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Vets and Brews - Honor Bus · Brian Thomas

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  Speaker 1: Station seven thirty. Right now, if you have KCV talk station,
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  Speaker 1: changing gears here and welcome changing gears kind of like
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  Speaker 1: changing gears on a busy politics day and talking to
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  Speaker 1: Jay Ratliff, I Heart Media Aviation Expert. At eight thirty.
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  Speaker 1: We have right now in studio Matt DeMars back again
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  Speaker 1: this year for the Vets and Bruce organization that he started.
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  Speaker 1: We're doing Honor Bus twenty twenty five. Matt DeMars, God,
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  Speaker 1: bless you, sir. Welcome back and thank you for your
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  Speaker 1: support of the American veteran.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you, brother, Thank you for your support all the time.
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  Speaker 2: It's constant.
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  Speaker 1: I love it all. Listen, everything I can do. I
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  Speaker 1: didn't sign up, is I like to point out, so
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  Speaker 1: I try to make up for that lack of Oh
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. We'll call myself a coward. I know
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  Speaker 1: you right, you didn't serve any you're making up for it. Okay.
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  Speaker 1: Well see that's the point. You know, everybody does something.
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  Speaker 2: Two of my favorite things are craft beer and veterans.
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  Speaker 2: So can I put that a way to put them together?
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  Speaker 1: And you put vets first, so it's not Bruce and vets,
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  Speaker 1: it's that bruise you can find him with that's in
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  Speaker 1: Bruce dot com. It looks like at least a quarter
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  Speaker 1: of the website, which probably isn't you know ready real
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  Speaker 1: time up to date, thirty four hundred beers donated to
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  Speaker 1: the deserving veterans, and you've raised another one of my
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  Speaker 1: favorite organizations, Patriots Landing, and they're play an integral role
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  Speaker 1: in this. Patriots Landing is the wood shop where veterans
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  Speaker 1: come and you know, commiserate and share each other's experience
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  Speaker 1: and make these wonderful craft items that you can buy.
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  Speaker 1: Patriots Landing website. Check it out and support them. You
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  Speaker 1: donate a portion of the like if I give you
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  Speaker 1: ten dollars, seven dollars goes to buy the beer and
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  Speaker 1: three dollars goes to Patriots Landing. Correct, So far you've
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  Speaker 1: raised about twenty one thousand dollars for Patriots Landing alone,
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  Speaker 1: that little slice.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's nuts, I mean, and this.
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  Speaker 1: Is the third year you've been doing this.
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  Speaker 2: This will for vets and Bruce total I started right
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  Speaker 2: before COVID, but then you know, we weren't out in
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  Speaker 2: a brewery, right, So really it's been post COVID is
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  Speaker 2: all the time that.
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  Speaker 1: I've read years that let's call it four.
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  Speaker 2: This will be my fourth year for Honor Buss. So
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  Speaker 2: it's it's crazy, man.
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  Speaker 1: It really is, but I like the idea. And then
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  Speaker 1: the speaking of Patriots Landing, you have the donation box
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  Speaker 1: for your organization in the flag case that was made
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  Speaker 1: by Patriots Landing, got a little slot in it. It's
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  Speaker 1: got a plex glass cover like it would cover the
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  Speaker 1: flag and the money fits in there. So folks, if
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  Speaker 1: you're out at a bar, a pub, a participating brewery,
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  Speaker 1: stuff some money in the Patriot Landing box.
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  Speaker 2: And if you're a veteran and you see that, go
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  Speaker 2: up to the bar and say, hey, old I'm a veteran,
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  Speaker 2: and they'll have a beer ready for you. Yeah, I pre.
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  Speaker 1: Pay for him, pre paid. And don't be that guy
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  Speaker 1: who who claims to be a veteran just to get
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  Speaker 1: a free beer. There's a special place in hell for
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  Speaker 1: anyone who would do that. Anyway, your impetus behind this
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  Speaker 1: to help the American veteran. But you know, conceptually what
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  Speaker 1: prompted you to do this, Matt damis.
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  Speaker 2: You know, my dad's a Vietnam VET, and I've always
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  Speaker 2: been a craft beer guy. Obviously, I'm a I'm a
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  Speaker 2: real estate agent as a way to market myself. This
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  Speaker 2: is this is how I do it. I go out
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  Speaker 2: to veteran events or joined veteran veteran groups that are
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  Speaker 2: meeting at breweries, and I show up and buying beer.
