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Nicole Pierce – Brush Bash! Central Vermont’s first Rage/Paint Splatter Room COMING SOON TO BARRE! · Aired Out

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Speaker 1: All right, good morning, gang, and here we go.
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Speaker 2: First thing on your Monday. I know that there's a
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Speaker 2: lot of heavy news. I'm aware of it. I see
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Speaker 2: what's happening. I see what happened over the weekend. It's
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Speaker 2: all over social media. It's all over Facebook, it's all
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Speaker 2: over YouTube, it's all over the news, it's all over
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Speaker 2: the radio TV. Have I left anything out in the papers? Yeah?
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Speaker 2: That's why I decided when I opened up the my
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Speaker 2: closet door this morning to wear my happy Good Day shirt.
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Speaker 2: Not just because it's Monday, but just because of everything
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Speaker 2: that's going on in this insane world in which we live.
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Speaker 2: Please have a good day today, all right, independent thinking,
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Speaker 2: be yourself, Have a cup of coffee on this National
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Speaker 2: Coffee Day today. I know there's lots of deals going
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Speaker 2: on everywhere. Take a deep breath. Take five minutes. Even
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Speaker 2: even if you don't have five minutes, take it, find it,
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Speaker 2: make it, and just take a deep breath. Do something
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Speaker 2: for yourself. It is going to be an absolutely gorgeous
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Speaker 2: day today, sunny and eighty degrees. I'm wearing shorts. I'm
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Speaker 2: so happy. So why I'm having a happy good day,
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Speaker 2: Happy birthday today. Jane Stacy Roger, Jerru, Max Houseman, Joline Maxim,
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Speaker 2: Charles Jensen, Dave Smith, Tracy Washburn. Yeah, they're all on
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Speaker 2: the list today, Doug Wild yesterday. Yes man. We have
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Speaker 2: a lot to talk about before I go an inch further.
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Speaker 2: Second Annual Carving for K. And it was just with
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Speaker 2: Ruth Weeks this morning and she give me this for
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Speaker 2: the for the window here right on the sidewalk in Barry.
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Speaker 2: Carving for K is coming. Second annual. Who is Kay
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Speaker 2: Kay Santomore? Everybody knows her and we lost her. She
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Speaker 2: passed away a year ago and always wanted to have
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Speaker 2: this huge pumpkin carving event, jack lantern event, and the
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Speaker 2: community is pulling through and making that happen in her memory,
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Speaker 2: in her honor. Twenty one Red Farm Road, Saturday October
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Speaker 2: twenty fifth and Sunday October twenty sixth, that's when all
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Speaker 2: the pumpkins are going to be lit up on display.
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Speaker 2: Please be part of this, if he can, please be
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Speaker 2: part of this. It is going to be something else.
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Speaker 2: And I'm hoping that Ruth Weeks will come in the
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Speaker 2: air and talk about this with me. But we're going
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Speaker 2: to be promoting it an awful lot You're going to
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Speaker 2: see it all over the page. It's just one of
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Speaker 2: the many things in our community that we love to do.
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Speaker 2: I hope you had a wonderful weekend. I hope it
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Speaker 2: was just stellar for you. The weather was just amazing.
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Speaker 2: The veteran's ride on Saturday was incredible. They passed in
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Speaker 2: front of my house. Was just awesome. Boy, We're almost
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Speaker 2: into October weather forecast, and I know it was a
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Speaker 2: little chilly for many of us. Waking up this morning
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Speaker 2: and Lily's asking me, as she does every morning, Dad,
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Speaker 2: what's the forecast today? What can I wear? Which is
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Speaker 2: always results in another gray hair when I hear that
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Speaker 2: question from my ten year old? What can I wear?
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Speaker 2: Sunny eighty again tonight? Clear fifty. Will I be out
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Speaker 2: on the patio looking up at the stars tonight after
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Speaker 2: dinner late? Yes? I will tomorrow, Sonny in seventy one.
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Speaker 2: I'm seeing nothing but sunshine here for the whole week,
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Speaker 2: which is good news, but it would be nice if
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Speaker 2: we had some clouds and some rain chowers as well.
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Speaker 2: I'm going to dive in this morning with my guest
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Speaker 2: Nicole Pierce and posted up this morning. Who knows this?
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Speaker 2: This woman and my god, it's like everybody and their
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Speaker 2: brother knows you, and I'm so glad that you're here.
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Speaker 2: Good morning, Nicole, Good morning you and I just met
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Speaker 2: I think for the first time, right, was that first
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Speaker 2: time ever? But your name and Choice Support Services is
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Speaker 2: something that I have heard of and been familiar with
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Speaker 2: for quite a while, but I don't think I had
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Speaker 2: ever met you, And thanks to our friend Jared, I did. Yeah, absolutely,
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Speaker 2: and you a little bit about you before we dive
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Speaker 2: into what you're doing. You own and operate Choice Support Services,
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Speaker 2: and you what is that?
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Speaker 3: So Choice we specialize in community based rehab for people
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Speaker 3: who have survived a traumatic brain injury. That's how we
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Speaker 3: opened up Choice many sixteen years ago. Actually, we now
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Speaker 3: do a lot more things. We do the Adult Family
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Speaker 3: Care Program, so work with people who have dementia, get
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Speaker 3: them out of nursing homes hospitals with a full time caregiver.
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Speaker 3: We also have the group home now which has several
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Speaker 3: of our people living in it, men and women.
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Speaker 4: So really a lot of different things.
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Speaker 3: Medicaid services for pretty much brain injury, mental health in
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Speaker 3: the elderly population as well.
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Speaker 5: Wow.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, we're like the manyest many of Washington County Mental Health.
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Speaker 3: But we're just so tiny, and we're obviously not a
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Speaker 3: state designated agency. We're a private agency.
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Speaker 2: Man. That's like, you just packed so much that is
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Speaker 2: that's a huge thing that you're doing. Yeah, I mean,
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Speaker 2: that's like a monster right there that you'd taken on.
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Speaker 4: Yep, there was a need in the community.
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Speaker 3: We started this with just community based services putting people
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Speaker 3: in private homes to be cared for. But we always
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Speaker 3: knew that, you know, we needed housing for people who
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Speaker 3: were harder to place and less traditional, think outside the
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Speaker 3: box ideas to help people who struggled with housing and
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Speaker 3: struggled with moving every couple months. You know, who wants
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Speaker 3: to move every couple months. That's just not that's not feasible.
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Speaker 3: So that's that was always our long term plan. And
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Speaker 3: my long term plan has always been to have housing
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Speaker 3: job program and then the community based services.
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Speaker 2: Tell me about April Street.
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Speaker 3: So April Street was previously the jingera community care home.
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Speaker 3: Bought that in twenty eighteen. Originally we stayed with I
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Speaker 3: kept the population that was in there, which was a
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Speaker 3: lot of older folks, which I really loved a lot. Unfortunately,
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Speaker 3: the staffing piece for that was not doable. It was
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Speaker 3: really hard to find staff, to keep staff, To find
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Speaker 3: staff that operate at the same level that you operate
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Speaker 3: as an owner was really really challenging. I've had a
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Speaker 3: lot of good staff, but a lot of people who
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Speaker 3: unfortunately were not willing to go that extra step for
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Speaker 3: the people that we care for, so ended up switching
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Speaker 3: out the elderly population. For some of our younger folks
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Speaker 3: who needed housing pretty desperately, so traumatic brain injury, substance abuse,
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Speaker 3: mental health issues coexisting altogether. In most cases, many of
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Speaker 3: the folks that I work with have come from criminal
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Speaker 3: justice system. Either taken them out of jail, help them
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Speaker 3: get out of jail, they needed a residence to get
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Speaker 3: out of jail, which can be challenging, right because if
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Speaker 3: you don't have the right supports, they will continue to
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Speaker 3: keep you in jail. So dealing with those things at
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Speaker 3: the house and giving people the opportunity to integrate back
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Speaker 3: into the community in a healthy manner.
