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Speaker 2: Never saw nothing like this before. Mmmm.

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Speaker 1: Just look at them white folks loading up their kids

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Speaker 1: They go in droves to the stoves just to go

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Speaker 2: Sweater they put on their cat. Hurry up, hurry up,

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Speaker 1: Let's go.

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Speaker 3: Let's go to the stove.

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Speaker 1: What y'all going down there for artificial snow?

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Speaker 2: That's ignorant.

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Speaker 1: Hurry up, hurry up, hurry up, let's go.

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Speaker 1: You can't get up in there. Them white people. They're

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Speaker 2: Why can't they just chill, you know, relax.

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Speaker 1: Them white folks be spending money like it grown on trees.

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Speaker 1: I ain't never sound nothing like itey.

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Speaker 2: They need to be down on their knees. Shoot, now,

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Speaker 3: Now.

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Speaker 1: With my nineteen children, they know they get popped in

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Speaker 1: But them white people, honey, they do not care the

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Speaker 1: kids tell them what to do. Honey. If that was

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Speaker 1: But it ain't nothing too good.

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Speaker 2: I for know this little Tiffany.

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Speaker 1: And Louise under the Jeremy or Joshua or Johnny, and

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Speaker 1: them names for their children. I don't understand. It's ignorant.

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Speaker 1: That's so ignorant. Seem like everything about this time of

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Speaker 1: so that's so ignorant. And they little plastic Christmas tree

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Speaker 1: and they put their little body up on their house,

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Speaker 1: and reindeers be up on their roof. Just look at them,

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Speaker 1: white people making a fool out of themselves. White folks

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Speaker 2: Good lord, they root off the red blue reindeer self.

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Speaker 2: That's ignorant. Just wearing my nerves.

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Speaker 1: I need to make my shopping list anyway. Look, you

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Speaker 1: Tell her she better not forgetting my gift either.

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Speaker 3: I'm not.

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Speaker 2: I share stories of restauranteurs only when I'm authorized to

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Speaker 2: do so. I asked Russell Lebara a couple of weeks ago.

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Speaker 2: I said, Russell, tell me this, and this always comes

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Speaker 1: It is exactly.

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Speaker 2: You're stupid. What No, I'm curious. Curiosity is good. You

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Speaker 2: should encourage that. Curious. People who are curious are going

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Speaker 2: being curious. And what was I just talking about, Romeo? Oh,

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Speaker 2: I asked Russell. I said, I don't understand how every

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Speaker 2: excellent at just some things. It's a culture of excellence. Well. Sadly,

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Speaker 2: on a small business, and I mean really small called

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Speaker 2: Grazibles gra Ze ab l Ees Artisan created grazing boxes,

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Speaker 2: And I mean, this is a true bootstrap business, this

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Speaker 2: Her name is Amy Martinez and I had Brad Gloria,

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Speaker 2: our booker tracker down Amy.

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Speaker 3: Yes, sir, all right.

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Speaker 2: So what were you operating out of before?

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Speaker 3: So I right now we're currently in a commercial kitchen

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Speaker 2: In Tomball, Oh where.

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Speaker 3: So we'll be right on Main Street, right at Oak

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Speaker 2: I didn't know anybody could was building anything in old town,

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Speaker 3: Well, I take it with a grain of salt. I

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Speaker 2: What was it?

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Speaker 3: It was an old like a kitchen, granite showroom.

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Speaker 2: But you'll have a retail space if people want to

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Speaker 2: pull in and grab some yes, sir.

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Speaker 3: So we'll have a lobby in the front and then

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Speaker 3: we'll have our retail space and service counter, and then

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Speaker 3: the back will be our commercial kitchen.

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Speaker 2: How many square feet?

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Speaker 3: Twenty five hundred? Oh wow?

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Speaker 2: Okay, and what's the address?

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Speaker 3: Four oh six West Main Street.

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Speaker 2: How full from Tahas Chocolate.

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Speaker 3: One block? Well, we're one block from his Bowl Burger place.

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Speaker 3: We're on the same side. And then he's right behind us,

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Speaker 2: Go over and meet Scott and his wife. If you

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Speaker 2: haven't already, they have forgotten more about how to be successful.

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Speaker 2: It was probably the most successful retail business to have

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Speaker 2: started in the last ten years in Tomball and Texas

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Speaker 2: Monthly had a lot to do with that, anyway. Hold on.

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Speaker 2: The website is grazibles dot com.

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Speaker 3: The Michael Berry Show.

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Speaker 2: The website is grazibles dot com. Amy Martinez is our guest, Amy,

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Speaker 2: Real quick, what's your story? Where were you born?

