 2: and just be just get out that aggression. But a
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  Speaker 2: lot of good stuff, a lot of good stuff, and
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  Speaker 2: Jordan along because Jordan is our face of recovery for
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  Speaker 2: the month of August, so be face.
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  Speaker 3: I am on Route two. We have our Recovery Lives
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  Speaker 3: here billboard and you'll see my face on there as
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  Speaker 3: well as like a memorial for a couple of people
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  Speaker 3: that we are remembering brothers. Yes, yeah, and we're just
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  Speaker 3: really looking forward to our big thirty first event. We've
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  Speaker 3: worked really hard on getting like a lot of vendors there.
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  Speaker 3: We have there also be a couple of council booths
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  Speaker 3: for like resources for people for family members and stuff.
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  Speaker 3: So we're just really excited for.
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  Speaker 1: That love that recovered loudly I love your your shirt
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  Speaker 1: this morning, and that really feels very spot on with
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  Speaker 1: with what you do with the organization. It's it's always
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  Speaker 1: out there letting everybody know, you know. And I think
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  Speaker 1: a good point to bring up maybe for somebody listening
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  Speaker 1: and hearing our conversation for the first time. And I
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  Speaker 1: think a lot of folks hear a lot about you,
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  Speaker 1: you know, passing out narcan. Why don't we go ahead
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  Speaker 1: and kind of bring you know, maybe somebody who isn't familiar.
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  Speaker 1: What what's the importance of that.
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  Speaker 2: Narcn is a chemical. It's actually called the lox on
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  Speaker 2: is a chemical that in some instances can reverse an
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  Speaker 2: opioid overdose. It is not magic powder, right. It does
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  Speaker 2: not always do it. Sometimes the person has ingested so
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  Speaker 2: much of the opioid that the narkan cannot overcome it.
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  Speaker 2: But essentially what narcan does is it wraps around the
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  Speaker 2: neuroreceptors in the brain and does not allow the opioid
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  Speaker 2: to attach. So opioid overdose often is thought to look
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  Speaker 2: like somebody puts a needle in their arm and a
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  Speaker 2: minute it hits their arm, they pass out. That's not
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  Speaker 2: always the case. Sometimes they take a pill and it
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  Speaker 2: is two hours before enough of the chemical is released
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  Speaker 2: into their system that the overdose occurs. And it's not
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  Speaker 2: the violent fall down, frothing at the mouth. They just
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  Speaker 2: almost seem to just go to sleep, you know, they
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  Speaker 2: just kind of it tells the body to stop breathing.
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  Speaker 2: And so if you catch somebody at certain times during
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  Speaker 2: that and you administer narkan, which is a little nasal spray.
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  Speaker 2: I think it's five miligram. They come in these little
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  Speaker 2: dispensers that are one use, you hit it, it clicks,
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  Speaker 2: it's done, and you we put it up the nostrils
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  Speaker 2: of someone. You have to arch their heads so that
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  Speaker 2: it gets into them. Like if their head is down,
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  Speaker 2: it's not going to do anything. But if it gets
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  Speaker 2: into their system, oftentimes it can reverse that overdose. And
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  Speaker 2: the beauty of it is it's not harmful. If if
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  Speaker 2: I took some right now, it would do nothing to me.
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  Speaker 2: There is no harm in it. So when you see
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  Speaker 2: someone who may be in that condition, you don't have to,
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  Speaker 2: oh should I give it to them? Should I not
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  Speaker 2: do it right? And you know there's laws, there's good
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  Speaker 2: Samaritan laws that if you try to help somebody and
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  Speaker 2: it doesn't work out, You're not going to get in trouble.
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  Speaker 2: It is. It works on animals. You know your dog
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  Speaker 2: eats your medicine. It works on pregnant women, babies. In fact,
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  Speaker 2: about a year and a half ago in New York,
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  Speaker 2: there was a daycare where the woman's boyfriend, I guess
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  Speaker 2: was a drug dealer, and he had hidden his drugs
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  Speaker 2: under the floorboards of the daycare center, and I guess
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  Speaker 2: the daycare something happened, but the dust came up and
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  Speaker 2: like five infants got into it and started licking their
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  Speaker 2: fingers and got h and they got sick and overdose
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  Speaker 2: basically because you can imagine it doesn't take much for
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  Speaker 2: a baby, right, and they administered narcan. I think of
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  Speaker 2: the five they were able to say four. Wow. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: So it's good stuff to have around.
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  Speaker 3: Also, I think it's important too to know, like even
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  Speaker 3: if it's a situation like I know someone whose grandmother
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  Speaker 3: had taken their meds and then like sometimes older people
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  Speaker 3: do they forget and they take their meds again, and
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  Speaker 3: so now they've taken too much. That's a situation where
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  Speaker 3: NARK can also come.
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  Speaker 2: In here or elderly are one of the leading overdose
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  Speaker 2: risk and instances in the country right now.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, oh well that makes sense, and honestly something that
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  Speaker 1: had really never occurred to me, but now that you
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  Speaker 1: mention it, I could see where that is something that
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  Speaker 1: could be a very common issue.
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  Speaker 2: It's time population, it's the time release. I often tell people.
