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The hidden heroes helping domestic violence survivors find safety · Cultural Wars | America Out Loud News

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  You're listening to The Hidden Likeness on America Out Loud Talk Radio.
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  I'm your host, Jimmy Hinton.
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  Well, we need some good news, don't we, folks?
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  We always need some good news, and I have got the story for you.
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  There's a moving company in California.
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  And I California's been in the news a lot.
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  Of course, you have Newsom who uh was I don't know what in the world he was trying to do.
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  I guess he was trying to win points with the black community, and in the process, uh, like radically insulted them.
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  And uh it was just crazy.
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  At any rate, California's been in the news a lot, and of course, New York.
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  Uh, I don't know if you saw that, but uh my goodness, people are throwing snowballs at police officers, ganging up on the big crowds of people, throwing snowballs and yelling uh, you know, MF to them and all kinds of uh derogatory things, and actually injured several police officers.
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  And you know, you hear stories about losers like that, and that's exactly what they are.
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  They're a bunch of losers, deadbeats.
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  Uh, they just like to harass people, and you know, of course, your law enforcement, uh, the people who are actually out there protecting you, keeping the streets safe, and they're pelting them with big heavy snowballs and um shouting at them and cussing at them and so forth.
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  That's just crazy.
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  So there are plenty of stories like that in the news, but this story comes out of California, and it is absolutely incredible.
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  And I I just said this recently.
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  I love California.
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  I want to see California succeed.
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  It pains me so badly to see that state being run into the ground because there's so many good people there.
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  And I've said this repeatedly, that every single time I've been to California, I've been treated like gold.
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  I people are so kind and so thoughtful.
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  And speaking of kind and thoughtful, this brings me to our story today.
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  There's a a moving company that offers free moves to domestic violence victims, and this is spreading, and it's now in eight states.
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  This began in California.
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  A company in Texas took note, a moving company, they contacted the company and said, Hey, we'd love to do something like this.
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  How do you do it?
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  Because it's not really affordable.
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  You know, nothing is free in life.
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  And uh it's just not.
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  Somebody's got to pay for it.
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  And when you own a company, you own expensive trucks.
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  Uh the fuel, especially in California, my goodness, the the overhead is just huge.
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  You have to be insured, all of your employees have to be insured.
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  Yeah, it's very, very expensive.
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  So somebody's eating that cost.
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  And uh what I like about this is that they have a very sustainable model for doing this, for providing free moves to domestic violence victims.
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  And now I I worked with I worked with sexual abuse victims, but uh, you know, for many, many years.
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  But along with that, there are quite a few domestic violence victims as well.
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  Uh, because abuse is abusers pretty much operate with the same kind of mindset.
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  They're very selfish, very narcissistic, they don't care about human life, they have no regard for other people, they only think about themselves.
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  Often, uh, you know, no matter what kind of abuser they are, they're often violent.
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  They like to threaten, they especially like to threaten women and children, and they find vulnerable people, and they just harass them.
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  And that goes back to this whole idea.
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  Well, why why didn't you report?
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  You know, if it was such a problem, why didn't you report?
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  Well, it's just not how it works.
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  If you're being abused, you're living in constant fear.
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  You're you you fear for your life, you fear for your children's lives, you fear for your pets' lives.
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  And typically, almost always, a domestic violence abuser, will also abuse you financially.
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  He'll abuse the uh typically it's it's the woman and the children.
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  Most abusers are male, and uh they'll abuse them financially.
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  They will not give them access to any of the banking accounts, the checking or savings accounts.
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  If they are feeling generous, I'm using my famous air quotes here, folks.
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  If they're feeling quote, generous, they'll gift some money to the spouse or the girlfriend or whoever she is, and they'll give just enough to where they actually feel thankful.
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  And it it's so hard to explain what this does to a person and how degrading it is, how exhausting it is, and uh it's just a terrible way to live.
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  And so what they do is with abusing them financially, they ensure that the woman is never gonna leave, even if she wanted to, even if she tried, they ensure that she has no money whatsoever.
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  And they also typically try to keep them where they don't have a job.
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  They'll tell them, oh, well, you you can be a stay-at-home mom, and I'll work, I'll provide for the family.
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  And they keep them at home, and they do that on purpose because it's very, very difficult if you've been kicked to the curb, and especially if they withhold your ID and you know, on and on it goes.
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  Like they really put a lot of thought into this, the abusers.
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  And you get to the point where the victim literally can't live on their own.
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  That's why a lot, a lot, a lot, a lot of people who are out on the streets are domestic violence victims.