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Speaker 2: Not everybody is waking up and saying, you know, I
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Speaker 2: think I want to do something like this. Yeah, what
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Speaker 2: was this? Uh? What was this this shift, this awakening
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Speaker 2: that that that stirred in you, that said, however, many
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Speaker 2: years ago, I've got to do something like this. Uh,
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Speaker 2: that's probably profound.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean I always know I wanted to work
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Speaker 3: with people. That comes from growing up with someone who
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Speaker 3: struggled with addiction and mental health issues and seeing for myself. Yeah,
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Speaker 3: there was challenges, but I also loved him and I
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Speaker 3: knew what a good person he was when he wasn't
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Speaker 3: struggling with with the addiction, wasn't struggling with the mental
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Speaker 3: health issues, which often went hand in hand. So I
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Speaker 3: always knew I wanted to work with people. I went
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Speaker 3: to college, got a degree in clinical psychology. Actually wanted
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Speaker 3: to work with that. That's always been my my goal.
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Speaker 3: But realized that there's a lot of people out there
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Speaker 3: that need help that have similar situations. More people with
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Speaker 3: brain injuries in the community than people even realize that
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Speaker 3: are walking around that have invisible disability there their families
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Speaker 3: are also struggling with them, which is really challenging. So
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Speaker 3: that's why I got into that in the first place.
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Speaker 3: Me and my business partner open choice to have services
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Speaker 3: available to people who maybe were denied services from a
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Speaker 3: lot of other agencies.
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Speaker 2: Did you did you have anyone in your your your friend,
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Speaker 2: your friends network or your your family. That was like,
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Speaker 2: Nicole Man, seriously, you're crazy, this is are you me?
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Speaker 3: And they still think I'm crazy. They still think I'm
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Speaker 3: pretty crazy. Yeah, they did in the beginning. They're like,
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Speaker 3: you don't have anything. I was twenty six years old
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Speaker 3: when we opened up Choice, me and my business partner,
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Speaker 3: so my child, my oldest child was just an infant
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Speaker 3: at the time, but we wanted to do it. So
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Speaker 3: we were like, well, we'll see what happens and get
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Speaker 3: out there and do it.
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Speaker 4: And we did it.
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Speaker 2: And this was how old, how long ago?
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Speaker 4: Sixteen years ago, sixteen years, seventeen years in April.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, look at what you've done, Look at what you've
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Speaker 2: done for people. Yeah, it's absolutely amazing, I'm telling you.
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Speaker 2: And I said this the day that I was over
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Speaker 2: to April April Street and was streaming live over there.
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Speaker 2: Those five I think it was five, might have been
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Speaker 2: six individuals in hours time flipped so much stuff for
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Speaker 2: me personally right upside down in an hour. I was
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Speaker 2: like I left that day and I was like just
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Speaker 2: shell shocked by what I learned and perspective and reflection
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Speaker 2: on my own life. I mean, it is absolutely amazing.
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Speaker 2: To hear their stories of resilience, resilience more than anything else.
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Speaker 2: I mean, you can tag TBI, you know you can.
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Speaker 2: You can. You can put so many medical diagnoses labels
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Speaker 2: on folks. I have this, I have that. I hate this.
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Speaker 2: But these are real people that have had extraordinary things
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Speaker 2: happen to them. Some of them even say for them, yea.
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Speaker 2: And they have insight, they have vision, they have philosophy
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Speaker 2: on life that is just so different from so many
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Speaker 2: of us in so many ways. Even with their their TBI,
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Speaker 2: their eyes are so much more open to what's important
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Speaker 2: in life and how precious and valuable our time is
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Speaker 2: here on earth. It's amazing.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, can you imagine driving down the road
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Speaker 3: one day and then you wait, then maybe you wake
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Speaker 3: up two weeks later and they're like, hey, you've been
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Speaker 3: in a car accident. You can't walk, talk, can't can't
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Speaker 3: excuse my language, say wipe your own butt, you know,
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Speaker 3: can't feed yourself, can't think, you know, like, my brain's broken,
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Speaker 3: I can't think. I why can't I do these things?
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Speaker 4: You know?
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Speaker 3: Why can't I make something simple? I can't make ramen noodles?
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Speaker 3: Why why can't I do these things? Why do I
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Speaker 3: feel angry? Why do I feel overwhelmed? Why do I
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Speaker 3: feel sad? So that that is a huge part of
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Speaker 3: it is when they're at their worst, when people feel
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Speaker 3: their worse, if you can give them just a little
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Speaker 3: tiny bit a glimmer of hope, which sometimes can just
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Speaker 3: be a relationship, your relationship with them, is enough to
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Speaker 3: let them see that there is something left out there,
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Speaker 3: that there is more to life than sitting around feeling,
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Speaker 3: you know, upset.
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Speaker 4: And yes, this was.
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Speaker 3: A tragedy, absolutely, but how can we move forward? How
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Speaker 3: can we reinvent ourselves? You know, to move forward, to
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Speaker 3: do whatever it is you want to do in your life,
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Speaker 3: but probably different than the way you did it before.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, you bring with you through the doors of April
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Speaker 2: Alone an energy and an attitude that is so infectious.
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Speaker 2: And the residence there made that very clear. They tell me,
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Speaker 2: I don't know what I would do without Nicole. And you, guys,
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Speaker 2: how many residents there?
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Speaker 4: There's only eight there right now?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, so can you mentione eight people all living in
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Speaker 2: a home. We're having dinner together, lunch, breakfast, coffee, quiet time.
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Speaker 3: Whatever, We're celebrating holidays together. Santa Claus shows up, every year.
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Speaker 3: So you know, on Christmas morning, you know you have
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Speaker 3: you have all that and you and you do have
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Speaker 3: disagreements between everyone, you know what I mean, It's like
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Speaker 3: being siblings. You're going to disagree, You're gonna borrow clothes,
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Speaker 3: You're gonna try to do these things that you know
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Speaker 3: aren't always agreeable to everybody in the house. So there's
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Speaker 3: a lot of talking, and there's a lot of talking
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Speaker 3: things through to say, you know, okay, so this is
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Speaker 3: this is a situation. We have one great, We're gonna
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Speaker 3: work through it. It's not going to be anything. At
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Speaker 3: the end of the day.
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Speaker 4: We're going to move forward.
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Speaker 3: Because one of the things they have to learn is
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Speaker 3: not everyone has to agree with the way that we think. Sure,
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Speaker 3: in order to get along, in order to live together,
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Speaker 3: in order to coexist in the community, we all don't
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Speaker 3: have to be exactly the same. I don't have to
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Speaker 3: think exactly like them, sure, and they certainly don't have
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Speaker 3: to think like me. But what we do need to
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Speaker 3: do is respect each other, care about each other, and
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Speaker 3: take a pause if we feel like things are getting
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Speaker 3: too intense.
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Speaker 2: Boy, what a lesson for the rest of us.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, And we talk about that at the house all
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Speaker 3: the time. My guys are big.
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Speaker 5: Oh.
