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Welcome to the Roy West Show.I'm your host, Zach Styles. We
always have the best guest right hereat the Roy West Show. And we're
gonna keep it. You know,we're gonna keep it fresh, We're gonna
keep it going. We're gonna havethe most amazing guest on this show.
I'm telling you. I know Isay that a lot, but I mean,
when you're starting the show off withthe one and only, world renowned
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Dana Johnson max One, Welcome tothe show, Dana. Wow. No
pressure at all, No pressure atall. Thank you, Dana. We
always love having you on the show, and we love having you on the
show because you're just such this likemultifaceted gym. Right, You've just got
all these Are you saying I havea split personality? I was going to
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the positive suite, but hey,okay or that. But you you're involved
in so many things, right,I mean you got the real estate side,
You're involved at church, you're involvedwith smore. I mean, the
list go is on. I mean, and then don't even bring in your
husband into this and all the thingshe's involved in. I mean, then
it's just like I don't even knowhow y'all do what you do. But
Dana, let's kick the show offtoday talking about s'more and what that organization
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is and what they do right herein Southeast Texas, Okay, near and
dear to my heart. S'more standsfor Single Mothers, Overjoyed, rejuvenated,
and empowered. And we are avolunteer organization. We're a legitimate five one
C three nonprofit and we help singlemoms who have started their college education and
had to put their education on holdfor life, you know, kids,
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whatever, divorces, sometimes they've puttheir education on the back burner, and
we help them get back into collegeand get them graduated and help get them
employed. And we have had anamazing success rate with our moms. We've
got a psychologist, we've got anLV we've got an RIN, we've got
a Beaumont police officer, we've gota healthcare administrator. I mean, we've
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we've got legitimate moms that are localmoms doing the work, getting their education
and then getting employed and staying herelocally and building back into our economy.
I mean, and they're we're soproud. We're actually looking for new candidates.
So if anybody has knows a singlemom somebody that's We like moms that
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have less than two years to completion. So if they're doing a four year
degree, we like them to bea couple of years in. If they're
doing an associate's degree, they couldbe their second semester and we could help
take them to the finish line.So we provide financial, emotional, and
spiritual support. We buy Christmas giftsfor their kids and Easter baskets for their
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kids, and take them to lunchand just answer random text messages at six
thirty in the morning on a Saturday, just support and all things. And
our moms have become family with us, they really do. Yeah, And
it's cool because it's a total package, right, I mean you're helping them
get across the finish line, butyou're also there as a support group for
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these moms who oftentimes, I mean, I don't care what kind of mom
you are and how far while youare in the process, you always need
a support group, right, Imean absolutely hard work, but especially if
you're trying to like go back toschool and do all those types of things.
I mean, there's just that extraadded layer of stress, and it's
awesome to have, you know,this support group so if people wanted to
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now, is it like people nominatethese candidates or um, we had there's
an application process. Our moms arehighly vetted. And I will say this
to one of the other things thatwe offer them is a pretty stringent accountability.
I mean, we don't just say, oh, congratulations, here's a
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check, go be happy and hopewe graduate. No, it's we know
where that money's going, we knowwhat they're buying with it. We know,
you know, if we've got tuitionand books covered, but kids need
to go to the dentist, wecan help with that. If mom needs
a new tire for her car,we can help with that. So,
I mean it's it's very it's verytailored to what the mom's needs are and
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what the kids needs are. Andyeah, we have flexibility because we are
all local and all volunteer, butyet have the protection of the five one
C three nice So you ask aboutmom's candidates. If someone has someone in
mind that they think would be greatfor this program, have them reach out
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to me directly and I can getthe application in their hands and get them
started with the process We've got.UM I'm expecting an application in on a
student at Lamar State College, PortArthur that's going through the LVN program,
And we're really excited because the LVNprogram is a very concentrated one year and
it's a hard one year because I'vetried to do it early eighties ago where
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I got into real estate, Iattempted that program, and so I really
am pulling for this young lady.I hope her application comes in strong as
her recommendation letter from her her instructorsdid. But because I know the kind
of support that's needed in that program. Yeah, awesome. So they can
find the application, or you canget them an application. So would they
call you directly for that or Yeah, I'm just asking to reach out to
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me at four oh nine three fiveone two one h three that's my sale
number, or they can shoot mean email. Dana Johnson two thousand at
aol dot com throwback go inventage withthe email address. But yeah, and
then I can send that application overto them, and then we have lots
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of verification that goes into it,and they have shit budget information and financial
information. It's they're highly vetted.Yeah, and having been involved very minutely
just by being at the event thaty'all have coming up and helping sponsor that
in the past. It's a seriousprogram and y'all do a good job of
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vetting them and making sure that thedollars go where they need to go,
but also probably in the sport thaty'all do. M question if somebody wants
to help volunteer with y'all. Weokay, So you you mentioned the event.
We have a bingo fundraiser coming upJuly sixth, rocket a cafe,
right, Um, it's from sixto nine pm. We'll pay play ten
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games of bingo. All the prizesare worth at least two hundred and fifty
dollars or more. We do needevent sponsors, We need food sponsors,
and we need game sponsors. Sowe're just starting to fill out that that
event sponsorship um stack and so yeah, we're still open to all of that.
And we have either open seating ticketsfor fifty dollars a piece or reserve
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tables of eight for four hundred.So, I mean the ticket price is
the same, but if you wantto sit with your friends, then you
got to get a table and figureout who's coming. Yeah, and it's
cool because I mean haven't been toit. The event. The food's always
cop not and I mean rocking adid they kill it? They don't?
Great job, And then the bingois always just a lot of fun.
I mean, and you're sitting thereplaying with your friends, and the prizes
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are always really good. I mean, yeah, I haven't been. I
think it's gotten bigger and bigger everyyear. I mean, I feel like
we have sold out the last twotimes, and the last event we squeeze
a couple of extra tables there,so we've got real created with the table
placement, because you know, onceyou get everybody in there, you gotta
be able to move around. Butwe don't have to move around much,
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so we like to pack the house. Yeah, and you're going to know
the people there. I mean,it's such a communal event that y'all have.
I mean you'll meet some new peopleobviously, but it's a great networking
event too. I mean it's reallyit's done really really well. Y'all have
done a great job with it.Where can people find out more information about
that? If you'll have a website. It's more for women dot org is
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our website and you can definitely findthat. But we also have a Facebook
event. It's called Red White andBingo. And if you go to the
Facebook event, there's a flyer that'sgot the QR code to buy the tickets
and QR code to a Venmo QRcode as well. So we've gotten we've
finally gotten automated with our processes.So we're very excited about that because being
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a volunteer organization, we've been veryvery manual up until now. So we're
getting thanks to it thanks to Lauren. You've met Lauren. She's she's doing
a great job keeping us current.I love it. I love it,
and she stays on top of itwith the sponsorships and all that stuff.
So yeah, very good. Um, all right, so it s'more in
the event is? What is theevent again? Thursday July to sixth from
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six to nine pm, Red Whiteand Bingo, Red White and Bengo on
Facebook. And you have any questions, are you talk to Danner or team.
They'll get you all the goods ifyou want to buy a table,
and it's it's really cheap folks forwhat you get. I mean really,
it's a lot of fun because you'regonna win most likely, and you'll probably
win two prizes and then that's fivehundred bucks value. I mean, look
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at the money. Bang. Absolutely, I'm talking about so perfect. Your
ticket and your sponsorship texts adoptable becausewe are five one three boom. If
that's not even more of a reasonto do it, then I don't know
it is. I mean, it'sbasically free at this point. So call,
get your table, figure it out. You're gonna love it. I
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promise it's a good time had byall. There's always a line going out
the door for like a little bit, just because it's so great, absolutely,
and that warms my heart. Ilove seeing that there's a line to
get in because everybody wants to bethere. Yeah, and you're talking and
hanging out. I'm telling you,folks, Southeast Texas goes big for this
event. It's good. All right. So when you're not doing some more,
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you're selling real estate. I amtalk to me a little bit.
