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Speaker 1: From WBZ News Radio in Boston. This is New England

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Speaker 1: Weekend where each and every week right here we come

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Speaker 1: together we talk about all the topics important to you

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Speaker 1: and the place where you live. It's great to have

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Speaker 1: you with us this week. I'm Nicole Davis. If you're

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Speaker 1: a longtime listener of the show, you know that we

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Speaker 1: often try to shine a spotlight on things that are

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Speaker 1: impacting families and need here in New England, like trying

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Speaker 1: to get food on the table, and access to proper healthcare,

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Speaker 1: access to toilet trees, access to even a roof over

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Speaker 1: their head. One thing though we have not talked about

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Speaker 1: is access to beds. You don't hear a lot of

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Speaker 1: talk about that period. This issue, a lack of proper

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Speaker 1: bets for kids, is impacting families not just here but

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Speaker 1: around the country. And a man from Idaho has made

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Speaker 1: it his mission to take this on. Kylencholson, almost fifteen

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Speaker 1: years ago started Sleep in Heavenly Peace. His efforts have

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Speaker 1: now resonated with people all over the world. In that time,

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Speaker 1: they've been able to deliver hunt of thousands of beds

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Speaker 1: to families in need. But here in Massachusetts, Kyle says

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Speaker 1: they need more help. That's why he's here now to

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Speaker 1: talk about this. So Kyle, thanks so much for your time.

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Speaker 1: First and foremost, you know, let's hear your story how

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Speaker 1: you got into this in the first place.

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Speaker 2: You know, and this all started not because some guy

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Speaker 2: farm kid from Idaho wanted to start a charity. In fact,

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Speaker 2: it couldn't be further from the truth. You know, being

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Speaker 2: a kid from a small town, you know, I tell

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Speaker 2: people I've really got to know, and you're kind of

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Speaker 2: forced to get to know everybody in town, and that

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Speaker 2: bond brings a lot of closeness and a lot of

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Speaker 2: opportunity to serve people that you know very well. Well.

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Speaker 2: In my church group, I was what was called a

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Speaker 2: young Men's President. I served the young men's program ages

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Speaker 2: twelve to about seventeen, and part of that was an

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Speaker 2: activity that we would do each week. Well during the month,

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Speaker 2: we'd have these meetings with other auxiliary members of the

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Speaker 2: church and we talked about people that were helping or

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Speaker 2: events or whatnot. Well, this family popped up and I

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Speaker 2: only knew a little bit of the family. The mom

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Speaker 2: was the local school bus driver, but they lived in

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Speaker 2: a part of the town that was so remote. I

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Speaker 2: didn't even know existed. You gotta remember, I'm from this

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Speaker 2: is a small town of four thousand people. I mean

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Speaker 2: I knew everybody and where they lived and all this stuff,

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Speaker 2: and so it was really it really caught me by surprise.

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Speaker 2: But what was even more surprising was that, you know,

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Speaker 2: they're talking about how they were helping this family with

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Speaker 2: rent or food or whatever, and they mentioned someone mentioned

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Speaker 2: that the kids didn't have any beds, and I said, well, wait,

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Speaker 2: wait a minute, like they got mattresses, certainly, right, And

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Speaker 2: I said, no, no, they're actually just sleeping on the

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Speaker 2: hardwood floor on you know, with their blankets. And I

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Speaker 2: don't know, Nicole is like, it just hit me. I'm

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Speaker 2: a father, I've got kids my own. To think about

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Speaker 2: kids sleeping on the floor just just didn't settle very

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Speaker 2: well with me, you know. And then another thought popped in, thinking,

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Speaker 2: when you were a leader of certainly teenage kids and

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Speaker 2: boys in particular, it seems like it's hard to find

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Speaker 2: an activity where they're going to enjoy that doesn't involve

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Speaker 2: And so what a great opportunity this was going to

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Speaker 2: be to get an Xbox controller out of their hands

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Speaker 2: And so so that's what I did. I you know,

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Speaker 2: had him come over that that week and for a

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Speaker 2: I knew my way around some tools, and so they

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Speaker 2: came over and we built this bunk bed and it

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Speaker 2: got kind of around the community what we were doing,

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Speaker 2: and certainly the kids parents found out. Well when we

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Speaker 2: went to go deliver this bed, I mean half to

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Speaker 2: be a part of it, which is really cool to see,

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Speaker 2: you know, But I, you know, I had it is

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Speaker 2: the beginning of December in Idaho, not exactly the warmest

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Speaker 2: can imagine. Well, the next day at church, they came

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Speaker 2: that's just a crazy thought to think that there's kids

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Speaker 2: so I missed out on the delivery. And I won't lie.

