1 00:00:00,480 --> 00:00:05,560 Speaker 1: Hammer and Nigel. Do you believe these characters are weirdost. 2 00:00:06,480 --> 00:00:12,680 Speaker 2: We celebrate Veterans Day on the anniversary of the armistice 3 00:00:12,720 --> 00:00:16,360 Speaker 2: that ended World War One, the armistice that began on 4 00:00:16,400 --> 00:00:19,400 Speaker 2: the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month. 5 00:00:20,400 --> 00:00:23,599 Speaker 2: For all we can ever do for our heroes is 6 00:00:23,720 --> 00:00:28,840 Speaker 2: remember them and remember what they did, and memories are 7 00:00:28,880 --> 00:00:34,360 Speaker 2: transmitted through words. They gave up everything for our country, 8 00:00:35,040 --> 00:00:39,680 Speaker 2: for us, and all we can do is remember. 9 00:00:40,680 --> 00:00:44,800 Speaker 3: Yes, say big hearty and happy Veterans' Day for those 10 00:00:44,840 --> 00:00:47,400 Speaker 3: that are serving, those that have served. My name is 11 00:00:47,479 --> 00:00:53,479 Speaker 3: Nigel Jason Hammer right over there. Extremely humbled, extremely proud. 12 00:00:54,680 --> 00:00:57,480 Speaker 3: I don't know if those two things mix. Can you 13 00:00:57,560 --> 00:00:59,600 Speaker 3: be proud and be humbled at the same time. 14 00:00:59,680 --> 00:01:00,320 Speaker 1: I don't know. 15 00:01:00,320 --> 00:01:03,720 Speaker 3: I just I have a great appreciation for what's happening 16 00:01:03,760 --> 00:01:06,039 Speaker 3: today on Veterans Day here on the Hammer Nigel Show, 17 00:01:06,200 --> 00:01:08,279 Speaker 3: Operation Rootolph. 18 00:01:08,720 --> 00:01:12,720 Speaker 4: So Chris Wilson is here of the Veterans Support Network, 19 00:01:13,080 --> 00:01:16,039 Speaker 4: and throughout the course of our program today, yes, we're 20 00:01:16,080 --> 00:01:17,839 Speaker 4: still going to get you up to date on everything 21 00:01:17,880 --> 00:01:19,880 Speaker 4: you need to know. We're still probably going to have 22 00:01:19,959 --> 00:01:23,360 Speaker 4: a few drinks, some juvenile laughs, but we're also going 23 00:01:23,400 --> 00:01:27,800 Speaker 4: to raise money for some Hoosier veterans who need a 24 00:01:27,800 --> 00:01:31,440 Speaker 4: little help. Here and Chris, welcome to the show. Welcome 25 00:01:31,480 --> 00:01:34,559 Speaker 4: back to the program. This isn't your first rodeo with us. 26 00:01:34,840 --> 00:01:37,520 Speaker 4: Tell us a little bit about the Veterans Support Network. 27 00:01:38,240 --> 00:01:40,040 Speaker 4: So this is our get a little closer there. 28 00:01:40,240 --> 00:01:44,080 Speaker 5: This is our second year of Operation Roodolph. And what 29 00:01:44,240 --> 00:01:48,840 Speaker 5: Operation Routoff is is we're collecting money and items to 30 00:01:49,000 --> 00:01:53,960 Speaker 5: give homeless veterans and needy veteran families. These items it'll 31 00:01:53,960 --> 00:02:01,040 Speaker 5: be backpacks filled with hats, gloves, coats, scarves, socks, blankets, 32 00:02:01,040 --> 00:02:04,360 Speaker 5: and children's books. And these items will be passed out 33 00:02:04,400 --> 00:02:08,079 Speaker 5: right before Christmas, a little something to keep them warm 34 00:02:08,160 --> 00:02:12,240 Speaker 5: through the wintertime. And hopefully the children's books could help 35 00:02:12,400 --> 00:02:16,000 Speaker 5: them reconnect back with their families. And the ultimate goal 36 00:02:16,160 --> 00:02:19,120 Speaker 5: is to get them off the street back into society. 37 00:02:19,400 --> 00:02:22,200 Speaker 3: Chris, what's your background with the veterans. 38 00:02:22,400 --> 00:02:25,400 Speaker 5: I served twenty one years in the Air Force and 39 00:02:25,800 --> 00:02:29,560 Speaker 5: I had a You're welcome, I had a delivery company. 