We got a couple of minutes hereto talk about the real estate side of
things. Now. You you representbuyers, you represent sellers. You're amazing
at what you do. But talkto me a little bit about the market
right now. What do you seeout there? It is not slowing down?
Turn off the national news, donot pay attention to any of that.
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One thing that I want to tellollers is that if you if you
have your house on the market rightnow and buyers are looking at it,
buyers are serious. Because when interestrates go up a little bit and buyers
are still looking, that's because theywant to buy a house, right,
That's exactly right, They want tobuy a house. They're needing out those
those people that were looking at housesduring COVID because they were tired of being
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cooped up in their home. Thosethose are not the buyers right now.
Those buyers already bought, and thebuyers that are out there looking right now
are legitimate home buyers. That's right. That's right. So you know,
if they're looking, they're buying.And I mean and folks, you know,
we know that rates right now area little bit higher than what we
would like to see and that theywould be. But it's a temporary pain,
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right. We can always finance thatyou can get that lower rate,
So it's not don't be scared,don't listen to the news. It's still
a great time to find that perfecthome that you want to buy. So,
um, we've got about a minuteleft, Dana, So where can
people learn a little bit more aboutyour real estate group? Okay Johnson Team
on Facebook, Dana Johnson Team onInstagram. My cell number is four oh
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nine three five one two one ohthree and Joe's job by Avenue is also
on my team. She's she's mycounterpart, She's She's Morocc. She can
be reached at four oh nine fiveo four four one two two perfect.
Well, Danna, thank you somuch for being on the show. You
are always the best. We loveit. Folks. Don't forget about the
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July sixth Bingo events. Make sureyou check out their website Red White and
Bingo on Facebook. They'll get allthe information you need there. Dana,
thanks for being on the show.And until next time, until after this
break coming up, you'll get tohear more on the Royal West Show.
So thanks again Dana for being onthe show. Thank you. Welcome back
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to the Royal West Show. I'myour host, Zach Styles. We've had
a lot of fun on the showso far and we're gonna keep it going
with the one and only Hope GetreeGroves with the match Hope. Welcome to
the show. Thank you, Zach, so happy to be here. Man
I'm telling you what, We're excitedto have you on the show for a
few different reasons, not only tolearn about Be the Match and the amazing
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organization that you work for and represent, but also we had just an amazing
time at the twenty first Annual MiracleMatch for Life golf tournament. It was
held on April twenty eight, andI'm telling you that the tournament, it
generated more than one hundred and twentyfive thousand dollars. There were seventy two
spots and teams that were sold out. I mean, it's just unbelievable this
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twenty one years that this has beenhappening and the amount of funds that they
raise for the organizations that benefit fromthe annual Miracle Match for Life golf tournament,
and some of those organizations outside ofBe the Match which were privileged to
get to have a conversation with Hopeabout Be the Match today, but Life
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Share, Blood Center and Gift ofLife also benefited from this amazing golf tournament
that has had So Hope talk tome a little bit about how much fun
the golf tournament is and you knowjust kind of how it's impacted BE the
Match. Oh well, thank youso much. I can tell you,
Zach, out of the twenty oneyears, I've attended for about fifteen years,
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and it's just an awesome day ofpeople coming out to truly support three
life saving charities that are out theretrying to help the community and patients that
we serve. It's a fun dayof golf, but there's a lot of
good food to be had and camaraderieand we're just so very grateful. What
it means for BE the Match andthe other organizations is the opportunity to continue
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to extend our mission. For Bethe Match, we're the largest and most
diverse registry for patients searching for amatch who when they need a bone marrow
transplant. Every year, about thirteenthousand patients or diagnosed with a new disorder
for which a bone marrow transplant isa cure. And so these funds that
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we've received over the years from theMiracle Match for Life golf tournament, it
helps us to continue our recruitment efforts. We've added over three hundred and fifty
thousand donors from the Southeast Texas andLouisiana region and also recently five thousand additional
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members joined and it's just amazing whenyou have these volunteer donors who give that
truly that gift of life to awaiting patient and extends their life. So
we're just very happy and appreciative tobe able to be one of the benefiting
charities. Yeah, and I'm goingto use my cheat sheet a little bit
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here only because I have one,and I don't always have that benefit,
so I might as well use itif I got it right. Oh right,
But it says here that's seven percentof all patients do not have a
fully matched donor in their family.That is a staggering number. It's astounding
because most often we think, hey, if you need something, let's look
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to the family, right, Andso with a marrow stem cell transplant,
basically you're trying to match anagens andyou get half from mom and half from
dead. So parents aren't even afull match. And with the statistics,
the odds your sibling is only twentyfive to thirty. So people who need
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it they turn to the be theMatch Registry, and it's a registry of
just willing, altruistic donors who havesigned up to say, if I should
match, I can come forward.And there's two ways to donate. A
lot of times people hear bone marrowand they get, you know, a
little scared. But the way todonate most often is called peripheral blood stem
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cell and it's similar to a platelit or plasma blood donation. And so
it's amazing what we can do nowto help save a life. And so
quite often you have a better chanceto find a perfect match from a perfect
stranger. Now. Now, oneof the challenges, Zach is that most
often you match someone from the sameracial or ethnic background. And so as
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you might imagine, we're trying toadd as many people eligible young donors you
have to I'm too old now tojoin, and some only because the younger
donors have the younger sales and betteroutcomes for patients. And so we really
do try to get the message outand add those donors to the registry to
try to help a patient in need. Absolutely, and y'all have over three
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thousand donors from the Texas Gulf Coachregion in Louisiana. Yes, yeah,
and I'm from the area originally I'mfrom the Golden Triangle, and so I
always said some of the most amazingowners come from our area of sometimes donors
for different reasons. When they're contacted, they don't always say yes, and
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it's such a shock, you know, And but everyone has to make their
own personal decisions. But I wouldsay from our Southeast Texas region, it's
just amazing the response that we haveand just some of the finest donors around.
So I just had to put thatplug in from Hotel there. Well,
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I mean we're Southeast Texas. Youknow, we have some of the
best people in the world right here, so that doesn't surprise me. And
you know, we just we livein an area of giving. They're right.
I mean the camaraderie in Southeast Texas, in the Golden Triangle specifically due
to unfortunately hurricanes and things like that. I mean, we are in a
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community that helps we say yes evenand when we may not want to say
yes. And I just that's oneof my favorite things about Southeast Texas.
I'm not from here originally, butI got here as fast as I could,
is what I tell people. Soand that's one of the reasons why
I love it. So. Yeah, So where could people go to learn
more about like if people wanting tovolunteer to be the match or for be
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the match Where would people go tolearn more information things like that? So
go to our website it's www dotbe the Match dot org, and on
there it has for volunteers and youcan if you're interested in joining the registry.
It's a digital process. You canregister digitally and to it's a swab.
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It's a cheek cell swab in themouth to get your sample there.
And then if you want to helpsponsor maybe a drive or an opportunity for
people to come out and raise awareness. But just go to that be the
Match dot org and it'll direct youthere and someone will be in touch from
the area. We have representatives allover the US and who will answer that
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call and work with a volunte hereto do it. I do want to
add to Zach on the Miracle Matterfor Life Golf tournament. The beauty of
it is that while three different organizationsbenefit, we show up that day.
We have volunteers, and so volunteersfrom all of our organizations show up and
we're there that day to really,you know, just show our gratitude for
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the Life Shared Blood Center. Itmeans being able to go out and collect
more blood. Every day, threehundred new blood donations are needed to meet
the need in the area and forgift of life of the mammograms and prostate
cancer screenings. It's meaningful. It'sfor some people that maybe wouldn't have an
opportunity. It's really helping to servethe community. So it's wonderful to be
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a part of that type of camaraderiewhile benefiting to help serve the needs of
others. Yeah, and it's justamazing that this started twenty one years ago,
and I mean it was a collaborativepartnership between ASF and Total Energies.
