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Speaker 2: On the air.

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Speaker 1: There is a feeling that we don't matter, that criminals

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Speaker 1: are exalted and that they are protected, and some of

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Speaker 1: these people are absolute savages. And I will tell you

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Speaker 1: the result of this story, like we're about to hear,

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Speaker 1: you are hollowing out the core of your cities. If

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Speaker 1: I mention any major city in America, in Houston's better

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Speaker 1: than the rest of them. Baltimore, Baltimore used to be

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Speaker 1: a great city, had the greatest public library, arguably in history,

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Speaker 1: the Pratt Library Detroit. Detroit had a thriving industry, but

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Speaker 1: they had an amazing cultural community. Chicago, Los Angeles, Atlanta, Philadelphia,

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Speaker 1: New York, DC. The absolute random, violent acts against innocent people,

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Speaker 1: and then the people, once caught just put back out

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Speaker 1: on the streets. You wonder how you could think that's okay, Like,

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Speaker 1: what kind of crazed monster do you have to be?

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Speaker 1: A man free on bond for murder, racks up seven

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Speaker 1: bond violations. Democrat Judge Beverly Armstrong allows him to remain free.

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Speaker 1: We know this guy's a bad guy. You've given him

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Speaker 1: a bond so he doesn't have to go wait for

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Speaker 1: and you continue to let him do so. As the judge,

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Speaker 1: Beverly Armstrong, listen to this, just just listen to this.

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Speaker 1: By the way, Fox twenty six gets credit for their

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Speaker 1: breaking Bond series that they've been doing Randy Wallace and

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Speaker 1: Greg Grugan for years, and they do a great job

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Speaker 3: Cardarius Jamar Woodard is accused of shooting sixty year old

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Speaker 3: David Walters to death in August twenty twenty two. June

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Speaker 3: of twenty twenty three, we did a breaking bond report

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Speaker 3: detailing how wood repeatedly violated his bond conditions yet remained

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Speaker 4: Almost three years later, here we are again, only he's

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Speaker 4: continued to increase his bond violation reports to a magnitude

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Speaker 4: that I've not seen since I've been covering this.

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Speaker 3: In December of twenty three, court records showed that two

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Speaker 3: oh w eight, Beverly Armstrong's court admonished Woodard, telling him

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Speaker 3: if the bond violations continue, action.

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Speaker 1: Is going to be taken.

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Speaker 4: Absolutely nothing has happened since December of twenty three. Seven

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Speaker 4: bond violation reports filed six after we first aired the

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Speaker 4: story back in twenty twenty three, and still he is

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Speaker 4: out on bond and no action, even though the court

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Speaker 3: He's validated his bond conditions repeatedly, but nothing happens.

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Speaker 4: Nothing.

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Speaker 1: What do you think about them? It's discussed that.

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Speaker 4: He can go on living his life while my brother's

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Speaker 4: in this box and my mother.

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Speaker 1: Almost eighty six years old and.

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Speaker 4: We've been waiting over three years just to get to trial.

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Speaker 4: Why have bond conditions if you are not going to

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Speaker 4: enforce them. It makes a farce of the entire system.

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Speaker 4: And this also leads to why the public continues to

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Speaker 4: have little faith in our justice system. He can do

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Speaker 1: It's scary, it's very it's infuriating. There are savages roaming

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Speaker 1: and there are judges who know they've done it and said, here,

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Speaker 1: go do it again. I guarantee if those people did

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Speaker 1: it to those judges families, oh, they'd cracked down on them.

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Speaker 1: In a second. In a second, drunk Mark is apparently

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Speaker 1: M No, sir, cleaned up. The last time you called in,

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Speaker 5: Uh, I have cleaned up you now. I didn't wake

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Speaker 5: were at me off today. But I got a job.

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Speaker 5: And the job it's working at a threat store doing

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Speaker 5: what our bell closed? In the back? You do what

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Speaker 5: got the bell? Our bell closed? Run the fork cliff?

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Speaker 1: What does it mean a bell close?

