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EXTRA SCOOP hosted by DWAYNE _We Advocate for Social Injustices and Human Rights _ EVERY 2ND & 4TH WEDNESDAY · DA CREW Podcast

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  Speaker 1: From the coffee table to the conference table to sit
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  Speaker 1: back and listen. If you're looking for a refreshing point
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  Speaker 1: Grab your favorite drink, kick back, and get ready for
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  Speaker 1: some lively conversation with myself. Dwayne turns Silk and I'm
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  Speaker 1: Peace.
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  Speaker 2: The show stops in day seven six Hi, shoot one.
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  Speaker 1: Go, Welcome, Welcome, Welcome, good evening. Everybody want to welcome
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  Speaker 1: you to Extra Scoop Podcast, where we're anything but bite size.
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  Speaker 1: I want to walk come in on this Wednesday. There's
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  Speaker 1: been a glorious day so far, and I want to
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  Speaker 1: thank everybody for tuning in today. I was going to
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  Speaker 1: have another topic today, but I decided to switch up
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  Speaker 1: and talk about mental health and the mental health crisis
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  Speaker 1: in our land that we just don't talk about too much,
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  Speaker 1: also talking about the different variations of mental health. There
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  Speaker 1: was a situation on this past weekend involving the family
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  Speaker 1: that we have been advocating for, and I wanted to
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  Speaker 1: speak generally about it, not really just getting into the
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  Speaker 1: details of the moment, but more so of the moment
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  Speaker 1: of the wise. A lot of times in our communities,
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  Speaker 1: especially the Black community or the African American community, in
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  Speaker 1: the Brown community, that's our Latino communities, we don't talk
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  Speaker 1: too much about the mental health aspect of our lives,
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  Speaker 1: the things that we deal with, the the different moments
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  Speaker 1: that we have to deal with, our family issues, our
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  Speaker 1: life issues. Serving in the military, which is a lot
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  Speaker 1: of us go and do to bridge our lives and
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  Speaker 1: start our lives. We don't talk about a lot of
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  Speaker 1: the experiences that we have because a lot of times
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  Speaker 1: we're told to bottle it up, especially as men, we're
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  Speaker 1: we're told to suck it up, you know, find a
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  Speaker 1: way to deal with it all these different things, and
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  Speaker 1: we most time don't succeed with being being able to
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  Speaker 1: adjust from those mental health issues. A lot of times
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  Speaker 1: we have childhood trauma us and events that affect us
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  Speaker 1: into our adulthood. We have neighborhood things that then affect
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  Speaker 1: us sometimes in the upbringing, the places where we grew up,
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  Speaker 1: situations in school, bullying, all those different things. But in
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  Speaker 1: this situation that happened over this weekend with the family,
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  Speaker 1: that we advocate for Christopher need Heiss and his family.
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  Speaker 1: We're dealing with a moment of PTSD And for those
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  Speaker 1: who are not familiar, PTSD is post traumatic stress syndrome
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  Speaker 1: and it's basically caused from traumatic events that have happened.
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  Speaker 1: Witnessing traumatic events, been a part of traumatic events that's
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  Speaker 1: in your life, and those things come back to be
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  Speaker 1: a part of your mental or your psyche. And so
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  Speaker 1: in this situation, we're dealing with mister neing Heist, which
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  Speaker 1: is marketing heist, father of Christopher Dean Heights, which is
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  Speaker 1: the young man who was being accosted in mid Lothian,
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  Speaker 1: Texas by a group of young people and he was
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  Speaker 1: retreating and while he was retreating, he took out a
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  Speaker 1: knife to defend himself end up slicing one of the
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  Speaker 1: young men. That young man, young man whose father is
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  Speaker 1: a Ellis County Sheriff's officer, actually pressed charges against Christopher
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  Speaker 1: Nan Heights and now he's currently facing charges for that.
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  Speaker 1: We also have in this incident. He is now facing
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  Speaker 1: the charges for that. His father over the weekend was
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  Speaker 1: actually involved in the situation from with his family and
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  Speaker 1: it was a moment basically involving his PTSD. He's been
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  Speaker 1: he was diagnosed about ten years ago with PTSD. He
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  Speaker 1: was also just recently diagnosed with bipolarism, and he's been struggling.
