1 00:00:03,920 --> 00:00:04,880 Speaker 1: It's that time. 2 00:00:05,040 --> 00:00:08,639 Speaker 2: Time, time, time, luck and load. 3 00:00:11,280 --> 00:00:13,880 Speaker 1: The Michael Very Show is on the air. 4 00:00:18,920 --> 00:00:20,560 Speaker 2: Shut off to my fact. 5 00:00:21,079 --> 00:00:23,319 Speaker 1: Take this job and shove it. 6 00:00:23,520 --> 00:00:26,480 Speaker 3: Joey, you like movies about lady ears get down in 7 00:00:26,520 --> 00:00:27,040 Speaker 3: the prone, but. 8 00:00:27,200 --> 00:00:29,960 Speaker 1: Sometimes I get to minced to crabs for your herd. 9 00:00:30,200 --> 00:00:32,280 Speaker 2: This time you pack on tupas. 10 00:00:33,600 --> 00:00:35,960 Speaker 1: You wanna sit down in the kitchen and pix me 11 00:00:36,000 --> 00:00:40,000 Speaker 1: something good to eat. Make my head a little high 12 00:00:40,080 --> 00:00:41,880 Speaker 1: and the whole day crack his wax. 13 00:00:41,960 --> 00:00:44,320 Speaker 4: We're gonna lay around the shanty. 14 00:00:44,040 --> 00:00:47,080 Speaker 1: Arm and put a good bo I'm the guy who 15 00:00:47,080 --> 00:00:48,960 Speaker 1: can get it for cigarettes. 16 00:00:49,200 --> 00:00:49,960 Speaker 2: A bag of briefer. 17 00:00:50,159 --> 00:00:52,519 Speaker 4: If that's your thing, will pass to be a baby, 18 00:00:53,040 --> 00:00:54,440 Speaker 4: will pass it to me slow. 19 00:00:55,160 --> 00:00:58,400 Speaker 3: We'll take time out to smile a little defoil ladyead go. 20 00:00:59,120 --> 00:01:03,880 Speaker 2: We're gonna lay sham arm and bought a good bus on. 21 00:01:04,840 --> 00:01:06,840 Speaker 2: We have a catch that gorilla would escape from the 22 00:01:06,920 --> 00:01:08,200 Speaker 2: zoo and punched you an eye. 23 00:01:12,080 --> 00:01:15,640 Speaker 1: Phil You're on the Michael Berry Show. What say you, sir? 24 00:01:15,959 --> 00:01:21,880 Speaker 3: Yes, sir, yes, sir. My son quit school when he 25 00:01:21,959 --> 00:01:25,800 Speaker 3: was sixteen years old, and he immediately went to work 26 00:01:25,840 --> 00:01:31,280 Speaker 3: for construction company pouring concrete, and so he wouldn't file 27 00:01:31,400 --> 00:01:34,120 Speaker 3: his W two's and he said he wasn't doing it. 28 00:01:34,200 --> 00:01:37,200 Speaker 3: He could in the trash. He lived back in the 29 00:01:37,240 --> 00:01:42,280 Speaker 3: woods and had a mailbox, but he never used any 30 00:01:42,680 --> 00:01:45,200 Speaker 3: mail or anything like that. He didn't have a phone. 31 00:01:46,120 --> 00:01:49,040 Speaker 3: This was I guess I've already said it about thirty 32 00:01:49,160 --> 00:01:54,280 Speaker 3: thirty two years ago. He had a girlfriend and so 33 00:01:54,400 --> 00:01:57,360 Speaker 3: he wouldn't pay his taxes and so I guess the 34 00:01:57,400 --> 00:02:03,880 Speaker 3: IRS couldn't find him, and they had tried. But one day, 35 00:02:04,160 --> 00:02:09,760 Speaker 3: well he was working, the neighbor came down to his 36 00:02:09,919 --> 00:02:14,600 Speaker 3: girlfriend to the shack that they lived in and told 37 00:02:14,639 --> 00:02:18,000 Speaker 3: them that the IRS was trying to find my son. 38 00:02:19,000 --> 00:02:23,520 Speaker 3: And so she went down there to the neighbors and 39 00:02:23,960 --> 00:02:26,960 Speaker 3: she called that eight hundred number back and it was 40 00:02:27,040 --> 00:02:31,600 Speaker 3: the IRS, and so they were trying to find him 41 00:02:31,639 --> 00:02:35,400 Speaker 3: to get him to file his W twos. Well, he 42 00:02:35,480 --> 00:02:38,120 Speaker 3: got home from work and he was all mad because 43 00:02:38,160 --> 00:02:40,880 Speaker 3: she talked to him. But he went down there and 44 00:02:40,919 --> 00:02:44,440 Speaker 3: made the eight hundred call and they told him says, look, 45 00:02:44,480 --> 00:02:47,120 Speaker 3: we don't want to put you in jail, We do 46 00:02:47,160 --> 00:02:50,240 Speaker 3: not want to file against you. All we want you 47 00:02:50,360 --> 00:02:54,919 Speaker 3: to do is file your income text And so they 48 00:02:54,919 --> 00:02:57,040 Speaker 3: didn't say how they found him. I guess it was 49 00:02:57,040 --> 00:03:02,840 Speaker 3: my satellite. But so he he went fill this income 50 00:03:02,960 --> 00:03:06,840 Speaker 3: text and he got a couple of weeks later, he 51 00:03:06,919 --> 00:03:09,320 Speaker 3: got two hundred and fifty dollars back in the mail, 52 00:03:09,760 --> 00:03:13,359 Speaker 3: and so he was happy. But the IRS had called him. 53 00:03:13,720 --> 00:03:17,160 Speaker 3: Are the neighbor down there looking for him? 54 00:03:18,200 --> 00:03:20,560 Speaker 1: I don't know what story. I don't know what to 55 00:03:20,600 --> 00:03:28,320 Speaker 1: tell you. That sounds irregular, to say the least. I 56 00:03:28,360 --> 00:03:32,000 Speaker 1: will leave that there. There may be more details to this. 57 00:03:33,120 --> 00:03:38,040 Speaker 1: The IRS does not typically call you. They communicate by mail. 58 00:03:41,320 --> 00:03:45,320 Speaker 1: I'm not going to offer legal advice or a comment 59 00:03:45,400 --> 00:03:48,440 Speaker 1: on the story, because I find it in stories like 60 00:03:48,480 --> 00:03:53,680 Speaker 1: that there are often many details that are missing. I 61 00:03:53,760 --> 00:03:59,640 Speaker 1: get a fair number of emails from folks with problem 62 00:04:00,000 --> 00:04:04,040 Speaker 1: were experiencing or expecting problems with the I R S. 63 00:04:04,240 --> 00:04:06,600 Speaker 1: And I have a show sponsor called top tax Defenders 64 00:04:06,640 --> 00:04:10,880 Speaker 1: dot Com and I send them over and they deal 65 00:04:10,920 --> 00:04:14,160 Speaker 1: with the I R S all day, every day. And 66 00:04:14,200 --> 00:04:16,479 Speaker 1: if I were to call