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Speaker 1: Brighton Marine. Uh and before we go to Dan Cork,

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Speaker 1: who's right on the line. Uh, Paul has done it.

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Speaker 1: He's actually sweetened the pot even more. Paul Wahlberger. So

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Speaker 1: for those of you that are bidding the what at Berg, Well, well, yeah,

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Speaker 1: but your restaurant's called Wallburger.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, but my name, So when you say Paul Wallberger,

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Speaker 2: I'm confusing with one of my friends when I was twelve,

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Speaker 1: Sorry, we're here with Paul Wahlberg of Wallburger's.

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Speaker 2: So good, like you do this job for a living.

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Speaker 1: And so he's not just gonna do an eight court,

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Speaker 1: The dav will make sure that someone picks you up

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Speaker 1: Oh my goodness. So if you want to bid on

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Speaker 1: the auction, it's trust me. This is a steal. One

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Speaker 1: thousand dollars is a steal. That's the current bid right now.

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Speaker 1: Nine seven eight six three two, nineteen eighty five. If

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Speaker 1: nine seven eight six three two nineteen eighty five, if

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Speaker 1: and joining us now is a very special guest, truly

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Speaker 1: our honor and privilege. It is Dan Quirk. He is

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Speaker 1: the owner CEO of Quirk Auto Group. Dan has been

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Speaker 1: a longtime supporter of the DAV. Dan, thank you so

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Speaker 1: much and how are you?

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Speaker 3: I'm trying? Good morning, Jeff.

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Speaker 1: Dan, thank you again as always for joining us during

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Speaker 1: our annual radio thon here on WRKO to benefit disabled

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Speaker 1: American veterans. Dan, I've got to ask why the DAV

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Speaker 1: Why do you care so much? Why do you support it?

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Speaker 1: And you've been such a longtime supporter.

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Speaker 3: The DAV is the terristic organization that we've been involved

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Speaker 3: with us for a long time. We support veterans and

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Speaker 3: their causes. We've always done that. My family members have

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Speaker 3: been veterans. At Quirk, We have combat veterans that work here,

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Speaker 3: since the beginning of my adult life, I've always appreciated

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Speaker 3: the sacrifices that veterans make and how things that they

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Speaker 3: I've always believed that veterans and veterans causes near and

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Speaker 1: Dan, You've always been very generous in the past. What

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Speaker 1: can we count on you as your donation this year?

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Speaker 3: You can count on Quirk to donate ten thousand dollars

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Speaker 3: to DAV.

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Speaker 1: I love you, Dan, I in a non sexual way.

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Speaker 1: I love you.

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Speaker 3: Thank you, Jeff. We love dav and the veterans.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I noticed you didn't say you love me. I

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Speaker 1: kind of caught that there, Dan, Dan, thank you, thank you,

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Speaker 1: thank you. Let me go right to Dan Stack. Dan. Wow,

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Speaker 1: a ten thousand dollars donation. What say you, mister Quirk?

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Speaker 4: Once again, Thank you very much, mister Quirk has been

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Speaker 4: Luigi Pascual. Lou Pascual brought me in to see mister Quirk.

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Speaker 4: We've discussed what the dav does. He supported us from

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Speaker 4: So Dan, once again, thank you and thank you for

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Speaker 5: Appreciate it.

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Speaker 1: Bob Lynch from Dav is with us as well. I

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Speaker 1: know he wants to say a few words to you, Dan.

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Speaker 1: Please go ahead, Yes, mister Quirk. It's an honor and

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Speaker 2: And again, thank you so much for all that you do,

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Speaker 1: So thank you, Dan. I want to really echo and

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Speaker 1: Dan Quirk. All I hear is class, class, class, and

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Speaker 1: you just showed it again, a class all the way.

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Speaker 1: You're obviously a very successful businessman, God bless you, but

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Speaker 1: Now you want to see what a nice man Paul

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Speaker 1: He has given Ashton, because as you know, Ashton wants

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Speaker 1: Arthur has called in. Listen to this. He is going

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Speaker 1: to be donating I kid you not a case of

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Speaker 9: Oh, good morning, Thank you Jeff for having me here today.