And I'm glad you brought up lifeShare because we have life Share on the
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show. We've had them on manya time and them being a part of
this in a beneficiary of this ishelping them to grow the awareness and will
you hit the nail on the head. I mean, with three hundred blood
donations needed for area patients, that'sjust to keep up with supply and most
of the time they're at a deficit, right, So this beneficiary and the
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additional funds allows them to educate ourcommunity about the continuas need for blood.
And you know, Roy and Iwe give often and we try to shout
from the rooftops that you got togive blood because someday I'm may be the
one that needs it. So youknow, if you're given to other areas,
make sure you're always looking at lifeshare and then like you said,
gift to life. I mean,they're the way that they've been able to
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grow with mammograms and the prostate cancerhas just been huge. But it takes
a lot of work, it takesa lot of money and total and BSF
being able to do this golf tournamenthelps benefit them as so many ways.
So I hope we've got about oneminute left, if you would go ahead
and give us your contact information forthe best way that people can learn more
about your organization, which is bethe Match. Okay, so be the
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Match. Be the match dot organd my information, I would say,
go to be the Match dot org. And on that site it's information for
volunteers, for donors if you've beencalled, and even for patients or you
just want to learn more about it. Perfect, hope, thank you so
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much for being on the show.Folks. Good to be the Match dot
org. Learn a little bit moreabout them. Sign up for a volunteer
doesn't take much time. I meanit's you fill it out online, take
a swab in the mouth and findout if you could be in a donor.
So, Hope, thank you somuch. We appreciate you being on
the show and more to come onthe Royal West Show. Thanks again,
Hope, thank you. Welcome backto the Royal West Show. I'm your
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host, Zach Styles. We've hada shows so far and we're gonna keep
it going. We always have thebest guests and today is a day like
no other. We've got the oneand only April Tolbert with Farmers Insurance Agency.
April Welcome to the show. Hi, Zach, thank you so much
for having me. I really Ialways enjoy that and I can't say thank
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you enough to you and to Royfor this show. I love listening to
this show. You guys really doalways have the best guests, and yeah,
I keep I keep up with what'shappening in Southeast Texas through you guys.
That's right, and that's what weaim to do. We want to
make sure that people understand some ofthe best businesses that they can go to
for services such as yourself for insurance, but also what's going on in our
community with nonprofits and things like that, April, Man, I tell you,
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this spring has been a wild spring. We've had some crazy weather.
We had a hailstorm about four weeksago that was kind of nuts and wild.
And you know, people I don'tthink understand the benefit of always having
an insurance agent right right here locallythat understands the coverages that we need and
things like that. And one thingthat I get a lot of times is,
you know, coverage is changing andpeople not understanding those changes. April,
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So in your business and your businessmodel, you know, what are
some things that you're seeing and doing, you know, to help make sure
your clients understand the different insurances availableto them at coverages. Well, that
is a very good question. Iappreciate that very much because I know you
know from experience not only are personalexperience, but helping people with their mortgages.
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You know, the experience is notalways good with insurance. And so
what we try to do in myagency is, yes, we are a
local agency. We're all local people. We know insurance in Southeast Texas and
we have multiple insurance carriers. Iknow everyone knows me, as April toldber
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the farmers agents, but what theydon't usually know until they get to me
is that we actually have multiple carriersoutside of Farmers that we place people through
is Well. So we do alot of research on the policies, on
the companies, on the available coverages, to compare one policy to another,
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so that you're not when you're shoppingfor your insurance, you're not just getting,
oh, here's the cheapest price.You're getting Okay, this one might
be the cheapest, this one's themost expensive, here's one that's in the
middle. But let me explain toyou the differences, so that way you're
making an educated decision. You're makinga choice that's best for you. Sometimes
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the least expensive might be the absolutebest. Sometimes it's the middle of the
road. Sometimes it's the more expensivethat people want because of the extra coverages
that are involved. So what Isay all the time is just don't wait
till it's too late. We're cominginto hurricane season here coming up in a
couple of weeks June first as thestart of hurricane season. So educate yourself
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about your insurance. Please know whoyou're gonna call if that worst case scenario
happens, if we have another hillstorm come through that pounds your roof,
or if we have a tropical storm, a hurricane of flood you know,
make sure you know who you're goingto call, and make sure that they
are talking to you about your optionsfor deductibles, for coverages, for extras
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that you might not necessarily know thatyou need. If your agent is not
asking you questions like do you haveexpensive pieces of jewelry, do you own
a golf carter or an ATV?You know, those kind of things may
need extra coverage. They may notbe covered by your homeowners policy the way
you would like them to be.So just make sure you've got a good
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relationship with your insurance agent, becausein Southeast Texas, unfortunately, we have
to use our insurance a lot morethan people in other parts of the country
do. That's right, and I'mglad you mentioned that, because I think
some people even moving to this area, you know, they may have been
in an area in North Texas oreven another state where they're not familiar with
the windstorm coverages, flood coverages andthings like that, and all of a
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sudden they start shopping insurance down here, and they're not understanding, well,
if they're from another area, they'renot understanding that, No, you really
need good insurance down here because youactually will use it, unlike the area
that you came from. And Ihave that conversation a lot of times with
people when they're wanting to know abouttheir monthly note and things like that.
It's like, no, look,I promise you whatever X Y and Z
mortgage company or whatever they said yourinsurance. Because they're from out of state.
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They said it was going to beone hundred dollars a month. I
was like, they're not. Theydon't get the game here, you know.
And you know, kind of backto your point. You know,
you could get insurance from from anywhere, right, but having somebody that you
can sit down and talk to andthat answers the phone, you know,
that goes a long ways. AndI think that people need to understand that
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the April Tolber team, they're goingto answer their phone. They're gonna be
accessible to you so that you canget those answers that you need in a
fast and quick timely manner. Oh. I really appreciate you saying that,
because we'll go back to that hailstorm that happened four weeks ago or so.
You know, a perfect example.It happened on a Saturday afternoon to
Saturday, you know, late afternoon, early evening. And guess what April
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was doing. Guess what my teamwas doing. We were answering our phones.
We were returning calls from our office. We were answering texts on our
cell phones, texts that were beingsent to the office, you know,
as people cars were being damaged,people afraid that their roofs might be damaged,
you know, and giving those peopleadvice and kind of fucking them through
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what the next steps are and determiningand filing claims if we need to,
you know, if that warrants.So, you know, that's the kind
of service that we want to provideto our friends and neighbors in Southeast Texas.
So I know, having you know, I hate to say cheap insurance,
but the least expensive insurance. Itcomes to mind when you're just having
to pay for it the boy,whenever you have to use it. Having
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someone that you can call, evenon a Saturday afternoon, you know,
a Saturday evening, when that worstcase scenario is happening to you that will
help you and be there forward you. We find extreme value and our customers
really do value that service. Theyreally do and it's not just me,
you know, blowing smoke here,I promise, because one of my employees
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kind of will shout out to her. I won't mention her name, but
she had an issue in Houston onetime and she was in a bind and
with her family and April, youand your team, you know, got
her taken care of lickety split,and she had nothing but amazing things to
continue to say about you. Andshe had been a long time customer,
you know. So I guess that'sthe other thing. Just because you may
be a long term customer with somebody, April's you to treat you the same
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way whether you're a long term customeror a first time you know. Quiet,
So thank you for that. Yeah, absolutely no, I appreciate that.
