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The Help Squad - Cinco de Mayo Fundraiser · Brian Thomas

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Speaker 1: Ato five if you five KRCD talk station.
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Speaker 2: Time to smile.
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Speaker 1: Brian Thomas, happy to look up and see from the
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Speaker 1: Help Squad, which you can find online, The Help Squad
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Speaker 1: sincey withthwy dot com. Brian Ebold and fortunately Brian bought
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Speaker 1: his sister with him. Jamie Ward is with him as well,
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Speaker 1: and apparently she's the brains behind the whole operation. Brian, Jamie,
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Speaker 1: welcome in studio. It's great to have you both on.
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Speaker 1: You can be too far away, but you can't be
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Speaker 1: too close to that microphone to slide on. Move that
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Speaker 1: out a little bit more, Jamie. There we go now,
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Speaker 1: Brian Ibold or Jamie whoever wants to take the floor
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Speaker 1: on reminding my listeners about the awesomeness that is the
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Speaker 1: Help Squad sincey dot com and the work that you
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Speaker 1: do throughout the year with the assistance of people in
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Speaker 1: the listening audience. Ryan, my listeners, what's going on with
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Speaker 1: the help Squad?
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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, well, thank you for the introduction.
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Speaker 3: So the Help Squad, just start off is a Christian
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Speaker 3: based five oh one c three nonprofit organization and we
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Speaker 3: provide temporary financial assistance to struggling families and we focus
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Speaker 3: on single moms and dance on the west side of town.
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Speaker 2: So that's what the Help Squad is.
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Speaker 1: All right, real quick here, Yes, we're gonna just get
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Speaker 1: this out and get it out and get it out
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Speaker 1: in the open. Many non for profit organizations have very
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Speaker 1: well well paid CEOs and board members and Brian Ibold,
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Speaker 1: how much money you getting out of this whole thing?
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Speaker 2: Zero?
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Speaker 1: There you go.
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Speaker 2: That's what everybody wants to know.
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Speaker 1: Why because it supports your Christian mission and your Christian
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Speaker 1: obligation to help your fellow man. Am I right?
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Speaker 2: Amen? There you go. Good Amen for you, and.
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Speaker 1: You have some great stories to tell. And of course
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Speaker 1: it's contributions from folks out there listening, small, medium, large,
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Speaker 1: and if you're a corporation, you're looking for a great
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Speaker 1: charity of support and you have some connection with the
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Speaker 1: west Side and the problems that even the west side has.
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Speaker 1: The Help Squad is the place to go. Every little
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Speaker 1: bit counts and they take that money and remind my
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Speaker 1: listeners about the vetting process, and it just illustrated. First off,
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Speaker 1: the types of projects are the types of services you provide,
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Speaker 1: and then your vetting process because that's so critically important.
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Speaker 1: We don't make sure our money is being spent properly.
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Speaker 2: Yeah. Sure.
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Speaker 3: So a lot of nonprofits provide the very basics the food, clothing,
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Speaker 3: shelter and whatnot, as we do as well. However, we
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Speaker 3: take it to another degree where we will pay your
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Speaker 3: utility shut off, so we'll prevent your utilities from being
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Speaker 3: shut off or we'll turn them back on. We do
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Speaker 3: car repairs, that is a very big thing. We've gifted
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Speaker 3: about fifteen cars. We've given fifteen cars away to people
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Speaker 3: in desperate need of transportation.
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Speaker 2: We do. One of the biggest things right now is rent.
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Speaker 3: Rent is skyrocketing words, and so what we'll do we'll
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Speaker 3: be able to pay someone's pass rent to avoid them
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Speaker 3: being evicted and being another statistic in Hamilton County of
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Speaker 3: being homeless. So we do a lot more than just
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Speaker 3: the standard help. We give a lot more than that.
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Speaker 1: Well, and I love that you are coordinating automobile repair
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Speaker 1: shops to be charitable as well and donate some of
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Speaker 1: the repair services because the importance of an automobile can
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Speaker 1: be understated. People need to use it to go to work,
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Speaker 1: and if they can't go to work, they're gonna end
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Speaker 1: up in Section eight housing or on welfare benefits and
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Speaker 1: God knows we don't need more of.
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Speaker 3: That, right, Yeah, that's exactly what I appreciate you bringing
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Speaker 3: that up. So we started what's called the Drive program.