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Speaker 3: Nicole always wants to talk about accountability because I do
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Speaker 3: you know, accountability is huge when you're trying to maintain housing,
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Speaker 3: maintain a job, maintain your mental health, you know, feel
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Speaker 3: good every day when you wake up. Yeah, we all
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Speaker 3: have accountability and how we feel every day.
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Speaker 2: There was a young lady that was there who I
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Speaker 2: just saw the other day too. She is so delightful.
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Speaker 2: She just has this glow about her, this big smile.
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Speaker 2: You probably know what I'm talking. Yeah, And when I
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Speaker 2: saw her at the of the day, I'm just like amazing.
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Speaker 2: Kids got into a car accident, and you know, it's
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Speaker 2: like TBIs and you and I have talked about this,
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Speaker 2: and I don't know much about them, but I do
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Speaker 2: know that they're all every single one of them is unique.
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Speaker 2: Not surprising because the brain is it's so complex. There's
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Speaker 2: a gi billion different neurons that are all firing and
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Speaker 2: wiring at the same time. And everyone's TBI is so unique.
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Speaker 2: Everyone's experience is different.
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Speaker 3: And their brain is injured in a different place. So
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Speaker 3: the strategy that might work for one person might not
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Speaker 3: work for another. And you know, some people are overwhelmed
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Speaker 3: with anger and grief. Yeah, so you have to be
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Speaker 3: able to come through that first, which is totally understand Oh,
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Speaker 3: that's a normal part of healing and moving forward from
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Speaker 3: a brain injury or anything that's sure overally traumatic. But
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Speaker 3: you know, that's a whole other piece that people really
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Speaker 3: have to learn to accept, and that's really hard and
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Speaker 3: they and then they can kind of come around the
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Speaker 3: other side to say, you know, oh, this is my
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Speaker 3: life and start to get the glow back and enjoy
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Speaker 3: things and yeah, find things that make them feel good,
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Speaker 3: which sometimes could just be the breakfast that they wanted
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Speaker 3: at the house or the dinner you know what I mean.
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Speaker 3: On their birthday, they all get to pick their whatever
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Speaker 3: they'd like for dinner that day and their dessert. So
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Speaker 3: many of them have never even had that since their
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Speaker 3: brain injury.
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Speaker 5: Wow.
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Speaker 3: So that's little tiny things that you can do, like
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Speaker 3: them waking up on Christmas morning with a Christmas tree,
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Speaker 3: just like you do when you're a little kid. You
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Speaker 3: wake up and everybody has their presence, presence that maybe
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Speaker 3: they've asked for or maybe they didn't ask for anything.
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Speaker 4: So Santa kinda had to guess yeah.
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Speaker 2: Right, right, Yeah, this is. It's amazing. So you are. Man.
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Speaker 2: It's like the hats that you wear, many, many, many hats.
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Speaker 2: Moderator is probably one of them, one of one of
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Speaker 2: the many. Yeah, you're you're, you're keeping everybody in the Yeah. Parameters.
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Speaker 4: Conflict is big.
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Speaker 3: When I first bought April Place, everybody was kind of
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Speaker 3: saying to me, again, I don't think you should do that.
20:29
Speaker 3: I don't think you should house all these people. I
20:31
Speaker 3: think you kind of lost your mind, Nicole. I think
20:33
Speaker 3: maybe you should rethink this. You need to have everyone separate.
20:35
Speaker 3: You know, everyone needs to be separate so the problems
20:37
Speaker 3: don't start to coexist for everyone when you have a group.
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Speaker 3: And that's just not true. I mean, yes, can it
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Speaker 3: be true. Absolutely, But with a lot of work and
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Speaker 3: a lot of consistent interventions from everybody that works in
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Speaker 3: the house, So all my really great staff that are there,
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Speaker 3: everybody can coexist. Everybody can learn, you know, you can
20:58
Speaker 3: learn to value friendship. Some times you don't even know
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Speaker 3: what friendship means. After brain injury, you don't even know what. Wow,
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Speaker 3: you don't even know that people are mistreating you. You know,
21:08
Speaker 3: years into it, you don't realize, Like I just want
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Speaker 3: to feel loved. I just want to feel needed. But
21:12
Speaker 3: you're really being mistreated. But you're willing to take that treatment,
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Speaker 3: you know, because that's all you know until someone says
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Speaker 3: to you, like, well, you deserve to be treated better
21:22
Speaker 3: than that.
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Speaker 4: I don't think I do. They'll say, I think this
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Speaker 4: is just my life.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, no, I've I've punched my ticket and this is
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Speaker 2: how it's going to be.
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Speaker 4: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, and you you're you're I don't believe that. Yeah,
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Speaker 2: you're you're destroying that mindset if anyone has it, and
21:42
Speaker 2: you're you're also giving your resonance there the ability to
21:50
Speaker 2: thrive on independence. It's a big, big deal, man, It's
21:56
Speaker 2: like that's probably one of the biggest deals of it all.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, as independent as they can be.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, right, And that's different for everyone, sure, but absolutely,
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Speaker 3: I mean everybody wants dignity, Everyone wants independence. Everyone wants
22:08
Speaker 3: to wake up every day and feel like they can
22:11
Speaker 3: take care of themselves, they can handle the things that
22:13
Speaker 3: they're presented with.
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Speaker 2: Might might not be able to drive right.
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Speaker 3: But right and you might not be able to drive,
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Speaker 3: You might not be able to walk without someone with
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Speaker 3: you either, you know, independently into town. Yeah, you might
22:26
Speaker 3: not be able to clean your room. You might not
22:28
Speaker 3: be able to do those things, but that doesn't mean
22:30
Speaker 3: that they're not working on things that are very important
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Speaker 3: to them. And they could be things that we take
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Speaker 3: for granted. Sure, not blowing up every time, you know,
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Speaker 3: not having it. I'm just packing myself and I'm leaving immediately.
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Speaker 3: I'm done with all of you, you know, just over
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Speaker 3: maybe a pancake or something, or you know, one of
22:49
Speaker 3: them thought the lady stole her sweater, or you know,
22:54
Speaker 3: things that we take for granted. With processing information and
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Speaker 3: coming through a bit on you know, coming talking through things.
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Speaker 3: They have a harder time doing that. They need assistance
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Speaker 3: and really patience and love to see that.
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Speaker 4: It's okay to not agree, number one.
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Speaker 3: It's also okay not to understand, Yea, that's okay, Like
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Speaker 3: we can understand by talking and explaining and seeing where
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Speaker 3: we're coming from.
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Speaker 4: Right, That's what I'm saying. Like I might not agree
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Speaker 4: with you, but I hear you. I hear what you're saying.
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Speaker 3: But I am going to say I don't like those
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Speaker 3: words coming out of your mouth, and I really don't
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Speaker 3: want you doing that because that's extremely unsafe and I'm
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Speaker 3: you know I care about you.
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Speaker 2: It just happens in my house. Everyone's house.
23:38
Speaker 3: It should happen in everyone's house, right, Yeah, especially if
23:41
Speaker 3: you have kids, you should be talking to them about
23:42
Speaker 3: those things.
23:43
Speaker 2: Wow, I'll tell you. I'm going to tell everybody. I've
23:48
Speaker 2: always maintained this and I'm going to say it again.
23:51
Speaker 2: And I know I sound like a broken record. Having
23:56
Speaker 2: this conversation with you right now is the single greatest thing,
24:05
Speaker 2: conversations like this, meeting people like you, that this podcast
24:10
Speaker 2: has ever done for me personally, meeting people like you,
24:15
Speaker 2: having conversations like this, bringing you on the air, and it.
