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Sweethearts & Heroes - Rick Yarish · Aired Out

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  Speaker 1: The babes. I build a pure emotion.
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  Speaker 2: What a dream of baes.
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  Speaker 1: I build a power emotion.
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  Speaker 2: Drem of base. Baby, you could never break me. It
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  Speaker 2: takes a lot more to bring me down. Made me baby,
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  Speaker 2: you could never break me.
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  Speaker 1: It takes a lot more to bring me down. Last
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  Speaker 1: night got to the elkslotch here in the Granite City
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  Speaker 1: for the Spaulding Wrestling Alumni Dinner and what an amazing,
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  Speaker 1: amazing experience. It was just incredible to meet and chat
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  Speaker 1: with Coach Thurston, You, O'Mara and Karen and Rex did
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  Speaker 1: such a great job interviewing them at the end of
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  Speaker 1: the night there. It was a late night think I
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  Speaker 1: got out of there sometime around ten thirty. Man, it
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  Speaker 1: was congratulations to the boys. Man, they just just did it.
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  Speaker 1: Thirty eight years of Mount Anthony taking the taking the
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  Speaker 1: crown and Spalding High School just ripped it away from
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  Speaker 1: him this year. The place was electric. Everyone was so
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  Speaker 1: happy for the entire club and it was It was
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  Speaker 1: just a great experience a lot of people. Thirty four
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  Speaker 1: degrees is what we have right now. Happy birthday to
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  Speaker 1: Dave Moody Today, Tammy Seaman, carry Anne Rose and Knowles
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  Speaker 1: all on the birthday list. Yeah, big happy birthday to.
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  Speaker 3: Each of you.
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  Speaker 1: We're gonna check in with Deb Phillips right now over
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  Speaker 1: at the World Newspaper from month's favorite weekly newspaper, which
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  Speaker 1: comes out every Wednesday, and as a matter of fact,
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  Speaker 1: it's on the move right now. Expect it on stands everywhere.
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  Speaker 1: What are they I think they're distributing like twenty two
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  Speaker 1: to twenty three thousand copies every single week? Is that right?
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  Speaker 1: Dev where twenty two thousand copies going out.
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  Speaker 4: Ten thousand copies, twenty two thousand readers.
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  Speaker 1: Twenty two thousand readers. It's amazing, But twenty two thousand
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  Speaker 1: people in a room, and that's a lot. That's a
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  Speaker 1: lot of people's that's really impressive. Do you and Gary
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  Speaker 1: ever stop and think, oh my god.
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  Speaker 4: Oh we're too busied working to stop and think.
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  Speaker 1: I know, and a huge good morning to you and Garrie.
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  Speaker 1: What do we expect in the world today.
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  Speaker 4: Well, it's time to play Who's Who in Central Vermont.
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  Speaker 4: So our readers identify the who's photo goes with which
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  Speaker 4: business and they can submit their entries and they can
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  Speaker 4: win either a fifty or twenty five dollars gift certificate
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  Speaker 4: from one of the participating businesses. We also have a
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  Speaker 4: congratulations pace to Hazen High School girls and boys basketball
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  Speaker 4: teams for both their state championships. And then we have
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  Speaker 4: the Easter Scramble.
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  Speaker 5: You could win a ham, you know, do the Easter
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  Speaker 5: Scramble and either drop it off or mail it in
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  Speaker 5: and you could win a ham from Quality Market.
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  Speaker 4: Plus we have the Easter Worship Directory.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, I forgot about that.
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  Speaker 4: Easters just around the corner.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and there's there's gonna be uh plenty of sunrise services.
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  Speaker 4: Oh gosh, yes, you know they have several different you know,
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  Speaker 4: Holy Week services that are going on.
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  Speaker 1: I think one of the big questions is, uh, will
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  Speaker 1: we have any actual ground to to hide to hide
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  Speaker 1: the Easter eggs or will it be all snow between No.
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  Speaker 4: I think well, we're supposed to get rained coming up,
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  Speaker 4: and it's supposed to be warmer next week, so I'm
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  Speaker 4: thinking I'm thinking we're having ground.
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  Speaker 1: There we go, there we go. Anything else you can
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  Speaker 1: think of that's that's coming out in the world today.
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  Speaker 4: That that pretty much covers the main things. Of course,
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  Speaker 4: always lots of local news.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I've got a couple of friends that pick on
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  Speaker 1: me a little bit because they think it's sad that
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  Speaker 1: that I get excited that I get to sit down
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  Speaker 1: and thumb through the pages of the of the of
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  Speaker 1: the world. I'm not sure sure I understand how to
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  Speaker 1: describe it, but there's something that is just so relaxing
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  Speaker 1: about just doing that.
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  Speaker 4: Well, it's like someone said to me the other day,
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  Speaker 4: I love your paper. It's just full of good news.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, exactly, yeah, and so, and I think that's refreshing
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  Speaker 5: with all the bad news it's out.
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  Speaker 1: There, sure, and there's a ton of it, and there's
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  Speaker 1: a ton of drama, and you guys dodge that and
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  Speaker 1: you put the good stuff out there. And I love that.
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  Speaker 1: I love that there's so much to read in there.
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  Speaker 1: And of course you your partnership with the Time s Argus.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, you guys got a ton of content now.
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  Speaker 4: Oh yes, yeah, you know, we do. Definitely, Yeah, lots
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  Speaker 4: lots of stuff.
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  Speaker 1: Vtdash world dot com. That's the that's the website. If
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  Speaker 1: you want to check out the digital version, but wait
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  Speaker 1: for the paper or have a look at newstands, it's
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  Speaker 1: going to be everywhere. Within a matter of what an.
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  Speaker 4: Hour or two, they're there out there right now.
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  Speaker 1: Out there right now. Good stuff.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you, keep all right.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks Jad, always appreciate you. Deb Phillips right there from
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  Speaker 1: the World Newspaper Central from Out's favorite weekly newspaper. Sales
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  Speaker 1: at vtashworld dot com. If you want to do some advertising,
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  Speaker 1: of course, you can always pick up the phone and
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  Speaker 1: give them a jingle and speak with someone directly, and
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  Speaker 1: yes they will answer. Four seven nine twenty five eighty two.
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  Speaker 1: We're at thirty four degrees right now here in the
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  Speaker 1: Granite City. Sun and clouds both in the mix today.
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  Speaker 1: We're looking at maybe forty four or so for the
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  Speaker 1: high and yeah, depth's right. Warming trend is coming thirty
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  Speaker 1: seven tonight with rain, and that rain's going to stay
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  Speaker 1: with us tomorrow. We're getting up into the mid fifties
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  Speaker 1: tomorrow and then Friday, sun and clouds snapping back just
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  Speaker 1: a little bit. Daytime high of right around thirty either
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  Speaker 1: side of the freezing point on Friday. But we're keeping
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  Speaker 1: an eye of the weekend. We'll let you know. And
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  Speaker 1: I'm also looking into the crystal ball here, always paying
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  Speaker 1: attention to see whether or not we've got a little
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  Speaker 1: spring snowstorm that's that's coming. I'm watching, Yes, I'm paying
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  Speaker 1: attention this handsome dude that is with me this morning
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  Speaker 1: on the air, not on the curvy couch, but rather
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  Speaker 1: over Ian. Where the hell are you, Rick?
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  Speaker 3: I am in Vestal, New York.
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  Speaker 1: Now, can you Sweethearts and heroes stay here on a Wednesday? Obviously?
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  Speaker 1: Rick Yarish, Sergeant rick Yarish? Where the hell is that
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  Speaker 1: over in New York?
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  Speaker 3: It is in the southern tier of New York, so
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  Speaker 3: right on the border of Pennsylvania, probably about four and
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  Speaker 3: a half hours from Barry, Vermont. So okay, good distance.
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  Speaker 1: I love to be on the college, Yeah, I really do.
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  Speaker 6: I wish I was on your couch today, but not happening.
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  Speaker 6: So at home vessel in New York. It's colder here
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  Speaker 6: than it is there, you told me in the tem
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  Speaker 6: twenty eight degrees.
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  Speaker 1: Oh wow, no, it's chilli. Yeah. Now do we have
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  Speaker 1: the uh, what's up with the green here? Do we
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  Speaker 1: have the Sweethearts and Heroes?
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  Speaker 3: Look? Okay, what what what Buckingham buck talk to me? Yeah?
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  Speaker 6: So Buckingham is an awesome sponsor of ours now in
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  Speaker 6: the electrical line world, so it's pretty crazy too. So
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  Speaker 6: we we spoke at a bunch of events that have
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  Speaker 6: to do with ib W, which is the high voltage
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  Speaker 6: lineman inside contractor world.
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  Speaker 3: And Buckingham is a huge name in the industry.
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  Speaker 6: They make a lot of the I don't know the
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  Speaker 6: right wording for it, but like the strapping and stuff
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  Speaker 6: that helps you climb the poles.
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  Speaker 3: So it's really neat.