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Speaker 3: Born here? My parents? I grew up in spring Off

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Speaker 3: nineteen sixty and I'm the oldest of four girls. And

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Speaker 2: Incredible You're Amy Martinez.

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Speaker 3: I married to Martinez.

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Speaker 2: You went from the Martine and I was from the

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Speaker 3: And the food stays the whole time.

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Speaker 2: Michael, I love it. And what does mister Martinez do?

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Speaker 3: He he is my children's father. He works for schlumber

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Speaker 3: Jay and he and I divorced in twenty ten, so

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Speaker 3: I've been a single mom since then with all four

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Speaker 2: How long have you done Grazibles?

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Speaker 3: I started Grazibles in twenty nineteen. I was working as

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Speaker 2: So how did you decide in twenty nineteen to do

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Speaker 3: I was treating my patients, and I noticed so many

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Speaker 3: We deliver locally all over the city.

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Speaker 2: My goodness for faith. How much you think she was making.

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Speaker 2: completely out of gas. The website is grazables dot com. Amy,

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm here.

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Speaker 2: I didn't say I was sending him food. You grubber. Okay,

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Speaker 2: So who are your biggest clients right now? Do you

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and those pharmaceutical reps. I know they've made some

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Speaker 3: Right now, I'd say probably about thirty percent is corporate.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, this is the business development side of Tomball, but

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Speaker 2: They've got an email list that moves, I mean it

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Speaker 2: to go. These are really packaged deals as presents and

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Speaker 3: Right right, so when right now, we're pre order so

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Speaker 2: You know what I don't like about your website? What

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Speaker 2: You got a story. People want a story. They want

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Speaker 2: I'm impressed. And the fact that you're not some corporation

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Speaker 3: So yeah, I mean, that's that's what we're doing now.

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Speaker 2: little brief video of you and your family telling the story.

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Speaker 2: you got enough of those cigar boxes because I could

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Speaker 2: way you shave up that that that what do you

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Speaker 2: You got stuff for the dogs grazables dot com Amy.

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Speaker 2: We will be back in touch. You don't have to

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Speaker 2: send us anything. We'll come see you. Good luck.

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Speaker 3: Oh you're the best. I appreciate you guys.

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Speaker 2: Just show you cancer nurse them. I'm just trying to

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Speaker 2: be father. He's a daughter and this son be lover

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Speaker 2: to their mother. Everything. Who ever won up bend that

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Speaker 2: brid early from all business in my suit him dressed

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Speaker 2: up posed success from my head down to my booze.

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Speaker 1: I don't do it for all the money.

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Speaker 2: There's bills from David Maulsby at camp Home. Another life

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Speaker 2: saved by Radio Lance is a marine. He's a veteran

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Speaker 2: who deployed to Iraq in three He came home, he struggled.

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Speaker 2: He turned to drugs. This past March, he was spiraling

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Speaker 2: and his family feared for his life. His stepfather owns

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Speaker 2: a flooring company business or flooring business in Tampa, Florida.

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Speaker 2: One of his employees is a former employee of Flarerty's

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Speaker 2: floor who moved out to Tampa after COVID shut down

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Speaker 2: the world. Having been in Houston and listening to your show,

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Speaker 2: told the stepdad who owns the flooring business about a

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Speaker 2: place in Houston called Camp Hope. The stepdad called me

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Speaker 2: about Lance, his son. Well, a few minutes ago we

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Speaker 2: recorded Lance's graduation video. I am forever thankful this marine

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Speaker 2: is alive today, sober and healthy, for his own sake,

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Speaker 2: but also for his mother, his stepfather, and his ten

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Speaker 2: year old son. My heart is full of gratitude for

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Speaker 2: the Michael Berry Show, I Heeart Houston, and all of

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Speaker 2: the show sponsors and listeners who support our mission and

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Speaker 2: help share our story with this amazing community. They started

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Speaker 2: doing something a couple of years ago, and I'm glad

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Speaker 2: they did. It's not a real high production value. David

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Speaker 2: just stands in front of a camera, in front of

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Speaker 2: the Camp Hope logo, and he'll say, Lance, you're graduating

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Speaker 2: Camp Hope today. It's a six month program, graduating six

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Speaker 2: You're graduating Camp Hope today. Tell me how you got here,

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Speaker 2: and they'll tell about how they grew. Usually they're enlisted,

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Speaker 2: almost always enlisted. Why they enlisted to serve most of

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Speaker 2: them still, the moment was nine to eleven or after

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Speaker 2: nine to eleven, and they wanted to go kick the

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Speaker 2: ass of the guys who had toppled our towers and

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Speaker 2: then the things they saw in theater. In combat, they

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Speaker 2: always talk about their buddies. That's the thing that is

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Speaker 2: the common theme. They're not a bunch of silos over there.