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Speaker 2: I was pretty jealous, pretty bummed to you know, here

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Speaker 2: you know, like every father or parent that's got kids

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Speaker 2: that you know it's Christmas time and they're begging for

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Speaker 2: the toys, you know you're not gonna get them. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: And that was no different. I mean, these kids wanted

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Speaker 2: me just right, you know, just did this service project

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Speaker 2: for this family whose kids are sleeping on the floor.

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Speaker 2: For crying out loud, we can at least step up,

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Speaker 2: and I can teach my kids to the value of

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Speaker 2: serving others and the joy that comes from serving others.

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Speaker 2: And I certainly appreciate the things that they had. So

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Speaker 2: I jumped up off the couch one night and this

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Speaker 2: couple of days later, so my kids, I just marched

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Speaker 1: Help me, nice, nice, And their faces must have been like, oh.

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Speaker 2: Wait, Well they kind of knew dad already at that point.

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Speaker 2: You know, it was six and nine or so, and

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Speaker 2: And so we had a lot of fun. I mean,

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Speaker 2: I got pictures of my daughter and are pink too too?

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Speaker 2: And my son and his Boise State sweatshirt out there

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Speaker 2: pounded away, and you know, we just had a great,

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Speaker 2: great time. Well, keep in mind, we didn't know that

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Speaker 2: do with this bed, and I wanted it to go

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Speaker 2: to a very similar situation if there was one in

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Speaker 2: the community where a kid's sleeping on the floor. Well,

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Speaker 2: I posted it on Bicell trade group on Facebook locally,

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Speaker 2: and what I got, Nicole, just blew my mind. You know.

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Speaker 2: We got stories from either friends I knew who knew me,

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Speaker 2: I mean, we're talking about kids that are on cement

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Speaker 2: I mean, it was just really bad situation. And right

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Speaker 2: then I knew, okay, wait a minute, there's more than

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Speaker 2: is what's going on? Right? And then my friend of

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Speaker 2: mine told me and said, look, listen, I got the

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Speaker 2: perfect family for you, because I wanted this to go

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Speaker 2: to a child, you know. And so she told me

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Speaker 2: which was Haley, and they Haley had been sleeping in

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Speaker 2: me away. And I thought, okay, this is this is perfect,

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Speaker 2: This is exactly what I was looking for. This is

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Speaker 2: like many other people serving transitioning homelessness or poverty or whatnot.

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Speaker 2: imagine what it looks like. You know, holes in the

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Speaker 2: carpet and the wallpaper had tears on it, no closet door,

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Speaker 2: and you know, all this stuff. But what blew me

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Speaker 2: away the most Nicole was to look over in the

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Speaker 2: where she slept. It was her nest she would come

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Speaker 2: almost upset about that, you know, I was almost mad,

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Speaker 2: not in my town, right, And then that obviously turned

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Speaker 2: I mean, she just erupted. She came up and hugged

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Speaker 2: us two strangers, you know, these guys, and then hugged

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Speaker 1: While we're here, yeah, yeah.

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Speaker 2: Why now let's pile it off. Sure, I look up

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Speaker 2: at mom, and I was raised by a single mom too,

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Speaker 2: And here's mom six years of struggle just pouring down

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Speaker 2: this lady's face. And I don't know what her background was,

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Speaker 2: I don't know the circumstances, and quite frankly, I don't care.

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Speaker 2: I'm there to help the child. And and but when

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Speaker 2: you see this mom crying, and I knew what every

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Speaker 2: every single one of those tears meant, you know, I

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Speaker 2: knew right then this is way more than just a bed.