24:20
Speaker 4: Brought something to your life.
24:21
Speaker 3: You know, you got to meet people who you probably
24:23
Speaker 3: I mean, I don't want to speak for you, but
24:25
Speaker 3: who you may not have had the chance to meet
24:27
Speaker 3: or get to know their story. And of course, everyone's story,
24:31
Speaker 3: including mine, is obviously much longer and much more diverse
24:34
Speaker 3: than what people can tell you in forty five minutes. Yeah,
24:39
Speaker 3: but I feel that brings something to all of our
24:41
Speaker 3: lives when we can understand where other people are coming from.
24:45
Speaker 3: And even and I'm gonna say this, probably shouldn't say it, Okay,
24:52
Speaker 3: I work with some people who other people don't like,
24:54
Speaker 3: you know, maybe they're like, well, listen, they've gone to
24:55
Speaker 3: three other agencies. We're not serving them. We're not serving them.
25:00
Speaker 3: And I do if I feel they've never gotten the
25:03
Speaker 3: chance and they've never been set up for success. So
25:05
Speaker 3: a lot of people, through their whole life, you know,
25:07
Speaker 3: will be kind of forgotten about and pushed to the side.
25:12
Speaker 3: If that keeps happening, whether you're a kid or an adult,
25:14
Speaker 3: eventually you're going to do things and you're going to
25:16
Speaker 3: find comfort in places that you shouldn't be finding it.
25:20
Speaker 3: So's it's good to get people reconnected to people, even
25:24
Speaker 3: if you are a criminal, you know, and I say
25:26
Speaker 3: that lately because you know you're labeled as a criminal.
25:29
Speaker 4: It's all label right. Maybe you're on probation and prol.
25:33
Speaker 3: Maybe you've been in and out of the Broadborg Retreat
25:35
Speaker 3: because you've had significant mental health issues. Maybe you've stabbed someone,
25:38
Speaker 3: maybe you've shot someone. These are all things that you know.
25:41
Speaker 3: I deal with every single day with these guys. And
25:45
Speaker 3: the reason why I do that is because if you
25:47
Speaker 3: give them the little glimmer of hope, you'd actually be
25:49
Speaker 3: surprised that people are willing to I don't want to
25:53
Speaker 3: use the word change, but they're willing to look at
25:56
Speaker 3: your perspective and they can see that a way, a
25:58
Speaker 3: different way of life is actually there. But it's not
26:01
Speaker 3: going to just come in one second, you know what
26:03
Speaker 3: I mean. It's weeks and days of building on when
26:06
Speaker 3: people want to change. Change is not easy.
26:09
Speaker 2: I promise that we're going to shift gears to this
26:16
Speaker 2: big thing that you're doing. And the main, the main
26:20
Speaker 2: reason why I have you here, which I'm telling you
26:24
Speaker 2: right now everyone, if you're not sitting down, you ought
26:27
Speaker 2: to because we're gonna, uh, we're just gonna let this.
26:33
Speaker 2: We're gonna blow the whistle on something in a big
26:35
Speaker 2: way here in a second. But I just before we
26:39
Speaker 2: go there, the reason why I met you, the reason
26:46
Speaker 2: why I had the experience that I had over at April,
26:52
Speaker 2: meeting and chatting with these five residents over there, who
27:00
Speaker 2: By the way, my wife is watching and listening this morning.
27:04
Speaker 2: I've been dying for her to get over there and
27:08
Speaker 2: meet some of these incredible people.
27:11
Speaker 4: I did talk to her on Facebook, did you I did? Yeah?
27:14
Speaker 2: All right, and I want my little girl over there too.
27:19
Speaker 3: I just yeah, you would be surprised what you can
27:23
Speaker 3: offer to them too.
27:24
Speaker 4: You know, they get to see all of us paid staff.
27:26
Speaker 4: They see me, they hear my voice like, oh Nicole's here,
27:28
Speaker 4: Oh you know she's here again.
27:29
Speaker 3: But to bring new people into the house to like
27:32
Speaker 3: and I say this to my staff, they look forward
27:34
Speaker 3: to those interactions, you know. I mean, so people even
27:35
Speaker 3: call out of work, where are my people?
27:37
Speaker 4: They look forward to it. You know, they knew you
27:39
Speaker 4: were stopping by.
27:40
Speaker 2: They were all about that, so comments coming in this morning.
27:44
Speaker 2: It can take a while for brain injuries to show
27:46
Speaker 2: themselves too, and can be misdiagnosed and misunderstood for so long.
27:52
Speaker 2: Sometimes people just need to need to be hurt. They
27:58
Speaker 2: get forgotten so busy taking care of everybody else, or
28:04
Speaker 2: too busy surviving, nobody stops and says, hey, are you okay?
28:09
Speaker 2: Makes a world's difference just to stop and ask someone
28:12
Speaker 2: how they're doing. That's what happened with me and Jarrett.
28:17
Speaker 2: And that's how frankly, you and I met Jarrett, who
28:23
Speaker 2: you know very well, was in Berry City Park and
28:31
Speaker 2: he was just sitting there in a park bench having breakfast.
28:38
Speaker 2: And I went up to him and we struck up
28:43
Speaker 2: a conversation and within a minute or two. We were live,
28:50
Speaker 2: we were streaming live, and I asked him about his
28:53
Speaker 2: life someone who has a traumatic brain injury from a
28:59
Speaker 2: motorcycle wreck, and we talked about how it's changed his life.
29:04
Speaker 2: And he's thirty four, thirty three years old. This happened
29:08
Speaker 2: when he was like twenty three, and it was a
29:14
Speaker 2: really profound experience for me.
29:16
Speaker 4: Yeah.
29:17
Speaker 2: And if you haven't seen that interviews, it's on aired out.
29:22
Speaker 2: It's extremely uncut, extremely raw. I mean, there isn't a
29:27
Speaker 2: half a second that's there's no editing. But Jarrett, is
29:32
Speaker 2: how you and I met because you reached out to
29:35
Speaker 2: me after that interview and said, yo, well I.
29:40
Speaker 3: Was worried about him, you know, because I worry about
29:43
Speaker 3: them when I yeah, exactly, yep.
29:45
Speaker 4: Yeah.
29:47
Speaker 2: So that's this is the type of stuff that I'm saying,
29:53
Speaker 2: Garner's the best experiences for me with this podcast, far
30:00
Speaker 2: beyond the laughs, the goofing around, the information that's put
30:04
Speaker 2: out on the air, is relationships more than anything else.
30:10
Speaker 2: Since meeting you, since knowing you, not only have I
30:14
Speaker 2: had great reflection on myself and great awe in seeing
30:23
Speaker 2: what you're doing over there, but you have recently come
30:30
Speaker 2: to me and said Oh yeah, you think that's something
30:37
Speaker 2: Check this out once again. I'm sure that you have
30:42
Speaker 2: family and friends who are like, oh my god, Nicole,
30:48
Speaker 2: are you serious? Really you're gonna do this? Yeah, holy crap.
30:58
Speaker 3: Has that been said to you numerous times? Even by
31:01
Speaker 3: like the electrician in the beginning.
31:04
Speaker 4: He's like, whoa what?
31:06
Speaker 3: But yeah, no, I mean that's that's generally how people.
31:09
Speaker 3: People do think I'm a little crazy, so I just
31:13
Speaker 3: roll with it. But I think it's going to turn
31:14
Speaker 3: out to be a really great thing. So where it's
31:16
Speaker 3: going to go?
31:17
Speaker 2: And you you had it's impossible for you not to.
