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Speaker 1: It's eight thirty eight here fifty five KRCD Talk Station.

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Speaker 1: Please to welcome fifty five KRC Morning Show from the

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Speaker 1: Cincinni DA Chris Kluk also a veteran himself. He served

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Speaker 1: between oh three and oh seven in the US Army

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Speaker 1: one hundred and first Airborne. It was getting some interesting

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Speaker 1: stories from him. Was there for the Taddam Hussein trial,

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Speaker 1: but also involved in combat operations overseascrit It's a great yeah, here,

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Speaker 1: move that mic up there. You just stand right into that.

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Speaker 1: He's on four there, Sean, make sure you got number

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Speaker 1: four on. Anyhow, I can't thank you enough for your service.

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Speaker 1: And as I was talking with you about that, I mentioned,

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Speaker 1: since we're talking about the VA and the benefits you

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Speaker 1: have to offer there, and we're going to talk about

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Speaker 1: the new outpatient centers and the iclinic, which are great

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Speaker 1: development for the VA. But I said that something effectively,

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Speaker 1: I think I understand post traumatic stress disorder, or just

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Speaker 1: post traumatic stress as we'll like to call it. I

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Speaker 1: don't think it's a disorder. I think it's just a reality.

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Speaker 1: If you've got to get up every day at a

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Speaker 1: moment's notice and go around kicking indoors where there are

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Speaker 1: in many cases terrorists behind them waiting to start shooting

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Speaker 1: at you. And I've heard enough stories from men that

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Speaker 1: did this, you know, kicking indoors of Fallujah is what

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Speaker 1: I used to kind of call it, stories about guys

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Speaker 1: getting shot at with anti aircraft guns from underneath the

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Speaker 1: floor right when they walk in. And then you got

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Speaker 1: to do it again. Once you leave that place, clear

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Speaker 1: that place, You move down the road, do it again,

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Speaker 1: do it again, do it again, get up the next day,

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Speaker 1: do the same damn thing. The weight of that on

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Speaker 1: your melon has got to be overwhelming, the idea that

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Speaker 1: you have that much adrenaline flowing at all times. It's

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Speaker 1: just how do you go back to normal if you

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Speaker 1: can even call what we're living in this world normal.

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Speaker 2: I think that's the issue. And I didn't have the issue.

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Speaker 3: Like, while you're over there, going through that experience is

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Speaker 2: It's just your day to day life.

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Speaker 3: But once you get home and not adrenaline stuffs, that's

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Speaker 3: where the PTSD kicks in and you start to think

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Speaker 3: about it, like all that type of stuff. And yeah,

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Speaker 3: mental health is the most important thing. And I think

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Speaker 3: talking about it is the most helpful thing. That's what's

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Speaker 3: he to me over the years. And the VA has

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Speaker 3: a phenomenal UH mental health program, and I encourage all

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Speaker 3: veterans to come in and just if you even need

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Speaker 3: somebody to talk to.

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Speaker 2: You don't have to go through the full program.

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Speaker 3: Just come in and talk to somebody if that's going

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Speaker 3: to help you or someone in your family exactly.

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Speaker 1: And that's fundamentally really the reason I brought it up,

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Speaker 1: because you know, over the years, I've learned about all

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Speaker 1: the programs you have, and who knows better about that

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Speaker 1: type of scenario, the scenario the American veteran deals with

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Speaker 1: after service than the American veterans and the folks of

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Speaker 1: the VA.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, the VA has some like the best mental health

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Speaker 3: care program in the world because that's the majority of

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Speaker 3: our patients that we see, and so we've recruited the

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Speaker 3: best to do the best research and come up with

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Speaker 3: the best solutions to help our veterans.

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Speaker 1: And you do every single day. And I was so

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Speaker 1: so sad to learn that how many men did you

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Speaker 1: have in your in your was it platoon?

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Speaker 3: Uh? And our platoon I don't know the exact number,

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Speaker 1: Six guys in our platoon fastward to right now. Six

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Speaker 1: of them committed suicide. Six of them committed suicides. We

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Speaker 1: can't let that happen. You know, every veteran out there,

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Speaker 1: I'm sure has at least someone in their world who

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Speaker 1: see these signs of perhaps mental stress and maybe steer

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Speaker 1: them in the right direction, get them signed up for

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Speaker 1: their VA benefits. D two to fourteen discharge is all

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Speaker 1: you're gonna need.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, just talk to them, Ask them if they need help,

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Speaker 2: Talk to you personally. Well, just let them. Let them

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Speaker 2: get whatever they need to off their chests.

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Speaker 1: And a shout out over to my friends at Patriots

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Speaker 1: Landing in northern Kentucky. It's the wood Shop. They make

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Speaker 1: these wonderful craft products, but they serve as exactly that

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Speaker 1: that lifeline for connection among the American veterans. They go,

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Speaker 1: they commiserate together. It gives them a safe space they

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Speaker 1: mind and it benefits everybody. Yeah, I know, Pete over there,

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Speaker 1: that's a great program. It is really an awesome program.