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  Speaker 6: But it's also really neat that Buckingham, So they we
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  Speaker 6: reached out to them, and Buckingham is in Binghamton, New York,
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  Speaker 6: which is five minutes down the road from where I live.
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  Speaker 6: Really neat that we have a sponsor that is so
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  Speaker 6: local to me. So I'm gonna do some photo shoots
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  Speaker 6: for them soon. They've they've just been a big help
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  Speaker 6: in our world into this new world that we're going
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  Speaker 6: into with the electrical alignment. So yeah, Buckingham, bucking him
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  Speaker 6: and and it's green, you know, right after Saint Patti's Day,
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  Speaker 6: so I figured this was the shirt to wear today.
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  Speaker 1: Now you're just scrapping, you're just scrapping at straws there.
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  Speaker 1: But but here's the here's the question I have for
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  Speaker 1: you if and if you're just joining us folks every Wednesday,
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  Speaker 1: Sweethearts and Heroes Day, Sweethearts and heroes and for those
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  Speaker 1: that are that are new, we were getting new listeners
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  Speaker 1: all the time. Uh, and they're saying sweethearts and heroes
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  Speaker 1: and what the heck's this all about? What do you say?
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  Speaker 1: Rick Introduce introduced Sweethearts and Heroes.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, so I am the sweetheart in Sweethearts and Heroes.
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  Speaker 6: And buddy, my buddy Tom is just an outlier who
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  Speaker 6: just stands there, does nothing.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, dad knows. Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: No, Sweethearts and Heroes we've been around for seventeen years.
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  Speaker 6: I believe I've been involved for about fifteen years. It
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  Speaker 6: started in the world of anti bullying in schools. So
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  Speaker 6: the word sweetheart, well, actually the word bully in the
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  Speaker 6: sixteenth century actually met sweetheart, and it was somebody in
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  Speaker 6: your life who pushed you over and over and over again.
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  Speaker 6: But at that time, in the sixteenth century, they did
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  Speaker 6: it to make you better. Like today, a bully pushes
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  Speaker 6: you over and over and over again to tear you down,
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  Speaker 6: to make you question who you are. But in the
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  Speaker 6: sixteenth century that's not how it works. So that's where
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  Speaker 6: the word sweethearts came from. And then heroes are just
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  Speaker 6: the people who do end up jumping into action. Also
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  Speaker 6: sweethearts are the carriers of hope. That the people that
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  Speaker 6: give hope to other people.
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  Speaker 3: But yeah, the heroes part are the people who actually
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  Speaker 3: jump into action.
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  Speaker 6: There aren't a ton of them in the world who
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  Speaker 6: will actually stand up and do something about it. So
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  Speaker 6: it's really bystander empowerment in the bullying world. That's where
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  Speaker 6: it all started. But we have gone in a lot
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  Speaker 6: of different directions. You know, seventeen years later, we're all
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  Speaker 6: over the place doing but it's all in the end.
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  Speaker 6: It's all about hope and hopelessness. That's in every single
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  Speaker 6: one of our messages, hope and hopelessness. But yeah, bullying
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  Speaker 6: is where it all started. But we say we can
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  Speaker 6: take the word bully right out of our presentation today,
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  Speaker 6: and you know we do mention it quite a bit,
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  Speaker 6: but we could take it right out of the school presentation.
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  Speaker 6: It's the same exact presentation even without that word bully
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  Speaker 6: in it. It's just about taking care of each other,
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  Speaker 6: understanding what people are dealing with, what people are going through,
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  Speaker 6: and doing something about negative things when you see them.
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  Speaker 1: Happening, and not to look in the other way and listen.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, there's plenty of parents out there and you know,
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  Speaker 1: my dad was one of them who is like, not
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  Speaker 1: your business, don't get involved, don't bring problems to your world,
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  Speaker 1: to your life.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, and I would say a lot of a lot
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  Speaker 6: of people say it's not my problem, it's not my problem.
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  Speaker 3: But that is the problem. I believe. I believe that
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  Speaker 3: is the problem when we don't stand up, especially if
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  Speaker 3: it's right in front of us.
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  Speaker 6: You know, like you're talking to deb from the World
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  Speaker 6: news in Central Vermont and uh, you're talking about.
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  Speaker 3: Local community good news. There's a lot of good news.
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  Speaker 6: There's a lot of great things, but we focus on
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  Speaker 6: the big negative things that we can never change or
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  Speaker 6: never do anything about, and we focus on them. And man,
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  Speaker 6: it's pretty crazy when we focus on something extremely negative
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  Speaker 6: that we can.
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  Speaker 3: Do nothing about.
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  Speaker 1: And then and then, and then we get the momentum going,
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  Speaker 1: we get out.
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  Speaker 3: We're sure you feed into it and you'll just keep
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  Speaker 3: going and going and going.
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  Speaker 1: And we get the spin, we get the spin going,
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  Speaker 1: and it's it's renting so much space in our heads.
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  Speaker 1: We're getting ourselves all worked up.
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  Speaker 6: That is right, right right, So I you know, with me,
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  Speaker 6: it's it's about focusing on what is around me right now.
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  Speaker 6: And if I'm going bigger than that, it's my community
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  Speaker 6: and whatever community that I'm in. But we always focus
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  Speaker 6: on communities that are thousands of miles away that we
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  Speaker 6: just can't do anything about. And so yeah, so Sparce
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  Speaker 6: and Heroes, it's awesome.
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  Speaker 3: I love doing what I do. We've spoke to two
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  Speaker 3: million students, but now.
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  Speaker 6: You know a lot of other people as well over
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  Speaker 6: the past seventeen years been awesome.
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  Speaker 1: You You and the team of men and women who
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  Speaker 1: are making up the family, I should say beyond team.
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  Speaker 1: It's a it's a family of sweethearts and heroes.
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  Speaker 3: It is a family, and you're You're a part of
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  Speaker 3: that family. JD. We have a You're like the crazy uncle? Yes?
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  Speaker 1: Really? So, I mean, does that put me in a
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  Speaker 1: similar classification as crazy Leon?
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  Speaker 3: Oh wait, don't say that. I'm just asking. It's just
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  Speaker 3: a question. Are you guys brothers? You are both promonters? Yeah, listen,
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  Speaker 3: So twenty two thousand readers for the world.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, I didn't know there were twenty two thousand people
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  Speaker 6: in central Vermont.
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  Speaker 1: Well, and it's beyond Central Vermont that the paper pushes to.
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  Speaker 1: But yeah, that's a lot of eyeballs.
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  Speaker 3: Man it is a lot. That's awesome.
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  Speaker 1: Forty four thousand eyeballs, that's all.
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  Speaker 3: I'm like, Wait a minute, twenty, I'm not that smart.
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  Speaker 3: I'm from upstate New York.
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  Speaker 1: Listen, man, I have so many questions for you, and
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  Speaker 1: we're gonna chat a little bit about your partnership with
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  Speaker 1: Electrical Alignment. But first before I go an inch further,
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  Speaker 1: you as a veteran, let's let's all no matter where
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  Speaker 1: you fall on the political spectrum, we should all be
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  Speaker 1: taking a moment today, tonight, tomorrow, tomorrow night, the next
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  Speaker 1: day to have in our hearts, in our heads the
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  Speaker 1: four thousand plus marines that are headed over to the
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  Speaker 1: Middle East right now. This is big news, man, This
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  Speaker 1: is big, big news. And we hate to hear the
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  Speaker 1: words boots on the ground, and we've been avoiding that
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  Speaker 1: up until now. But man, we got a huge target
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  Speaker 1: on our backs. Wreck you know that.
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  Speaker 3: Mm hmmm, yeah, I heard.
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  Speaker 6: We're either it's either eighty second Airborne or hunting first Airborne.
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  Speaker 6: They're sending guys over there now as well, and uh yeah,
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  Speaker 6: we don't want to hear boots on the ground because
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  Speaker 6: we know what that means. We're we're gonna we're gonna
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  Speaker 6: get a lot more names over the news of who
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  Speaker 6: we've lost, and so we know that that's the next step,
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  Speaker 6: unfortunately when it comes to boots on the ground. But
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  Speaker 6: you know, I do think we do as a nation today.
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  Speaker 6: I don't think we've always done this, but I think
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  Speaker 6: we do a really good job of supporting those men
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  Speaker 6: and women. No matter what your political standpoint is, you
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  Speaker 6: understand that this country cannot be without a military. I mean,
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  Speaker 6: it just cannot. That wouldn't work. And most people understand that.
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  Speaker 6: And also most people understand that the troops that do serve,
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  Speaker 6: they aren't the ones that sign the paper to go overseas,
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  Speaker 6: but they're willing to go as soon as that paper
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  Speaker 6: is signed.
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  Speaker 3: So I think we do a really good job of
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  Speaker 3: supporting those men and women who are deployed. And you know,
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  Speaker 3: and here we go again.
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  Speaker 6: There are a couple outliers and there are a couple
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  Speaker 6: people who don't and they're usually very loud and very vocal.
