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What does real support and real leadership look like? It's right here. · Aired Out

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  Speaker 1: Pett, the post, the posting, the pot to the depot,
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  Speaker 1: the the thet they the the the post.
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  Speaker 2: Well, there's nothing better than Noah. And I've got a
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  Speaker 2: hot cup of coffee and it's Sweethearts in Heroes Day
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  Speaker 2: Today here at the Airdown podcast. Despite the fact that
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  Speaker 2: at one point my truck was telling me that it
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  Speaker 2: was negative nine, drive it in this morning. It is
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  Speaker 2: cold out there. It is going to remain cold here.
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  Speaker 2: As we were saying last week, here's the deal. National
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  Speaker 2: Weather Service saying mostly cloudy skies today. Can it be
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  Speaker 2: only topping out around eighteen tonight? We're cloudy in one
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  Speaker 2: tomorrow carbon copy of today, mostly cloudy in eighteen and
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  Speaker 2: Friday cloudy and seventeen fourteen on Saturday, fifteen on Sunday.
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  Speaker 2: Not to say that we're not going to see any sunshine,
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  Speaker 2: because we've got an abundance of sunshine this morning, which
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  Speaker 2: is really nice. Even though it's negative nine. We're negative
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  Speaker 2: four or negative one or wherever you are. Just close
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  Speaker 2: your eyes, gaze up at that sunshine and just take
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  Speaker 2: Flying the Wall Productions bringing you the Aired Out Podcast tonight.
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  Speaker 2: Alison Mann and Colin McCaffrey. You're going to be at
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  Speaker 2: Farmers Night, of course, under the Golden Home at the
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  Speaker 2: House and enjoy the great music of Alison Mann and
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  Speaker 2: Colin McCaffrey, a little bit of folk, a little bit
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  Speaker 2: of jazz. Get out of the cold, come indoors and
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  Speaker 2: enjoy this. This has been going on at the State
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  Speaker 2: House for over one hundred years. Absolutely amazing. I'm gonna
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  Speaker 2: see if I can connect in with Deb Phillips from
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  Speaker 2: the World Newspaper, which has been promoting Farmers Night quite
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  Speaker 2: heavily as a matter of fact, and they've got the
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  Speaker 2: full schedule printed. I know that Bob Wagner and Friends
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  Speaker 2: was the kickoff on the twenty first, but this is
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  Speaker 2: a big deal and we invite you to come out.
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  Speaker 2: Farmers Night. It's in the world, goes all the way
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  Speaker 2: until April eighth, and I think we got Deb with us.
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  Speaker 2: Deep Good morning, Good morning, JD. How are we doing today,
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  Speaker 2: Deb Phillips, we.
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  Speaker 3: Are We're doing good, doing good. Papers are here, we
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  Speaker 3: got here early. Everybody's out distributing already.
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  Speaker 2: I hope they're bundled up. It's chili, yeah, it is.
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  Speaker 2: What can we expect in today's world, This week's world,
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  Speaker 2: this week's world.
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  Speaker 3: Well, with Valentine's Day just around the corner, we hope
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  Speaker 3: people will start planning now. We have a full page
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  Speaker 3: of Valentine's gift ideas this week. We also have a
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  Speaker 3: special section on a Healthy New Year and with lots
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  Speaker 3: of articles and stuff about staying healthy this year. And
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  Speaker 3: we have the pet care corner, and we have a
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  Speaker 3: page on the Waterbury Winterfest.
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  Speaker 2: I saw that.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, so that's that's going to be fun. Yeah, that's
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  Speaker 3: coming up. So we have the whole schedule in there.
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  Speaker 2: There you go. Yeah, I saw the whole schedule. And
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  Speaker 2: maybe I'm thinking of the Montpellier Winterfest that you had
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  Speaker 2: the whole schedule printed on the back cover of last
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  Speaker 2: last week's paper, right, Nope, that was nope.
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  Speaker 3: I think that was somebody else that had that one.
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  Speaker 3: That was the bridge.
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  Speaker 4: I believe they had that.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, all right, but we we have a headliner talking
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  Speaker 3: about reminding people about it coming up.
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  Speaker 2: And stop then.
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  Speaker 3: So we have like the Waterbury Winterfest, which starts Wednesday,
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  Speaker 3: January twenty eighth.
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  Speaker 4: That's today wow, so yep.
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  Speaker 3: And that one runs through through Sunday.
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  Speaker 2: There's there's so much that's going on outdoors that I mean,
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  Speaker 2: people love it. It got the bonfires, the hot coco,
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  Speaker 2: the sledding, there's horse drawn sleigh rides, there's ice sculptures everywhere.
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  Speaker 2: This it just you gotta listen. If you don't embrace it,
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  Speaker 2: that's fine, but don't complain when you're still in the
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  Speaker 2: jammie sitting on the couch all winter.
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  Speaker 3: Really no, it should be a good weekend to get
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  Speaker 3: out and do all those fun things.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely good stuff. Deb, thank you so much for everything,
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  Speaker 2: for presenting the aired out podcast and for doing what
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  Speaker 2: you and Gary and the rest of the team do
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  Speaker 2: so so hard every week. You guys work your tails
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  Speaker 2: off and we appreciate you well.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you, JD. We appreciate you too.
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  Speaker 2: Don't forget vt dashworld dot com. Thank you so much. Deb,
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  Speaker 2: stay warm today you too. All right, that's the online
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  Speaker 2: out Wednesday. Yes, a quick shout out to Jasper and Highgate,
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  Speaker 2: one of our new followers here on the aired out podcast.
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  Speaker 2: A very good morning to you. It is Wednesday, January
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  Speaker 2: twenty eighth, Sweethearts Heroes Day. Dwayne Cody is not with
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  Speaker 2: me in the studio, although I hope someday I'm gonna
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  Speaker 2: get a chance to meet him and have him here
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  Speaker 2: in the studio. But he is the president of the
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  Speaker 2: North Country Chevy Dealers and he is with us right now.
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  Speaker 2: Why is Dwayne Cody with us on Sweethearts and Heroes Day?
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  Speaker 2: You know what, Dween, I'm gonna let you answer that question.
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  Speaker 4: Good morning, j d Hawya. Thanks for having me.
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  Speaker 2: Doing very well man. It is an absolute pleasure to
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  Speaker 2: have you here. I've heard so much about you. What's
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  Speaker 2: up with you guys and Sweethearts and Heroes.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, this is an initiative that the our Chevy Dealers group,
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  Speaker 4: through a local marketing association which ranges from New Hampshire,
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  Speaker 4: Vermont and New York, heard about Tom and Rick's organization
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  Speaker 4: Sweethearts and Heroes back in twenty eighteen, nineteen somewhere in there,
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  Speaker 4: and that's kind of when they got their start and
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  Speaker 4: they had pitched us that they would like us to
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  Speaker 4: partner with them. I think everybody was blown away. Sometimes
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  Speaker 4: you really don't know what's going on out there in
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  Speaker 4: the educational world. But they've expanded that obviously with the
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  Speaker 4: electricians they're presenting to and other facets of workers that
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  Speaker 4: are going through some mental health issues. But you know,
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  Speaker 4: we focus on the schools and it's been an amazing
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  Speaker 4: partnership and I really appreciate, you know what Tom Rick
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  Speaker 4: and the whole team at Sweethearts and Heroes does, as
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  Speaker 4: well as my dealer body.