31:22
Speaker 2: You had a vision. Yeah, there's no way that you
31:28
Speaker 2: could possibly do something like this without having a vision,
31:34
Speaker 2: maybe an epiphany. Maybe you woke up at three o'clock
31:36
Speaker 2: in the morning and said, oh my god, this is
31:39
Speaker 2: it right here. Why don't you blow the whistle here
31:42
Speaker 2: and tell everyone what you're doing.
31:44
Speaker 3: Well, you're right, it's a twenty year vision though, right.
31:46
Speaker 3: So when I opened Choice sixteen years ago, I had
31:49
Speaker 3: a vision of what that agency would look like, even
31:51
Speaker 3: had my little map drawn out, you know, how I
31:54
Speaker 3: was going to do it and how I was going
31:55
Speaker 3: to connect all the pieces. I improvised that puzzle a
31:58
Speaker 3: couple times a year to see what pieces or how
32:01
Speaker 3: I want to change my business plan. But one piece
32:04
Speaker 3: that we're missing is a jobs program. So brush Bash
32:10
Speaker 3: is gonna be at twenty three Jones Brother Way, which
32:13
Speaker 3: is gonna be a rage room and a paint room,
32:16
Speaker 3: paint splatter room.
32:17
Speaker 2: You just said rage rage room. Yes, are a ge Yes,
32:24
Speaker 2: a rage room? And what was the this a.
32:26
Speaker 4: Paint splatter room?
32:28
Speaker 2: Talk to me.
32:29
Speaker 3: Okay, So a rage room or a smash room, whatever
32:34
Speaker 3: it is that you prefer is exactly what it sounds like.
32:37
Speaker 3: You go in and break everything. So people pay a
32:41
Speaker 3: set price to go in and they will be able
32:44
Speaker 3: to smash dishes and all the things that they choose.
32:48
Speaker 3: The paint splatter room, there's gonna be two of those,
32:51
Speaker 3: so there's gonna be one for all ages, and then
32:55
Speaker 3: there's gonna be one paint splatter room for kids that
32:58
Speaker 3: are like under five, so babies there's gonna be. There's
33:02
Speaker 3: gonna be a place to have birthday parties or any
33:04
Speaker 3: kind of party really, any kind.
33:05
Speaker 4: Of private party.
33:07
Speaker 3: The hope is that we eventually can offer some kind
33:09
Speaker 3: of food like snack buar type food, but I am
33:13
Speaker 3: only one person. I'm not rich, so I have to
33:17
Speaker 3: work up to some of that. But that is that
33:18
Speaker 3: is the vision and the real point of brush Bash
33:24
Speaker 3: is to create jobs for people in the community who
33:28
Speaker 3: don't otherwise have.
33:30
Speaker 4: A place to work.
33:31
Speaker 2: Wow, to talk to me about. I mean this, there's
33:36
Speaker 2: two major parts here. What we're going to talk more
33:40
Speaker 2: about what to expect when you when you walk through
33:43
Speaker 2: the doors here and exactly where it is. Yes, and
33:46
Speaker 2: I'm going to show your Facebook page here in a
33:48
Speaker 2: second as well. We want to draw some some more
33:51
Speaker 2: followers to that. But what about the jobs jobs program?
33:57
Speaker 2: So what does that mean? You going to have folks
34:01
Speaker 2: with TBIs, folks who have challenges, who are going to
34:05
Speaker 2: be employed and running this.
34:08
Speaker 3: Yes now in the probably not in the first few months,
34:10
Speaker 3: because I have to obviously get some footing under me
34:14
Speaker 3: again before I can pay other people. But that hopefully
34:17
Speaker 3: won't take too long. But the point in this is
34:19
Speaker 3: to start a jobs program for all the people that
34:23
Speaker 3: I work with and other people in the community that
34:26
Speaker 3: might have a need or might be looking for some
34:30
Speaker 3: kind of work. Maybe someone that's just gotten out of
34:33
Speaker 3: jail that needs something to do to keep busy. Or
34:36
Speaker 3: someone that does got clean and sober. They need to
34:38
Speaker 3: stay busy, not sit around the house things like that.
34:43
Speaker 3: One of the things that I'm trying to do is
34:44
Speaker 3: figure out how can I team people up with the
34:46
Speaker 3: brain injury to someone else where they can do a
34:48
Speaker 3: job together at brush Bash. So yeah, that way, the
34:57
Speaker 3: people that I work with, the people at the group home,
35:00
Speaker 3: and people that like Jarrett that live even live in
35:03
Speaker 3: his own apartment, will have the chance to have you know,
35:06
Speaker 3: employment and employment with someone who will teach them and
35:11
Speaker 3: take the time and hopefully longevity is what we're hoping,
35:16
Speaker 3: you know, where they can have a job for more
35:17
Speaker 3: than a couple of days or a couple of weeks.
35:19
Speaker 3: They can have a job like the rest of us do,
35:21
Speaker 3: even if it's five or ten hours a week. But
35:23
Speaker 3: they get up, they contribute, they feel good about it.
35:28
Speaker 3: These jobs that they'll be doing will start simple, you know,
35:30
Speaker 3: maybe they're going to vacuum, maybe they're going to clean,
35:34
Speaker 3: bring customers and stuff like that.
35:36
Speaker 2: Help with marketing.
35:39
Speaker 4: Yep.
35:43
Speaker 2: Yeah, I just got to comment here. I'm not crying,
35:47
Speaker 2: you are you know, you're you're bringing some water to
35:52
Speaker 2: my eyes almost constantly this morning. And this is so
35:58
Speaker 2: unbelievable what you're doing. I am so confident in saying
36:04
Speaker 2: that this is bound to be a great success. I
36:09
Speaker 2: hope you have people lined up to be volunteers and
36:15
Speaker 2: help you make this into something massive. And I am
36:22
Speaker 2: so honored to be talking about this right now on
36:26
Speaker 2: a Monday morning. To have you in here to announce
36:31
Speaker 2: that you're going to be doing this is huge for me.
36:35
Speaker 2: If this is going to set the precedence for the
36:37
Speaker 2: rest of my week on the air and off the
36:41
Speaker 2: air with positivity like this, I'm going to have a
36:44
Speaker 2: great week. I had a conversation with somebody last night
36:50
Speaker 2: about purpose and how critical it is for all of
36:58
Speaker 2: us to feel like we have a real purpose. We
37:03
Speaker 2: have a reason for being alive, We have a reason
37:08
Speaker 2: for beginning our day, getting out of bed every day,
37:11
Speaker 2: putting our pants on, and whatever it is that we do.
37:16
Speaker 2: And there's so many of us that are walking around
37:19
Speaker 2: that are stagnant. We're in neutral and we're just coasting
37:26
Speaker 2: through life without purpose, even a little bit of purpose.
37:33
Speaker 2: You're going to be giving that to people. That is
37:36
Speaker 2: the greatest gift beyond brushing and bashing, is giving people
37:46
Speaker 2: purpose to take this vision that you have, which is
37:51
Speaker 2: a little outrageous. I'm just saying, but giving them the
37:58
Speaker 2: wheel to say, hey, I want you to drive, I
38:04
Speaker 2: want you, I want you to execute this every day.
38:09
Speaker 2: That's massive. Yeah, I'm gonna show the Facebook page here
38:12
Speaker 2: and I'm telling it. I'm telling We've got a lot
38:14
Speaker 2: of people tuned in right now watching. I'm telling you,
38:18
Speaker 2: folks aired out is gonna support brush Bash immensely. You're
38:27
Speaker 2: gonna be hearing me talk about it. You're gonna be
38:29
Speaker 2: seeing me down there. We're gonna stream live. I'm gonna
38:34
Speaker 2: bring as many people through the doors as I can.
