Nov. 12, 2024

Veterans Day: A Historical Walk Thru

Veterans Day: A Historical Walk Thru

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Oh, good evening, good evening, good evening. Welcome to another

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segment of Setting it Straight with Miss Gray and her

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fabulous co hosts. Good evening, How are you, co hosts?

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Wonderful?

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We're doing well.

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That's too much of a pause. Then we got to

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work on that. Okay, we've gotta have another dress rehearsal. Pause,

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No dip in the silence. We don't need silence.

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Well, I just want to make sure that Trey gets

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in first.

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The plot seconds of the method to the Madness. Okay,

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and just take the tenner at your so take the

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ten out your boys, because we are a peaceful show. Okay,

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we don't raise our voices unless we getting the holy ghosts.

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All right, all right, trade trade from all the way.

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And yes, I'm.

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Doing what house everybody today.

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Everybody's good. I'm good. I can't speak for everybody. I'm good.

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I'm good.

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Pastor doing well, doing well, and just remember trades up

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in b a. Yes, yes, that's what is in Lynchburgh.

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Oh really yeah, I got I got, I gotta represent

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with Liberty you.

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Oh okay, they're gonna come in at this point of

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the show and the pastors throwing up gang size. Okay,

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thank you. See that's what I'm talking about. But there's

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too much of the lady you know, when I say, hey,

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how y'all doing useful to just answer right back. You

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just gotta come on that come on any old way. Well,

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good evening again, guys and gals. We just thank you

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for joining us this evening, and we just thank you

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that unbeknownst to us, I have found out since the

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last time we spoke and met that we have had

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thousands of uploads and shares. So I now I'm feeling

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a little bit better. I mean, we love our folks

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that are faithful and they come on every week. They

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make a point of you know, we are just so

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thankful and we know that you're sharing. You're sharing this

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with somebody else, because half of y'all may not even

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need it. But the kids, it doesn't matter what I

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may need. It matters where someone else could benefit from,

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not that you. Oh you're a bad person. You need

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to hear this. No, no, no, no, I would only want

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to get better. I've already shared with you all. I

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was a college professor and the first night of class,

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I would tell my students, I go over the syllabus,

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I'll go buy the expectations. Most of the time you

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had to do an oral presentation for me. And so

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of course the kids were freaking out about that because

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none of them were public speakers. And then I said, oh,

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and by the way, at the end of the semester,

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you get to evaluate me. They're like, oooh, these are

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grown folks doing it. Oh we can hurridly and say

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oh yeah. All I can say is take your best shot.

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They're like, oh, god, she's gonna kill us. No, because

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you can only make me better. I know a constructive criticism.

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Let me tell you high school senior year, we're doing

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a tribute to Broadway. Our acting teacher and I'm music teacher,

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and mister Hall Johnston said, Hal Johnston said, do not. Okay,

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this is dress rehearsal, no script. And most of the

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stuff we were doing was singing. He said, no script. Well,

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I didn't mean any harm. I really didn't, you know.

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I went to the car. We've changed out of our

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uniform and stuff, and we brought in our garments and

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stuff like that, and wardrobes and all this kind of

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stuff I makeup. This is dress rehearsal. We had a

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six week shot Friday nights at two Saturdays and a Sunday.

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Matt nae okay, this is my senior year.

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Yes, sir, we need to turn this over to the boss.

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Thank you, and you're the one that lead it. Thank you, Father.

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We are so grateful and thank you for this day.

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We thank you Lord for the blessings you have provided us.

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We thank you Lord for the opportunity to be able

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to partake in this show. And Lord, hear from you

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and be guided by you.

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Lord.

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This is not about us. This is all about you

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and Lord.

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The topics that you put in our hearts and in

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our mouths, it's a representation of your kingdom and Lord,

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we pray that those who are listening to us, we

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thank you for for their obedience in wanting to hear.

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What you have to say, not what we have to say,

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but what.

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You have to say.

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And Lord, we turn this time over to you. We

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stand behind the cross, because Lord, you lead the way.

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And because you lead the way, Lord, we know that

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the path is the right path. And Lord, for you

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to receive all the glory, praise, and honor. We love you, Lord,

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and we pray all this in your mighty and majestic name.

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Thank you, Jesus, Thank you God, Thank you, sir. Appreciate you.

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That's how we do it here. That's how we do

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it here. And you were supposed to lead it, but

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we had another conversation in the pre so I forgot

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to say, guys, I need you to lead. You're supposed

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to leave Bran tonight. So thank you. See how God

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rolls it out. It's his will. His will be done

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on earth as it is in heaven. Charles, how are

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you Anastasia? Nicky? Look at y'all, miss day rebel. Okay, okay,

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look y'all, hey, Okay, we got the crew. Hey, we

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can rock this party. Ain'men and amen, we just wait,

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no country see he'll pop in in a minute. I know, ain't. Charles.

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Just want to let you know, just want to let

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you know I had you on my mind all week long, Charles.

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So we you asked the question last week, but when

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we signed off, and I'm going to address it.

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So hang tight, We're going to get to it. And

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there's my there's our man.

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There's our man. Hell o country seat.

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Is okay?

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Amen? Amen? Amen, going back to hey, Okay, who's saying hey,

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that's rebel, Well, that's you Tray.

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Was that I was just saying hey to everybody, had

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the crew here.

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Thank you man, Okay, Hey, I just want to make

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sure I'm not talking over anybody. I don't want to

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buy accusing me now and walking away and said, ooh,

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she just talked over everybody.

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No.

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But in high school, mister Johnson told us, you know,

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this is a dress rehearsal, no no script, no script.

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Even though it was those musical we still had speaking

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parts as well. So I accidentally, y'all accidentally walked in

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with my script under my arm. Accidentally accidentally, God knows

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it was accidental. So I'm standing at my best friend

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Kelly was our pianist, and she Kelly was very you know,

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fair skinned all right already. And then I looked at

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her and I'm like, what's wrong with you? Look like

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she was getting sick, and she's like and all of

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a sudden, I could feel my acting teacher over my shoulder.

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He said, didn't I tell you? No, no script, I

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dropped it right there. I know the janitor probably got

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mad because he had to sweep up pieces of paper

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so I could take constructive criticism. But it has to

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be constructive. Not you talking to me out your feelings. Well,

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I think you know you. You just want to know. No, no, no,

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that's coming from you because I ain't thinking nothing. I

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ain't thinking about you, I ain't thinking about where. I'm

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not trying to prove nothing. I've been there, done that,

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got receists. I don't have to do this. I had

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to tell somebody recently. I don't have to talk. I

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don't have to tell you about my resume. I don't

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have to tell you about my life. I don't have

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to go back in my past. I don't have to

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do nothing. I don't have to justify why you in

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my life. Our stage vantage in my door for a while.

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You bring your baby memories, okn't ya. That's where my

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acting came from. And we'll talk about that another time.

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But anyway, I just want to say, you know, that's

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what I love about these folks, and this is why

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God chose you know, Pastor Miguel and Trey and even

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my daughter, because they can say what they got to

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say and it's for the better good. These people are selfless.