the owner of Top tax 67 00:04:16,520 --> 00:04:19,800 Speaker 1: Defenders dot Com right now and give him just the 68 00:04:19,880 --> 00:04:23,440 Speaker 1: details you gave, which I'm sure you believe to be true, 69 00:04:23,760 --> 00:04:27,640 Speaker 1: I can assure you that with years and thousands of 70 00:04:27,720 --> 00:04:32,920 Speaker 1: cases that they advocate for the citizen against the I 71 00:04:33,120 --> 00:04:36,000 Speaker 1: R s. He would tell you that is impossible that 72 00:04:36,000 --> 00:04:40,840 Speaker 1: that happened. Now maybe it did, Maybe it did. I 73 00:04:41,080 --> 00:04:44,880 Speaker 1: will I will leave that there two things I wanted 74 00:04:44,880 --> 00:04:46,440 Speaker 1: to get to that I have not yet, and then 75 00:04:46,480 --> 00:04:50,279 Speaker 1: I need to get to the week in review. Number one, 76 00:04:52,400 --> 00:05:00,040 Speaker 1: our footprint has changed with the national syndication, and that 77 00:05:00,000 --> 00:05:03,000 Speaker 1: that means the team has to grow. That means my 78 00:05:03,200 --> 00:05:10,440 Speaker 1: business personally. That is my radio show that is associated 79 00:05:10,839 --> 00:05:14,480 Speaker 1: with the company of iHeart, but I own my company. 80 00:05:15,040 --> 00:05:19,240 Speaker 1: That just got a lot more complicated, and it means 81 00:05:19,279 --> 00:05:22,760 Speaker 1: a lot more moving parts. And it means relevant to that, 82 00:05:23,520 --> 00:05:27,240 Speaker 1: ensuring that all my people and their paperwork and all 83 00:05:27,279 --> 00:05:32,320 Speaker 1: of that is buttoned up going forward and that we 84 00:05:32,400 --> 00:05:36,800 Speaker 1: never have a problem. And so when I put the 85 00:05:36,839 --> 00:05:40,799 Speaker 1: word out for a CPA firm, that was in large 86 00:05:40,839 --> 00:05:43,160 Speaker 1: part as a show sponsor. That was in large part 87 00:05:43,279 --> 00:05:48,599 Speaker 1: because I knew that I needed an entire firm instead 88 00:05:48,640 --> 00:05:50,800 Speaker 1: of just one person, which is what I have had 89 00:05:50,839 --> 00:05:55,240 Speaker 1: for the last thirty years. And so I was interviewing 90 00:05:55,520 --> 00:05:59,240 Speaker 1: without them knowing it, for a CPA firm to do 91 00:05:59,279 --> 00:06:04,440 Speaker 1: my work rather than just a show sponsor. And once 92 00:06:05,080 --> 00:06:07,600 Speaker 1: I interviewed them as this is what I expect you 93 00:06:07,680 --> 00:06:10,040 Speaker 1: to do for my listeners, and I started sending people 94 00:06:10,080 --> 00:06:13,320 Speaker 1: to them, and I saw how responsive they were. I 95 00:06:13,360 --> 00:06:15,800 Speaker 1: saw what they were doing for people. They can't get 96 00:06:15,800 --> 00:06:19,360 Speaker 1: into individual tax returns, but listeners who have used them 97 00:06:19,560 --> 00:06:23,400 Speaker 1: have I did a lot of background research. Robert Reese 98 00:06:23,440 --> 00:06:26,919 Speaker 1: did a lot of background research before that on the firm, 99 00:06:27,080 --> 00:06:31,080 Speaker 1: and we talked to a lot of their clients, some 100 00:06:31,160 --> 00:06:34,719 Speaker 1: of whom I knew very well. Matt Brice, who owns 101 00:06:34,760 --> 00:06:38,240 Speaker 1: Federal American Grow I'm authorized to say that he has 102 00:06:38,279 --> 00:06:41,240 Speaker 1: a complicated tax return. He owns a bunch of restaurants, 103 00:06:41,760 --> 00:06:44,679 Speaker 1: and he's got a lot of employees and a number 104 00:06:44,680 --> 00:06:48,400 Speaker 1: of other people that I knew around town that use 105 00:06:48,480 --> 00:06:52,040 Speaker 1: that firm that have far more complicated business interests than 106 00:06:52,040 --> 00:06:56,919 Speaker 1: I'll ever have. You know, more than fifty companies. That 107 00:06:57,040 --> 00:07:01,000 Speaker 1: happens international One friend of mine who has sixty two companies. 108 00:07:01,040 --> 00:07:04,360 Speaker 1: I mean, that's a pretty complicated tax return for his 109 00:07:04,400 --> 00:07:06,440 Speaker 1: business interest and he loves them and has used them 110 00:07:06,440 --> 00:07:11,600 Speaker 1: for years. Anyway, So yesterday I had a very very 111 00:07:11,640 --> 00:07:17,680 Speaker 1: difficult meeting in the afternoon for me my CPA, who 112 00:07:17,720 --> 00:07:21,360 Speaker 1: has been my CPA for thirty years, Bob Fumagali, and 113 00:07:21,800 --> 00:07:24,480 Speaker 1: I don't do business with people I don't like. If 114 00:07:24,600 --> 00:07:26,480 Speaker 1: we're going to do business, we're gonna be friends, we're 115 00:07:26,480 --> 00:07:28,600 Speaker 1: gonna be family. I'm gonna be there for you. You're 116 00:07:28,600 --> 00:07:30,680 Speaker 1: gonna be there for me. So I had to go 117 00:07:30,720 --> 00:07:34,480 Speaker 1: by and let him know that, you know, I was 118 00:07:34,520 --> 00:07:37,520 Speaker 1: going to be moving and he's transitioning his practice, and 119 00:07:38,120 --> 00:07:42,680 Speaker 1: I'm making moves in our career, so that is unpleasant 120 00:07:42,920 --> 00:07:46,400 Speaker 1: to have to do. Gave him a big hug. My 121 00:07:46,480 --> 00:07:49,040 Speaker 1: wife told me, don't you cry. So I left before 122 00:07:49,080 --> 00:07:51,160 Speaker 1: I did, because if I'd stayed around in Longao would 123 00:07:51,160 --> 00:07:54,000 Speaker 1: because thirty years a long time. He's been my CPA 124 00:07:54,240 --> 00:07:57,680 Speaker 1: and friend and trusted advisor and counselor for a very 125 00:07:57,720 --> 00:08:00,800 Speaker 1: long time, and I would still send I will still 126 00:08:00,840 --> 00:08:03,920 Speaker 1: be sending folks that just have a personal tax return, 127 00:08:04,160 --> 00:08:06,920 Speaker 1: not a complicated tax return to Bob fu mcghali. That 128 00:08:07,040 --> 00:08:10,160 Speaker 1: will not change because I love him like a brother. 