38:38
Speaker 2: But please go to this Facebook page right now, there's
38:44
Speaker 2: only four hundred and twenty five followers. We're gonna change
38:47
Speaker 2: that right now. I want folks to go there and
38:53
Speaker 2: follow this page, like it, follow it, comment on it,
38:59
Speaker 2: share it, get the word out that this is going
39:04
Speaker 2: to be the next big thing here in the Granite City.
39:09
Speaker 2: This is tremendous. You're saying, from what age to what
39:14
Speaker 2: age can go in there.
39:17
Speaker 4: So the rage room, I really want to personalize it.
39:21
Speaker 4: That's the thing.
39:22
Speaker 3: So that's kind of one of the things, you know,
39:23
Speaker 3: and as a business woman, everyone's oh, oh you can't personalize everything, right,
39:27
Speaker 3: but you can so ten maybe for the rage room,
39:31
Speaker 3: but could possibly if people have smaller children who they
39:35
Speaker 3: think could participate. There's also a viewing room, so in
39:38
Speaker 3: between the rage room and the paint room there's a
39:42
Speaker 3: little viewing room where kids could sit in there and
39:46
Speaker 3: maybe then one parent could bring them into the rage
39:48
Speaker 3: room if they wanted to smash a bottle or throw
39:50
Speaker 3: a plate or something like that.
39:53
Speaker 4: But any at pretty much any age.
39:55
Speaker 3: And the only reason I'm doing the room for the
39:57
Speaker 3: littler kids is well, there won't be any glass there,
40:01
Speaker 3: so if kids aren't walking it and they're crawling on
40:03
Speaker 3: the ground, it will have a special floor for them.
40:06
Speaker 3: So if the babies want to roll around and get
40:08
Speaker 3: painted up and do their you know, paint their bodies
40:10
Speaker 3: or whatever, they'll be able to do that as well.
40:15
Speaker 2: I'm just looking here at your list of donations that
40:20
Speaker 2: have already come in.
40:22
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, so we have got we that's the thing.
40:24
Speaker 3: So to keep the cost down, donations are the easiest
40:27
Speaker 3: way obviously to keep the ad mission cost down.
40:30
Speaker 2: Yep. Yeah, twenty three Jones Brothers. Way, yep. That's right
40:34
Speaker 2: next to the Granite Museum.
40:35
Speaker 4: Yep, in between Granite Museum and Faith Community Church.
40:37
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, it's that big, squarish looking building. Yep, we
40:43
Speaker 2: all know exactly where that is. I'm just looking here. Chairs,
40:48
Speaker 2: small bureaus, microwaves. I've got a microwave for you. My
40:54
Speaker 2: wife and I have been complaining about ours for quite
40:57
Speaker 2: a while. Makes too damn much news. It's not heating correctly.
41:04
Speaker 2: It needs to be smashed, ye, bottles, jars.
41:10
Speaker 3: The reason why we went towards the furnitures, it's gonna
41:12
Speaker 3: the other high cost is obviously getting rid of the
41:15
Speaker 3: stuff once it's smash, right, that's gonna that's gonna be expensive.
41:20
Speaker 3: So one reason why we're going to bring the furniture
41:22
Speaker 3: into it so that you can also set up like
41:24
Speaker 3: you want to come smash in office.
41:25
Speaker 4: You'd actually set.
41:26
Speaker 3: Up in office, but the furniture will be easier to
41:29
Speaker 3: break down into small pieces, smash into small pieces and
41:32
Speaker 3: get rid of.
41:40
Speaker 2: Can my wife go in there if she's ticked off
41:44
Speaker 2: at me and have at it?
41:49
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, okay.
41:50
Speaker 3: In fact, we're gonna have a day where people can
41:52
Speaker 3: bring pictures and we'll put them on the We'll put
41:54
Speaker 3: them on all the breakables and if you want to
41:55
Speaker 3: smash someone's face, you can do that because you can't.
41:57
Speaker 4: Do it in real life.
41:58
Speaker 3: So maybe you're getting divorced, or maybe you really hate
42:02
Speaker 3: your boss. Hopefully not my staff shopen, don't want my
42:04
Speaker 3: face on it, Just kidding, but any you know stuff
42:09
Speaker 3: like that where it's themed and people can come in and.
42:14
Speaker 2: You know, Central Vermont's first rage room and paint splatter room.
42:20
Speaker 2: This is incredible, you know, And we had you and
42:24
Speaker 2: I had a conversation off the air about some of
42:29
Speaker 2: the hidden gems in our community, some really unique things
42:36
Speaker 2: here in this city and in the outskirts of this city.
42:40
Speaker 2: One of them being this Neoosland Room, which is designed
42:44
Speaker 2: for folks with sensory issues, whether it's autism or whatever,
42:50
Speaker 2: of all ages, where you can go in and completely
42:55
Speaker 2: unplug and step into a different realm. It's a whole
42:59
Speaker 2: diferent worlds in there. Yes, you're unplugged, and.
43:04
Speaker 3: It's a different release when people get to do that,
43:06
Speaker 3: and the way that it connects with some people's brains
43:09
Speaker 3: is actually amazing.
43:12
Speaker 2: Somebody's saying that, Josh is saying, we need to get
43:14
Speaker 2: a car in there. Oh, I already have one, Josh,
43:17
Speaker 2: you got a car going.
43:18
Speaker 4: I got I got a minivan outside waiting to get smashed.
43:21
Speaker 2: Oh god, Charlyn saying, get a punch card membership ready.
43:27
Speaker 4: I was.
43:27
Speaker 3: I was thinking that I was wondering if people were
43:30
Speaker 3: going to be repeat customers or not.
43:34
Speaker 2: This is so unique, as we've already we've already got
43:40
Speaker 2: uh seven new followers just in the last couple of
43:45
Speaker 2: minutes here. But this is so unique, this is so
43:51
Speaker 2: like what I mean, how did you, like, how did
43:55
Speaker 2: you come up with this idea? Like you're did you
43:58
Speaker 2: wake up at one o'clock in the morning with this one?
44:01
Speaker 4: Yeah?
44:01
Speaker 3: Actually it was when I was I was at Disney
44:05
Speaker 3: World actually with my kids, and I was awake one
44:08
Speaker 3: night and thinking of ways at Disney they're really good
44:12
Speaker 3: about being inclusive to all people disabilities, which was really
44:15
Speaker 3: nice to see. At Disney you can actually, I don't
44:17
Speaker 3: know if anyway, I'm sure people have been, but it's
44:19
Speaker 3: very inclusive. You can go on a roller coaster, they
44:22
Speaker 3: have a special entrance for people with disabilities. They just
44:24
Speaker 3: really welcome everybody there, which is nice. But I actually thought,
44:28
Speaker 3: in the middle of the night, could I own an
44:30
Speaker 3: amusement park? How could I have an amusement park in Vermont,
44:35
Speaker 3: and then of course that's not feasible because Vermont doesn't
44:37
Speaker 3: want an amusement park. Number one, and then thought, what
44:41
Speaker 3: about a rage room? What about a place? What about
44:43
Speaker 3: something on a much similar, similar but simple to start
44:48
Speaker 3: it out where it would give people jobs and allow them,
44:50
Speaker 3: like you say, to have something to look forward to
44:52
Speaker 3: every day, to give them.