Thank you so much. And wedo we try to give that special
attention, that extra attention because weknow we're not always the cheapest insurance,
right, I mean, Farmers isn'talways the cheapest. Some of our other
companies aren't always the cheapest option.But our goal is to make sure word
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that you have the right coverage sothat when you do make that phone call
because something bad has happened, thatwe don't have to say, Oh,
I'm sorry, that's not covered byyour insurance. You know, we want
to make sure that you don't getthat that answer that you actually you are
able to file a claim and you'vegot a company that's going to take care
of you. Yeah. And theother thing that a lot of people don't
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understand about your agency it's a littlebit different, is everybody on your team
understands or is in the process ofunderstanding the whole ball of wax. So
it's neat to be able to Hey, you want to talk to April.
April or she may be in ameeting, but you can talk to one
of your team members in nine timesout of ten, unless it's just some
wacky thing like a monkey broke intoyour house and started destroying things. Like
(29:44):
that person on the other end ofthe phone is going to understand to be
able to get the answers that youneed. That's right. All of my
team are all licensed. A matterof fact, they carried the same licensing
that I do. And they've allbeen trained and mentored by me, and
so they know, you know,they have been through some of those odd
experiences like you see on the farmer'scommercials. You know, or you know,
the dogs are swimming in the waterin the living room, you know,
(30:07):
and things like that. We reallydo have crazy things like that happen.
And so you know, they've allworked for me, you know,
mentored under me, and so weyou know, we've we've dealt with those
things together and we do work togetheras a team. And again they all
are licensed and so they can answerthose questions and basically take care of you
(30:27):
the same way I could. SoI have to give them a shout out
that Gabby and Ashley and ash Lynnand Lisa, you know, and Tommy
and Larry. I mean, they'refantastic, they really are, and they
have hearts of gold and they wantto help just you know, help anybody
who needs help with their insurance andwhether you're a customer of ours or not.
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Yeah, and that's another cool thing. We got about a minute left,
April. But you know, Iknow that you look at other insurances
and competitors and you're able to breakthose down for people and help them with
those. But April, how canpeople reach you? Where can they find
you? Give us all that goodinformation? Yeah, if you if you've
you've seen your mortgagees scrow lately andyou've seen that increase most of the time.
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As of right now, it's probablydue to your insurance because the insurance
rates are going sky high crazy inSoutheast Texas. So if that's happening to
you and you want to shop options, please call the team at April Tilbert
Insurance Agency. We're located at sixteenforty North Major Drive here in Beaumont and
you can reach us by phone fourO nine eight six six one two three
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three. Find us on Facebook AprilTilber Insurance, Google, April tilberd Insurance.
We're all over social media. Reachout to us any which way.
We'd love to help you. FantasticApril, thank you so much for being
on the show. We always appreciateyour insight and your knowledge. Folks,
reach out to April today so she'llget you taken care of more coming up
on the Royal West Show. Thanksagain, April. Welcome back to the
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Royal West Show. I'm your host, Zach Styles. We've had a great
show so far and we're gonna keepit going with Crime Stoppers. The one
and only Jeremy Raley. How areyou doing today, Jeremy? You know
I'm the wonderful beautiful outside and everything. So glad to be on here again.
It is beautiful outside, and youknow, this spring it's been kind
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of wild, you know, justweatherwise, and a lot of things going
on, you know, and withall the things going on, crime still
happens, and Crime Stoppers is stillthere for all of Southeast Texas and surrounding
areas. Jeremy, for the peoplethat live, you know, maybe under
a rock or have never heard theshow, talk to me a little bit
about what crime Stoppers is in thesurfaces they all offer Southeast Texas. So
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Crime Stoppers in Southeast Texas is afive O one C three nonprofit entity that
the way I just put it ingood terms is we are the ones that
helped bridge the gap between law enforcementand what we call tipsters. So we
have three ways that anybody can report. If they can report it through our
hotline number which is four h nineeight three three TPS, they can do
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it on our website which is eightthree three tps dot com, or by
downloading the P three tips app ona mobile device. And when they do
send in those tips anonymously, that'sright, if they are guaranteed one anonymity
through government coach four fourteen. Sothe state of Texas really takes care of
them as being tipsters. But oncethey turn in that tip, we make
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sure that the appropriate agency gets thattip. And once they get that tip,
they're able to do the investigation.And if the tip comes back as
a validated tip that did lead toan arrest or you know, confiscated or
a drug bust or any kind ofthing like that, then they are eligible
for a cash reward. Man Sototally anonymous, super easy to do,
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whether it's on your phone, website, whatever, and potential for cash reward.
I mean, why wouldn't you justreport things all the time. Well,
you know a lot of people arescared of retaliation, of course.
I mean, the anonymity does guaranteethem that, and so we really really
make people understand that. That's thebackbone of our program is the anonymity,
because we want them to feel,you know, safe enough to report these
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things. Not everybody wants to getinvolved. It's nothing new. And the
even better part of our program iswe have a campus Crime Stoppers program as
well. That's in the school districtsthroughout the three counties, so we cover
Orange County. Jefferson County in HardenCounty, So parents, check with your
students, you know, and andfind out more about your crime Stoppers program
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on the campuses. So what Imean, So since we do have the
wonder only Jeremy Railey here, Sowhat is the crime Stoppers campus Because I
know we've talked about it a littlebit in the past, but what does
that look like? So you know, the students can do the same thing.
They can report things that are wrongon their campuses. You know,
our ultimate goal is not to getkids arrested or anything like that. We
want the kids to feel safe andhave a great educational environment. You know.
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We want the kids to go toschool safe, the faculty to go
to school safe, and then leavethere and go home safe. So the
kids are able to report anything thatis wrong on campus. So if they
know if somebody's stealing on campus,vapes on campus, drugs on campus,
weapons, it doesn't matter. Andit gets even deeper, you know,
because nowadays in school, you know, there's a lot of peer pressure,
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even more than what there used tobe. And you know, some kids
sometimes get to that depression stage oryou know, eating disorders and everything because
they feel that they have to bethe top notch of the class and everything.
So if students know that these thingsare going on, they can report
them. And whenever they report on, you know, it's the same thing.
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It's anonymous. There's no way thatanybody will know that they did it
unless they just run around waving theirhands up in the air and say,
hey, guess what, I turnedin a crime stopper stip. But we've
been very, very successful with acampus program. I love that, so,
I mean, you know, andthat just gives parents, you know,
a little bit of peace of mindtoo, knowing that there's a program
in place. And I know thaty'all do a good job of making sure
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that the parents and the teachers andeverybody on campuses understand it um and understanding
that they could potentially help solve acrime or stop a crime from even happening,
because oftentimes it may seem small,right, I mean, it may
start with sneaking a vape on campusor doing something like that. But oftentimes
when those things go on check,that's when you start seeing the kind of
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that snowball effect. And I'm surey'all see it. Working with these different
agencies, that's you know, relationshipeven in. Um, you know what
what the stand worm that happens reactingversus proactive When one of these truss happened,
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such as huvality and stuff like that. Um, you know, and
then you had the one just recentlyyou know that took place. When when
these things happen, you know,everybody gets on their guard and they're all
worried about it. Then they allwant to implement different rules and everything.
Well, this program is their twentyfour seven three sixty five. We had
a tip come in that was ona Friday evening. And when the tip
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came in, it was about astudent that said that they were about to
shoot up a campus. You know. All it was with a social media
post with a student with a clockpointing the glock towards the camera just like
this, and the student just puta little sentence across the screen that staid
about to shoot up a school.Well, okay, schools out on you
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know, at six thirty in theevening on a Friday. But here's the
deal. There were extracurricular activities takingplace across the campuses in that district that
weekend. So what was the intent? We don't know, but I'm not
about to gamble that we got intouch with the local sheriff's department and the
school of ICPD, and within thirtyminutes, the student was arrested and the
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weapon was found. So did westop something We don't know, but I
like to surely think that that wedid, you know, make something not
escalated into something that it could havebeen, especially here. And I hate
to say it, but I alwaystell people it's not a matter of if.