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That's they live a selfless lifestyle. And I've known them

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and I've gotten to know them and you know, you know,

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so yeah, go ahead, set me straight. That's what the

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show is called. Set it is straight. We got to

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give God his place because this is his, this is his.

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I'm like good times, okay, missy, but this is this

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is this is his, this is his podcast and it's

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not even a show. And I have to be careful

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about when I say show because this is not a show.

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We are being honest, we're being transparent, and it's God

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interrupts because a lot of I don't know. We don't

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have a script. We don't have a script. We just

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know the topic. And once we say that prayer and

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we say we stand behind the cross, not to say no,

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we're done. And if we don't say one word, and

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God said, hush, I just want silence tonight, he will

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get You will get silence tonight. If he said, just

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praise me tonight, we will come up with our favorite

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songs and we will praise Him. And I got a

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surprise for them for our review our viewers too. God

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just gave it to me, he said, ask them. So

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I got a little request for you for you from God.

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But before we go to that, we got to hear

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about talking about its veterans. Happy Veterans Day. If we

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have any veterans amongst us, Thank you for your service.

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Thank you for your service. And we you know, hopefully

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we're gonna get a little it's gonna get a little

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off the road here. So we're going off the road.

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It's not gonna be pleasant and butterflies and things like that,

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because I know Trey is gonna bring it. She's up

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there in the military environment of Virginia, y'all. Yeah, And

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she was raised in a military family, so she is

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discussed with us tonight, you know. And I want to

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talk about the what's lackey? And that's why it's gonna

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get a little harder because there's no way does he

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talk to you during the show for the Lord, Yes,

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army for me, Look at you, thank you, You're welcome,

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bless you. Oh you mean that's my family right there.

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My son was in the army, so we're all we're family.

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Okay, there you go. Well, I'm not gonna say anymore.

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I'm gonna mute myself. I'll just be nod in my

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head because I want Tray to go ahead and take

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it there. But we're gonna have a discussion about the needs. Also.

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I'm hoping we're going to put that out there as well.

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Where did it go off road?

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Trey?

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Where did it go off road? Because once upon a

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time our soldiers were returning home services was there, Va

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was up and popping. Everybody who said I served, They say,

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all you need to do is show us your card,

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show us your medals. Come on through this door, and

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you'll get assigned a team. And I'm not gonna mess

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with your stuff, you know, anymore. But I need to

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know where it went off road because there was once

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upon a time. May we go ahead trade I'm gonna

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be quiet now. Yeah, So what.

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I thought about tonight is just bringing where Veterans Day

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actually came from. So Veterans Day is meant to honor

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the men and women who served in the US military. Actually,

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Veterans Day was formerly known as Armistice Day, commemorating the

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end of World War One in nineteen eighteen, and then

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in nineteen fifty four the holiday was renamed Veterans Day

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to honor all military veterans. And then I was looking

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at some of the things of how to say different things.

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Appropriate things to say the veterans is thank you for

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your service. Let me see, it's November eleventh. There's some

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no facts Veterans Day, because sometimes.

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I get it mixed up.

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There's no postrophe in it, so it's just plain Veterans Day,

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no apostrophe. Yes, yeah, So that's something that I learned

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as well. Arlington National Cemetery holds an annual service, and so.

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What they say.

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Some of the things to do is like appreciation manner,

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you know, messaging thank you for your sacrifice at your

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service will never be forgotten. Thank you for ensuring the

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freedoms I enjoy every day. So those are some of

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the things that you know, are ways to greet veterans,

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And so I just want to put it out there.

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My dad was Air Force, so I came from an

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Air Force found like the Air Force base was in

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the hometown that I grew up in, and so my

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dad traveled a lot. By the time we came along,

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he had done a lot of travel because he enlisted

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early on in his life.

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So I know he's been to.

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Places like Japan, Okinawa, Myrtle Beach, Wyoming, Cheyenne, Wyoming. He

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used to talk about that all the time, and so

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it's different places that you know, he was going, and

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it was earlier times, so the times were definitely different

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for veterans of color or for military persons of color.

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So but one thing I would like to say is.

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My dad retired from from the Air Force, and when

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you look at services, and I think some of the

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services years ago they were offering, like the GI Bill

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and stuff like that, and I think he accessed some

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of that upon his exit of the military. You know,

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was able to go back to school. But there was

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a time that they were saying that if you were

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a veteran, you can apply for jobs such as the

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post office. But I remember my dad going for a

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postal office job. I learned about it later and he's

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explained to it. The catch was, they said, the law

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says I have to interview you, it does not say

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I have to give you a job. So yeah, I

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remember stories my dad telling me about that. So even

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though you're going for an interview, as long as you

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got the interview, that's all the requirements that they had

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to promise you. But the good thing about VA has

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improved over the years.

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Used to be where.

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Appointments were taking a long time for people to be seen.

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There's some other things that are coming up now where

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people who were in the Vietnam War era Agent Orange.

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I think there's some lawsuits about that if you were

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stationed at Camp Le June. Unfortunately, I knew a couple

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of people from that era who did not were not

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able to get any benefits from that.

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You know, the.

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Agent Orange, the insurance, the VA able to access the

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VA like they could have.

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The fortunate thing about my father he was.

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By the time of his passing, he had try Care

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for Life and he had Medicare, so the services definitely

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improved to the point that he was able to get

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all his medications pre charged or minimal costs. Now he

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was older, VET but still he was able to get that.

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And so what I would say to people who are

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vets or family members of vets, find out what your

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rights are. There's some things out there that people don't

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know about. If you are caring for someone a caregiver

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and you provide a lot of the caregiving, then there's

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a thing called I think it's eight Independents maybe eight

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independence or something like that, where you can get a

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stipend per month to care for that particular veteran. So

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that's something that people can look into. You just have

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to ask for it because a lot of times they

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won't tell you. But the surprising thing was when I

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used to go with my dad to the VA and

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I'm pushing with him with the wheelchair.

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If vet's will tell you, are you the caregiver?

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I say, yes, this is my dad. You know you

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can get paid. You know, there's a stipen that you

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can get, which was helpful.

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So and then it depends on how they rate it.

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So I would tell anybody to try that as well. Also,

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you might be able to go to an outside doctor.

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But this is again too if you.

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Have an outside because at one point VA's appointments were

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so backed up it was hard to get in to

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see someone on a regular basis, and so it took

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my dad having to go to rehab and trying to

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figure out what was what because he was up in

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his eighties, then trying to figure out what. But he

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was going to the VA by himself, but at one

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point it was trying to remember his appointments and stuff.

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So after he got sick, we said no more, we're

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going to take over that. So we started going with

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him to his appointment. So we can understand.

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But the social workers say he can get.

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An outside primary caregiver and tie it into the VA.

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So it worked.

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The outside primary caregiver worked closely along with the VA

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caregiver and so that's something too to investigate. So I'm

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trying to give some gold nuggets, especially to veterans families,

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because not only if you are serving in the military

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or have served in the military, people forget the family

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is also affected by it and it's.

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Not an easy feat.

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So, especially if your person has been deployed, if you're

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away from your family, that affects the family. So it's

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almost like they're serving too, because they're affected by not

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having their loved ones presence and so I'd like to,

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you know, thank the families of the veterans or the

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active duty military who are sticking by.