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  Speaker 1: You gotta be the most popular guy.
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  Speaker 2: It's pretty cool. When I come in, they're like, what
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  Speaker 2: are you doing?
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  Speaker 1: Man? Are you kidding me? MAT's holding his head around
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  Speaker 1: in the house.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, well, round on everybody. The donations come in from.
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  Speaker 1: Everywhere, okay, And you can donate on the website. Correct,
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  Speaker 1: that's right. There's a little buy a vet a beer
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  Speaker 1: link so if you don't want to show up at
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  Speaker 1: a bar and drop the money and you can just
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  Speaker 1: give it directly through the Vets and Bruce website.
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  Speaker 2: That's my dad on that picture too.
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  Speaker 1: Oh that's awesome. What a nice looking guy. How long
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  Speaker 1: has it been since you passed?
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  Speaker 2: It's coming up on four years.
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  Speaker 1: I know what that's like.
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  Speaker 2: Man, he never got to see an honor bus, but
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  Speaker 2: he did get to come to an event where I
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  Speaker 2: was able to buy him a donate a beer. So
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  Speaker 2: and he wasn't even a drinker. He just came to support,
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  Speaker 2: you know what I mean.
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  Speaker 1: That's great. That's great, all right. That's and Bruce dot
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  Speaker 1: Com was gonna put a link at fifty five cars
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  Speaker 1: dot com if you can't remember that particular element, but
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  Speaker 1: I do encourage you to support that organization. Of course,
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  Speaker 1: support Patriots Landing if you're out there, patri Lanning folks,
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  Speaker 1: you guys are the best. Well you add Matt Damars,
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  Speaker 1: you can also sponsor an honor buses a link there
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  Speaker 1: for that. So Roma take an earlier break because I
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  Speaker 1: know we need to talk about the honor Bus twenty
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  Speaker 1: twenty five, what that's all about, where people need to
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  Speaker 1: be and who's invited. So we're going to continue with
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  Speaker 1: Matt Demaris, Vets and Bruce help out the American veteran,
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  Speaker 1: put a smile in her face with the free beer
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  Speaker 1: that will most certainly put a smile on their face.
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  Speaker 1: Stick around. I want to mention zip it's seven point
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  Speaker 1: thirty nine here at forty five Karrosite talk station in
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  Speaker 1: Mattamarrison Studio. Vets and Bruis dot Com his organization just
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  Speaker 1: helping out the American veteran by putting smile on a face.
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  Speaker 1: Because you donate a little bit of money, he buys
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  Speaker 1: them a beer, or you're effectively buying them beer. And
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  Speaker 1: then we also help support Patriots Landing with their wonderful
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  Speaker 1: Veteran craft shop in Kentucky, which I suggest you visit sometime.
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  Speaker 1: Mattda Maris, when is this of honor bus? This year
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  Speaker 1: I went on? I was it last year I went
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  Speaker 1: on the one? Or was the year year before? What
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  Speaker 1: a great time it is in fun? Yeah, a couple
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  Speaker 1: of school buses. It's filled with veterans, although you do
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  Speaker 1: allow you have to have a couple of spaces for
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  Speaker 1: you know, folks like me that you invite. But what
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  Speaker 1: day is it and what time do you start? Let's
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  Speaker 1: talk about the details on this, because I know there
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  Speaker 1: are a couple of spots still remaining on the bus.
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  Speaker 1: That's right, get to that second.
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  Speaker 2: So it's it's on November eighth this year. We we
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  Speaker 2: go to three different breweries, you know, and we start
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  Speaker 2: around noon. It's gonna be starting at dead Low Brewing.
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  Speaker 1: It's Avenue, right, yep.
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  Speaker 2: We're gonna be hosting a honoring Vietnam veteran event there.
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  Speaker 2: So if if you know Vietnam veteran, bring them in.
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  Speaker 2: It's open to the public. If you're not a veteran,
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  Speaker 2: you can come and cheer people in. We do, you know,
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  Speaker 2: we do like a receiving line. I've kind of mild
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  Speaker 2: this after the honor flights, you know what I mean.
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  Speaker 2: When you come back to CVG, there's all those people
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  Speaker 2: there waving flags and stuff. I try to recreate that
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  Speaker 2: enthusiasm in that atmosphere every time the bus pulls in.
