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Helping Our Great American Heroes · The Financial Exchange Show

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  Speaker 1: Join us now is Isaiah Muskowitz.
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  Speaker 2: He's the DAV Media manager, host of the Great American
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  Speaker 2: Heroes podcast, joins us now to talk about his partnership
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  Speaker 2: with the Disabled American Veterans Department of Messages.
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  Speaker 1: Isaiah, thanks for coming on, appreciate it.
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  Speaker 3: Hey, Mike, thanks for having me. You guys are doing
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  Speaker 3: a great job today. Thank you for all your support
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  Speaker 3: for the DAV Department of mass.
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  Speaker 2: So I want to I want to talk first about
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  Speaker 2: the podcast, Great American Heroes Podcast.
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  Speaker 1: I've appeared on it and want to talk about.
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  Speaker 2: Just what it is, who you feature, who you talk to,
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  Speaker 2: and how people can listen to it.
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  Speaker 3: Sure listen. You know, years of working on the radio
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  Speaker 3: doing shows like yourself, you know when I started working
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  Speaker 3: with the DAV years and years ago. As time went on,
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  Speaker 3: you know, I was like, well, why don't we do
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  Speaker 3: a podcast where we can talk to veterans, we can
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  Speaker 3: talk to partners, we can talk to sponsors, friends and family.
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  Speaker 3: The whole point, just like with your radio show, right
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  Speaker 3: your job is to get the financial word out there
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  Speaker 3: to the world and make people understand the world of
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  Speaker 3: finance and business. Same exact thing with the podcast here.
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  Speaker 3: We want to do the very best we can to
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  Speaker 3: educate people about what the dav Department of Massachusetts does
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  Speaker 3: for veterans and for families. And it's been a nice run.
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  Speaker 3: We've got some amazing guests and people that come on.
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  Speaker 3: They tell tremendous stories. And you understand radio better than anybody.
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  Speaker 3: You're a host. It's all about storytelling.
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  Speaker 2: Sure, any of those particular storytelling experiences stick with you.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I'm sure there's been a lot of great ones,
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  Speaker 2: but anything you'd care to share.
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  Speaker 3: Sure, there are so many, you know, I've you know,
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  Speaker 3: and Paul's gonna hate me on this because he hates
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  Speaker 3: being brought to the forefront. But Paul Wahlberg is such
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  Speaker 3: a great supporter of the dav Department of Massachusetts. He's
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  Speaker 3: so humble, never wants to recognition, but he just he's
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  Speaker 3: a humble man who just likes to get on and
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  Speaker 3: do very good things for the veterans. And when you
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  Speaker 3: hear people like that and you look at the success
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  Speaker 3: they have, and they're just they're they're rooted back to
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  Speaker 3: the simple fact that we should be doing this stuff
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  Speaker 3: for our veterans, Okay, And that's he always tells great stories.
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  Speaker 3: There have been so many veterans on the Great American
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  Speaker 3: Heroes podcast that you know, I didn't serve this country.
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  Speaker 3: But I'll tell you what listening to the stories and
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  Speaker 3: being able to share the stories of what they went
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  Speaker 3: through in combat, what they've gone through when they come home,
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  Speaker 3: it's and what the dav Massachusetts does to help those
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  Speaker 3: folks that'll stick with you. Those those stories stick with you.
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  Speaker 3: So you can find all the episodes that Mike's talking
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  Speaker 3: about a dav M a dot org, da v M
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  Speaker 3: a dot org and you can just drop down the
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  Speaker 3: podcast page and they're all right there.
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  Speaker 2: So Isaiah talked to us a little bit about your
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  Speaker 2: history with the DAV of Massachusetts. I know it goes
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  Speaker 2: back several years. You've been doing the podcast for years,
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  Speaker 2: but how did you get started with the organization and
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  Speaker 2: what about it is meaningful to you.
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  Speaker 3: After about twenty five years of working in radio, I
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  Speaker 3: started my own marketing firm and I was doing a
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  Speaker 3: lot of business with the Veterans Administration in New England,
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  Speaker 3: so via New England Healthcare, I was helping them with
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  Speaker 3: radio and television and sports marketing so we could get
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  Speaker 3: the word out there to veterans and families about the
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  Speaker 3: health benefits that veterans have available to them. And that's
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  Speaker 3: a very important message that moved over into the DAV.