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Them because it's not easy. You know that life is

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not easy.

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A lot of the people I know a lot of

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family members that I have have served in the military

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and or are still serving.

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So I just want to put that out there. So

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as far as the gaps.

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And services, I think that VAS are trying to improve.

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I see an improvement over the services, but you have

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to ask what you're entitled to, and don't stop don't

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stop asking. You also have your DAV Disabled American Veterans.

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Who can help you navigate some paperwork. Some stuff is.

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Done online, but I think the DAV will assist. If

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you have local offices, you can you know, google it

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to see where your local office is as well. So

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but yeah, there's services out there, but you have to

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ask ask your providers that you go see, find out

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what you're entitled to. If you have to increase, find

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out what it will take if you want to increase

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your benefits, because it depends on the era that you

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served in, what your service level was, what your disability is.

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But continue to pursue that because It'll be worth it

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in the long run. And I know it gets frustrating,

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but just continue, continue, continue to fight and get what

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your your do you. So that's pretty much what I have.

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And like I said, I want to thank thank them

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for the service.

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Thank you.

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Amen, Amen to that, thank you. I mean, we learned

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some new things tonight. You know. You remember you said

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the faith you posted on your Facebook the restaurants that

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were honoring veterans today, right, And even though we saw

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the date was twenty fourteen. When I posted it in

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my groups, they were like, put you know, that's twenty fourteen.

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That's what I'm like. One person was like, well, you

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better check before you go. And I'm like, y'all, just

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do you just sit there and wait to be just

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angry and lash out. I mean, yeah, it's twenty fourteen. Yeah,

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I'm gonna check before I take my veteran there. You

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know what I'm saying. So I went the Lord said, well,

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to do better. He told me, he told me to

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do better. I'm right, So I said, okay, I say

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you so all my emails from Ihu TGI Fridays, Perkins

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the Peppe, if you have one at that restaurant and

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I just kept putting them on Facebook, just putting them

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in all my groups. I said, well, this is not

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twenty fourteen, this is twenty twenty four See the email

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inviting all veterans. This is what you get Dunkin don't

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Christmas Kreme Donuts. Here you go, iye hot, here you go.

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So I just kept every time I got an email, I,

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you know, do a screenshot and post it on my

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Now what you're gonna say? I mean, they just went

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all about this Twitter. It was twenty fourteen, So what

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what are you doing? What's roll with you? What's roll

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with people? So I said, oh, wait, oh, we're glad

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we had this topic. And I said, wait, don I

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tell Drey. I mean, my god, just were you through it?

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Because it was twenty fourteen. No, I got some twenty

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twenty fours. Did you go? Sorry? I'm dilling? Now you do.

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I didn't, you know when I saw it. I just

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posted it.

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But my thing is if they're doing we're doing it,

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then I'm pretty sure they're doing it.

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Will behooves them to do it now.

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In fact, more restaurants are probably jumping on board because

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of the need, because of the situations and stuff you

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have more veterans. You have, you know, people who are

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disabled veterans. You know, sometimes your disability is not your

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physical sometimes you don't see it, and so it's a

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lot of PTSD war related disabilities because sometimes you don't

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have to have been served in the war. If you

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your disability could the era of that particular war, you

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see what I mean. So if you didn't serve in Vietnam,

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but you were war related, I think that's the terminology

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or era era related.

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Some disability. So don't you know.

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I just you know, whatever information and if people want

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to scrutinize it and find something else that they can

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they can add some.

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Other stuff or who can exactly who Let's share it.

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Let's share it because I'm sure they're out there in

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their home. Some of them are homeless. Some of them are,

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like you said, they're disabled. And that's what I want

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to know. When did the train jump off the track?

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Because once upon a time, back in the day, if

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you knew it better, and they were going to the VA,

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there was transportation to the VA. You had the different

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colored teams. That's what That's the first thing in the

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assessment we were ask or your retired VA or you disabled?

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VA?

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What color are you service? Are you service connected? That

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was what we used to are you service connected? And

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what's the color of your team? That's how we know

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what they were, you know they were or not? And

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then that was the hardest thing in case management and

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mental health. You provided a surface people could just call

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him by the company was still participating in the program.

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At least you gave them an idea. Thank you, country. See,

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I just posted it. I mean it's news to me,

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you know what I'm saying, So I don't care if

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it's twenty fourteen. And guess what, I'm pretty sure over

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half the restaurants that were listed on that paper from

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twenty fourteen also send our emails over the weekend to

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let veterans know and for us to like and share

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and get the information out that these restaurants. My daughter's

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boyfriend works at a restaurant and Mondays are his days off,

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and because he's a great server, they asked for him

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to come in so they're paying him triple over time

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because they knew they were going to be rushed. All

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the garden was gonna be preoccupied today, so you know,

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I mean, just the people just calm down, y'all, just

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calm down. If it don't pertain to you, it's just

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stuff that don't pertain to you.

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I don't read it.

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I don't read it.

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So when there's I'm sorry. But there's also too.

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I saw some young lady that she opened her home

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to veterans, and so I forgot what it is entitled

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to because these some of these were older vets. And

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then I want to go into a nursing home. And

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so it's almost like a shared living space. So she

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has a couple of a couple of children the vets

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lived there, and I think she has like three vets,

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provides meals for them.

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So it's like a like.

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A housing, like a not assistant living but it's a

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way to keep them off the street in a.

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Home type of environment.

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And so go might be opportunities for other people to create,

467
00:27:04.119 --> 00:27:07.759
you know, especially for the older veterans. And so you

468
00:27:07.799 --> 00:27:13.680
know beds and you know beds in these dump dormitory

469
00:27:13.799 --> 00:27:17.599
to style places are not there. But the older vets,

470
00:27:17.599 --> 00:27:20.440
it gives them an opportunity to be in a family setting,

471
00:27:20.559 --> 00:27:23.759
especially if they don't have family. So that might be

472
00:27:23.799 --> 00:27:27.720
something someone wants to create. Sometimes go to the VA

473
00:27:28.359 --> 00:27:29.440
and and see some.

474
00:27:29.400 --> 00:27:30.079
Of those things.

475
00:27:30.200 --> 00:27:34.119
Some of them don't have people to advocate, you know, liaison,

476
00:27:34.240 --> 00:27:34.720
I don't know.

477
00:27:35.400 --> 00:27:37.079
A lot of times I took my dad and I'm

478
00:27:37.079 --> 00:27:38.680
thinking it's some of this stuff.

479
00:27:38.720 --> 00:27:42.599
It's hard to navigate, and so if you have someone

480
00:27:42.720 --> 00:27:46.720
that's with you and you don't understand the process even

481
00:27:46.839 --> 00:27:51.960
to the point, you know, having an escort, like for

482
00:27:52.079 --> 00:27:55.839
the wheelchair navigating that, I think they had one or

483
00:27:55.839 --> 00:27:59.000
two people to get you through to your appointments. And

484
00:27:59.519 --> 00:28:03.839
anybody has experienced the VA hospital, those some of the hospitals,

485
00:28:03.880 --> 00:28:09.279
I know, the one in Virginia, Hampton, long hallways, different buildings.