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Speaker 1: Thank you. You guys do incredible work at Brighton Marine.

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Speaker 1: Rosie, you've been a real champion of veterans. You're known

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Speaker 9: do what we do without getting the partnership and support

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Speaker 9: and the teamwork from these organizations because at the end

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Speaker 9: of the day, they're in it right. They're right in

436
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Speaker 9: every single community. They know these veterans by name. They

437
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Speaker 9: help provide what I call warm handover to us when

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Speaker 9: it's time for us to connect and partner. And you know,

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Speaker 9: whether it's one thousand dollars or a million dollars, you

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Speaker 9: know we're committed to continuing to reinvest and partner with

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Speaker 9: organizations that are making a difference. So I cannot think

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Speaker 9: of a better organization to support than DAV and the

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Speaker 9: other you know v you know vsos like VFW and

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Speaker 9: others that again, they're just they're just doing great work

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Speaker 9: and even doing it for a long time.

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Speaker 1: God bless you, really, God bless you, Bob. I know

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Speaker 1: we're up against it in terms of time, but I

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Speaker 1: know you want to quickly thank her for her they're

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Speaker 1: wonderful thousand dollars donations.

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Speaker 4: This is Dan Stack and Brighton Marine.

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Speaker 1: Dan, I'm sorry, Dan, give me.

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Speaker 4: Brighton Marine is one of those quiet organizations that has

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Speaker 4: always been in the background, working very hard taking care

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Speaker 4: of veterans. And my first experience with Brighton Marine was

455
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Speaker 4: through Tommy Lyons, and Tommy Lyons introduced me to many

456
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Speaker 4: of the Brighton Marine people that were working there and

457
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Speaker 4: I just want to thank you personally. But Rosie is correct.

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Speaker 4: It takes a community to take care of veterans. It's

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Speaker 4: not just the da B, it is the Brighton Marines,

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Speaker 4: it's all the other nonprofit veterans organizations that are out

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Speaker 4: there working together. We all have to collaborate to make

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Speaker 4: sure that the veteran is taking care of Rosie. God

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Speaker 4: bless you and thank Brighton Marine for everything You're.

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Speaker 1: Doing Rosie again, from the bottom of my heart, thank

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Speaker 1: you so much. I know I speak for Paul on

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Speaker 1: this and Bob Lynch and everyone here in the studio.

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Speaker 1: We have been talking with Rosie Cloud, CEO of Brighton Marine.

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Speaker 1: Rosie again, thank you so much, and thank you for

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Speaker 1: your patriotism and really for everything you do for all

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Speaker 1: the veterans. Have a wonderful weekend and a very happy

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Speaker 1: Veterans Day.

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Speaker 9: Thank you, Jeff.

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Speaker 1: Take care, Rosie, take care, okay six one seven two

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Speaker 1: six six sixty eight sixty eight. If you want to

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Speaker 1: call into the show, especially veterans and share some of

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Speaker 1: your stories, especially disabled veterans, and what organizations like the

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Speaker 1: DAV mean for you. If you want to donate and

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Speaker 1: the phones are hopping, please now is the time to

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Speaker 1: do it. Nine seven eight six three two nineteen eighty

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Speaker 1: five nine seven eight six three two one nine eight five.

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Speaker 1: You can also go online go to DAV five k

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Speaker 1: dot Boston DAV five k dot Boston. Please, whatever you

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Speaker 1: can give will be much much appreciated. Paul, I know

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Speaker 1: you're on a tight schedule. You've been more than generous. Uh.

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Speaker 1: Bob sorry, Bob Lynch wants to thank you Dan Stack

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Speaker 1: wants to thank you. I want to thank you any

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Speaker 1: parting words before you go, Paul.

