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Journey Home Murfreesboro: Billy Truesdale & James Little on Serving the Unhoused · Single Tree Nation Show

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  what is up everybody welcome to another
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  episode of single tree nation i am your
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  co-host derry wells with our main guy
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  sitting in second chair today charlie
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  edmund what's up buddy what is up great
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  job i'm trying i'm trying
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  We got a fun episode here today,
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  flipping it up with me doing the opening.
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  So if you're still tuning in, thanks.
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  But we've got the journey home from here
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  in Murfreesboro.
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  And with them,
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  we have Billy Truesdale and James.
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  I didn't get James's last name.
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  James Little.
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  And they are going to give us a
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  little pitch in about the journey home and
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  some background live.
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  So it should be a fun conversation today.
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  And welcome, guys.
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  I appreciate it.
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  Yeah.
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  I told you I was gonna mess up
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  your name right off the bat.
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  Like I just, it was it.
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  So I did, I did.
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  So I should have never asked is what
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  I shouldn't have done.
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  So, uh, look journey home.
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  I know that y'all help out.
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  people less fortunate in the community.
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  And that's the best way I can say
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  it.
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  But I want y'all to be able to
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  say it.
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  So give me the three-minute elevator
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  pitch.
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  Billy,
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  it looks like you're going to do all
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  the talking.
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  You're smiling.
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  James is like, yeah, let that happen.
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  So fill us in.
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  What do we got going today?
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  Well, the journey home,
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  our primary mission is we're a Christian
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  ministry.
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  We're here to serve the disadvantaged and
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  homeless of Rutherford County.
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  I think that's sometimes part of the pitch
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  that's missed.
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  as we're communicating our message.
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  We're a Rutherford County program,
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  not just Murfreesboro.
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  I wanted to get that out.
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  That's important.
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  Sometimes we forget the outline areas.
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  We just housed a guy from Eagle Wolf
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  the other day, which was pretty neat.
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  We supply practical resources for people
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  to get them back to economic stability is
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  one of our goals.
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  Get their health back in shape and get
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  their housing
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  back where it needs to be.
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  As the executive director told me this
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  morning, those three pieces,
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  economic stability,
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  the health and the housing,
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  it's kind of like a three-legged stool.
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  If you take away any piece of those
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  legs, you've got problems.
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  For sure.
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  You may stand on your own for a
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  while, but you'll lose your footing.
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  For sure.
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  And that's what we're at the Journey Home
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  to do.
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  You know, I made a joke earlier.
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  We have closed on one house and are
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  closing on another house in the next forty
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  eight hours or so.
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  And my wife sent me a text.
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  Congratulations.
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  We're now officially homeless.
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  And it was comical for the moment of
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  where I was.
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  And we're not we're staying with my mom.
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  We've been with my like all our stuff
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  settled.
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  We're fine.
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  But it did put into context because I
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  thought about you guys coming on the show
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  today.
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  And I thought that is for us a
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  joke, you know,
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  just because on paper we're homeless.
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  But there are people out there in our
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  community that are disadvantaged to the
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  point where they don't know.
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  what even the next few hours hold,
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  much less tomorrow or the weekend.
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  And where does the journey home step in
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  with?
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  I know you said you had a guy
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  housed, but where all are we helping him?
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  Are we at a basis where we're doing
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  just meals if they need it?
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  Are we doing a meal program?
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  We're housing folks?
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  Give me the scope of the outreach here.
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  So for a long time,
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  the thought of the journey home when we
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  were over at three or eight West Castle
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  Street and an old butchers slaughterhouse
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  for many years was that we fed people.
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  We gave people a place to shower and
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  we did laundry.
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  Wow.
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  We do that every day for our clients.
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  But there's also a big piece to the
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  journey home that's missed the housing
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  side of things.
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  We take these people that are in trauma
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  and it is traumatic to be homeless.
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  I've been there in two thousand seventeen.
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  I was sleeping on hay bales in Tucson,
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  Arizona.
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  Wow.
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  So I kind of understand that piece.
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  And we we own at the journey home
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  eight properties ourselves.
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  We own eight houses.
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  We sublease twenty three and then we
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  co-manage.
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  I'd like to call it twenty properties
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  through Murfreesboro Housing Authority.
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  OK.
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  Our goal is to take people that are
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  at the bottom who,
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  when I worked at the VA,
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  I used to like to share this message
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  in the jails and in prisons.
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  that have lost hope because to me hope
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  is the easiest thing in the world to
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  lose and the hardest thing to get back.
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  We want to be that beacon of hope
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  for people.
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  So we started the journey home.
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  You've got your people that are
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  chronically homeless that might have a
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  mental disorder or an addiction problem.
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  that are very hard to house.
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  We work with them.
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  They're the ones that come and get meals
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  and get clothing, take the showers.
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  We're starting a new engagement process
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  now to where we start working with them
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  on a more intentional basis.
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  But then you have your people that have
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  life events that may lead them to be
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  homeless.
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  I'll be honest,
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  today if I wrecked my truck,
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  I've got problems.
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  I've got a lot of problems.
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  Because today in this society,
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  and it's not just Rutherford County,
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  affordable housing is hard to come by.
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  When you consider the fact that to get
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  into an apartment in Murfreesboro,
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  it's going to cost you a deposit.
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  um first and maybe last month's rent so
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  you're looking at about three thousand
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  dollars because the average where are you
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  renting that's cheap compared to some of
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  the stuff i've heard well you can't find
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  housing a single bedroom for fourteen
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  about fourteen fifty a month a single
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  bedroom fourteen fifty months yes sir
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  that's unbelievable yeah that's absolutely
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  that's just a wild number considering if
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  you have a
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  what I would consider a regular job,
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  a blue collar job,
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  and you're not making a lot of money
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  and you have a couple of kids,
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  you're looking at a big hit.
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  You're having to come up with four and
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  five thousand dollars just to get into a
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  place to get back on your feet.
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  But you've lost your job because you
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  wrecked your car.
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  And we're here to help fill that gap
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  where we can.
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  And we cannot help everyone.
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  Sure.
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  But we try our best through grants,
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  through donations,
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  to get people rehoused and get them back
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  that economic stability.
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  There's other pieces to the journey home
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  to our great new facility that I love
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  to talk about.
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  Now what's the address for the new
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  facility?
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  The new facility is at old Salem road,
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  not highway road.
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  Okay.
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  Uh,
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  because if you put in old Salem road,
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  it'll send you to metal max.
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  Yeah.
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  Okay.
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  So, well,
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  before we go too much further into what
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  you're doing now,
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  which I think what you guys are doing
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  is incredible.
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  But what I find interesting to me is
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  you mentioned earlier that you've been
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  homeless.
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  You're a veteran as well, right?
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  Yes, sir.
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  We talked pre-show that you're recovering.
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  Yes, sir.
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  Right?
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  What I find interesting for me is more
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  so the why.
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  that you're doing what you do now right
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  it's um i think doing things that impact
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  our community is incredible but the
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  reasons that we truly do those things are
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  what makes the story actually incredible
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  So I would like to step back for
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  a second and go back to let's go
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  back to when you were in service.
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  Right.
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  So how long ago was that?
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  I got out in nineteen ninety four served
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  eight and a half years in the U.S.
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  Navy.
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  We won't hold that against you.
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  The canoe club.
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  I love how the subtle banter between any
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  branch of whatever.
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  And as somebody who has no dog in
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  the fight, so to speak,
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  because we had some guests on at another
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  time that were some Navy guys.
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  And you could tell as soon as you
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  got mentioned, they all kind of,
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  everybody's chest postured a little bit.
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  They're like, hey, wait a minute,
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  you know, Army guy.
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  I just always think that's funny.
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  What I tell people all the time is,
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  I don't actually care what branch you
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  served in.
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  You served, you're my brother,
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  and I will love you no matter what.
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  Not a moment.
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  The moment that somebody tries to say
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  something about you is the moment that all
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  my attention will turn towards you.
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  I never realized that, honestly, Charlie,
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  because I never needed to be a veteran
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  until I got sober,
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  until I had lost everything and was part
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  of my sentence.
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  was to attend the Veterans Treatment
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  Court.
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  And I learned about being a veteran and
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  how important and how deep that is.
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  And I've learned a lot about mental health
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  over the past few years and how you
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  lose yourself when you get out because you
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  lose that brotherhood.
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  And people that haven't been or haven't
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  been in a career like that,
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  I was in law enforcement as well.
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  And that impacted me when I was no
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  longer a law enforcement officer because
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  that brotherhood or sisterhood is there.
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  So twice that was taken away from me.
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  God had other plans for me.