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  You know, they literally wind up homeless, and that's another reason why we should have compassion on the homeless.
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  And it pains me to see what California's doing with the homelessness because it's just absolutely terrible.
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  They've created a culture of homelessness.
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  And it's just sad.
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  It's it's sad all the way around.
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  But I don't want to focus on the sad.
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  I don't want to focus on on the things that people do wrong because there's plenty of it, and we could spend hours and hours and hours just pointing out all the bad things, all the all the ways that uh politicians and abusers themselves uh keep people under their thumb.
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  Excuse me.
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  So uh we're gonna talk about the goodness and the lightness, because that's what this show is all about.
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  So the company's name is Meathead Movers, which is first of all, hilarious, and it's really cool.
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  So the Meathead movers they charge exactly zero dollars.
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  Not a dime, not one dime to leave a spouse or a partner behind to start a new life.
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  And here's a really cool thing about this.
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  And this is what always blows my mind about this.
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  You know, we hear about we hear about these stories, and we're like, oh my goodness, these people are coming out of nowhere, and it's just so cool to see people helping.
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  Well, that's not the case.
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  They've been doing it for 25 years.
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  Meathead movers for 25 years.
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  It's California's largest independently owned moving company.
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  They've been helping end domestic violence by offering their moving services for free to domestic violence victims.
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  It's so cool.
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  And this just goes to show, you know, what really wins the day with all of this is consistency.
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  You know, they weren't looking for fame.
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  They weren't looking for uh, you know, nobody nobody can accuse them anyway of looking for fame online because they've been doing this long before it was it was cool to post videos.
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  You know, that's one of the criticisms, and I've covered quite a few stories uh about you know the Jimmy Darts and uh people like that who are the social the social influencers.
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  One of the criticisms, which uh I get it.
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  I don't agree with it.
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  Um, I guess it depends on the person, the individual, but one of the criticisms is well, you always have a camera out.
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  You know, why don't you just help people?
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  Why don't you just do do this out of the goodness of your heart?
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  Why do you have to have a camera crew that follows you around?
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  And I get that criticism, I really do.
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  But at the same time.
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  The good people who aren't in it for the money.
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  Now the money will follow.
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  Trust me, the money will follow.
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  If you're really good at what you do, the money will follow.
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  But people like Jimmy Darts don't do it for the money.
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  He never got into it for the money.
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  And if you listen to his story, it's absolutely incredible.
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  He said, I just, I was a hot mess.
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  And he turned his life over to Jesus.
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  And he had this Jesus moment.
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  He's like, I'm going to use my influence for good.
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  And I want to inspire other people to do good acts of kindness.
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  And so he just started filming some of the stuff that he was doing, and it just took off like crazy.
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  Like and he says, you know, God legitimately blessed me.
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  And because he has a following on social media.
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  And because he documents it really well, he's able to raise millions of dollars.
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  He just, he just had one the other day.
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  Um, I think it was somewhere like 1.2 million dollars that he raised for this couple.
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  And he does this kind of stuff routinely.
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  He would not be able to do that without a social media following.
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  And people are inspired by generosity.
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  You know, I know there's doomsday scrolling and all that kind of stuff.
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  And uh, you know, there is a good side to social media.
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  There's a good side to the internet.
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  And for every bit of harm that somebody else does, someone else is doing a lot of good.
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  But this company, the meathead movers, they did it before being on social media was cool.
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  They did it before social media even existed.
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  You know, we're talking 25 years ago where we were doing the um the instant messaging, the what was it?
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  The um AOL.
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  AOL instant messenger.
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  That was the form of texting.
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  Because you couldn't text back then.
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  You know, we're talking 25 years ago, quarter of a century.
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  But what's new is that they were really consistent.
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  They were incredibly consistent.
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  And people started to notice.
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  In 2015, they launched a coalition that attracted eight other moving companies across the United States to join them in this mission.
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  The program they launched.
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  It's called hashtag move to end D.
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  That's inspired over 200 businesses to pledge free services for domestic violence survivors.
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  Yeah, from moving to self-storage.
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  Security companies in three California cities that stand a guard during your move.
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  This is on Good News Network, by the way.
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  I'll link to this story in the show notes.
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  I mean, that's incredible.
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  200 businesses have followed suit.
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  Eight other very highly organized moving companies across the United States have followed their pattern.
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  It's really cool.
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  Meathead movers alone.
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  Last year completed 106 domestic violence related moves, absolutely for free.
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  That included eight emergency moves in the cities that they serve.
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  St.