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  Speaker 2: You know, it is really refreshing to see that there
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  Speaker 2: is a huge company, a bunch of big companies, but
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  Speaker 2: the umbrella you're driving the bus of that is well
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  Speaker 2: embracing Sweethearts and Heroes. I mean, that's that is so huge.
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  Speaker 2: That's a big deal.
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  Speaker 4: Man. Yeah, we're we're again. We're very excited to have
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  Speaker 4: this relationship that's truly expanded to another another realm. But
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  Speaker 4: it's you know, it's collective. We make decisions collectively, things
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  Speaker 4: are brought to the table. There's some things that we
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  Speaker 4: just we're just we can't do. But this this is
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  Speaker 4: one that's stuck for quite some time, and even dealers
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  Speaker 4: are doing more in their community, and they're hiring sweethearts
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  Speaker 4: and heroes, not just using the funding that comes from
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  Speaker 4: you know, the Chevy group. You know, we could we
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  Speaker 4: could put our our advertising dollars towards TV ads, radio ads,
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  Speaker 4: which is which is all good, and and advertise a
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  Speaker 4: payment on a particular vehicle. But we're using our advertised
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  Speaker 4: advertising dollars both ways by getting our messaging out there
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  Speaker 4: as a group and as individual stores and making a
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  Speaker 4: difference in schools with these students and teachers and administrators
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  Speaker 4: that are just going through so so much right now,
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  Speaker 4: so much mental situations. I mean, I go to every
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  Speaker 4: single presentation that Tom and RiPP do because I'm looking
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  Speaker 4: to see what that impact of our investment is doing
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  Speaker 4: on that particular school that we've I've sponsored.
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  Speaker 2: And nobody is immune to hardship. No one is immune
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  Speaker 2: to stress, whether whether you're a teacher, whether you are
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  Speaker 2: a student, and frankly, regardless of what grade you're in
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  Speaker 2: in school. There is some heavy and We've talked about
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  Speaker 2: we talk about this all the time. Tom and I've
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  Speaker 2: had big conversations about this. There's some really heavy, heavy
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  Speaker 2: stuff that pretty much fair to say, almost everybody, if
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  Speaker 2: not literally everyone that is walking through the doors of
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  Speaker 2: their school every single morning. There's a lot of weight
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  Speaker 2: that that everyone's carrying right now, and it's all it's
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  Speaker 2: all different, it's all different kind of weight, but it's
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  Speaker 2: wait nonetheless, man.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah it is. You know. The I think the the
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  Speaker 4: prime example of an impact that Tom and Rick and
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  Speaker 4: Sweethearts and Heroes you know are trying to do is
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  Speaker 4: when you hear in the news that somebody committed suicide
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  Speaker 4: and you're and then they go and they interview all
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  Speaker 4: the people around them, and those people say, wow, he
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  Speaker 4: was so happy, go lucky. We didn't know he was
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  Speaker 4: having problems. Tom and Rick are at the forefront of
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  Speaker 4: trying to get these teachers and students to help the
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  Speaker 4: guidance ray of light in their life to say that
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  Speaker 4: you do mean something, you are worth something, You are
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  Speaker 4: worth something right now by being here at this presentation
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  Speaker 4: and equipping the teachers with all with some of the
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  Speaker 4: tools that they need. Obviously, if you go a little
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  Speaker 4: further in in in their in their education, then you're
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  Speaker 4: going to get more tools to be able to handle things.
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  Speaker 4: You know, Like we were talking before, teachers aren't equipped
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  Speaker 4: to handle mental issues or a home life situation. They're
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  Speaker 4: there to teach math, science, uh, social studies. I I just,
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  Speaker 4: I mean, they're they have the toughest job in the world,
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  Speaker 4: and it's the most unappreciated job in the world. And
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  Speaker 4: and as as I said to you before, I mean myself,
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  Speaker 4: my team at Littleton Chevrolet just praises teachers in what
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  Speaker 4: they do on a daily basis, and and and taking
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  Speaker 4: care of these kids dealing with abuse, not only from
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  Speaker 4: the student maybe being abused, but the teachers getting abused
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  Speaker 4: by what people say or what they do or actions
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  Speaker 4: on social media or posts. You know, they don't deserve that.
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  Speaker 4: They're just trying to do their job and live their
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  Speaker 4: life as best they can.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and they're human beings and they've got enough of
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  Speaker 2: their own problems happening at their own house, in their
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  Speaker 2: own private lives. I know, man, I know. And we
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  Speaker 2: could peel back layers on this all day long. And
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  Speaker 2: I know that you have with Tom and Rick. Tell
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  Speaker 2: me about and well said, by the way, just you
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  Speaker 2: just nailed it. Tell me about your neck of the woods, Danville.
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  Speaker 2: The guys from Sweethearts and Heroes have been up there
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  Speaker 2: and had a huge impact. You were telling me that
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  Speaker 2: afterwards the teachers wanted to chat with Tom for fifteen minutes. Listen, Yeah, Dwayne,
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  Speaker 2: you and I both know nobody talks to Tom for
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  Speaker 2: fifteen minutes.
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  Speaker 4: Our conversations on the phone sometimes last two hours. And
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  Speaker 4: I'm thinking like, hey, I want to run this value.
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  Speaker 4: Hey you get a yeah, man, I know, And then
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  Speaker 4: like like, like you what I said. He's always suggesting
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  Speaker 4: some sort of book, and I do love books, and
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  Speaker 4: I'm like, Tom, sure I got I got to finish
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  Speaker 4: this other book first before I can go into this one.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. I mean, you know, maybe we should all go
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  Speaker 2: down to Costa Rica for three or four months and
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  Speaker 2: sit on the beach and read books all day.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I know. I love. I love in the presentations
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  Speaker 4: when he says, you know, uh, the great Socrates says
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  Speaker 4: you know, you know, he goes into that whole thing
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  Speaker 4: and and it's impactful. But his his knowledge is off
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  Speaker 4: the charts, and I think that's what makes his presentations,
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  Speaker 4: you know, some of the greatest, you know, like a
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  Speaker 4: Ted Talk type thing, you know.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah. So Danville was an area that it's part of
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  Speaker 4: our DNA or our our Chevrolet District area so we
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  Speaker 4: can kind of do whatever we want. And it was
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  Speaker 4: nice that they were so inviting and they really really
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  Speaker 4: wanted us there. We hadn't been there. They have a major, major,
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  Speaker 4: you know, situation with a lot of students on the
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  Speaker 4: bullying side, and they're trying to get their their hands
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  Speaker 4: around it. But you know, they gave the presentation, they
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  Speaker 4: went into circles with some of the younger kids, I
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  Speaker 4: think it was the fifth or sixth graders, and then
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  Speaker 4: they did something with the with the senior high kids.
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  Speaker 4: And then afterwards Tom had had Matt wanted to meet
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  Speaker 4: with the teachers for just fifteen minutes just to kind
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  Speaker 4: of get them. I think there was maybe fifteen or
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  Speaker 4: eighteen teachers there and it lasted over an hour, and
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  Speaker 4: it could have gone on for two hours, just they
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  Speaker 4: just kept asking questions and like how do you handle
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  Speaker 4: this situation? And you're walking away from that And when
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  Speaker 4: he was telling me the story, you didn't have to
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  Speaker 4: say it. I could feel it. The emotional impact that
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  Speaker 4: was had in that room was something that those teachers
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  Speaker 4: just needed to get out, you know, rather it was
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  Speaker 4: you know, shaking or or crying or just being able
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  Speaker 4: to talk to somebody and Tom was able to do that.