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  Speaker 3: And guess what those are the people that we concentrate on.
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  Speaker 3: It's crazy how we do that.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, but the millions and millions of people out there
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  Speaker 6: in this country who are just supporting those men and
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  Speaker 6: women who are deployed.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you were very much so boots on the ground
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  Speaker 1: two thousand and six over in Iraq, YEP.
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  Speaker 3: And when I.
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  Speaker 6: Joined, I knew I was going I mean I joined
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  Speaker 6: in the middle of two wars. Iraq was happening, Afghanistan
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  Speaker 6: was happening. I knew that when I signed those papers
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  Speaker 6: and the job that I chose, I knew.
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  Speaker 3: That I was going to go to war. And it
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  Speaker 3: just happened for me that I ended up in Iraq
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  Speaker 3: a year after I joined.
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  Speaker 1: And for folks that are not familiar with my guest,
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  Speaker 1: rick Yarish from Sweethearts and Heroes, you bring something to
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  Speaker 1: your life, and you bring something to the table, and
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  Speaker 1: you bring something to the microphone and the camera when
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  Speaker 1: you present in front of the thousands and thousands of
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  Speaker 1: people that you have that no one else in the
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  Speaker 1: Sweethearts and Heroes family can bring. And that is an
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  Speaker 1: experience of what you have endured resiliently in your life
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  Speaker 1: as a veteran. You were blown up and you are alive,
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  Speaker 1: which is many of us, i'm sure, including yourself, have
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  Speaker 1: wondered how you're still alive, But you were, you were
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  Speaker 1: burned alive you were blown up, you were covered in
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  Speaker 1: diesel fuel and essentially kind of checking out like this,
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  Speaker 1: this was this was the end for you.
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  Speaker 6: And I would tell you right now, JD, that I'm
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  Speaker 6: more alive today than I was twenty years ago before
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  Speaker 6: my injury.
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  Speaker 3: I'm just I'm just more aware. I'm more alive, I'm
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  Speaker 3: more awake.
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  Speaker 6: I'm I don't know. Life is good. I don't know
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  Speaker 6: if how we saw it that way before I got injured.
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  Speaker 6: And you know, I certainly could look at it differently today,
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  Speaker 6: you know, with my hands how they are and missing
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  Speaker 6: a leg and looking the way I look. But that's
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  Speaker 6: a pretty crappy place to live. So I don't live there.
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  Speaker 6: I live in a world where, man, things are good
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  Speaker 6: and my life is good, and even when they're tough,
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  Speaker 6: they're still good.
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  Speaker 3: And I understand that in this world. But yeah, I
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  Speaker 3: knew I was gonna join. I knew I was gonna
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  Speaker 3: be deployed. I knew I was going to go into
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  Speaker 3: a war. I knew there was a possibility that I
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  Speaker 3: could get injured. I didn't.
• 21:16
  Speaker 6: You know, you don't think you're going to get injured,
• 21:18
  Speaker 6: but you know what's a possibility, and that happened to me,
• 21:22
  Speaker 6: and I did basically burn alive.
• 21:25
  Speaker 3: I was extremely lucky to survive.
• 21:29
  Speaker 6: Only one percent of people I've read a study long
• 21:32
  Speaker 6: time ago, one percent of people with facial burds like
• 21:34
  Speaker 6: I have survive. And that's usually because you inhale the
• 21:38
  Speaker 6: smoke or the fire and you do internal damage and
• 21:41
  Speaker 6: you don't make it. So I can't figure out how
• 21:44
  Speaker 6: I made it through all of that stuff. I know
• 21:46
  Speaker 6: I am extremely blessed to be here, There's no doubt
• 21:50
  Speaker 6: about that. And since I am still here, I better
• 21:53
  Speaker 6: do something with that. And that is you know, a
• 21:56
  Speaker 6: lot of what Sweethearts and Heroes is to me. It's
• 21:58
  Speaker 6: my opportunity to do things with what happened to me.
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: And you man, it's like, how do I say this?
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: So many of us will go through some something in
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: our lives which is horrifically bad, and it's it's it's
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: not easy to not allow that event to shape you
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: and frankly, to define you. It's it's pretty it's pretty
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: easy to to have something tragic happened in your life
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: and to have that kind of tattooed on you and
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: you're carrying it. You're carrying the weight all the time,
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: whether it's mental health or depression, or or not leaving
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: your house, or anxiety or what have you.
• 22:58
  Speaker 5: It.
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying.
• 23:01
  Speaker 6: I did know what you're saying, and I was actually
• 23:03
  Speaker 6: thinking of it earlier before you brought that up, and
• 23:05
  Speaker 6: I hadn't said it yet. And I don't think I
• 23:07
  Speaker 6: would have because I would have forgot, but you brought
• 23:09
  Speaker 6: it up again. And about letting it shape you and
• 23:12
  Speaker 6: letting it define you, JD. I let what happened to
• 23:17
  Speaker 6: me shape me and define me.
• 23:20
  Speaker 5: I did.
• 23:21
  Speaker 3: You know? People say, don't let these things shape you
• 23:23
  Speaker 3: and define you. Why not?
• 23:25
  Speaker 6: It's a huge change in your life. Don't let it
• 23:29
  Speaker 6: shape you in a negative light. Don't let it define
• 23:32
  Speaker 6: you in a negative light.
• 23:33
  Speaker 3: But why not? You're not gonna forget something super traumatic
• 23:38
  Speaker 3: in your life.
• 23:39
  Speaker 6: You can try, you can go to therapy, and you
• 23:41
  Speaker 6: can talk about it, but when you're talking about it,
• 23:42
  Speaker 6: you're also bringing it up. You're not gonna forget super
• 23:45
  Speaker 6: traumatic things in your life. I don't think that's what
• 23:48
  Speaker 6: you should do. I think you gotta find ways to
• 23:51
  Speaker 6: make that traumatic thing in your life something positive. And
• 23:55
  Speaker 6: that's what I've done with my situation. In the beginning,
• 23:58
  Speaker 6: I did let it shape me. It defined me in
• 24:00
  Speaker 6: a very negative way. I wouldn't leave my house.
• 24:03
  Speaker 3: I was extremely.
• 24:06
  Speaker 6: I had the extreme depression, I had extreme anxiety. I
• 24:10
  Speaker 6: couldn't sleep at night. Those were terrible times for me.
• 24:15
  Speaker 6: But at some point I got tired of that and
• 24:17
  Speaker 6: I'm like, well, I'm not gonna forget what happened to me.
• 24:19
  Speaker 6: There's just no way I look in the mirror. I
• 24:21
  Speaker 6: know exactly what happened, So okay, how do I find
• 24:24
  Speaker 6: good things that came out.
• 24:25
  Speaker 3: Of what happened?
• 24:26
  Speaker 6: And all I had to do was open my eyes
• 24:28
  Speaker 6: and look around, and I could see the people in
• 24:31
  Speaker 6: my life I always in the beginning, that's where it started.
• 24:33
  Speaker 6: It was just the people that were surrounding me, my
• 24:36
  Speaker 6: doctors and my nurses, my physical therapists, all those amazing people.
• 24:41
  Speaker 6: And I'm like, man, I wouldn't know them today. I
• 24:43
  Speaker 6: wouldn't have learned the lessons that they taught me today
• 24:47
  Speaker 6: if this didn't happen to me. No, I didn't want
• 24:49
  Speaker 6: it to happen to me. No, I don't want really
• 24:51
  Speaker 6: difficult and awful things to happen to anyone. But they
• 24:55
  Speaker 6: do happen, and when they happen. Eventually, we had to
• 25:00
  Speaker 6: throw that negative crap aside and say, you know what, man,
• 25:04
  Speaker 6: look at all the amazing things in my life today
• 25:07
  Speaker 6: because of what happened to me. That's what I look
• 25:11
  Speaker 6: at today. So I did let it define me. I
• 25:13
  Speaker 6: did let it shape me, but I didn't do it
• 25:15
  Speaker 6: in a negative way.
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: Bro. I always I always feel when I'm listening to you,
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: I'm like, as I'm listening to you, I'm like, yep,
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: going back and rewatching this one.
• 25:32
  Speaker 6: It comes down to choice though in the entd really
• 25:35
  Speaker 6: and then and I know, like people don't want to
• 25:38
  Speaker 6: hear that sometimes because that puts it on themselves. But
• 25:43
  Speaker 6: we have to make a choice. And if you're living
• 25:45
  Speaker 6: in this negative world, a lot of it is what
• 25:48
  Speaker 6: you're choosing now. I know it's not surfacely choosing, like
• 25:51
  Speaker 6: deep down inside you can't find a way to choose differently.
• 25:56
  Speaker 6: And that's where time comes in, and that's where patience
• 25:58
  Speaker 6: comes in, and where that word hope comes in. H
• 26:01
  Speaker 6: o pe hold on, that's the patient's part. Hold on,
• 26:05
  Speaker 6: possibilities exist, Try to see the positive things that are
• 26:09
  Speaker 6: in your life right now, right in front of you,
• 26:11
  Speaker 6: and eventually you will see positive things that came out
• 26:14
  Speaker 6: of what actually happened to you.