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  Louis, uh, or sorry, San Luis, Abispo in California, Ventura County, Orange County, Fresno, and Bakersfield.
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  So you you see what I mean.
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  Do you see what I mean about the hidden lightness?
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  And that's what I love to focus on.
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  That's what I love about the show.
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  It's highlighting people who have that hidden lightness.
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  They bring it out into the open, and inevitably that inspires other people to do good things.
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  When we do good, it always inspires other people to do good.
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  Now, the opposite of this, the opposite of that is true, too.
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  If we do bad, if we take advantage of people, that unfortunately inspires other people to do crazy things.
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  And you can see that in New York.
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  I mentioned at the beginning of the show.
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  People pelting police officers with with um snowballs.
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  Like being violent, being crude.
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  MFing police officers.
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  And the police officers are just taking it.
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  Yeah, you have to have a lot of patience for that job.
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  And that's the other thing, too.
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  These police officers see a lot of domestic violence.
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  Think about how many calls that they go to just in a given day.
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  Many, many, many of those calls are for domestic violence.
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  They see women and children getting getting beat.
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  They see it.
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  And, you know, it really has a devastating effect on your psyche.
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  When you're witnessing those kinds of things, you're seeing them with your very eyes.
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  You're walking into very dangerous situations.
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  And so it's nice to have a company here that works directly with police departments.
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  And I'll talk about that after the break.
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  I'll talk about what their plan looks like, how they actually do this, the nuts and the bolts behind it.
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  And it's it's just really smart.
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  And it's very well organized.
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  And it's very important the steps that they take to keep the victims safe.
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  Because it's not one of those things that you just reach out to people and you're like, hey, we're gonna help you move.
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  Like this is really complicated.
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  It includes restraining orders and having police on standby.
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  Sometimes the police are with the movers.
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  You know, it's really, really dicey when you're getting somebody out of a domestic violence situation.
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  You have to be very prepared, very equipped.
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  You have to be ready for just about anything.
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  You have to be prepared to be assaulted yourself.
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  So the people who volunteer to do this, it's not like they're, you know, they're they're getting a cookie for the hard work that they do.
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  It's very dangerous.
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  It really is.
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  They've been doing this for 25 years, just last year alone.
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  They moved 106 domestic violence related uh moves absolutely for free.
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  They did eight emergency moves throughout California.
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  The company was founded by brothers Aaron and Evan Steed.
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  And uh it's just an incredible company, incredible people.
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  Aaron said these moves became very personal to us.
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  He said that in 2015, when Good News Network wrote their first story about the CEO of Meathead Movers.
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  Aaron said they made all the employees so proud and became part of our mission statement.
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  Aaron's compassion inspired the owner of a local moving company in Fort Worth, Texas.
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  He reached out to Aaron and said, how could we offer these free services?
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  They weren't able to afford the cost of moving people for free.
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  As I said, nothing in life is free.
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  It cost somebody money.
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  And that's just a fact.
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  There is never ever such a thing as free.
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  Somebody somewhere is biting the cost.
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  And the question is who?
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  And you know, this is really interesting in this whole concept because I I talked about this yesterday.
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  Just yesterday, I was talking about the state of Florida and how they've adopted a really magnificent model where you grow the economy, you uh you allow people to to uh to thrive in their business, you don't over-regulate, you don't overtax, you don't snuff out business, you encourage and you entice business.
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  And in the process, one of the things that I didn't mention in yesterday's show, is that one of their uh one of their models, one of their goals is to find where the people who are living in poverty are concentrated.
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  And they found that uh people who are in uh living in poverty are pretty concentrated in different areas, and they can actually see they can map out where the highest concentrations of people living in poverty are and what they do is they take those districts, they take those counties and the towns, the cities, and they pump a significant amount of money into the schools, they hire the best teachers, they build the best schools, and they create the best education system in the areas that are hit hardest with poverty.
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  Now, what an incredible model.
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  Isn't that totally opposite of what you find in say Los Angeles?
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  What do they do?
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  They shuffle the homeless to these encampments, you know.
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  Meanwhile, they're they're like, oh, don't know what Trump is starting these concentration camps for uh for the illegals.
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  What are they doing?
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  They're literally creating, and it's not just Los Angeles, by the way.
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  These cities, the liberal cities, are creating entire encampments.
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  I've been going to Pittsburgh, I mean, my whole life.
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  I live it's a little over an hour away.
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  We don't have another big city near us, so Pittsburgh is the nearest city, and I've been going there for years and years and years.
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  I mean, pretty much my whole life.