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  Speaker 1: He's been struggling here for the past few months, partly
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  Speaker 1: due to the stress of his son's case. And I'm
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  Speaker 1: talking about mich the nan heist that that is Mark
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  Speaker 1: knee heist because his son's case family, uh, dynamic because
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  Speaker 1: of the situation. A lot of stressors that's involved there,
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  Speaker 1: and so his family was trying to, you know, give
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  Speaker 1: him some help and trying to be there for him.
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  Speaker 1: So they had called for some help on last Friday,
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  Speaker 1: and while calling for that help, they did come out.
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  Speaker 1: Midlothian PD sent out a stress team. They came out,
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  Speaker 1: helped out, They took his weapons for that moment, and
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  Speaker 1: they were able to you know, kind of move on
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  Speaker 1: from that moment at that time. Uh. After that, they
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  Speaker 1: I want to say he left, because I don't think
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  Speaker 1: he was at the home for that weekend. He left.
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  Speaker 1: Some conversation was had. He actually came back to the
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  Speaker 1: house on Sunday, on Easter Sunday, and they had an incident,
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  Speaker 1: and an incident basically led to them having arguments. He
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  Speaker 1: went to his vehicle, retrieved his weapon and began the
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  Speaker 1: fire upon the home, and one of the bullets struck
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  Speaker 1: his eleven year old daughter and in the leg. She
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  Speaker 1: was treated and released the next day. Mister Nan Heights
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  Speaker 1: at that moment time in his in his moment of
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  Speaker 1: of of of of need, because he was suffering from PTSD,
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  Speaker 1: he actually took a knife and he conjured his neck,
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  Speaker 1: wounded himself, and the police came rushed him to the hospital.
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  Speaker 1: He had surgery, and so he's in stable condition right now,
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  Speaker 1: and so he's I guess holding on. You might as
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  Speaker 1: well say, I think they have him been a medically
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  Speaker 1: induced coma if I want to believe, right, And I
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  Speaker 1: don't know if formal charges have been charged against him
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  Speaker 1: yet for the incident, but he's in a real bad
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  Speaker 1: place mentally now. Physically, his family is in a bad place.
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  Speaker 1: And I know from others that his wife, missus Dean Heights,
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  Speaker 1: wants us to really pray for him, for the family.
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  Speaker 1: She wanted everyone to know that she loves her husband.
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  Speaker 1: She's been with her husband. They've been together and knowing
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  Speaker 1: each other since they with fifteen in high school. They've
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  Speaker 1: been married for over nineteen years, I believe, and so
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  Speaker 1: this is a tight knit family. He is a military
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  Speaker 1: veteran thirteen years. He was on a really discharge. He
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  Speaker 1: also is a recipient twice of the Purple Heart. That
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  Speaker 1: means that he was actually intricate and rescuing other soldiers
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  Speaker 1: in the field in the theater of war. And so
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  Speaker 1: this young man served his country, and I think in
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  Speaker 1: return we kind of let him slip out through the
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  Speaker 1: loopholes of not being there and doing the things we
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  Speaker 1: need to do for him to keep him stabilized for
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  Speaker 1: himself and his family. He was seeking, he was getting help.
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  Speaker 1: He was getting some counseling or whatever. But as men,
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  Speaker 1: it's kind of hard sometimes for us two, especially men
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  Speaker 1: of color, to seek out the help that's necessary all
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  Speaker 1: the time. And sometimes the community at large does a
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  Speaker 1: disservice to us when we do find avenues. They sometime
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  Speaker 1: as a community, can bring more stress and more problems
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  Speaker 1: to the situation instead of helping the situation. And so
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  Speaker 1: I wanted to talk a little bit about that today
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  Speaker 1: because it is a moment that's a tragedy by all
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  Speaker 1: points of this moment, But I want to speak to
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  Speaker 1: the almost the spiritual side of this moment. I know.
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  Speaker 1: I remember on this past weekend he was on my mind.
