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Speaker 1: This is America's truck and Network with Kevin Gordon.

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Speaker 2: Welcome aboard, Thanks for tuning in on this seventh day

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Speaker 2: of Christmas. New Year's Eve, twenty twenty five. My goodness,

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Speaker 2: where has the time gone. Generally, at the end of

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Speaker 2: the year, there's a lot of different news articles, whether

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Speaker 2: it's international news, local news, state news, national news, any

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Speaker 2: news round that they do year in review and kind

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Speaker 2: of summarize what went on during the year, and of

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Speaker 2: course in the transportation industry as well, in the trucking industry,

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Speaker 2: it's no difference. And I saw this article that I

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Speaker 2: thought was very poignant and talked about a lot of

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Speaker 2: the stuff that went on in the trucking industry, a

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Speaker 2: lot for the good.

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Speaker 3: So let's just get started with it.

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Speaker 2: The title of this is many moves by Trump Administration

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Speaker 2: shake up Trucking in twenty twenty five. Now, if you

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Speaker 2: just read the if all you did was just look

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Speaker 2: at the headline there, you would think shakeup. I generally,

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Speaker 2: a shakeup is not a good thing at least, you know,

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Speaker 2: it's not one of those things that's a warm and

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Speaker 2: fuzzy phrase that get people going. But in this instance,

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Speaker 2: I think a lot of the stuff in here is

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Speaker 2: very positive. Less than ninety days into his second term

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Speaker 2: as President, Donald Trump signed an executive order titled Enforcing

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Speaker 2: Common Sense Rules for the Road of the Road for

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Speaker 2: America's Truck Drivers. This set in motion a series of

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Speaker 2: actions as profound as any since President Jimmy Carter signed

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Speaker 2: the Motor Carrier Act of nineteen eighty, which deregulated the industry.

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Speaker 2: Now that's kind of interesting there, because I kept, you know,

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Speaker 2: don't we always hear that it's the Republicans that are

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Speaker 2: constantly deregulating things that's not good for things, And you know,

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Speaker 2: let the various industry kind of you know, self regulate

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Speaker 2: and so on the heavy hand of government, relieving the

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Speaker 2: heavy handed government. It's kind of interesting that Jimmy Carter,

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Speaker 2: a Democrat, actually did that, which was good for in

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Speaker 2: a lot of instances for the trucking industry. Signed into

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Speaker 2: the effect in April of twenty eighth. One of Trump's

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Speaker 2: earlier executive horrors, this one aimed ostensibly at highway safety,

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Speaker 2: proved to be part of the administration sweeping and controversial

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Speaker 2: immigration and border enforcement policy. I don't think sweeping, it's sweeping.

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Speaker 2: I don't know necessarily that it's controversial, given the fact

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Speaker 2: that that's what he campaigned on, and the fact that

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Speaker 2: if you go back through the comments of various Democrats

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Speaker 2: through the years controlling our borders, stopping the flow of immigration,

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Speaker 2: even back when Joe Biden was a senator, he said

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Speaker 2: those things. But now, all of a sudden, because Trump

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Speaker 2: the twenty sixteen guidance document titled English Language Proficiency Testing

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Speaker 3: They did away with that policy.

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Speaker 2: It was not the policy was still on the book

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Speaker 2: for the FMCSA, but it wasn't one of those out

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Speaker 2: of service regulations that somebody could actually, you know, stop

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Speaker 2: being forced to stop driving. So they put that in

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Speaker 2: a place and issued a new one to fully enforce

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Speaker 2: the regulation requiring truckers to be able to speak and

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Speaker 2: read highway signs in English, and earlier such order designated

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Speaker 2: English as the nation's official language, which you know, if

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Speaker 2: you're going to drive on the roads, you ought to

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Speaker 2: be able to read the signs. You ought to be

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Speaker 2: able to know where you're at and if you know,

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Speaker 2: if obviously some of the universal signs of stop and

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Speaker 2: go and that type of thing. But when you're looking

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Speaker 2: at a particular destination of where you're going to pull

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Speaker 2: off a freeway where you need to switch lanes, that

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Speaker 2: kind of thing where you're heading, I don't know how.