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  And in the last three years, I have never in my life seen the amount of homeless that I've seen.
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  Entire camps of homeless people.
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  There's one that's right beside the police station.
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  It's literally outside of the police station.
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  I think there's a jail there too.
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  I think there's a police station and a jail.
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  Uh, but they're literally dozens and dozens and dozens of tents set up all year round, uh, even in the dead of the winter.
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  It's these really big camps, these homeless encampments, and the amount of trash, there's just litter everywhere, and it just um it's heartbreaking, one, but two, it makes the city look really trashy.
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  I mean, Pittsburgh is a nice city.
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  I love going to Pittsburgh.
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  I love taking my family there, but a lot of times you'll see, you know, when you come into the city and you have your kids with you, you'll find these these camps, and there are people like taking whizzes out in the street, you know, they're just peeing out and out in the open, needles everywhere.
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  I mean, it just looks like trash.
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  And that's that's their way.
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  You know, a lot of people that are like, oh, I'd like to see you run a city better.
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  We're doing the best we can do.
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  That's what Ma'am Donnie said.
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  I'm doing the best I can do.
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  Really?
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  I think it boils down to policy.
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  Where there's a will, there's a way.
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  And there are legitimate ways to take care of people.
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  People who who are in desperate need.
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  And Florida is such a good model.
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  It's such an incredible model, and I wish all of America would adopt that same model.
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  Allow people to thrive, and you allow people who have wealth to pump that money back into their communities.
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  When they do it willingly, uh I'm telling you, the sky's the limit.
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  And people try to outdo each other.
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  Wealthy people try to outdo the other wealthy people.
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  But when the government comes comes in and they're like, well, we're gonna make you pay your fair share.
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  We're gonna tax you into the ground.
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  All of a sudden, it's not very appealing, is it?
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  Companies, business owners, they're not willingly helping people out.
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  And the government takes so much of their money and sets fire to it that you don't have a whole lot of money left over to be able to do these big philanthropic um uh endeavors, right?
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  The more government takes, and by the way, when they take the money, they waste the money.
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  That's just a fact.
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  The more the government takes, the more they waste, and the less you have to actually help people.
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  That's just the way it works.
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  And in Florida, they they've really adopted such an incredible model, and it works, it's working.
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  You educate the poor, you give them the the best of the best.
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  You know, look at what other people do, look at what other states do.
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  They shuffle the poor people in into the corner.
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  They put them in the bad parts of the city, they don't free up any money for school, they have the worst school, worst crime, worst disease, worst opportunities for jobs, no transportation or limited transportation, and on and on it goes.
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  And and and we're like, oh, we're we're gonna help them by providing housing.
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  Well, you can provide housing, but if they don't have jobs and they don't have access to good schools, you know, it's it's not gonna work.
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  They're gonna be homeless again.
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  So Florida has adopted a really powerful model, and I just I'm so excited to see where this is moving.
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  That I I was I was blown away when I saw that, and I can't believe I failed to mention that yesterday.
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  That's why I'm spending time on it now talking about it.
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  They they build the best schools, the absolute best schools in the entire state are in the poorest communities.
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  They treat poor people well, they give them access to great teachers, great education, great schools, great programs, and that helps people really, it puts them on a fast track to be successful.
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  And I believe that they mean what they say.
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  When they say Florida is a state for everybody, we want everybody to do well.
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  We want everybody to thrive.
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  I I believe them.
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  And I think that's a really, really important model.
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  So this company, the Meathead Movers, it's just another prime example that when companies do well, when they make a lot of money, when uh when they have good hearts.
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  When people aren't trashing them and like, oh, those greedy, those greedy meathead movers.
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  What's that name all about?
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  Let's tax them.
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  Tax them, make them pay their fair share.
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  You know, when you leave companies alone, when you let them thrive, when you let them do well, look at what they do.
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  They willingly do this.
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  And they've willingly been doing it for 25 years.
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  And now they're getting other companies, 200 other businesses, more than 200 other businesses have joined hands.
• 30:37
  Eight other moving companies across the nation are offering free services for domestic violence survivors.
• 30:45
  This is really incredible.
• 30:49
  So Aaron, one of the brothers, founders, CEO of Meathead Movers.
• 30:54
  He told this company in Fort Worth, Texas, you know, what we do is uh, or what I would suggest for you is that you take just one day per month and ask your employees to volunteer their labor.
• 31:09
  That's the biggest expense.
• 31:12
  And when they did that, you want to know what happened.
• 31:17
  Did they complain?