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  Speaker 2: You imagine Grandma takes her pill and then Brandon comes
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  Speaker 2: over and Brandon's talking about the new business and how
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  Speaker 2: great it's going, and she gets excited and she forgets
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  Speaker 2: she took the pill, and she takes another one. Right, Oh,
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  Speaker 2: I didn't take no medicine. She takes another one. And
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  Speaker 2: the problem is at time release, it's going to release
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  Speaker 2: an hour from now and then two hours from now,
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  Speaker 2: and when those two hit it the same time, Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: we got a problem. Yeah, you know. So we advise
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  Speaker 2: everybody to have nar can in the homes, have it
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  Speaker 2: in the car. I don't know if they're still distributing
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  Speaker 2: it free through Walgreens, but I know we do. So
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  Speaker 2: if you need it, you can contact Salk Valley Voice
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  Speaker 2: of Recover. You can contact Tevin's Trick. We also have
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  Speaker 2: a mechanism called a one box that we've installed through
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  Speaker 2: the partnership with a Healthy Lee County. I think we
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  Speaker 2: installed twenty five of them throughout the community. And these
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  Speaker 2: are actually like defibrillator boxes in businesses and you open
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  Speaker 2: it up and it has a little video in it
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  Speaker 2: that tells you how to administer it. Oh wow, and
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  Speaker 2: it has the narcan in it, so it.
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  Speaker 3: Walks you through like step by step.
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  Speaker 1: So that's crazy. I did not know they had anything
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  Speaker 1: like that.
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  Speaker 2: Well, we'll bring you one, so you guys have one
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  Speaker 2: here at the station like that. Yeah, please do. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: it's yeah, it's again, it's not a wonder drug. But man,
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  Speaker 2: I wonder why you don't have it. Oh did you
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  Speaker 2: see what?
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  Speaker 1: H No, absolutely, I agree with you, and that's fantastic.
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  Speaker 1: Anything else you wanted to sure, we got just a
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  Speaker 1: couple of minutes left.
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  Speaker 2: No, man, I really just want to reiterate to you know,
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  Speaker 2: ask people to come out to the International Overdose Awareness
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  Speaker 2: Event on the thirty first, four thirty to six thirty
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  Speaker 2: at our PMW Park. This is kind of the annual
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  Speaker 2: crescendo of what Tevin Stribe does. Following that, on September fifth,
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  Speaker 2: she'll have her volleyball tournament, which is kind of how
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  Speaker 2: she raises a lot of the funds for the work
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  Speaker 2: that she does throughout the year, and that's sponsored by
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  Speaker 2: a ton of businesses in the community and a lot
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  Speaker 2: of people come out. She's got not only the volleyball tournament,
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  Speaker 2: but she's got bounce houses for kids and other activities.
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  Speaker 2: It's just a big family day, like come out to that.
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  Speaker 2: I believe that's at Emerson's in Rock Falls. Is Emmerson's
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  Speaker 2: in Rock Falls or I know it's kind of out
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  Speaker 2: on the outskirts. I always yes, yeah, but anyway, so
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  Speaker 2: that's September fifth. But the big thing is, please come
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  Speaker 2: out to the overdose awareness event on the thirty first,
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  Speaker 2: and you know, partake in all of the things that
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  Speaker 2: we're doing and remember the people that we've lost because
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  Speaker 2: those are those are family members. Those are brothers, sisters, mothers.
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  Speaker 2: Every time we do an event, somebody walks up and says, man,
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  Speaker 2: I wish you know so and so was on here.
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  Speaker 2: I wish you had that person. And it's really not
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  Speaker 2: hard to add them. If you contact Lauren through the website,
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  Speaker 2: she will get them set up so that they are memorialized.
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  Speaker 2: I believe she sends a card to the family every
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  Speaker 2: year on their birthdate and whenever we go out around
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  Speaker 2: the country and advocate for prevention of this nature, we
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  Speaker 2: take members of the tribe. Also saw Volly Voices of
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  Speaker 2: Recovery takes people like when we do our Voices night
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  Speaker 2: out in March, we'll take people who were lost in March.
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  Speaker 2: We'll take their signs, just to remember them and keep
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  Speaker 2: their spirit in the in the the world.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely, mark those those events on your calendars. If anybody
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  Speaker 1: wants any more information about anything we've talked about, or
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  Speaker 1: any of the services that you offer, whether it's Sock
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  Speaker 1: Valley Voices, Recovery, Tevin's Drive, any of it, what's the
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  Speaker 1: best way to do that.
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  Speaker 2: They can go to our website, which is svv R
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  Speaker 2: dot org. They can call seven seven nine seven O
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  Speaker 2: seven zero one five one. They can go to Facebook,
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  Speaker 2: then go to Tevinstribe dot com. That's t E V
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  Speaker 2: I N S t R I b E dot com.
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  Speaker 2: We're not hard to find. Flag us down. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: there's only twelve of us in this town. Sure you
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  Speaker 2: know us, so you know, call stop by the house,
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  Speaker 2: you know, whatever it's and send a send a raven.
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  Speaker 2: But but just get in touch with us.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely were Gerald Jordan, thank you for coming, sharing all
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  Speaker 1: the information, and for all the hard work that you're
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  Speaker 1: doing out there to support those in recovery and and
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  Speaker 1: just spread the awareness. I really appreciate it.
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  Speaker 2: Well, thank you, thanks for having us. Thank you so much,