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  Speaker 1: I was going to reach out to him and check
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  Speaker 1: on him on Tuesday actually, and I was traveling, so
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  Speaker 1: that's why I said Tuesday. But Saturday and Sunday he
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  Speaker 1: was on my mind, so I was praying and praying
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  Speaker 1: for him and praying for him. And once I heard
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  Speaker 1: about this on Monday morning and I got details of it,
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  Speaker 1: I immediately went to the moment of this. His family
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  Speaker 1: had already been working on trying to get him some intervention,
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  Speaker 1: and that intervention looked like this. They were going to
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  Speaker 1: have the Mid Lothian Police Department to come out and
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  Speaker 1: do what they call a tactical well being checked, So
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  Speaker 1: basically they were going to come get them, remove them,
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  Speaker 1: and take them to get help. That is kind of
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  Speaker 1: the thing that we have in society been doing here
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  Speaker 1: lately a lot. And what we found out over the
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  Speaker 1: past few decades as people of color, our worst enemy
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  Speaker 1: most time are the people that we say oppress us
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  Speaker 1: the most. And even though we know that these non
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  Speaker 1: emergency numbers are supposed to be mental health specialists and
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  Speaker 1: all those different things, that's what they were created for
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  Speaker 1: most time, not there are law enforcement officers dressed up
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  Speaker 1: in tactical gear that's coming to remove your loved one
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  Speaker 1: for you. And when they do that, they usually come
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  Speaker 1: and we get the stories that we have gotten over
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  Speaker 1: the past few decades of I only called you to
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  Speaker 1: help my son, I only called you to help my husband,
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  Speaker 1: only called you to help my daughter, or help my wife.
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  Speaker 1: And yet you shot her, yet you stabbed her, yet
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  Speaker 1: you abused her, yet you choked her out. And those
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  Speaker 1: are the things and the stories that we hear. And
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  Speaker 1: so I am almost glad that Sunday happened the way
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  Speaker 1: it did, not for the fact of the things that happened,
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  Speaker 1: but because Monday never happened. Because if Monday happened, you
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  Speaker 1: would have had technical tactical officers showing up to the
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  Speaker 1: Nienheis House in mid Lothian, Texas to remove a combat
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  Speaker 1: veteran who was suffering with PTSD for the past decade,
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  Speaker 1: who was just recently diagnosed with bipolarism, who had just
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  Speaker 1: recently had issues with his family over the weekend, And
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  Speaker 1: you're going to ask uniform officers to come and be
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  Speaker 1: the mediator in between that combat veteran, combat trained veteran
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  Speaker 1: in his family and safety. That was not going to
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  Speaker 1: turn out well. And I think we need to start
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  Speaker 1: revisiting as a whole what we do and how we
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  Speaker 1: effectively deal with those who are dealing with mental illness
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  Speaker 1: in this country PTSD in this country specifically because we
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  Speaker 1: assigned PTSD. When you hear it, we immediately think of
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  Speaker 1: veterans and the army and the military and the Marines
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  Speaker 1: and whatever the case may be. But people suffering from
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  Speaker 1: PTSD come from all walks of life. You can get
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  Speaker 1: PTSD from the work site because of some tragedy that
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  Speaker 1: happened or some situation. You can have PTSD from your
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  Speaker 1: upbringing where your parents treated you, the things that you
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  Speaker 1: had to deal with and witness in the community. PTSD
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  Speaker 1: comes from many places, and so we have to do
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  Speaker 1: a better job in our communities. And this goes for
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  Speaker 1: anyone depending on it, not depending on your racial breakdown
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  Speaker 1: or makeup, but just as human as the human race,
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  Speaker 1: we have to do a better job of identifying those
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  Speaker 1: who are struggling mentally, and once we identify, let's start
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  Speaker 1: getting together as a community helping those people to progress
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  Speaker 1: through their day daily and get the mental help that
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  Speaker 1: they need daily, not just peeking in every now and then,
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  Speaker 1: not just saying, oh, we'll let the mental health professionals
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  Speaker 1: deal with it, no identifying it and helping them. One
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  Speaker 1: thing I did read from his son, his older son, Markel,
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  Speaker 1: I believe it was, is that he noticed when he
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  Speaker 1: looked at his dad's eyes on that morning that it
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  Speaker 1: just wasn't right. And so knowing that, and him knowing
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  Speaker 1: also his dad had been struggling already, it would have
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  Speaker 1: been so beneficial for someone to be able to outside
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  Speaker 1: of the family dynamic to have also recognized that and
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  Speaker 1: been like, hey Mark, hey man, let's let's go talk
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  Speaker 1: over here, or hey Mark, hey, come hang out with
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  Speaker 1: me for a little bit, just to give him a
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  Speaker 1: separation from the reality of all the things that was
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  Speaker 1: pressing down on him, all the things that he was
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  Speaker 1: remembering and having nightmares about, from the theater of war,
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  Speaker 1: from the reality of his life, from his son fighting
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  Speaker 1: for his freedom, from his family having to comfort his son,
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  Speaker 1: and dealing with all the things and all the people
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  Speaker 1: that are just like today on TikTok, of villainizing his name,
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  Speaker 1: villainizing his family, villainizing things that they don't even understand
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  Speaker 1: or didn't even sign up to even try to understand.