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Speaker 1: So Patriots Landing folks all right. Didn't need to take

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Speaker 1: you down that road right out of the gate, Chris,

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Speaker 1: but I thought it was really important to bring it up.

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Speaker 1: I know a lot of people struggle with depression and

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Speaker 1: sadness around the holidays to stating the Aubius. Now what

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Speaker 1: is going on the VA I hear you're in the

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Speaker 1: process of relocating the two outpatient clinics as well as

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Speaker 1: the eye center.

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Speaker 2: What's this all about? Yeah, the Eye.

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Speaker 3: Center is we're supposed to have a new opening that

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Speaker 3: is now slated for December twenty sixth of this year

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Speaker 3: at twenty ninety Florence Avenue, Cincinnati, Ohio four five two

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Speaker 3: zero six. Now it's going to have optometrists to just

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Speaker 3: offer routine IE exams, preventing, preventative screening, glaucoma. Ophthalmologists can

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Speaker 3: macular degeneration, and a lot more. That center is also

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Speaker 3: going to offer general optometry and optalmology, low vision and

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Speaker 3: contact lenses, retina and cornea services, medical surgical glaucoma. I mean,

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Speaker 3: I've taken a tour of this facility. It's more than

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Speaker 3: doubled the footprint of the old one. They're gonna offer

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Speaker 3: a lot more and it's we're looking forward to this

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Speaker 2: Now.

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Speaker 1: Are these vision services? Is this a new feature for

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Speaker 1: being a for signing up for VA benefits or have

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Speaker 1: you always done it? You just outgrew the demand the space.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, we've always offered it. We've just outgrown the space

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Speaker 3: because we recently, I would say over the past two

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Speaker 3: and a half years, our veteran population of the VA

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Speaker 3: has gone from forty three to close to fifty thousand people.

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Speaker 3: So veterans are recognizing the care we offer it the

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Speaker 1: I am so glad to just play a tiny little

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Speaker 1: part in that, Chris, I really am, because I listened

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Speaker 1: when I remember when Bob McDonald was running things. They

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Speaker 1: were getting the backstab. You know, I served my country

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Speaker 3: Yeah, things have really changed in the VIDA over the

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Speaker 3: even for the Cincinnativia. In the last I would say,

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Speaker 3: last nine months, you should come out and check us

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Speaker 3: out because we have just revamped the whole va. It's

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Speaker 3: it's new everything. We're building a new primary care center

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Speaker 1: Most comfortable, giving them what they deserve. Yep, exactly. Chris

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Speaker 2: Fifty five KRC hey forty eight.

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Speaker 1: If you got krc DE talk station, hope you're having

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Speaker 1: a decent Monday big show schedule for tomorrow thanks to

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Speaker 1: Joe Strekker's on vacation this weekend. Thank you Sean McMahon

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Speaker 1: for filling in for We're gonna have tech Tuesday Tomorrow day.

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Speaker 1: I've had a Congressman Warren Davidson from the Hudson Institute

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Speaker 1: bring him acount talking about latest on energy policies built

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Speaker 1: the inside Scoop with Bright Bart News and the Daniel

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Speaker 1: Davis Deep Dive. Thank god for that lineup as they

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Speaker 1: segue into a long Thanksgiving week and best and happy

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Speaker 1: Thanksgiving to Chris Klug from the Sincinnti VA who's in studio,

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Speaker 1: talk about some updates and what's available there, and thank

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Speaker 1: you to all those folks at the CINCINNIVA serving the

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Speaker 1: American veterans and doing such a great job with it. Chris,

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Speaker 1: you had met, you were talking about the vision program,

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Speaker 1: So this is great because a lot of people don't

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Speaker 2: Yeah the VA.

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Speaker 3: If you, I would say the majority of veterans that

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Speaker 3: So come into business check it out. I mean, what's

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Speaker 2: See if you can't get them for free.

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Speaker 1: That's why you serve for that little bit of money.

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Speaker 1: Getting all these extra benefits, so take advantage of them.

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Speaker 1: Pivoting back over to oh, telehealth. I asked you off

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Speaker 3: a lot of them want to see like for mental health,

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Speaker 3: we can do it over the computer or over your

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Speaker 1: Now, the other you'd mentioned focused on the ie center

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Speaker 3: Yeah, so we're getting too brand new standalone outpatient clinics.

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Speaker 3: The Hamilton VA Clinic is going to be new and

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Speaker 3: that they're building that now I've toured out.

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Speaker 2: It's a beautiful facility.

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Speaker 3: That one's going to be at seventy two fifteen Gateway Avenue, Hamilton,

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Speaker 3: so we'll be able to serve even more veterans. You know,

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Speaker 2: Yeah, for sure, especially around this time.

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Speaker 3: You know, with New Year's coming up, everybody wants to

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Speaker 1: That's griesting to come talk to one of us. There's

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Speaker 1: Right why, plenty of resources available for the American veteran

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Speaker 1: You must bring it to their attention. To do that,

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