It's when we're just in that pointin time that we have to really
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think about it from that standpoint.Yeah. Absolutely, Man, that's a
great story, um, And Iknow that y'all just have story after story
after story where people are making theseanonymous tips, and it's just important that
people realize that it's anonymous and it'seasy to do. Jeremy, Um,
where can people learn a little bitmore about crime stoppers and what y'all offer?
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So I'm sorry, what else?I'm sorry? Where can people learn
it a little bit more about yourabout crime stoppers and where they can make
tips and things like that. Youknow, they can they can contact myself,
they can email me. My emailaddress is admin at eight three three
tfps dot com and more than welcometo ask me to come. I'll do
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a presentation for you know, anywherefrom jobs, to schools to you know,
apartment complexes, it doesn't matter.We want the word to get out
there. We want people to understandthat this is something that's not just your
fly by night deal. I ama person that's here in Southeast Texas.
I live here, I'm bested here. This is my community and my family's
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playground, so we want to makesure that our area is safe. I
want my wife to feel safe andeverything. So please reach out and you
know, if you've got any questionsor anything, I'd be more than happy
to help you out. Fantastic Jeremy, And what's the website again? One
more time? They can go toeight three three tpps dot com. They
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can also call the hotline four Onine eight three three TPS or download the
P three tips app on a mobiledevice. Fantastic Jeremy. Thanks for being
on the show. We always appreciateyour insight with crimestopers. Thank you my
pleasure, Thank y'all so much forhaving us. Welcome back to the Royal
West Show. I'm your host,Zach Styles. We had a great show
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today. We got to visit withthe one and only Dana Johnson. We
got to talk about her real estatecareer and all the amazing things going on
in the real estate world. Butwe also got to talk about s'more,
which is a program for single moms, and that's a single moms overjoyed,
regiminated, and empowered. You canlearn more about them at Smore for Women
(40:27):
dot org, or you can alwayscall Dana Johnson at four or nine three,
five one two one zero three.They've got a fun event coming up
Bingo Nights, so if you'd liketo get more information about that, give
Dana a call again. That's fourzero nine and three five one two one
zero three. We all so gotto visit with Be the Match and that
is a partnership between BASF and TotalGreat Golf Tournament. There. We got
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to visit about how successful that wasand uh, you know a little bit
about Be the Match and us someother neat things going on with Be the
Match. You can go to WeSave Lives dot b the Match dot org
to learn more about that program andthat organization. We got to visit with
April Tolbert Insurance and all Things Insurance. That was a lot of fun,
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and then we got to wrap itup with Jeremy Raley with crime stoppers and
some of the neat things that theydo right here in our community. Folks.
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Welcome to the Roy West Show.I'm your host, Zach Styles. We
always have the best guest right hereat the Roy West Show. And we're
gonna keep it. You know,we're gonna keep it fresh, We're gonna
keep it going. We're gonna havethe most amazing guest on this show.
I'm telling you. I know Isay that a lot, but I mean,
when you're starting the show off withthe one and only, world renowned
(00:23):
Dana Johnson max One, Welcome tothe show, Dana. Wow. No
pressure at all, No pressure atall. Thank you, Dana. We
always love having you on the show, and we love having you on the
show because you're just such this likemultifaceted gym. Right, You've just got
all these Are you saying I havea split personality? I was going to
(00:47):
the positive suite, but hey,okay or that. But you you're involved
in so many things, right,I mean you got the real estate side,
You're involved at church, you're involvedwith smore. I mean, the
list go is on. I mean, and then don't even bring in your
husband into this and all the thingshe's involved in. I mean, then
it's just like I don't even knowhow y'all do what you do. But
Dana, let's kick the show offtoday talking about s'more and what that organization
(01:14):
is and what they do right herein Southeast Texas, Okay, near and
dear to my heart. S'more standsfor Single Mothers, Overjoyed, rejuvenated,
and empowered. And we are avolunteer organization. We're a legitimate five one
C three nonprofit and we help singlemoms who have started their college education and
had to put their education on holdfor life, you know, kids,
(01:38):
whatever, divorces, sometimes they've puttheir education on the back burner, and
we help them get back into collegeand get them graduated and help get them
employed. And we have had anamazing success rate with our moms. We've
got a psychologist, we've got anLV we've got an RIN, we've got
a Beaumont police officer, we've gota healthcare administrator. I mean, we've
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we've got legitimate moms that are localmoms doing the work, getting their education
and then getting employed and staying herelocally and building back into our economy.
I mean, and they're we're soproud. We're actually looking for new candidates.
So if anybody has knows a singlemom somebody that's We like moms that
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have less than two years to completion. So if they're doing a four year
degree, we like them to bea couple of years in. If they're
doing an associate's degree, they couldbe their second semester and we could help
take them to the finish line.So we provide financial, emotional, and
spiritual support. We buy Christmas giftsfor their kids and Easter baskets for their
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kids, and take them to lunchand just answer random text messages at six
thirty in the morning on a Saturday, just support and all things. And
our moms have become family with us, they really do. Yeah, And
it's cool because it's a total package, right, I mean you're helping them
get across the finish line, butyou're also there as a support group for
(03:07):
these moms who oftentimes, I mean, I don't care what kind of mom
you are and how far while youare in the process, you always need
a support group, right, Imean absolutely hard work, but especially if
you're trying to like go back toschool and do all those types of things.
I mean, there's just that extraadded layer of stress, and it's
awesome to have, you know,this support group so if people wanted to
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now, is it like people nominatethese candidates or um, we had there's
an application process. Our moms arehighly vetted. And I will say this
to one of the other things thatwe offer them is a pretty stringent accountability.
I mean, we don't just say, oh, congratulations, here's a
(03:50):
check, go be happy and hopewe graduate. No, it's we know
where that money's going, we knowwhat they're buying with it. We know,
you know, if we've got tuitionand books covered, but kids need
to go to the dentist, wecan help with that. If mom needs
a new tire for her car,we can help with that. So,
I mean it's it's very it's verytailored to what the mom's needs are and
(04:10):
what the kids needs are. Andyeah, we have flexibility because we are
all local and all volunteer, butyet have the protection of the five one
C three nice So you ask aboutmom's candidates. If someone has someone in
mind that they think would be greatfor this program, have them reach out
(04:30):
to me directly and I can getthe application in their hands and get them
started with the process We've got.UM I'm expecting an application in on a
student at Lamar State College, PortArthur that's going through the LVN program,
And we're really excited because the LVNprogram is a very concentrated one year and
it's a hard one year because I'vetried to do it early eighties ago where
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I got into real estate, Iattempted that program, and so I really
am pulling for this young lady.I hope her application comes in strong as
her recommendation letter from her her instructorsdid. But because I know the kind
of support that's needed in that program. Yeah, awesome. So they can
find the application, or you canget them an application. So would they
call you directly for that or Yeah, I'm just asking to reach out to
(05:15):
me at four oh nine three fiveone two one h three that's my sale
number, or they can shoot mean email. Dana Johnson two thousand at
aol dot com throwback go inventage withthe email address. But yeah, and
then I can send that application overto them, and then we have lots
(05:36):
of verification that goes into it,and they have shit budget information and financial
information. It's they're highly vetted.Yeah, and having been involved very minutely
just by being at the event thaty'all have coming up and helping sponsor that
in the past. It's a seriousprogram and y'all do a good job of
(05:56):
vetting them and making sure that thedollars go where they need to go,
but also probably in the sport thaty'all do. M question if somebody wants
to help volunteer with y'all. Weokay, So you you mentioned the event.
We have a bingo fundraiser coming upJuly sixth, rocket a cafe,
right, Um, it's from sixto nine pm. We'll pay play ten
(06:19):
games of bingo. All the prizesare worth at least two hundred and fifty
dollars or more. We do needevent sponsors, We need food sponsors,
and we need game sponsors. Sowe're just starting to fill out that that
event sponsorship um stack and so yeah, we're still open to all of that.