• 26:15
  Speaker 3: Yeah, but it is time and it is patients. It's
• 26:18
  Speaker 3: not easy. I do understand that. But that's the holding
• 26:22
  Speaker 3: on part. Let's hold on till we can get to
• 26:24
  Speaker 3: those points where we finally can say, man, my life
• 26:28
  Speaker 3: is good.
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: I'm hearing I'm hearing the the acronym hope, hold on,
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: Possibilities exist, which is what you guys push. I'm thinking of, uh,
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: doctor Joe Dispensa, and I'm not sure if you're familiar
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: with him, and what the message that he push pushes,
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: which is, you know, you are what you eat, but
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: you're also you are what you think. And training, your training,
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: your your your your mind and your heart and the
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: connection between the to to repetitively practice positive thoughts, which
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: is yeah, I mean, we just got to comment hard
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: to do.
• 27:12
  Speaker 6: But but my say, where that starts to idea is
• 27:15
  Speaker 6: surrounding yourself with positive people. That's where it starts. I mean,
• 27:20
  Speaker 6: if you want a place to start, that's where it is.
• 27:22
  Speaker 6: You know, surround if you're not in a good place
• 27:24
  Speaker 6: but other people are and you can see it, put
• 27:26
  Speaker 6: yourself in their world with them and listen to them,
• 27:30
  Speaker 6: hear them. If you put yourself in a negative place
• 27:32
  Speaker 6: with negative people, that's you're never going to change. So
• 27:35
  Speaker 6: I think it starts with that positive people in your life,
• 27:38
  Speaker 6: and those are those sweethearts, those carriers of hope.
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: Here you are a veteran who survived a roadside palm
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: in Iraq, burned alive, lost a leg. But look at
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: what you're doing now with this life experience. You're traveling
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: all over the damn country wreck. You just racked up
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: how many miles?
• 28:04
  Speaker 6: About twenty seven hundred miles in two weeks, Me and
• 28:08
  Speaker 6: Tom and I twenty seven hundred miles all over forty
• 28:13
  Speaker 6: seven forty forty seven hours in a car.
• 28:17
  Speaker 3: Man. That was a good week. Good weeks.
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: And this is just over the last two weeks.
• 28:24
  Speaker 6: That was the last two weeks. Yeah, we were in
• 28:26
  Speaker 6: Long Island. We were in Dwaynesburg, New York. We were
• 28:30
  Speaker 6: at Lisbon Regional School in New Hampshire. We were in Warsaw,
• 28:34
  Speaker 6: New York. Was actually Tom and I split up one
• 28:36
  Speaker 6: of the days. I was in Warsaw, New York. He
• 28:38
  Speaker 6: was in Laurence, New York. Oxbow High School in Bradford, Vermont, Auburn,
• 28:43
  Speaker 6: New York, IBW third District in Atlantic City, and then
• 28:48
  Speaker 6: we finished off the week last week in Canada Harry,
• 28:52
  Speaker 6: New York. So all over keeping that message alive the
• 28:56
  Speaker 6: end of the year school year. This is what happens
• 29:00
  Speaker 6: the beginning of the school year. Every school we usually
• 29:03
  Speaker 6: do our pack together, so we're not traveling big distances.
• 29:06
  Speaker 6: But end of the year we're filling in cancelations and
• 29:09
  Speaker 6: schools that last minute call us and say, hey, we
• 29:12
  Speaker 6: really want to get in, but we don't have much availability.
• 29:15
  Speaker 6: So we just start fitting them in and we want
• 29:17
  Speaker 6: to get to everybody that wants to hear what we
• 29:19
  Speaker 6: have to say.
• 29:20
  Speaker 3: We really do.
• 29:21
  Speaker 6: So, yeah, the end of the year is a little
• 29:23
  Speaker 6: more hectic, where the beginning of the year is a
• 29:25
  Speaker 6: lot more planned.
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: Yeah, a little bit more about what you're bringing into
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: the schools. We're going to talk about the electrical alignment
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: here in just a little bit. But you guys really
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: try not to make Sweethearts and heroes a presentation an
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: assembly that's one and done. You guys go in there
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: and you you you put on a presentation, but you
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: try your main goal is to make this resonate and
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: sustain itself beyond the end of the day when you
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: walk through those stores and leave the property for sure.
• 30:14
  Speaker 6: I mean, we know there is some value in the
• 30:16
  Speaker 6: one and done, you know, so that doesn't really leave
• 30:20
  Speaker 6: the done part in there.
• 30:21
  Speaker 3: So it's one and continuous for some kids.
• 30:24
  Speaker 6: So some kids ask what they needed to hear was
• 30:28
  Speaker 6: that presentation that we do, so we know there's value
• 30:32
  Speaker 6: in that, but no, we I can tell you, I
• 30:35
  Speaker 6: don't know in the fifteen years that we've done this.
• 30:38
  Speaker 6: In the beginning, maybe it was a little more, but
• 30:41
  Speaker 6: I don't know the last twelve years, it's very rare
• 30:44
  Speaker 6: that we go into a school and leave after a presentation.
• 30:48
  Speaker 6: We show up at seven am, and we usually a
• 30:51
  Speaker 6: lot of times don't leave the school until three thirty
• 30:54
  Speaker 6: or four thirty pm because we stay for the entire day.
• 30:58
  Speaker 3: We want to become a part of that school, We
• 31:00
  Speaker 3: want to become a part of that culture.
• 31:03
  Speaker 6: And then after this school days over, we'll do that.
• 31:05
  Speaker 6: We'll present to teachers as well. So yeah, we do
• 31:09
  Speaker 6: the presentation and then we usually fill the day with circles,
• 31:13
  Speaker 6: circles with the students, maybe with the faculty if they
• 31:18
  Speaker 6: want to get involved as well, and then when we're
• 31:20
  Speaker 6: doing elementary schools, we don't do as many circles, but
• 31:24
  Speaker 6: I'll go around and I'll read my book a bridge
• 31:26
  Speaker 6: named Amos.
• 31:27
  Speaker 3: So we want to be a part of the school. Yeah.
• 31:30
  Speaker 6: We don't want to just show up and say goodbye.
• 31:32
  Speaker 6: We want to wander the hallways. We want to be
• 31:34
  Speaker 6: in the cafeteria. And a lot of the time schools
• 31:37
  Speaker 6: are not booking us for just one day, they're booking
• 31:39
  Speaker 6: us for multiple days. And we're going to be in
• 31:41
  Speaker 6: a district later this this year in May, I believe,
• 31:47
  Speaker 6: for four days in New Hampshire. So yeah, well we
• 31:51
  Speaker 6: will be a part of that school by the time
• 31:52
  Speaker 6: we leave.
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: We're talking about how many how many schools over the last.
• 31:59
  Speaker 6: Year, in any schools over the last year that so
• 32:04
  Speaker 6: we have a team of you know, four of us
• 32:06
  Speaker 6: who travel and sometimes five of us who go into
• 32:09
  Speaker 6: schools with loud and doing some really awesome stuff in
• 32:13
  Speaker 6: the schools.
• 32:13
  Speaker 3: Now too, we I can't even tell you. In the
• 32:16
  Speaker 3: last year we have probably been in gosh, two hundred
• 32:23
  Speaker 3: schools within the year, and you know, within a school year,
• 32:27
  Speaker 3: there's only one hundred and eighty days in a school year.
• 32:30
  Speaker 3: So I'd say it's probably closer around two hundred schools
• 32:34
  Speaker 3: with the team now. And then there's people that you know,
• 32:37
  Speaker 3: we're not even in the schools and they're using our platform,
• 32:39
  Speaker 3: they're using our whole classroom and they're watching our YouTube
• 32:43
  Speaker 3: or they're watching they're on our social media. And so
• 32:46
  Speaker 3: the reach is very far today.
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: And what about step.
• 32:52
  Speaker 6: Step teaching the students the way to present our presentation.
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: It's awesome and that's that's an acronym four Student teacher
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: Empathy program.
• 33:04
  Speaker 3: Yeah, Tom and I.
• 33:06
  Speaker 6: Have been presenting for a long time, and you know,
• 33:11
  Speaker 6: for a long time we've just believed that him and
• 33:13
  Speaker 6: I were the key to this presentation. And those little kids,
• 33:18
  Speaker 6: they love us for sure, But those little kids don't
• 33:21
  Speaker 6: need Tom and I. Like high schoolers can do what
• 33:26
  Speaker 6: we do. And little kids love high schoolers. They're not
• 33:29
  Speaker 6: a ton older than them, and they love them. They
• 33:32
  Speaker 6: can relate with them a little more then they can relate.
• 33:34
  Speaker 3: With Tom and I.