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Speaker 5: It's a bailer machine. Throw them in there and you

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Speaker 5: belt it and you tied up. And each one weighs

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Speaker 1: Is this like bailing cotton, bailing hay?

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Speaker 5: Kind of like it?

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Speaker 1: Okay, so the clothes are in a stack, or like,

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Speaker 5: They keep on bringing clothes that they're taking off the

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Speaker 5: It's a hydraulic press machine.

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Speaker 1: And so then what what becomes of the bell?

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Speaker 5: They ship them off.

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Speaker 5: I don't know where, but they once I got enough,

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Speaker 5: they they export them somewhere.

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Speaker 1: So the store is not just receiving clothes and turning

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Speaker 5: Oh yeah, there's money and use closed big time.

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Speaker 1: So they're probably the third world countries. That's where the

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Speaker 5: Yeah, and while I'm listening to your show every day,

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Speaker 5: I have to do it on the airbus because I

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Speaker 5: was doing it on the bluetooth speaker. They get a

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Speaker 5: a podcast? I was like, no, listen to a radio

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Speaker 1: Uh, she said.

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Speaker 5: I prefer Yeah, So I have these marry buds.

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Speaker 1: Now you're not you're not hammered when you're operating that machinery.

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Speaker 1: Are you? Never? Suger? What's her name? What's the manager's name? Who?

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Speaker 5: Sonya? I have to remember it by mortal kombatteris that's

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Speaker 5: the way I remember it.

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Speaker 2: Is?

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Speaker 1: She a good boss?

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Speaker 5: Yeah, she got her moves though. You know she did.

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Speaker 1: Is she white, black or Hispani?

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Speaker 5: She's white, but she speaks at hytanic.

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Speaker 1: Holding Sir Ball Barrio, Michael Bay drunk Mark, help me

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Speaker 1: understand something. Today is Wednesday? Right, but he taught to me.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, oh yeah, I thought you sent someone right now and.

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Speaker 1: You said they gave you off today because you have

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Speaker 5: Right. They have a sale like once a month and

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Speaker 5: that happens usually it's Monday through Friday.

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Speaker 1: How much do we make it this job?

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Speaker 5: I don't like that part as twelve, but you know,

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Speaker 5: I gotta get started somewhere. That's even up for electric bike.

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Speaker 5: Uh So, when I do go back to Houston, got

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Speaker 1: Did you? Did you? Did you settle your legal issue?

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Speaker 5: See, I still got to go back to Houston. Plus

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Speaker 1: And she me, yeah, what happy birthday, Mark.

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Speaker 5: Thank you. So she called me like a week and

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Speaker 5: But then I was standing by. I was up at

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Speaker 5: Seventy five? I think she got a little bit too

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Speaker 5: uh whatever they called the vaccine. I told her not to.

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Speaker 1: Mark, you got me. Thank you for the call. You

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Speaker 1: got me thinking about something I am not one for.

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Speaker 1: You know, when people say revolution of Revelation says this,

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Speaker 1: Why are you doing that? Like, is it that important

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Speaker 1: And so in our frustration over that, we scream at

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Speaker 1: And it was a reason was it was a list

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Speaker 1: tell folks?

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Speaker 2: So I'm the coordinator of volunteer services at the Thorpin

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Speaker 2: County Sheriff's Office. We have two programs. The first one,

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Speaker 2: which we started about nine years ago, is called You

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Speaker 2: Are Not Alone, And so the whole concept is that

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Speaker 2: we're people are going through life stuff. You know, I

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Speaker 2: turned I'll age sixty one this year, and you know

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Speaker 2: my parents. My father's aging up and has you know,

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Speaker 2: slight dementia, and there's a ton of folks out there.

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Speaker 2: So we're I looked at the call slips and started

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Speaker 2: seeing that we're running to all of these welfare So

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Speaker 2: what we have is pre trained and vetted volunteers that

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Speaker 2: make daily phone calls to seniors and people with disability

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Speaker 2: in our county, and we do about six hundred calls

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Speaker 2: a month.

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Speaker 5: Wow.