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  Speaker 1: Those are things that we do not pay attention to,
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  Speaker 1: but those are the reality of most comeback veterans. Those
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  Speaker 1: are the things that people don't really pay attention to
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  Speaker 1: that much when it comes to mental health, and especially
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  Speaker 1: for our veterans, because our veterans go through so much.
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  Speaker 1: Because you gotta think about it, all veterans in this
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  Speaker 1: time and age signed up to go and be a
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  Speaker 1: part and participate in our military, regardless of what branch
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  Speaker 1: they chose. They signed up, They volunteered, and they signed
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  Speaker 1: up to protect this country from all enemies, foreign and domestic.
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  Speaker 1: They knew that at some point they would have to
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  Speaker 1: lay down in their lives or protect someone else's lives.
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  Speaker 1: They knew that. I knew that when I signed up,
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  Speaker 1: and I did it in nineteen ninety one, and so
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  Speaker 1: I understood that. They understood that. However, what we don't
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  Speaker 1: understand is the effect or the effects of the things
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  Speaker 1: that you see, the things you're involved in, the things
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  Speaker 1: that you're asked to do on a daily in the
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  Speaker 1: military that will affect you for a lifetime, and in
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  Speaker 1: those things, we have to understand it about our veterans.
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  Speaker 1: So when you see that veteran on the street that
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  Speaker 1: can't get right, that can't go and function on a
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  Speaker 1: regular job, or can't go in their regular home, and
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  Speaker 1: they have a place to go, but they can't go.
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  Speaker 1: They got to just live on the street. We have
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  Speaker 1: to give grace to them and understand that they're dealing
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  Speaker 1: with something. They're dealing with a beast that most people
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  Speaker 1: cannot understand. And it's both physically, mentally, and spiritually, all
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  Speaker 1: three wrapped up in one. And so we have to
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  Speaker 1: be able to understand those things and not do what
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  Speaker 1: I saw today on TikTok. Many of those same people
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  Speaker 1: that villainize other people for other incidents, they villainized Carmelo
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  Speaker 1: Carmelo anthety vilized, vitalized, villainized Tristan Weekly and he was
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  Speaker 1: the victim in the situation. They victimized or villainized Christopher
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  Speaker 1: nien Heights in his situation when the truly sure are
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  Speaker 1: truly showed that those people were aggressing him and he
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  Speaker 1: was retreating the whole time, they villainized it. And now
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  Speaker 1: they villainizing Mark Neenheisst and Christopher Neenheist at the same
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  Speaker 1: time today because of the incident that happened on Sunday.
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  Speaker 1: Not having any empathy, not having any sympathy, not just
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  Speaker 1: having an inch or a moment of humanity. They chose
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  Speaker 1: to say it's stolen valor. They chose to say, look,
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  Speaker 1: the apolo fall too far from the tree. They chose
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  Speaker 1: all those things, and that shows their character, That shows
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  Speaker 1: their integrity or lack thereof. It also shows what we've
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  Speaker 1: become as a society that we don't care about any
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  Speaker 1: of the things that anybody else have going on until
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  Speaker 1: it happens to us. We don't care about those things.
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  Speaker 1: And being that that man has shown his face on
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  Speaker 1: any social media platforms, he's been on my podcast twice
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  Speaker 1: on this on this gracious network, We've talked to him twice.
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  Speaker 1: I know that Uh that our gracious host Angela Uh
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  Speaker 1: has talked to him as well in the family, talk
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  Speaker 1: to he and his wife. And he's always been gracious,
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  Speaker 1: always been nice, always been kind. And so his mental illness,
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  Speaker 1: his mental health was always hidden in the background of
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  Speaker 1: the man that we saw. I met the man at
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  Speaker 1: his son's bell hearing. He made sure he came and
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  Speaker 1: shook my hand, look me right in the eyes, and
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  Speaker 1: I saw the struggle through his eyes. I understood that
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  Speaker 1: as a fellow, as a federer, as a as a
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  Speaker 1: fellow veteran, I understood the mental breakdown that he was having.