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Speaker 3: So we've been working with Strategies then Homelessness, which is
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Speaker 3: the largest nonprofit organization in Hamlin County four to combat homelessness,
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Speaker 3: and we're working with them and discovered that the majority
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Speaker 3: of the working poor fall into homelessness due to a
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Speaker 3: car repair that they cannot afford. So the answer is,
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Speaker 3: maybe if we've just fixed their cars prior to them
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Speaker 3: falling into homelessness, that would lower the homelesses rate, get
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Speaker 3: out ahead of it. Yes, right, Yeah, what an amazing concept.
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Speaker 3: So that's what we've been doing. So we started a
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Speaker 3: Drive program where we've been incorporating service stations, gas stations,
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Speaker 3: auto repair shops, mechanics, tow truck companies to come aboard
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Speaker 3: with us and donate X amount of dollars and we
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Speaker 3: will fix people's ours for free and prevent them from
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Speaker 3: being homeless. So you can fix a car and prevent
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Speaker 3: a family from being homeless. So we have right now
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Speaker 3: we have four service stations on board with us. We
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Speaker 3: have Duber's Automotive in dal High.
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Speaker 1: Great folks there.
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Speaker 3: Mark Kuber is a great dude. Absolutely, We've got broken
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Speaker 3: oil on Glen Way. With Mike Brogan. I actually worked
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Speaker 3: with him. He's a retired policeman as well.
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Speaker 2: Good. He's a really good dude.
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Speaker 3: Andrew Schneider at over at Bear Car Care on Tribute Road.
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Speaker 2: And finally Matt I.
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Speaker 1: Remember that sign I always it's very coolies or something
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Speaker 1: like that.
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Speaker 2: I loved it. Yeah, he's a really good guy.
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Speaker 3: And then Matt Brogan over at Brogan Fowles on Bridgetown Road.
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Speaker 3: Just such a great guy. All these guys really want
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Speaker 3: to help and what we need more. The more people
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Speaker 3: we have on board, the more people we can help,
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Speaker 3: the more people we can prevent from being homeless.
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Speaker 1: It's just that simple, and just sign up to do it.
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Speaker 1: Get in touch with Brian Eyeball, get in touch with
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Speaker 1: Jamie Ward.
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Speaker 2: Here a tax deductible, broad.
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Speaker 1: Tax deductible on top of it, Yes, sir, someone out
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Speaker 1: there gets to fulfill their Christian mission and get a
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Speaker 1: tax deduction at the same time.
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Speaker 2: Perfect.
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Speaker 1: Which is the help Squad Sincy dot com. People can
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Speaker 1: out reach out to you through the website.
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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, definitely.
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Speaker 1: Okay, So there's got to be another audible pair shop
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Speaker 1: out there that can help out with that. Give me
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Speaker 1: a great illustration of something that you've done recently with
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Speaker 1: the Help Squad contributions before we get to the event
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Speaker 1: that's coming up, and we will get to that. You
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Speaker 1: got a really fun event going on to help do
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Speaker 1: some fundraising, but a more recent illustration of what your
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Speaker 1: small measure of assistance does in terms of broad benefit.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean we see it on a daily basis
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Speaker 3: is as far as helping somebody. It's a very emotional
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Speaker 3: situation where you are able to help somebody that didn't
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Speaker 3: have the help before and now you come through and
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Speaker 3: everybody gets a little little emotional allergy outbreak. Yes, you know, hey,
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Speaker 3: look I got to wrap the keep. I can't be
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Speaker 3: crying all the time, but it is. It is definitely emotional.
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Speaker 3: So I would think the one I can bring up,
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Speaker 3: and I have mentioned before not too long ago, we
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Speaker 3: had a lady who was a single mother working very
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Speaker 3: very hard. She had two children, working two jobs, and
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Speaker 3: she had her mother who was ill in a hospital
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Speaker 3: bed in their living room under hospice care, and she
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Speaker 3: was she got behind on the rent because of her
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Speaker 3: mother's issues and they were going to evict her, and
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Speaker 3: she had tried sixteen. We were the sixteenth agency that
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Speaker 3: she had contacted to help with her rent. So the
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Speaker 3: prior fifteen could not help her. Never return a call,
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Speaker 3: didn't return an email, or when they did talk to her,
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Speaker 3: they were very rude. They put her on a waiting list.
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Speaker 3: They blew her off, and a lot of agencies are
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Speaker 3: like that.
