1 00:00:00,120 --> 00:00:06,120 Speaker 1: Station just Shiba, a fifty year fifty five Krcity talk 2 00:00:06,160 --> 00:00:09,600 Speaker 1: station and enjoying the little Christmas tidbits. Just Strekker's putting 3 00:00:09,600 --> 00:00:11,959 Speaker 1: in for bumper music, of course, has been declared from 4 00:00:12,080 --> 00:00:13,880 Speaker 1: day one on the fifty five Carssey Morning Show, and 5 00:00:13,920 --> 00:00:18,040 Speaker 1: I took over the vince Garldi trio Charlie Brown Christmas Album, 6 00:00:18,079 --> 00:00:21,160 Speaker 1: the only officially sanctioned Christmas music for the morning Show. 7 00:00:21,239 --> 00:00:23,400 Speaker 1: Joe Strekker agrees with me on that, No, you're not 8 00:00:23,400 --> 00:00:26,960 Speaker 1: going to hear the Trans Siberian Orchestra. Welcome back, mister 9 00:00:27,080 --> 00:00:29,560 Speaker 1: humanitarian himself. I've been referring to you, but a man 10 00:00:29,560 --> 00:00:32,239 Speaker 1: who truly knows the joy of helping those who are 11 00:00:32,280 --> 00:00:35,720 Speaker 1: truly in need and reaping the benefits of spreading in 12 00:00:35,800 --> 00:00:39,839 Speaker 1: his mind God's mission. Charitable organization, the Help Squad. We've 13 00:00:39,840 --> 00:00:42,920 Speaker 1: had Brian Ebold on many times before, and he's got 14 00:00:43,720 --> 00:00:45,720 Speaker 1: an opportunity for us all to get together and help 15 00:00:45,760 --> 00:00:48,400 Speaker 1: those in need on the West Side. The Help Squad, 16 00:00:48,600 --> 00:00:50,159 Speaker 1: since he with the y dot com, is where you 17 00:00:50,200 --> 00:00:52,480 Speaker 1: find Brian Ibold and the ability to help out. Brian, 18 00:00:52,520 --> 00:00:54,440 Speaker 1: Welcome back to the program, my friend. It's always good 19 00:00:54,440 --> 00:00:54,960 Speaker 1: talking with you. 20 00:00:55,920 --> 00:00:56,920 Speaker 2: Well, good morning, my brother. 21 00:00:56,960 --> 00:00:58,800 Speaker 1: It's been a minute, it's been a little while, but 22 00:00:58,880 --> 00:01:01,240 Speaker 1: you know, happy to bring you back on hopefully generate 23 00:01:01,320 --> 00:01:03,279 Speaker 1: some interest in helping you doing what you're doing. Over 24 00:01:03,320 --> 00:01:08,880 Speaker 1: on the West Side, you've got a Toys for Tots 25 00:01:08,959 --> 00:01:11,199 Speaker 1: campaign going on right now. What's that one all about? 26 00:01:11,240 --> 00:01:11,760 Speaker 1: What can we do? 27 00:01:13,280 --> 00:01:17,280 Speaker 3: Yes, sir, So we have a toy drive tomorrow at Bucketheads. 28 00:01:17,840 --> 00:01:21,680 Speaker 2: It's the Shocking bucket Yeah. 29 00:01:21,720 --> 00:01:24,320 Speaker 3: Well that's ah, it's quite the staple on the West Side, 30 00:01:24,440 --> 00:01:27,200 Speaker 3: it is, so yeah, So we're having a toy drive 31 00:01:27,240 --> 00:01:30,920 Speaker 3: at Bucketheads five pm to nine pm. They were located 32 00:01:30,920 --> 00:01:33,520 Speaker 3: at sixty five oh seven Harrison Avenue, right in the 33 00:01:33,520 --> 00:01:37,120 Speaker 3: heart of Green Township, my favorite place as well. And 34 00:01:37,720 --> 00:01:40,240 Speaker 3: we're gonna have brent Souter there the picture for the Reds. 35 00:01:40,280 --> 00:01:43,160 Speaker 3: He's come, gonna sign some autograph, take some pictures. You know. 36 00:01:43,200 --> 00:01:46,240 Speaker 3: He's a funny guy too, and he does impressions. He 37 00:01:46,319 --> 00:01:48,680 Speaker 3: does a little bit of stand up. So I'm looking 38 00:01:48,720 --> 00:01:51,280 Speaker 3: forward to seeing him and then kind of challenging him 39 00:01:51,280 --> 00:01:52,600 Speaker 3: to see who's funnier me or him. 40 00:01:52,960 --> 00:01:54,800 Speaker 1: Joe chimed in. He's a bowler guy. 41 00:01:55,920 --> 00:01:58,280 Speaker 3: Yes, he's a local dude. Yeah, No, we're real excited 42 00:01:58,320 --> 00:02:01,320 Speaker 3: to have him. I think he with the Rockies in 43 00:02:01,360 --> 00:02:03,960 Speaker 3: the past, the Brewers, and now the Reds. He's been 44 00:02:03,960 --> 00:02:05,360 Speaker 3: in he's been in the game for a while. 