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Speaker 3: You operate a vehicle without that.

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Speaker 2: Trump's executive order also required a view of the tightening

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Speaker 2: of the state's policy for the issuance of commercial driver's licenses,

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Speaker 2: especially those issue to non domicile drivers. It also directed

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Speaker 2: Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy to identify and begin carrying

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Speaker 2: out additional administrative, regulatory, and enforcement actions to improve the

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Speaker 2: working conditions of American truckers. So, if you're improving the

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Speaker 2: working conditions of American truck drivers, America's truck drivers, I

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Speaker 2: don't see that that is necessarily shaking up the trucking industry.

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Speaker 2: Maybe improving the trucking industry. Helping the trucking industry would

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Speaker 2: have been a better phrase to be used in the

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Speaker 2: headline of this story. This led to the announcement in

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Speaker 2: June of a series of initiatives, pilot programs, and regulatory

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Speaker 2: updates designed to support America's truck drivers. These included expanded

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Speaker 2: truck parking, which has been an issue for in the

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Speaker 2: trucking industry for at least thirty years now, withdrawing the

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Speaker 2: proposal man who proposed mandate for speed liminers, which was

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Speaker 2: unpopular with truckers and should have been unpopular with truckers

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Speaker 2: as well as the driving public, because putting speed limitters

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Speaker 2: Not extending the electronic logging device mandate to pre two

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Speaker 2: thousand models, that's a good sign. Eliminating double brokering, creating

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Speaker 2: pilot programs to study flexible sleeper birth combinations, and splitting

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Speaker 2: the fourteen hour on duty time now the hours of service.

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Speaker 2: For as long as I can remember driving back and

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Speaker 2: and when I was out going to different clients' offices

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Speaker 2: and driving there at night to be their first thing

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Speaker 3: Open their doors.

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Speaker 2: I've heard of hours of service and the problems with

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Speaker 2: that for again, almost as long as talking about expanding

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Speaker 2: and seeing what makes sense, what can be fit in

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Speaker 2: and still make the road safe out there. These are

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Speaker 2: all good things, not necessarily I don't classify that as

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Speaker 2: shaking up the trucking industry. Maybe improving the trucking industry.

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Speaker 2: Non Domicile CDLs and we're in the crosshairs. The awarding

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Speaker 2: with legal working permits, became a high profile target for

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Speaker 2: the Trump administration, and auditive states licensing departments found seventeen

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Speaker 2: states and the District of Columbia out of federal compliance

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Speaker 2: for how they issue non domiciled CDLs.

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Speaker 3: Seventeen states, folks, that's.

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Speaker 2: Pretty close to well, just around about a third of

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Speaker 3: Not a good thing.

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Speaker 2: And a lot of these the states that were mostly

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Speaker 2: you know, democratic controlled the states that you just decided that, okay, well,

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Speaker 2: first of all, we're going to be sanctuary states, sanctuary cities,

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Speaker 2: and oh why should we bother doing the little things

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Speaker 3: It's just unbelievable.

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Speaker 2: FMCSA ordered all states to stop issuing non domiciled CDLs

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Speaker 2: and revoked those they had already issued. It's estimated that

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Speaker 2: that would remove as many as two hundred thousand foreign

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Speaker 2: truckers from the nation's trucking industry. The emergency final of

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Speaker 2: eight thousand online comments. However, a lawsuit has been filed

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Speaker 2: halted the revocation for the time being. Again, if somebody

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Speaker 2: you know, obviously illegally they've brought broken the law. But

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Speaker 2: How much do they care about being here? Generally, when

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Speaker 3: Other areas around the world.