486
00:28:09.559 --> 00:28:12.480
Parking is not the best, and so these are some

487
00:28:12.599 --> 00:28:17.200
opportunities that people are looking to do something transportation service,

488
00:28:18.119 --> 00:28:21.440
you know, something that bus or or whatever to get

489
00:28:21.440 --> 00:28:23.799
them closer to the door where they don't have to

490
00:28:23.839 --> 00:28:26.680
worry about trying to park because that is that is

491
00:28:26.720 --> 00:28:29.640
a big issue as well, and then to walk from

492
00:28:29.720 --> 00:28:32.039
the parking lot to wherever you have to go.

493
00:28:32.480 --> 00:28:34.960
So those are some things that creative things that people

494
00:28:35.039 --> 00:28:38.519
want to kind of help to do this for that,

495
00:28:38.720 --> 00:28:40.920
you know, for the veterans.

496
00:28:40.920 --> 00:28:44.839
And I had my sixteen bid assistant living facility once

497
00:28:44.920 --> 00:28:48.240
I kind of you know, walked into that. I had

498
00:28:48.279 --> 00:28:52.920
about four veterans uh there and some half family and

499
00:28:53.000 --> 00:28:56.240
some two half family and two didn't, so you know,

500
00:28:56.279 --> 00:28:58.920
I remember those days, but I was already a case manager,

501
00:28:59.039 --> 00:29:02.039
so nothing for me. And I made sure they were

502
00:29:02.039 --> 00:29:04.799
still connected. You're going to your doctor's appointments. They don't

503
00:29:04.799 --> 00:29:06.920
have day treatment over there, but we have regular day

504
00:29:06.920 --> 00:29:09.279
treatment over here, so you everybody. My biggest thing but

505
00:29:09.400 --> 00:29:12.359
I took over the business was everybody goes to work

506
00:29:12.519 --> 00:29:15.119
Monday through Friday, or you go to good Will or

507
00:29:15.160 --> 00:29:17.799
you go to day treatment. Nobody needs to be in

508
00:29:17.839 --> 00:29:20.759
the house from eight to four, nine to four. Nobody

509
00:29:20.799 --> 00:29:23.200
needs to be here. Or they were mad. I didn't care.

510
00:29:23.279 --> 00:29:26.240
You all got to keep being productive. You're sitting around

511
00:29:26.240 --> 00:29:29.599
here and the inks and you're nervous and you have

512
00:29:29.640 --> 00:29:33.319
anxiety and everything else. So no, everybody needs to go

513
00:29:34.000 --> 00:29:36.039
get I got the bands day treatment bands came and

514
00:29:36.039 --> 00:29:38.240
picked them up. Some of them went to work. I

515
00:29:38.240 --> 00:29:40.559
had good Will to come pick them up. No, let's go.

516
00:29:40.960 --> 00:29:44.240
And it's so funny. When I did move here in

517
00:29:44.359 --> 00:29:48.640
Orlando to Orlando, rather I will on the list. I

518
00:29:48.720 --> 00:29:52.720
provided transportation services for the medically disabled. That'd be a

519
00:29:52.759 --> 00:29:55.480
good idea. Someone could coordinate people who have space and

520
00:29:55.559 --> 00:29:57.720
bets who need space. The program would be great. Yes,

521
00:29:57.759 --> 00:30:00.440
you're right, Misty. See you just never know me. The

522
00:30:00.480 --> 00:30:04.079
ideas are there, the opportunity is there, the harvest is there.

523
00:30:04.599 --> 00:30:07.279
It's be creative. You're gonna have to be creative. You

524
00:30:07.279 --> 00:30:09.960
know where we are now and what's getting ready, you know,

525
00:30:10.000 --> 00:30:12.640
the sky is falling. The sky is falling, you know,

526
00:30:12.720 --> 00:30:14.680
so you got to think, Okay, what can we do here?

527
00:30:14.720 --> 00:30:16.319
You know what we could do. We do have this

528
00:30:16.400 --> 00:30:18.599
space back here. We got these bunk beds, we could

529
00:30:18.599 --> 00:30:21.559
get two vets, we can get we can go to

530
00:30:21.680 --> 00:30:25.119
VA because they'll tell you who needs housing and they

531
00:30:25.160 --> 00:30:28.759
will pay help me pay for it. I was I

532
00:30:28.799 --> 00:30:32.599
was doing transportation for the Development and Delayed for UH

533
00:30:32.759 --> 00:30:35.599
Agency for Persons with Disabilities. One day I got a

534
00:30:35.640 --> 00:30:39.200
call from a social worker at the VA. She said, well,

535
00:30:39.240 --> 00:30:40.720
we got I don't know how we got your name

536
00:30:40.759 --> 00:30:43.599
and number, but would you be interested in transporting some

537
00:30:43.640 --> 00:30:47.720
of the veterans to their doctor's appointments. I was still perplexed, like,

538
00:30:47.720 --> 00:30:49.440
how did you get my up I way over here

539
00:30:49.480 --> 00:30:54.960
with developmental delayed disabled people and this is the VA people.

540
00:30:54.839 --> 00:30:55.279
And I did.

541
00:30:55.319 --> 00:30:57.599
I had a couple of clients that paid paid in

542
00:30:57.720 --> 00:31:01.519
cash and the VA made sure that they had that

543
00:31:01.640 --> 00:31:04.279
transportation and they would call me to make sure they

544
00:31:04.279 --> 00:31:07.559
were on the schedule. They were on my calendar. So

545
00:31:07.799 --> 00:31:09.400
you know the opportunities are out there.

546
00:31:09.480 --> 00:31:13.319
Go ahead, Yeah, before I forget too. So if you

547
00:31:14.000 --> 00:31:17.039
there's also rest it.

548
00:31:17.920 --> 00:31:19.880
So I just want to make sure because the things

549
00:31:19.880 --> 00:31:24.480
that I'm thinking about, so if you the person that

550
00:31:24.559 --> 00:31:25.680
you're caring.

551
00:31:25.359 --> 00:31:27.880
For might be entitled to rest of care.

552
00:31:28.400 --> 00:31:33.440
And so they will pay someone to do respite for

553
00:31:33.519 --> 00:31:37.680
a certain amount of time. It depends on the veteran,

554
00:31:37.759 --> 00:31:42.039
That depends on the disability, the percentage of the schedule.

555
00:31:43.079 --> 00:31:45.240
Yeah, I want to throw as.

556
00:31:45.119 --> 00:31:47.680
I'm thinking of things, I want to throw that out

557
00:31:48.279 --> 00:31:53.720
to see if that's something that.

558
00:31:51.839 --> 00:31:53.119
That will benefit other people.

559
00:31:53.279 --> 00:31:56.400
So you can get I forgot how many days it

560
00:31:56.640 --> 00:31:58.960
is or per years, get a few days.