129 00:08:11,320 --> 00:08:15,080 Speaker 1: But anyway, so I did that, wrote him along letter 130 00:08:15,400 --> 00:08:20,720 Speaker 1: about with input from Nandita, about over the years and 131 00:08:20,800 --> 00:08:26,360 Speaker 1: how much we appreciate him. And so that will enable 132 00:08:26,440 --> 00:08:31,560 Speaker 1: me now to start with Deroche Partners, which I'd already 133 00:08:31,600 --> 00:08:34,120 Speaker 1: been in a lot of meetings on strategy and those 134 00:08:34,120 --> 00:08:38,800 Speaker 1: sorts of things, so I don't believe in playing around 135 00:08:38,880 --> 00:08:42,720 Speaker 1: on the tax game. Bob fu mcghali, my thirty year CPA, 136 00:08:42,880 --> 00:08:45,000 Speaker 1: used to say, you know, you could pay a lot 137 00:08:45,040 --> 00:08:47,040 Speaker 1: less in taxes if you'd be a lot less aggressive, 138 00:08:47,160 --> 00:08:49,280 Speaker 1: and I would always say, and I still maintain this, 139 00:08:49,559 --> 00:08:51,560 Speaker 1: I'd rather pay more in taxes and sleep at night 140 00:08:51,640 --> 00:08:54,559 Speaker 1: if I'm audited, I feel good for me. I'd rather 141 00:08:54,600 --> 00:08:57,680 Speaker 1: be more conservative on So anyway, when you hear me 142 00:08:57,720 --> 00:08:58,280 Speaker 1: say I have a. 143 00:08:58,240 --> 00:09:12,480 Speaker 2: New CPA, that's talk to the folks or at top. 144 00:09:12,400 --> 00:09:19,480 Speaker 1: Tax defenders during the break, and I will guarantee you 145 00:09:21,080 --> 00:09:27,240 Speaker 1: that story involves fraud of the of the taxpayer, and 146 00:09:27,280 --> 00:09:30,040 Speaker 1: the I r s that that story is not as 147 00:09:30,040 --> 00:09:35,400 Speaker 1: it was presented, and I will leave it there. Yeah, 148 00:09:35,440 --> 00:09:43,080 Speaker 1: I'll leave that story there. But yeah, yeah, probably better 149 00:09:43,120 --> 00:09:44,760 Speaker 1: that I not say things that I'm going to regret. 150 00:09:45,600 --> 00:09:50,160 Speaker 1: I because I needed to go see my CPA yesterday 151 00:09:51,120 --> 00:09:54,080 Speaker 1: and do things the right way with him after a 152 00:09:54,200 --> 00:09:59,920 Speaker 1: very very long business relationship. He did say ramon, you know, 153 00:10:00,000 --> 00:10:04,079 Speaker 1: oh he's my CPA and friend. When he said, oh, 154 00:10:04,520 --> 00:10:06,520 Speaker 1: you don't spend enough money to make it to make 155 00:10:06,559 --> 00:10:09,840 Speaker 1: a difference here anyway. Just promise me we're still going 156 00:10:09,920 --> 00:10:14,880 Speaker 1: to do cigars and drinks. And I said, Bob, that'll 157 00:10:14,920 --> 00:10:18,439 Speaker 1: never change. Shotgun shooting at the Houston Gun Club. Bob, 158 00:10:19,160 --> 00:10:23,720 Speaker 1: that'll never change. Okay, Yeah, I'm okay with it. Day 159 00:10:23,760 --> 00:10:29,240 Speaker 1: a hug here he says cigars and drinks. Because if 160 00:10:29,280 --> 00:10:32,360 Speaker 1: I say let's have cigars in Bourbon, he says, no, 161 00:10:32,840 --> 00:10:35,520 Speaker 1: I'm having cigars in Scotch. And if he says, let's 162 00:10:35,520 --> 00:10:39,000 Speaker 1: have cigars in Scotch, so we've just compromised on cigars 163 00:10:39,000 --> 00:10:40,600 Speaker 1: and drinks, and we know that each of us will 164 00:10:40,600 --> 00:10:44,040 Speaker 1: be drinking something different. But great guy, and I will 165 00:10:44,080 --> 00:10:49,240 Speaker 1: still send him all of the requests for I need 166 00:10:49,280 --> 00:10:54,360 Speaker 1: tax help from smaller firms and for folks that have 167 00:10:54,559 --> 00:10:57,199 Speaker 1: mid sized firms and up and high net worth individuals. 168 00:10:57,679 --> 00:11:01,680 Speaker 1: I will be referring them to Deuroche partner gladly and 169 00:11:01,720 --> 00:11:05,040 Speaker 1: they will take great care of them. So that was 170 00:11:05,080 --> 00:11:08,120 Speaker 1: on the Northwest side. I had planned to visit a 171 00:11:08,160 --> 00:11:11,160 Speaker 1: couple more show sponsors while I was out there, but 172 00:11:11,480 --> 00:11:14,040 Speaker 1: as you can imagine, I only have a few hours 173 00:11:14,320 --> 00:11:15,920 Speaker 1: during the middle of the day where I can make 174 00:11:16,000 --> 00:11:19,160 Speaker 1: things happen, and I got held up at Camp Hope. 175 00:11:20,040 --> 00:11:23,760 Speaker 1: And the reason is when I get there, I can't 176 00:11:23,840 --> 00:11:28,360 Speaker 1: leave because first of all, they named the street that 177 00:11:28,440 --> 00:11:31,320 Speaker 1: you drive in on Bary Brigade Boulevard, which is not 178 00:11:31,440 --> 00:11:34,560 Speaker 1: for me. It is for you, because if it was 179 00:11:34,640 --> 00:11:37,960 Speaker 1: for me, it would be Michael Berry Boulevard, which was 180 00:11:37,960 --> 00:11:42,000 Speaker 1: their original suggestion. And I said no because I didn't 181 00:11:42,000 --> 00:11:46,680 Speaker 1: write the big check here. I didn't do these things 182 00:11:46,880 --> 00:11:51,360 Speaker 1: our listeners did. I just have the privilege honor of 183 00:11:51,400 --> 00:11:53,920 Speaker 1: getting to talk to the best people in the world 184 00:11:54,480 --> 00:11:59,200 Speaker 1: who have big hearts, and they're the ones who do this. 185 00:12:00,040 --> 00:12:06,040 Speaker 1: The Donnie Meismer sending a palette of coffee every month 186 00:12:06,120 --> 00:12:08,720 Speaker 1: while he's out working on a pipeline in West Texas. 