• 31:20
  Did they talk about how bad their boss is, how bad management is, our boss is ripping us off.
• 31:28
  I'm gonna I'm gonna stage a walkout.
• 31:31
  You know, look at the difference between these companies and virtually any company that's run by a union.
• 31:40
  And I'm talking about entitled unions.
• 31:45
  Where they demand, you know, we're not gonna work harder, but you're gonna pay us more.
• 31:52
  And if you don't, we're gonna strike.
• 31:55
  And we're gonna demand, we're gonna shut this company down.
• 31:58
  We're gonna shut this school down.
• 32:00
  We're gonna, you know, that's what they do.
• 32:03
  We're gonna shut this hospital down.
• 32:07
  Look at the difference.
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  Here you have these companies, they respect their boss.
• 32:15
  They're asked to volunteer.
• 32:16
  I don't know about you, but not many of us would volunteer a full day, especially once a month.
• 32:23
  After you've been working 40 plus hours, and then your boss says, hey, by the way, I know you've put 40 hours in this week, but could you volunteer another eight to 10 hours?
• 32:36
  Not many people do that.
• 32:39
  But nearly the entire team stepped up and they volunteered.
• 32:45
  Almost everybody, almost every single employee.
• 32:48
  That's incredible.
• 32:52
  And it just goes back to what I talk about all the time.
• 32:55
  When you do good acts of kindness, when you do good things for people, it becomes contagious, and other people want to be a part of that.
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  They want to help.
• 33:03
  They want to step up.
• 33:05
  They will put the time in, they will put the effort in.
• 33:10
  And that's why the hidden lightness is so important.
• 33:16
  If you find something that you're passionate about, stop complaining.
• 33:20
  Do not complain.
• 33:21
  Do not talk about how, well, there are no volunteers and people would never.
• 33:26
  You know, that kind of language, we really shouldn't have any place for that language in our culture.
• 33:33
  Because I found over and over and over again, it's just not true.
• 33:38
  If you do something that other people believe in, you'll get the volunteers every single time.
• 33:43
  People will step up to the plate.
• 33:48
  So that company in Texas, it's called Veterans Moving America.
• 33:53
  They work with shelters to provide moving services to survivors in Fort Worth.
• 34:00
  And that's created this massive ripple effect within their own community.
• 34:07
  So other companies that have joined the hashtag move to NDV.
• 34:14
  That includes Veterans Moving America, which I just mentioned in Fort Worth, helping hands moving and maids, Salt Lake City, Utah.
• 34:24
  We help.
• 34:29
  Cincinnati, Ohio, Elite Moving Services, Des Moines, Iowa.
• 34:36
  Gentle Giant Moving Company, Boston, Massachusetts.
• 34:40
  Parks Moving and Storage.
• 34:53
  Three different locations.
• 34:55
  One company, three locations.
• 34:57
  That's pretty cool.
• 34:59
  Always professional moving, Phoenix, Arizona.
• 35:03
  And Brown Box Movers, Dallas, Texas.
• 35:08
  And you know what's really cool about this?
• 35:10
  Like, some of these names aren't even that catchy.
• 35:14
  I think so many people focus on they're like, what should our name be?
• 35:18
  We have to have the name just perfect.
• 35:20
  No, you don't.
• 35:22
  Nope.
• 35:23
  All you have to do is you let your hidden lightness shine and watch what God does with that.
• 35:28
  Literally, that's all you have to do.
• 35:32
  I mean, some of these names are not that crazy.
• 35:36
  In fact, the biggest one, the one that has three different cities, parks moving in storage.
• 35:43
  Parks moving in storage.
• 35:46
  It's not a very catchy name.
• 35:49
  It's not even that creative of a name.
• 35:53
  But boy, are they doing a lot of good.
• 35:57
  My goodness, are they making a difference in people's lives?
• 35:59
  People who are desperate.
• 36:01
  People who otherwise would wind up on the streets.
• 36:05
  We're dead.
• 36:09
  And these companies step up to the plate.
• 36:12
  They show up day in and day out.
• 36:17
  The workers volunteer their time and they just do it.
• 36:21
  They just get it done.
• 36:24
  That is the hidden lightness that's inside of all of us.
• 36:28
  That's what I talk about.
• 36:30
  We all have this ability to help people.
• 36:32
  Is this easy for any of them?
• 36:37
  There is no magic in it.
• 36:40
  You know, I think sometimes people hear these stories, and that's part of what cripples people because they're like, oh, I could never do anything like that.
• 36:48
  Yes, you absolutely could.
• 36:52
  You could and you should.