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Speaker 2: Why would somebody come in here and just go ahead

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Speaker 3: I don't understand it.

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Speaker 2: So again, this is some of the things that we'll

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Speaker 2: pick this up coming up, because attacking the CBL mills

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Speaker 2: some of the inspections of these vehicles during some of

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Speaker 2: those safety checks during the year. I'm Kevin Gordon, America's

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Speaker 4: Another off season tragedy has struck the NASCAR family a

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Speaker 4: couple of weeks ago, as the death of Greg Beffel,

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Speaker 4: Now the father of NASCAR star Denny Hamlin died and

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Speaker 4: his mother is critically injured after a weekend fire heavily

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Speaker 5: Don't make it harder with dozens of apps that don't

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Speaker 2: I'm not so sure about that headline. It's actually some

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Speaker 2: Centers getting into this particular story. When we left off,

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Speaker 2: they were talking about cracking down on the CDL mills,

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Speaker 2: which again, as you know, we talked to Sam Collier

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Speaker 2: at Gateway Community College. And the amazing thing is the

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Speaker 2: sure that they're register that they're actually training people to

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Speaker 2: put them on the road. And we're not talking about

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Speaker 2: something that is barely you know, is fairly safe. We're

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Speaker 2: And if somebody's not qualified for handling that, that puts

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Speaker 2: everybody at danger. And really, I think that people that

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Speaker 2: along the lines if any of these CDL licenses that

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Speaker 2: they've issued, the person winds up creating an accident that

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Speaker 2: kills people. On to some of the first Sean Duffy,

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Speaker 2: Secretary of Transportation, announced the removal of nearly three thousand

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Speaker 2: Safety Administration's Training Provider Registry, or TPR as they refer

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Speaker 2: to it. Later on, he said that the providers failed

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Speaker 6: Good morning, Kevin, thanks for having me.

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Speaker 2: My pleasure talk about a fantastic organization that I won't

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Speaker 5: It obviously we're probably best known for our annual reef

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Speaker 6: of this week, so through.

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Speaker 5: The thirty first any registered group, So if you're registered

438
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Speaker 5: as a sponsorship group through resacross America and you sponsor

439
00:25:39,640 --> 00:25:42,560
Speaker 5: read through their group, if they'll get a second matching

440
00:25:42,600 --> 00:25:45,600
Speaker 5: WREAF for from res across America and.

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Speaker 2: That doubles your doubles your contribution. So how do you

442
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Speaker 2: do that on the website because I kind of tinker

443
00:25:52,840 --> 00:25:58,639
Speaker 2: around with that the other day and we're on the website.

444
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Speaker 3: You go to the Reach across America do and then you.

445
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Speaker 5: Click on when you go up to the top, you

446
00:26:05,920 --> 00:26:07,800
Speaker 5: can look for search and you can when it pulls

447
00:26:07,840 --> 00:26:10,280
Speaker 5: up the search, it'll be there's a locations and then

448
00:26:10,280 --> 00:26:13,520
Speaker 5: there's groups. So if you know the location that you

449
00:26:13,560 --> 00:26:16,800
Speaker 5: want to support, you can look up your location and

450
00:26:17,280 --> 00:26:20,399
Speaker 5: it'll it'll pull up the location if it's a participating

451
00:26:20,440 --> 00:26:22,560
Speaker 5: location and they get their own their own page, and

452
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Speaker 5: then you can scroll down and see all the groups

453
00:26:24,720 --> 00:26:29,919
Speaker 5: that support that location, and if you click on their group,

454
00:26:30,040 --> 00:26:32,679
Speaker 5: you can sponsor a reach right through that group. Or

455
00:26:32,760 --> 00:26:34,440
Speaker 5: if you know the name of the group, so so

456
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Speaker 5: you know your local VFW or your local American Legion

457
00:26:38,840 --> 00:26:41,440
Speaker 5: is a sponsorship group for your cemetery, you can go