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  Speaker 4: And I'm so proud of the fact that we went
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  Speaker 4: to Danville. I'm so proud of the fact that that
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  Speaker 4: the feedback was was incredible from the people that I
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  Speaker 4: dealt with, and also just watching the student's eyeballs and
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  Speaker 4: and mannerisms as they're watching Tom. And then Rick comes
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  Speaker 4: out and does his thing. And you know, when you
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  Speaker 4: see Rick, you're shocked, but he plays it off. You know,
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  Speaker 4: he's like, yeah, whatever, this has happened to me. But
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  Speaker 4: again he's he's he's one of the greatest influencers of
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  Speaker 4: our time right now.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah. And for folks that may not be familiar
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  Speaker 2: with Rick, Rick suffered a horrific roadside pom while he
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  Speaker 2: was serving in Iraq and was covered in diesel fuel
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  Speaker 2: and burned alive, and today he is very much alive,
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  Speaker 2: he says, even more alive than he's ever been, and
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  Speaker 2: presents in front of every single age and every single
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  Speaker 2: demographic on the planet and impacts them tremendously. It is
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  Speaker 2: unbelievable to hear this guy speak. It is literally almost
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  Speaker 2: Dwayne impossible to have a really shitty day after you've
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  Speaker 2: had some time with Rick perspective perspective is everything man.
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  Speaker 4: He is. His humor is super dry, but it is
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  Speaker 4: super funny. You know, with Rick's story, how many how
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  Speaker 4: many times do you hear about a veteran that's homeless,
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  Speaker 4: or a veteran that's lost his family, or a veteran
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  Speaker 4: that that that is on drugs or an alcoholic. Rick
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  Speaker 4: could have gone down that path, but definitely found away,
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  Speaker 4: found a glimmer of hope from just talking to a
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  Speaker 4: child and having that child say you know that that
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  Speaker 4: just looking into her eyes and whatever what she said
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  Speaker 4: at the time, and He's like, you know, there is
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  Speaker 4: somebody out there that does care about me. And that
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  Speaker 4: was the catapult for everything that we see today for
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  Speaker 4: what he's doing. A true American hero right there.
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  Speaker 2: Yep. Absolutely for people through through the bone, no doubt
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  Speaker 2: about it. You know, we're talking about Danville and the
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  Speaker 2: impacts that Sweethearts and Heroes is making up there, of
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  Speaker 2: course with the support of North Country Chevy dealers. But
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  Speaker 2: what about Lindon. The gu the guys were just up
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  Speaker 2: at the Linden Institute not too long ago. That's that's
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  Speaker 2: you guys.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, that's that's another school that we did last year. Again,
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  Speaker 4: another great press. And as I always hear for feedback
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  Speaker 4: from the from the teachers. You know when when there's
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  Speaker 4: an assembly, kids tend to fidget, move around, don't pay attention. Well,
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  Speaker 4: I can tell you that they pay attention and they
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  Speaker 4: are hanging on every word that Tom and Rick talk about.
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  Speaker 4: Doesn't matter, they keep it entertaining, they keep it real
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  Speaker 4: and and the the administrators are just so impressed of
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  Speaker 4: how how mature the students are while they're presenting, because
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  Speaker 4: they are intently listening to what is coming out of
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  Speaker 4: their mouths. And you know that that Lindonville one was
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  Speaker 4: was pretty hard hit for me because you know, Tom
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  Speaker 4: would talk to a lot of the people and they
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  Speaker 4: hugs and everything, and the and the Instagram and the
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  Speaker 4: photos and it's all it's all engaging. It's it's such
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  Speaker 4: a great ending, you know, and and it gives it
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  Speaker 4: gives those students an opportunity and in you know for
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  Speaker 4: them to be like, hey, can I talk to you
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  Speaker 4: for a second. I don't know what, I don't know
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  Speaker 4: how to handle the situation right. Well, there was there
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  Speaker 4: was one student that was dealing with a lot and
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  Speaker 4: I'm not sure that the student has ever told anybody
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  Speaker 4: of what she's dealing with, but she doesn't. She didn't
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  Speaker 4: have much. She lives with her dad, I guess, and
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  Speaker 4: you know her her dad doesn't acknowledge her at all,
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  Speaker 4: and and she's I don't know how old she was,
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  Speaker 4: but I mean, that's such a sad story, and she
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  Speaker 4: has nobody to talk to. Tom gave her some hope,
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  Speaker 4: that gave her some guidance, spoke to the teachers about it,
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  Speaker 4: that hey, this is this is a serious situation. I
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  Speaker 4: don't think by I don't think if we did not
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  Speaker 4: have sweethearts and heroes there, if this young student would
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  Speaker 4: have a chance in life. And I'm hoping that that
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  Speaker 4: the school got behind it and there was some follow up.
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  Speaker 4: But that's the stuff that made me cry, you know.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, And you know, if if time were with us
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  Speaker 2: right now, he would he would say that that is
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  Speaker 2: one of many, many, many examples.
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  Speaker 4: Hundreds of stories. You know, they're doing the electrical contractors,
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  Speaker 4: you know, the unions, they're going around the country and
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  Speaker 4: I didn't realize this, but Tom will probably correct me,
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  Speaker 4: but he said, there's six I think it's sixteen suicides
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  Speaker 4: a day in the United States through the Union of
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  Speaker 4: electrical contract.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, Blineman, Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Blineman, thank you. Yeah, that's a huge number. And what's
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  Speaker 4: the reason why, Well, I can probably, I mean, I
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  Speaker 4: could guess that you're on the road all the time.
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  Speaker 4: You know, you're traveling, you're not with your family, you
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  Speaker 4: can get down, you can get into some stuff that's
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  Speaker 4: not good for you. Sure, And and I love, I
• 21:55
  Speaker 4: love that they're they're they're going in a different direction
• 21:59
  Speaker 4: and making an packed with those people. And then from
• 22:02
  Speaker 4: the from the union there there's other people reaching out
• 22:04
  Speaker 4: in other other unions, other businesses, you know, because mental
• 22:09
  Speaker 4: health is a is a is a terrible in a
• 22:13
  Speaker 4: deep situation in this country. Suicide is a major thing.
• 22:19
  Speaker 4: Bullying is still had is not not getting a handle
• 22:24
  Speaker 4: on it at this point. But you know, Sweethearts and
• 22:27
  Speaker 4: Heroes is doing what they can and we're trying to assist.
• 22:31
  Speaker 2: You and I are probably right around the same age.
• 22:36
  Speaker 2: And I know that at least I'm guessing that you
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: didn't grow up with a cell phone, that you weren't
• 22:46
  Speaker 2: spending your summers tethered to an electronic device.
• 22:56
  Speaker 4: The answer is no. And when when it was the
• 23:00
  Speaker 4: weekend and as a young child and we were home,
• 23:05
  Speaker 4: and and my mom would say, get your stuff on
• 23:08
  Speaker 4: and get the hell outside.
• 23:09
  Speaker 2: Same here.
• 23:10
  Speaker 4: That was it? What Then then my brother and I
• 23:13
  Speaker 4: would throw sticks and stones at each other, climbing trees,
• 23:16
  Speaker 4: going it out, you know, behind the rock and the tree.
• 23:18
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I know, we we were. It's it's it's different, man.