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Speaker 2: We aren't. I can tell you that right now. We aren't.
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Speaker 1: What the clock is ticking exactly. She's going through all
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Speaker 1: sack different organizations. Yes, so she was going to be
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Speaker 1: the serve to her viction papers on Friday. We found
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Speaker 1: out about this Wednesday morning, and the next day Thursday,
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Speaker 1: the day before her viction, we paid her rent in full.
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Speaker 2: That is that's absolutely amazingnice and easy.
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Speaker 1: And you know, I guess the other question I have
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Speaker 1: to answer their Brian and I Bold and of course Jamie,
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Speaker 1: how much federal government money do you get?
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Speaker 3: We get as much federal money as the money we make.
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Speaker 2: Zero.
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Speaker 3: Now, it's not like we haven't tried. I mean, you know,
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Speaker 3: we will fill out grants, we just don't get them.
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Speaker 3: I don't know why they give them to all these
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Speaker 3: bigger organizations.
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Speaker 1: Though me I'm just speaking to this argument. It's got
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Speaker 1: to be some federal taxpayer funded program. And see, that's
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Speaker 1: where the breakdown occurs. As we regularly learn every single day.
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Speaker 1: There's no vetting, there's no follow up, there's no insurance
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Speaker 1: to make sure that whatever taxpayer dollars are thrown in
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Speaker 1: something is actually being accomplished. You're on the front line,
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Speaker 1: you're seeing that it gets taken care of. You have
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Speaker 1: finite resources, so you must allocate them conservatively, right, Because
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Speaker 1: let me guess that woman you helped, there are probably fifteen,
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Speaker 1: twenty thirty forty people standing around the corner beat next
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Speaker 1: in line that also needs to serve.
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Speaker 2: So how do you? How do you?
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Speaker 1: And the other component of this is okay, Brian Ibel,
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Speaker 1: it was a wonderful gesture that you and the help
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Speaker 1: squad did helping her that time. What about next month?
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Speaker 3: Yeah, Well, so we do vet our clients, and it
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Speaker 3: doesn't really do us any good. If you can't afford
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Speaker 3: your rent this month and you have no plan or
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Speaker 3: no occupation or no compensation coming in, and you're not
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Speaker 3: going to be able to pay your rent next month.
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Speaker 2: We don't pay it. We vet the people.
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Speaker 3: This is just some sort of temporary financial crisis that
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Speaker 3: has occurred, and we fill the bill. We just we
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Speaker 3: pay whatever needs to be paid to keep you making
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Speaker 3: ends meet. It's just that simple.
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Speaker 2: So this doesn't go on.
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Speaker 3: Perple, absolutely again the value of you doing it right.
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Speaker 3: As a matter of fact, ninety percent of the people
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Speaker 3: we help do not come back every now and then
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Speaker 3: you might get somebody that says, hey, I just need
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Speaker 3: this or one more time or something, but ninety percent don't.
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Speaker 3: We fix it and they move on and they continue
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Speaker 3: to make ends meet.
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Speaker 1: Prooffably successful charity squad SINCEY with a Y, the help
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Speaker 1: Squad sincy dot com, help them, help us collectively, and
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Speaker 1: you're doing God's work.
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Speaker 2: I guess you know.
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Speaker 1: We're gonna actually get Jamie to talk when we come
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Speaker 1: back from the break. She's gonna tell us all about
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Speaker 1: the Sinko to Myle Fundraiser. What an awesome venue she
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Speaker 1: is responsible for selecting. So we'll get you involved without
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Speaker 1: the Sinko to Myle Fundraiser. Don't go away to Talk Station.
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Speaker 2: Eight nineteen.
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Speaker 1: I think you about KRCD Talk Station Brian Thomas with
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Speaker 1: in Studio Brian Ibel from the Help Squad. The help
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Speaker 1: Squad sincy dot com helping folks on life's margins, deal
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Speaker 1: with them. Usually just sort of interim problem they're having financially,
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Speaker 1: get him over that little hump, get the car fixed,
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Speaker 1: and people go on with their lives and don't end
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Speaker 1: up on social welfare. Is this a beautiful thing. It's
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Speaker 1: a Christian focused mission to help these folks out, Brian Eboldt.