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  Speaker 1: And so since I understood that, I knew that I
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  Speaker 1: need to understood, understand that and also reach out on
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  Speaker 1: that basis, And that's what I did. I did it continuously.
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  Speaker 1: And so for everyone else to not even think that
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  Speaker 1: this is a struggle for the Nienhist family, for the
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  Speaker 1: Anthony family, for the Weekly family, for the Metcalf family,
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  Speaker 1: and for countless other other families that are out there
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  Speaker 1: with missing loved ones, with loved ones that's been abused
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  Speaker 1: by the cops, and and we have people that were strange,
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  Speaker 1: fruited on trees and everything down in Mississippi. Those families
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  Speaker 1: are hurting, Those families are missing folks. Those families are
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  Speaker 1: still trying to get questions and questions answered. And we
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  Speaker 1: as a society have become so void of humanity that
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  Speaker 1: we don't even think to those things. First. We go
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  Speaker 1: straight to villainizing someone. We go straight to our dogma
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  Speaker 1: and our own understanding of things, rather than even taking
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  Speaker 1: a beat of a second to think wait a minute,
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  Speaker 1: let me think this thing through. Let me think maybe
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  Speaker 1: this thing is a little bit bigger than myself, are
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  Speaker 1: bigger than other folks. And I think that is what
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  Speaker 1: we're missing. That is what we're missing in this entire
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  Speaker 1: moment of mental health is the humanity of it all.
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  Speaker 1: And PTSD is something that it's pass to a lot
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  Speaker 1: of people. They think of it be like, well, you know,
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  Speaker 1: it is what it is. But PTSD is something that
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  Speaker 1: people have been triggered in dealing with since the Vietnam
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  Speaker 1: War and beyond. I think the Vietnam War is probably
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  Speaker 1: the first time they started actually realizing that these soldiers
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  Speaker 1: were coming back with all kinds of issues and all
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  Speaker 1: kinds of problems. And since that's the case, we as
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  Speaker 1: a society have to do a better job at recognizing
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  Speaker 1: those who are suffering from PTSD, bipolarism, mental health, and
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  Speaker 1: all the different categories that come up into it, and
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  Speaker 1: at those moments not just shining them away, not to
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  Speaker 1: deal with them, but we have to start first praying
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  Speaker 1: for them, finding solutions for them, finding outlets for them,
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  Speaker 1: finding ways to assist those families that are overburdened by
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  Speaker 1: the mental health of their loved one because the Nienheist
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  Speaker 1: family was overburdened by a lot of things, by a
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  Speaker 1: lot of things and still are now. They have more
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  Speaker 1: burdens on a lot of things. Even though they were
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  Speaker 1: trying to get help, that help cost even more burdens.
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  Speaker 1: And we have to get to a place to where
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  Speaker 1: we understand that. And those of us that know I
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  Speaker 1: suffer from PTSD, so I know we have to do
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  Speaker 1: a better job of educating though, and when we identify
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  Speaker 1: someone that is suffering from PTSD or other mental health
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  Speaker 1: or bipolarism or any of those things, the severe depression,
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  Speaker 1: all anxiety, whatever those things, may be be able to
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  Speaker 1: identify and help those people through. Sometimes they need the
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  Speaker 1: spiritual health, sometimes they need the mental breakdown, the mental health.
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  Speaker 1: Sometimes they just need the compassion and the humanity of
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  Speaker 1: someone just being there taking them out to eat and
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  Speaker 1: for their dinner, giving them a reset from the things
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  Speaker 1: that are the stressors of their life. Those are the
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  Speaker 1: things that we as society have dropped the ball on
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  Speaker 1: because we don't do that kind of stuff no more.
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  Speaker 1: It's about me and me and mine, and that's it.
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  Speaker 1: We don't even think about the norms or the compassion
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  Speaker 1: that we're supposed to have as humanity. A lot of
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  Speaker 1: us call ourselves Christians, go to church, give our tithes.
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  Speaker 1: And the first thing Jesus said is love thy neighbor
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  Speaker 1: as thyself, and most of us we quote it, but
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  Speaker 1: do we really even love ourselves? Because we can't if
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  Speaker 1: we're not loving humanity. Because Jesus said to love thyself,
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  Speaker 1: love those, love your neighbor as you love thyself. And
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  Speaker 1: most people don't even love themselves. They don't like themselves,
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  Speaker 1: they can't stand theyselves. So that's why they can't even
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  Speaker 1: have the compassion to help the next person. And I've
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  Speaker 1: seen that today. I was riding and driving on it
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  Speaker 1: on this road and just listening to live after live
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  Speaker 1: and person after person and listening to what they were saying,
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  Speaker 1: and I was saying to myself, they cannot love theyself.
