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Speaker 1: And I've always pointed out that I love being in

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Speaker 1: you can find the Help Help Squad since he with

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Speaker 1: quite a bit over the years, and you know, as

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Speaker 1: part of his Christian mission and his faith and his

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Speaker 1: that we can never anticipate. Folks that are already living

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Speaker 1: I want to thank you for all the work that

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Speaker 1: I know those that you have helped. It just keeps

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Speaker 1: you going every single day, I imagine Brian Ibold, welcome

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Speaker 2: Yeah, thank you so much. And I appreciate you explaining

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Speaker 2: what the Help Squad is.

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Speaker 1: I hope I did an adequate job. You did. You

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Speaker 2: I would only add that you know, this Help Squad

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Speaker 2: assist people with utility bills to avoid shutoffs or get

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Speaker 2: We've given away about a dozen vehicles to those in

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Speaker 1: And I have on my rundown and I know what

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Speaker 1: The therein lies a challenge. If you need an auto repair,

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Speaker 2: So myself and our vice president, Sam Jasper been working

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Speaker 2: During our meetings, we learned that there are basically two

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Speaker 2: And Kevin said, car repairs. Now, just think about that.

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Speaker 1: And this does not involve creating a brand new government

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Speaker 2: now we have four service stations on board, totaling up

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Speaker 1: And I know you've got a couple of heartwarming stories

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Speaker 1: All right. So the individual that needs this assistance, do

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Speaker 2: They're gonna be They're gonna come from the Strategies and Homelessness.

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Speaker 2: So they're going to their people, are going to find

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Speaker 2: and then they're going to contact us. We will facilitate

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Speaker 1: And you'll also do that vetting that we talked about.

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Speaker 1: Oh of course. Let me tell you something.

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Speaker 2: If you can be vetted through Strategies and Homelessness and

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Speaker 1: You're in need, no question about that. We'll continue with

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Speaker 1: Hudson Institute. We got an hour with Brigham all kinds

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Speaker 1: Help Squad since you with awy dot com where you

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Speaker 1: Just some donation of time and parts. It's tax deductible

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Speaker 1: As Brian illustrated. I understand, Brian Ibold. You got a

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Speaker 2: So on Sinko to Mile that's May fifth. If you

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Speaker 1: Get? The Sign Museum right on as you can get exactly.

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Speaker 2: And what's also is really neat is that we're going

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Speaker 2: Plus you'll get to hear me make a speech. Right,

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Speaker 2: That's right, that's worth the price emission right there.

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Speaker 1: Indeed, going back, I I just was suggesting maybe you

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Speaker 2: Yeah, sure, I'll leave you with this. So we had

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Speaker 2: Now do you under can you picture that wheeling? I mean,

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Speaker 2: And we were the sixteenth day and she she called

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Speaker 2: So what would have happened, Seriously, what would have happened

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Speaker 2: like that? And that's what I mean. It's not just

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Speaker 2: I mean, every community should be a help squad community.

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Speaker 1: And let me just double down of the idea that

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Speaker 1: Sixteen other organizations were supposed to be in a position

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Speaker 1: You're just doing it because you want to help. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, you've got to be careful of, you know,

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Speaker 2: But like I said, all of our up to for

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Speaker 1: Brother and sister and proven results. That's it.

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Speaker 2: Definitely, that's why this is working because we have proven

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's like Matthew twenty five. You give them a buck,

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Speaker 2: Right, one hundred percent of every donation goes to help somebody.

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Speaker 1: There's a link on my blog page thanks to Joe

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Speaker 1: I hope that you and I'm sure you did, serve

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