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  Speaker 2: Then we're going to Wooden Cast Brewing down in Newport
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  Speaker 2: on York Street. We're gonna be doing a sponsor recognition
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  Speaker 2: event there, and then over to West Side Brewing and
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  Speaker 2: Chevy I believe it's Chevy. It's on Harrison, Yeah, and
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  Speaker 2: we're gonna do an all branch toast there, so all
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  Speaker 2: branches of the military come in and celebrate with us.
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  Speaker 2: We're gonna raise the glass and celebrate the two hundred
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  Speaker 2: and fiftieth anniversary. They've also teamed up with Toys for Tots.
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  Speaker 2: They're brewing a special chocolate porter that they're releasing that day.
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  Speaker 2: And I don't know what the amount is, but some
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  Speaker 2: portion of the proceeds for every one of those beers
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  Speaker 2: Souls goes for Toys for Tots.
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  Speaker 1: Oh that's wonderful. Yeah, I mean the love keeps expanding.
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  Speaker 2: It's how it is, man, It's crazy, how this this
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  Speaker 2: is blown up.
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  Speaker 1: And you mentioned the sponsor recognition stop at the Uh
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  Speaker 1: that's gonna be at Wooden Casper and that's stop number two.
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  Speaker 1: But uh, I presume that it's not too late to
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  Speaker 1: be a sponsor.
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  Speaker 2: No, and we need sponsors. It's uh, you know, we haven't.
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  Speaker 2: We're we're a little bit over half of what we
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  Speaker 2: raised last year. This thing runs on donations, you know
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  Speaker 2: what I mean. Bets and Bergs is one hundred percent
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  Speaker 2: volunteer ran and basically if you if you, if you
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  Speaker 2: go in as a sponsor, you're basically spon string one
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  Speaker 2: of the veterans on the bus. And we have one
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  Speaker 2: hundred dollars slots left, and we also have a couple
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  Speaker 2: five hundred dollars sponsors left. If you want to get
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  Speaker 2: your logo on the shirt.
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  Speaker 1: Well, can I owe you twenty? Yeah, there's eighty. I'm
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna be a full sponk. I'm gonna make it
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  Speaker 1: one hundred dollars. They just don't have the extra twenty
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  Speaker 1: on me right now. Spot now, So there you go.
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  Speaker 1: I just donated. You can donate, so please do that,
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  Speaker 1: and if you want to be a sponsor, please sign
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  Speaker 1: up for that. Uh. If you want to get some
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  Speaker 1: recognition and love, you want to be on a T
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  Speaker 1: shirt with recognition, you will be because he prints the
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  Speaker 1: T shirts out with sponsors on it. So that's all
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  Speaker 1: a great thing. And I guess the stops are important
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  Speaker 1: for my listening audience because you don't have to be
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  Speaker 1: on the bus to on the veterans much like you said,
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  Speaker 1: ceveg on or flight next Tuesday, be at a lunkin
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  Speaker 1: airport for that. Uh it's the last one of the year.
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  Speaker 1: But just show up either show up at you know,
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  Speaker 1: twelve o'clock at dead Low Brewery. Make it stop over
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  Speaker 1: at Wooden Caspering the next stop. It's close to two o'clock,
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  Speaker 1: and you get all the details on the website. And
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  Speaker 1: of course then you got your final stop to the
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  Speaker 1: West Cyberings. Show up there if you can be there
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  Speaker 1: by three o'clock three thirty, get a part of being
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  Speaker 1: a part of the welcome ceremony. But I want to
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  Speaker 1: mention the bus itself out loud because it just asked
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  Speaker 1: you off air on this and I'm going to breach
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  Speaker 1: orthodoxy here and I'm gonna get just Strekker really angry
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  Speaker 1: at me, and I will take I will follow on
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  Speaker 1: the sword to the extent I'm violating any rules of
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  Speaker 1: procedure here, but since I consider the space on the
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  Speaker 1: bus at zero monetary value, it is a charity. We're
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  Speaker 1: doing charitable work here for the American veteran. There are
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  Speaker 1: two seats available for veterans. If you are a veteran
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  Speaker 1: or you have a veteran in your world, and you
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  Speaker 1: know that they'll join the fun on November eighth, it's
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  Speaker 1: a Saturday, and they want to be on the bus
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  Speaker 1: for these multiple stops. Call seven four nine fifty five
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  Speaker 1: hundred eight hundred eighty two three talk or pound five
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  Speaker 1: fifty on AT and T phones. Joe, just write down
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  Speaker 1: your name, maybe just a tiny bit of information so
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  Speaker 1: Matt can verify you when you show up at dead
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  Speaker 1: Loow Brewery to get on the bus right, ye, call
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  Speaker 1: right now seven fifty five hundred, eight hundred eight two
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  Speaker 1: three talk. We'll fill those two spots up. We got
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  Speaker 1: two solid busses full and all the fun that goes
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  Speaker 1: along with it. And it really it is kind of
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  Speaker 1: an interesting from a civilian standpoint, or one who hasn't
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  Speaker 1: served to watch the veterans do their thing. They've got
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  Speaker 1: their own ceremonies and what's the toast? Remember the toast
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  Speaker 1: they did? Is that the Marine toast?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, the Marine Corps toast isn't happening this year. Unfortunately,
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  Speaker 2: he's still involved. He got Toys for Tots, involved with
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  Speaker 2: West Side Brewing. He's going through some medical stuff so
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  Speaker 2: he won't be able to attend this year, but he's
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  Speaker 2: still contributing with the with the connecting West Side to
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  Speaker 2: Toys for Tots. So, but we do different things there.