458
00:26:41,560 --> 00:26:44,080
Speaker 5: directly to the group section and just look up the

459
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Speaker 5: name of that post or that chapter, or the name

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Speaker 5: of the whatever the nonprofit's name is, and you can

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Speaker 5: pull up their page. So anyone who any group that's

462
00:26:53,240 --> 00:26:56,640
Speaker 5: just you know, participating location or participating group has their

463
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Speaker 5: own page on our website, so it's really easy to

464
00:27:00,080 --> 00:27:02,880
Speaker 5: to find them and to sponsor a reath through them,

465
00:27:02,920 --> 00:27:04,680
Speaker 5: and then we take care of it on the back end.

466
00:27:04,760 --> 00:27:07,680
Speaker 5: So and that's a great way, and you can also

467
00:27:07,760 --> 00:27:09,920
Speaker 5: call you can call our customer service at eight seven

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Speaker 5: seven three eight five ninety five oh four and see

469
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Speaker 5: if you know, what are the groups that are supporting

470
00:27:16,160 --> 00:27:19,240
Speaker 5: the local cemetery that you care about, and you can

471
00:27:19,280 --> 00:27:21,280
Speaker 5: support that group. So that way, you know your money

472
00:27:21,440 --> 00:27:24,240
Speaker 5: is going that much further. You know, you're not only

473
00:27:24,480 --> 00:27:27,480
Speaker 5: are you you're also you know, when you support a group,

474
00:27:27,560 --> 00:27:31,440
Speaker 5: you're also supporting two organizations. So for your seventeen dollars contribution,

475
00:27:31,520 --> 00:27:35,199
Speaker 5: you're sponsoring the REEF and you're supporting RECROSSMERCAS programs, but

476
00:27:35,280 --> 00:27:38,480
Speaker 5: you're also helping this other nonprofit in there in your community.

477
00:27:38,840 --> 00:27:40,320
Speaker 5: So it's a really great way to kind of do

478
00:27:40,440 --> 00:27:43,879
Speaker 5: good twice all throughout the year. But obviously, this promos

479
00:27:43,920 --> 00:27:45,640
Speaker 5: through the end of this week is a great way

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Speaker 5: for us to help our volunteers to be successful and

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00:27:48,600 --> 00:27:50,400
Speaker 5: get a great head start for next year.

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Speaker 2: My guest is Amber Karen. She is the director of

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Speaker 2: Communications Rees across America.

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Speaker 3: Now, to be.

485
00:27:55,880 --> 00:27:59,160
Speaker 2: Clear on your web page, you don't want to go

486
00:27:59,320 --> 00:28:02,280
Speaker 2: to the sponsor wreaths, correct?

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Speaker 3: You want to go again?

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Speaker 6: If you yeah, you actually can do that.

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Speaker 5: Yeah.

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Speaker 6: If you go to sponsor wreaths and you say you're

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Speaker 6: going to click one sponsor.

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Speaker 5: One wreath, you can go ahead, I'm gonna go through

493
00:28:15,280 --> 00:28:18,480
Speaker 5: the process and you can add to cart, you can

494
00:28:18,680 --> 00:28:21,240
Speaker 5: proceed to check out and basically you can go through

495
00:28:21,280 --> 00:28:23,560
Speaker 5: and you can actually edit and you can say where

496
00:28:23,600 --> 00:28:26,000
Speaker 5: you want your wreath to go. You can be very

497
00:28:26,000 --> 00:28:28,359
Speaker 5: specific as to what group and location you want to

498
00:28:28,400 --> 00:28:32,480
Speaker 5: go to. That things that I find it easier just

499
00:28:32,520 --> 00:28:34,320
Speaker 5: to start at the group that you want.