40 00:02:29,639 --> 00:02:31,919 Speaker 5: I actually got hit by a semi lost my right 41 00:02:32,040 --> 00:02:37,120 Speaker 5: leg in twenty eighteen. So I opened this charity February 42 00:02:37,200 --> 00:02:40,359 Speaker 5: of last year to give back to veterans, and our 43 00:02:40,960 --> 00:02:44,720 Speaker 5: mission is to reduce veteran homelessness and veteran suicide. 44 00:02:46,120 --> 00:02:50,160 Speaker 3: What is it about veteran homelessness, Like, why is that 45 00:02:50,280 --> 00:02:54,160 Speaker 3: a thing? How in the world is it a mental 46 00:02:55,160 --> 00:02:56,280 Speaker 3: There's a mental component. 47 00:02:56,480 --> 00:03:01,360 Speaker 5: The biggest part is mental health. Come out of the military, 48 00:03:01,800 --> 00:03:06,320 Speaker 5: they are given prescription pills and they lose their insurance 49 00:03:06,720 --> 00:03:09,280 Speaker 5: when they come out. They go on to a type 50 00:03:09,280 --> 00:03:12,720 Speaker 5: of cobra which is expensive and they can't afford it, 51 00:03:13,040 --> 00:03:15,799 Speaker 5: so they turn to street drugs to cope with their 52 00:03:15,800 --> 00:03:20,640 Speaker 5: mental health and that leads down a spiral to bad places, 53 00:03:20,680 --> 00:03:25,160 Speaker 5: normally homelessness or drug addiction. So our goal is to 54 00:03:25,240 --> 00:03:28,400 Speaker 5: get the VA does help with a lot of that, 55 00:03:29,080 --> 00:03:32,080 Speaker 5: but veterans are very proud group, so they don't like 56 00:03:32,160 --> 00:03:35,800 Speaker 5: to ask for the help. A lot of veterans that 57 00:03:35,840 --> 00:03:41,000 Speaker 5: are going through the mental health issues that feel suicidal thoughts, 58 00:03:41,040 --> 00:03:43,240 Speaker 5: they don't want to ask. When they get out of 59 00:03:43,280 --> 00:03:47,920 Speaker 5: the military, they lose those connections to their friends and 60 00:03:48,040 --> 00:03:51,240 Speaker 5: family that were tied to them in the military. So 61 00:03:51,320 --> 00:03:54,680 Speaker 5: our goal is to build a network Veterans support network 62 00:03:54,920 --> 00:04:00,800 Speaker 5: where veterans could come meet new people. Join our group 63 00:04:00,920 --> 00:04:05,400 Speaker 5: and follow our web page at www. Dot Veterans Support 64 00:04:05,440 --> 00:04:08,680 Speaker 5: Network and then we will connect them and they could 65 00:04:08,680 --> 00:04:14,320 Speaker 5: go back out and help. You have that camaraderie. We 66 00:04:14,360 --> 00:04:17,640 Speaker 5: can go out, have breakfast or go have a coffee somewhere. 67 00:04:17,839 --> 00:04:20,560 Speaker 1: Feel normal again, Feel normally now. 68 00:04:20,640 --> 00:04:23,000 Speaker 4: The money that we are going to be raising this afternoon, 69 00:04:23,040 --> 00:04:24,800 Speaker 4: and we're going to talk about how we're going to 70 00:04:24,800 --> 00:04:27,240 Speaker 4: do that here in just a moment. But this is 71 00:04:27,279 --> 00:04:31,880 Speaker 4: staying in Central Indie. There's a lot of great national organizations, sure, 72 00:04:32,120 --> 00:04:36,000 Speaker 4: but what we're doing today is helping our hoosier men 73 00:04:36,080 --> 00:04:39,560 Speaker 4: and women who have decided to serve our country but 74 00:04:39,760 --> 00:04:42,400 Speaker 4: have had a little bad luck along the way. 75 00:04:42,720 --> 00:04:46,359 Speaker 5: That is correct. So we are a grassroots charity. We 76 00:04:46,440 --> 00:04:50,159 Speaker 5: are located in Indiana and Ohio, but everything that we 77 00:04:50,480 --> 00:04:52,960 Speaker 5: raise in those states stay in those states to help 78 00:04:53,040 --> 00:04:56,480 Speaker 5: veterans locally. So we do not give the money out 79 00:04:56,520 --> 00:05:01,080 Speaker 5: to California, Texas or other states. All stays right here 80 00:05:01,120 --> 00:05:04,200 Speaker 5: in Indiana and helps our local veterans that are in