45 00:02:05,560 --> 00:02:07,840 Speaker 1: Real cool dude, well apparently real cool. He's always he 46 00:02:07,840 --> 00:02:09,519 Speaker 1: helping you out with the charity and the toy to 47 00:02:09,840 --> 00:02:13,520 Speaker 1: toys for top Drive. Now, are there items specifically or 48 00:02:13,639 --> 00:02:16,919 Speaker 1: is this bring in a random I presume unopened, brand 49 00:02:17,040 --> 00:02:19,880 Speaker 1: new toy. You're not looking for secondhanders or anything, are 50 00:02:19,919 --> 00:02:21,160 Speaker 1: you now? 51 00:02:21,320 --> 00:02:22,720 Speaker 2: Just to unwrap brand new toy? 52 00:02:22,760 --> 00:02:26,119 Speaker 3: And we have so many different age groups and boys, girls. 53 00:02:26,520 --> 00:02:28,720 Speaker 3: We can take clothes, gift cards, I mean, you name it. 54 00:02:28,720 --> 00:02:32,560 Speaker 3: The Just like every other nonprofit I can say is 55 00:02:32,600 --> 00:02:36,280 Speaker 3: that we have a lot of need and we don't 56 00:02:36,280 --> 00:02:39,520 Speaker 3: have a lot of volunteers, so anything anybody can do, 57 00:02:39,600 --> 00:02:41,040 Speaker 3: I mean, even if you can't make it. I mean 58 00:02:41,080 --> 00:02:44,320 Speaker 3: they're accepting toys now, they'll accept them afterwards. You can 59 00:02:44,360 --> 00:02:46,360 Speaker 3: always go to our website. If you don't want to 60 00:02:46,360 --> 00:02:48,360 Speaker 3: bring a toy, you can always donate money and we'll get. 61 00:02:48,240 --> 00:02:50,760 Speaker 2: The toys ourselves. But there's just a lot of kids. 62 00:02:50,520 --> 00:02:52,880 Speaker 3: In the area and the community that need our help. 63 00:02:52,919 --> 00:02:54,880 Speaker 3: They're gonna wake up and have nothing. Just put it 64 00:02:54,960 --> 00:02:56,920 Speaker 3: that way. Yeah, we've got a lot of work to do, 65 00:02:56,960 --> 00:02:58,400 Speaker 3: and I feel like the way that the world's on 66 00:02:58,440 --> 00:03:00,000 Speaker 3: my shoulders, we've got to get this done. 67 00:03:00,320 --> 00:03:03,160 Speaker 1: Well, I share, and you know it's having grown up 68 00:03:03,160 --> 00:03:06,520 Speaker 1: on the West Side, I really truly appreciate your focus 69 00:03:06,560 --> 00:03:07,960 Speaker 1: on the West Side. I mean, there are a lot 70 00:03:08,040 --> 00:03:10,040 Speaker 1: of charitable organizations out there, there are a lot of 71 00:03:10,040 --> 00:03:13,840 Speaker 1: services that are available that not quite often reaching the 72 00:03:13,919 --> 00:03:15,720 Speaker 1: folks that need on the west Side. So you're serving 73 00:03:15,800 --> 00:03:19,240 Speaker 1: west Side neighborhood shivvy at Coleraine Dell High Green Township region, 74 00:03:19,360 --> 00:03:21,320 Speaker 1: so you have to have a finite region. You have 75 00:03:21,440 --> 00:03:24,000 Speaker 1: very limited resources. But it's just sort of a sad 76 00:03:24,040 --> 00:03:26,280 Speaker 1: realization to know that, you know, folks on you know, 77 00:03:26,400 --> 00:03:29,200 Speaker 1: my quote unquote west side are struggling, but there are 78 00:03:29,280 --> 00:03:32,400 Speaker 1: quite a few. Do you have any recent sort of 79 00:03:32,800 --> 00:03:35,120 Speaker 1: heartwarming stories about what you were able to accomplish to 80 00:03:35,200 --> 00:03:37,000 Speaker 1: your efforts at the help Squad. I know you're always 81 00:03:37,040 --> 00:03:38,240 Speaker 1: helping folks each and every day. 82 00:03:39,440 --> 00:03:41,040 Speaker 2: Oh boy, how much time we got. 83 00:03:41,520 --> 00:03:45,000 Speaker 3: Well just I can tell you that just yesterday, I 84 00:03:45,200 --> 00:03:47,840 Speaker 3: personally now I'm the president of the place and I'm 85 00:03:47,880 --> 00:03:49,680 Speaker 3: running around like a check on my head, cut off 86 00:03:49,760 --> 00:03:52,240 Speaker 3: write and checks, trying to you know, put out fires 87 00:03:52,280 --> 00:03:54,760 Speaker 3: with people in people's lives all over town. 88 00:03:54,920 --> 00:03:58,280 Speaker 2: Just yesterday there was four people, three of which we 89 00:03:58,400 --> 00:04:00,800 Speaker 2: prevented from being homeless. They're going to be evicted. We 90 00:04:00,880 --> 00:04:01,640 Speaker 2: paid their rent. 91 00:04:02,000 --> 00:04:05,920 Speaker 3: That's that was just yesterday. And there was two people 92 00:04:06,000 --> 00:04:08,920 Speaker 3: that we brought food to food cards because they're starving 93 00:04:08,920 --> 00:04:11,680 Speaker 3: to death. So we stay busy and one hundred percent 94 00:04:11,680 --> 00:04:14,320 Speaker 3: of every donation goes directly to help people. I'm not 95 00:04:14,320 --> 00:04:17,520 Speaker 3: getting paid, None of us are getting paid. We sacrifice 96 00:04:17,560 --> 00:04:19,400 Speaker 3: a lot and we we're just here to give. 97 00:04:19,520 --> 00:04:22,000 Speaker 2: So anybody anything that anybody can do. 98 00:04:23,480 --> 00:04:27,280 Speaker 3: Blieve me, we're more than willing to accept the cratuity 99 00:04:27,640 --> 00:04:29,200 Speaker 3: because we need a lot of help on our side 100 00:04:29,200 --> 00:04:29,560 Speaker 3: as well. 101 00:04:29,640 --> 00:04:32,000 Speaker 1: All right, So Buckethead's a place to be. Sixty five 102 00:04:32,080 --> 00:04:34,520 Speaker 1: h seven Harrison Avenue Again. What time in which day? 103 00:04:34,560 --> 00:04:39,680 Speaker 3: Again? So it's tomorrow Bucketheads from five pm to nine pm. 104 00:04:39,760 --> 00:04:41,480 Speaker 3: Like I said, man, you can bring a toy. You 105 00:04:41,480 --> 00:04:44,080 Speaker 3: can bring their put it now, bring on now and 106 00:04:44,120 --> 00:04:45,559 Speaker 3: put out front of the door. 107 00:04:46,560 --> 00:04:49,359 Speaker 2: But it can be you can you can anytime, just 108 00:04:49,400 --> 00:04:51,200 Speaker 2: show up anytime. We'll take toys. 109 00:04:51,360 --> 00:04:54,800 Speaker 1: Come on right, admit it. You got a cot back there. 110 00:04:54,839 --> 00:04:57,159 Speaker 1: You spend most of your time that bucketthead. You'll open 111 00:04:57,240 --> 00:04:59,039 Speaker 1: the door, grab the toy, lock it back up and 112 00:04:59,080 --> 00:04:59,960 Speaker 1: go back to sleep. 113 00:05:00,080 --> 00:05:01,800 Speaker 2: I do whatever it takes. 114 00:05:01,880 --> 00:05:04,960 Speaker 1: Whatever it takes, man, five to nine pm tomorrow at Buckethead. 115 00:05:05,000 --> 00:05:07,040 Speaker 1: You'll enjoy Bucketheads. I went there with my dad when 116 00:05:07,080 --> 00:05:09,000 Speaker 1: he was still living, took him out for lunch one day. 117 00:05:09,000 --> 00:05:13,040 Speaker 1: That's a cool place. And uh, donate, you can donate. 118 00:05:13,080 --> 00:05:14,520 Speaker 1: Make it really easy if you can't make it over 119 00:05:14,560 --> 00:05:17,160 Speaker 1: to Bucketheads. The help Squad Sinsey with a y dot com. 120 00:05:17,200 --> 00:05:19,120 Speaker 1: There's a little button right there. It says donate, but 121 00:05:19,200 --> 00:05:21,760 Speaker 1: then also a volunteer. It sounds to me like if 122 00:05:21,760 --> 00:05:23,200 Speaker 1: there are folks over there on the west side that 123 00:05:23,240 --> 00:05:25,240 Speaker 1: want to help you out on your mission, that you 124 00:05:25,240 --> 00:05:26,680 Speaker 1: could use some additional volunteers. 