561
00:31:59.160 --> 00:32:01.079
And that's and when we were in mental when I

562
00:32:01.160 --> 00:32:03.440
was in mental health, I had to convince people, now,

563
00:32:03.880 --> 00:32:06.359
respite is not you going to the drug store to

564
00:32:06.400 --> 00:32:09.200
get the medication and coming right back. You got to

565
00:32:09.279 --> 00:32:12.680
let the individual come here for two hours and that's

566
00:32:12.720 --> 00:32:15.240
the time for you to go somewhere, not to a

567
00:32:15.240 --> 00:32:18.799
doctor's appointment, not to the grocery store, not to the pharmacy,

568
00:32:19.279 --> 00:32:22.200
but go to the local bookstore and just sit down

569
00:32:23.160 --> 00:32:25.200
and just just have a cup of coffee, or go

570
00:32:25.240 --> 00:32:27.839
to Barnes and Noble. Thank god Barnes and Noble was created.

571
00:32:28.200 --> 00:32:30.599
Go and have a little sit down, or talk to

572
00:32:30.680 --> 00:32:33.519
some of your girlfriends or you know, male friends, and

573
00:32:33.559 --> 00:32:35.960
you all go out and go do something. It was

574
00:32:36.000 --> 00:32:39.160
the hardest thing to get the caregiver to look beyond

575
00:32:39.319 --> 00:32:43.440
the mandatory stuff that they were doing. So they said, well,

576
00:32:43.440 --> 00:32:45.119
I'm just gonna run to public No, no, no, we don't.

577
00:32:45.160 --> 00:32:47.960
We don't stay in publics. Don't. Don't just run. You

578
00:32:48.039 --> 00:32:50.720
got to stay there because they need two hours and

579
00:32:50.759 --> 00:32:53.559
you can get four hours a week, two hours two

580
00:32:53.559 --> 00:32:56.400
times a day and two times a week. So it's creative.

581
00:32:56.440 --> 00:32:58.799
I don't know what's still out there because I'm not

582
00:32:59.079 --> 00:33:02.359
I've been so you know, removed from that population, so

583
00:33:02.480 --> 00:33:05.960
I don't know. But if anybody needs any updates, just

584
00:33:06.039 --> 00:33:09.240
call your VA. You've got customer service answering that phone.

585
00:33:09.640 --> 00:33:13.279
Nothing will surprise them, nothing, you won't be embarrassed. Just say,

586
00:33:13.319 --> 00:33:15.559
how do I you know, whatever the questions are, or

587
00:33:15.599 --> 00:33:19.359
if you're a former vet yourself and you're not service connected,

588
00:33:19.480 --> 00:33:24.079
you need to be. You need to be. It's out

589
00:33:24.079 --> 00:33:27.680
there because guess what the federal government will sit back

590
00:33:27.680 --> 00:33:31.400
and said, now we just gave the vas of the

591
00:33:31.440 --> 00:33:36.000
whole United States, so you know, fifty billion dollars to

592
00:33:36.079 --> 00:33:40.119
provide services as a whole. But now we got money.

593
00:33:40.160 --> 00:33:42.119
They got money, they got you know, because they're going

594
00:33:42.200 --> 00:33:44.720
to be audited. They're audited, and they're like, you got

595
00:33:44.759 --> 00:33:48.240
you know, twenty three thousand millions sitting here, what you're

596
00:33:48.240 --> 00:33:51.799
doing with it? And what the federal government would do

597
00:33:52.079 --> 00:33:56.960
is withhold twenty three million the next year, so the

598
00:33:57.000 --> 00:34:00.440
next time they would go for funding. So you know,

599
00:34:00.640 --> 00:34:03.799
reach out, you know, and do whatever God, you know,

600
00:34:04.759 --> 00:34:06.279
you know, wants you to do. Whatever he lays on

601
00:34:06.359 --> 00:34:09.719
your heart, So go ahead, passed it. Did you want

602
00:34:09.760 --> 00:34:13.199
to throw something that I don't want to segue from, yeah, Trey. I.

603
00:34:14.480 --> 00:34:17.360
So it's so interesting how this all works out because

604
00:34:17.480 --> 00:34:23.760
this afternoon I sat down with a gentleman who's retired

605
00:34:23.800 --> 00:34:27.840
Air Force so kind of prepared me for today's segment,

606
00:34:28.480 --> 00:34:33.400
and he was he was part of the ancient Orange

607
00:34:34.239 --> 00:34:40.559
and he received one hundred disability. So I mean he

608
00:34:41.360 --> 00:34:48.880
glasses a dentist care, medication all taken care of.

609
00:34:49.559 --> 00:34:49.880
Now.

610
00:34:51.320 --> 00:34:53.800
I was there to see his wife, but he asked

611
00:34:53.840 --> 00:34:58.079
me a very interesting question and I and I felt

612
00:34:58.079 --> 00:35:01.360
that it was very that that he asked it. And

613
00:35:01.440 --> 00:35:03.960
I want to throw this out there so people are

614
00:35:04.119 --> 00:35:09.440
just aware, okay, And that is if you have a

615
00:35:09.519 --> 00:35:16.679
veteran who thinks that they shouldn't take Medicare, please do

616
00:35:17.159 --> 00:35:20.760
please tell them, do not make that mistake.

617
00:35:22.159 --> 00:35:30.559
Take Medicare along with the VA benefits. Because I experienced

618
00:35:31.079 --> 00:35:35.599
when I first started my career, a veteran thought that

619
00:35:35.679 --> 00:35:38.760
because he enrolled in a plan that I was representing,

620
00:35:39.360 --> 00:35:44.559
he did not need Medicare, so he diss it, enrolled.

621
00:35:44.039 --> 00:35:49.880
For Medicare, and all of a sudden, when he had

622
00:35:49.880 --> 00:35:53.400
told me that, I'm like, Wow, this is going to

623
00:35:53.440 --> 00:35:57.000
be a very costly mistake because.

624
00:35:56.639 --> 00:36:00.519
When you re enroll in Part B of Medicare, now

625
00:36:00.559 --> 00:36:05.639
that you disenrolled, they're going to think you are enrolling late,

626
00:36:07.119 --> 00:36:11.800
and that means a ten penalty for the rest of

627
00:36:11.840 --> 00:36:21.079
your life. So very very important. If the veteran thinks

628
00:36:21.159 --> 00:36:26.280
that the VA is all the insurance that he needs.

629
00:36:27.280 --> 00:36:35.679
According to Medicare, the VA is not considered credible coverage.

630
00:36:36.960 --> 00:36:42.159
So those are Medicare rules, and you don't want the

631
00:36:42.239 --> 00:36:45.119
veteran to pay any kind of penalty. You just sound

632
00:36:45.679 --> 00:36:50.320
stick with Medicare and the VA and then speak to

633
00:36:50.360 --> 00:36:53.400
an agent that's going to help you to get you

634
00:36:53.639 --> 00:36:58.639
on the right path. So that way, it's so interesting

635
00:36:58.679 --> 00:37:02.280
how it all evolved today. And wanted to throw that

636
00:37:02.360 --> 00:37:06.400
out there and that's gone.

637
00:37:07.199 --> 00:37:09.039
Yeah, that's definite.

638
00:37:09.239 --> 00:37:13.760
Yeah, yeah, looking at just what you were saying. My

639
00:37:13.840 --> 00:37:16.280
dad had both. He had Track Care for Life and Medicare.