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  Speaker 3: One of my friends who worked at the VA said, Isaiah,
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  Speaker 3: I want you to meet Dan stack Over at the
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  Speaker 3: DAV Department of Masks. They're trying to reach a younger audience,
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  Speaker 3: they're trying to reach more veterans. And I sat with
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  Speaker 3: Dan and said, look, this is what I do for
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  Speaker 3: the VA, and the two go hand in hand because
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  Speaker 3: if a veteran's looking for their benefits, they have to
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  Speaker 3: go and deal with the VA. And that's not an
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  Speaker 3: easy ask. It's a tough thing to it's tough wall
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  Speaker 3: to climb over. But that's what the DAV Massachusetts does.
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  Speaker 3: They help veterans. They sit down, they help you with
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  Speaker 3: your paperwork, they help you with everything you may need,
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  Speaker 3: whether it's a ride to a doctor's appointment, whether it's housing.
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  Speaker 3: You know. So that's where it all started when I
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  Speaker 3: sat with them. That might have been about seven years ago, Mike,
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  Speaker 3: and I'll tell you what it's It's grown and it's
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  Speaker 3: going to continue to grow. And let me just say
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  Speaker 3: it's growing because of people like you. It's growing because
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  Speaker 3: of the Financial Exchange Radio Network, and congratulations on the
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  Speaker 3: XM Channel one thirty two that just takes this show
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  Speaker 3: and puts it global as it should be. You guys
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  Speaker 3: do great work, and you've been such a huge supporter
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  Speaker 3: of ours, and I really really appreciate that, so I
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  Speaker 3: wanted to highlight you guys before we kept going on.
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  Speaker 2: Isaiah, thank you very much. I mean, look, we all
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  Speaker 2: have these personal stories about our experience with the DAV
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  Speaker 2: and maybe you can share a bit of yours. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: for me, I continue to think about the complexity of
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  Speaker 2: all the VA benefits, mainly because you know, I work
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  Speaker 2: as a financial advisor on my day job and I
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  Speaker 2: have seen people struggle with this exact challenge before. What
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  Speaker 2: else sticks out to you, just in terms of the
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  Speaker 2: work the DAV of Massachusetts is doing these days.
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  Speaker 3: People have to understand and people don't People know what
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  Speaker 3: they know, and people don't see all the pieces to
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  Speaker 3: every puzzle they're looking at. Right, the DAV Massachusetts does
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  Speaker 3: everything for veterans. So think about a veteran who's gone
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  Speaker 3: to war is coming home from war. Think about what
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  Speaker 3: that man or woman is going to need the reacclimation
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  Speaker 3: into life. Let's be serious. How we get back to
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  Speaker 3: going from what they saw where they sought to coming
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  Speaker 3: back here to the States and getting a job, having housing,
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  Speaker 3: making sure you're okay mentally and physically. There are so
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  Speaker 3: many aspects. What health benefs do you have? You know,
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  Speaker 3: the work that the dav Massachusetts does is just so
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  Speaker 3: it's so incredible for the veteran and it's so incredible
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  Speaker 3: for the veteran family. Again, I didn't serve this country,
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  Speaker 3: but as a civilian, it's the least I can do
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  Speaker 3: to try to help, you know, with the media side
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  Speaker 3: of things. Again, we've all been in media. I've been
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  Speaker 3: in media for a long time. I'll do everything I
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  Speaker 3: can do to try to help spread spread that word.
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  Speaker 3: And every day and every year we do this. Every
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  Speaker 3: day I do this, I see different things and it
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  Speaker 3: just it makes me really proud to be involved. It's
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  Speaker 3: the least I can do as a civilian.
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  Speaker 2: Isaiah Moskowitz, he is the media manager for the DAV
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  Speaker 2: of Massachusetts, host of the Great American Heroes podcast, and
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  Speaker 2: joins today talk about his work and support for the
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  Speaker 2: disabled American veterans of Massachusetts. Isaiah, thanks for coming on.
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  Speaker 1: Appreciate it, Mike, we appreciate it.
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  Speaker 3: We'll see you tomorrow.
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  Speaker 2: Once again, folks, Today we are supporting the WRKO Radiothon
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  Speaker 2: to benefit the disabled American Veterans Department of Massachusetts. To donate,
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