And we have either open seating ticketsfor fifty dollars a piece or reserve
(06:43):
tables of eight for four hundred.So, I mean the ticket price is
the same, but if you wantto sit with your friends, then you
got to get a table and figureout who's coming. Yeah, and it's
cool because I mean haven't been toit. The event. The food's always
cop not and I mean rocking adid they kill it? They don't?
Great job, And then the bingois always just a lot of fun.
I mean, and you're sitting thereplaying with your friends, and the prizes
(07:05):
are always really good. I mean, yeah, I haven't been. I
think it's gotten bigger and bigger everyyear. I mean, I feel like
we have sold out the last twotimes, and the last event we squeeze
a couple of extra tables there,so we've got real created with the table
placement, because you know, onceyou get everybody in there, you gotta
be able to move around. Butwe don't have to move around much,
(07:27):
so we like to pack the house. Yeah, and you're going to know
the people there. I mean,it's such a communal event that y'all have.
I mean you'll meet some new peopleobviously, but it's a great networking
event too. I mean it's reallyit's done really really well. Y'all have
done a great job with it.Where can people find out more information about
that? If you'll have a website. It's more for women dot org is
(07:47):
our website and you can definitely findthat. But we also have a Facebook
event. It's called Red White andBingo. And if you go to the
Facebook event, there's a flyer that'sgot the QR code to buy the tickets
and QR code to a Venmo QRcode as well. So we've gotten we've
finally gotten automated with our processes.So we're very excited about that because being
(08:09):
a volunteer organization, we've been veryvery manual up until now. So we're
getting thanks to it thanks to Lauren. You've met Lauren. She's she's doing
a great job keeping us current.I love it. I love it,
and she stays on top of itwith the sponsorships and all that stuff.
So yeah, very good. Um, all right, so it s'more in
the event is? What is theevent again? Thursday July to sixth from
(08:31):
six to nine pm, Red Whiteand Bingo, Red White and Bengo on
Facebook. And you have any questions, are you talk to Danner or team.
They'll get you all the goods ifyou want to buy a table,
and it's it's really cheap folks forwhat you get. I mean really,
it's a lot of fun because you'regonna win most likely, and you'll probably
win two prizes and then that's fivehundred bucks value. I mean, look
(08:52):
at the money. Bang. Absolutely, I'm talking about so perfect. Your
ticket and your sponsorship texts adoptable becausewe are five one three boom. If
that's not even more of a reasonto do it, then I don't know
it is. I mean, it'sbasically free at this point. So call,
get your table, figure it out. You're gonna love it. I
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promise it's a good time had byall. There's always a line going out
the door for like a little bit, just because it's so great, absolutely,
and that warms my heart. Ilove seeing that there's a line to
get in because everybody wants to bethere. Yeah, and you're talking and
hanging out. I'm telling you,folks, Southeast Texas goes big for this
event. It's good. All right. So when you're not doing some more,
(09:35):
you're selling real estate. I amtalk to me a little bit.
We got a couple of minutes hereto talk about the real estate side of
things. Now. You you representbuyers, you represent sellers. You're amazing
at what you do. But talkto me a little bit about the market
right now. What do you seeout there? It is not slowing down?
Turn off the national news, donot pay attention to any of that.
(09:58):
One thing that I want to tellollers is that if you if you
have your house on the market rightnow and buyers are looking at it,
buyers are serious. Because when interestrates go up a little bit and buyers
are still looking, that's because theywant to buy a house, right,
That's exactly right, They want tobuy a house. They're needing out those
those people that were looking at housesduring COVID because they were tired of being
(10:20):
cooped up in their home. Thosethose are not the buyers right now.
Those buyers already bought, and thebuyers that are out there looking right now
are legitimate home buyers. That's right. That's right. So you know,
if they're looking, they're buying.And I mean and folks, you know,
we know that rates right now area little bit higher than what we
would like to see and that theywould be. But it's a temporary pain,
(10:41):
right. We can always finance thatyou can get that lower rate,
So it's not don't be scared,don't listen to the news. It's still
a great time to find that perfecthome that you want to buy. So,
um, we've got about a minuteleft, Dana, So where can
people learn a little bit more aboutyour real estate group? Okay Johnson Team
on Facebook, Dana Johnson Team onInstagram. My cell number is four oh
(11:05):
nine three five one two one ohthree and Joe's job by Avenue is also
on my team. She's she's mycounterpart, She's She's Morocc. She can
be reached at four oh nine fiveo four four one two two perfect.
Well, Danna, thank you somuch for being on the show. You
are always the best. We loveit. Folks. Don't forget about the
(11:26):
July sixth Bingo events. Make sureyou check out their website Red White and
Bingo on Facebook. They'll get allthe information you need there. Dana,
thanks for being on the show.And until next time, until after this
break coming up, you'll get tohear more on the Royal West Show.
So thanks again Dana for being onthe show. Thank you. Welcome back
(11:50):
to the Royal West Show. I'myour host, Zach Styles. We've had
a lot of fun on the showso far and we're gonna keep it going
with the one and only Hope GetreeGroves with the match Hope. Welcome to
the show. Thank you, Zach, so happy to be here. Man
I'm telling you what, We're excitedto have you on the show for a
few different reasons, not only tolearn about Be the Match and the amazing
(12:13):
organization that you work for and represent, but also we had just an amazing
time at the twenty first Annual MiracleMatch for Life golf tournament. It was
held on April twenty eight, andI'm telling you that the tournament, it
generated more than one hundred and twentyfive thousand dollars. There were seventy two
spots and teams that were sold out. I mean, it's just unbelievable this
(12:37):
twenty one years that this has beenhappening and the amount of funds that they
raise for the organizations that benefit fromthe annual Miracle Match for Life golf tournament,
and some of those organizations outside ofBe the Match which were privileged to
get to have a conversation with Hopeabout Be the Match today, but Life
(12:58):
Share, Blood Center and Gift ofLife also benefited from this amazing golf tournament
that has had So Hope talk tome a little bit about how much fun
the golf tournament is and you knowjust kind of how it's impacted BE the
Match. Oh well, thank youso much. I can tell you,
Zach, out of the twenty oneyears, I've attended for about fifteen years,
(13:18):
and it's just an awesome day ofpeople coming out to truly support three
life saving charities that are out theretrying to help the community and patients that
we serve. It's a fun dayof golf, but there's a lot of
good food to be had and camaraderieand we're just so very grateful. What
it means for BE the Match andthe other organizations is the opportunity to continue
(13:43):
to extend our mission. For Bethe Match, we're the largest and most
diverse registry for patients searching for amatch who when they need a bone marrow
transplant. Every year, about thirteenthousand patients or diagnosed with a new disorder
for which a bone marrow transplant isa cure. And so these funds that
(14:07):
we've received over the years from theMiracle Match for Life golf tournament, it
helps us to continue our recruitment efforts. We've added over three hundred and fifty
thousand donors from the Southeast Texas andLouisiana region and also recently five thousand additional
(14:28):
members joined and it's just amazing whenyou have these volunteer donors who give that
truly that gift of life to awaiting patient and extends their life. So
we're just very happy and appreciative tobe able to be one of the benefiting
charities. Yeah, and I'm goingto use my cheat sheet a little bit
(14:50):
here only because I have one,and I don't always have that benefit,
so I might as well use itif I got it right. Oh right,
But it says here that's seven percentof all patients do not have a
fully matched donor in their family.That is a staggering number. It's astounding
because most often we think, hey, if you need something, let's look
(15:11):
to the family, right, Andso with a marrow stem cell transplant,
basically you're trying to match anagens andyou get half from mom and half from
dead. So parents aren't even afull match. And with the statistics,
the odds your sibling is only twentyfive to thirty. So people who need
(15:31):
it they turn to the be theMatch Registry, and it's a registry of
just willing, altruistic donors who havesigned up to say, if I should
match, I can come forward.And there's two ways to donate. A
lot of times people hear bone marrowand they get, you know, a
little scared. But the way todonate most often is called peripheral blood stem
(15:52):
cell and it's similar to a platelit or plasma blood donation. And so
it's amazing what we can do nowto help save a life. And so
quite often you have a better chanceto find a perfect match from a perfect
stranger. Now. Now, oneof the challenges, Zach is that most
often you match someone from the sameracial or ethnic background. And so as
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you might imagine, we're trying toadd as many people eligible young donors you
have to I'm too old now tojoin, and some only because the younger
donors have the younger sales and betteroutcomes for patients. And so we really
do try to get the message outand add those donors to the registry to
try to help a patient in need. Absolutely, and y'all have over three
(16:45):
thousand donors from the Texas Gulf Coachregion in Louisiana. Yes, yeah,
and I'm from the area originally I'mfrom the Golden Triangle, and so I
always said some of the most amazingowners come from our area of sometimes donors
for different reasons. When they're contacted, they don't always say yes, and
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it's such a shock, you know, And but everyone has to make their
own personal decisions. But I wouldsay from our Southeast Texas region, it's
just amazing the response that we haveand just some of the finest donors around.