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  I got it since we're on the subject
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  of being in the military.
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  had a conversation today and this may not
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  be a conversation for the radio but i
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  am who i am um we we had
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  a discussion and and i was having this
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  discussion with someone that it was has
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  not been in the military so just to
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  preface that but we were discussing
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  females in combat arms
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  And I said,
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  I do not have a qualm of whether
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  or not there are females that can
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  physically and mentally contribute to a
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  combat arm MOS.
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  What my qualm is with it is if
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  you're on the front lines,
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  and I have not been, okay?
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  I have not been in a war zone.
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  But...
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  I was trained to be in war zones
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  and knowing that the guy to my right
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  and the guy to my left is there
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  to help protect me.
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  If something happened to one of those
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  individuals,
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  the reaction that I would have to my
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  brother in arms sitting next to me,
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  I don't know if it would be different
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  if it was a sister in arms.
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  and how I would react because you don't
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  know how you're gonna react if you have
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  to pull the trigger.
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  If you have to pull your trigger on
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  another human being,
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  you don't know how you're going to react
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  after pulling that trigger.
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  And if that person that is next to
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  you happens to be a female and that
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  person passes in combat situation,
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  How can you move forward from that?
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  And mentally,
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  that is a difficult situation to be in.
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  I don't know how I would react.
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  That's challenging.
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  And I think, boy,
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  you opened up a Pandora's box.
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  We're being recorded.
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  I'm pretty good at that.
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  As a male...
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  It is, at least in my instinct,
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  to be protective of women.
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  Correct.
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  And what I believe would happen with me
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  in my case is if there is a
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  moment of conflict or...
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  firefight, whatever it may be, uh,
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  it would cause hesitation in me to protect
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  her, um,
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  which would lead to other traumatic
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  events, possibly me getting hurt,
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  then getting hurt or my other brothers at
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  arms.
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  Um, it's, uh,
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  I think it's just a male instinct and
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  you can't, it's tough.
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  And we don't have to go into too
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  crazy detail,
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  but I w I had the same opinion.
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  and i was i was uh when something's
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  on my heart i think so many people
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  have got to bring it up have typically
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  thought of that situation of are are women
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  physically able to keep up xyz and i
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  don't think that's the take i think it's
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  much more along the lines of what y'all
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  are saying because
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  I think there's a natural instinct that
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  kicks in at some point.
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  Yeah, look, I mean, my entire life,
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  that's the way I was brought up.
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  That's the way I've been raised.
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  It's funny.
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  I had that conversation at school
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  recently.
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  Had a young man who was saying that
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  he got in trouble a week or so
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  ago.
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  Nope.
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  He didn't get in trouble.
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  Girlfriend got in trouble because one of
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  them told parents they were going to one
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  place.
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  They went to another place.
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  They were still supervised and being
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  responsible,
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  but lied to mom and dad about destination.
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  And I just gave him a quick,
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  I said, Hey, just as, as a girl,
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  dad,
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  make sure you're doing the right things
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  with the girl's parents.
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  I said,
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  that'll get you a lot more speakers,
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  but we didn't get in trouble.
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  I didn't, I didn't do anything wrong.
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  said well you started with the life
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  because your first response is hey babe
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  let's not tick off your parents like you
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  can just be that smooth way like it
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  doesn't have to be and he was kind
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  of and it just happened to be a
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  couple of young ladies from another
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  classroom came to pick something up they
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  overheard our conversation
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  And they're like, yeah, do that.
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  And I think to a certain extent, we,
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  we do have this ingrained thing to protect
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  and to take care of it.
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  Uh, and, uh, you're,
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  you're a father of a daughter and I'm
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  a father of a daughter.
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  I don't know about you, James.
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  He's whatever odd man out.
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  It changes how you look at the world.
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  I mean, it does.
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  And I couldn't do it right.
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  I thought I couldn't do it.
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  And then I got these three and they
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  keep me on my toes and it's wonderful.
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  But I think as as males,
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  we still get this excitement that comes up
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  about us,
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  that there's almost that strong arm of I
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  can I can take care of something in
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  her honor and, you know,
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  that kind of fence.
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  And sometimes you guys take a step back
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  and be like,
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  but
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  I need to allow her to develop and
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  grow from the girl that kind of standpoint
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  and my oldest daughter right now she's
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  going to turn twenty and I don't know
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  how I feel about it and I'm just
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  like I like it it's weird for me
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  and there's an element to it but I
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  watch her come in she's hustling she's got
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  a couple of different little side incomes
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  going on she's got her one main consistent
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  job now she'll text me two or three
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  times a week even if it's just hey
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  you cooking tonight and I'll cook just so
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  she'll come
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  you know that and that kind of thing
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  and so it's a unique experience to be
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  uh just what intrinsically we still are
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  designed to do and to go and and
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  i think that ultimately it comes back
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  around to wanting to help folks and when
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  we when we are serving in any capacity
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  uh i find that to be be quite
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  impressive and kind of just knowing where
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  we are so i didn't want to step
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  on all our toes here but uh it's
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  hard to let you military guys call it
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  because you know we'll get left out
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  Army so I do want to since I
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  got two of them in the room and
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  This is way out of left field My
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  favorite football game Every single year
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  is the Army Navy game.
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  Mm-hmm
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  it's it's the best it's the pageantry it's
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  the the heroism of we're here we're doing
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  this right and it's coming up is it
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  this weekend or next weekend this week
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  this way
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  Of course.
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  It might be a little butt whipping on
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  Saturday.
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  But it is.
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  The midshipmen got it going on.
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  The pageantry behind that.
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  The Navy is just scared every year.
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  Because if they lose,
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  they got to deal with the Marines.
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  Oh, okay.
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  So they come into the game all hyped
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  up and ready to go.
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  And look, it's just a normal day.
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  We don't want to hurt nobody's feelings.
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  Okay.
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  It's just business, right?
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  Yeah, it's just business.
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  Okay.
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  Well, that's...
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  But that is that.
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  No, look, I will tell you,
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  was it last year?
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  Last year,
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  when Army had a shot of actually doing
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  something,
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  was probably one of the only years that
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  I can remember ever that Army had a
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  good football team.
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  And that was it in the story.
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  And it is, uh, one of my,
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  one of my favorite things about whether
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  it's the army or the Navy or whoever,
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  um, in those games,
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  what I find more incredible than anything.
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  is those young men are out there playing
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  a game to get their education to go
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  serve our country and those guys are when
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  you want to talk about what i feel
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  like a a absolutely pure all-american
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  athlete is it's those two football teams
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  because those guys are not playing for
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  fame they're not playing for a scholarship
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  they're not playing for an nil deal
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  they're not playing to go on to the
• 18:49
  nfl they are playing to go save your
• 18:53
  life
• 18:54
  That's what they're playing football.
• 18:56
  And now that's why it's the best game
• 18:58
  to me again,
• 18:59
  with all the pageantry and everything
• 19:00
  else.
• 19:01
  And then,
• 19:01
  and if it just happens to snow,
• 19:03
  cause that always seems to make it a
• 19:04
  little bit better for me,
• 19:05
  but like bucket list stuff, that,
• 19:07
  that would be a game that would be,
• 19:09
  and I'm not even, like I said,
• 19:10
  not military guy.
• 19:11
  That's definitely bucket list item.
• 19:13
  I'm a Tennessee fan.
• 19:15
  Okay.
• 19:16
  And Tennessee is playing in a music city
• 19:18
  bowl this year.
• 19:20
  If you gave me an option to go
• 19:23
  sit in the nosebleeds of the Army-Navy
• 19:26
  game or sideline UT game,
• 19:30
  I'll go to the Army-Navy game every day.
• 19:32
  Some opportunities.
• 19:33
  Being young and dumb,
• 19:35
  I was stationed in Philadelphia when the
• 19:37
  game used to be at Veterans Stadium.
• 19:39
  Oh, wow.
• 19:40
  And I never went.
• 19:43
  Oh.
• 19:43
  But, you know, Charlie,
• 19:45
  something you mentioned there,
• 19:46
  you talked about service and the
• 19:48
  brotherhood.
• 19:49
  And I was thinking about James sitting
• 19:51
  here.
• 19:55
  I met James through service.
• 19:59
  And that brotherhood that I had in the
• 20:01
  military or being a police officer,
• 20:05
  I have found that.
• 20:08
  at a time in my life when I
• 20:09
  needed it most.
• 20:11
  And I found it with men and women
• 20:16
  who are here to serve the greatest that
• 20:20
  we can have, and that's God.
• 20:23
  And James has been counsel to me because
• 20:26
  I'm still broke up here and in here,
• 20:29
  getting better every day.