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Speaker 2: As you know, I was, I was sitting there listening to,

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Speaker 2: you know, the comments being made and when you realize

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Speaker 2: someone's people are talking about homeless veterans, right, that that

491
00:28:27,320 --> 00:28:31,560
Speaker 2: shouldn't happen, right, the people that that we need to support,

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Speaker 2: you know, who support us and make it possible for

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Speaker 2: us to live our lives and the freedom that that

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Speaker 2: we that we hold and cherish, you know, supporting the

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Speaker 2: veterans should be the number one cause for everybody, you know,

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Speaker 2: and there's lots of other things that we do and

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Speaker 2: that is super important, but to me, you know, one

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Speaker 2: of the strongest things that we could do is support

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Speaker 2: our veterans. And just even like I said, the simple

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Speaker 2: things of thank you, you know, and what the DAV

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Speaker 2: provides and everybody here and what you provide and you

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00:29:00,040 --> 00:29:02,240
Speaker 2: and you help give a forum for a lot of

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Speaker 2: people to talk about it and to really and you

504
00:29:04,600 --> 00:29:06,360
Speaker 2: bring out the best in people when it comes to

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Speaker 2: talking about the veterans and talking about the things that

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Speaker 2: they need and all the support that goes around for him.

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Speaker 1: So thank you very much. We thank you Paul, really

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Speaker 1: thank you and look all kidding aside to everybody out there,

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Speaker 1: go to Wallburger's. It's an incredible I've been there many times.

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Speaker 1: Best burger in Massachusetts period, Alvinova to me, one of

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Speaker 1: the best, really five star restaurants in Massachusetts. We still

512
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Speaker 1: have that auction going. It's going to be an incredible

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00:29:35,960 --> 00:29:39,760
Speaker 1: six course meal for eight people, wine included. I mean,

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00:29:39,800 --> 00:29:44,120
Speaker 1: it's really fully loaded. It's an experience you will never forget.

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00:29:44,720 --> 00:29:48,840
Speaker 1: The auction now it's at eight thousand dollars. Please let's

516
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Speaker 1: get it to ten thousand dollars. Call now, make your bid.

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Speaker 1: Paul will be there with his team. Ashton will be

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Speaker 1: there helping him. I kid you, not my own Ashton.

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Speaker 1: Nine to seven eight six three two nineteen eighty five

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Speaker 1: nine seven eight six three two nineteen eighty five. Paul,

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Speaker 1: I just want to shake your hand and truly God

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Speaker 1: bless you.

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Speaker 2: Thank you very much, and thank you again for having me.

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Speaker 2: And you know everybody needs to get out to the

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Speaker 2: five k out on Saturday.

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Speaker 1: It's going to be great.

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Speaker 2: It's over at Castle Island and I and I'd be

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Speaker 2: remiss if I didn't thank all of the other restaurants

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Speaker 2: I participate. You know, we've got Montillio's. Oh my god,

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Speaker 2: Abby Park is going to be there. Go go make caters.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, bond me. The bond Me is right next to

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Speaker 1: the sausage guy. Dave comes out there.

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Speaker 7: He does it.

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Speaker 2: So many people come out and the food and the

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Speaker 2: whole experience. It's such a great day and it's going

536
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Speaker 2: to be like sixty five degrees, so I think some

537
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Speaker 2: like you know, it's going to be a great day

538
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Speaker 2: to be out there, so everybody should get out. Starts

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Speaker 2: at ten o'clock right tomorrow, ten o'clock, yep, yep, And

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Speaker 2: it's going to be a beautiful day and it's going

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Speaker 2: to be for the best cause.

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Speaker 1: Dan, I know you want to say a few words

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Speaker 1: to Paul.

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Speaker 4: I can't thank Paul enough. He doesn't work at this

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Speaker 4: just this particular time around November. He is with us

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Speaker 4: all year long, helping us pull this off and put

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Speaker 4: it together. And we wouldn't have the food vendors that

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Speaker 4: are there without Paul, and ours is kind of a

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Speaker 4: unique events and sometimes they have food trucks all over

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Speaker 4: these events. All of our food vendors are there on

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Speaker 4: site and everything is free for the participants. It's no

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Speaker 4: charge for anything, and that's all due to Paul Wahlberg

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Speaker 4: and what he does.

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Speaker 7: Again.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, he's the quiet man working behind the scenes, you know,

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Speaker 4: so we're very blessed to have him.

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Speaker 1: And is Bob, I know you want to say a

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Speaker 1: few words, please go ahead. Yeah.