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Speaker 6: So by going to search sponsor, Yes, yeah, that's probably

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Speaker 6: the easiest way, is.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think it's more better way of going to

503
00:28:42,200 --> 00:28:46,720
Speaker 2: it because you know, but backing up, also, if you

504
00:28:46,840 --> 00:28:50,840
Speaker 2: are interested in being part of this and being part

505
00:28:50,880 --> 00:28:54,760
Speaker 2: of the reath playing ceremony, you can go to the

506
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Speaker 2: get involved, and it's very simple. You go you and

507
00:29:01,080 --> 00:29:04,600
Speaker 2: you tell them where you're located or your zip code.

508
00:29:05,040 --> 00:29:08,600
Speaker 2: And when I did this three maybe four years ago,

509
00:29:09,200 --> 00:29:11,960
Speaker 2: within a half hour, one of the people contacted me

510
00:29:12,040 --> 00:29:14,959
Speaker 2: and said, hey, we're interested in having you and all this.

511
00:29:15,120 --> 00:29:19,120
Speaker 2: And so they talked about what cemetery they sponsored and

512
00:29:19,160 --> 00:29:22,040
Speaker 2: how close it was to where I live. And it

513
00:29:22,080 --> 00:29:25,160
Speaker 2: was a very easy sign up policy. And so to

514
00:29:25,480 --> 00:29:29,040
Speaker 2: do that again going back in and purchasing a wreath,

515
00:29:29,400 --> 00:29:33,680
Speaker 2: you can go to that specific sponsor and sponsor the

516
00:29:33,720 --> 00:29:36,920
Speaker 2: wreath at that location. And it's very important to do

517
00:29:36,960 --> 00:29:39,600
Speaker 2: that because you want to get that bang for your buck.

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00:29:39,680 --> 00:29:43,040
Speaker 2: You want to make sure and it's seventeen dollars. I mean,

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00:29:43,400 --> 00:29:46,120
Speaker 2: you look at these wreaths. I'm telling you folks. You

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00:29:46,240 --> 00:29:49,200
Speaker 2: go online and you look at the reefs across America

521
00:29:49,360 --> 00:29:52,880
Speaker 2: dot org and look at the picture on there, and

522
00:29:53,160 --> 00:29:58,000
Speaker 2: that is just such an amazing picture. And I think

523
00:29:58,040 --> 00:30:03,600
Speaker 2: originally at Arlington Nationals a mitery, uh, the when that

524
00:30:03,880 --> 00:30:07,560
Speaker 2: first took place and the snow on the ground, and

525
00:30:07,800 --> 00:30:09,640
Speaker 2: when you look at these reefs, I mean, these are

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Speaker 2: anybody that's gone out and bought a wreath seventeen dollars

527
00:30:13,360 --> 00:30:16,040
Speaker 2: for these reefs. You should be probably paying twice as

528
00:30:16,120 --> 00:30:17,760
Speaker 2: much for them. They're that beautiful.

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Speaker 5: Well, and you're and you're not just paying And I

530
00:30:20,200 --> 00:30:22,160
Speaker 5: want to be really clear for people saying it's not

531
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Speaker 5: just paying for the wreath.

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Speaker 3: The reef is.

533
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Speaker 5: One thing that gives place. But you're supporting local programs.

534
00:30:28,000 --> 00:30:30,720
Speaker 5: You're supporting the res Across America mission and our year

535
00:30:30,800 --> 00:30:33,520
Speaker 5: round program. We have so many things including you know,

536
00:30:33,600 --> 00:30:35,920
Speaker 5: our own we have our own radio station that you

537
00:30:35,960 --> 00:30:39,479
Speaker 5: know that we share content from our veterans and service members.

538
00:30:39,520 --> 00:30:40,400
Speaker 2: We have our.

539
00:30:41,720 --> 00:30:43,760
Speaker 6: We have our museum and our traveling museum.