need. 81 00:05:04,400 --> 00:05:08,680 Speaker 4: What's the response of someone who is a veteran who 82 00:05:08,760 --> 00:05:11,279 Speaker 4: is homeless. They're out on the streets and you guys 83 00:05:11,279 --> 00:05:13,640 Speaker 4: come by, you reach out, whether it's to deliver them 84 00:05:13,680 --> 00:05:17,000 Speaker 4: one of these backpacks full of goodies, or to talk 85 00:05:17,040 --> 00:05:19,520 Speaker 4: to them about ways they could help themselves. What's the 86 00:05:19,560 --> 00:05:20,520 Speaker 4: reaction you get. 87 00:05:21,560 --> 00:05:24,680 Speaker 5: Generally, it's a good reaction. They're very thrilled to have 88 00:05:24,760 --> 00:05:27,839 Speaker 5: somebody listen to their stories and listen to what they've 89 00:05:27,880 --> 00:05:31,240 Speaker 5: been through. So we have a great response with veterans 90 00:05:31,320 --> 00:05:34,640 Speaker 5: that want to talk to us. We have veterans reach 91 00:05:34,640 --> 00:05:37,680 Speaker 5: out to us all the time through our website. We 92 00:05:37,720 --> 00:05:40,160 Speaker 5: actually have eleven veterans on our weight lists that we're 93 00:05:40,240 --> 00:05:45,440 Speaker 5: raising money for. We will be paying rent, utilities, gas, groceries, 94 00:05:45,560 --> 00:05:47,120 Speaker 5: and we need to get them off that weight list 95 00:05:47,200 --> 00:05:50,960 Speaker 5: any of the immediate needs that they have. We've had 96 00:05:51,000 --> 00:05:55,479 Speaker 5: a huge response lately because of the government shut down, 97 00:05:55,680 --> 00:05:58,280 Speaker 5: and that's going to take a little time to get 98 00:05:58,320 --> 00:06:01,360 Speaker 5: all of those people caught back up. So we're raising 99 00:06:01,400 --> 00:06:04,640 Speaker 5: what we raised money this past Saturday that will pay 100 00:06:04,680 --> 00:06:07,120 Speaker 5: out in about a week, and that money will help 101 00:06:07,160 --> 00:06:12,440 Speaker 5: those people. This event is specifically going to Operation Rootolph 102 00:06:12,480 --> 00:06:15,760 Speaker 5: and then everything that is left over after we hit 103 00:06:15,760 --> 00:06:20,120 Speaker 5: our goal of fifty backpacks, then we will put that 104 00:06:20,160 --> 00:06:23,560 Speaker 5: money forward to help with that wait list of also needs. 105 00:06:23,760 --> 00:06:26,599 Speaker 4: Well, let's get rocking and rolling here, Nige. If you 106 00:06:26,640 --> 00:06:28,600 Speaker 4: want to make a donation. Here's what you can do. 107 00:06:28,760 --> 00:06:32,360 Speaker 3: Plenty of plenty of choices right, plenty of options. 108 00:06:32,440 --> 00:06:34,320 Speaker 1: Go to WIBC dot com. 109 00:06:34,360 --> 00:06:37,760 Speaker 4: There's a button on the front page of our station's website, 110 00:06:37,800 --> 00:06:42,120 Speaker 4: WIBC dot com. Click here to donate. Click there donate 111 00:06:42,279 --> 00:06:44,720 Speaker 4: bing boy a Boom. It's also on the Hammer and 112 00:06:44,839 --> 00:06:48,200 Speaker 4: Nigel Show, Facebook and Twitter. We've put the link at 113 00:06:48,200 --> 00:06:51,240 Speaker 4: the top. It's pinned at the top of our Twitter account. 114 00:06:51,440 --> 00:06:53,919 Speaker 4: It's the post that's at the top I believe of 115 00:06:54,000 --> 00:06:57,600 Speaker 4: our Facebook page. So just find Hammer and Nigel on 116 00:06:57,600 --> 00:07:01,159 Speaker 4: Facebook or Twitter. Click the link. Helpe hoo's your veteran, 117 00:07:01,520 --> 00:07:05,960 Speaker 4: or go to WIBC dot com. We're already getting some donations. 118 00:07:06,440 --> 00:07:10,520 Speaker 4: Earlier today, the awesome people of Print Electric came by 119 00:07:10,680 --> 00:07:14,239 Speaker 4: It's all that and they dropped off a twenty five 120 00:07:14,360 --> 00:07:18,280 Speaker 4: hundred dollars check for you guys today here Chris Wow. 121 00:07:18,400 --> 00:07:21,080 Speaker 4: So that kind of got us off and running. Tony 122 00:07:21,200 --> 00:07:23,760 Speaker 4: Katz was kind enough to make a donation this morning. 