• 33:35
  Speaker 6: Yeah, we make it fun, but we teach these kids
• 33:37
  Speaker 6: how to do that too, so that these schools can
• 33:40
  Speaker 6: do the presentation themselves.
• 33:43
  Speaker 3: And now we have older kids that are even working
• 33:45
  Speaker 3: on doing presentations in outside districts. So not even just
• 33:49
  Speaker 3: their own school. That's amazing.
• 33:51
  Speaker 6: But this is like you know, Tom and Brian and
• 33:57
  Speaker 6: Pat and you know, and all these great minds coming
• 34:02
  Speaker 6: together and figuring out how to grow this. You notice
• 34:06
  Speaker 6: I did not put myself in there, and I do
• 34:08
  Speaker 6: not do that part. I show up to work, and
• 34:11
  Speaker 6: I do my job to the best of my ability,
• 34:13
  Speaker 6: and everywhere I go. I'm not the think tank, that's
• 34:17
  Speaker 6: for sure. I have ideas, that's as far as I go.
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: Tell me about the ibe W third Discort Conference in
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: Atlantic City.
• 34:26
  Speaker 3: Yeah, so this was a big one for us. We
• 34:29
  Speaker 3: didn't know truly what to expect. You know, we showed up.
• 34:32
  Speaker 6: We know ibe W with you know the world of
• 34:35
  Speaker 6: electrical alignment and inside electrical workers and and actually IBW
• 34:41
  Speaker 6: encompasses a lot of other things as well.
• 34:44
  Speaker 3: We met some welding.
• 34:47
  Speaker 6: Locals while we were there, so they go all over
• 34:50
  Speaker 6: ibew's not just electrical, but that's the main So we
• 34:54
  Speaker 6: know that world, you know, boots on their fee, you know,
• 34:59
  Speaker 6: gene and button down.
• 35:03
  Speaker 3: Corduroy shirts and our jean shirts.
• 35:07
  Speaker 6: But here we are at this event thinking similar and
• 35:10
  Speaker 6: it was not it was you know, a suit and tie,
• 35:12
  Speaker 6: and it was all the delegates from all of the.
• 35:17
  Speaker 3: The region. So I think it was Delaware that covers Delaware, Pennsylvania,
• 35:22
  Speaker 3: New York, and New Jersey.
• 35:25
  Speaker 6: So it was I think four hundred and some people
• 35:28
  Speaker 6: five hundred people there and Tom and I got to
• 35:31
  Speaker 6: deliver the message that we've been delivering to the IBW
• 35:35
  Speaker 6: world for the last year and a half.
• 35:37
  Speaker 3: It's a two hour long presentation and and there's just
• 35:44
  Speaker 3: you know, you listen to Tom do his part, and
• 35:46
  Speaker 3: I think, you know, if you listen to my part
• 35:48
  Speaker 3: as well.
• 35:49
  Speaker 6: There is a ton of passion behind what we're doing
• 35:53
  Speaker 6: there because there are men and women out there in
• 35:57
  Speaker 6: the IBW world who are struggling with the suicide rate
• 36:01
  Speaker 6: being extremely high. I don't know the numbers like Tom
• 36:04
  Speaker 6: knows them, but it's too high. I mean, it's very
• 36:07
  Speaker 6: obvious that it's too high. There's a problem, and we
• 36:10
  Speaker 6: got to do something about it. And it starts with
• 36:13
  Speaker 6: our keynote. You know, let's talk about hope and the
• 36:16
  Speaker 6: introduction of circles. But we do believe that a lot
• 36:19
  Speaker 6: of the solution does lie within the circle, within the
• 36:24
  Speaker 6: locals and the IBW locals, So men don't talk.
• 36:28
  Speaker 3: To each other, they just don't.
• 36:31
  Speaker 6: They don't talk to each other about life and things
• 36:33
  Speaker 6: that are going on in their life. And that is
• 36:36
  Speaker 6: a stigma that we have to break because we obviously
• 36:38
  Speaker 6: have a very very big problem in the world today
• 36:40
  Speaker 6: with suicide. So it's about talking to each other. And
• 36:43
  Speaker 6: it doesn't have to be all sappy. Everybody when you
• 36:46
  Speaker 6: say talk to each other, like instantly everybody gets rigid.
• 36:50
  Speaker 3: Like, oh no, it doesn't have to be that.
• 36:52
  Speaker 6: Just talk about your life a little bit and talk
• 36:54
  Speaker 6: about your family, talk, get to know each other. That's
• 36:57
  Speaker 6: what communities do. They get to know each other. And
• 36:59
  Speaker 6: that's what's strong communities have is the knowledge of who
• 37:02
  Speaker 6: your neighbor is. I'm not saying they're deep, dirty down secrets.
• 37:06
  Speaker 6: I'm talking about who they are. So we believe that
• 37:10
  Speaker 6: that is a big part. And yeah, so the conference
• 37:14
  Speaker 6: is you know, speaking to all those delegates that we'll
• 37:17
  Speaker 6: go back to their locals and you know, hopefully at
• 37:20
  Speaker 6: some point, I don't know if we're ready for it
• 37:22
  Speaker 6: right the second because it's growing so big, hopefully we
• 37:26
  Speaker 6: can hit you know, a lot more locals.
• 37:28
  Speaker 3: And we also have you know, like we said, we have.
• 37:29
  Speaker 6: The Hope classroom for the schools. We have the Fifth
• 37:34
  Speaker 6: Wire program, which is an online program for the the
• 37:38
  Speaker 6: ibw's because we know we can't hit every single one
• 37:41
  Speaker 6: Tom and I and that's just not going to happen.
• 37:44
  Speaker 3: So we have a program that they can use, just
• 37:46
  Speaker 3: like the schools used with our Hope classroom.
• 37:48
  Speaker 6: What is that Fifth Wire, Well, it's an online platform
• 37:52
  Speaker 6: and so a lot of the times it does start
• 37:54
  Speaker 6: off with a kickoff of Tom and I doing a presentation,
• 37:57
  Speaker 6: but then we can't just leave them and say good luck,
• 38:00
  Speaker 6: you know, Hope the presentation changed everything, and you know,
• 38:02
  Speaker 6: like I said, there's some power in the one and done,
• 38:05
  Speaker 6: but we need to leave them with something, and we
• 38:07
  Speaker 6: leave them with the platform of how do you do
• 38:10
  Speaker 6: these circles?
• 38:11
  Speaker 3: Flash circles? You know?
• 38:13
  Speaker 6: And flash circles are very simple things where you just
• 38:15
  Speaker 6: get together really quick and you maybe ask a question
• 38:18
  Speaker 6: and around the water cooler. So it's just opportunities for
• 38:22
  Speaker 6: these men and women to continue the conversation once we leave,
• 38:26
  Speaker 6: and we ignite and we get everybody excited. But again
• 38:30
  Speaker 6: that doesn't fix everything, so we got to stay involved
• 38:33
  Speaker 6: in some way. So it's our online platform for the
• 38:37
  Speaker 6: advancement of I guess.
• 38:39
  Speaker 3: You know the mental health word in there. Yeah, guys
• 38:43
  Speaker 3: and Galaxy's.
• 38:43
  Speaker 1: Help, we've heard it. We all do. I've heard you.
• 38:48
  Speaker 1: We've heard you say circle or circles in schools and
• 38:54
  Speaker 1: now in the electrical contractor world. For folks that might
• 39:00
  Speaker 1: may not be familiar, and the word circle and circles
• 39:04
  Speaker 1: is part of your regular vocabulary at Sweetheart scenarios. But
• 39:09
  Speaker 1: for folks that may not be familiar, what are you
• 39:12
  Speaker 1: talking about?
• 39:13
  Speaker 6: I'm talking about something that we've been doing for thousands
• 39:16
  Speaker 6: and thousands of years, and now we don't where you
• 39:21
  Speaker 6: sit around and you have a conversation, you know, with
• 39:25
  Speaker 6: the linemen, we talk about this and they walk into
• 39:29
  Speaker 6: a room, and.
• 39:29
  Speaker 3: Same with the students in classes and in schools.
• 39:32
  Speaker 6: They walk into a room and they see these chairs
• 39:34
  Speaker 6: set up in a circle and they're like instantly, yeah, right, instant,
• 39:39
  Speaker 6: they're like, oh no, like what are we gonna do?
• 39:42
  Speaker 6: We're gonna I'm like, is it therapy? Especially the older
• 39:46
  Speaker 6: guys that are in the world, Oh man, they walk in,
• 39:50
  Speaker 6: They're like, do I have to talk?
• 39:53
  Speaker 3: Right? And that is not it?
• 39:56
  Speaker 6: You know. So we lay out the guidelines when we
• 39:58
  Speaker 6: get in the circle, and you know, so I said,
• 40:00
  Speaker 6: it's been going on for thousands of years, and with
• 40:02
  Speaker 6: a linement, I just say, okay, picture what's in the center.
• 40:04
  Speaker 3: Of this circle. Let's fill the fire, let's get our
• 40:07
  Speaker 3: hands warm. Oh wait, there's a cooler. What's in that cooler?