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00:30:43,880 --> 00:30:46,880
Speaker 5: We have our education program free curriculum for teachers and

541
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Speaker 5: educators across the country. So there's a year round mission

542
00:30:50,440 --> 00:30:53,720
Speaker 5: here that's being supported with that seventeen dollars sponsorship, and

543
00:30:53,920 --> 00:30:54,920
Speaker 5: a reason is getting placed.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: I should I should have been more specific on that.

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00:30:57,320 --> 00:31:00,200
Speaker 2: I apologize for that, but yeah, I think.

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00:31:00,040 --> 00:31:03,120
Speaker 5: It's an important distinction that people don't realize, yeah, because

548
00:31:03,120 --> 00:31:05,360
Speaker 5: I think they're like, oh, well, seventeen dollars, I'm getting

549
00:31:05,400 --> 00:31:08,080
Speaker 5: a wreath, yes, and.

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00:31:07,160 --> 00:31:08,840
Speaker 3: Adding all these other things yes.

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00:31:09,080 --> 00:31:11,560
Speaker 5: Yeah, And in a lot of cases with these sponsorship groups,

552
00:31:11,600 --> 00:31:13,960
Speaker 5: you're supporting on another another group's.

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00:31:13,640 --> 00:31:16,640
Speaker 6: Mission, right, I mean twenty eight million dollars. I mean

554
00:31:16,760 --> 00:31:18,560
Speaker 6: we haven't gotten the updated figure yet.

555
00:31:18,440 --> 00:31:20,520
Speaker 5: For twenty twenty five, but I guarantee it's going to

556
00:31:20,560 --> 00:31:23,240
Speaker 5: be over thirty million dollars this year. We've we had

557
00:31:23,280 --> 00:31:25,960
Speaker 5: over seven thousand sponsorship groups last year.

558
00:31:25,960 --> 00:31:28,240
Speaker 6: So these are groups that are you know I have.

559
00:31:28,640 --> 00:31:31,240
Speaker 5: I had kids that played baseball and we sold four

560
00:31:31,320 --> 00:31:35,720
Speaker 5: mate popcorn for absurd amounts of money, and those kids

561
00:31:35,720 --> 00:31:38,080
Speaker 5: would see a dollar you know of it, whereas this

562
00:31:38,280 --> 00:31:41,520
Speaker 5: is seventeen dollars and five dollars goes directly back to

563
00:31:41,560 --> 00:31:45,000
Speaker 5: whatever the program is. It's a great it's a great

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00:31:45,000 --> 00:31:47,400
Speaker 5: way to raise funds and especially for youth programs for

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00:31:47,440 --> 00:31:49,760
Speaker 5: them to learn about those service members and their community.

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Speaker 2: And it is an absolutely fantastic organization and I recommend

567
00:31:53,880 --> 00:31:56,880
Speaker 2: it highly. It's just one of those things that really

568
00:31:56,920 --> 00:32:01,840
Speaker 2: touches your soul. Again, Amber, Karen direct your communications. Rescross America.

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Speaker 2: It I just can't speak enough about it, the good

570
00:32:05,560 --> 00:32:08,680
Speaker 2: work that you do. And my other well, my full

571
00:32:08,720 --> 00:32:12,719
Speaker 2: time gig is with America's Truck and Network and we

572
00:32:12,760 --> 00:32:16,360
Speaker 2: were a part of Rescross America and do the truck

573
00:32:16,400 --> 00:32:19,840
Speaker 2: and Tuesday and do the show there. And it's been

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00:32:19,880 --> 00:32:22,720
Speaker 2: great going to the America Mid America Trucking Show and

575
00:32:23,360 --> 00:32:27,400
Speaker 2: being right around the corner from the booth of Recross America. Uh,

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00:32:27,520 --> 00:32:29,880
Speaker 2: it's always great to talk to them. Jeff Pearce, in

577
00:32:29,920 --> 00:32:33,520
Speaker 2: your in your crowd. It's just an amazing organization. So

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00:32:34,080 --> 00:32:39,320
Speaker 2: once again, anybody interested in getting on board, go.