640
00:37:17.000 --> 00:37:19.920
And when I say that was the best because he

641
00:37:20.000 --> 00:37:22.639
did not have to pay if it was I'm thinking

642
00:37:23.199 --> 00:37:24.880
we're going to say how much the medical how much

643
00:37:24.920 --> 00:37:25.639
is the medication?

644
00:37:26.280 --> 00:37:28.840
Oh it's a dollar some change, I said, you.

645
00:37:28.800 --> 00:37:31.079
Know, it depends on what you had, but it was

646
00:37:31.480 --> 00:37:35.800
it was never a whole lot, even like for the insulin.

647
00:37:36.400 --> 00:37:41.920
And so now when my dad he was in.

648
00:37:41.880 --> 00:37:46.039
His eighties and so now they had started a Jerry packed,

649
00:37:46.519 --> 00:37:47.960
so they have like different.

650
00:37:47.639 --> 00:37:49.559
Teams that you that you go to.

651
00:37:49.760 --> 00:37:53.880
So I'm not sure what pack my dad was at

652
00:37:54.000 --> 00:37:57.880
first because they in the VA Inhampton, it was different levels.

653
00:37:57.880 --> 00:38:01.320
But they said, we're gonna send your dad or have

654
00:38:01.480 --> 00:38:03.840
him go to the Jerry Pack, which is for the

655
00:38:03.880 --> 00:38:08.320
older veterans. They service things a little differently, which made

656
00:38:08.360 --> 00:38:08.840
it better.

657
00:38:09.519 --> 00:38:13.920
So with his outside fighter, if he had an outside.

658
00:38:13.599 --> 00:38:19.079
Provider and he had the Cherry Jerry Pack, so if

659
00:38:19.599 --> 00:38:23.079
the outside provider wanted to do a blood test on him,

660
00:38:23.920 --> 00:38:26.360
did like blood work, what we would do.

661
00:38:26.400 --> 00:38:29.239
They would use the blood work that they.

662
00:38:29.119 --> 00:38:32.039
Got from the outside provider, and instead of them having

663
00:38:32.039 --> 00:38:34.719
to stick him twice at the V eight, they used

664
00:38:34.760 --> 00:38:37.960
and coordinated with that, so he wasn't getting stuck twice,

665
00:38:38.480 --> 00:38:39.920
you know what I mean.

666
00:38:42.199 --> 00:38:43.039
Made it better.

667
00:38:43.920 --> 00:38:50.599
So riga moreau and stuff like that, and just exactly

668
00:38:50.719 --> 00:38:52.800
so that made it a whole lot easier. Some of

669
00:38:52.840 --> 00:38:56.079
the things that people think they are not covered stick

670
00:38:56.199 --> 00:38:59.519
if you can get that Medicare and that trycare keep

671
00:38:59.599 --> 00:39:02.880
that they kind of go hand in hand. Some places,

672
00:39:03.679 --> 00:39:10.599
some of the pharmacies did not accept trycare M and

673
00:39:10.679 --> 00:39:13.079
so we'll go back to CBS and Walgreens.

674
00:39:13.079 --> 00:39:14.280
See we don't take it.

675
00:39:14.559 --> 00:39:16.239
Then they said you got to go to this place,

676
00:39:16.320 --> 00:39:19.440
and like back and forth all the time. But the

677
00:39:19.480 --> 00:39:21.960
best thing is like find out what you're entitled to,

678
00:39:22.039 --> 00:39:24.960
and just one more thing on the.

679
00:39:24.119 --> 00:39:26.760
The respite care.

680
00:39:27.360 --> 00:39:31.079
Also, with some instances, there's a longer term respite care.

681
00:39:31.440 --> 00:39:33.199
So if you need to go out of town and

682
00:39:33.239 --> 00:39:33.960
can't take.

683
00:39:33.800 --> 00:39:38.000
Your vet's, there's respite, but it's a different process where

684
00:39:38.000 --> 00:39:42.159
you'd have to do some like entry stuff like TV

685
00:39:42.280 --> 00:39:45.760
test or physical before you're admitted into it. Like the

686
00:39:45.800 --> 00:39:48.599
facility that they will be there to go to find

687
00:39:48.599 --> 00:39:52.039
out about the benefits. You could probably go through the

688
00:39:52.199 --> 00:39:58.199
DAV to find out about benefits or Veterans Administration and

689
00:39:58.280 --> 00:39:59.679
find out what you're entitled to.

690
00:40:00.199 --> 00:40:03.199
But ask questions because I tell you you they don't

691
00:40:03.239 --> 00:40:03.719
tell you.

692
00:40:04.159 --> 00:40:07.079
And sometimes I like the VET Network because they see

693
00:40:07.119 --> 00:40:10.559
you and they say, you know about this, find out

694
00:40:10.599 --> 00:40:13.800
about this. For your dad, they were providing me information

695
00:40:13.960 --> 00:40:17.079
I didn't even know about, so that's a good thing too.

696
00:40:18.000 --> 00:40:21.280
But just ask, ask, ask, ask, ask, ask.

697
00:40:22.400 --> 00:40:26.000
Please do because these services were created for a reason

698
00:40:26.239 --> 00:40:30.920
Number one. Number two, if any agency or federal was

699
00:40:31.000 --> 00:40:34.199
federal local, it doesn't matter. It's showing that, hey, you

700
00:40:34.199 --> 00:40:36.840
don't have the population, they don't need this money. The

701
00:40:36.840 --> 00:40:40.360
federal government will cut it. They'll cut that budget. From

702
00:40:40.360 --> 00:40:43.480
the following the next funding cycle, and then all of

703
00:40:43.480 --> 00:40:46.199
a sudden there's a drove, like a million people just

704
00:40:46.239 --> 00:40:49.440
moved to Florida last year. I don't understand where you're

705
00:40:49.480 --> 00:40:51.519
coming from and what you're coming here for. I do

706
00:40:51.760 --> 00:40:56.760
not know, and we need to ask. We didn't say

707
00:40:56.800 --> 00:41:00.480
we need more people, so we got all these people here,

708
00:41:00.719 --> 00:41:05.440
and I know, all social services were just bombarded, you know,

709
00:41:06.360 --> 00:41:08.480
and stuff like that. I mean I had to call

710
00:41:08.559 --> 00:41:12.559
three one one to get in order to get my trash,

711
00:41:12.920 --> 00:41:16.920
my garbage, and my recycle bent because I'm like, who

712
00:41:16.960 --> 00:41:19.039
do I call? You know, and they're like, oh, that's

713
00:41:19.079 --> 00:41:20.719
allid waste, But we can put you through. You know,

714
00:41:20.760 --> 00:41:22.599
what do you need and you know, and stuff like that.

715
00:41:22.679 --> 00:41:26.440
So you know things every city, every state got different things.