44:54
Speaker 4: A purpose to fill the slice of the pie that.
44:57
Speaker 3: Is not you know, is missing, which is a job.
45:00
Speaker 3: You can have housing, you can have a case manager,
45:03
Speaker 3: you can have a therapist. But if you can't ever
45:06
Speaker 3: secure a job, and say you show up to multiple
45:09
Speaker 3: interviews and you're told, hey, yeah, you're gonna start next week.
45:11
Speaker 3: This happened one of my guys three times the day
45:14
Speaker 3: he's supposed to go, they call and say, oh, sorry,
45:16
Speaker 3: we hired someone else. So you could to imagine the
45:20
Speaker 3: trickle down effect that that has. Ye so to be
45:24
Speaker 3: able to offer that to them and say, hey, listen,
45:26
Speaker 3: do you want a vacuum You want to bring people
45:30
Speaker 3: in and explain the you know, what are the rules
45:32
Speaker 3: to the rage room? After they would go in in
45:34
Speaker 3: vacuum suite, pick up the room. Start with simple job
45:38
Speaker 3: skills so people can build on them, because you have
45:40
Speaker 3: to have job skills to have a job, but you
45:43
Speaker 3: have to start building the skills.
45:45
Speaker 4: You can't just jump out there and do whatever it
45:49
Speaker 4: is that you want to do.
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Speaker 3: So this is like a simplified version of a job program.
45:55
Speaker 3: The only thing that I could really think of or
45:58
Speaker 3: eventually we would be able to have food, like a
46:00
Speaker 3: snack bar type of thing. I'm not saying that the
46:05
Speaker 3: people I work with would want to cook, but you know,
46:07
Speaker 3: maybe they'd want to do a delivery service or something
46:10
Speaker 3: similar to that.
46:11
Speaker 2: Maybe get a couple of food trucks, or maybe a
46:15
Speaker 2: little food truck, little food truck festival in.
46:17
Speaker 4: The food truck in the parking lot.
46:20
Speaker 2: I'll tell you right now, you know this, That parking
46:23
Speaker 2: lot is freaking awesome. Yeah, Like it's beautiful, like new pavement.
46:27
Speaker 4: Yeah, big, brand new paved two years ago.
46:29
Speaker 2: Yep, it's beautiful. Yeah, you have a perfect spot there,
46:34
Speaker 2: you're right on three Oho two. I mean, it's it's
46:36
Speaker 2: really amazing.
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Speaker 4: Simple food, you know what I mean.
46:39
Speaker 3: If we can get there, then like kind of like
46:41
Speaker 3: what the snackshack was, Simple things that are really easy,
46:44
Speaker 3: things that aren't too expensive, things that teenagers can go
46:47
Speaker 3: when they're driving and they're like, hey, Mom, I want
46:48
Speaker 3: to go to McDonald's. Well maybe they could stop at
46:50
Speaker 3: the at the snack truck and eat there instead.
46:56
Speaker 2: Will there be uh so you know question here Christy saying,
47:02
Speaker 2: will this be something your consumers might be able to
47:05
Speaker 2: utilize as well?
47:06
Speaker 4: That's for them? Yeah, Christy?
47:11
Speaker 2: Is there a soft opening? Is there? Is there going
47:13
Speaker 2: to be? Is it? Are we really like, is this
47:18
Speaker 2: kind of springtime is going to be it? Or is
47:21
Speaker 2: it going to be sooner?
47:22
Speaker 5: Oh?
47:22
Speaker 4: This is this is going to be. This is going
47:25
Speaker 4: to be before the end of the year.
47:26
Speaker 3: I mean we have we have the professionals in there
47:30
Speaker 3: right now doing the work to make it so that
47:32
Speaker 3: the fire marshals happy with fire code being met and
47:35
Speaker 3: everything safe. Obviously you're smashing things and you're throwing paint.
47:39
Speaker 3: Literally you will get thrown paint on you, all over
47:42
Speaker 3: your body. Your daughter will be able to blash you
47:45
Speaker 3: with the paint gun if she wants she can. There's
47:47
Speaker 3: little balloons to shoot the paint balloons, so they can
47:52
Speaker 3: you know, boom like you do when you go to affair.
47:56
Speaker 2: You should have seen the mess that she made out
47:59
Speaker 2: of on the patio, but this weekend yeah, oh horrible.
48:05
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's fun. So you're going to be dirty when
48:08
Speaker 3: you leave, but but I'll be happy hopefully.
48:11
Speaker 4: Yeah.
48:12
Speaker 2: So this is incredible.
48:14
Speaker 3: Yeah, And once they finished the last thing that we have,
48:17
Speaker 3: once the professionals are done on the inside, the fire
48:19
Speaker 3: marshal has to pass the final inspection, and we're ready
48:22
Speaker 3: to roll.
48:23
Speaker 2: So wow, yep, I can think of a few people
48:29
Speaker 2: that I would love to to get in there with.
48:33
Speaker 4: Yeah.
48:34
Speaker 3: I think the first couple of weekends, what we're going
48:36
Speaker 3: to do is I was going to open the website
48:37
Speaker 3: and have everyone just prepay, but I think I'm going
48:39
Speaker 3: to ask that and maybe just do like have people
48:45
Speaker 3: inquire about going so I can personalize, like say you
48:47
Speaker 3: have a bigger group, you have a smaller group, so
48:49
Speaker 3: I can personalize every room the first couple of weeks
48:52
Speaker 3: to get more people in and out.
48:57
Speaker 2: Did you have did you have anyone close in your
49:02
Speaker 2: in your family, friends, family, who were trying to tap
49:12
Speaker 2: your brakes a little bit?
49:14
Speaker 4: Yeah? I always do.
49:15
Speaker 3: Though, you know that's pretty that's pretty normal. They're like,
49:18
Speaker 3: why do you want to take on something else? Why
49:19
Speaker 3: do you want to do that same thing with apriplay.
49:22
Speaker 3: Why do you want to do that? Why do you
49:23
Speaker 3: want more work? You're already working seven days a week. Well,
49:27
Speaker 3: because I love it and it's a vision, and I
49:29
Speaker 3: want to build on the vision so that when I
49:33
Speaker 3: when I retire, you know, someday, I want to look
49:36
Speaker 3: back and said, I accomplish it and I help people,
49:38
Speaker 3: and I actually made a difference so huge.
49:42
Speaker 4: I'll do it for a little longer. I got what
49:43
Speaker 4: twenty more years or something to like.
49:44
Speaker 2: You make me cheer up again, damn it? Wow?
49:49
Speaker 3: But no, most people do tell me maybe you should
49:52
Speaker 3: back off or that, or maybe you shouldn't do that,
49:53
Speaker 3: or maybe you should work less. My grand bless her heart,
49:55
Speaker 3: who has now passed, always said you need to work
49:58
Speaker 3: a lot less, honey, you need to.
50:00
Speaker 2: Work a lot less. Again. The kind of the million
50:07
Speaker 2: dollar question is what do you need right now? How
50:13
Speaker 2: can our community rally to help you in this vision,
50:20
Speaker 2: to help get it started? What do you need and
50:25
Speaker 2: give us another kind of rough idea of when the
50:29
Speaker 2: public might be able to come in and check it out.
50:31
Speaker 3: It's going to be less than I bet a month
50:33
Speaker 3: at the most for the public. If not, And I
50:36
Speaker 3: say that, remember the fire martial assents do the final
50:38
Speaker 3: inspection and then he'll give us.
50:40
Speaker 4: The go ahead.