• 20:31
  But I get that through God.
• 20:34
  and through guys like James that I get
• 20:36
  to serve with in this ministry and on
• 20:42
  this wild plan that God has for me
• 20:45
  in my life.
• 20:45
  I've been given a great opportunity in the
• 20:49
  past three months to serve at the Journey
• 20:53
  Home.
• 20:53
  And if it wasn't for James and the
• 20:56
  many others on our board of directors and
• 20:59
  that work there,
• 21:02
  i wouldn't be where i am today sure
• 21:04
  well it's iron sharpens iron you know and
• 21:07
  that's the great thing about kind of in
• 21:09
  the military whatever you're doing when
• 21:12
  you're doing it together and you're kind
• 21:13
  of developing each other and you're
• 21:15
  encouraging each other and it's pretty
• 21:18
  powerful i i would have never thought in
• 21:20
  a in a hundred years growing up in
• 21:22
  the last cassis um
• 21:25
  that God would have let me travel this
• 21:27
  path that I've been on,
• 21:28
  and it's been a road.
• 21:29
  It involved three wives in jail a couple
• 21:33
  of times.
• 21:34
  Oh, yeah.
• 21:35
  Used to put people like me in jail.
• 21:40
  We call that colorful.
• 21:41
  Well, and to be angry at God.
• 21:44
  and not accept him as being in control
• 21:46
  of my life.
• 21:47
  But then realizing you had mentioned it
• 21:50
  earlier,
• 21:51
  I think before we went on air about
• 21:53
  having a plan.
• 21:54
  Yeah.
• 21:55
  And I used to think that was a
• 21:57
  sign of weakness that you had a plan.
• 21:59
  Yeah.
• 21:59
  Okay.
• 22:00
  Right.
• 22:02
  He does.
• 22:03
  Sure.
• 22:03
  And I'll tell you about it every day.
• 22:06
  You are not in control.
• 22:08
  That is for sure.
• 22:09
  Let's take a quick break.
• 22:11
  And when we come back,
• 22:12
  we're going to talk more about that.
• 22:18
  I apologize if I talk too much.
• 22:20
  I get fired up sometimes.
• 22:22
  Oh, we hadn't even got started.
• 22:25
  You're going to get us both on the
• 22:26
  road.
• 22:27
  Welcome back, guys.
• 22:28
  Single Tree Nation.
• 22:29
  Back with Charlie and Billy and James from
• 22:33
  The Journey Home.
• 22:35
  And interesting conversation already.
• 22:38
  I am reminded just through what y'all said
• 22:43
  right before the break,
• 22:44
  you were talking about the brotherhood and
• 22:46
  iron sharpens iron.
• 22:48
  we don't realize how close we get to
• 22:49
  people or how close they get to us,
• 22:53
  uh,
• 22:53
  until sometimes then that one thing will
• 22:56
  kind of get said or kind of mentioned.
• 22:58
  And what I bring it up is specific
• 23:00
  between Charlie and I, uh, few weeks ago,
• 23:04
  I was in my little rut and kind
• 23:06
  of, uh,
• 23:07
  and he comes up to me and he's
• 23:09
  like, Hey, you good?
• 23:10
  And it was a text.
• 23:12
  And then it followed when we saw each
• 23:13
  other and I was like, yeah,
• 23:14
  why he goes, I could tell.
• 23:16
  And.
• 23:18
  You need,
• 23:19
  and I think there are people in our
• 23:20
  lives, if we're willing to listen,
• 23:22
  who can tell to whatever extent.
• 23:26
  I had not shared anything openly with him,
• 23:28
  hadn't gone off about, hey,
• 23:29
  here's what it all is.
• 23:31
  He just knew because the way,
• 23:34
  literally he said it was the way you
• 23:35
  were texting.
• 23:37
  And I thought if there's people that can
• 23:39
  tell me about the way I'm texting, like,
• 23:40
  well, what are we doing now?
• 23:42
  And, uh,
• 23:43
  cause that's what certainly oftentimes we
• 23:44
  think that's just the wife that'll know
• 23:46
  that,
• 23:46
  or that's just a mother or a father.
• 23:49
  And here you have somebody you've allowed
• 23:50
  to get close with and.
• 23:52
  You talk about the iron sharpens iron.
• 23:53
  I actually saw that phrase and that Bible
• 23:55
  verse just about a week ago.
• 23:58
  And I thought to myself,
• 23:59
  how many times are we sharpening each
• 24:02
  other and not even realizing it?
• 24:04
  So from that aspect, I do appreciate you.
• 24:07
  And I know me and you share a
• 24:08
  lot of stuff off of air.
• 24:09
  I love your face.
• 24:12
  It's a hard one to like,
• 24:13
  so I'll take what I can get.
• 24:15
  I will tell you that it is much
• 24:17
  better with a beard.
• 24:18
  Oh, man.
• 24:19
  I have seen some of those clips.
• 24:23
  I had a student tell me that goes,
• 24:24
  Hey, Mr. Wells.
• 24:26
  I said, yeah, he goes,
• 24:26
  I'm glad it's back.
• 24:27
  That's like me too.
• 24:30
  Oh, okay.
• 24:31
  So back in,
• 24:33
  I forget the date we did that.
• 24:34
  Was that September?
• 24:36
  Uh, end of September, September,
• 24:39
  September, September,
• 24:40
  we had opportunity to raise some money for
• 24:43
  uh minutes wisely and a local it was
• 24:46
  the first week of september okay and um
• 24:49
  we were helping raise some money for they
• 24:51
  were helping raise some money for young
• 24:52
  man i just happened to be in the
• 24:53
  parking lot having a good time hanging out
• 24:54
  kind of seeing folks right and uh charlie
• 24:59
  comes up and he's just talking like he
• 25:01
  does and the band had stopped for just
• 25:03
  a moment he's like hey just uh just
• 25:05
  so you all know anybody that uh
• 25:08
  Uh,
• 25:09
  pledges much I'll shave my beard and he
• 25:11
  comes off the stage and I was like,
• 25:12
  Hey, you know what?
• 25:14
  Double it.
• 25:14
  I'll do it too.
• 25:16
  And five, it couldn't have been,
• 25:18
  it felt like seconds.
• 25:19
  Now looking back at it,
• 25:21
  somebody comes up and goes like, Hey,
• 25:23
  somebody made the donation.
• 25:24
  And I remember thinking there's no way
• 25:26
  nobody's going to do it.
• 25:27
  not only did they make the donation, uh,
• 25:30
  somebody had clippers on site.
• 25:31
  And so now the benefit of this,
• 25:34
  that was really cool.
• 25:35
  The young man that we were trying to
• 25:37
  raise money for is, uh, uh,
• 25:38
  I believe he's nine, nine years old, um,
• 25:41
  brain tumor, um, Mason Asher, Mason Asher.
• 25:45
  And he,
• 25:46
  he was there and he got to help
• 25:49
  shave Charlie's beard.
• 25:50
  And when you get to realize that, man,
• 25:53
  that's just freaking hair, like who cares?
• 25:56
  Uh, but, um,
• 25:57
  that being said um vanity included i'm
• 26:01
  glad to have my beard back but mason
• 26:04
  definitely deserved that and he got a
• 26:06
  great deal out of it they had set
• 26:07
  minutes wisely set the family up with a
• 26:10
  trip to disney world and he had wanted
• 26:11
  to get one of the custom lightsabers and
• 26:13
  they got the whole package and they got
• 26:14
  everybody to pitch stuff in and
• 26:16
  uh and helped him out with some bills
• 26:17
  and stuff and just absolutely phenomenal
• 26:19
  and it was a night worth having and
• 26:22
  but it was shocking to see my kids
• 26:23
  faces and i i i got to see
• 26:26
  his wife's response that was the best
• 26:28
  response few of those videos so people
• 26:31
  doing that yeah so she wouldn't talk to
• 26:33
  me for
• 26:35
  Well,
• 26:35
  I noticed a difference today and I wasn't
• 26:38
  going to say anything.
• 26:39
  Yeah, it's a lot shorter.
• 26:40
  It's just now coming back to what it
• 26:41
  needs to be.
• 26:42
  It's just now to where I look.
• 26:45
  I went to my son's basketball game last
• 26:47
  night and one of the kids on my
• 26:49
  middle child's baseball team happened to
• 26:51
  be there.
• 26:52
  And I haven't seen them since I did
• 26:54
  it.
• 26:56
  I saw them,
• 26:57
  I think the week after I cut it
• 26:59
  off and he walks up to me in
• 27:01
  the basketball game and goes,
• 27:03
  thank goodness.
• 27:04
  And I went, what are you talking about?