• 36:56
  These are not superheroes.
• 36:59
  These are not people who have superpowers.
• 37:02
  These are ordinary people like you and I who show up to work, they grind day after day, and then at the end of a long hard week, they just volunteer their time.
• 37:16
  That's it.
• 37:19
  You know, it's really to me, that's the magic in all this.
• 37:22
  The magic is when people just do it, despite their busy schedules and having families and everything else, they just they just do it.
• 37:30
  They just step up and they do it.
• 37:33
  That's really cool.
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  Well, I challenge you to find a broad array of great voices, a deeper bench of experience or a more dedicated collection.
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  Then here on America Outlaw.
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  Now is our time, my fellow Americans.
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  America Outlaw.
• 39:59
  There's a company.
• 40:00
  In Texas called Veterans Moving America who were inspired by the work that Meathead movers were doing.
• 40:10
  So they put in a phone call and they said, How do we do it?
• 40:13
  We can't really afford to do it.
• 40:15
  And so give us some advice.
• 40:18
  Well, the company owners who happen to be brothers, they suggested that they begin with one day where uh one day out of a month where they just get their workers to volunteer time.
• 40:32
  Lo and behold, they did that, and it took off like crazy.
• 40:38
  Now there are other moving companies that have joined the ranks.
• 40:42
  The movement is hashtag move to end DV.
• 40:47
  And they include Veterans Moving America in Fort Worth, Texas, helping hands moving maids, Salt Lake City, Utah.
• 40:55
  We help Cincinnati Movers, Cincinnati, Ohio, Elite Moving Services, Des Moines, Iowa, Gentle Giant Moving Company, Boston, Massachusetts, Parks Moving and Storage, Pittsburgh, Harrisburg, and State College, Pennsylvania.
• 41:14
  Always professional moving, Phoenix, Arizona, and Brown Box Movers, Dallas, Texas.
• 41:21
  In all, they have moved hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of people every single year across eight states in America.
• 41:31
  So how does it all work?
• 41:33
  Well, the moving companies are advised to work with local domestic violence prevention shelters.
• 41:41
  They screen the victims who are requesting a free move.
• 41:45
  This allows the company to do what the company does to move.
• 41:51
  It's not their expertise to do background checks and to actually verify that the people asking for help are actually domestic violence victims.
• 42:03
  So what they do is they work with local shelters, which is brilliant because I hate to say it, but plenty of people would take advantage of this.
• 42:14
  Plenty of people would lie, unfortunately, and they would say that they're a domestic violence victim and they would get free moving.
• 42:23
  So the way that they get around that, or the way that they work through that is that they work directly with the domestic violence shelters.
• 42:33
  So they vet their requests.
• 42:36
  The domestic violence shelters support the women with counseling.
• 42:42
  And they make sure that when the moving crew goes, they're actually safe.
• 42:46
  They work with local law enforcement.
• 42:49
  And all in all, it's a it's a really really cool system.
• 42:54
  In 2020, the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence took over hashtag move to NDV and assumed facilitation of the program.
• 43:08
  So that's really cool too because uh allows somebody who's really good at what they do to take over the movement.
• 43:18
  And that allows the moving companies to do what they do really well, and that is to move people.
• 43:25
  So that there are plenty of resources that at people's fingertips.
• 43:29
  There's a lot of coordination, networking, and uh these support services are for and through shelters and for survivors.
• 43:42
  And the meathead movers are now able to reach and support even more people impacted by domestic violence.
• 43:50
  Now you can imagine if you're trying to manage all of these different companies, you're gonna have your hands full.
• 43:57
  And that's what was happening before they did the handoff.
• 44:01
  You know, it's it really truly is a full-time job just to try to coordinate all of this.
• 44:08
  So when National Coalition Against Domestic Violence took over, that really freed up all of these companies to be able to do what they do.
• 44:20
  So they're asking uh, you know, in this article, again, I'll link to it in the show notes.
• 44:25
  They're asking for businesses to donate products, services, funding.
• 44:32
  And uh, I think this is really going to keep spreading.
• 44:35
  I really do.
• 44:37
  When people become aware of these kinds of things, they're quick to jump in and they're very quick to help.
• 44:44
  And I see this time and time again.
• 44:46
  People want to help, people are willing to help.
• 44:50
  People enjoy helping.
• 44:54
  And uh, you know, it just I wish the media for one month out of a year.
• 45:02
  I wish for one month out of the year they would just follow positive stories.
• 45:10
  Can you imagine how this stuff would spread like wildfire if people had an awareness that it was actually going on?