50:42
Speaker 3: But most of the work besides one room is pretty
50:45
Speaker 3: much done. The big thing is donations. If people are
50:49
Speaker 3: cleaning out their houses, you know, you have old kitchen dishes,
50:53
Speaker 3: you have old glasses that you're gonna toss, you know
50:57
Speaker 3: what I mean, really anything that's sashable. We'll take coffee pots,
51:03
Speaker 3: carriing machines. Those types of things are actually really fun
51:06
Speaker 3: to smash because they take longer than just.
51:10
Speaker 2: Again, my wife is is gathering things together right now.
51:15
Speaker 3: Yeah, So donations will help a lot because it's gonna
51:19
Speaker 3: Insurance for this.
51:20
Speaker 4: Is not cheap. Ah.
51:23
Speaker 3: There was only two insurance companies in the United States
51:25
Speaker 3: would ensure me for the rage room. Yeah, so that's
51:31
Speaker 3: that was one of the biggest challenges was getting the
51:33
Speaker 3: insurance and getting the right people who didn't want me
51:37
Speaker 3: to put like a whole sprinkler system in and do
51:39
Speaker 3: you know a bunch of just really insane Yeah, no,
51:41
Speaker 3: one's sleeping there, so you shouldn't have to do all that, right,
51:45
Speaker 3: but donations.
51:46
Speaker 4: Will be huge.
51:46
Speaker 3: That way we can build the program because you know,
51:50
Speaker 3: I've spent a lot of money at making it basically
51:54
Speaker 3: removing the building to make it the rage room, in
51:56
Speaker 3: the in the paint room. So donation will help, and
52:00
Speaker 3: then customers coming in obviously hopefully we have those and
52:04
Speaker 3: if we do, then take the money and keep building
52:07
Speaker 3: on it and building on it and building on it
52:08
Speaker 3: until until the empire's built.
52:10
Speaker 2: When when are you starting to collect donations? Oh?
52:15
Speaker 4: We already are you already are Yeah?
52:17
Speaker 3: I've spent my whole entire summer with my partner going
52:19
Speaker 3: around to every free pile in Vermont.
52:22
Speaker 2: Yeah.
52:23
Speaker 3: So it's funny because people were posting a picture and
52:26
Speaker 3: it said like, if you come here, you'll get shot
52:28
Speaker 3: in the face. Yeah, as me as air and the
52:30
Speaker 3: free pile, digging through.
52:31
Speaker 4: The free pile.
52:33
Speaker 3: We're out there, and people were driving by looking at it.
52:35
Speaker 3: Don't worry about it. We're looking for dishes. We're not
52:37
Speaker 3: taking any clothes or anything. We're just taking the dishes.
52:40
Speaker 2: But let's say that, let's say this, and I want
52:44
Speaker 2: to ask you you know how and where and when
52:47
Speaker 2: to make your your donation of things that are ready
52:51
Speaker 2: to be smashed. But before we do that, let's say
52:53
Speaker 2: please don't bring you know, your trash, Yeah.
52:57
Speaker 4: Because that actually happened over the weekend.
52:59
Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, this is not a place for you to
53:03
Speaker 2: bring something that's right, And if.
53:06
Speaker 3: You're in, if you have a question, just shoot a message, yeah, right,
53:09
Speaker 3: because then I can clarify whether or not it's gonna.
53:11
Speaker 2: How do people shoot a message?
53:14
Speaker 5: Right?
53:14
Speaker 3: Right on Facebook? People sent me several on there, so
53:17
Speaker 3: I can on the brush on the page yep. And
53:21
Speaker 3: right outside there's the ramp. If people just want to donate,
53:24
Speaker 3: leave items outside and in the front yep, right, yep.
53:29
Speaker 3: And then I just went down and brought them inside.
53:32
Speaker 6: If I wasn't there, Okay, what if all of a
53:36
Speaker 6: sudden you're like, okay, we don't really have any more
53:41
Speaker 6: room for donation that you're gonna let me know and
53:43
Speaker 6: I'll tell.
53:44
Speaker 4: Everybody, Yeah, but we're not. We have lots of room.
53:47
Speaker 2: You've got lots of space.
53:48
Speaker 3: Because if we have to, we will also utilize the
53:50
Speaker 3: garage at April Street. There's a big garage there. Okay,
53:53
Speaker 3: So and it's gonna smash out a rapid, do you
53:57
Speaker 3: know what I mean.
53:57
Speaker 2: It's gonna it's gonna smash and and then and then
54:00
Speaker 2: what happens after it's smashed.
54:02
Speaker 4: Gets picked up and thrown away.
54:04
Speaker 2: Yeah, so you han't it trucked off to somewhere.
54:08
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm probably just gonna have a dumpter. It's gonna
54:10
Speaker 3: be easy to just have a dumpster dropped off there
54:12
Speaker 3: and picked up.
54:13
Speaker 2: Yeah, what's your This is so unique. But what you're
54:20
Speaker 2: doing is remarkable. Thank you, and you're reaching out to
54:25
Speaker 2: me and saying, j D, I got something that's pretty
54:31
Speaker 2: far out. Yeah, that was awesome.
54:37
Speaker 4: To the first one I thought of.
54:39
Speaker 2: Thank you so much. I mean, and our community is
54:44
Speaker 2: thanking you as well. I mean, this is really something
54:47
Speaker 2: else of what you're doing here.
54:50
Speaker 3: And this is family fun too, you know. Yeah, this
54:52
Speaker 3: is to make a jobs program, but how many times
54:54
Speaker 3: I mean we have the bowling alley, right, sure we go,
54:56
Speaker 3: My family goes a bowling alley. It's to hopefully bring
55:01
Speaker 3: more family fun things that families can do together, starting
55:04
Speaker 3: with the rage room and splatter room, and hopefully build
55:06
Speaker 3: on that so we have more fun things and more jobs.
55:09
Speaker 2: Yeah. I am going to be watching your page carefully.
55:15
Speaker 2: I'm going to be paying attention. I'm going to be
55:18
Speaker 2: in touch with you more frequently. I want to get
55:22
Speaker 2: over and have coffee over on April Street.
55:24
Speaker 4: Coffee and a snack, please, I love both.
55:29
Speaker 2: I really want to do that soon. And I want
55:32
Speaker 2: to keep the keep the dialogue going in and the
55:35
Speaker 2: conversation here about what's happening and progress reports on all things,
55:40
Speaker 2: and I will be I'm telling you this is going
55:44
Speaker 2: to be your podcast for finding out about brush Bash,
55:48
Speaker 2: because I'm going to be posting up and sharing on
55:52
Speaker 2: the microphone details of progress of where we are, where
55:56
Speaker 2: we're at, and how we are. This is gonna be amazing.
56:01
Speaker 2: I'm so glad that this is going to be going
56:05
Speaker 2: on because my god, it's like during this winter, you know,
56:10
Speaker 2: come March, I've had enough of the winter. Yeah, I'd
56:17
Speaker 2: like to bring a snowman in there and just have
56:23
Speaker 2: at it. This is just really really incredible stuff. Thank
56:30
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Speaker 2: with Nicole Pierce, A lady who is uh, you are
57:04
Speaker 2: just you're doing some revolutionary stuff here in our community,
57:08
Speaker 2: and I'm so honored to have met you, to know
57:11
Speaker 2: you now, to call you a friend, and to be
57:15
Speaker 2: part of what you're doing, which is just remarkable. And
57:19
Speaker 2: congratulations to you, and thank you so much for coming
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Speaker 2: in here. We'll be in touch soon, all right.
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