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Speaker 2: We will even go out and visit with them and

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Speaker 2: change a light bulb or an air filter. But the

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Speaker 2: concept is keeping them communicating because social isolation can cause

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Speaker 2: health issues. And so we looked at COVID and you know,

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Speaker 2: we went through all of that. We were pre COVID,

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Speaker 2: and so I tried to break social isolation. We went

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Speaker 2: through the COVID situation and we were out still visiting

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Speaker 2: with people, but we were doing it from a distance.

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Speaker 2: But we are humans that need to interact with other folks.

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Speaker 2: And so parents that have lost their spouse or they've

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Speaker 2: lost the ability to drive, the kids gone, and they're busy,

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Speaker 2: they've got grandkids, and they don't want to be a burden.

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Speaker 2: I hear this all the time, that they don't want

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Speaker 2: to be a burden on their family, their children, you know,

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Speaker 2: because people will say, you know, you can't live alone.

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Speaker 2: We've got to put you into a you know, a

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Speaker 2: room at an assistant living facility. And but you know,

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Speaker 2: I've always learned that talking to them. You know, I

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Speaker 2: live in my own home where we raise our family.

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Speaker 2: This is where I want to you know, eventually pass away,

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Speaker 2: and this is how you know, life stuff happens. So

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Speaker 2: it's a phenomenal program. We've had folks that so we'll

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Speaker 2: call let's just say, at eleven o'clock, we'll call somebody

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Speaker 2: and if they don't answer, we'll call it, not eleven fifteen,

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Speaker 2: then we'll call it eleven thirty. At that point we'll

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Speaker 2: contact an emergency contact and if not no answer, we're

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Speaker 2: not able to get a hold of them, we'll send

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Speaker 2: a deputy to do a check welfare. And we have

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Speaker 2: found individuals that have laid on the floor for over

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Speaker 2: twenty hours and with a broken bone or you know,

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Speaker 2: have fallen they can't get up, and we've saved their lives.

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Speaker 2: So I would love to see this all across the

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Speaker 2: nation or an aging population. I built it so if

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Speaker 2: when I get that age that it's there.

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Speaker 1: Were you the one that built this program for the

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Speaker 1: Fortman County Sheriff's Office.

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Speaker 5: I did.

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Speaker 2: I brought it. I ran a program in the Houston

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Speaker 2: area called Neighbors for Neighbors Network and it was through

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Speaker 2: the Jewish Family Service, and the concept of that was

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Speaker 2: to communicate, get folks together, have them come out of

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Speaker 2: their homes so we can meet together. And I went

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Speaker 2: to the sheriff at the time and I said, look,

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Speaker 2: we had to shut our program down in Houston this

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Speaker 2: is what I want to do in the county I

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Speaker 2: live in. And in five minutes he said, let's do this.

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Speaker 2: What do you need And I said, I need two offices,

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Speaker 2: I need a call center, I need an area where

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Speaker 2: we can store some items. So and then he gave

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Speaker 2: us two vehicles. They're marked vehicles with volunteer information or

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Speaker 2: items on the side, and we go out and visit

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Speaker 2: with them. They're so grateful. And at the end of

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Speaker 2: the year we always do a gift bag giveaway to everybody.

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Speaker 1: So there's a Michaels in there. What is your last name?

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Speaker 2: It's Kallenberg, Michael Kallenberg.

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Speaker 1: How does how do people get in touch with you?

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Speaker 1: Whether law enforcement institution?

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Speaker 2: So our number is two eight one three four one

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Speaker 2: yanna ya na, and that comes out to nine two six'.

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Speaker 1: Two you are not.

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Speaker 2: Alone you are not alone to. IT i ACTUALLY i

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Speaker 2: got down the phone over before we even got, started

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Speaker 2: because it was the whole concept, is remember you're not.

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Speaker 2: Alone we're out. There if you need to talk to

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Speaker 2: us about a spam mail or something about you email.

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Speaker 1: Tested you are actually making a. Difference two eight one

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Speaker 1: three four one sixty. Two we'll post that dimensional list

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Speaker 1: and that information on The Daily blast if you sign,

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Speaker 1: up and on Our facebook page