• 40:10
  Speaker 6: Well for alignment, it's probably beer, which it shouldn't be, linemen,
• 40:14
  Speaker 6: it should be like water. But it's a place just
• 40:18
  Speaker 6: to have conversations. And you know, sometimes the conversations can
• 40:22
  Speaker 6: get deep. Now, the reason they get deep is because
• 40:25
  Speaker 6: that's where the people in the circle want to take it.
• 40:27
  Speaker 6: It's not where we take it.
• 40:28
  Speaker 3: We don't take it there.
• 40:29
  Speaker 6: We ask a very simple question that can be answered
• 40:32
  Speaker 6: very simply. But a lot of the times the people
• 40:36
  Speaker 6: in the circle, they don't have a place to have
• 40:39
  Speaker 6: these conversations. So they finally do and they feel comfortable
• 40:42
  Speaker 6: sharing those things. So, same as schools, we break the ice.
• 40:45
  Speaker 6: We start with a game with motion and movement. And
• 40:47
  Speaker 6: if anyone was nervous when they walked in, you can
• 40:50
  Speaker 6: see that has changed by the.
• 40:52
  Speaker 3: Time you actually start that circle. Yeah.
• 40:54
  Speaker 1: Wow, it's so fascinating.
• 40:56
  Speaker 3: Hey.
• 40:57
  Speaker 1: Tip of the hat to Littleton, Shoverlet and all of
• 41:01
  Speaker 1: the North Country Chevy dealers. That have been supporting sweethearts
• 41:05
  Speaker 1: and heroes your mission. What you guys are doing all
• 41:09
  Speaker 1: the time. I mean, this is years for This is
• 41:12
  Speaker 1: far from a nine to five punch in, punch out
• 41:16
  Speaker 1: job for sweethearts and heroes. But to have the North
• 41:23
  Speaker 1: Country Chevy Dealers dealerships understand that and say we're gonna
• 41:30
  Speaker 1: step up collectively and do whatever we need to do
• 41:34
  Speaker 1: to keep these guys going and to get them into
• 41:38
  Speaker 1: as many schools and organizations as possible.
• 41:42
  Speaker 6: Talking about sweethearts, what our sweethearts are the carriers of hope,
• 41:45
  Speaker 6: They're givers of opportunities, and North Chevy Dealers has just
• 41:50
  Speaker 6: been that to us as big time sweethearts in our
• 41:54
  Speaker 6: life and in our world. We would not I mean
• 41:58
  Speaker 6: that is just I can think of this in my
• 42:00
  Speaker 6: head like we would not be who we are today
• 42:04
  Speaker 6: without what the North Country Dealers have done for us.
• 42:09
  Speaker 3: We we we just wouldn't be.
• 42:11
  Speaker 6: We are a prominent We've been in almost every school
• 42:16
  Speaker 6: in the North Country of New York because of the
• 42:19
  Speaker 6: North Country Dealers. We have been in so many schools
• 42:21
  Speaker 6: in Vermont and New Hampshire because of the North Country Dealers.
• 42:26
  Speaker 3: So man, it's just They're awesome. They are awesome. They
• 42:30
  Speaker 3: mean so much to us.
• 42:32
  Speaker 6: They've done so much for us, and they've they've changed
• 42:36
  Speaker 6: a lot of people's lives with the opportunity that we've
• 42:40
  Speaker 6: had through them.
• 42:40
  Speaker 1: And just down the road Cody Chevrolet, right right here
• 42:45
  Speaker 1: in Central Vermont. You've been over there, you've you've had
• 42:48
  Speaker 1: some book signings since some some meet and greet events
• 42:51
  Speaker 1: over there, and then just recently over in Littleton Chevrolet too, right,
• 42:55
  Speaker 1: we have.
• 42:55
  Speaker 6: Yes, they they've been such they've been so awesome to
• 42:59
  Speaker 6: us that we offered an extra thing for them, you know,
• 43:02
  Speaker 6: hopefully people would come into the dealership and now I
• 43:05
  Speaker 6: could sign the book for them. And yeah, just getting
• 43:08
  Speaker 6: to spend the time with the people that work in
• 43:10
  Speaker 6: the dealership and the commitment that they've made to us
• 43:14
  Speaker 6: is really really cool.
• 43:16
  Speaker 1: Listen, I want to shift gears here. I want to
• 43:19
  Speaker 1: ask you. You've got a beautiful wife. I do you
• 43:24
  Speaker 1: have some beautiful kids?
• 43:25
  Speaker 3: Yeah? How many kids?
• 43:26
  Speaker 1: How many kids?
• 43:28
  Speaker 3: Two kids to both girls, fourteen and six, fourteen and six, Okay,
• 43:33
  Speaker 3: Tenley and Grace.
• 43:36
  Speaker 1: Fourteen and six.
• 43:41
  Speaker 3: That's a world.
• 43:42
  Speaker 1: It is a world. It's a world like no other.
• 43:48
  Speaker 3: Ahead is a fact how.
• 43:52
  Speaker 1: How are you dealing with that?
• 43:53
  Speaker 3: Man?
• 43:54
  Speaker 1: As a it's a dad who a very busy dad
• 44:00
  Speaker 1: who is moving around forty seven hours just in the
• 44:03
  Speaker 1: in the last two weeks of just drive time alone,
• 44:08
  Speaker 1: almost three thousand miles. You're moving around, You're you're you're
• 44:12
  Speaker 1: spreading hope, You're spreading goodness, positivity, resiliency, an incredible message.
• 44:20
  Speaker 1: But man, it's like you got you got to? Did
• 44:23
  Speaker 1: you say fourteen and six?
• 44:25
  Speaker 3: Fourteen and six girls? I think that's the bigger part.
• 44:31
  Speaker 1: Are they blonde?
• 44:33
  Speaker 3: One of them is behind the whoa, that's even worse.
• 44:38
  Speaker 3: Oh man, it's a it is I sell. I'll tell people.
• 44:44
  Speaker 3: I tell people there's nothing harder in this world than
• 44:46
  Speaker 3: being a parent.
• 44:48
  Speaker 6: I mean probably the close second, or maybe even first,
• 44:52
  Speaker 6: just overtaking it would be being a kid.
• 44:55
  Speaker 3: You know, there's nothing harder than being a kid in
• 44:57
  Speaker 3: today's world. But sure that's hard being dad.
• 45:00
  Speaker 6: But it is the most rewarding thing in the world.
• 45:03
  Speaker 6: So I mean, that's obviously I'll weighs the heartship and
• 45:06
  Speaker 6: again it kind of goes along with what I say
• 45:08
  Speaker 6: in my life and life isn't easy, but it's good.
• 45:11
  Speaker 6: And that's nobody ever said like, have kids, your life
• 45:15
  Speaker 6: will become so much easier.
• 45:19
  Speaker 3: That's not what they say. So it's not easy, but
• 45:23
  Speaker 3: it is so good.
• 45:25
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you do. You do you ever find yourself, Rick,
• 45:30
  Speaker 1: with with the chaos of what's happening in the house.
• 45:34
  Speaker 1: Do you ever find yourself just going into the room
• 45:37
  Speaker 1: and shutting the door and going, oh my god, I
• 45:39
  Speaker 1: need to give myself some advice. Here, hold on, Rick,
• 45:42
  Speaker 1: possibility suxists, you got this. Hang on here, Okay, listen.
• 45:46
  Speaker 1: If I could go in a room and shut the door,
• 45:48
  Speaker 1: that would be amazing.
• 45:49
  Speaker 6: I can't shut the door in my bedroom because that's
• 45:52
  Speaker 6: where the cats are with their litter box and our
• 45:54
  Speaker 6: bed and our bathroom, and there's no escape from that stuff.
• 46:00
  Speaker 3: Yeah. So, but yes, I do have to remind myself like, hey,
• 46:03
  Speaker 3: things are good. Things are good, And I do know that,
• 46:06
  Speaker 3: I really do.
• 46:08
  Speaker 6: Even when they're really difficult, I think about how good
• 46:11
  Speaker 6: things really are in my life and in my world,
• 46:14
  Speaker 6: and how blessed I am to have my daughters and
• 46:17
  Speaker 6: to have my my wife and.
• 46:19
  Speaker 3: My two dogs and my two cats. Yeah. Yeah, that's
• 46:22
  Speaker 3: a lot of hair in the house.
• 46:23
  Speaker 1: My little girl is eleven, and she and her mom
• 46:30
  Speaker 1: and I'll admit occasionally me every night watch Dance Moms.
• 46:42
  Speaker 6: Okay, I noticed your hesitation and spitting all that out, well,
• 46:47
  Speaker 6: because I know because you know what I'm thinking.
• 46:50
  Speaker 1: I'm thinking. If Tom Murphy's listening right now, I'm gonna
• 46:54
  Speaker 1: he's not, but he will listen.
• 46:56
  Speaker 3: I guarantee you, I'm.