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Speaker 1: And of course Jamie Ward in studiy. You wouldn't know
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Speaker 1: that because she's been kind of quiet. But Jamie, we're
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Speaker 1: gonna let you provide the details on the fundraiser again,
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Speaker 1: my listeners, to the extent you can help out at
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Speaker 1: all the HEELP squadsincy dot com to make a contribution.
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Speaker 1: And thank you to all the people who have done
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Speaker 1: that in the past. I know you've gotten some good results.
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Speaker 1: And I will give a plug. I listened competing station.
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Speaker 1: It is but a sister station literally right next door.
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Speaker 1: You're moving from here to WLW to talk about the
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Speaker 1: same thing, so a broader reach you will have and
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Speaker 1: I find that great. But pivoting back over, Jamie, tell
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Speaker 1: us about the fundraiser.
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Speaker 2: Where, when?
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Speaker 1: What?
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Speaker 2: Why?
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Speaker 1: Yes?
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Speaker 4: Thank you for having us too. We are having an
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Speaker 4: incredible event called Cinco Denon. It's the Neon, Yes, it's
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Speaker 4: this Tuesday, which is also you know Mayfa Sinco de Mayo.
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Speaker 4: We're having it at the American SI Museum, which is
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Speaker 4: such a unique and fun vending. If you haven't been,
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Speaker 4: this is the perfect chance to check it out because
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Speaker 4: guests will have full access to explore the museum during
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Speaker 4: the events. Your ticket's going to include taco bar, desserts, coffee.
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Speaker 4: There will be a cash bar available. We'll have it,
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Speaker 4: DJs of amazing raffle baskets, and really exciting silent auction.
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Speaker 4: A couple of the standout auction items will include a
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Speaker 4: weekend getaway and Tennessee. And we also have a custom
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Speaker 4: ten by ten deck that's valued at seven thousand dollars.
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Speaker 1: Oh no kidding, Yeah, like a deck off the back
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Speaker 1: of your house kind of deck.
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Speaker 2: Cool.
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Speaker 4: Yes, yes, it was generously donated by Herbert Lumber Barefoot
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Speaker 4: Custom Decks and our friend Carl the carpenter.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, he's a good dude.
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Speaker 1: You have a panel van with Carl car Yes, yes, he.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, he does, and he's got all this together between
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Speaker 3: Hubert Lumber, Barefoot, Custom Decks, and Carl the Carpenter.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: Oh that's we're on fire and cheers all you guys
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Speaker 1: get together doing that. That's see, that's the kind of
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Speaker 1: community support you need. So that's just a couple of
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Speaker 1: items you're gonna have available.
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Speaker 4: Oh yeah, we there's dozens of baskets. We have a
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Speaker 4: really fun blink for the ring Raffle featuring a twenty
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Speaker 4: two hundred dollars three diamond pendant cliss, So folks can
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Speaker 4: buy a bling ring that's flashing around and there's only
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Speaker 4: one hundred chances to win it. That was donated by
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Speaker 4: a Dracy Fine Jewelry and tickets are still available and
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Speaker 4: you can grab yours at the help Squad since he
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Speaker 4: dot com.
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Speaker 1: Oh fantastic the help Squad, since you dot com. All
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Speaker 1: the details about the event are there as well. Yes, yes, okay,
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Speaker 1: So I I guess I have to ask, is it
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Speaker 1: it is coming up on Tuesday? Is it too late
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Speaker 1: for someone to say, oh, I can donate. I mean
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Speaker 1: I've got something I want it. Yeah, it's a little
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Speaker 1: too late. I missed in facial. So your business, if
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Speaker 1: you've got stuff and things you sell, put a basket together,
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Speaker 1: give it to the help squad. Let them, you know,
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Speaker 1: raffle it off with the silent auction and and and
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Speaker 1: generate some cash or the help squad. That's true, and
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Speaker 1: there are trades people out there, imagine electricians and plumbers.
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Speaker 1: I mean you have a contingent of helpers that do
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Speaker 1: things like that, because I can see a plumbing job
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Speaker 1: and that will be awfully expensive for someone like a car.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, certainly, Yeah, we do.
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Speaker 3: We have people on our list that have certain skill
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Speaker 3: sets and when we have a client that needs that
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Speaker 3: type of assistance, yes, certainly we reach out.