125 00:05:26,680 --> 00:05:30,360 Speaker 3: Brian, Yeah, I will say this that people are starting 126 00:05:30,400 --> 00:05:31,360 Speaker 3: to come to life over here. 127 00:05:31,400 --> 00:05:33,919 Speaker 2: We are starting I mean people, we are getting recognized. 128 00:05:33,960 --> 00:05:35,440 Speaker 3: I mean we've won. I couldn't tell you how many 129 00:05:35,440 --> 00:05:37,280 Speaker 3: awards we've won. I don't know what else is going 130 00:05:37,360 --> 00:05:40,200 Speaker 3: to take for people to realize this is working. And 131 00:05:40,320 --> 00:05:42,479 Speaker 3: you know you had mentioned were rolling on the west side. 132 00:05:42,640 --> 00:05:44,600 Speaker 3: I wish we could do all of since I I 133 00:05:44,640 --> 00:05:46,160 Speaker 3: wish we could do the do you know what I mean. 134 00:05:46,920 --> 00:05:48,400 Speaker 3: So there's a challenge to the mayor. 135 00:05:48,480 --> 00:05:48,760 Speaker 2: Call me. 136 00:05:48,800 --> 00:05:50,920 Speaker 3: I'll give my number, call me. We can fix this. 137 00:05:51,120 --> 00:05:54,719 Speaker 3: It's not it's not as difficult as people or tried. 138 00:05:54,720 --> 00:05:58,919 Speaker 2: The politicians and whatnot try to make it sound so anyway, 139 00:05:58,920 --> 00:05:59,799 Speaker 2: that's for another. 140 00:06:00,640 --> 00:06:04,520 Speaker 1: Well, you're you're on a it's your Christian mission of faith. 141 00:06:04,560 --> 00:06:06,679 Speaker 1: I mean, I know you're inspired by your Christian faith, 142 00:06:06,720 --> 00:06:09,919 Speaker 1: but it's just it's a it's inspired by love and 143 00:06:09,960 --> 00:06:12,080 Speaker 1: a desire to help folks truly in need. And I 144 00:06:12,080 --> 00:06:14,440 Speaker 1: know you're very good about you know, not just randomly 145 00:06:14,480 --> 00:06:16,880 Speaker 1: handing out money to folks, but if somebody is truly 146 00:06:16,920 --> 00:06:19,400 Speaker 1: in need, you get them the resources they need in 147 00:06:19,440 --> 00:06:22,200 Speaker 1: a variety of different ways. So help them out the 148 00:06:22,400 --> 00:06:25,599 Speaker 1: help squadsensey dot com. I can encourage my listeners enough 149 00:06:25,600 --> 00:06:27,480 Speaker 1: to give you the help that you're looking for, Brian Ibel, 150 00:06:27,480 --> 00:06:30,280 Speaker 1: And I want to think, uh, every you on behalf 151 00:06:30,320 --> 00:06:32,120 Speaker 1: of everyone, not only that you help from from everybody 152 00:06:32,120 --> 00:06:34,760 Speaker 1: in my listening audience. For serving as an inspiration to 153 00:06:34,839 --> 00:06:37,240 Speaker 1: engage in this charitable work. It's really a beautiful thing 154 00:06:37,240 --> 00:06:38,080 Speaker 1: you're doing there, Brian. 155 00:06:39,080 --> 00:06:40,240 Speaker 2: Well, I really appreciate it. 156 00:06:40,640 --> 00:06:42,240 Speaker 3: Thanks so much for having me on at you and 157 00:06:42,360 --> 00:06:44,000 Speaker 3: Joe for always getting us on there and kind of 158 00:06:44,040 --> 00:06:46,280 Speaker 3: getting our getting the word out and our mission out 159 00:06:46,320 --> 00:06:47,320 Speaker 3: to the masses. 160 00:06:47,440 --> 00:06:49,320 Speaker 1: Well, make it bigger and better next year, Brian. I've 161 00:06:49,360 --> 00:06:51,039 Speaker 1: old be happy to help you out throughout the year. 162 00:06:51,080 --> 00:06:53,880 Speaker 1: You know, I love the organization what you're doing. Have 163 00:06:53,960 --> 00:06:56,040 Speaker 1: a great If we don't talk between now Christmas brother, 164 00:06:56,120 --> 00:06:57,800 Speaker 1: you have a fantastic Christmas man.