• 45:17
  And that's part of the problem.
• 45:18
  When the media doesn't cover these things, and they rarely do, when they don't cover these stories, people have no idea that other people, other citizens, people like you and I.
• 45:32
  They have no idea that they're they're volunteering their time and doing this kind of stuff.
• 45:39
  And so we we we get this idea in our mind that everybody's corrupt, everybody's everybody's wicked.
• 45:47
  There's so many bad people out there.
• 45:50
  What's the point?
• 45:53
  Look how awful people are.
• 45:54
  Look how terrible people are.
• 45:56
  And then people get in that mindset that, well, because people are so bad and so terrible and so awful, we need to protest.
• 46:05
  And that's driven by the Democratic Party.
• 46:09
  They are the party of protest.
• 46:13
  We have to go out, we have to resist, we have to boycott, stand in their way, on and on it goes.
• 46:21
  And it's very easy to get caught up in that.
• 46:24
  The mob mentality is really easy to get caught up in if uh if you truly believe that everybody out there is corrupt.
• 46:34
  And it's a shame, it really is because it's it's a very paranoid way to live your life.
• 46:41
  To assume, to automatically assume that people have bad intentions, to automatically assume that the majority of people are bad, to automatically assume that different classes of people are bad.
• 46:56
  Wealthy people are bad.
• 47:00
  They all rip people off, they're all they're all evil.
• 47:05
  You know, living with that level of paranoia, it's just not healthy, it's not good for the psyche, it's not good for your family.
• 47:17
  It's just generally not good.
• 47:21
  And if we spent one month talking about stories like this, they give hope to domestic violence survivors.
• 47:31
  I mean, a lot of times they they are absolutely at their rope's end.
• 47:37
  They're out of resources, they're they're you know, they've tapped every possible resource that they know to tap, and they're desperate.
• 47:48
  And what if this was well publicized?
• 47:56
  And what if domestic violence survivors all over the country knew about programs like this?
• 48:04
  What if other moving companies caught wind of this?
• 48:08
  And they joined the ranks.
• 48:18
  My wife says that I'm a dreamer.
• 48:21
  She she says that I dream too big.
• 48:23
  And she's right, sometimes I do.
• 48:26
  But I don't know.
• 48:27
  I just see potential.
• 48:28
  I see so much potential in this nation.
• 48:31
  And America was built on a promise.
• 48:33
  It was built on a promise to help better people's lives, to at least give the opportunity for people to have a better life, to be productive, to be prosperous.
• 48:49
  And it's a shame whenever you see people tearing that apart and tearing the country apart, throwing snowballs at police officers, mfing them.
• 48:58
  When you see homeless encampments littering the streets, you know, it's it's it's easy to focus on those things and and to assume that the majority of people are bad, but they're not.
• 49:14
  I promise you, the majority of people are very, very good.
• 49:19
  They have good hearts.
• 49:21
  Even churches, you know, I got caught up in that when I was dealing with child sexual abuse and churches covering it up.
• 49:31
  You get exasperated.
• 49:32
  You get to the point where you're like, is literally every single church corrupt.
• 49:39
  And then I found out from traveling.
• 49:42
  No, it's a lot.
• 49:43
  I mean, don't get me wrong, but when you're looking for it, you really have a heightened awareness of all the bad apples.
• 49:52
  But I promise you, the vast majority of Christians, the vast majority of churches, they're actually quite.
• 50:00
  Healthy.
• 50:02
  And they're good people.
• 50:05
  And they want to do well.
• 50:08
  You know, if you listen to some of the stuff that you hear from the left, and it really stinks.
• 50:13
  The political left really trashes Christianity.
• 50:17
  They talk about how corrupt they are, and it's just awful and it's terrible, and they're chasing this fake God.
• 50:23
  And you know if you're white, especially if you're a white male, you're just automatically a chauvinist and you're a terrible person, and you know, you're probably a Donald Trump lover, and you know, on and on and on.
• 50:40
  And they just they paint with very broad strokes.
• 50:43
  And I think it really discourages people from stepping up to the plate and volunteering their time.
• 50:51
  You know, it's like um spraying poison into a group of people.
• 50:58
  And you discourage them from being healthy.
• 51:03
  You know, there's so much toxicity.
• 51:07
  And so much really bad rhetoric.
• 51:12
  I think that's why I really like to focus on the good that people do because I believe in people.
• 51:18
  I believe that all of us are capable of doing good and making our communities better, making our neighborhoods better, making our families better, making ourselves better.
• 51:32
  We all have the opportunity to do that.