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  Speaker 1: How can you love yourself when you can person? And
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  Speaker 1: how can you give love to the next person when
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  Speaker 1: the love that you say you're giving is not love,
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  Speaker 1: it's not loving at all, it's really hatred, it's really evil.
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  Speaker 1: And since it's evil, then that means that you really
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  Speaker 1: don't love yourself, You really don't even like yourself. You
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  Speaker 1: can't stand yourself, and since you can, that's the same
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  Speaker 1: vitriol that you give out to the masses. And so
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  Speaker 1: we have to understand that and at some point we
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  Speaker 1: as a society have to give back first of finding
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  Speaker 1: out who we are. Take a self, checkout a checklist
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  Speaker 1: of yourself and see if you really do love yourself,
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  Speaker 1: and if you really do, now you can reset and
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  Speaker 1: you can see about loving someone else, because sometimes that's
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  Speaker 1: all it takes. Sometimes it just takes someone recognizing that
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  Speaker 1: someone's having a bad day and being able to speak
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  Speaker 1: to them and reset that person's whole life. But we
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  Speaker 1: can't because we're so in our dogma of in our
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  Speaker 1: corners and our religious beliefs and our doctor and beliefs
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  Speaker 1: and what our mama told us, and what we think
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  Speaker 1: we believe, and we forget that there's a human quality
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  Speaker 1: to each and every one of us, regardless of our background,
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  Speaker 1: and they're supposed to be a spiritual, loving nature in
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  Speaker 1: each one of us. That's what we say we're supposed
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  Speaker 1: to be in regardless of what you subscribe to as
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: far as your belief system, whether you're a Christian, whether
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  Speaker 1: you're just spiritual, whether you're a Muslim, whether you're a Buddhist,
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  Speaker 1: whatever you think that you are, and all those things
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  Speaker 1: you still supposed to have love and loving thyself and
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  Speaker 1: loving those who are around them. And so we have
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  Speaker 1: to subscribe to that. We have to get into a
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  Speaker 1: place where we understand that, we have to get into
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  Speaker 1: a place to where we know exactly what it is
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  Speaker 1: we're supposed to do. And so with that, I want
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  Speaker 1: to make sure that those who are listening that you
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  Speaker 1: first seek out those things in your life that will
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  Speaker 1: bring you into a perspective of learning, understanding and knowing
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  Speaker 1: exactly what it is that you're supposed to do. And
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  Speaker 1: in that learning that there are other people out there
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  Speaker 1: that may just need your smile. There are the other
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  Speaker 1: people out there that just may need your hello, There
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  Speaker 1: are other people out there that just may need a
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  Speaker 1: connection of you just giving them an affirmation that everything
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  Speaker 1: is going to be okay, because everyone's day is not
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  Speaker 1: always going good every way. Everyone's day is not always
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  Speaker 1: at peace. And so aren't we supposed to be that
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  Speaker 1: light that shines in the darkness. Aren't we supposed to
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  Speaker 1: be that peace and know that piece that pass it
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  Speaker 1: all understanding? That's what the scriptures say, and so if
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  Speaker 1: we are really into the scriptures like we say we are,
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  Speaker 1: then aren't we supposed to be the indicative example of
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  Speaker 1: those things of giving them that piece, give them that understanding,
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  Speaker 1: give them that roadmap to be able to reset, to
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  Speaker 1: get their minds right. So let's let's concentrate on that.
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  Speaker 1: I want us to really concentrate on that, to give
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  Speaker 1: us that perspective of making sure we look at for
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  Speaker 1: the next person, to make sure that when we identify
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  Speaker 1: someone struggling, take out that time just to speak, take
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  Speaker 1: out that time just to say hello, take out that
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  Speaker 1: time and just to ask are you okay? And sometimes
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  Speaker 1: someone may they may surprise and you say no, I'm
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: not okay. And if they say they're not okay, see
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  Speaker 1: what you can do to give them, give them the
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  Speaker 1: help that they need. Because that is what mental health
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  Speaker 1: awareness is. Just being aware that someone is not having
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: a bad day, that someone may not be on their
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: p's and q's at that time, that someone may be
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: having an episode from PTSD, that they may be having
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: a bipolar episode. And we that are spiritual, we have
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  Speaker 1: to get on our p's and cues of understanding. God
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  Speaker 1: gives us the sermon for a reason or for a reason,
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  Speaker 1: use your deserment. And when you see this someone struggling
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  Speaker 1: spiritually or struggling with all these different things PTSD and
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  Speaker 1: bipolarism and mental health and all this different levels of
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  Speaker 1: struggle that they're in, use your spiritualness to reset them.