579
00:32:39,160 --> 00:32:44,280
Speaker 5: To read across America dot org and there's plenty of

580
00:32:44,280 --> 00:32:46,600
Speaker 5: ways to followed get involved if you want to look

581
00:32:46,640 --> 00:32:48,880
Speaker 5: to how to get involved locally, or go to the

582
00:32:48,920 --> 00:32:51,960
Speaker 5: search function and look up a sponsorship group near you

583
00:32:52,040 --> 00:32:56,400
Speaker 5: and see where you can make your contribution doubled over

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00:32:56,440 --> 00:32:57,080
Speaker 5: the next week.

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00:32:57,320 --> 00:33:01,520
Speaker 2: And if if you prefer the phone route, that would be.

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00:33:03,120 --> 00:33:07,680
Speaker 5: The phone round at eight seven seven three eight five four.

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Speaker 2: And again my guess, Amber, Karen. And by the way,

588
00:33:11,880 --> 00:33:14,160
Speaker 2: I know it was kind of rushed and getting in

589
00:33:14,240 --> 00:33:17,040
Speaker 2: touch with you over the weekend, but I certainly appreciate

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00:33:17,200 --> 00:33:20,840
Speaker 2: uh you spending time with us today. And again, folks,

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00:33:20,960 --> 00:33:25,960
Speaker 2: recross America dot org support a very fantastic organization. Get

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00:33:26,000 --> 00:33:30,320
Speaker 2: on board. Look at the website. If it doesn't touch

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00:33:30,360 --> 00:33:32,920
Speaker 2: your heart, well nothing will. And that's all I have

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00:33:33,000 --> 00:33:38,560
Speaker 2: to say, and it's a fantastic organization. Remember, honor and

595
00:33:38,680 --> 00:33:41,320
Speaker 2: teach Heather. It's been a pleasure talking to you. I

596
00:33:41,360 --> 00:33:45,680
Speaker 2: have to do this again sometime and again, folks. This

597
00:33:45,840 --> 00:33:50,000
Speaker 2: is a promotion that goes till December thirty first, New

598
00:33:50,080 --> 00:33:53,720
Speaker 2: Year's Day. Get double bang for your buck, sponsor a

599
00:33:53,760 --> 00:33:59,120
Speaker 2: wreath and they match that from Recross America. Any closing thoughts, No.

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Speaker 6: I appreciate it, Kevin, Thank you so much. Everyone.

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Speaker 5: Like I said, even though even though Reese Cressmercod Day

602
00:34:04,520 --> 00:34:07,760
Speaker 5: is over for twenty twenty five, the mission continues year round.

603
00:34:07,840 --> 00:34:10,560
Speaker 5: There's ways to get involved year round, and never too

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00:34:10,600 --> 00:34:12,920
Speaker 5: early to get involved for next year exactly.

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Speaker 2: And oh, by the way, save the date December nineteenth.

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Speaker 5: Nineteenth, Yeah, twenty six, December December nineteenth, twenty twenty six.

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Speaker 5: We'll do it all over again and probably at over

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Speaker 5: six thousand locations next year, all right, which is crazy

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Speaker 5: crazy to think about.

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Speaker 3: Let's hope. Ember.

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Speaker 2: It was just mentioned to me that a couple of

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Speaker 2: minutes ago I misspoke and said that the promotion for

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Speaker 2: Reese Cross America was going through New Year's Day. It

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00:34:39,320 --> 00:34:42,920
Speaker 2: actually ends today December the thirty first, So I want

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00:34:42,960 --> 00:34:44,600
Speaker 2: to make sure that you're aware of that. Go to

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Speaker 2: their website and make sure that you make that donation

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Speaker 2: and sponsor that rece so you get two for the

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Speaker 2: price of one, and certainly a worthwhile thing to do.

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Speaker 2: Stay tuned for EDI Radio Top the hour. I'm Kevin Gordon.

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