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: We were raking leaves, we were shoveling the neighbors, uh
• 23:27
  Speaker 2: snow out of their out of their yard. We were
• 23:29
  Speaker 2: climbing trees, we were riding bikes, making jumps, getting hurt, right,
• 23:33
  Speaker 2: and today we're we see and and you were just
• 23:39
  Speaker 2: you were just telling me you you're always seeing kids
• 23:43
  Speaker 2: just head down, tethered to that phone.
• 23:48
  Speaker 4: Yeah, it's it's it's something that there has to be
• 23:52
  Speaker 4: some sort of limit or control by, and it starts
• 23:55
  Speaker 4: to the parents, you know, and when you know it's hard,
• 24:02
  Speaker 4: it is hard because I do see this when a
• 24:04
  Speaker 4: parent has an iPad for their three year old and
• 24:06
  Speaker 4: a three year old and it's keeping him occupied, that's
• 24:08
  Speaker 4: all well and good, but it has to be in
• 24:10
  Speaker 4: moderation and you have to teach them moderation. And if
• 24:14
  Speaker 4: you don't, then you get into situations like we are now,
• 24:17
  Speaker 4: where you know, if you went to you could grab
• 24:19
  Speaker 4: any kid's phone and say how many Look at how
• 24:22
  Speaker 4: many hours they were on their phone. I mean gues
• 24:26
  Speaker 4: twelve to sixteen, And that seems like a large number,
• 24:30
  Speaker 4: but it's probably right in the realm. Maybe eight, but
• 24:32
  Speaker 4: still eight is too much. You know what, ask a
• 24:36
  Speaker 4: kid if you want to go play checkers or chess?
• 24:39
  Speaker 2: What's that?
• 24:40
  Speaker 4: Yeah? I have no idea. Let's go play shoots and
• 24:43
  Speaker 4: ladders while we're at it.
• 24:44
  Speaker 2: What's that? I know? Man, I hear you, and and
• 24:48
  Speaker 2: Tom has a lot to say about who to point
• 24:51
  Speaker 2: the finger at with with all of this, but you know.
• 24:56
  Speaker 4: Not getting any JD. It's not getting any better now
• 25:00
  Speaker 4: that this country, the the the the companies. You know,
• 25:05
  Speaker 4: they're always looking for the next best thing, AI robot X,
• 25:09
  Speaker 4: the best phone, you know, iPhone fourteen or whatever we're
• 25:14
  Speaker 4: at now.
• 25:14
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I know, it's crazy. There's a lot of
• 25:18
  Speaker 2: a lot of great things that could be said. I mean,
• 25:21
  Speaker 2: I mean that, my god, I mean look at Google
• 25:23
  Speaker 2: and roadblocks and uh and Meta right now, Uh Mark,
• 25:29
  Speaker 2: Mark Zuckerberg's pushing back. We got we got TikTok who's
• 25:34
  Speaker 2: right in the check here, and we're gonna be talking
• 25:36
  Speaker 2: about this more Friday morning here on aired out. But man,
• 25:40
  Speaker 2: it is you know which kind of brings me to
• 25:44
  Speaker 2: brings me back to summertime once once school's out, Sweethearts
• 25:51
  Speaker 2: and Heroes doesn't stop, and neither does neither to the
• 25:56
  Speaker 2: North Country Chevy Dealers. You guys are backing them up, saying, hey,
• 26:01
  Speaker 2: continue this mission through the summer.
• 26:04
  Speaker 4: Yeah, we're we're we're always planning, looking for for the
• 26:07
  Speaker 4: next thing that we can assist with. And as I mentioned,
• 26:11
  Speaker 4: you know, we sponsored a teacher outing UH central locations
• 26:16
  Speaker 4: in UH New Hampshire, Vermont, and New York and invited
• 26:21
  Speaker 4: all of these schools within the diameter of of where
• 26:25
  Speaker 4: the dealership was and encouraged them to go for a
• 26:29
  Speaker 4: couple of days just to get some training. And it
• 26:33
  Speaker 4: was well received. The attendance was was wonderful at all
• 26:37
  Speaker 4: three of the presentations. Obviously, it's it's more garnered towards
• 26:44
  Speaker 4: features and handling situations, and it's just another facet of
• 26:48
  Speaker 4: what Sweethearts and Heroes is doing and and and allowing
• 26:51
  Speaker 4: us to be part of it and and hopefully making
• 26:56
  Speaker 4: making that impact with those teachers so they can go
• 26:58
  Speaker 4: back with their tool belt mark.
• 27:01
  Speaker 2: As the president of the North Country Chevy Dealers. What
• 27:06
  Speaker 2: impacts has Sweethearts and Heroes had on you personally, Dwayne?
• 27:13
  Speaker 2: Where you think you have brought in some of those
• 27:18
  Speaker 2: impacts to your managers, your staff, maybe without walking around
• 27:30
  Speaker 2: with a sign that says I've learned this from Sweethearts
• 27:35
  Speaker 2: and Heroes and I want you you guys to start
• 27:38
  Speaker 2: thinking this way. But maybe something that you haven't admitted
• 27:44
  Speaker 2: yet to any of your staff, but it's something that
• 27:48
  Speaker 2: is at the forefront of your mind because of Sweethearts
• 27:52
  Speaker 2: and Heroes.
• 27:54
  Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, and just in March, Tom's coming to
• 27:59
  Speaker 4: the store as part of our thing that we're doing
• 28:03
  Speaker 4: with the Lisbon School. But I always share what I'm
• 28:08
  Speaker 4: doing and where I'm going with my staff. I'm always
• 28:12
  Speaker 4: putting it out there on social media, you know, the
• 28:15
  Speaker 4: impact that we're having, you know. And then my staff
• 28:20
  Speaker 4: will ask me questions about what's this all about, you know,
• 28:24
  Speaker 4: and we talk about it. You know, some some summer
• 28:28
  Speaker 4: don't really they had their own little world, and that's fine.
• 28:31
  Speaker 4: Others are interested. I like I, like I said before,
• 28:36
  Speaker 4: you know, you're here on this planet for a short
• 28:38
  Speaker 4: period of time, and what are you going to do
• 28:41
  Speaker 4: in between the day you're born and the day you pass,
• 28:44
  Speaker 4: and that impact is so important. Rather it's you know,
• 28:48
  Speaker 4: a five dollars donation or you know, a twenty five
• 28:52
  Speaker 4: thousand dollars donation one hundred thousand dollars nation, or your
• 28:54
  Speaker 4: time or thinking outside the box. And I think I
• 28:58
  Speaker 4: think every time I talk to and Rick and and
• 29:01
  Speaker 4: and go to a presentation, it makes me think more
• 29:04
  Speaker 4: of what else can I do to help? You know,
• 29:08
  Speaker 4: I don't, I don't. Yeah, I think I think that's
• 29:11
  Speaker 4: that's kind of the answer. I hope that you answer your.
• 29:14
  Speaker 2: Yeah and and build upon your legacy, which is all
• 29:21
  Speaker 2: you've got at the end, at the.
• 29:23
  Speaker 4: End of the day, Matt legacy. I think about often,
• 29:29
  Speaker 4: what are people going to say about you when you pass?
• 29:32
  Speaker 2: You know, were you an awesome president of the North
• 29:36
  Speaker 2: Country Chevy Dealers or first and foremost, were you a
• 29:40
  Speaker 2: great dad a great human being? Above that? I think
• 29:43
  Speaker 2: way about that.
• 29:44
  Speaker 4: I I you know, me being president is just uh uh.
