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Charitable Giving · Let's Ask the Mamas!

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  Speaker 1: We got a question for our American mama's. Dear mama's,
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  Speaker 1: what's your favorite way of charitable giving at Christmas?
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  Speaker 2: Well, let's ask our Americ in mama's Mama, Mama, she.
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  Speaker 1: Said, And joining us now are American mama's tern Edville
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  Speaker 1: and Kiberly Burlason. You know we talked earlier this week,
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  Speaker 1: last week, last week or whatever it was about the
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  Speaker 1: Dell donation, the Michael and Susan Dell giving six point
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  Speaker 1: two five billion dollars. Now, I don't think that was
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  Speaker 1: necessarily a Christmas gift, but it is kind of Christmas
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  Speaker 1: time when they've announced it. What is your favorite form
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  Speaker 1: of charitable giving, especially this time of year.
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  Speaker 3: Well, my favorite way of giving is seeing a need,
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  Speaker 3: like seeing a need and then giving it, so it's
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  Speaker 3: like in real time, you know, seeing the result of that.
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  Speaker 3: I used to have a nonprofit, so I know how
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  Speaker 3: crucial it is to receive donations because you rely on them.
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  Speaker 3: The difference in my my nonprofit is every penny went
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  Speaker 3: to what we were doing for military families.
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 1: My mom did that too during the Gulf War. Oh yeah,
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  Speaker 1: she sewed. She sent gift baskets over to troops over
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  Speaker 1: in the Middle East and she sewed neck coolers where
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  Speaker 1: you just get them wat and they would cool people
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  Speaker 1: down in the desert. She sewed those by hand. Every
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  Speaker 1: single penny she received for that charity, which straight overseas.
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  Speaker 4: So we did.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: You know, I've said many times that I love watching
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  Speaker 3: Magnum p I every single night on we TV.
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  Speaker 1: Really you've said that many times.
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  Speaker 3: Many times, huh, and every night. So they have the
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  Speaker 3: long commercials for like Saint Jude's and for the ASPCA.
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  Speaker 3: The pet things they get me, they get me every time.
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  Speaker 1: Well, Sarah McLaughlin will make your craft.
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  Speaker 3: Absolutely So I actually used to give to Saint Judes
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  Speaker 3: every month. It just came out of my checking account
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  Speaker 3: for years. Okay, So out of the blow because the
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  Speaker 3: commercials are five minutes long, I decided to do a
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  Speaker 3: search on what the CEO of ASPCA makes a year. Okay,
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  Speaker 3: one point two million dollars Matthew Berkshaker.
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  Speaker 1: Wow my god. So then I thought that's three times
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  Speaker 1: what the president make.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I thought what the hail Okay, So then I
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  Speaker 3: looked up the on charity watch. You can see City
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  Speaker 3: of Hope and affiliates like all these cancer institutes Yeap
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  Speaker 3: two point four million, five point four more four Milligan
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  Speaker 3: five point seven million, Saint Jude one point eight million,
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  Speaker 3: Red Cross one point three million. I was one person
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  Speaker 3: a year, the CEO of those those nonprofits, and that
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  Speaker 3: was it for me. I was like, I will never
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  Speaker 3: ever give money to any of those charities ever again.
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  Speaker 3: It made me say, that's gluttonous and disgusting to me.
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  Speaker 1: Especially for a group that's trying to that says they're
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  Speaker 1: doing charity.
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  Speaker 4: Exactly when you think about the people who are donating,
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  Speaker 4: they're thinking their money is going to go to the cause,
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  Speaker 4: when they don't realize their money is going also to
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  Speaker 4: this person a lot of it.
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  Speaker 3: I'm baffled that is this five point seven million?
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  Speaker 4: That's unbelievable?
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  Speaker 3: Are you kidding me?
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  Speaker 2: Is he?
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  Speaker 4: What is he? Or she did?
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  Speaker 2: Well?
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  Speaker 3: I think about you know, Red Cross for instance, and
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  Speaker 3: you and people standing there ringing the bell, and these kids,
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  Speaker 3: these commercials are taking their lemonade stand money and pouring
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  Speaker 3: it in the pot, and you're just you feel this,
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  Speaker 3: oh my gosh. And then you see the CEO sitting
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  Speaker 3: in his mansion with his unbelievable cars and his yacht,
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  Speaker 3: and and I've thought I can never give to them again.
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  Speaker 3: For that reason, I looked at the nonprofits like Wounded
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  Speaker 3: Warrior and USO because those are the ones that were
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  Speaker 3: closest to my heart. And they averaged half a million
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  Speaker 3: to seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars for the CEOs
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  Speaker 3: for the CEOs, which you know from me, it's a lot. Still,
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  Speaker 3: that's a lot. That's a big salary, you know, with
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  Speaker 3: people giving you money and that kind of thing, and
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  Speaker 3: I don't understand why you need that much. But I'm
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  Speaker 3: also all about being a capitalist. But these are nonprofits.
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  Speaker 3: These aren't just companies. There's a big difference to me.
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  Speaker 1: And you know, my favorite way of giving is is
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  Speaker 1: through service. That is through time. I mean, I work
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  Speaker 1: for theaters, I work for the church, just donating time.
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  Speaker 1: And I think there's something about that for me that
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  Speaker 1: I get more out of that than donating money. And
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  Speaker 1: maybe it's because by donating my time, I actually see
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  Speaker 1: the result of what I'm doing. You receive the blessing
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  Speaker 1: and it's not like somebody's making a profit off of
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  Speaker 1: my time when I'm working.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, Well, what I love to do is kind of
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  Speaker 4: year round. There's a lot of kids in my life
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  Speaker 4: that are going through school and whenever they have whether
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  Speaker 4: it's for their team or for their church group or whatever,
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  Speaker 4: if they send me a thing asking me for money
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  Speaker 4: or to you know, even if it's buying whatever it
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  Speaker 4: is they're selling. Like Coach Kaz reached out to me,
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  Speaker 4: he's the Air Force baseball coach on Giving Tuesday and
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  Speaker 4: he was like, hey, you want to give And I
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  Speaker 4: was like, hey, yeah, to America's team, the Air Force Boys.
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  Speaker 4: Of course I will. But when people reach out to
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  Speaker 4: me and it's something that I think I want to
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  Speaker 4: help this kid, or I want to help Coach kas
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  Speaker 4: or whatever, I'm going to do it. I'm going to
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  Speaker 4: do that more so than I would if it was
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  Speaker 4: like given to you know, some of those places that
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  Speaker 4: you said.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to have to give you my nephew.
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  Speaker 4: I'll get a bunch of I'll get a bunch of
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  Speaker 4: texts now, especially if you're if you're selling something for
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  Speaker 4: your school and there's like if I sell twenty of
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  Speaker 4: these I get to have right oh yeah, by those
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  Speaker 4: I got, I'll get nineteen right now.
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  Speaker 3: But the blessing is seeing that child, yes, because they
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  Speaker 3: get so excited, and really that's why you're giving it,
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  Speaker 3: Not for the whatever they're selling, but for that kid,
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  Speaker 3: you know, and that excitement they have.
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  Speaker 1: if Kibri Brothers and thank you so much, thank you, thanks,