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Speaker 1: So all volunteers, and I say that out loud because
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Speaker 1: I know someone out there is going, Gee, that sounds
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Speaker 1: like something I can help out with. It's not a
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Speaker 1: full time job, but if you have some you know,
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Speaker 1: free time, you want to donate your electrician expertise or
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Speaker 1: plumbing expertise, maybe some carpatory work, help those in need
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Speaker 1: and help help squad fulfill its mission and maybe it'll
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Speaker 1: be your personal mission as well. Now have you been
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Speaker 1: a cue? This is said Sinco de Neon. Because it's
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Speaker 1: going to be at the Sign Museum. Isn't it a
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Speaker 1: cultural appropriation? Aren't you stealing someone else's culture with that?
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Speaker 1: I'm kidding, of course, making fun of those who would
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Speaker 1: accuse you of cultural appropriation. So what else we need
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Speaker 1: to get accomplished here, folks before you leave my studio
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Speaker 1: and head next door. A plea hope?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, rare? Oh no, definitely.
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Speaker 3: I mean, well, here's what we're we we'd like to
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Speaker 3: see some more tickets be sold. The venue holds three hundred,
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Speaker 3: we're around two hundred something like that. Okay, So between
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Speaker 3: your audience, who has come through for us many times
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Speaker 3: in the past. So that's one of the reasons we
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Speaker 3: love being on here because you're having your audience is
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Speaker 3: good people. Good Yeah, definitely great people. They've come through
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Speaker 3: and they've they've helped us in the past. So that's
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Speaker 3: we're just shouting out, maybe we can get a few
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Speaker 3: more tickets sold today well, or maybe.
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Speaker 1: Just get a contribution and in order to spur people
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Speaker 1: to action and make a contribution. I just opened my
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Speaker 1: wallet and what A got for today? Sorry, it's not
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Speaker 1: more fifty dollars contribution to you guys, And I know
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Speaker 1: that money in cash is going to land in somebody
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Speaker 1: else's lap who is in need of it yes day.
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Speaker 2: Well, Brian, you're you're a great dude.
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Speaker 3: You've always helped us with this And just to let
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Speaker 3: you know and your listeners as well, one hundred percent
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Speaker 3: and not a lot of agencies can say this, one
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Speaker 3: hundred percent of your donation goes directly to help people.
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Speaker 3: Like I said, we don't get paid. One hundred percent
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Speaker 3: goes to help those in need.
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Speaker 1: And you know that's exactly why I ask you what
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Speaker 1: your salary was, mister nonprofit corporation, because there are big, big,
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Speaker 1: big allegedly, well, I'm not going to be disrespectful to them.
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Speaker 1: I know they claim to do well, but they have
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Speaker 1: such huge bureaucracies within their charitable mission that you know,
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Speaker 1: thirty cents, forty cents, fifty cents on the dollar goes
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Speaker 1: to you know, paying salaries and buy paper and copy
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Speaker 1: supplies and things like that. Not with the hell of squad.
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Speaker 1: And it's one of the reasons I love you. I
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Speaker 1: always like to give a shout out to Matthew twenty
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Speaker 1: five for doing the same.
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Speaker 3: Oh, they're great, they are, They're great, there's no doubt. Yeah,
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Speaker 3: I mean we have a lot of networking. We in
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Speaker 3: the nonprofit world. You have to play well with each other,
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Speaker 3: you know, and most of us do, but there are
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Speaker 3: some that don't. And I've been biting my lip. I
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Speaker 3: would love to tell you who, but I can't. But yeah,
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Speaker 3: So everything is volunteer and we don't get paid, and
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Speaker 3: we're okay with that because see, Christ came to serve,
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Speaker 3: not to be served, and that is what we're doing.
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Speaker 3: Just be in the hands of feet of Jesus Christ.
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Speaker 2: My man.
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Speaker 1: I love it, man, And you know I didn't say
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Speaker 1: it out loud the United Ways who I was thinking of.
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Speaker 2: Anyway, you guys have a great day.
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Speaker 1: I'll encourage my listeners to make a donation, make contribution
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Speaker 1: or volunteer to help out thehelp squadsinsey dot com. And
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Speaker 1: definitely go there and buy a ticket for the Cinco
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Speaker 1: d Neon event. Even if you don't go, you buy
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Speaker 1: a ticket, you're helping out the cause. I wish you
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Speaker 1: all the best. I want to report on the fundraising effort.
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Speaker 2: To my friends.
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Speaker 1: Oh definitely, thanks you and I'll see you again some
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Speaker 1: other day down the road here in studio helping you
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Speaker 1: out again.