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Speaker 6: I think every year we always look to do something

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Speaker 6: better and move the ball forward, and that's where Paul

561
00:31:46,840 --> 00:31:50,320
Speaker 6: comes in and helps and comes up with ideas that

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Speaker 6: we say, let's try that, let's do it. So this

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Speaker 6: year we're having service dogs at the.

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Speaker 1: Five k oh wow.

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Speaker 6: Yes, And you know every year it's a little bit more,

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Speaker 6: a little bit better because of what we do collaboratively.

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Speaker 6: And I think that's one of the things that I

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Speaker 6: would say. The Radio Thon Forum, as you've seen in

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Speaker 6: the last couple of hours, enables organizations to come together

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Speaker 6: and this iHeart you, Jeff, everything that you put forward

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Speaker 6: here with the guests and allows the DAV the ability

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Speaker 6: to collaborate with other groups, with other organizations, and I

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Speaker 6: think the best thing is it provides hope to veterans

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Speaker 6: that all you need to do is make the phone call.

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Speaker 6: Not for the donation, that's the financial part, but the

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Speaker 6: reality of helping veterans, and that's what the DAV does best.

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Speaker 1: Well said, really well, said Paul. God bless you, my friend.

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Speaker 1: Thank you, and tell Mark and Donnie. I said, hi,

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Speaker 1: I certainly.

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Speaker 2: Well, you know they look forward to it every year,

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Speaker 2: you know, me say hey, cooner says, hey.

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Speaker 7: How are you doing?

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Speaker 1: He's oh, great, we love it. Hey, it's a NonStop coonerfest.

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Speaker 1: Thanks again, Paul. All right, thank you, I'll bless you man. Okay,

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Speaker 1: joining us now? Really special again, very special guest. I'm

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Speaker 1: so happy he's here. It is Robert Santiago. He is

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Speaker 1: the Commissioner of Veteran Services for Boston. He is a

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Speaker 1: proud DAV member. He served in the US Navy, and

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Speaker 1: he is a proud Iraq veteran. By the way, this

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Speaker 1: hour of our Radiothon to benefit the DAV of Massachusetts

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Speaker 1: is brought to you by Kelly Financial Services. Robert, you're

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Speaker 1: in studio. We're not on the phone. It's great to

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Speaker 1: kind of see your face because you're a little bit

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Speaker 1: behind of the computer screen that I'm but Robert, thank

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Speaker 1: you so much for coming. And I gotta ask, how

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Speaker 1: are you doing?

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Speaker 10: Thank you for having me. I'm doing fantastic. No place

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00:34:08,760 --> 00:34:11,280
Speaker 10: I'd rather be than in the studio with you and Lisa.

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Speaker 10: Great warriors that I really want to take care of

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Speaker 10: our veterans.

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Speaker 1: Robert, you know, I've asked this of everybody, and if

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Speaker 1: I'm getting too personal, please tell me. I promise I

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Speaker 1: won't be offended. But can you talk a little bit

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Speaker 1: about your time in the military, your transition from military service,

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Speaker 1: and really what has the DAV done for you? Why

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Speaker 1: the DAV why is it so special for you?

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Speaker 10: Well, I served twenty years in the United States Navy.

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Speaker 10: I retired back in two thousand and eight. I actually

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Speaker 10: retired off the USS constitution, definitely something I'm very proud

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Speaker 10: of to I have retired off the USS constitution. And

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Speaker 10: I know I was here in Boston, fell in love

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Speaker 10: in Boston, fell in love with Boston, and decided to

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Speaker 10: stay here. So when I retired, you know, I was

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Speaker 10: thinking that, you know, my twenty year experience would pretty

615
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Speaker 10: much take me a long ways. But then I found

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Speaker 10: out that that was far from the truth. There was

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Speaker 10: a lot of things that I needed to learn and

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Speaker 10: learn fast, the transition and integration into civilian life after

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Speaker 10: being in the military since high school or out of

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Speaker 10: high school was not the easiest thing. And also organizations

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Speaker 10: like the DAV. When I heard about the DAV. You know,

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Speaker 10: even back then, when you hear about these organizations like

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Speaker 10: to be a w American legion, you think of, you know,

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Speaker 10: the older veterans, you know, the Korean War veterans, the

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Speaker 10: Vietnam era veterans. And it's something that even today when

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Speaker 10: I speak with veterans, the younger veterans from Iraq, from

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Speaker 10: Afghanistan from Post nine to eleven, they think that those

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Speaker 10: organizations aren't for them, and that is furthest from the truth.