187 00:12:08,720 --> 00:12:11,360 Speaker 1: He wants to make sure, as a marine veteran that 188 00:12:11,440 --> 00:12:16,800 Speaker 1: his fellow veterans have coffee. The Auvi Katz at Kat's Coffee, 189 00:12:16,800 --> 00:12:21,360 Speaker 1: delivering free coffee for the whole place to their blend 190 00:12:21,520 --> 00:12:25,280 Speaker 1: and sharing parts of the profits to them. The Russell 191 00:12:25,360 --> 00:12:30,520 Speaker 1: Lebara donating untold numbers of dollars. That's why his number two, 192 00:12:30,600 --> 00:12:33,080 Speaker 1: Jonathan Kim, it's the Jonathan Kim gym. And it's so 193 00:12:33,200 --> 00:12:34,920 Speaker 1: rewarding to see the guys in there blowing off some 194 00:12:35,000 --> 00:12:37,200 Speaker 1: steam working out in the gym and a gym that 195 00:12:37,280 --> 00:12:41,320 Speaker 1: was provided for them. I posted this Facebook yesterday, but 196 00:12:41,840 --> 00:12:46,120 Speaker 1: I'm going to say it now. So their kitchen is 197 00:12:46,160 --> 00:12:49,760 Speaker 1: down for repairs, and that could be two weeks to 198 00:12:49,880 --> 00:12:54,640 Speaker 1: a month. You got one hundred grown men, military veterans, 199 00:12:54,679 --> 00:12:57,840 Speaker 1: combat veterans who have to eat three meals a day. 200 00:12:58,640 --> 00:13:06,280 Speaker 1: So what we're asking for is restaurants who will donate 201 00:13:06,559 --> 00:13:08,959 Speaker 1: a meal. You don't have to stay and serve, although 202 00:13:08,960 --> 00:13:11,160 Speaker 1: most people choose to, because you get to shake hands 203 00:13:11,160 --> 00:13:14,839 Speaker 1: with guys who served in war and are rebuilding their 204 00:13:14,880 --> 00:13:20,360 Speaker 1: lives and beating PTSD and man, if that doesn't put 205 00:13:20,400 --> 00:13:24,360 Speaker 1: your life, your life into perspective, I don't know what will. 206 00:13:25,120 --> 00:13:26,840 Speaker 1: But I said, well, give me a couple of folks 207 00:13:26,880 --> 00:13:29,480 Speaker 1: that have been donating the food here lately, and they said, well, 208 00:13:29,559 --> 00:13:33,920 Speaker 1: Gringos was last night. Surprise. Gringos constantly does things for 209 00:13:34,000 --> 00:13:37,319 Speaker 1: Camp Hope. So thank you to Heather McKeon and Jonathan 210 00:13:37,400 --> 00:13:42,120 Speaker 1: Kim and Russell Lebara for what you do. So Gringos 211 00:13:42,160 --> 00:13:45,960 Speaker 1: had been the night before lunch and then dinner last 212 00:13:46,040 --> 00:13:49,880 Speaker 1: night was Paul Miller, who is Union Kitchen and I 213 00:13:49,960 --> 00:13:54,400 Speaker 1: forget Great Plates. I forget the name of his corporate entity, 214 00:13:54,480 --> 00:13:58,400 Speaker 1: but Union Kitchen is one of his concepts. They provided 215 00:13:58,880 --> 00:14:05,080 Speaker 1: Italian for lunch and dinner. Big City Wings often will 216 00:14:05,080 --> 00:14:10,559 Speaker 1: donate dinner for the group. There was a church first Baptist, 217 00:14:11,000 --> 00:14:14,520 Speaker 1: I can't remember, Pacaden, I can't remember. But church groups 218 00:14:14,679 --> 00:14:16,719 Speaker 1: will come out and they'll literally cook the food and 219 00:14:16,720 --> 00:14:19,200 Speaker 1: bring it out and serve it as part of their 220 00:14:19,480 --> 00:14:24,760 Speaker 1: community service. And that's pretty darn cool. They'll sit and 221 00:14:24,840 --> 00:14:30,239 Speaker 1: pray with the veterans. There are businesses that do it innovation. 222 00:14:31,040 --> 00:14:33,280 Speaker 1: What was the name of the innovation concepts I'll find 223 00:14:33,280 --> 00:14:38,160 Speaker 1: out they have done where the employees will come out. 224 00:14:38,320 --> 00:14:42,440 Speaker 1: Weatherford does an employee Day every year where the employees 225 00:14:42,480 --> 00:14:44,400 Speaker 1: they all they have games. It's like you're back in 226 00:14:44,400 --> 00:14:47,240 Speaker 1: school again on you know, you're in school that day, 227 00:14:47,280 --> 00:14:49,560 Speaker 1: but you have relay races. They do that and the 228 00:14:49,600 --> 00:14:53,720 Speaker 1: whole day benefits Camp Hope. It's hundreds of thousands of dollars. 229 00:14:53,760 --> 00:15:00,520 Speaker 1: They've built four homes that that can house eight guys 230 00:15:00,560 --> 00:15:04,360 Speaker 1: each in each home on site. Just incredible number of 231 00:15:04,400 --> 00:15:06,920 Speaker 1: people who do that. I have asked David Malsby to 232 00:15:06,920 --> 00:15:10,600 Speaker 1: start sending me a list of folks who do these 233 00:15:10,640 --> 00:15:13,160 Speaker 1: sorts of things so that I can give them some 234 00:15:13,200 --> 00:15:15,200 Speaker 1: love on the air, and all I ask you to 235 00:15:15,200 --> 00:15:17,120 Speaker 1: do if you say, Michael, I don't have an extra penny, 236 00:15:17,480 --> 00:15:21,000 Speaker 1: I'm on a tight budget, or I've lost my job, understandable. 237 00:15:22,320 --> 00:15:24,400 Speaker 1: Sometimes when I post things like this, people will post 238 00:15:24,480 --> 00:15:27,080 Speaker 1: on Facebook, well, I'm sorry, but I don't have You 239 00:15:27,120 --> 00:15:31,960 Speaker 1: don't need to be You should feel no conviction. I 240 00:15:32,040 --> 00:15:34,320 Speaker 1: am putting this out there because there are some people 241 00:15:34,320 --> 00:15:38,880 Speaker 1: who right now are in a bountiful place and they 242 00:15:38,960 --> 00:15:42,680 Speaker 1: want to know where to help. And when I identify 243 00:15:42,920 --> 00:15:46,160 Speaker 1: this is one great place where the money goes to 244 00:15:46,160 --> 00:15:50,200 Speaker 1: help veterans who are who served in combat, who were 245 00:15:50,480 --> 00:15:53,680 Speaker 1: on the verge. Many of them have tried suicide. Many 246 00:15:53,720 --> 00:15:56,400 Speaker 1: of them attempted suicide, should I say, many of them 247 00:15:56,600 --> 00:16:00,440 Speaker 1: have had addictions, They've lost their wife, their kids, their 248 00:16:00,440 --> 00:16:04,280 Speaker 1: relationship to their family. They want their life back and 249 00:16:04,320 --> 00:16:06,680 Speaker 1: they're willing to work to do the work to get there. 