• 46:57
  Speaker 1: Going to catch a whole heap of crap. Why why, why, Rick,
• 47:04
  Speaker 1: are we so attracted to watching the drama unfolds in
• 47:13
  Speaker 1: Dance Mops. Have you ever seen the show?
• 47:16
  Speaker 3: I have not ever seen the showd I'm sorry to it.
• 47:19
  Speaker 3: I know you were really.
• 47:21
  Speaker 6: Hoping that I you please, I've seen the listen, I've
• 47:24
  Speaker 6: seen the ads for them or whatever.
• 47:27
  Speaker 3: The I don't. I just don't watch a lot of.
• 47:30
  Speaker 6: Like TV anymore. I watch a lot of garbage. I mean,
• 47:33
  Speaker 6: it's just as garbage, like Netflix and.
• 47:36
  Speaker 3: Stuff like that. I don't watch a lot of like
• 47:38
  Speaker 3: actual TV anymore.
• 47:40
  Speaker 6: I used to.
• 47:40
  Speaker 3: I'm pretty sure that's on TLC right.
• 47:43
  Speaker 1: I don't even know what network, but I used.
• 47:45
  Speaker 3: To watch that channel all the time. Little People, Big World.
• 47:48
  Speaker 3: But it's the same idea, you know, they they filmed the.
• 47:53
  Speaker 6: Drama that's involved in the house more than they do
• 47:56
  Speaker 6: the really amazing things that are going on in these people.
• 47:58
  Speaker 3: With the world. Because we'ren't acted to drama, we're attracted.
• 48:02
  Speaker 3: That's negativity.
• 48:03
  Speaker 1: I'm telling you, if your kids six and fourteen, if
• 48:08
  Speaker 1: they watch one minute of Dance Moms, they're gonna be like, oh, oh,
• 48:15
  Speaker 1: hang on, hang on, I gotta see what happens next.
• 48:18
  Speaker 3: Yes, we will not be turning that. My fortune does
• 48:21
  Speaker 3: not watch TV. She gets that from her mom. My
• 48:24
  Speaker 3: wife does not watch TV.
• 48:26
  Speaker 6: She has zero interest in TV, which is a good
• 48:29
  Speaker 6: thing where I do have interest, and I think I've
• 48:32
  Speaker 6: passed that on to my six year old because she
• 48:34
  Speaker 6: likes watch shows.
• 48:37
  Speaker 1: It's just amazing how parents live vicariously through their kids
• 48:46
  Speaker 1: and how they push things on them and are willing
• 48:52
  Speaker 1: to have eighty to ninety percent of negativity for that,
• 49:00
  Speaker 1: for that ten reward of the two minutes that their
• 49:06
  Speaker 1: little girl is on stage looking so pretty and so
• 49:10
  Speaker 1: graceful with that fake smile on their face, and just like,
• 49:15
  Speaker 1: what are we doing? Rick? Why?
• 49:17
  Speaker 3: Why are we?
• 49:18
  Speaker 1: Why are we doing this? I don't why why am
• 49:22
  Speaker 1: I watching this?
• 49:23
  Speaker 6: Yeah, Well it's because it's on and it's just like
• 49:26
  Speaker 6: if there's food in front of me. I'm going to
• 49:28
  Speaker 6: eat it and I probably shouldn't have, but I do
• 49:30
  Speaker 6: because it's there.
• 49:31
  Speaker 3: And same with the TV. It's there. But here's a
• 49:34
  Speaker 3: question for everyone.
• 49:36
  Speaker 6: What is the appropriate age to watch the first Harry
• 49:41
  Speaker 6: Potter movie? Oh?
• 49:44
  Speaker 3: What is the.
• 49:44
  Speaker 6: Appropriate age to watch the first Harry Potter movie? I
• 49:48
  Speaker 6: guess you can go with all of them if you want,
• 49:50
  Speaker 6: like all the way up. What is the appropriate age
• 49:52
  Speaker 6: for number two and number three? And are you a
• 49:54
  Speaker 6: Harry Potter guy?
• 49:55
  Speaker 1: I am admittedly okay, I'm so sorry. I apologize in advance.
• 50:04
  Speaker 1: I'm so sorry to all the Harry Potter fans that stuff.
• 50:10
  Speaker 1: If I wanted, it's just not my thing. Man, It's like,
• 50:14
  Speaker 1: if I wanted, I'm so sorry, Rick j D.
• 50:18
  Speaker 6: I would have pegged you though, for a Harry Potter guy.
• 50:22
  Speaker 6: What And I'm pretty good at nailing those types of things.
• 50:27
  Speaker 1: Chriylyn will be the first to tell you. Three minutes
• 50:30
  Speaker 1: And we've done every single Harry Potter at movie at
• 50:35
  Speaker 1: my house, all of them. Sherylyn and Lily love him.
• 50:40
  Speaker 1: Three minutes. And this is what you're getting out of
• 50:42
  Speaker 1: me during a Harry Potter movie. Three minutes in This
• 50:46
  Speaker 1: is what you're getting.
• 50:48
  Speaker 6: Okay, that's my wife during any movie ad telling you
• 50:54
  Speaker 6: I love me some Harry Potter, but.
• 50:57
  Speaker 1: Old, yeah, she loves it.
• 51:01
  Speaker 6: And I'm like, is this appropriate because one of the
• 51:04
  Speaker 6: problems is her favorite character and he's not even really
• 51:07
  Speaker 6: in this movie yet.
• 51:08
  Speaker 3: In the first couple is Lord Voldemort, who's the bad guy. Yes,
• 51:14
  Speaker 3: oh yeah, she loves she loves her some Harry Potter,
• 51:18
  Speaker 3: loves Harry Potter.
• 51:20
  Speaker 1: Just listen, keep Gracie the hell away from Dance Momps.
• 51:25
  Speaker 1: I'm telling you right now.
• 51:27
  Speaker 6: That's easy enough because nobody in the house watches it
• 51:29
  Speaker 6: outside of If you're ever over, I'll make sure I
• 51:33
  Speaker 6: block the network television.
• 51:36
  Speaker 1: I'm telling you right now. If me and you and
• 51:39
  Speaker 1: Murphy end up in a hotel room sometime, I'm telling
• 51:43
  Speaker 1: you right now, end.
• 51:45
  Speaker 6: That conversation right there. You, me and Murphy are never
• 51:48
  Speaker 6: going to end up in a hotel room together.
• 51:51
  Speaker 3: Ever. I really hope something went terribly wrong if that happened.
• 51:57
  Speaker 1: I'm just I'm saying right now, if, if, if there's
• 52:01
  Speaker 1: a possibility that it happens, because hold on, possibilities exist.
• 52:05
  Speaker 1: I don't want that we we will be watching Dance
• 52:08
  Speaker 1: Moms we will, it will happen.
• 52:11
  Speaker 6: Okay, So Tom's another one. He does not watch TV,
• 52:15
  Speaker 6: does not No, no, I understand, Yeah, you you totally.
• 52:20
  Speaker 6: Tom's not doesn't act like the guy that watches a
• 52:22
  Speaker 6: lot of TV.
• 52:23
  Speaker 1: I hope he doesn't think less of me for what
• 52:27
  Speaker 1: watching TV? For watching dance Moms.
• 52:30
  Speaker 6: Oh, for watching dance Moms. Well, I mean there's a
• 52:33
  Speaker 6: pretty good possibility of that. I mean, listen, you watch
• 52:38
  Speaker 6: Dance Moms, but you don't watch Harry Potter. So like
• 52:41
  Speaker 6: that hurts me too.
• 52:44
  Speaker 1: Uh?
• 52:48
  Speaker 3: You you are?
• 52:49
  Speaker 1: You are getting ready to embark on a much deserved,
• 52:56
  Speaker 1: much deserved vacation, are you able to do?
• 53:02
  Speaker 3: Tell? Yeah, we're going on a cruise. We're going on
• 53:06
  Speaker 3: a ship in the middle of the ocean.
• 53:08
  Speaker 6: And last we went on one last spring break as well,
• 53:11
  Speaker 6: So our week off at school is the week after
• 53:14
  Speaker 6: Easter and it was the same last year. First cruise ever,
• 53:18
  Speaker 6: and man, I was sold, Yeah, I was sold. But
• 53:23
  Speaker 6: you know, I look at the cruise and I loved
• 53:25
  Speaker 6: every every aspect of it. I can't think of one
• 53:28
  Speaker 6: negative thing that I can say about the cruise I
• 53:30
  Speaker 6: was on. But one thing I think of too, is
• 53:32
  Speaker 6: like the guilt that comes from going on a cruise.
• 53:36
  Speaker 6: Like the word gluttony.
• 53:38
  Speaker 1: Yes, oh my gosh, I know.
• 53:41
  Speaker 3: I mean, if you don't want to live in a
• 53:43
  Speaker 3: glutton this world, do not go on.
• 53:45
  Speaker 1: I believe me.
• 53:47
  Speaker 3: I know. It is.