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Speaker 10: And I must reiterate that that is furthest from the truth.

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Speaker 10: These organizations are there to help them out, especially organizations

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Speaker 10: like the da V. The DAV helped me in my transition.

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Speaker 10: The DV was there for me in my transition. There

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Speaker 10: were the boots on the ground for our veterans. When

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Speaker 10: you go into a v VA facility, you know here

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Speaker 10: in Boston, you go to a VA facility and there

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Speaker 10: is a DAV office that's in there to help and

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Speaker 10: support the veterans that are in there and to guide them,

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Speaker 10: to advocate for them, to help them fill out their

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Speaker 10: VA claims. To show them where they need to go,

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Speaker 10: to pick them up if they need to be picked

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Speaker 10: up for their uh, you know, for their appointment at

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Speaker 10: the v or even to take them home afterwards. So

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Speaker 10: they do everything from the nuts and bolts, and it's

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Speaker 10: for veterans, by veterans. And here's a big thing, it

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Speaker 10: is for free. So all the services that the DAV gives,

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Speaker 10: the Massachusetts Department of DAV has just been fantastic in

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Speaker 10: everything that they do. And you said it, you said

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Speaker 10: it when you announced me, when when when when you

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Speaker 10: talk to you know, brought me.

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Speaker 1: On the air.

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Speaker 10: Is that I am a proud DAV member and I'm

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Speaker 10: a proud DAV member because of what the DAV has

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Speaker 10: given to me, what the DAV continues to give to

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Speaker 10: our veterans. And it's not about when our service members serve,

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Speaker 10: is also about when they leave service, and what we

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Speaker 10: do to take care of them at the service is

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Speaker 10: just as important than anything that we do for them.

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Speaker 10: While there are also in services, So the AV leads

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Speaker 10: the way in that charge.

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Speaker 1: Robert, you're not one hundred percent, as I like to say,

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Speaker 1: you're a thousand percent correct. Truly, I could not have

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Speaker 1: said it better myself. I want to urge all of

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Speaker 1: you listening please you know Robert is completely right. The

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Speaker 1: DAV does so much for free, for free, and they

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Speaker 1: help countless veterans, disabled veterans, all kinds of veterans. Please

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Speaker 1: let's be there for our vets. They've always been there

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Speaker 1: for us. Call now to make a donation. And again,

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Speaker 1: I don't want to sound like a broken record, but

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Speaker 1: it's so true. When you talk to vets, disabled vets,

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Speaker 1: it's that the phone rings. That's what matters. It's the thought.

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Speaker 1: It doesn't you know. It's not the big dollar amounts

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Speaker 1: are great, no question, but five dollars, ten dollars, twenty dollars,

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Speaker 1: two dollars, one dollar, fifty dollars, whatever you can give.

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Speaker 1: It's the fact that you can. You think about him,

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Speaker 1: you remember them, you honor them, you're there for them,

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Speaker 1: you haven't forgotten them. So please call nine seven eight

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Speaker 1: six three two nineteen eighty five if you want to

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Speaker 1: donate nine seven eight six three two one nine eight five,

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Speaker 1: or if you prefer, you can go to DAV five

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Speaker 1: k dot Boston. DAV five k dot Boston. Robert any

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Speaker 1: final Bob, do you want any final words to Robert.

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Speaker 4: Well, first of all, I've gotten to know this man

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Speaker 4: quite well because, just like Corey, he as the commissioner,

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Speaker 4: all he ever does is give back to the veterans community,

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Speaker 4: especially here in Boston. He is well known. If anybody

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Speaker 4: in Boston is having a difficulty, Rob Santiago is a

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Speaker 4: man to see.

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Speaker 10: Thank you, Rob, Thank you Dan, and vice versa.