250 00:16:07,280 --> 00:16:11,720 Speaker 1: So this is a place where it makes a difference. 251 00:16:12,120 --> 00:16:15,400 Speaker 1: A lot of people will contact me and sending me 252 00:16:15,440 --> 00:16:17,680 Speaker 1: an email is the best way to do it and 253 00:16:17,760 --> 00:16:19,680 Speaker 1: say my son went to war and he took his life. 254 00:16:19,760 --> 00:16:23,560 Speaker 1: How can I help or my brother or a guy 255 00:16:23,600 --> 00:16:27,160 Speaker 1: at work, And that's a way that they can do 256 00:16:27,640 --> 00:16:33,320 Speaker 1: their part. I didn't serve, but you can serve those 257 00:16:33,320 --> 00:16:36,760 Speaker 1: who served, and it is needed more than you can imagine. 258 00:16:36,800 --> 00:16:41,360 Speaker 1: So if you can provide a meal, send me an email. 259 00:16:41,680 --> 00:16:44,200 Speaker 1: I will forward that to David and will make it happen. 260 00:16:44,640 --> 00:16:46,480 Speaker 1: It is also the case and I can't read them 261 00:16:46,480 --> 00:16:48,360 Speaker 1: out every day. They wish I would promote their events, 262 00:16:48,520 --> 00:16:50,200 Speaker 1: the groups, and I wish I could, but I can't 263 00:16:50,920 --> 00:16:54,160 Speaker 1: because it's more than one per day on average. For 264 00:16:54,200 --> 00:16:56,080 Speaker 1: the year, I think it's five hundred events a year. 265 00:16:56,800 --> 00:16:59,280 Speaker 1: Cook teams, there's a group called Cowboys for heroes that 266 00:16:59,760 --> 00:17:03,680 Speaker 1: don'ts more meat than you can imagine. But those guys 267 00:17:03,720 --> 00:17:06,800 Speaker 1: go through it. I mean, they work out, they do 268 00:17:06,920 --> 00:17:10,960 Speaker 1: Bible study. We now have full time counselors. In fact, 269 00:17:11,160 --> 00:17:15,600 Speaker 1: I met the newest counselor that just joined full time 270 00:17:15,640 --> 00:17:17,719 Speaker 1: counselors there. I don't know what it's like to come 271 00:17:17,760 --> 00:17:22,760 Speaker 1: home for more, and it ain't the movies. It is rough. 272 00:17:23,119 --> 00:17:25,439 Speaker 1: And I've known a lot of guys who served in 273 00:17:25,480 --> 00:17:30,359 Speaker 1: combat who before Camp Hope, the thousand Yards stare, it 274 00:17:30,440 --> 00:17:34,720 Speaker 1: was called the suicide rate for Vietnam veterans. I think 275 00:17:34,720 --> 00:17:37,520 Speaker 1: we've lost multiples of how many guys died in Vietnam 276 00:17:37,800 --> 00:17:39,760 Speaker 1: from guys that came home and took their own lives. 277 00:17:40,240 --> 00:17:42,800 Speaker 1: And that doesn't include the guys that drank themselves to 278 00:17:42,840 --> 00:17:47,119 Speaker 1: death or injected themselves to death, ruined marriages, ruined lives. 279 00:17:47,320 --> 00:17:50,680 Speaker 1: So everything you do makes the difference. And I could 280 00:17:50,680 --> 00:17:52,480 Speaker 1: talk about Camp Hope every day. I don't because I 281 00:17:52,480 --> 00:17:54,760 Speaker 1: don't want to wear you out. But that was heavy 282 00:17:54,800 --> 00:17:56,800 Speaker 1: on my heart, and I know a lot of you care. 283 00:17:56,920 --> 00:17:58,560 Speaker 1: So send me an email with how you want to 284 00:17:58,600 --> 00:18:01,280 Speaker 1: help specifically, and I'll get you that game. Every one 285 00:18:01,280 --> 00:18:03,719 Speaker 1: of you who does thank you, thank you, thank including. 286 00:18:07,760 --> 00:18:08,840 Speaker 2: He's showing me. 287 00:18:11,760 --> 00:18:11,960 Speaker 4: You know. 288 00:18:12,040 --> 00:18:15,959 Speaker 1: The thinging about it is if Roy Orbison hadn't been 289 00:18:16,040 --> 00:18:19,199 Speaker 1: Roy Orbison the first time I heard him sing, if 290 00:18:19,200 --> 00:18:23,919 Speaker 1: I didn't already know that he was great, and he 291 00:18:23,960 --> 00:18:33,000 Speaker 1: didn't have the arrangements around him to demonstrate how awesome, 292 00:18:34,640 --> 00:18:38,560 Speaker 1: to really highlight how awesome he is. And I just 293 00:18:38,600 --> 00:18:41,359 Speaker 1: heard him singing at our church choir, at Old First 294 00:18:41,359 --> 00:18:43,520 Speaker 1: Orange standing next to me, I would have said to 295 00:18:43,680 --> 00:18:47,159 Speaker 1: Brother brad Our, youth director in music ministry, could you 296 00:18:47,200 --> 00:18:50,320 Speaker 1: move Old man Orbison over because I don't like the 297 00:18:50,320 --> 00:18:53,520 Speaker 1: way he sings. He's not bringing out the best in 298 00:18:53,600 --> 00:18:56,440 Speaker 1: my vocals. I mean, he's making a joyful noise into 299 00:18:56,480 --> 00:18:58,640 Speaker 1: the Lord. But that's about all I can say about it. 300 00:18:58,840 --> 00:19:02,760 Speaker 1: That is it. That was always a joke at old 301 00:19:02,760 --> 00:19:08,119 Speaker 1: First Orange Baptist Church is brad Beckham, Bradley Beaman Beckham, 302 00:19:08,920 --> 00:19:16,040 Speaker 1: our youth and song minister would say, listen now, I 303 00:19:16,040 --> 00:19:20,000 Speaker 1: want all of y'all because he's a beautiful, beautiful vocalist, 304 00:19:20,600 --> 00:19:23,600 Speaker 1: and he would say, I want all of y'all to sing. 305 00:19:23,640 --> 00:19:25,840 Speaker 1: And he called people out, Loretta Berry, are you making 306 00:19:25,880 --> 00:19:29,680 Speaker 1: a joyful noise into the Lord? It doesn't matter that 307 00:19:30,480 --> 00:19:32,240 Speaker 1: the Bible doesn't tell us it has to be a 308 00:19:32,280 --> 00:19:37,159 Speaker 1: beautiful noise. It just has to be joyful. So true, 309 00:19:37,520 --> 00:19:38,320 Speaker 1: so very true. 310 00:19:38,480 --> 00:19:40,840 Speaker 5: Raman, we haven't done the weekend review, all right, No, no, 311 00:19:41,000 --> 00:19:43,359 Speaker 5: we'll do that in two and a half minutes. Let's 312 00:19:43,440 --> 00:19:49,240 Speaker 5: take a call from Jeanie. Jeanie, you're up, sweetheart. 