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Speaker 2: You know, this is providing family security and mom's relief

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Speaker 2: and parents who were struggling. I mean, it's just way

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Speaker 2: more than just a good night's sleep. And I remember

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Speaker 2: I got in my car with my buddy Jordan on

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Speaker 2: I'm a farm kid for ido. I like to hunt,

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Speaker 2: I like to fish, I like to do all that

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Speaker 2: kind of stuff, sports on Saturdays. And then it's in

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Speaker 2: a snap of none of them mattered anymore. I just,

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Speaker 2: that week to solve that problem. That was well worth

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Speaker 2: my time. And so when I got back, I learned

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Speaker 2: lean over to my buddy, I said, you know what,

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Speaker 2: no kid's going to sleep on the floor in my

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Speaker 2: what I found out was child businesses was much larger

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Speaker 2: actually represents greater than three percent of the total population

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Speaker 2: in the country anywhere. And it's a problem that I

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Speaker 2: found out not a lot of people were taken care of.

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Speaker 1: So what if somebody says, I don't even know how

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Speaker 1: All right. Yeah, And here in Massachusetts we have two.

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Speaker 1: We have one that's based in Acton and Middlesex County,

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Speaker 1: covered here. Shpbeds dot org. Social media. I'm assuming you're

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Speaker 2: Yeah, in fact, that's a great way. Thank you for

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Speaker 2: I don't know. We do a lot through Facebook because

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Speaker 2: some of us old guys. We do a lot on

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Speaker 2: social media and a lot of information a man, you

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Speaker 2: want to you want to hear and see some really teared,

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Speaker 2: and I'll just tell you this, Like providing a bed

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Speaker 2: for a child, like I said, it's way more than

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Speaker 2: just a bed, but a good night's sleep brings these

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Speaker 2: go to school. You ask a school teacher, they'll tell you,

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Speaker 2: you know, some of these kids that they don't get

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Speaker 2: mood's terrible. You know, that's just that side. Then you

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Speaker 2: got the social aspect. These kids can't have friends over,

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Speaker 2: they don't want to have friends over, they're embarrassed by

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Speaker 2: their situation. They can have sleepovers for crying out loud,

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Speaker 2: you know. And the last thing is mentally. You know, Nicole,

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Speaker 2: you and I have a bad day, guess where we

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Speaker 2: get to go? Were gonna go crawl into our bed,

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Speaker 2: our sanctuary, are our escape?

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Speaker 1: Yeah? It breaks my heart. Yeah, it breaks my heart

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Speaker 1: to think that kids would come home from a bad

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Speaker 1: day at school. It's all We all have bad days

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Speaker 1: at school, you know, and believe in this and that,

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Speaker 1: or you fail to test. The last thing you want

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Speaker 1: So I'm glad that you're out there helping to fix this,

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Speaker 1: this nationwide problem that is seemingly only getting worse. So

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Speaker 1: I'm glad you're out there to try and stop this

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Speaker 1: and turn that trend a round.

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Speaker 2: Well, thank you for having me on. I think it's

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Speaker 2: you know, it only starts with the knowledge of it.

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Speaker 2: And my mission now, my goal now is to raise

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Speaker 2: as much awareness about the cause but also the solution

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Speaker 2: sleeping only piece. You know, there's other charities that have

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Speaker 2: the most part, by a long shot. You know, we're

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Speaker 2: we have put together a program where the largest in

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Speaker 2: the world. For a reason is because the Bury barrier

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Speaker 2: to entry is so much smaller and less expensive and

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Speaker 2: easier in our program, because we know we set this

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Speaker 2: up for men and women. Farm kids from Idaho could

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Speaker 2: start things. If this guy can, anybody can.

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Speaker 1: Farm kids from Massachusetts, city kids from Massachusetts, anybody can

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Speaker 1: get involved. That's a beautiful it's an equal opportunity thing,

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Speaker 1: and I really appreciate that. So Luke, I appreciate your time,

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Speaker 1: I appreciate your work, and thank you for being here.

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Speaker 2: Thanks for having me.

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Speaker 1: We've got a lot of snow coming this weekend. Be

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Speaker 1: sure to bundle up, stay safe and warm and healthy,

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Speaker 1: and join us again next week for another edition of

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Speaker 1: the show. I'm Nicole Davis from WBZ News Radio on iHeartRadio.