• 29:49
  Speaker 4: I'm the bus driver, you know, and working with a
• 29:53
  Speaker 4: team of a marketing group out of New York, Trainer
• 29:55
  Speaker 4: and Associates, which which give them a shout out. They
• 29:58
  Speaker 4: work Tyler's tire less lee on what we're doing, and
• 30:02
  Speaker 4: they're always there for us. Uh, but it's it's I
• 30:09
  Speaker 4: think it's just being a great human being period and
• 30:12
  Speaker 4: being there for people, you know, like I. I. You know,
• 30:16
  Speaker 4: people always say to me, how do you know so
• 30:18
  Speaker 4: much about you know? Well, I read, I watch, I listen.
• 30:23
  Speaker 4: I get into my employees' lives. I want to know
• 30:26
  Speaker 4: what's going on with them. I want to try to
• 30:28
  Speaker 4: help them if they're in trouble in any way, or
• 30:31
  Speaker 4: if they're family's in trouble. And I and I think,
• 30:34
  Speaker 4: you know that's Tom could be doing anything. He could
• 30:37
  Speaker 4: be still doing m m A if you wanted to maybe,
• 30:40
  Speaker 4: but he could be doing anything. And he sacrifices and
• 30:43
  Speaker 4: Rick sacrifices to travel all over the place to to
• 30:47
  Speaker 4: just make their impact and make an unbelievable legacy for themselves.
• 30:53
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you say you're you're watching you You're not watching
• 31:01
  Speaker 2: a whole hell of a lot of TV though, No
• 31:06
  Speaker 2: only sports sports guy who's gonna win the Super Bowl?
• 31:09
  Speaker 2: I mean, is it? Is it a no brain? Should? I?
• 31:11
  Speaker 2: Do you even need to bother asking that question?
• 31:14
  Speaker 4: You just gotta you gotta go to New England, Baby,
• 31:16
  Speaker 4: what New England. So many, so many similarities to the
• 31:21
  Speaker 4: last time. Last time Seattle and of the Pats played
• 31:26
  Speaker 4: too many similarities. But you know, and you know this
• 31:30
  Speaker 4: playoff sports is great day to day sports man Red
• 31:35
  Speaker 4: Sox Suore football obviously on Sundays because it's winter and
• 31:38
  Speaker 4: there's not much else to do, and it's a gathering.
• 31:41
  Speaker 4: You know, it's a good gathering and getting people together.
• 31:44
  Speaker 2: But I'm not watching a whole hell of a lot
• 31:46
  Speaker 2: of Uh, I'm.
• 31:47
  Speaker 4: Not housewives guy, if that's what you're asking.
• 31:51
  Speaker 2: Or just the news.
• 31:54
  Speaker 4: I'll get the news from reading. I'll watch a little
• 31:57
  Speaker 4: nightly news, not much. I I would rather, you know,
• 32:03
  Speaker 4: I would rather read when I get some time. I'm
• 32:06
  Speaker 4: getting better at it. I have. I'm motivated to read,
• 32:10
  Speaker 4: you know, a minimum of twenty five books this year.
• 32:13
  Speaker 4: But also I'm listening to audio books, and you know,
• 32:17
  Speaker 4: there's a lot of suggestions of books that come out there,
• 32:20
  Speaker 4: not only from Tom, but just from others that are interesting.
• 32:23
  Speaker 4: You know, I just finished the book nineteen twenty nine,
• 32:26
  Speaker 4: and it was about the stock market crash in nineteen
• 32:30
  Speaker 4: twenty nine and how that was manipulated by many high
• 32:34
  Speaker 4: ranking and wealthy individuals and it ruined a lot of
• 32:37
  Speaker 4: people's lives. It's a great book. I recommend it if
• 32:40
  Speaker 4: anybody gets up there. I recommendations today.
• 32:43
  Speaker 2: I know that that Tom's recommended a few books too.
• 32:47
  Speaker 2: But you're also you're also a bit of a writer.
• 32:53
  Speaker 4: Wow. I mean, as I mentioned, I just finished last year,
• 32:58
  Speaker 4: my son and I finished our first documentary ever. Didn't
• 33:02
  Speaker 4: really know where we were going with or what we're
• 33:04
  Speaker 4: going to do. It's called One World, One Jam and
• 33:06
  Speaker 4: it's the history of twenty five years of the Jerry
• 33:09
  Speaker 4: Jam Music Festival. So we launched that in October. Still
• 33:13
  Speaker 4: have the company, the production company, but I've decided that
• 33:17
  Speaker 4: I'm going to write another I'm going to write a book.
• 33:20
  Speaker 4: I've already started my interviews in July. It's kind of
• 33:23
  Speaker 4: a just a side hobby thing. It's going to take
• 33:26
  Speaker 4: me two or four years to write it. But there's
• 33:28
  Speaker 4: there's something intriguing about, you know, the history of Franconia
• 33:34
  Speaker 4: College in Franconia, New Hampshire. It was a college that
• 33:37
  Speaker 4: was up and running for fifteen years and the stories
• 33:41
  Speaker 4: are off the charts and I think doing a documentary
• 33:44
  Speaker 4: doesn't do this. This this their their history justice. So
• 33:47
  Speaker 4: I've already started it. I got to get it going.
• 33:50
  Speaker 4: But as far as writing, I love writing. It's it
• 33:54
  Speaker 4: kind of takes me away from everyday life and really
• 33:58
  Speaker 4: gets me thinking deep. You know that I'm not saying.
• 34:02
  Speaker 4: I mean, yes, I'd like to have a couple of
• 34:03
  Speaker 4: columns published here and there, but it's it's mostly about
• 34:06
  Speaker 4: my you know. Writing is about some poetry, some songwriting,
• 34:11
  Speaker 4: and maybe an article or two. Wow, it's something something
• 34:16
  Speaker 4: else to do. Keep you busy. I'll share. I'll share
• 34:21
  Speaker 4: a couple with you later today. Please, I'll send you
• 34:25
  Speaker 4: the one on the on the Baseball Hall of Fame.
• 34:28
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and I would love that, And I'd love the
• 34:30
  Speaker 2: one World one Jam talk too.
• 34:32
  Speaker 4: If I'll send you the link to that.
• 34:36
  Speaker 2: Wow. So what do you what are you hoping to
• 34:40
  Speaker 2: do next with Sweethearts and Heroes? What's what's the plan
• 34:45
  Speaker 2: for the North Country Chevy dealers.
• 34:49
  Speaker 4: Well, I know that we have still a fair amount
• 34:52
  Speaker 4: of presentation scheduled throughout this year. After that, we I
• 35:01
  Speaker 4: can't really discuss a lot of it, but where there's
• 35:04
  Speaker 4: been some changes in how Chevrolet conducts that's how they
• 35:10
  Speaker 4: tell us how we need to conduct our business. So
• 35:13
  Speaker 4: that's something I'm dealing with with a couple other dealers
• 35:17
  Speaker 4: in New York who are the presidents of their association.
• 35:21
  Speaker 4: And yeah, we just we I don't know. At this point,
• 35:25
  Speaker 4: we want to keep the relationship going. I love what
• 35:29
  Speaker 4: we're doing for the communities and for the schools and teachers.
• 35:34
  Speaker 4: As I said, I think we've had we've had an
• 35:36
  Speaker 4: impact as a group, and it's an unusual impact because
• 35:40
  Speaker 4: other associations aren't doing some of the things that we're doing.
• 35:44
  Speaker 4: We're thinking outside the box often and where can we
• 35:48
  Speaker 4: really really put our invest our money and our dollars
• 35:52
  Speaker 4: into our communities better?
