Speaker 1: You're listening to a Tenderfoot TV podcast for girls. Hey,
Speaker 1: happy holidays, everybody. I have some really sad news to report.
Speaker 1: My father, Kenny, is currently homeless and he's out on
Speaker 1: the streets. He has been for a while. He was
Speaker 1: kicked out of his apartment a couple months ago, and
Speaker 1: he's been in and out of hospitals and shelters dealing
Speaker 1: with some very serious PTSD, I guess, and has been
Speaker 1: having mental breakdowns and this hallucinating and having like flashbacks,
Speaker 1: and he's just an absolute wreck. And I've been doing
Speaker 1: everything I possibly can for the past year to help
Speaker 1: this guy get back on track, paying for his rent,
Speaker 1: I bought him a car, I bought him a new
Speaker 1: phone because he lost his phone, and I've been paying
Speaker 1: his utilities. And it's just been a constant battle, and
Speaker 1: it's been very, very overwhelming for me and my family
Speaker 1: to be basically be the only people that are carrying
Speaker 1: this burden for him. And I am terrified that if
Speaker 1: I just say no more, Dad, no more, I've had enough.
Speaker 1: I don't know, I don't know, something terrible will happen.
Speaker 1: And just so you know what I'm talking about, I'd
Speaker 1: like to play a couple voice memos that he sent
Speaker 1: me over the past week.
Speaker 2: All those voices you hear back. There are nurses, a
Speaker 2: million nurses up here. I still need help, man. I
Speaker 2: still get horrible dreams. I still get violence. I still
Speaker 2: can't tell reality from what's not real. I get visual
Speaker 2: hallucinations and audible hallucinations still. And they're all from fighting,
Speaker 2: and they're all from fighting and shooting and killing. I
Speaker 2: could talk to him as they're dead because they got
Speaker 2: a big bullet in their fucking throat, and I could
Speaker 2: talk to him and we have a conversation and we
Speaker 2: apologize for killing each other or for trying to kill
Speaker 2: each other. It sucks, man. You don't know how bad
Speaker 2: it sucks. You don't know how bad it is to
Speaker 2: take somebody with half his head blown off and talk
Speaker 2: to him and tell him you're sorry for that, and
Speaker 2: he smiles that she says it's okay, ken, I understand
Speaker 2: it was war. But I can't do that, man. I
Speaker 2: don't know how the guts. I just don't like dealing
Speaker 2: with the dead, but the dead deal with me. And
Speaker 2: it's all because of the night. It's all because of
Speaker 2: horrible dreams. It's all because of the violence at night,
Speaker 2: I'm gonna stop goodbye.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and so here here's another one that's more about
Speaker 1: his homeless situation and what he's gonna do after he
Speaker 1: gets out of the hospital.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna be homeless again in the next couple of days.
Speaker 2: I have nowhere to go. DSS doesn't even know what
Speaker 2: to do with me. I gotta have my car, at
Speaker 2: least I can live in that. I'm going to leave
Speaker 2: this hospital with nothing. I'll have shoes, pants, and a sweatshirt,
Speaker 2: and over the sweatshirt, I'll have a flannel and that's it.
Speaker 2: And where am I going to go from there? I
Speaker 2: have no idea. Probably some shelter if I could find one.
Speaker 2: I just, hey, an dealt a bad hand. I'm a
Speaker 2: fucking loser. You guys would delt good hands. Your winners,
Speaker 2: take advantage of it, learn by my fucking mistakes, and
Speaker 2: then your life will be good. But I am I'm just.
Speaker 2: I have no luck, I have no nothing, I am nothing.
Speaker 2: I can't do this anymore.
Speaker 1: So, Yeah, it's bleak. I feel like I'm completely out
Speaker 1: of options with him. The only thing I can think
Speaker 1: of doing it is is this. I'm embarrassed and I'm humbled,
Speaker 1: but I'm I'm asking for support. I set up a
Speaker 1: golf on me account to help you get him the
Speaker 1: care and help that he needs. You can go to
Speaker 1: GoFundMe dot com slash cook County and donate if you
Speaker 1: want to, or share this with people who you might
Speaker 1: think could help or would be interested. But I'm just
Speaker 1: desperate at this point. I don't know what to do.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I just hope that at some point
Speaker 1: this guy can get the care he needs and have
Speaker 1: a productive life again.
Speaker 2: Thank you.