• 27:07
  He goes, your face,
• 27:10
  it's starting to look normal.
• 27:12
  There's a status quo for what people get
• 27:14
  used to.
• 27:15
  And when it gets broken,
• 27:16
  especially like in life,
• 27:17
  I can only imagine if you think you're
• 27:19
  used to driving my car and I go
• 27:20
  to my job and I do whatever.
• 27:22
  and then you hit that hiccup you're
• 27:23
  talking about earlier um i'm thankful for
• 27:25
  places like journey home that that do that
• 27:28
  so there's so many people that are just
• 27:30
  living on the fringe right there getting
• 27:32
  by and if they have one life event
• 27:36
  that probably would affect us to some
• 27:39
  degree it's it it can really disrupt their
• 27:43
  world right now they're living in their
• 27:44
  car with their kids
• 27:48
  I mean, their car gets repossessed.
• 27:50
  Then what?
• 27:53
  I mean,
• 27:53
  it's crazy at the scenarios that happen
• 27:57
  every day to our neighbors right here in
• 27:59
  our community.
• 28:01
  Another big thing about the journey home,
• 28:02
  and James brought up a piece that's really
• 28:04
  near and dear to our heart,
• 28:05
  is the kids and helping break the cycle
• 28:10
  of homelessness.
• 28:11
  Sure.
• 28:12
  You know, sometimes...
• 28:15
  trauma and chaos become the norm.
• 28:19
  Well,
• 28:19
  we try to bring the peace to the
• 28:21
  chaos through Christ the best we can.
• 28:25
  And part of the journey home,
• 28:26
  one of the, you know,
• 28:27
  you mentioned the new facility that we
• 28:29
  built, if you don't mind,
• 28:30
  I'd talk about that.
• 28:31
  No, plug it.
• 28:32
  Absolutely.
• 28:32
  This wonderful,
• 28:33
  wonderful community we live in.
• 28:36
  We built a six point five million dollar
• 28:38
  facility
• 28:39
  off of donations that right there says
• 28:44
  enough ninety thousand dollars under
• 28:46
  budget yeah not one penny of government
• 28:49
  money it all came from our community i
• 28:53
  mean we have a great community absolutely
• 28:56
  caring people, giving people.
• 28:59
  They volunteer their time,
• 29:00
  their resources.
• 29:01
  It's amazing.
• 29:02
  It really is.
• 29:03
  And a big part of building this new
• 29:06
  facility was the ten interim family
• 29:10
  housing units.
• 29:11
  We have basically, uh,
• 29:13
  ten hotel rooms in our facilities that are
• 29:16
  for families that are homeless.
• 29:18
  A mom with kids,
• 29:19
  a mom and dad with kids,
• 29:20
  a dad with kids that we can house
• 29:23
  them there and get them those three pieces
• 29:25
  back or help them get those three pieces
• 29:27
  back,
• 29:27
  walk with them to get the economic
• 29:29
  stability, um, to get, to get their, uh,
• 29:34
  their health back in order.
• 29:36
  Um, and that's,
• 29:37
  that's another wonderful piece that we
• 29:39
  have, um,
• 29:42
  there that a lot of people don't know
• 29:44
  about um we have a health and wellness
• 29:46
  unit at our facility before you go to
• 29:48
  that let me say something because this was
• 29:50
  something that was enlightening to me when
• 29:52
  i first started serving at the journey
• 29:54
  home in our community um there were just
• 29:58
  there's just a couple of emergency housing
• 30:01
  units for families for families
• 30:03
  And if you have a teenage son, say,
• 30:07
  thirteen, if you're a single mom,
• 30:08
  you're out there,
• 30:09
  you're homeless with your kids.
• 30:10
  You've got a thirteen year old son.
• 30:12
  He can't stay at the family shelter with
• 30:14
  you.
• 30:15
  He has to go to the men's shelter.
• 30:17
  So now you're faced with this this
• 30:19
  at thirteen yeah at thirteen and i'm like
• 30:22
  i'm a dad a boy dad you know
• 30:24
  and i'm thinking i could not imagine that
• 30:27
  you know there's nowhere for her to go
• 30:29
  and keep the family unit together so not
• 30:31
  only have they been traumatized by
• 30:32
  whatever life situation now you throw this
• 30:35
  on top of it you're splitting the family
• 30:37
  up even more it's traumatizing and they're
• 30:39
  going to i wonder why that is but
• 30:42
  why do you take a thirteen-year-old boy
• 30:43
  away from his family um
• 30:46
  and make him go to a totally different
• 30:48
  place.
• 30:48
  I'm going to ask that in a different
• 30:50
  way.
• 30:50
  Is that a legal ramification or is that
• 30:53
  worries of, of just situational?
• 30:57
  Uh, are there, you know what I'm saying?
• 31:00
  Or is that just a protocol that was
• 31:02
  developed and we stuck it and never really
• 31:04
  revisited it?
• 31:05
  It probably depends on each organization I
• 31:07
  would say in the rules that they set.
• 31:09
  Okay.
• 31:10
  Yeah.
• 31:10
  Um, but,
• 31:13
  what that'll what that lends to though is
• 31:16
  them going back to their car and them
• 31:18
  not taking help because they don't want to
• 31:20
  split up the family sure absolutely right
• 31:22
  yeah um in in this time of the
• 31:24
  year um you guys may not be aware
• 31:27
  but tonight it's going to be really cold
• 31:29
  yeah it's going to be
• 31:32
  So one of the programs that the Journey
• 31:35
  Home sponsors is the Coldest Nights
• 31:36
  program.
• 31:38
  Any night between November the fifteenth
• 31:40
  and March the fifteenth, every year,
• 31:42
  we open the shelter at First Baptist
• 31:44
  Church on Main Street in St.
• 31:46
  Paul's for men and women.
• 31:50
  which it's a huge lifesaver this time of
• 31:53
  the year.
• 31:54
  You don't hear of people dying in
• 31:56
  Murfreesboro from freezing to death.
• 32:00
  And one of the programs that's been
• 32:03
  around, I think since, is this program.
• 32:08
  But we've been faced with that,
• 32:10
  with a mom come in with a son,
• 32:13
  and you can't split them up.
• 32:14
  Well,
• 32:15
  we have funds through donations and grants
• 32:17
  where we can find emergency shelter for
• 32:19
  them or we can get them in a
• 32:20
  hotel room in those situations.
• 32:23
  But with these family housing units,
• 32:25
  we get them into these units.
• 32:27
  And our goal is, thirty, sixty,
• 32:29
  ninety days, hopefully,
• 32:31
  to get them in there, get their documents.
• 32:33
  When you're homeless and you have all this
• 32:35
  trauma going on, you lose your documents.
• 32:37
  Well,
• 32:37
  the most important thing you have is your
• 32:39
  documentation.
• 32:41
  I can't imagine if you lost your driver's
• 32:42
  license what you couldn't do without that.
• 32:44
  I drove for seven years without one.
• 32:46
  A little bit of a different scenario,
• 32:49
  I do believe.
• 32:51
  Just slightly.
• 32:55
  But that's our goal is to get them
• 32:57
  in there, get them safe, minister to them,
• 33:02
  love on them,
• 33:03
  show the kids that there's a different way
• 33:05
  to life,
• 33:07
  and to help them find
• 33:10
  a way to become productive citizens of our
• 33:13
  community.
• 33:15
  And it's temporary.
• 33:16
  It's a temporary emergency housing.
• 33:18
  So we can put them there,
• 33:19
  get them off the street,
• 33:20
  keep them together, safe,
• 33:23
  and then we can work on trying to
• 33:25
  find a more permanent solution for them,
• 33:27
  put them into that more permanent
• 33:29
  solution,
• 33:29
  and then it frees up space for another
• 33:31
  family.
• 33:31
  And it's a cost-effective solution as
• 33:34
  well.
• 33:34
  And we can talk about permanent supportive
• 33:36
  housing later on if you want.
• 33:38
  But we can get them in there,
• 33:40
  stabilize them in our facility to where it
• 33:42
  would cost us.
• 33:45
  I just put a lady in a hotel
• 33:46
  last week and
• 33:48
  And a hotel that I probably wouldn't stay
• 33:50
  in with my fiance.
• 33:52
  And it cost us ninety six dollars a
• 33:54
  night during the week.
• 33:55
  And the price went up on the weekend.
• 33:58
  But now we've got this wonderful facility
• 34:00
  where we can use those funds for other
• 34:02
  things to help pay for deposits,
• 34:06
  help repair cars and to get people back
• 34:09
  to where they need to be.
• 34:10
  Yeah.