• 51:36
  That's what this nation was founded on.
• 51:38
  It was founded on those principles to be prosperous and healthy and happy.
• 51:46
  And so when I hear people tearing down the country and tearing each other down, it just doesn't sit well with me.
• 52:00
  This movement.
• 52:01
  Move to end DV.
• 52:04
  You gotta look it up.
• 52:07
  There's a picture here.
• 52:08
  Um it's from the Meathead Movers, and it's a picture of their their team.
• 52:15
  It's a picture of their employees.
• 52:18
  And they're all like pumping their fist, and it's really cool, and there's like a cool backdrop.
• 52:23
  They have the the mountains in the background, and it says, we challenge you to make an impact with your business.
• 52:30
  I absolutely love that.
• 52:34
  But isn't that awesome when we encourage each other to do well instead of talking about other businesses and other individuals and being jealous and and talking about making them pay their fair share.
• 52:46
  You know, that always bothers me.
• 52:48
  I just heard uh somebody the other day who's running for office and uh somebody I know, and uh it was all about these awful rich people.
• 53:02
  And I promise on my campaign that I'm gonna make them pay their fair share.
• 53:08
  I get so tired of hearing that.
• 53:11
  You know, like the the world would be a much happier place, a much better place.
• 53:17
  If instead of milking people for their fair share, we actually just went led by example.
• 53:24
  Now, people uh people give their fair share.
• 53:30
  And then some.
• 53:32
  When you ask them to help, when you ask people to step in and step up, step up to the plate, help us.
• 53:44
  We challenge you to make an impact with your business.
• 53:46
  That's the the motto for Meathead Movers.
• 53:51
  When you challenge people, instead of forcing them or talking about how you're you're gonna take them down, you're gonna force them to pay their fair share.
• 54:03
  You talk about how they're they're constantly ripping you off, ripping the American people off.
• 54:11
  People get tired of hearing that crap.
• 54:14
  And if it were true, yeah, I'd I'd I'd I'd be on board, I guess.
• 54:21
  But it's just not true.
• 54:24
  Yeah, people are so generous, generous with their time, they're generous with their money, they're generous with their profits.
• 54:34
  Yeah, businesses like this who are who are serving domestic violence victims, they're doing it willingly, they're doing it happily, they're challenging other people, they're that they're they're serving with a smile on their face.
• 54:52
  You know, God forbid this company actually be profitable.
• 54:57
  And I just I can just hear it.
• 55:00
  I can hear the narrative.
• 55:01
  Well, we're gonna we're gonna make them pay their fair share.
• 55:04
  You can't have wealth.
• 55:06
  That's that's immoral.
• 55:09
  You know, Billy Eilish.
• 55:10
  If you're a billionaire, why are you a billionaire?
• 55:15
  You just give your money away.
• 55:19
  You don't think that wealthy people are doing that.
• 55:24
  I mean, it's insane.
• 55:27
  But anyway, I you know, I again I don't want to focus on that because it just gets me really annoyed.
• 55:34
  I think that we're gonna see an absolute movement sweep this nation.
• 55:42
  And it's gonna be good.
• 55:44
  I think that more and more people are being wakened to the idea that other Americans are generous and that they're helping out.
• 55:56
  And they want to join.
• 55:58
  The younger people, especially, they really want to be a part of something, something meaningful.
• 56:05
  They don't want to just sit in the pews at church, they want to actually serve the community.
• 56:12
  You know, I just um not that long ago, just today.
• 56:18
  I received a phone call, and remember, I told you about us doing the snow angels.
• 56:24
  Well, somebody found out that it was that it was us, and I got a phone call, and this woman was just in tears, and she's like, I just want to thank you so much for shoveling my my mother's place out.
• 56:38
  And she's like, she was able to receive food.
• 56:42
  They had canceled her meals because meals on wheels couldn't get to her.
• 56:46
  And she said, when you guys shoveled her, she's able to, she's able to get food now.
• 56:51
  And I just wanted to thank you.
• 56:53
  It's contagious, folks.
• 56:55
  It really, really is contagious, and I think America is on a very good track.
• 57:00
  Uh, I think we're in a good place, and as we celebrate the 250-year anniversary, we're gonna do it big folks.
• 57:08
  That's the hidden lightness.
• 57:10
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• 57:18
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• 57:20
  There is a hidden lightness that shines inside of all of us.
• 57:23
  When there's so much darkness that envelops the world, remember that it doesn't take much light to expose that darkness and to ultimately inspire other people.
• 57:31
  Join me in being a light.