So I just had to put thatplug in from Hotel there. Well,
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I mean we're Southeast Texas. Youknow, we have some of the
best people in the world right here, so that doesn't surprise me. And
you know, we just we livein an area of giving. They're right.
I mean the camaraderie in Southeast Texas, in the Golden Triangle specifically due
to unfortunately hurricanes and things like that. I mean, we are in a
(17:47):
community that helps we say yes evenand when we may not want to say
yes. And I just that's oneof my favorite things about Southeast Texas.
I'm not from here originally, butI got here as fast as I could,
is what I tell people. Soand that's one of the reasons why
I love it. So. Yeah, So where could people go to learn
more about like if people wanting tovolunteer to be the match or for be
(18:11):
the match Where would people go tolearn more information things like that? So
go to our website it's www dotbe the Match dot org, and on
there it has for volunteers and youcan if you're interested in joining the registry.
It's a digital process. You canregister digitally and to it's a swab.
(18:32):
It's a cheek cell swab in themouth to get your sample there.
And then if you want to helpsponsor maybe a drive or an opportunity for
people to come out and raise awareness. But just go to that be the
Match dot org and it'll direct youthere and someone will be in touch from
the area. We have representatives allover the US and who will answer that
(18:56):
call and work with a volunte hereto do it. I do want to
add to Zach on the Miracle Matterfor Life Golf tournament. The beauty of
it is that while three different organizationsbenefit, we show up that day.
We have volunteers, and so volunteersfrom all of our organizations show up and
we're there that day to really,you know, just show our gratitude for
(19:22):
the Life Shared Blood Center. Itmeans being able to go out and collect
more blood. Every day, threehundred new blood donations are needed to meet
the need in the area and forgift of life of the mammograms and prostate
cancer screenings. It's meaningful. It'sfor some people that maybe wouldn't have an
opportunity. It's really helping to servethe community. So it's wonderful to be
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a part of that type of camaraderiewhile benefiting to help serve the needs of
others. Yeah, and it's justamazing that this started twenty one years ago,
and I mean it was a collaborativepartnership between ASF and Total Energies.
And I'm glad you brought up lifeShare because we have life Share on the
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show. We've had them on manya time and them being a part of
this in a beneficiary of this ishelping them to grow the awareness and will
you hit the nail on the head. I mean, with three hundred blood
donations needed for area patients, that'sjust to keep up with supply and most
of the time they're at a deficit, right, So this beneficiary and the
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additional funds allows them to educate ourcommunity about the continuas need for blood.
And you know, Roy and Iwe give often and we try to shout
from the rooftops that you got togive blood because someday I'm may be the
one that needs it. So youknow, if you're given to other areas,
make sure you're always looking at lifeshare and then like you said,
gift to life. I mean,they're the way that they've been able to
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grow with mammograms and the prostate cancerhas just been huge. But it takes
a lot of work, it takesa lot of money and total and BSF
being able to do this golf tournamenthelps benefit them as so many ways.
So I hope we've got about oneminute left, if you would go ahead
and give us your contact information forthe best way that people can learn more
about your organization, which is bethe Match. Okay, so be the
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Match. Be the match dot organd my information, I would say,
go to be the Match dot org. And on that site it's information for
volunteers, for donors if you've beencalled, and even for patients or you
just want to learn more about it. Perfect, hope, thank you so
(21:33):
much for being on the show.Folks. Good to be the Match dot
org. Learn a little bit moreabout them. Sign up for a volunteer
doesn't take much time. I meanit's you fill it out online, take
a swab in the mouth and findout if you could be in a donor.
So, Hope, thank you somuch. We appreciate you being on
the show and more to come onthe Royal West Show. Thanks again,
Hope, thank you. Welcome backto the Royal West Show. I'm your
(21:56):
host, Zach Styles. We've hada shows so far and we're gonna keep
it going. We always have thebest guests and today is a day like
no other. We've got the oneand only April Tolbert with Farmers Insurance Agency.
April Welcome to the show. Hi, Zach, thank you so much
for having me. I really Ialways enjoy that and I can't say thank
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you enough to you and to Royfor this show. I love listening to
this show. You guys really doalways have the best guests, and yeah,
I keep I keep up with what'shappening in Southeast Texas through you guys.
That's right, and that's what weaim to do. We want to
make sure that people understand some ofthe best businesses that they can go to
for services such as yourself for insurance, but also what's going on in our
community with nonprofits and things like that, April, Man, I tell you,
(22:45):
this spring has been a wild spring. We've had some crazy weather.
We had a hailstorm about four weeksago that was kind of nuts and wild.
And you know, people I don'tthink understand the benefit of always having
an insurance agent right right here locallythat understands the coverages that we need and
things like that. And one thingthat I get a lot of times is,
you know, coverage is changing andpeople not understanding those changes. April,
(23:08):
So in your business and your businessmodel, you know, what are
some things that you're seeing and doing, you know, to help make sure
your clients understand the different insurances availableto them at coverages. Well, that
is a very good question. Iappreciate that very much because I know you
know from experience not only are personalexperience, but helping people with their mortgages.
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You know, the experience is notalways good with insurance. And so
what we try to do in myagency is, yes, we are a
local agency. We're all local people. We know insurance in Southeast Texas and
we have multiple insurance carriers. Iknow everyone knows me, as April toldber
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the farmers agents, but what theydon't usually know until they get to me
is that we actually have multiple carriersoutside of Farmers that we place people through
is Well. So we do alot of research on the policies, on
the companies, on the available coverages, to compare one policy to another,
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so that you're not when you're shoppingfor your insurance, you're not just getting,
oh, here's the cheapest price.You're getting Okay, this one might
be the cheapest, this one's themost expensive, here's one that's in the
middle. But let me explain toyou the differences, so that way you're
making an educated decision. You're makinga choice that's best for you. Sometimes
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the least expensive might be the absolutebest. Sometimes it's the middle of the
road. Sometimes it's the more expensivethat people want because of the extra coverages
that are involved. So what Isay all the time is just don't wait
till it's too late. We're cominginto hurricane season here coming up in a
couple of weeks June first as thestart of hurricane season. So educate yourself
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about your insurance. Please know whoyou're gonna call if that worst case scenario
happens, if we have another hillstorm come through that pounds your roof,
or if we have a tropical storm, a hurricane of flood you know,
make sure you know who you're goingto call, and make sure that they
are talking to you about your optionsfor deductibles, for coverages, for extras
(25:18):
that you might not necessarily know thatyou need. If your agent is not
asking you questions like do you haveexpensive pieces of jewelry, do you own
a golf carter or an ATV?You know, those kind of things may
need extra coverage. They may notbe covered by your homeowners policy the way
you would like them to be.So just make sure you've got a good
(25:40):
relationship with your insurance agent, becausein Southeast Texas, unfortunately, we have
to use our insurance a lot morethan people in other parts of the country
do. That's right, and I'mglad you mentioned that, because I think
some people even moving to this area, you know, they may have been
in an area in North Texas oreven another state where they're not familiar with
the windstorm coverages, flood coverages andthings like that, and all of a
(26:03):
sudden they start shopping insurance down here, and they're not understanding, well,
if they're from another area, they'renot understanding that, No, you really
need good insurance down here because youactually will use it, unlike the area
that you came from. And Ihave that conversation a lot of times with
people when they're wanting to know abouttheir monthly note and things like that.