716
00:41:27.280 --> 00:41:29.800
It's best that you know now how to maneuver, how

717
00:41:29.840 --> 00:41:33.800
to go through, how to ask, uh put Pride is

718
00:41:33.960 --> 00:41:36.159
pride is nowhere near this. You got to go if

719
00:41:36.159 --> 00:41:38.400
you need the service, if your child needs a service

720
00:41:38.480 --> 00:41:41.239
or whatever, you got to go and just keep asking

721
00:41:41.320 --> 00:41:44.159
until you get answers, keep digging until you get answers

722
00:41:44.599 --> 00:41:47.719
and things like that. So you know, the services are

723
00:41:47.760 --> 00:41:49.880
out there and they need to be utilized. That's the

724
00:41:49.920 --> 00:41:52.920
main thing. They need to be utilized. So I want

725
00:41:52.920 --> 00:41:54.880
to go and say go ahead.

726
00:41:55.519 --> 00:41:57.480
That's just my mom. Sorry. So, and if you have

727
00:41:57.559 --> 00:41:58.360
a doctor.

728
00:41:58.119 --> 00:42:02.599
Or provider at the day you're getting ask them, but

729
00:42:02.719 --> 00:42:06.400
be specific of what you need. Ask them during an appointment,

730
00:42:07.199 --> 00:42:10.599
does your vet qualify? And then also if your vet

731
00:42:11.480 --> 00:42:15.360
is older or if your vet has some type of issues,

732
00:42:16.320 --> 00:42:19.920
understanding or ask if you can go into the appointments

733
00:42:20.000 --> 00:42:23.639
with your vet and then see get the permission right

734
00:42:23.679 --> 00:42:25.920
there so you can kind of understand it yourself.

735
00:42:26.679 --> 00:42:29.480
Don't send them in by themselves. Ask if you can go,

736
00:42:29.519 --> 00:42:30.079
Ask if that.

737
00:42:30.519 --> 00:42:33.559
Look dad, uncle, whatever, you want me to go in

738
00:42:33.599 --> 00:42:35.920
to kind of understand. And then when they go and say, well,

739
00:42:36.400 --> 00:42:39.480
can my niece come in or nephew or whoever, But

740
00:42:39.639 --> 00:42:41.719
get them to say you want me in there so

741
00:42:41.760 --> 00:42:43.760
I can understand it, so you can explain it to

742
00:42:43.800 --> 00:42:44.559
them better.

743
00:42:47.519 --> 00:42:50.320
And ask no, don't be sorry. That's when you interject.

744
00:42:50.400 --> 00:42:52.000
You just cut us off and say what you got

745
00:42:52.119 --> 00:42:55.000
to say, because you know you're the lead on this

746
00:42:55.039 --> 00:42:59.119
one tonight, you know, and we'll be forever, you know,

747
00:42:59.159 --> 00:43:01.440
because there's gonna be something else new happening, and we

748
00:43:01.480 --> 00:43:04.400
don't know what's going on. It saddens me to see

749
00:43:04.960 --> 00:43:07.960
a person that says, I'm a vet and and and

750
00:43:08.320 --> 00:43:11.719
they're on the street. And I was watching this lady today.

751
00:43:12.280 --> 00:43:14.199
I took my son to an appointment and I just

752
00:43:14.280 --> 00:43:16.800
sat there and waited on him, and I watched this

753
00:43:16.920 --> 00:43:20.039
lady and she just had all of these her she

754
00:43:20.159 --> 00:43:23.599
had all these bags on her and and I'm looking

755
00:43:23.639 --> 00:43:26.239
at her, and I'm like, Lord, he said, just pray for,

756
00:43:27.360 --> 00:43:27.920
just pray for.

757
00:43:28.880 --> 00:43:30.239
And I'm like, okay, okay.

758
00:43:30.280 --> 00:43:32.280
And so I want you all to be very careful.

759
00:43:32.800 --> 00:43:36.400
You're gonna your heartstrings are gonna be pulled in this season.

760
00:43:37.079 --> 00:43:39.280
You're gonna see people who you know. I got one

761
00:43:39.360 --> 00:43:42.239
lady that's now she's bringing the babies to sit under

762
00:43:42.280 --> 00:43:43.880
the tree and say, you know, can you help me?

763
00:43:44.159 --> 00:43:46.880
And I'm like, what are you doing? What do you set?

764
00:43:46.960 --> 00:43:49.400
What kind of stage are you setting for your kids?

765
00:43:50.000 --> 00:43:52.039
You know, you don't bring the kids, come on now,

766
00:43:52.280 --> 00:43:54.719
they need to be in daycare or you know whatever,

767
00:43:54.760 --> 00:43:57.280
what are you doing If you need the money, I

768
00:43:57.320 --> 00:43:58.960
don't know what. I don't know what to tell you,

769
00:43:59.800 --> 00:44:01.400
but but I'm not I'm not going to do that.

770
00:44:01.679 --> 00:44:04.199
If in Tennessee and you find yourself in need of services,

771
00:44:04.239 --> 00:44:06.719
by asking at the local food bank or church, they

772
00:44:06.719 --> 00:44:09.719
could have information on how to get better in services. Yes, Mickey,

773
00:44:09.800 --> 00:44:12.679
I know Tennessee. I was told by a young lady,

774
00:44:12.719 --> 00:44:15.119
one of my spiritual daughters is up there that you

775
00:44:15.320 --> 00:44:18.239
I mean just the incredible services. And I know Tennessee

776
00:44:18.239 --> 00:44:22.800
did an overhaul years ago on making a state family friendly,

777
00:44:23.239 --> 00:44:26.079
and from their parks and things like that, they made

778
00:44:26.079 --> 00:44:28.880
a family friendly. So yes, you're absolutely right, and just

779
00:44:29.079 --> 00:44:33.119
ask ask, just go in and ask the question. It's

780
00:44:33.119 --> 00:44:35.280
not about shame. You need. These services are here for

781
00:44:35.360 --> 00:44:38.320
a reason, and we don't need anything cut. We don't

782
00:44:38.320 --> 00:44:41.800
need anything decreased because the needs are here and they're

783
00:44:41.840 --> 00:44:45.880
going to continue to be here, continue. So I only

784
00:44:45.880 --> 00:44:48.000
got five more minutes, So now I'm going to segue

785
00:44:48.079 --> 00:44:51.119
if it's okay with the with the with the congregants.

786
00:44:51.800 --> 00:44:56.119
The Lord just said to me real quick, he said,

787
00:44:56.159 --> 00:44:58.119
I was thinking. I really was thinking. I said, well,

788
00:44:58.239 --> 00:45:02.400
Thanksgiving is aroamica corner. Lord, you haven't said anything to me,

789
00:45:02.440 --> 00:45:06.400
and he didn't. He said, no, ask them, I said,

790
00:45:06.440 --> 00:45:10.159
asked them. He said, yeah, that's the viewers. Would they

791
00:45:10.280 --> 00:45:14.559
like to do if not for Thanksgiving for Christmas. So

792
00:45:14.639 --> 00:45:17.800
I want you all to have your thinking caps on

793
00:45:18.159 --> 00:45:22.440
and that's your homework between now and next week. What

794
00:45:22.519 --> 00:45:24.760
would you like us to do? And we all do

795
00:45:24.880 --> 00:45:28.159
it together. Now, last year we gave y'all fed the homeless.

796
00:45:28.679 --> 00:45:31.239
You know, you fed the person people that were outside.