313 00:19:48,760 --> 00:19:49,159 Speaker 1: Go ahead. 314 00:19:51,080 --> 00:19:51,240 Speaker 6: Hi. 315 00:19:52,080 --> 00:19:55,959 Speaker 4: I'm calling because my sister is still on the voting 316 00:19:56,040 --> 00:19:59,320 Speaker 4: roll and she died last year in June thirtieth, and 317 00:19:59,400 --> 00:20:02,919 Speaker 4: I have called to everybody. I called Harris county and 318 00:20:03,000 --> 00:20:05,880 Speaker 4: they said they couldn't help me. Who was very good 319 00:20:06,160 --> 00:20:09,840 Speaker 4: to try to help me was Ted Cruz's office, you know, 320 00:20:10,680 --> 00:20:14,359 Speaker 4: also Valerie Swans, And of course I mailed in the 321 00:20:14,359 --> 00:20:20,360 Speaker 4: death certificate and everything. But when I called, like Ken Paxton, 322 00:20:20,400 --> 00:20:22,680 Speaker 4: when I called his office, it's going to call them 323 00:20:22,720 --> 00:20:25,760 Speaker 4: this morning, and the lady was kind of rude. She 324 00:20:25,840 --> 00:20:28,720 Speaker 4: was this is an ongoing thing, and basically I said, well, 325 00:20:28,720 --> 00:20:31,439 Speaker 4: do you want any information? And she said no, she 326 00:20:31,560 --> 00:20:34,800 Speaker 4: hung up. So anyway, it's just kind of been very 327 00:20:34,840 --> 00:20:39,240 Speaker 4: hard calling everybody Dan Patrick or Greg Abbott and nobody 328 00:20:39,280 --> 00:20:42,040 Speaker 4: seems to be concerned. And it's still on there today. 329 00:20:42,600 --> 00:20:46,679 Speaker 1: Jeni, let me answer your question. This may not be 330 00:20:46,720 --> 00:20:48,800 Speaker 1: the answer you want to hear, but I'm going to 331 00:20:48,840 --> 00:20:52,679 Speaker 1: answer it honestly at the risk of coming off sounding 332 00:20:52,840 --> 00:20:55,480 Speaker 1: like Ken Paxton's secretary of whoever that was, and answered 333 00:20:55,480 --> 00:21:00,199 Speaker 1: the question. It's not that they don't care. It's that 334 00:21:00,240 --> 00:21:06,200 Speaker 1: they get overwhelmed with calls about, for instance, somebody's dead 335 00:21:06,240 --> 00:21:11,040 Speaker 1: sister who's still own the rolls. It might be the case, 336 00:21:11,080 --> 00:21:15,720 Speaker 1: and very likely is that thirty feet away, two lawyers 337 00:21:15,720 --> 00:21:21,960 Speaker 1: are feverishly working on actions that will go after counties 338 00:21:21,960 --> 00:21:25,320 Speaker 1: that are doing that, but she doesn't take the time 339 00:21:25,320 --> 00:21:28,000 Speaker 1: to explain that because she got six hundred phone calls today. 340 00:21:28,880 --> 00:21:34,040 Speaker 1: Now does that make it okay that a citizen of 341 00:21:34,560 --> 00:21:37,760 Speaker 1: the Republic of Texas was treated that way as you were? 342 00:21:38,080 --> 00:21:42,119 Speaker 1: Absolutely not, And I will pass that. We will clip 343 00:21:42,160 --> 00:21:43,960 Speaker 1: this call, as we do with a lot of things, 344 00:21:44,800 --> 00:21:47,919 Speaker 1: and I will text this to Ken Paxton, and I 345 00:21:47,920 --> 00:21:50,920 Speaker 1: will say, can you at least promise me you will 346 00:21:50,960 --> 00:21:57,119 Speaker 1: address customer service, taxpayer service, citizen service with whoever is 347 00:21:57,160 --> 00:21:59,800 Speaker 1: answering the phone there, And I assure you he will. 348 00:22:01,760 --> 00:22:07,720 Speaker 1: Many times people forget the customer service side, and you're 349 00:22:07,720 --> 00:22:12,480 Speaker 1: the customer, you're the taxpayer. Many times they forget the 350 00:22:13,119 --> 00:22:16,240 Speaker 1: customer service side of what we do because we're so 351 00:22:16,400 --> 00:22:19,280 Speaker 1: busy doing what we're doing that we feel bothered. Like 352 00:22:19,320 --> 00:22:21,359 Speaker 1: you know, when you'd go and ask your dad what 353 00:22:21,400 --> 00:22:22,960 Speaker 1: he's working on and he's under the hood and jo 354 00:22:23,040 --> 00:22:25,760 Speaker 1: bother me. It's not that he doesn't love you, it's 355 00:22:25,800 --> 00:22:28,359 Speaker 1: that he's a little overwhelmed. And I am the worst 356 00:22:28,359 --> 00:22:32,199 Speaker 1: about it. I get so aggravated when I should do 357 00:22:32,240 --> 00:22:34,760 Speaker 1: a better job of it myself. With that it is 358 00:22:34,840 --> 00:22:38,720 Speaker 1: time courtesy of the greatest executive producer in all the Land, 359 00:22:39,200 --> 00:22:46,320 Speaker 1: Chad Akoni Nakanishi for your this centrol. It takes too 360 00:22:46,359 --> 00:22:50,359 Speaker 1: long to get to the I don't mind building to 361 00:22:50,440 --> 00:22:53,000 Speaker 1: a crescendo, but I think at some point I'm like, guys, 362 00:22:53,000 --> 00:22:54,440 Speaker 1: I gotta go pee. I'm not gonna make it till 363 00:22:54,440 --> 00:22:59,679 Speaker 1: the end. Bring some percussion in earlier, some keys in, 364 00:22:59,880 --> 00:23:05,679 Speaker 1: or it is back the most electrifying thing. Well to 365 00:23:05,800 --> 00:23:07,960 Speaker 1: a new era of college football. 366 00:23:08,240 --> 00:23:13,720 Speaker 2: Sick is driven right through and Notre Dame. 367 00:23:13,880 --> 00:23:17,119 Speaker 3: It's gonna come to Kyle Field and come away with 368 00:23:17,200 --> 00:23:18,359 Speaker 3: a huge victory. 