• 53:49
  Speaker 1: The last time.
• 53:50
  Speaker 3: Food, it's money, it's everything, gluttonous. I know.
• 53:54
  Speaker 1: Man, listen, the last time I went on a cruise.
• 53:58
  Speaker 1: I'm not I'm not. I'm not making this up. Seven
• 54:02
  Speaker 1: pounds in seven days, in seven days, wreck.
• 54:06
  Speaker 3: That's that's listen. I mean, that's impressive. JD.
• 54:12
  Speaker 6: Don't worry though. That's a lot of waterway. Since you're
• 54:14
  Speaker 6: on the ocean. You've probably just soaked.
• 54:15
  Speaker 1: In some of the water from the sea, and yeah,
• 54:20
  Speaker 1: keep it coming, thank you.
• 54:21
  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's exactly that's it's waterway, thank you. Yeah. So
• 54:27
  Speaker 3: I'm excited. We're super excited. You know. We usually we
• 54:31
  Speaker 3: usually go to the Ocean City. We used to do
• 54:33
  Speaker 3: Ocean City every summer. That would be vacation. But you know,
• 54:35
  Speaker 3: it's a lot of work. Drive five and a half
• 54:38
  Speaker 3: hours day one.
• 54:39
  Speaker 6: You go to the grocery store and you buy seven
• 54:41
  Speaker 6: days worth of food, which is very expensive. And of
• 54:44
  Speaker 6: course you're cleaning the house all week and you're trying
• 54:47
  Speaker 6: to find things to do that cruise.
• 54:49
  Speaker 3: You just don't even think about that kind of stuff.
• 54:51
  Speaker 3: You do whatever you want.
• 54:53
  Speaker 6: I can take my six year old to the play
• 54:57
  Speaker 6: place thing and she can say that for an hour
• 55:00
  Speaker 6: or two and we can do what we want for
• 55:02
  Speaker 6: a while.
• 55:02
  Speaker 3: Can't do that in Ocean City. So excited, super super excited.
• 55:08
  Speaker 1: You know what's coming, you know what's coming, what's coming,
• 55:15
  Speaker 1: you know what the view is going to be, the
• 55:17
  Speaker 1: food is going to be, the entertainment, you know everything.
• 55:20
  Speaker 6: Oh absolutely, it's amazing. Yeah, that's exactly right. So I'm
• 55:25
  Speaker 6: so excited about it. Our family is so excited. There's
• 55:28
  Speaker 6: twelve of us going. It's gonna be it's gonna be
• 55:31
  Speaker 6: a great time.
• 55:32
  Speaker 3: I'm trying. I'm trying to convince Tom that we need
• 55:36
  Speaker 3: a Sweethearts and Heroes cruise. And this is j D.
• 55:40
  Speaker 6: This is when you want to admit of being part
• 55:42
  Speaker 6: of the family so that you can get on the cruise.
• 55:47
  Speaker 3: That's right, that's right, representing every Wednesday.
• 55:51
  Speaker 6: Absolutely, see Tom, he's a part of the crew, part
• 55:54
  Speaker 6: of the team, part of the family.
• 55:56
  Speaker 5: Bro.
• 55:56
  Speaker 1: So you guys, I don't know if you guys would
• 55:59
  Speaker 1: be a to handle me on a cruise. I really
• 56:03
  Speaker 1: I don't.
• 56:03
  Speaker 3: Those we can we can block each other. The ships are.
• 56:07
  Speaker 1: Big final question for you, man, and this is this
• 56:13
  Speaker 1: is a serious one. How How was it possible, honestly
• 56:22
  Speaker 1: that you could survive forty seven hours in a vehicle
• 56:32
  Speaker 1: next to Tom Murphy.
• 56:34
  Speaker 6: Oh gosh, there's no way I could survive forty seven
• 56:37
  Speaker 6: hours next to Tom Murphy.
• 56:39
  Speaker 1: Oh, I thought, I thought, you guys, did you did
• 56:42
  Speaker 1: forty seven hours traveling together?
• 56:44
  Speaker 3: We do? But separately?
• 56:46
  Speaker 1: Oh okay, yes, dude, not.
• 56:50
  Speaker 3: There's very rare times.
• 56:52
  Speaker 6: Because, first of all, if Tom Murphy's in my car,
• 56:54
  Speaker 6: all I'm gonna listen to.
• 56:55
  Speaker 3: Is him on the phone.
• 56:56
  Speaker 1: Yeah, right, that is it.
• 56:59
  Speaker 6: So no, I could not survive forty seven hours. We
• 57:02
  Speaker 6: don't travel in the same car, we don't share a
• 57:04
  Speaker 6: hotel room.
• 57:05
  Speaker 3: Yeah, we need our space. We see each other enough. Yeah,
• 57:09
  Speaker 3: you know, Tom says how much he loves me. But
• 57:11
  Speaker 3: I'm telling you, even after that, he would he would
• 57:13
  Speaker 3: not like me.
• 57:14
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 57:15
  Speaker 6: I listened to garbage books in the car. He would
• 57:18
  Speaker 6: not want to listen to my garbage books in the car.
• 57:21
  Speaker 3: Yeah. But yeah, so forty seven hours in the car
• 57:23
  Speaker 3: a long time.
• 57:24
  Speaker 1: Well, I thought I thought, you know, when I saw that,
• 57:28
  Speaker 1: I was like, is that forty seven hours with time?
• 57:33
  Speaker 3: I didn't know without time? Oh, no way, no way.
• 57:36
  Speaker 3: But that's also logistically a nightmare.
• 57:39
  Speaker 6: Imagine the fuel that we're paying for, that, the wear
• 57:42
  Speaker 6: and tear we're putting on our vehicles, the amount of
• 57:44
  Speaker 6: hotel room. So logistically we probably should be sharing a
• 57:48
  Speaker 6: hotel room. We should be driving together.
• 57:51
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 57:51
  Speaker 3: One of the big problems is we don't live anywhere
• 57:53
  Speaker 3: near each other.
• 57:54
  Speaker 6: He lives five hours away from me, so you can
• 57:56
  Speaker 6: never start a trip in the same vehicle, right, That's.
• 58:00
  Speaker 3: Part of it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, man, I love you guys so much. I don't
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  Speaker 1: know what I'm going to see you next. Rick, I
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  Speaker 1: don't know. I don't know what I'm gonna see any
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  Speaker 1: of you next, but I hope it's going to be soon.
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  Speaker 1: And what you guys continue to do in schools is
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  Speaker 1: just amazing. The kids absolutely love you. And I mean,
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  Speaker 1: look at this tom Is. I mean, he's just such
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  Speaker 1: a great guy, all of you are.
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  Speaker 3: And he's in a school right now. He is non stop.
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  Speaker 3: He was in I have this week off. We were
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  Speaker 3: in a school on Monday, but he was in a
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  Speaker 3: school on Tuesday.
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  Speaker 6: He's in the school today, and tomorrow he's got something
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  Speaker 6: going on on Friday.
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  Speaker 3: He's just non stop. Sweethearts and Heroes.
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  Speaker 1: Schools that have not had Sweethearts and Heroes at their
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  Speaker 3: Sweethearts and Heroes dot com. Just look at Just type
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  Speaker 3: in our name on Google and you will see why
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  Speaker 3: we should be in the school.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's that simple. Thank you, brother, Thank you so
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  Speaker 1: much coming in here man and chatting with us. I'm
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  Speaker 1: always I know I say this every time, but I'm
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  Speaker 1: always so inspired every time I have you on the air.
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  Speaker 1: You just you bring it, man, You really do well.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you brother.
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  Speaker 1: Have a great rest of your day.
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  Speaker 3: Pal you as well.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Sergeant rick yarsh right there, our guest this morning.
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  Speaker 1: Sweethearts and Heroes again, if you have not checked them
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  Speaker 1: out yet, Sweethearts and Heroes dot com is where you
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  Speaker 1: want to go. Check them out today. Super people with
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  Speaker 1: a great mission to bring as much goodness I say
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  Speaker 1: to the schools, but it's it's really just to the
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  Speaker 1: world man, and we all need it. We all need
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  Speaker 1: it very very very good morning to you. Keep watch.
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  Speaker 1: We got some stuff that is coming down the pipe
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  Speaker 1: here in our community. Here we are in hump day
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  Speaker 1: Tomorrow Thursday, we got some warmer weather here for a
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  Speaker 1: little while and a very busy weekend around Central. From on,
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  Speaker 1: keep watching the aired out page. We will have it
• 1:00:26
  Speaker 1: for you. We'll let you know everything that's going on. Also, Sunday,
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  Speaker 1: get a little new segment you're unaired out between one
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  Speaker 1: and one thirty. Philosophy and Fighting. That's all I'm going
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  Speaker 1: to say. That's all i'm gonna say. I'm not going
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  Speaker 1: to say another word. Philosophy and Fighting Sunday afternoon between
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  Speaker 1: one and one thirty, right here where you are now,
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