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Speaker 4: Dan.

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Speaker 10: You You've just been a pillar in the veterans community

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Speaker 10: and working with you and being side by side with

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Speaker 10: you is something that I've learned a lot from. And

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Speaker 10: you know, as far as my closing thought is concerned,

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Speaker 10: is like when you get to the dav you're not

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Speaker 10: giving to a charity. What you're doing is you are investing.

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Speaker 10: You're investing in our veterans. You're investing in their dignity,

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Speaker 10: You're investing in their independence. That's what you're investing on.

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Speaker 10: You're investing in our veterans. So even if it's the

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Speaker 10: five dollars of the ten dollars or anything, remember it's

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Speaker 10: an investment on those who have invested a lot of

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Speaker 10: their lives for our country.

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Speaker 1: Wow, Robert, you should be behind the microphone man, really, Robert,

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Speaker 1: thank you for your service. Thank you for your patriotism.

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Speaker 1: That's Robert Santiago, Dan Stack, You're completely right. Robert has

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Speaker 1: done so much. We can't thank Robert enough. Robert again,

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Speaker 1: thank you, thank you, thank you. Okay, joining us now?

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Speaker 1: Oh now, this is an old friend. This is great

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Speaker 1: to hear from him. Joining me now? Is Jason Wolf?

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Speaker 1: Whoa Jason? You want to talk about one of the

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Speaker 1: top radio experts really in Boston, in Massachusetts, my former

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Speaker 1: boss at Entercom Jason. How are you? My friend?

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Speaker 7: Jeff? I couldn't be better. It's always great to talk

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Speaker 7: to you. I've been listening all morning. You're doing an

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Speaker 7: unbelievable job as always, Thank you, and it's just a

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Speaker 7: pleasure to be here with you.

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Speaker 1: Jason. I got to ask you. You know, you're very

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Speaker 1: active in the community. You support a lot of groups,

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Speaker 1: a lot of charities, a lot of causes. You're a

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Speaker 1: man not just with a big mind, but with a

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Speaker 1: big heart. Why the DAV Why is the DAV so

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Speaker 1: special for you?

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Speaker 7: Well, Jeff, I've been working with Money Matters Radio Now

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Speaker 7: for going on twelve years, and the owners of our

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Speaker 7: company have always been big supporters of veterans causes, and

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Speaker 7: when we were asked several years ago to get involved

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Speaker 7: with the DAV five K, which, as everyone knows, is

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Speaker 7: coming up tomorrow at Castle Island. We jumped at the

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Speaker 7: opportunity and I knew that our ownership would not only

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Speaker 7: want to support the event itself, but really get involved

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Speaker 7: in a deep way with the Disabled American Veterans Department

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Speaker 7: of Massachusetts. And that's exactly what we did. We've created

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Speaker 7: an incredible partnership. We work with them all year round

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Speaker 7: to get their message out, to talk about the incredible

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Speaker 7: resources that they have for veterans, and to raise money.

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Speaker 7: And this is the goal obviously for today, for tomorrow

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Speaker 7: at the five k, through the weekend of course leading

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Speaker 7: into Veterans Day next week. But as I said, it's

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Speaker 7: really been a labor of love. We are just over

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Speaker 7: enjoyed to be able to support our great American heroes

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Speaker 7: in this way. And the work that Dan Stack and

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Speaker 7: his team do at the DAV is really second to none.

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Speaker 7: It's incredible to be a part of it.

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Speaker 1: Jason, I know you're a generous man. Money matters. I mean,

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Speaker 1: I mean you know how much money you guys rake

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Speaker 1: in Oh seriously that financial show. I mean, how much

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Speaker 1: are you willing to pledge right now, my friend.

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Speaker 7: That is such a great question. Jason. We're going to

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Speaker 7: give you a nice, big fat stack again this year.