• 34:12
  I'm going to step into,
• 34:13
  you mentioned your fiance and I'm going to
• 34:15
  step into the personal side of your life.
• 34:17
  Cause you brought up earlier that element
• 34:19
  of being homeless and being able to speak
• 34:22
  to,
• 34:24
  to that with people who may be in
• 34:25
  that situation.
• 34:27
  Uh, your background is lively and I,
• 34:31
  you know, yeah.
• 34:38
  Well done.
• 34:42
  How does that,
• 34:43
  when you're sitting across the table,
• 34:45
  when you're sitting on the park bench,
• 34:46
  when you're sitting just in the facility
• 34:48
  with somebody and like,
• 34:50
  you wouldn't understand.
• 34:52
  And the moment that you're like, Hey,
• 34:54
  hold up, bet you I do.
• 34:58
  What kind of connection
• 35:00
  You mentioned pre-show that you've held
• 35:03
  jobs in your life,
• 35:04
  but this is the first job that God's
• 35:06
  called you to.
• 35:07
  But how many of those other situations
• 35:10
  that you were in have allowed you to
• 35:12
  speak to these people?
• 35:13
  And what kind of connectivity does that
• 35:15
  give you?
• 35:15
  Because you, look, let's be honest.
• 35:17
  There's probably people on y'all's board
• 35:19
  and stuff that they've never had to deal
• 35:20
  with any of those issues.
• 35:22
  But then here's our lead guy who's like,
• 35:24
  check, got that one, got that one,
• 35:26
  got the, you know.
• 35:27
  Where does that lend you to having some
• 35:29
  street cred, if you will?
• 35:32
  It's helped out in so many ways.
• 35:37
  When you're open and honest with people,
• 35:42
  I think it leads to building a
• 35:43
  relationship to know that they're not
• 35:46
  alone.
• 35:47
  That's the biggest challenge I faced when
• 35:50
  I was battling depression.
• 35:52
  alcoholism every day, um, was I was alone.
• 35:57
  I had no one, but if I,
• 35:59
  I can share with them that I have
• 36:01
  been in your shoes and that my problem
• 36:04
  started at childhood through childhood
• 36:07
  trauma.
• 36:07
  And,
• 36:08
  and I can walk those steps openly and
• 36:10
  honestly with them and they can see I
• 36:14
  am
• 36:18
  I try to be a bright light to
• 36:19
  show them that I have been in your
• 36:21
  shoes and this is how I've been in
• 36:23
  your shoes.
• 36:24
  This is what I have done.
• 36:26
  This is how I have hurt people.
• 36:29
  But look at today.
• 36:31
  I have guys less financially today than
• 36:35
  I've ever had.
• 36:36
  I had six figure jobs.
• 36:38
  My last job with the US government,
• 36:40
  well prior to the VA,
• 36:42
  was I sat on the ninth floor of
• 36:43
  National Place in Washington DC and I
• 36:46
  looked at the White House.
• 36:49
  And I lost all of that for two
• 36:51
  reasons,
• 36:52
  alcoholism and lack of Jesus in my life.
• 36:56
  And I share that with people and I
• 36:58
  share with them what that will get you
• 37:00
  if you let God in your life and
• 37:02
  you're open and honest about who you are,
• 37:04
  what you are,
• 37:06
  And you lean on people.
• 37:07
  A hard thing,
• 37:08
  we talked about veterans and dealing with
• 37:13
  females in life.
• 37:15
  The hardest thing I ever had to do
• 37:16
  was ask for help.
• 37:18
  And the second hardest thing I ever had
• 37:20
  to do was accept that help because I
• 37:23
  didn't need help because I was me.
• 37:27
  I was a veteran.
• 37:29
  I was a SWAT officer.
• 37:30
  I was a police officer.
• 37:31
  I've been places and done things a lot
• 37:33
  of people haven't.
• 37:34
  I couldn't beat alcohol.
• 37:37
  It beat me.
• 37:38
  I quit.
• 37:39
  I give up.
• 37:42
  And I just share that with people.
• 37:44
  And I smile because my yesterdays are
• 37:47
  funny.
• 37:49
  They are to me,
• 37:50
  but my yesterdays are yesterday.
• 37:54
  you mentioned a while ago feeling down or
• 37:57
  blue about something i have pity parties
• 37:59
  today uh in aaa that's what they call
• 38:02
  them okay sorry for myself yeah that's
• 38:04
  beat me um but i i know through
• 38:07
  counseling and i've been to a lot of
• 38:08
  counseling um that i have to tell myself
• 38:12
  two things yesterday is yesterday and i
• 38:16
  share that with people do you find
• 38:19
  yourself
• 38:22
  looking back and I went through a period
• 38:26
  of life where I wasn't walking the way
• 38:29
  I should, my relationship with the Lord.
• 38:30
  And I,
• 38:31
  I made some decisions that were very, um,
• 38:35
  not what I would have wanted to do
• 38:36
  given the time.
• 38:39
  But looking back, I literally,
• 38:42
  I told this to my mom the other
• 38:43
  day, if you get me worked up crying,
• 38:45
  I'm going to,
• 38:49
  I look back and it literally feels like,
• 38:53
  seems like, looks like a different person.
• 38:58
  Like I'm not crazy, right?
• 38:59
  Like you're, you're, you're thinking like,
• 39:02
  man, I'm going to tell you one thing.
• 39:04
  You cry.
• 39:06
  Being vulnerable is one of the strongest
• 39:08
  things you can do.
• 39:09
  I got no problem crying.
• 39:10
  I just don't want to do it on
• 39:11
  air.
• 39:15
  It wouldn't be the first time.
• 39:18
  I look back at my yesterdays.
• 39:20
  Um,
• 39:22
  I was not a bad person and I
• 39:24
  used to judge myself as being bad.
• 39:27
  Um,
• 39:28
  I still have a lot of regrets today,
• 39:32
  but that's yesterday.
• 39:33
  That's yesterday.
• 39:34
  I don't recognize myself anymore.
• 39:38
  I remember what I did.
• 39:40
  Um, my sister gave me, um,
• 39:46
  works at the sheriff's department here.
• 39:47
  And for my fifth year of sobriety,
• 39:49
  she sent me my booking photo from nine
• 39:51
  four.
• 39:52
  Well,
• 39:52
  I still share that because that's who I
• 39:55
  used to be.
• 39:57
  I broke a lot of relationships over those
• 40:00
  times.
• 40:01
  Um, I can't make those better.
• 40:04
  Um,
• 40:05
  there's a lot of relationships now that I
• 40:08
  don't have with people because I have
• 40:10
  changed.
• 40:12
  They didn't.
• 40:13
  Um,
• 40:16
  But go back to what you asked.
• 40:19
  I feel like with the background that Billy
• 40:23
  has and you're talking to somebody who is
• 40:26
  in need of help,
• 40:28
  it can give them hope.
• 40:30
  And that's what you're really trying to do
• 40:31
  is give people hope so they can pick
• 40:34
  their self up and start moving forward.
• 40:36
  Do you find it's not just the hope?
• 40:39
  It's for me, this is my personal opinion.
• 40:46
  Hope is amazing,
• 40:48
  but it's empty without action.
• 40:50
  Right.
• 40:52
  if you don't have the action to back
• 40:53
  it up,
• 40:55
  false hope is just as bad as not
• 40:57
  having hope.
• 41:00
  If there's action behind that hope,
• 41:01
  then it becomes something that can fulfill
• 41:04
  people and help people move forward with
• 41:06
  things.
• 41:07
  And I feel like what you guys are
• 41:09
  doing, from hearing you talk,
• 41:12
  I'm not an expert on all things journey
• 41:14
  home.
• 41:14
  You guys are.
• 41:16
  But from hearing you guys talk and what
• 41:17
  you guys are doing and what you have
• 41:19
  done already,
• 41:20
  the hope is just a part of it
• 41:23
  it's the actions that help you and you
• 41:25
  talk about the three legs and the pillars
• 41:27
  and all the things that you have to
• 41:28
  do to accomplish to get get the car
• 41:31
  back on the road to be able to
• 41:32
  go get the job to go get those
• 41:33
  other things the hope is the journey home
• 41:38
  itself
• 41:39
  and making that contact the action of
• 41:42
  doing all of that is what fulfills that
• 41:44
  hope which drives people to be successful
• 41:48
  in not becoming homeless again or getting
• 41:52
  out of being homeless
• 41:54
  You know, as a board member,
• 41:57
  this is my community.
• 41:58
  This is where I grew up.
• 42:00
  And I've served, you know,
• 42:01
  in emergency services, you know,
• 42:03
  in the past as a volunteer.