123 00:07:25,000 --> 00:07:29,600 Speaker 4: So if somebody wants to make a donation, please do it. 124 00:07:29,720 --> 00:07:33,360 Speaker 4: During our show. We will read as many donations as 125 00:07:33,360 --> 00:07:33,720 Speaker 4: we can. 126 00:07:33,840 --> 00:07:34,040 Speaker 1: Now. 127 00:07:34,080 --> 00:07:37,600 Speaker 4: Clearly we can't get to everybody, but if you're a business, 128 00:07:37,840 --> 00:07:41,120 Speaker 4: if you're an individual, it doesn't matter if it's twenty 129 00:07:41,120 --> 00:07:43,400 Speaker 4: five hundred dollars, if it's five dollars. 130 00:07:43,640 --> 00:07:45,280 Speaker 1: Every little bit's gonna help, right. 131 00:07:45,360 --> 00:07:48,960 Speaker 5: Yes, every dollar helps. So we also have some gold 132 00:07:49,000 --> 00:07:52,480 Speaker 5: Star sponsors that have helped throughout the year. They actually 133 00:07:52,520 --> 00:07:56,840 Speaker 5: donate to us five hundred dollars every few months. That 134 00:07:56,920 --> 00:08:01,520 Speaker 5: money could be donated directly through our website. One of 135 00:08:01,520 --> 00:08:03,840 Speaker 5: those moving One of those is a moving company called 136 00:08:03,880 --> 00:08:08,000 Speaker 5: dry Ski Moving and Storage out of Westfield, Indiana. They've 137 00:08:08,040 --> 00:08:12,240 Speaker 5: helped us numerous times and we have two storage lockers 138 00:08:12,280 --> 00:08:15,560 Speaker 5: that we receive items in that we give back or 139 00:08:15,640 --> 00:08:17,600 Speaker 5: sell to the public and the money goes back to 140 00:08:17,640 --> 00:08:22,840 Speaker 5: fund the fundraisers. That storage is called Veteran Exchange Thrift 141 00:08:22,840 --> 00:08:27,560 Speaker 5: Store on Facebook. Our second gold Star sponsor is Brand's 142 00:08:27,560 --> 00:08:32,839 Speaker 5: Heating and Cooling out of Cocomo, Indiana. They've actually been 143 00:08:32,880 --> 00:08:37,400 Speaker 5: donating to the charity for two years, So thank you 144 00:08:37,480 --> 00:08:42,839 Speaker 5: to Brand's Heating and Cooling. We have Guardian Angel Restoration 145 00:08:43,160 --> 00:08:47,680 Speaker 5: out of Noblesville. They have a huge partnership right now 146 00:08:47,760 --> 00:08:50,240 Speaker 5: with a couple of different companies. I know they work 147 00:08:50,280 --> 00:08:54,920 Speaker 5: with the Indie Fuel, they work with the Noblesville Boom 148 00:08:55,040 --> 00:08:59,960 Speaker 5: and several other companies out there, so Guardian Angel Restoration 149 00:09:00,320 --> 00:09:03,560 Speaker 5: of Noblesville, they are one of our gold Star sponsors 150 00:09:03,600 --> 00:09:07,200 Speaker 5: for the year. And we have a mowing company called 151 00:09:07,280 --> 00:09:12,400 Speaker 5: tt In Properties and Landscaping of Noblesville. They do mowing, 152 00:09:12,800 --> 00:09:18,760 Speaker 5: snow removal, landscaping, so any of your basic landscaping needs. 153 00:09:19,120 --> 00:09:22,560 Speaker 5: Those are four of our gold star sponsors that have 154 00:09:22,720 --> 00:09:24,560 Speaker 5: helped for twenty twenty five. 155 00:09:24,720 --> 00:09:25,839 Speaker 1: Thank them very much. 156 00:09:26,000 --> 00:09:30,800 Speaker 4: I spoke with Dale of Technology Recyclers earlier. His company 157 00:09:30,840 --> 00:09:34,240 Speaker 4: has committed to making a donation throughout the afternoon show today, 158 00:09:34,559 --> 00:09:37,440 Speaker 4: So thank you to those guys. Quick question here, we've 159 00:09:37,440 --> 00:09:40,560 Speaker 4: got about a minute left. Somebody in the YouTube chat 160 00:09:40,600 --> 00:09:45,560 Speaker 4: wants to know how can you guys help find homes 161 00:09:45,640 --> 00:09:47,320 Speaker 4: for some of these homeless veterans. 