369 00:23:18,400 --> 00:23:22,520 Speaker 1: Mason Cup fix it all and the Trojans will have 370 00:23:22,640 --> 00:23:25,600 Speaker 1: a victory. A long suffering fan is the hoops fan. 371 00:23:25,720 --> 00:23:28,720 Speaker 1: I decided years ago to stop carrying who wins or losing. 372 00:23:29,119 --> 00:23:32,160 Speaker 1: He would get so angry at me. No, you have 373 00:23:32,240 --> 00:23:34,919 Speaker 1: to be as invested as I am so that you 374 00:23:35,000 --> 00:23:38,440 Speaker 1: can be miserable doing something that was supposed to bring 375 00:23:38,520 --> 00:23:39,040 Speaker 1: you joy. 376 00:23:40,200 --> 00:23:41,359 Speaker 2: I'm a Scott mar. 377 00:23:42,680 --> 00:23:45,479 Speaker 1: Choke Berry was a Scotman. So was John mcafeel. Did 378 00:23:45,480 --> 00:23:47,879 Speaker 1: you see that scene where the girl was trying to 379 00:23:47,920 --> 00:23:50,960 Speaker 1: explain that he would have her sit in. 380 00:23:50,920 --> 00:23:54,680 Speaker 6: A hammer them a hole because he wanted to have 381 00:23:55,560 --> 00:23:56,200 Speaker 6: Scott sick. 382 00:23:56,320 --> 00:23:58,600 Speaker 3: What is Scott saying? I mean, you've pop in someone 383 00:23:59,240 --> 00:24:00,880 Speaker 3: he used to make in his mouth. 384 00:24:00,960 --> 00:24:04,120 Speaker 1: I have to wonder what's going through your mind where 385 00:24:04,200 --> 00:24:07,720 Speaker 1: you say you know I love chocolate pudding. Okay, Miss 386 00:24:07,800 --> 00:24:11,520 Speaker 1: Brown has that consistency, like what how does it happen 387 00:24:11,600 --> 00:24:12,120 Speaker 1: the first time? 388 00:24:12,160 --> 00:24:12,400 Speaker 6: School? 389 00:24:12,720 --> 00:24:16,160 Speaker 1: We'd like to extend the congratulations to our hometown guy, 390 00:24:16,320 --> 00:24:19,600 Speaker 1: Michael Berry. The Michael Barry Show will soon be available 391 00:24:19,640 --> 00:24:23,439 Speaker 1: to stations across the country. We're contenders now. We have 392 00:24:23,840 --> 00:24:27,280 Speaker 1: been nationally syndicated by premier networks. 393 00:24:29,440 --> 00:24:29,880 Speaker 2: Around. 394 00:24:30,720 --> 00:24:35,240 Speaker 1: This is the network that syndicated Rush Limbaugh highest honor 395 00:24:35,840 --> 00:24:37,920 Speaker 1: in all radio. Incredible, incredible. 396 00:24:40,440 --> 00:24:44,560 Speaker 2: She has me where it's from? I says from where? 397 00:24:44,960 --> 00:24:51,320 Speaker 1: Never been to a little town from moncave underneath some 398 00:24:51,760 --> 00:24:57,680 Speaker 1: mango trees. She tried talking with my accident. We hear 399 00:24:57,960 --> 00:25:01,560 Speaker 1: hands and we as in the blue water. 400 00:25:02,040 --> 00:25:06,159 Speaker 4: She left to flip lives by my ord with the 401 00:25:06,240 --> 00:25:09,120 Speaker 4: little W twenty five package and you get it all 402 00:25:09,520 --> 00:25:11,640 Speaker 4: fiberglass hood with air grabbing scoops. 403 00:25:11,840 --> 00:25:16,400 Speaker 1: Mit the Michael Berry fucking hood pins boldsmobile escaped from 404 00:25:16,440 --> 00:25:18,320 Speaker 1: the ordinary bank. 405 00:25:18,520 --> 00:25:20,399 Speaker 4: They're gone far me. 406 00:25:20,800 --> 00:25:24,719 Speaker 1: I've been looking, oh you baby. 407 00:25:24,760 --> 00:25:26,919 Speaker 2: Then looking and it's kind of my. 408 00:25:28,440 --> 00:25:38,960 Speaker 1: Then looking ov buddy of mine's obese parrot died this morning, 409 00:25:39,280 --> 00:25:45,160 Speaker 1: obese parrot, which is sad news, but it's a huge 410 00:25:45,200 --> 00:25:51,359 Speaker 1: weight off his shoulders. Melanie, you are on the Michael 411 00:25:51,400 --> 00:25:53,720 Speaker 1: Berry Show. What do you have for a sweetheart? 412 00:25:58,040 --> 00:26:00,640 Speaker 6: Michael, I just want to remind everybody that even though 413 00:26:01,080 --> 00:26:04,200 Speaker 6: we don't have troops on the ground in Israel, we 414 00:26:04,480 --> 00:26:08,480 Speaker 6: have sailors in the Red Sea that are actually being 415 00:26:08,560 --> 00:26:12,280 Speaker 6: fired upon by Heselah. The fifth Feet Fleet is stationed 416 00:26:12,320 --> 00:26:15,000 Speaker 6: out there, and my daughter and the other sailors that 417 00:26:15,080 --> 00:26:17,719 Speaker 6: are on the Lincoln have been out there to replace 418 00:26:17,760 --> 00:26:21,520 Speaker 6: the Eisenhower. So even though we don't have troops on 419 00:26:21,600 --> 00:26:24,320 Speaker 6: the ground, we still have sailors that are involved out there, 420 00:26:25,000 --> 00:26:29,399 Speaker 6: and we need to keep them in our prayers because 421 00:26:29,400 --> 00:26:30,240 Speaker 6: we never know what's. 422 00:26:30,080 --> 00:26:30,600 Speaker 4: Going to happen. 423 00:26:36,119 --> 00:26:41,000 Speaker 1: Melanie, my son went off to the University of Texas 424 00:26:41,680 --> 00:26:45,440 Speaker 1: two weeks ago to begin his freshman year of college. 425 00:26:47,119 --> 00:26:52,680 Speaker 1: And I don't want to say worry. I think about 426 00:26:52,760 --> 00:27:02,600 Speaker 1: him all day every day and risks, temptations, dangers, opportunities, 427 00:27:03,600 --> 00:27:09,720 Speaker 1: all of the things that he is experiencing. And I 428 00:27:09,920 --> 00:27:18,160 Speaker 1: lay in bed at night praying for protection over him. 429 00:27:20,240 --> 00:27:23,479 Speaker 1: I can't imagine how you go to sleep every night 430 00:27:24,720 --> 00:27:32,240 Speaker 1: knowing that your child is serving in our military today generally, 431 00:27:32,920 --> 00:27:35,040 Speaker 1: and that would be the case for every parent that's 432 00:27:35,080 --> 00:27:38,280 Speaker 1: ever had a child serving in the military and active duty, 433 00:27:39,240 --> 00:27:43,240 Speaker 1: particularly in a danger zone, a hotspot, if not presently 434 00:27:43,359 --> 00:27:47,040 Speaker 1: a war zone as such, certainly could be within five minutes. 