• 42:07
  You know, so I care about my community.
• 42:10
  And I'm in real estate.
• 42:11
  So I know from my chair in real
• 42:15
  estate.
• 42:16
  Some of the things we do causes housing
• 42:20
  issues because you take homes that are in
• 42:23
  disrepair and, you know, a bad area,
• 42:27
  which is an affordable house for some
• 42:29
  people.
• 42:30
  You know, we buy it,
• 42:31
  we fix it up,
• 42:32
  we make it better for the community,
• 42:35
  better for the neighborhood,
• 42:36
  but it also brings the price of the
• 42:38
  home up.
• 42:39
  And you take a unit that could have
• 42:41
  been affordable housing out.
• 42:48
  I'm going to somewhat disagree with you.
• 42:53
  I don't believe taking a home that is
• 42:56
  in disrepair and making it nicer, better,
• 43:01
  livable, whatever.
• 43:03
  Yes, it increases the value of the home,
• 43:05
  sure.
• 43:08
  But I don't think that hurts the
• 43:09
  community.
• 43:10
  What I think has hurt our community from
• 43:12
  a standpoint is multifaceted.
• 43:16
  And it's some of the things that I
• 43:17
  talk about that our community,
• 43:19
  and I can take all the backlash from
• 43:21
  anybody who wants to step up to the
• 43:23
  plate and give it to me.
• 43:26
  We need to stop worrying about...
• 43:28
  development in our community and start
• 43:32
  worrying about infrastructure.
• 43:34
  We need to stop worrying about how we
• 43:37
  are going to drive more retail space and
• 43:40
  more housing into the community and worry
• 43:43
  about how we are going to put more
• 43:45
  money into our law enforcement.
• 43:47
  We need to worry about how we are
• 43:49
  going to help our teachers and our
• 43:51
  education department in Rutherford County
• 43:54
  versus trying to get political points and
• 43:57
  being whatever you're trying to go for in
• 44:01
  your political career.
• 44:02
  And I have built a reputation for.
• 44:07
  About our school board specifically.
• 44:11
  I'm sorry.
• 44:13
  Nobody's heard that before.
• 44:15
  But, you know, real estate, yes.
• 44:21
  Doing those things can cause prices to go
• 44:23
  up.
• 44:24
  Sure.
• 44:25
  But flipping a house and making it nicer
• 44:29
  is not going to cause us to go
• 44:31
  down that road.
• 44:32
  I know for me,
• 44:33
  it was like I need to be involved
• 44:35
  in trying to help the people who are
• 44:37
  on the fringe.
• 44:39
  I can't just be over here.
• 44:41
  I've also got to be a part of
• 44:42
  the solution in our community.
• 44:44
  for sure and so for me that was
• 44:46
  the incentive to start serving at the
• 44:49
  journey home yeah and um and i know
• 44:51
  last year we we embarked um on a
• 44:57
  scientific study that we did with a group
• 45:00
  of other non-profits
• 45:02
  uh, for nine months and we,
• 45:03
  we analyzed our housing program.
• 45:06
  And part of that, uh,
• 45:08
  it was a very scientific approach,
• 45:09
  but part of it was interviewing our
• 45:11
  clients one-on-one.
• 45:13
  So as a board member,
• 45:15
  I got to sit down with our clients,
• 45:16
  which I don't get to do often,
• 45:18
  you know, I mean,
• 45:19
  that's the staff that's there every day.
• 45:21
  And so I got to listen, um,
• 45:25
  to those
• 45:26
  And it was powerful.
• 45:29
  I mean, one guy I talked to,
• 45:31
  he was like, I've worked my whole life.
• 45:33
  I've never been in need of anything.
• 45:36
  I got,
• 45:38
  he got some type of disease that affected
• 45:42
  him.
• 45:42
  He could no longer work.
• 45:44
  And he's living in his truck.
• 45:46
  He's still trying to go and do,
• 45:48
  but he can't afford a house.
• 45:50
  He couldn't afford all these things.
• 45:52
  He would put himself in a hotel every
• 45:53
  once in a while.
• 45:54
  He didn't have a clue who the journey
• 45:56
  home was.
• 45:56
  He didn't even know how to pick himself
• 45:58
  up and try to find a solution.
• 46:01
  How do you guys from a...
• 46:05
  lack of a better wording,
• 46:05
  market the journey home.
• 46:07
  Like we, we talk,
• 46:08
  we were talking about earlier today.
• 46:09
  We talk about it quite often, you know,
• 46:12
  storytelling is, is the new yellow pages.
• 46:15
  Right.
• 46:16
  Um, but being in, in, in,
• 46:19
  in a previous show, we had a, uh,
• 46:22
  professional marketer on,
• 46:24
  and it's two sided, right?
• 46:26
  You have to do the in-person stuff.
• 46:28
  And when your clientele for lack of better
• 46:32
  wording, uh, they, uh,
• 46:34
  probably don't have a cell phone and wifi
• 46:37
  and a TV to watch, right?
• 46:39
  Because you're trying to help them get out
• 46:41
  of that.
• 46:42
  So how do you,
• 46:42
  how do you reach those people to find
• 46:44
  you?
• 46:46
  Well,
• 46:47
  that community is it's it's its own
• 46:51
  telecommunication network word gets
• 46:53
  around.
• 46:54
  Um,
• 46:55
  the one thing you ask about marketing the
• 46:58
  journey home, um,
• 46:59
  We were a real quiet organization for
• 47:02
  many, many years.
• 47:03
  A lot of people only knew of that
• 47:06
  place on Castle Street that fed people and
• 47:09
  all the homeless people hung out at.
• 47:11
  Literally,
• 47:11
  it's all I thought you did was feed
• 47:13
  people.
• 47:13
  You've been here how long?
• 47:15
  I grew up.
• 47:15
  I've been here since nineteen eighty four.
• 47:17
  I mean, of my forty six years,
• 47:20
  I've been here, you know,
• 47:21
  forty two of them or whatever the number
• 47:23
  is.
• 47:23
  So our executive director, Scott Foster,
• 47:26
  that founded the journey home back about
• 47:27
  seventeen or eighteen years ago,
• 47:30
  wasn't into marketing,
• 47:34
  wasn't telling the word of the journey
• 47:36
  home out loud.
• 47:40
  We decided to start this capital campaign
• 47:42
  and found out that was one of our
• 47:44
  shortcomings that people didn't know about
• 47:48
  us, didn't know what we did.
• 47:50
  And we found it's doing things like this,
• 47:52
  just here talking to you guys,
• 47:53
  talking at restaurants.
• 47:55
  We have a volunteer coordinator that goes
• 47:57
  out in the community now,
• 47:59
  our development team.
• 48:00
  And we've got a wonderful team of
• 48:02
  volunteers from business leaders across
• 48:04
  the community.
• 48:05
  James go to different events to tell
• 48:09
  people what we do.
• 48:11
  We share it with our faith leaders.
• 48:13
  We're embedded in churches.
• 48:15
  And that's the way the word is spread.
• 48:18
  People naturally flock to church to get
• 48:22
  support, to get benevolence.
• 48:25
  And they're pushing people our direction
• 48:27
  now.
• 48:28
  Well, and when I talked to my pastor,
• 48:30
  he didn't know about the journey home.
• 48:32
  And I went to him and I said,
• 48:33
  listen,
• 48:33
  we've got people who come to our church
• 48:35
  and need help.
• 48:37
  We don't know if they are legitimate or
• 48:39
  not.
• 48:40
  And so we're always faced with this
• 48:41
  struggle because we have limited
• 48:43
  resources.
• 48:43
  You want to truly help people.
• 48:46
  it's not our job to vet those people.
• 48:49
  Right.
• 48:49
  And I said,
• 48:49
  what we need to do as a church
• 48:51
  is support the journey home because they
• 48:53
  know how to vet them and they know
• 48:55
  that that money that we're spending there
• 49:00
  is going to actually help people,
• 49:01
  you know,
• 49:02
  because they're they're doing the work of
• 49:03
  that.
• 49:04
  And so our faith community here in
• 49:07
  Murfreesboro, Rutherford County,
• 49:09
  they're our backbone.
• 49:11
  Yeah, they are our backbone.
• 49:13
  I'm in a wonderful church
• 49:15
  Every day I see people from my church
• 49:19
  in that building.
• 49:20
  Nice.
• 49:20
  Which is amazing.
• 49:23
  Let's take a quick break and then we'll
• 49:26
  come back and mack your beans.
• 49:32
  Welcome back guys.
• 49:33
  Uh, Billy James journey home.