• 35:54
  Speaker 2: You know? Yeah, you know, these guys are so busy
• 36:01
  Speaker 2: and as I'm sure you've had conversations with Tom where
• 36:07
  Speaker 2: he's just like all systems go twenty four to seven,
• 36:13
  Speaker 2: trying to make an impact and trying to save an
• 36:17
  Speaker 2: individual or reroot them onto a better path, a more
• 36:22
  Speaker 2: productive path, or a different way of thinking about something,
• 36:26
  Speaker 2: even from I mean from alignment all the way down
• 36:30
  Speaker 2: to to you know, a third grader. These guys are
• 36:37
  Speaker 2: they're busting their tails.
• 36:38
  Speaker 4: Man.
• 36:38
  Speaker 2: They're over in White River today, I think yesterday and
• 36:46
  Speaker 2: today they're they're in White River and then they're gonna
• 36:49
  Speaker 2: be presenting at South Burlington High School, I think on
• 36:55
  Speaker 2: Thursday this week. It's it's a brutal schedule, man, and
• 37:01
  Speaker 2: there's there's a huge team behind the scenes that are
• 37:05
  Speaker 2: that are helping to conduct all of this, and it's
• 37:09
  Speaker 2: it's a lot, man, It's a lot. The fact that
• 37:12
  Speaker 2: you guys are engaged with sweethearts and heroes says so
• 37:17
  Speaker 2: much about about the Chevy dealers. And I hope that
• 37:24
  Speaker 2: that going up another one hundred thousand feet above you,
• 37:29
  Speaker 2: I hope that Chevy as a whole is privy to this.
• 37:34
  Speaker 4: Yeah, we we we share some stuff. Some stuff gets
• 37:39
  Speaker 4: a little bit more momentum when maybe uh press release
• 37:44
  Speaker 4: goes out and maybe you know, w c x TV
• 37:47
  Speaker 4: picks it up or Fox, you know, and then we
• 37:52
  Speaker 4: share some of the clips with the people above me
• 37:55
  Speaker 4: in Chevrolet and then they should that get sent to
• 37:58
  Speaker 4: Detroit and maybe down the road, I'll get a card,
• 38:01
  Speaker 4: you know, from from one of them. It's very positive,
• 38:05
  Speaker 4: which is nice to see that we are doing things
• 38:07
  Speaker 4: differently and we're still carrying the torch of Chevrolet and
• 38:11
  Speaker 4: still selling Chevrolets now at a at a good.
• 38:14
  Speaker 2: Clip yeah, yeah, yeah, And and your your boys and
• 38:19
  Speaker 2: girls are are coming to work every day with stupid
• 38:25
  Speaker 2: temperatures and dusting off those cars and busting their butts
• 38:29
  Speaker 2: man over there, so.
• 38:34
  Speaker 4: We you know, COVID was a weird time. But and
• 38:36
  Speaker 4: and you know, I had to look back going through
• 38:41
  Speaker 4: the years, we have not had this much snow in
• 38:45
  Speaker 4: the White Mountains, I'd say six for six or seven years,
• 38:50
  Speaker 4: it's been really really light. I had to go back
• 38:54
  Speaker 4: and count recently because this was the biggest storm that
• 38:57
  Speaker 4: I've seen in six or seven years, and it looks
• 39:00
  Speaker 4: like we got anywhere from twelve to fifteen inches into
• 39:02
  Speaker 4: two days between Sunday and Tuesday. But it's it. It
• 39:10
  Speaker 4: takes its toll mentally on everybody, you know, and it's cold.
• 39:14
  Speaker 4: You know, I'm up early at two two thirty. I
• 39:16
  Speaker 4: got another guy, he's running the loader. I'm running the
• 39:19
  Speaker 4: plow truck. We got three properties that we got to manage.
• 39:23
  Speaker 4: And then when then everybody comes in the lots ready
• 39:25
  Speaker 4: to go, it's it's standard, and then they can do
• 39:28
  Speaker 4: their plowing and brush off the cars, especially with these
• 39:31
  Speaker 4: temperatures when it's you know, five below, ten above. You know,
• 39:36
  Speaker 4: Fortunately we have a manageable amount of vehicles in stock.
• 39:40
  Speaker 4: But I remember back in the day, we had the
• 39:43
  Speaker 4: winter of that almost killed us because we got like
• 39:47
  Speaker 4: eighteen or twenty inches and the snow drifts were probably another,
• 39:52
  Speaker 4: you know, twenty to thirty inches higher on the cars,
• 39:56
  Speaker 4: and we had three hundred units in the law and
• 39:58
  Speaker 4: you had nowhere to put snow, and everybody was that.
• 40:01
  Speaker 4: That was a two day project. Two days, so you
• 40:04
  Speaker 4: figure the storm comes in, everybody's hunkering down milk, bread
• 40:10
  Speaker 4: and cheese. And then the day you know storm's coming in,
• 40:14
  Speaker 4: day of the storm, let it go, next day cleaning,
• 40:18
  Speaker 4: next day you're cleaning. So you're four or five days
• 40:20
  Speaker 4: out before you're actually doing business. People get frustrated, but
• 40:24
  Speaker 4: it's it's been part of the car business, living in
• 40:27
  Speaker 4: cold climate areas forever. Yeah, So it's not just I'm
• 40:32
  Speaker 4: not complaining. I love the winter, but it's you know,
• 40:35
  Speaker 4: you don't complain because there's people, you know, that preceded you,
• 40:39
  Speaker 4: that are doing the same things that you're doing now
• 40:42
  Speaker 4: that they did thirty years ago. They had to do it.
• 40:46
  Speaker 4: They had to get a shovel out because they didn't
• 40:47
  Speaker 4: have plow trucks.
• 40:49
  Speaker 2: Exactly you know, your relationship with your community, and frankly
• 41:00
  Speaker 2: your communities outside of your immediate community is imperative to success.
• 41:07
  Speaker 2: Your relationship, your your integrity, your reputation. These are all big,
• 41:15
  Speaker 2: big things. But when you guys take it beyond the
• 41:20
  Speaker 2: automobile industry and take it into schools, uh and take
• 41:27
  Speaker 2: it to the faces and the eyes and the ears
• 41:30
  Speaker 2: of students and teachers, that's next level, Twain. That's that's
• 41:36
  Speaker 2: something that you don't see a lot of automobile businesses
• 41:43
  Speaker 2: tripping over themselves doing.
• 41:47
  Speaker 4: Yeah, like I said before, it's I love going to
• 41:50
  Speaker 4: these these presentations that we're sponsoring because I want to
• 41:54
  Speaker 4: see firsthand what impact and what investment we're putting into
• 41:59
  Speaker 4: the US on the mannerisms on their students' faces, on
• 42:04
  Speaker 4: the teachers would be oh wow, I didn't know that.
• 42:08
  Speaker 4: You know. You know, Tom has a slide in one
• 42:12
  Speaker 4: of his presentations. I don't remember the girl's name, but
• 42:15
  Speaker 4: she live streamed her suicide and then he has not
• 42:19
  Speaker 4: only her, but I think eight or twelve other students
• 42:23
  Speaker 4: of all ages that committed suicide as well. I mean,
• 42:28
  Speaker 4: you look around the room and the kids' faces are
• 42:32
  Speaker 4: just like, oh my god, you know, makes them think
• 42:35
  Speaker 4: and if they are having problems, hopefully something's pull out
• 42:39
  Speaker 4: of them that they can have a conversation with somebody
• 42:41
  Speaker 4: at some point in what they're dealing with.