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Speaker 7: We do this every year. We couldn't be prouder to

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Speaker 7: do it. So on behalf of Money Matters Radio and

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Speaker 7: the Financial Exchange Radio Network. We're going to donate five

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Speaker 7: thousand dollars to the event this year. I love you,

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Speaker 7: I love you, and Jeff, I'm actually going to do

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Speaker 7: you one better. This is just coming from me personally,

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Speaker 7: but I know your listeners will be able to do

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Speaker 7: this in probably five minutes, but we'll give them a

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Speaker 7: little bit more time. If your listeners can raise five

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Speaker 7: hundred dollars in the next forty five minutes, i'm gonna

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Speaker 7: match that five hundred and we're gonna give another thousand

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Speaker 7: bucks to the dav.

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Speaker 1: Oh Jason, Jason, Now, can I ask you this? When

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Speaker 1: you're my boss at Entercom, how come you weren't this

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Speaker 1: generous to me when it came to like bonuses and stuff.

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Speaker 9: Yeah.

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Speaker 7: Well, you know, Jeff, I didn't get to write the checks.

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Speaker 7: I just had to tow the company line a little bit.

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Speaker 7: But I'll tell you what, You've made it pretty big

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Speaker 7: however I keep you down. It didn't keep you down.

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Speaker 7: You've kept going and growing.

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Speaker 1: You are a great friend. You are a great friend,

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Speaker 1: and you were a great ally. I want everybody to

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Speaker 1: know that. Jason, Jason, thank you so much. That is

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Speaker 1: an incredible donation and the extra that you're putting up

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Speaker 1: there out of your pok You have no idea how

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Speaker 1: much I appreciate it. Cooner Country, please come on. We

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Speaker 1: can raise another five hundred. Jason will match that five hundred,

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Speaker 1: So call now, please nine seven eight six three two

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Speaker 1: nineteen eighty five nine seven eight six three two one

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Speaker 1: nine eight five. If you prefer, you can give online

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Speaker 1: DAVFIVEK dot Boston. Jason, my good friend. If you can

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Speaker 1: just hang on. I know Dan Stack wants to say

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Speaker 1: at least a quick thank you. Dan, go ahead, my friend.

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Speaker 4: So always, thank you very very much for your kind donation.

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Speaker 4: I want to thank the financial exchange of you personally

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Speaker 4: for all that you do for the DAV by getting

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Speaker 4: our word out all year long, just not in November

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Speaker 4: or around Veterans Day, but all year. You help me

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Speaker 4: in making sure that people understand what the DAV does

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Speaker 4: and where they can go to get services. So you

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Speaker 4: are a true patriot and a true friend, and I

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Speaker 4: am grateful and I'll see you soon because I'll be

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Speaker 4: over there for the The Radiothon continues on the Financial Exchange,

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Speaker 4: and that's due to your efforts too, So thank you

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Speaker 4: so much.

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Speaker 7: That's my pleasure.

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Speaker 3: Dan.

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Speaker 7: We're really excited about it. We're looking forward to a

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Speaker 7: great two hours this morning, hopefully piggyback on all the

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Speaker 7: great work that Jeff is doing, and we'll cap it

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Speaker 7: off with an unbelievable event tomorrow and can't wait to

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Speaker 7: be there. It's going to be an unbelievable And I

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Speaker 7: got to tell you, Jeff, you know when we first

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Speaker 7: got involved, the race was I think maybe three or

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Speaker 7: four years in and there might have been a couple

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Speaker 7: hundred people that ran, and now it's north of fifteen

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Speaker 7: hundred runners, most of them are veterans. It sells out

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Speaker 7: earlier and earlier every year, and it just goes to

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Speaker 7: show you that a message that you and all your

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Speaker 7: great listeners at w RKO are getting out there and

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Speaker 7: the work that we feel we're doing as well and

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Speaker 7: all the other great media partners for the disabled American Veterans.

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Speaker 7: Department of Massachusetts and people are really really into it.

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Speaker 7: They understand that there's no better cause than to support

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Speaker 7: our vets. And I just see this thing growing by

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Speaker 7: leaps and bounds as we keep moving forward.

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Speaker 1: So it's because of people like you, Seriously, Jason, it's

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Speaker 1: really because of people like you. And the financial exchange

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Speaker 1: has been incredible, really, Jason.

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Speaker 4: Somebody just called in based upon your challenge and he

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Speaker 4: donated a thousand dollars.

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Speaker 1: Whoa