435 00:27:48,200 --> 00:27:54,040 Speaker 1: And to know this administration, I don't even want to 436 00:27:54,040 --> 00:27:57,000 Speaker 1: say the end of it. Everybody knows what I'm thinking. God, 437 00:27:57,119 --> 00:27:57,520 Speaker 1: bless you. 438 00:27:57,960 --> 00:28:02,199 Speaker 3: What is your daughter's name, Elizabeth Bishop? 439 00:28:05,920 --> 00:28:07,359 Speaker 4: She's private first class. 440 00:28:07,400 --> 00:28:11,480 Speaker 6: She's a E five, so she's private first class. 441 00:28:13,080 --> 00:28:16,640 Speaker 1: Elizabeth Bishop. I will add her to my prayer list 442 00:28:16,680 --> 00:28:18,840 Speaker 1: tonight for sure. 443 00:28:22,040 --> 00:28:22,359 Speaker 4: Thank you. 444 00:28:26,359 --> 00:28:29,880 Speaker 6: It's tough because she's our number one. We have five 445 00:28:29,960 --> 00:28:32,800 Speaker 6: and she's our number one child, so it's really tough. 446 00:28:33,880 --> 00:28:37,199 Speaker 1: Of course it is. Well, thank you for your service 447 00:28:37,240 --> 00:28:45,760 Speaker 1: to this country. You know, reality is, some families make 448 00:28:45,800 --> 00:28:53,760 Speaker 1: a bigger sacrifice if if the trash needs to be 449 00:28:53,880 --> 00:28:58,800 Speaker 1: taken out. Some families do all the work, and the 450 00:28:58,880 --> 00:29:01,800 Speaker 1: rest of us, us we can do is cheer for them, 451 00:29:02,360 --> 00:29:04,120 Speaker 1: but we should at least make sure we do that 452 00:29:05,720 --> 00:29:08,959 Speaker 1: at a minimum and be here for them when they 453 00:29:09,040 --> 00:29:16,120 Speaker 1: get home. Yesterday, I was going through Camp Hope. 454 00:29:16,640 --> 00:29:17,240 Speaker 2: I like to do. 455 00:29:18,320 --> 00:29:22,040 Speaker 1: It's not an operational audit. It is I jokingly call 456 00:29:22,080 --> 00:29:24,200 Speaker 1: it that I like to know what everybody's doing at 457 00:29:24,240 --> 00:29:29,480 Speaker 1: all times. And there was a woman that was on 458 00:29:29,560 --> 00:29:35,000 Speaker 1: the speakerphone and we kept passing by her office as 459 00:29:35,040 --> 00:29:37,640 Speaker 1: we went into the different counseling offices, and I said, 460 00:29:37,840 --> 00:29:42,800 Speaker 1: what is she doing? He said, Michael, some of our 461 00:29:42,920 --> 00:29:47,000 Speaker 1: counselors are literally from the moment they arrive in the 462 00:29:47,080 --> 00:29:50,560 Speaker 1: morning to the moment they leave in the evening, dialing 463 00:29:50,640 --> 00:29:53,800 Speaker 1: the VA and sitting on hold because the VA makes 464 00:29:53,840 --> 00:30:01,280 Speaker 1: it so difficult, so difficult to get help for our veterans. 465 00:30:01,920 --> 00:30:04,960 Speaker 1: And sometimes it's long periods of time our counselor is 466 00:30:05,000 --> 00:30:07,880 Speaker 1: on hold, just waiting to get in to get this 467 00:30:08,080 --> 00:30:11,920 Speaker 1: med or to get this medical treatment, or to tell 468 00:30:11,960 --> 00:30:15,480 Speaker 1: you what. Why don't we make a be all you 469 00:30:15,560 --> 00:30:20,680 Speaker 1: can be army ad where we say be the person 470 00:30:21,600 --> 00:30:25,720 Speaker 1: that this counselor is calling the VAFAR and sitting on 471 00:30:25,840 --> 00:30:29,120 Speaker 1: hold for ninety minutes, which was how long it was, 472 00:30:29,360 --> 00:30:33,400 Speaker 1: and that for that particular call, be the person who 473 00:30:33,480 --> 00:30:39,320 Speaker 1: the counselor is calling the VA to get you medical treatment, 474 00:30:39,480 --> 00:30:43,040 Speaker 1: and she's left on hold for ninety minutes. That's the 475 00:30:43,160 --> 00:30:49,120 Speaker 1: be all you can be. Few the proud the people 476 00:30:49,240 --> 00:30:53,600 Speaker 1: the VA can't find time to treat. How about that? 477 00:30:54,520 --> 00:30:56,960 Speaker 1: How about you put that in your flyover ad for 478 00:30:57,080 --> 00:31:00,920 Speaker 1: the NFL this Sunday when you go recruit young men 479 00:31:01,080 --> 00:31:05,040 Speaker 1: and women to serve our country and come home and 480 00:31:05,120 --> 00:31:08,360 Speaker 1: be crapped on. Make that your ad. Let's have some 481 00:31:08,640 --> 00:31:16,760 Speaker 1: honesty in these ads. How about But I'm grateful to you, 482 00:31:18,480 --> 00:31:24,040 Speaker 1: all of you, for everything you do that we can 483 00:31:24,120 --> 00:31:29,600 Speaker 1: afford at Camp Hope to have some folks who are 484 00:31:29,680 --> 00:31:33,520 Speaker 1: passionate about our veterans who are there for ninety minutes 485 00:31:33,680 --> 00:31:36,360 Speaker 1: to sit on hold, because that could be a trigger 486 00:31:36,440 --> 00:31:38,000 Speaker 1: for a veteran if they have to do it themselves. 487 00:31:40,440 --> 00:31:44,480 Speaker 1: They told me yesterday that in the eleven years since 488 00:31:44,560 --> 00:31:49,440 Speaker 1: we have been speaking for Camp Hope, we have raised 489 00:31:49,520 --> 00:31:55,560 Speaker 1: ten million dollars in hard money and about six million 490 00:31:55,640 --> 00:32:03,160 Speaker 1: dollars in in kind donations. And I said, we are 491 00:32:03,680 --> 00:32:08,400 Speaker 1: just getting started. We go national October seventh. We're going 492 00:32:08,480 --> 00:32:11,479 Speaker 1: to find every veteran that's fighting PTSD. We're gonna get 493 00:32:11,520 --> 00:32:13,680 Speaker 1: them help, and we're going to get every American out 494 00:32:13,680 --> 00:32:16,360 Speaker 1: there that wants to help them involved with Camp Hope