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  Speaker 1: Use your spirituality to reach them in a place where
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  Speaker 1: you may not even know how to do it, but
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  Speaker 1: God that leads you through the spirit to be able
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  Speaker 1: to give them that tool that they need that day
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  Speaker 1: to be able to move forward. It's time for us
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  Speaker 1: to step up. It's a kingdom work. It's past just
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  Speaker 1: being on this earth to make money and the smile
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  Speaker 1: and say this is that, and that and this. At
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  Speaker 1: some point we have to get back to kingdom work
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  Speaker 1: at some point. And so this is as good as
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: time as not for us to step up and step
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  Speaker 1: up to the plate and start call those things into
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  Speaker 1: existence as though they were and speaking the spirituality into
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  Speaker 1: people's lives, even though they may not be spiritual themselves. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: God gave you that kind of power, so you might
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  Speaker 1: as well go ahead and walk in it. Because it's
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: time out for all what I saw today, the evilness
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  Speaker 1: of people. It's time out. For that and the way
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  Speaker 1: we get away from that. Stop participating. I'm gonna stop
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  Speaker 1: looking at it. I'm gonna stop listening to those people,
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  Speaker 1: and I'm gonna start moving forward to where they need
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  Speaker 1: to be and where I need to be and the
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: things that I need to do in spirituality and the
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: walk of life. So those who need the light in
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: the darkness, we can give it. To those who are
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: struggling mentally. We can give them that light. We can
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: give them that smile that they need. We can give
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: them that encouragement they need. We can give them that
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  Speaker 1: atmosphere they need through the spirit. Let's start working on
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  Speaker 1: that and start getting things where we need to be.
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: And I just want everybody to be encouraged and know that, yes,
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  Speaker 1: times are hard. Yes we have wars and rumors of wars.
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: We have leadership that just can't get right. We have
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  Speaker 1: all those things. But one thing I do know is
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  Speaker 1: that we can set the atmosphere in every place that
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  Speaker 1: we are And the only thing we have to do
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  Speaker 1: is just start speaking it, but leaving it and doing it.
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  Speaker 1: And if we start walking those things, then we can
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  Speaker 1: walk in the gifts that God has given us. And
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: until we meet next time. I want you guys to
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  Speaker 1: know you can reach me at all my socials, at
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: the Wayne term silk, and I just want everyone to
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  Speaker 1: know you can be at peace. You can be at peace.
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  Speaker 1: God can give you the peace that passes all understanding.
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  Speaker 1: Yes he can. You can make it through the things
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  Speaker 1: that you're struggling with. Just know he got you. The
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  Speaker 1: only thing I have to do is just put yourself
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  Speaker 1: into place to where He can get you and he
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: can be there for you. Reach out to someone. If
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: you're struggling mentally, reach out to someone. Talk to someone,
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: and by all means, if you have to reach out
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: to the authorities because someone is doing something that you
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: just can't deal with, by all means, do it. And
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: then the words of Markel, I'll leave it on this.
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  Speaker 1: He said he was thankful that his father taught him
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  Speaker 1: how to be a man, a man enough to where
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  Speaker 1: he was able to stand up and protect his family
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  Speaker 1: from his own father. Just let that sink in. That
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  Speaker 1: is the man we're talking about. Markneen Heiss, a real man,
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  Speaker 1: a man that raised his family and even in his
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  Speaker 1: own crisis, his child was able to stand up and
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  Speaker 1: look at his father and fire warning shots to make
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  Speaker 1: his father stop because of the way he was raised.
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  Speaker 1: So let's keep ourselves in the right position in this
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  Speaker 1: moment and not get caught up in all the dogma.
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  Speaker 1: And until we meet again, remember this is extra school
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  Speaker 1: where we anything but bite size, love you guys, pray
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  Speaker 1: for you guys. And until next time, I say good
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  Speaker 1: evening and good night, y'all. Have a good one.