• 49:36
  It's been a wonderful conversation and,
• 49:39
  and, but we, we have a segment that,
• 49:43
  uh,
• 49:43
  we do on every show and it's a,
• 49:45
  this or that.
• 49:46
  And so the first part will be twofold
• 49:48
  for, for both of you.
• 49:50
  But my, my Mac or beans is,
• 49:53
  is zeroed in specifically on you.
• 49:55
  So we'll get to enjoy that.
• 49:57
  But, uh, you go to a barbecue restaurant.
• 50:00
  Typically there's two sides.
• 50:02
  You sit down, waitress comes.
• 50:05
  Are you getting the baked beans or are
• 50:07
  you getting the macaroni and cheese?
• 50:10
  I'm getting the baked beans.
• 50:11
  I'm going Mac.
• 50:15
  Straight up Mac.
• 50:15
  Didn't even hesitate.
• 50:16
  What if it's bad Mac?
• 50:18
  I'll tell you.
• 50:19
  Okay.
• 50:20
  There's one restaurant here in
• 50:21
  Murfreesboro.
• 50:22
  Okay.
• 50:24
  So it's funny.
• 50:26
  And just a quick side note of this.
• 50:28
  My,
• 50:28
  my mother's church had their little
• 50:30
  potluck this week for the Christmas
• 50:31
  potluck thing.
• 50:32
  And she brought home some leftovers.
• 50:34
  When I was kind of raiding what she
• 50:36
  had in there,
• 50:36
  some of it was just taught.
• 50:37
  I mean, cause a good old Baptist church,
• 50:39
  like there's a good side to all it.
• 50:41
  Right.
• 50:42
  And I opened that pan of Mac and
• 50:44
  beans and I said, mom, who did this?
• 50:47
  She goes, I don't know.
• 50:48
  I said, well, they can keep it.
• 50:50
  And I felt a little bit judgy for
• 50:51
  the moment,
• 50:52
  but it wasn't like your typical Baptist
• 50:54
  church, Mac or beans.
• 50:55
  And I was like, eh,
• 50:56
  so it took me off a little bit.
• 50:57
  So.
• 50:58
  How do you think I feel when I
• 50:59
  go to my in-laws for Thanksgiving?
• 51:03
  Here's what I think is funny about that.
• 51:06
  I've given too much thought here recently
• 51:08
  to restaurant operators and owners,
• 51:11
  especially small business,
• 51:12
  not corporate stuff.
• 51:15
  What's it like when you go to a
• 51:19
  back home meal?
• 51:20
  It's a holiday meal.
• 51:21
  It's a family, you know,
• 51:22
  somebody's birthday and the food ain't
• 51:25
  that great.
• 51:26
  You know what I'm saying?
• 51:28
  I would think most restaurant operators or
• 51:31
  owners are used to a really good meal,
• 51:34
  or they know where to get a really
• 51:36
  good meal.
• 51:36
  They've got a little bit of a standard,
• 51:37
  right?
• 51:38
  I would tell you that.
• 51:39
  I don't want to get lost on the
• 51:40
  mac and beans here.
• 51:42
  My family in my house,
• 51:45
  I cook Thanksgiving twice.
• 51:46
  Okay.
• 51:47
  So it's pretty good.
• 51:50
  Not tooting my own horn,
• 51:52
  but it's pretty tasty.
• 51:54
  You should.
• 51:55
  I'd eat that.
• 51:59
  I cook a turkey for my in-laws' house
• 52:01
  when we go down there,
• 52:02
  and I cook a turkey for my house
• 52:04
  for my side of the family.
• 52:05
  And my wife typically makes the sides for
• 52:08
  both.
• 52:09
  So our family meal is exactly what we're
• 52:13
  looking for.
• 52:16
  I've been to some friends givings that
• 52:24
  well said that were not plate.
• 52:27
  Wasn't full.
• 52:28
  Hold the plate was full,
• 52:32
  but it didn't quite get cleaned.
• 52:34
  Now I wasn't this year.
• 52:36
  We went to a friend's giving and the
• 52:37
  food was pretty dang good.
• 52:39
  Good.
• 52:39
  Good.
• 52:40
  You know,
• 52:40
  in the past I've been to some that
• 52:42
  were, um,
• 52:44
  Yeah.
• 52:44
  Interesting.
• 52:46
  Well, Billy,
• 52:47
  you're this or that you and I are
• 52:49
  friends on social media.
• 52:52
  Some of my very favorite posts.
• 52:55
  Are you in a deer blind or a
• 52:58
  cornfield or whatever,
• 52:59
  and just your appreciation for what the
• 53:01
  world specifically the Lord has given you
• 53:04
  that morning,
• 53:04
  even when you don't get a deer,
• 53:08
  would you rather.
• 53:11
  whether it be serving at the journey home
• 53:15
  serving okay every day of the week yeah
• 53:21
  now my retort to that is does the
• 53:25
  blind give you the sight to serve it
• 53:30
  it
• 53:31
  It is my time with God,
• 53:33
  just me and him.
• 53:36
  And through sobriety,
• 53:38
  and through sobriety alone,
• 53:39
  because of him,
• 53:41
  I am able to see things today I've
• 53:43
  never seen.
• 53:44
  Amen to that.
• 53:45
  It's funny, this morning,
• 53:50
  the sunrise this morning was perfect.
• 53:51
  There was.
• 53:52
  And from my mother's back porch,
• 53:54
  you could see just enough over the trees.
• 53:56
  It's not like picturesque.
• 53:57
  It's not going to wind up on the
• 53:58
  news or anywhere.
• 53:59
  But, like, it hits just right, right?
• 54:02
  And we're staying with mom while we're
• 54:04
  switching the houses and stuff.
• 54:05
  And I walked out,
• 54:06
  and I had that cup of coffee,
• 54:07
  and I just saw that.
• 54:09
  And in that moment, it's, you know,
• 54:11
  six-thirty this morning,
• 54:12
  and I thought about you.
• 54:14
  Because the number of times you've had
• 54:16
  that post, but then each time,
• 54:18
  like you said,
• 54:19
  that gives you – it's like –
• 54:21
  your reflection on that time with God.
• 54:23
  And I don't want to step on your
• 54:24
  toes and hope I'm not sharing too much
• 54:26
  personally about what you like to do,
• 54:27
  but when you're sitting there and you're
• 54:30
  able to reflect on a day that is
• 54:33
  ahead of you and it starts out that
• 54:34
  beautiful,
• 54:35
  and then you go hear these stories of
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  how you've touched somebody's life or been
• 54:39
  able to share or help or direct or
• 54:40
  guide or even just cheer on,
• 54:45
  it's a beautiful element to have that just
• 54:47
  appreciation.
• 54:50
  It's incredible.
• 54:50
  I love it.
• 54:52
  We have another segment that I want to
• 54:54
  get to just because I'm interested in
• 54:55
  hearing the response.
• 54:57
  Table for two.
• 54:58
  Please say it's table for two.
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  So we have a segment called Table for
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  Two.
• 55:03
  Yes.
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  And out of all of the things that
• 55:08
  we've talked about and the amazing things
• 55:09
  that you guys do every single day,
• 55:13
  this is a very selfish question.
• 55:18
  If you could have dinner with anyone,
• 55:22
  past, present, or future,
• 55:25
  who would it be and why?
• 55:30
  James, you got the floor.
• 55:32
  You know,
• 55:34
  and I think this is just because of
• 55:36
  a documentary I watched recently, but FDR,
• 55:41
  Franklin Roosevelt,
• 55:44
  was a very interesting person,
• 55:47
  and he lived through a very interesting
• 55:49
  time in our history,
• 55:50
  coming out of World War I,
• 55:52
  going into World War II,
• 55:54
  the Great Depression.
• 55:56
  He had some major,
• 55:58
  major things that he had to lead our
• 56:01
  nation through,
• 56:02
  and it was a very turbulent time in
• 56:04
  our nation where...
• 56:06
  a wrong decision could have led us to
• 56:10
  away from our democracy that we appreciate
• 56:12
  and take advantage of today.
• 56:14
  And so I may have answered this
• 56:16
  differently before, but I,
• 56:18
  I thought as a leader, you know,
• 56:21
  it would be great to just sit down
• 56:24
  and, and,
• 56:24
  and really get to know him as a
• 56:27
  man and just have that experience because
• 56:30
  it was very, very eyeopening to me.
• 56:35
  Darryl, you did it.
• 56:37
  My answer is all your fault.
• 56:41
  I have a table for two set this
• 56:43
  Saturday with the love of my life.
• 56:48
  We're going to dinner at a steakhouse in
• 56:50
  Nashville and I can't think of anybody
• 56:55
  from my past that I would want to
• 56:58
  go to dinner with today.