• 42:43
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's you know, and it all comes down to hope, man,
• 42:48
  Speaker 2: And and Rick talks about this. If you've completely lost it,
• 42:53
  Speaker 2: every ounce of it, it's it's not easy to get back.
• 42:58
  Speaker 2: And if you can have people handed to you on
• 43:01
  Speaker 2: a silver platter all day, but unless you find it
• 43:04
  Speaker 2: within yourself, that might prevent you from from reaching out
• 43:10
  Speaker 2: and saying, hey, I need somebody to just to just
• 43:16
  Speaker 2: hear hear me or or maybe uh not even speak,
• 43:21
  Speaker 2: but just be together with me, because man, it's hitting
• 43:25
  Speaker 2: the fan right now in my life and I just
• 43:28
  Speaker 2: need I need somebody to stand beside me.
• 43:32
  Speaker 4: Yeah. When when Rick speaks and somebody's dealing with no
• 43:37
  Speaker 4: hope or lack of hope or little hope, they have
• 43:40
  Speaker 4: to check themselves and say, wow, yeah, I'm not like
• 43:44
  Speaker 4: that guy. Yep, No, I guess I can come out
• 43:47
  Speaker 4: of this. And it gets hopefully it gets them thinking
• 43:50
  Speaker 4: to be like all right, I got to change my ways,
• 43:53
  Speaker 4: I got to change my path, I got to change
• 43:55
  Speaker 4: my life.
• 43:56
  Speaker 2: The fact that you guys recognize how important this is
• 44:03
  Speaker 2: all of the North Country Chevy dealers. The fact that
• 44:07
  Speaker 2: you guys know this and that this is a priority
• 44:11
  Speaker 2: to you and you go to these presentations not just
• 44:15
  Speaker 2: at Linden Institute in Danville but to others is really massive. Man,
• 44:21
  Speaker 2: It's huge. And Tom and I have had conversations about this.
• 44:25
  Speaker 2: He's been telling me for a long time. Dude, you
• 44:27
  Speaker 2: gotta get Dwayne.
• 44:28
  Speaker 4: On sounded to just like him.
• 44:33
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 44:34
  Speaker 2: Well, listen, man, you guys just first of all, just
• 44:40
  Speaker 2: a big thank you, I think is in order to
• 44:45
  Speaker 2: all of the North Country Chevy dealers for locking it
• 44:51
  Speaker 2: up with sweethearts and heroes and saying we're gonna make
• 44:55
  Speaker 2: sure that they get into as many schools as possible
• 44:59
  Speaker 2: and have a big of an impact as possible. And sometimes, Dwayne,
• 45:03
  Speaker 2: you know, you may not see the results, you may
• 45:08
  Speaker 2: not see the impact, but quietly, behind the curtain, you
• 45:15
  Speaker 2: may have saved a lot of kids, not only from
• 45:19
  Speaker 2: some hardship or or or depression, but also some some
• 45:24
  Speaker 2: behind the scenes bullying that fixed itself because of sweethearts
• 45:31
  Speaker 2: and heroes and the fact that you guys are backing
• 45:33
  Speaker 2: them up.
• 45:35
  Speaker 4: Yeah, that's one thing we didn't talk about was the
• 45:36
  Speaker 4: bullying portion. That's that's the that's literally the silent person
• 45:43
  Speaker 4: in the room when when you you know, when somebody's
• 45:47
  Speaker 4: not talking about their situation and they're just getting cyber
• 45:51
  Speaker 4: bullied all day long. I don't know what that feels
• 45:55
  Speaker 4: like or or or or means. I can only look
• 45:59
  Speaker 4: at it from a thirty thousand foot view. But when
• 46:04
  Speaker 4: the bullying portion comes up in the presentation, you know,
• 46:08
  Speaker 4: my hope is that the bullier, you know, kind of
• 46:12
  Speaker 4: steps up and says, I shouldn't be doing this anymore. Yeah,
• 46:16
  Speaker 4: you know, this is not me. This is going to
• 46:18
  Speaker 4: ruin my life. This is going to ruin somebody else's life,
• 46:22
  Speaker 4: you know.
• 46:23
  Speaker 2: And I've said this to Tom, I've said this to
• 46:27
  Speaker 2: all the guys. Is that, you know, when I was
• 46:30
  Speaker 2: in middle school and high school, I was goofing around
• 46:34
  Speaker 2: a lot. I think getting a clear definition of what
• 46:41
  Speaker 2: bullying is is is really important because a lot of
• 46:46
  Speaker 2: us are just teasing. We're just goofing around. We're immature,
• 46:49
  Speaker 2: we're having fun, blah blah blah. We may not realize
• 46:53
  Speaker 2: that what we're doing is really truly unwelcomed and hurt,
• 47:00
  Speaker 2: and maybe might even be something that the recipient carries
• 47:08
  Speaker 2: or remembers uh as the last thing before they go
• 47:10
  Speaker 2: to bed at night. Yeah, we often don't realize this.
• 47:14
  Speaker 2: And that's one thing about Tom and and these guys
• 47:17
  Speaker 2: Is and Pat and Josiah and and Brian, all of them.
• 47:21
  Speaker 2: They put this into a really clear perspective of of
• 47:27
  Speaker 2: what that is. Words are powerful, man.
• 47:31
  Speaker 4: Yeah, as as you're speaking, I'm thinking, and I have
• 47:34
  Speaker 4: to say, one of the greatest compliments I've ever received
• 47:37
  Speaker 4: in my entire life, and there's there's been many, but
• 47:40
  Speaker 4: this is this ranks right up there. Guy went to
• 47:44
  Speaker 4: high school with lives locally, kind of an introvert, but
• 47:48
  Speaker 4: very talented in audio, uh in music that that that sector.
• 47:58
  Speaker 4: We were doing our documentary and as we're setting things up,
• 48:04
  Speaker 4: you know, we don't have a connection other than high school.
• 48:08
  Speaker 4: You see him around town, you wave, hey, what's up man,
• 48:11
  Speaker 4: He goes. I've been meaning to tell you and your
• 48:13
  Speaker 4: brother for a long time. Back in high school, you
• 48:17
  Speaker 4: stood up for me when I was being bullied by many,
• 48:19
  Speaker 4: and I truly appreciate that, and I've always wanted to
• 48:22
  Speaker 4: tell you that, so thank you. I'm like what speechless
• 48:29
  Speaker 4: as you can see speechless. And I didn't even know
• 48:33
  Speaker 4: at that time. You know, everybody's it's called you know,
• 48:35
  Speaker 4: like era joshing around, you know, I mean, yeah, that's
• 48:39
  Speaker 4: what we did. You know, you fooled around with people,
• 48:41
  Speaker 4: You picked on people, I guess, but I guess didn't
• 48:45
  Speaker 4: realize the extent of how he was being bullied. And
• 48:48
  Speaker 4: I honestly, I don't even remember what my brother and
• 48:50
  Speaker 4: I did at the time for us to make an
• 48:54
  Speaker 4: impact on him. And obviously it had an impact because
• 48:57
  Speaker 4: it stopped and he'd been holding that in for so
• 49:03
  Speaker 4: I'm fifty six. He's my brother's age, so he's fifty four,
• 49:08
  Speaker 4: so forty plus years and he just decided because of
• 49:12
  Speaker 4: the documentary, he wanted to let me know. He wanted
• 49:15
  Speaker 4: to thank me and make sure my brother knew. Wow. Crazy,
• 49:19
  Speaker 4: And again that's that's you don't know, Like you just said,
• 49:24
  Speaker 4: you don't know the impact that you're making on somebody's lives,
• 49:28
  Speaker 4: somebody's life by just a small gesture, you know, or
• 49:33
  Speaker 4: a conversation or a hug or hey how are you man?