797
00:45:31.320 --> 00:45:34.960
You gave blankets, some of you you gave and we

798
00:45:35.000 --> 00:45:38.320
did a tremendous job on that. Because people are looking

799
00:45:38.400 --> 00:45:41.719
going back and looking at these podcasts and they're like,

800
00:45:41.760 --> 00:45:44.079
oh my god, they did that. Wow, I wish i'd

801
00:45:44.119 --> 00:45:47.280
have been a part of that. Okay, So God said,

802
00:45:47.280 --> 00:45:49.880
it's on y'all. So we want you to think about,

803
00:45:50.440 --> 00:45:52.960
if not Thanksgiving, what we would like to do as

804
00:45:52.960 --> 00:45:59.360
a collective, as the chosen of God for Christmas, of

805
00:45:59.440 --> 00:46:01.519
the holiday. It's what we want to do, even if

806
00:46:01.559 --> 00:46:04.480
it's we whatever. I'm not going to even make a

807
00:46:04.480 --> 00:46:07.039
suggestion that wasn't hit me, thank you cut you see,

808
00:46:07.679 --> 00:46:09.920
I'm not going to make a suggestion. Nope. So on

809
00:46:10.039 --> 00:46:12.320
y'all now, So I'm gonna volley the ball back to

810
00:46:12.400 --> 00:46:17.559
you and next Monday, we have a topic we're ready

811
00:46:17.599 --> 00:46:20.840
to discuss, but there will be time for you to

812
00:46:21.000 --> 00:46:23.440
interject and say idea and just put it like in

813
00:46:23.440 --> 00:46:25.320
the writing thing because we'll read it. Just put it

814
00:46:25.320 --> 00:46:27.320
in there, and I'll make sure I'm taking notes this

815
00:46:27.440 --> 00:46:29.800
time this round. Okay, we only have one time of

816
00:46:29.880 --> 00:46:32.320
this week because we have to plan things, especially if

817
00:46:32.320 --> 00:46:35.320
we're doing this for Christmas. Like I said, I know,

818
00:46:35.360 --> 00:46:38.800
Thanksgivings right around the corner. But you know, he said

819
00:46:39.119 --> 00:46:43.960
ask them, so you're them, you are to them, and

820
00:46:44.039 --> 00:46:47.440
i'm pastor. You've got three minutes to talk to Charles

821
00:46:47.840 --> 00:46:49.199
about his question.

822
00:46:50.119 --> 00:46:54.159
Okay, So last week I think we should again give

823
00:46:54.239 --> 00:46:55.719
to the homeless. Absolutely.

824
00:46:55.760 --> 00:46:57.880
Okay, let's let's mix it up a little bit, misty,

825
00:46:57.960 --> 00:46:59.960
but we'll talk about that, think about it a little bit.

826
00:47:00.800 --> 00:47:01.199
That's good.

827
00:47:01.280 --> 00:47:05.920
So real quickly, last week we were talking and I

828
00:47:06.039 --> 00:47:12.719
made a comment where we are to test God, and

829
00:47:12.719 --> 00:47:16.559
that's where Charles chimed in test God kind of like

830
00:47:16.679 --> 00:47:21.320
wanting a little clarification. And I didn't want you to

831
00:47:21.400 --> 00:47:25.159
think that we didn't catch your question. So that's why

832
00:47:25.199 --> 00:47:28.440
I said, Charles that I had you on my mind

833
00:47:28.440 --> 00:47:32.280
all week because my sphere is saying, address it to Charles.

834
00:47:33.920 --> 00:47:39.480
If we go to Malachi chapter three, verse ten, and

835
00:47:41.880 --> 00:47:44.760
let me give you a little substance here real quickly.

836
00:47:45.679 --> 00:47:47.079
It talks about tides.

837
00:47:48.199 --> 00:47:54.719
Now understand, tithes is not just monetarily. Oh, I appreciate

838
00:47:54.800 --> 00:48:00.679
you to Charles, Tithes is not monetarily. Tides can be time,

839
00:48:01.440 --> 00:48:04.159
your talents and your treasures.

840
00:48:04.199 --> 00:48:07.360
It could be one of those, okay. And this is

841
00:48:07.400 --> 00:48:11.400
what Malachi chapter three, verse ten says, bring all the

842
00:48:11.599 --> 00:48:15.519
tithes into the storehouse, that there may be food in

843
00:48:15.559 --> 00:48:16.119
my house.

844
00:48:16.679 --> 00:48:19.079
And try me now.

845
00:48:19.280 --> 00:48:24.559
In this this is where God is saying, test me,

846
00:48:25.719 --> 00:48:30.760
challenge me. If you give me your heart, test me,

847
00:48:31.440 --> 00:48:37.119
challenge me. Watch what I can do with what you

848
00:48:37.199 --> 00:48:42.280
give me. And that is so essential because the rest

849
00:48:42.320 --> 00:48:47.239
of the scripture says try me now. In this says

850
00:48:47.280 --> 00:48:51.000
the Lord of Hosts. If I will not open for

851
00:48:51.079 --> 00:48:54.679
you the windows of heaven and pour out for you

852
00:48:54.880 --> 00:48:59.400
such blessings that there will be not there will not

853
00:48:59.519 --> 00:49:04.039
be room enough to receive it. Did you get that?

854
00:49:05.159 --> 00:49:08.760
Did you get that that if you give God your

855
00:49:08.800 --> 00:49:13.039
heart and you test him, he is going to absolutely

856
00:49:13.400 --> 00:49:18.039
blow you away with the blessings in such a manner

857
00:49:18.719 --> 00:49:24.039
that you cannot keep up with it. That's the kind

858
00:49:24.039 --> 00:49:27.679
of God we serve. That's the kind of God.

859
00:49:29.039 --> 00:49:29.360
Amen.

860
00:49:29.599 --> 00:49:34.400
And that's what he meant. Try me and see will

861
00:49:34.480 --> 00:49:37.960
I'm not a god that I will lie. I will

862
00:49:38.000 --> 00:49:41.400
never leave you nor forsake you. I am here with

863
00:49:41.519 --> 00:49:45.679
open arms. And for some of us, he waited until

864
00:49:45.719 --> 00:49:48.639
we fell in his arms, or we crawled to his arms,

865
00:49:48.639 --> 00:49:53.039
his feet. He waited because he knows he's chosen, and

866
00:49:53.079 --> 00:49:57.960
he waited. He waited on us. So we want you

867
00:49:58.199 --> 00:50:01.920
to to if we want to discuss more, we can

868
00:50:02.599 --> 00:50:04.920
not a problem you put your topics on here. I

869
00:50:04.920 --> 00:50:07.000
know we gotta go, but put topics on here. What

870
00:50:07.119 --> 00:50:08.840
is it that you would like to hear about next

871
00:50:08.840 --> 00:50:11.199
time we come on, Just just put them in the chat.

872
00:50:11.239 --> 00:50:13.199
Just put them there. You're gonna have to discuss it.

873
00:50:13.320 --> 00:50:15.559
We'll catch it, okay. So that's going to be your

874
00:50:15.559 --> 00:50:20.000
homework as well. That's our time. We'll see you next week,

875
00:50:20.280 --> 00:50:58.760
same time, same station, Night night