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  Speaker 2: The big one for me is the the honoring Vietnam vets.
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  Speaker 2: My dad was a Vietnam Vet and as I grew up,
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  Speaker 2: we always went to these veteran events and he was like, man,
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  Speaker 2: they didn't do this stuff for us when we came home,
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  Speaker 2: you know what I mean? Right, So it's like it's
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  Speaker 2: special to me. I'm kind of honoring him with these.
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  Speaker 2: So we we pulled the Vietnam veterans down away from
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  Speaker 2: the civilians. We surround them with the veterans on the
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  Speaker 2: honor bus and their family and friends and it's only
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  Speaker 2: five ten minutes, but we we kind of honor them
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  Speaker 2: and welcome them home properly.
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  Speaker 1: Fair enough. That's great. Seven hundred, eight hundred and eighty
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  Speaker 1: two to three talk or a pound five fifty fill
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  Speaker 1: those two spots up on the honor bus twenty twenty five.
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  Speaker 1: You plan it on continuing this on into the future.
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  Speaker 1: I presume I am.
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  Speaker 2: Every year, it's getting bigger, and I've got a big
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  Speaker 2: announcement that I'm going to be making.
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  Speaker 1: I'm trying to tease it without giving away anything.
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  Speaker 2: Matt, I'm not gonna say it, man, come on, but
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  Speaker 2: uh yeah, we Every year I try to surprise it
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  Speaker 2: or like kind of upgrade the experience for the veterans
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  Speaker 2: on there. You know, I'm trying to outdo myself every year,
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  Speaker 2: and uh, I'm pretty sure I've done it this year,
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  Speaker 2: and I can't wait to tell everybody what it is.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I am really excited for you and the organization.
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  Speaker 1: I think they're going to make a big splash on
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  Speaker 1: into the future and you're gonna have a special surprise. Also,
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  Speaker 1: assuming the weather is good. Yeah, which stop is that
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  Speaker 1: going to take place?
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  Speaker 2: Well, that's going to be at deadlow, the very first one,
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  Speaker 2: the check Okay, Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Well, all I can say is and I'm not allowed
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  Speaker 1: to reveal it. It's going to be pretty damn cool
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  Speaker 1: at deadlow Brewering for veterans, So if you're please show
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  Speaker 1: up for that as well. All right, one more time
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  Speaker 1: seven four nine fifty five hundred, eight hundred eight two
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  Speaker 1: three talk pound five fifty on AT and T phones.
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  Speaker 1: So there's got to be a couple of veterans in
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  Speaker 1: the listening audience right now that want to go on this.
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  Speaker 1: It's such a hell of a good time. I've been there,
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  Speaker 1: I've done that. You're not going to be disappointed, So
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  Speaker 1: fill the two spots. Give just director a call and
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  Speaker 1: just drop your name. Matt Demis vetsenbrus dot com. I
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  Speaker 1: cannot thank you enough for what you're doing for the
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  Speaker 1: American veteran. I would encourage you to keep up the
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  Speaker 1: great work and encourage my listeners to help sponsor you
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  Speaker 1: and make the event even more special.
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  Speaker 2: Heck, yeah, I appreciate you, brother.
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  Speaker 1: Anytime you hang in there, keep up the great work.
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  Speaker 1: Seven forty six right now if you have KRS detalk
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