• 49:37
  Speaker 4: You know, it can go a long way to open
• 49:41
  Speaker 4: up a deeper conversation.
• 49:42
  Speaker 2: People Here's the thing about this about this guy is
• 49:51
  Speaker 2: if he lives until he's ninety, he's still gonna remember this. Yeah,
• 50:00
  Speaker 2: obviously if he's if he's carried this in the back
• 50:03
  Speaker 2: of his mind this long, I mean, think about that
• 50:06
  Speaker 2: for you know, around forty years. He's always known to Twain,
• 50:15
  Speaker 2: Cody had his back one day.
• 50:18
  Speaker 4: Yeah, even I didn't even know.
• 50:19
  Speaker 2: It, even though that Dwayne Cody didn't know it. That's yeah.
• 50:24
  Speaker 2: That really that says a lot. Man, That says a lot.
• 50:29
  Speaker 2: You know, I wish more kids could hear, could hear
• 50:32
  Speaker 2: that story?
• 50:33
  Speaker 3: M hm.
• 50:35
  Speaker 4: You know, you get up in the morning and I'll
• 50:38
  Speaker 4: call it sometimes there's Groundhog's Day. Do the same thing
• 50:42
  Speaker 4: over and over again every day for many days and
• 50:44
  Speaker 4: many weeks, and you just get in a routine. You know.
• 50:48
  Speaker 4: I've always been of the mindset and learned a long
• 50:50
  Speaker 4: time ago. You know, what impact are you going to
• 50:53
  Speaker 4: make today? Rather large or small? And and and somebody's
• 50:58
  Speaker 4: life a decision that is being made. And I would
• 51:06
  Speaker 4: encourage more people just as you're getting up laying in bed,
• 51:09
  Speaker 4: you get up, you make your coffee, and you just
• 51:12
  Speaker 4: keep saying, what impact are you going to make today?
• 51:15
  Speaker 4: Because it can go a long way, and you don't
• 51:17
  Speaker 4: have to you know, you don't have to get CBS
• 51:20
  Speaker 4: News to get out there.
• 51:22
  Speaker 3: You know.
• 51:22
  Speaker 4: One thing that bothers me is a lot of the influencers, right,
• 51:26
  Speaker 4: They're not bad people. I'm not saying that. It's just
• 51:30
  Speaker 4: they want to be in front of the camera. They
• 51:31
  Speaker 4: want to give ten thousand dollars away, you know, they
• 51:35
  Speaker 4: want to make that. Are they making an impact in
• 51:37
  Speaker 4: somebody's life or is it just for clicks and likes
• 51:41
  Speaker 4: and money. I don't know, but I don't think people
• 51:45
  Speaker 4: should live their life like that. You know, you should
• 51:47
  Speaker 4: go about making a silent impact on someone or something
• 51:52
  Speaker 4: every single day. And if you do that, we go
• 51:56
  Speaker 4: back too. There's your legacy.
• 51:59
  Speaker 2: Yeah, so true. Man. I gotta tell you, I am
• 52:05
  Speaker 2: so humbled to have had this time with you this morning.
• 52:11
  Speaker 2: I can only imagine how busy you are, how many
• 52:16
  Speaker 2: cars need to be dusted off. I'm sure you got
• 52:22
  Speaker 2: a lot of stuff happening, but the fact that you
• 52:25
  Speaker 2: carved out some time this morning, and maybe it was
• 52:32
  Speaker 2: threats from Tom that intimidated you, I don't know.
• 52:36
  Speaker 4: For a while, yeah, exactly, I've wanted to get on here.
• 52:40
  Speaker 4: I just had to make the time for it. And yes,
• 52:43
  Speaker 4: end of year, beginning of the year, it's winter, it's busy,
• 52:46
  Speaker 4: there's a lot of moving parts right now. But again,
• 52:50
  Speaker 4: this is my portion of impact today.
• 52:53
  Speaker 2: That's right.
• 52:54
  Speaker 4: I feel. I feel blessed. I truly appreciate what you do.
• 52:58
  Speaker 4: I appreciate your time, appreciate this conversation, and I'll send
• 53:03
  Speaker 4: you that stuff a little later today.
• 53:05
  Speaker 2: Yeah, man, I hope to get up there and shake
• 53:07
  Speaker 2: your hand one of these days. Twayne, and you know
• 53:11
  Speaker 2: on behalf of Sweethearts and Heroes and all of our
• 53:14
  Speaker 2: followers and listeners, thank you for partnering up with Sweethearts
• 53:20
  Speaker 2: and Heroes up at the North Country Chevy Dealers, all
• 53:23
  Speaker 2: of you up there. I think the impacts are are
• 53:29
  Speaker 2: going really really deep in our community. Man.
• 53:33
  Speaker 4: It is, and you know, we are very proud of
• 53:36
  Speaker 4: what we do. And if you want to check us out,
• 53:38
  Speaker 4: you can go to North Country Chevy Dealers dot com.
• 53:41
  Speaker 4: All of the dealers there are highlighted. You can find
• 53:44
  Speaker 4: one near You support them and they support it, and
• 53:48
  Speaker 4: in return, they're going to support you know what the
• 53:51
  Speaker 4: community does. You know, and we talk about Sweethearts and Heroes,
• 53:55
  Speaker 4: you know, let's talk about the Boys and Girls club.
• 53:57
  Speaker 4: Let's talk about the golf tournaments. Let's talk about the
• 54:00
  Speaker 4: foodshell for the spaghetti dinner, or you know, the GoFundMe
• 54:03
  Speaker 4: for somebody that just got hurt. We're all doing it
• 54:06
  Speaker 4: and we're all making a huge impact in our communities
• 54:09
  Speaker 4: and we love what we do.
• 54:10
  Speaker 2: Yeah, well said man. I'm gonna meet you soon, Dwayne.
• 54:14
  Speaker 2: It's gonna happen.
• 54:15
  Speaker 4: Same here, same here. Thanks for having me on JD all.
• 54:18
  Speaker 2: Right, brother, Yeah, man, Wow, what a guy, What a
• 54:21
  Speaker 2: what a story. This is the kind of stuff that matters.
• 54:28
  Speaker 2: It really does. Conversations like this. We've got to engage
• 54:34
  Speaker 2: more with our kids. We need to relate more, I
• 54:38
  Speaker 2: think with our teachers and others, and we need to
• 54:46
  Speaker 2: just connect. Man, Connect more than anything, more than anything,
• 54:52
  Speaker 2: in any way that you can use. Whatever you have,
• 54:55
  Speaker 2: whether it's your voice, whether it's your social media, just
• 55:01
  Speaker 2: find people and connect with them in every way and
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• 56:37
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• 56:39
  Speaker 2: just feel it. I know it. I hope it is
• 56:42
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• 56:44
  Speaker 2: hope the rest of the week is be positive, find
• 56:48
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  Speaker 2: and hear. All Right, God bless you, we'll catch you
• 57:05
  Speaker 2: again real soon. Tomorrow morning. We're gonna have some fun,
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