162 00:09:47,559 --> 00:09:51,920 Speaker 5: Well, we have a couple of connections with housing in Indianapolis. 163 00:09:52,640 --> 00:09:55,600 Speaker 5: We have connections in Fort Wayne. So if you reach 164 00:09:55,640 --> 00:09:57,720 Speaker 5: out to us through our website and say that you 165 00:09:57,840 --> 00:10:01,400 Speaker 5: need housing, we will find a way to get you 166 00:10:01,440 --> 00:10:04,760 Speaker 5: into a house. We have got five veterans off the 167 00:10:04,760 --> 00:10:09,000 Speaker 5: street in Indianapolis this year. They went temporarily into hotels 168 00:10:09,040 --> 00:10:13,360 Speaker 5: where our charity helped pay for their hotels and some food. 169 00:10:13,600 --> 00:10:16,679 Speaker 5: We helped get them into mental health and addiction counseling 170 00:10:16,720 --> 00:10:20,440 Speaker 5: if they need it, and then once they are ready, 171 00:10:20,600 --> 00:10:23,880 Speaker 5: we build a resume and find them a job where 172 00:10:23,920 --> 00:10:27,400 Speaker 5: they could work and make money to move forward. 173 00:10:27,440 --> 00:10:31,640 Speaker 3: You know, Chris, that was my question. Hammer piggybacking on 174 00:10:31,679 --> 00:10:35,920 Speaker 3: Hammer's comment, there is just the success stories of this 175 00:10:36,200 --> 00:10:40,120 Speaker 3: charity and how it is benefited and helped veterans that 176 00:10:40,200 --> 00:10:43,720 Speaker 3: have were previously very down on their luck living on 177 00:10:43,760 --> 00:10:46,400 Speaker 3: the street, and now their lives have changed forever. 178 00:10:46,880 --> 00:10:49,440 Speaker 5: Our goal is to stick with these veterans and help 179 00:10:49,480 --> 00:10:52,800 Speaker 5: them and build those connections with them. When they need help, 180 00:10:53,040 --> 00:10:55,280 Speaker 5: they could come back. So it's not a one time 181 00:10:55,320 --> 00:10:57,880 Speaker 5: we're going to assist you and you're out. We work 182 00:10:57,920 --> 00:10:59,920 Speaker 5: with them to move them forward. We like to call 183 00:11:00,080 --> 00:11:04,000 Speaker 5: the hand a hand up instead of a handout and 184 00:11:04,240 --> 00:11:05,120 Speaker 5: help build them up. 185 00:11:05,640 --> 00:11:09,800 Speaker 4: That is awesome stuff. Chris Wilson, Veteran Support Network, thank 186 00:11:09,800 --> 00:11:11,400 Speaker 4: you so much. We're gonna see if we're gonn raise 187 00:11:11,400 --> 00:11:12,559 Speaker 4: a little money for you guys today. 188 00:11:12,559 --> 00:11:14,520 Speaker 5: Okay, awesome, thank you guys for your support. 189 00:11:14,640 --> 00:11:18,240 Speaker 1: So Hammer and Nigel Nation, we need you guys. Listen. 190 00:11:18,320 --> 00:11:20,720 Speaker 4: I know some of you might be balling on a budget. 191 00:11:21,000 --> 00:11:23,160 Speaker 4: Money might be kind of tough. We're getting close to 192 00:11:23,200 --> 00:11:26,200 Speaker 4: the holidays here, but listen. If you've been blessed in 193 00:11:26,240 --> 00:11:28,680 Speaker 4: any way and you want to think some of the 194 00:11:28,720 --> 00:11:32,840 Speaker 4: brave men and women in Indiana who have decided to 195 00:11:32,880 --> 00:11:36,600 Speaker 4: fight for your freedom, defend this country, you can make 196 00:11:36,640 --> 00:11:40,560 Speaker 4: a donation right now WIBC dot com on the front page, 197 00:11:40,840 --> 00:11:43,960 Speaker 4: or go to our Facebook and Twitter. Look for Hammer 198 00:11:44,000 --> 00:11:47,880 Speaker 4: and Nigel Facebook and Twitter. Click that link. Make a donation, 199 00:11:48,480 --> 00:11:50,880 Speaker 4: and we're gonna up the Annie a little bit. We'll 200 00:11:50,880 --> 00:11:52,439 Speaker 4: talk about that here in just a little bit.