• 57:00
  I want to go to dinner with my
• 57:02
  future.
• 57:05
  And when you said that,
• 57:06
  Jennifer was the first thing that popped
• 57:08
  in my head in our reservation Saturday
• 57:11
  night.
• 57:12
  You're trying to get me in trouble with
• 57:13
  my wife.
• 57:18
  That's the first thing that popped to my
• 57:20
  mind.
• 57:21
  It's incredible.
• 57:23
  We've answered this before,
• 57:24
  but I need to readdress mine.
• 57:25
  And it's based on what James said.
• 57:28
  I think we came to a conclusion that...
• 57:29
  You're going to say your wife, aren't you?
• 57:31
  No, I'm not.
• 57:33
  Which will probably get me in trouble now,
• 57:34
  thanks.
• 57:35
  But I had said Jesus.
• 57:38
  And just with that element of just with
• 57:40
  everything that is encapsulated with that.
• 57:44
  But I want to tweak that answer.
• 57:46
  And it's funny that you said,
• 57:47
  because you watched the documentary.
• 57:48
  I watched Kevin Costner's thing the first
• 57:50
  Christmas last night.
• 57:52
  And the large majority of what we know
• 57:54
  about Jesus is his last like three years.
• 57:59
  I want to have dinner with twenty two
• 58:02
  year old Jesus.
• 58:04
  The one who hadn't quite got all the
• 58:07
  established worldly authority yet where
• 58:09
  people are really falling and listening.
• 58:10
  He's still kind of just bumming around and
• 58:12
  learning, but he knows.
• 58:16
  And like,
• 58:16
  I want to have that conversation and see
• 58:19
  through that lens.
• 58:20
  And the reason I say it like that,
• 58:21
  I saw a thing while we're watching that
• 58:24
  episode last night,
• 58:25
  which I thought Kevin Costner did a pretty
• 58:27
  good job with because it's literally just
• 58:29
  right up to birth.
• 58:29
  And that's all he covered.
• 58:30
  It was the first Christmas, right?
• 58:32
  Mm-hmm.
• 58:34
  The way he, um,
• 58:38
  portrayed baby Jesus and gave a lot of
• 58:42
  historical detail on the Magi and who they
• 58:45
  were and it comes to him.
• 58:48
  My view of Jesus is very much those
• 58:50
  last three years.
• 58:52
  And I like to think about,
• 58:54
  consider that as that entire life went on,
• 58:57
  the amount of things we don't know.
• 58:59
  There's a lot of conversation there I need
• 59:00
  to be able to be privy to.
• 59:04
  But it's a unique aspect.
• 59:07
  So in that show last night,
• 59:09
  there was a section.
• 59:10
  Did you watch it too?
• 59:11
  Yeah.
• 59:11
  Yeah.
• 59:12
  There was a section.
• 59:13
  I had to tell everybody to be quiet.
• 59:14
  Everybody kept trying to talk over it.
• 59:15
  It was really irritating.
• 59:16
  I was like, what are y'all doing?
• 59:17
  I'm trying to hear the facts.
• 59:20
  Me and my wife got really intrigued by
• 59:22
  it.
• 59:22
  But there was a moment that...
• 59:29
  mary's standing there and joseph comes up
• 59:31
  and says i'm all in like let i
• 59:36
  love you you're my wife i'm all in
• 59:38
  let's do this and we've thought about this
• 59:43
  we've talked about this answer for many
• 59:45
  many times and and and jesus would be
• 59:50
  there
• 59:53
  but to have dinner with the two of
• 59:54
  them right after that moment.
• 59:58
  Wow.
• 59:59
  Mary Joseph.
• 1:00:00
  Yeah.
• 1:00:02
  Yeah.
• 1:00:02
  Is a total different perspective of the
• 1:00:06
  entire world.
• 1:00:07
  I think Joseph doesn't get enough credit
• 1:00:09
  sometimes for the position he was in in
• 1:00:14
  there.
• 1:00:14
  Yeah.
• 1:00:15
  And I mean, and prior to that, when,
• 1:00:18
  when she looked at him and said,
• 1:00:20
  you know, I'm out,
• 1:00:22
  You know,
• 1:00:23
  I pray that the Lord enlightened you.
• 1:00:25
  Why?
• 1:00:26
  Yeah.
• 1:00:27
  Right?
• 1:00:28
  Like,
• 1:00:28
  to be a man and have the love
• 1:00:31
  of your life look at you and tell
• 1:00:33
  you,
• 1:00:34
  I'm out and I can't tell you why.
• 1:00:37
  Hope you find out.
• 1:00:38
  Good luck.
• 1:00:40
  Right?
• 1:00:41
  Yeah.
• 1:00:42
  And for him to have...
• 1:00:44
  the enlightenment to be able to come back
• 1:00:47
  and go i'm all in yeah is is
• 1:00:50
  just absolutely incredible and to be able
• 1:00:52
  to hear that face to face and and
• 1:00:56
  to and right after that moment to be
• 1:00:59
  able to say the things that i mean
• 1:01:03
  wow yeah like i mean it's just you
• 1:01:06
  know yes to sit down with jebus would
• 1:01:08
  be i mean that's my yeah but
• 1:01:14
  But if there's a one, a right.
• 1:01:15
  Yeah, that's it.
• 1:01:17
  There you go.
• 1:01:17
  Well, I mean, you gotta,
• 1:01:19
  you gotta believe that, you know,
• 1:01:20
  without the two of them,
• 1:01:22
  there is no him.
• 1:01:23
  Right.
• 1:01:24
  Right.
• 1:01:24
  So where do you go from there?
• 1:01:27
  Would it, would it have been someone else?
• 1:01:29
  Okay, fine.
• 1:01:30
  But would they have.
• 1:01:32
  I don't know.
• 1:01:34
  I still think to what James said, though,
• 1:01:36
  Joseph,
• 1:01:37
  the credit that he had not only to
• 1:01:38
  stay but to raise who he knew Jesus
• 1:01:41
  was because after he finds out and that
• 1:01:43
  kind of thing.
• 1:01:45
  When you have people traveling hundreds of
• 1:01:48
  miles come to your child who's like two
• 1:01:50
  years old.
• 1:01:52
  and they're bringing stuff that like only
• 1:01:54
  rich men get and you're like what are
• 1:01:56
  y'all doing and like and it almost became
• 1:01:58
  commonplace because that wasn't the first
• 1:02:00
  time it's like what like yeah so there's
• 1:02:02
  a perspective there of what he went
• 1:02:04
  through as the family leader you know
• 1:02:07
  Well, the stigma of, you know,
• 1:02:09
  people knew they weren't married.
• 1:02:11
  She's with child.
• 1:02:12
  You know, all the things.
• 1:02:13
  There had to be.
• 1:02:14
  It was a controversial thing, I'm sure.
• 1:02:16
  Well, that was, at least last night,
• 1:02:18
  that was the first time I really,
• 1:02:19
  they kind of delved into that's why going
• 1:02:21
  to Bethlehem helped.
• 1:02:22
  Because nobody knew there.
• 1:02:24
  To them,
• 1:02:24
  they just showed up as a husband and
• 1:02:25
  wife.
• 1:02:26
  And there was a unique twist there.
• 1:02:28
  Yeah.
• 1:02:28
  Hey, listen,
• 1:02:29
  we're going to get close to having to
• 1:02:30
  wrap up our show,
• 1:02:32
  and I want to say thank you all
• 1:02:33
  for being here.
• 1:02:34
  But if people want to reach out to
• 1:02:37
  The Journey Home and be able to volunteer,
• 1:02:40
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• 1:02:43
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• 1:02:50
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• 1:02:54
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• 1:02:55
  Who's counting, right?
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• 1:02:58
  Yes, there's a little resentment.
• 1:03:00
  Wow.
• 1:03:00
  Seven thousand phone calls.
• 1:03:01
  Seven thousand phone calls.
• 1:03:02
  Yeah.
• 1:03:02
  So you can reach us at six one
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• 1:03:07
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• 1:03:10
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• 1:03:18
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• 1:03:25
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• 1:03:27
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• 1:03:28
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• 1:03:30
  about two hundred fifty thousand dollars
• 1:03:31
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• 1:03:33
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  So we still need help.
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  That way as well.
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  Sure.
• 1:03:40
  But come on down.
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• 1:03:43
  I'll show anybody.
• 1:03:44
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• 1:03:47
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• 1:03:49
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• 1:03:51
  but this today is just,
• 1:03:52
  I'm going to have to come down and
• 1:03:54
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• 1:03:54
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• 1:03:55
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  Absolutely.
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