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Speaker 2: It's all about teamwork, and so they become just a

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Speaker 2: thread in a quilt. And for many of them, it's

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Speaker 2: not just that they lose their brothers to war, it's

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Speaker 2: that they lose their brothers when they come home, because

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Speaker 2: nothing can replace the fraternity of combat with guys you

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Speaker 2: love and love you who are all literally willing to

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Speaker 2: lay down their lives. If you've ever been around somebody

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Speaker 2: who played sports professionally and they got to play it

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Speaker 2: up into their thirties, you know that there is a

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Speaker 2: transitional period for many of them that can lead to

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Speaker 2: the onset of depression, drugs, difficulty dealing with others, withdrawal,

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Speaker 2: isolation because everything that sparked endorphins, an intense endorphins is gone.

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Speaker 2: So that is a natural high of hormones and chemicals

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Speaker 2: within your body that now are gone, and that's very difficult.

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Speaker 2: It leads to a crash and nothing can seem to

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Speaker 2: replace it. It's a very common thing. In fact, I

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Speaker 2: was reading an article about a guy who was a

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Speaker 2: bull rider that had this problem because nothing would give

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Speaker 2: him that sense of intensity. So these guys come home

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Speaker 2: and they miss the brotherhood and they miss what it was,

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Speaker 2: and they're coping with what they've seen and they've got nightmares.

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Speaker 2: Nobody understands them. Many many times, no matter how hard

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Speaker 2: a woman tries, she grows weary of him screaming or

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Speaker 2: his short temper. He's quick to anger. She may not

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Speaker 2: approve of his alcohol or drug use. She may not

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Speaker 2: approve of his buddies that come over to the house,

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Speaker 2: and so things grow tense in the home. Sometimes that

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Speaker 2: can lead to a push, which leads to a call.

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Speaker 2: And in today's world, we don't give police officers even

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Speaker 2: one bit of discretion. Nope, somebody's got to go down,

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Speaker 2: and it's almost always going to be him. So now,

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Speaker 2: what started as an argument because we had some after

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Speaker 2: school specials of domestic abuse, but started as an argument

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Speaker 2: nobody ever got hit, leads to he's now in jail,

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Speaker 2: so his dad's got to come get him out. He's

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Speaker 2: mad at her, he's embarrassed, he's frustrated. He never saw this.

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Speaker 2: He's supposed to be a war hero. Dad comes to

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Speaker 2: get him the drive home. What in the hell is

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Speaker 2: going on? What is wrong with you? I don't know,

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Speaker 2: because he doesn't. He doesn't have the tools to cope

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Speaker 2: with us. He has the tools to clean his rifle

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Speaker 2: and use it. He has the tools to survive in

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Speaker 2: the desert. He has the tools to kill and survive,

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Speaker 2: and he did. He has the tools to navigate the

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Speaker 2: United States military. But he does not have the tools

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Speaker 2: to operate in this world. And bad things are happening.

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Speaker 2: Maybe he gets pulled over for DWI, maybe it's drugs,

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Speaker 2: Maybe he gets in a fight. Of course there's the

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Speaker 2: domestic dispute. So now he's been to jail, he's got shame.

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Speaker 2: Everybody in the family knows it, and so what do

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Speaker 2: I have to lose now? So that leads to the

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Speaker 2: isolation because he doesn't want to have to confront anybody

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Speaker 2: because he's the guy that got arrested. And in our family,

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Speaker 2: that's embarrassing. Greater isolation, greater depression, more drug use, and

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Speaker 2: it ends up there behind the high school or the

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Speaker 2: church with a fifth of whiskey and a pistol in

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Speaker 2: their mouth. And if we're lucky, they call eight seven

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Speaker 2: seven seven one seven PTSD, And the guy on the

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Speaker 2: other end of the line is the only guy that

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Speaker 2: can understand what they've been through because he made that

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Speaker 2: call two years, three years, five years, eight years ago,

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Speaker 2: and eventually they talk him into letting them come and

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Speaker 2: get him. They bring him in for the night, He

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Speaker 2: survives the night, and six months later he's graduating and

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Speaker 2: ready to live again because those veterans were there for them,

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Speaker 2: and you made it possible for those veterans to be

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Speaker 2: there by providing them a place to sleep in THO

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Speaker 2: to e. So, if you know a veteran who needs

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Speaker 2: help eight seven seven seven one seven et SD, if

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