It's like, no, look,I promise you whatever X Y and Z
mortgage company or whatever they said yourinsurance. Because they're from out of state.
(26:26):
They said it was going to beone hundred dollars a month. I
was like, they're not. Theydon't get the game here, you know.
And you know, kind of backto your point. You know,
you could get insurance from from anywhere, right, but having somebody that you
can sit down and talk to andthat answers the phone, you know,
that goes a long ways. AndI think that people need to understand that
(26:47):
the April Tolber team, they're goingto answer their phone. They're gonna be
accessible to you so that you canget those answers that you need in a
fast and quick timely manner. Oh. I really appreciate you saying that,
because we'll go back to that hailstorm that happened four weeks ago or so.
You know, a perfect example.It happened on a Saturday afternoon to
Saturday, you know, late afternoon, early evening. And guess what April
(27:08):
was doing. Guess what my teamwas doing. We were answering our phones.
We were returning calls from our office. We were answering texts on our
cell phones, texts that were beingsent to the office, you know,
as people cars were being damaged,people afraid that their roofs might be damaged,
you know, and giving those peopleadvice and kind of fucking them through
(27:29):
what the next steps are and determiningand filing claims if we need to,
you know, if that warrants.So, you know, that's the kind
of service that we want to provideto our friends and neighbors in Southeast Texas.
So I know, having you know, I hate to say cheap insurance,
but the least expensive insurance. Itcomes to mind when you're just having
to pay for it the boy,whenever you have to use it. Having
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someone that you can call, evenon a Saturday afternoon, you know,
a Saturday evening, when that worstcase scenario is happening to you that will
help you and be there forward you. We find extreme value and our customers
really do value that service. Theyreally do and it's not just me,
you know, blowing smoke here,I promise, because one of my employees
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kind of will shout out to her. I won't mention her name, but
she had an issue in Houston onetime and she was in a bind and
with her family and April, youand your team, you know, got
her taken care of lickety split,and she had nothing but amazing things to
continue to say about you. Andshe had been a long time customer,
you know. So I guess that'sthe other thing. Just because you may
be a long term customer with somebody, April's you to treat you the same
(28:37):
way whether you're a long term customeror a first time you know. Quiet,
So thank you for that. Yeah, absolutely no, I appreciate that.
Thank you so much. And wedo we try to give that special
attention, that extra attention because weknow we're not always the cheapest insurance,
right, I mean, Farmers isn'talways the cheapest. Some of our other
companies aren't always the cheapest option.But our goal is to make sure word
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that you have the right coverage sothat when you do make that phone call
because something bad has happened, thatwe don't have to say, Oh,
I'm sorry, that's not covered byyour insurance. You know, we want
to make sure that you don't getthat that answer that you actually you are
able to file a claim and you'vegot a company that's going to take care
of you. Yeah. And theother thing that a lot of people don't
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understand about your agency it's a littlebit different, is everybody on your team
understands or is in the process ofunderstanding the whole ball of wax. So
it's neat to be able to Hey, you want to talk to April.
April or she may be in ameeting, but you can talk to one
of your team members in nine timesout of ten, unless it's just some
wacky thing like a monkey broke intoyour house and started destroying things. Like
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that person on the other end ofthe phone is going to understand to be
able to get the answers that youneed. That's right. All of my
team are all licensed. A matterof fact, they carried the same licensing
that I do. And they've allbeen trained and mentored by me, and
so they know, you know,they have been through some of those odd
experiences like you see on the farmer'scommercials. You know, or you know,
the dogs are swimming in the waterin the living room, you know,
(30:07):
and things like that. We reallydo have crazy things like that happen.
And so you know, they've allworked for me, you know,
mentored under me, and so weyou know, we've we've dealt with those
things together and we do work togetheras a team. And again they all
are licensed and so they can answerthose questions and basically take care of you
(30:27):
the same way I could. SoI have to give them a shout out
that Gabby and Ashley and ash Lynnand Lisa, you know, and Tommy
and Larry. I mean, they'refantastic, they really are, and they
have hearts of gold and they wantto help just you know, help anybody
who needs help with their insurance andwhether you're a customer of ours or not.
(30:49):
Yeah, and that's another cool thing. We got about a minute left,
April. But you know, Iknow that you look at other insurances
and competitors and you're able to breakthose down for people and help them with
those. But April, how canpeople reach you? Where can they find
you? Give us all that goodinformation? Yeah, if you if you've
you've seen your mortgagees scrow lately andyou've seen that increase most of the time.
(31:11):
As of right now, it's probablydue to your insurance because the insurance
rates are going sky high crazy inSoutheast Texas. So if that's happening to
you and you want to shop options, please call the team at April Tilbert
Insurance Agency. We're located at sixteenforty North Major Drive here in Beaumont and
you can reach us by phone fourO nine eight six six one two three
(31:33):
three. Find us on Facebook AprilTilber Insurance, Google, April tilberd Insurance.
We're all over social media. Reachout to us any which way.
We'd love to help you. FantasticApril, thank you so much for being
on the show. We always appreciateyour insight and your knowledge. Folks,
reach out to April today so she'llget you taken care of more coming up
on the Royal West Show. Thanksagain, April. Welcome back to the
(31:57):
Royal West Show. I'm your host, Zach Styles. We've had a great
show so far and we're gonna keepit going with Crime Stoppers. The one
and only Jeremy Raley. How areyou doing today, Jeremy? You know
I'm the wonderful beautiful outside and everything. So glad to be on here again.
It is beautiful outside, and youknow, this spring it's been kind
(32:20):
of wild, you know, justweatherwise, and a lot of things going
on, you know, and withall the things going on, crime still
happens, and Crime Stoppers is stillthere for all of Southeast Texas and surrounding
areas. Jeremy, for the peoplethat live, you know, maybe under
a rock or have never heard theshow, talk to me a little bit
about what crime Stoppers is in thesurfaces they all offer Southeast Texas. So
(32:43):
Crime Stoppers in Southeast Texas is afive O one C three nonprofit entity that
the way I just put it ingood terms is we are the ones that
helped bridge the gap between law enforcementand what we call tipsters. So we
have three ways that anybody can report. If they can report it through our
hotline number which is four h nineeight three three TPS, they can do
(33:06):
it on our website which is eightthree three tps dot com, or by
downloading the P three tips app ona mobile device. And when they do
send in those tips anonymously, that'sright, if they are guaranteed one anonymity
through government coach four fourteen. Sothe state of Texas really takes care of
them as being tipsters. But oncethey turn in that tip, we make
(33:27):
sure that the appropriate agency gets thattip. And once they get that tip,
they're able to do the investigation.And if the tip comes back as
a validated tip that did lead toan arrest or you know, confiscated or
a drug bust or any kind ofthing like that, then they are eligible
for a cash reward. Man Sototally anonymous, super easy to do,
(33:50):
whether it's on your phone, website, whatever, and potential for cash reward.
I mean, why wouldn't you justreport things all the time. Well,
you know a lot of people arescared of retaliation, of course.
I mean, the anonymity does guaranteethem that, and so we really really
make people understand that. That's thebackbone of our program is the anonymity,
because we want them to feel,you know, safe enough to report these
(34:14):
things. Not everybody wants to getinvolved. It's nothing new. And the
even better part of our program iswe have a campus Crime Stoppers program as
well. That's in the school districtsthroughout the three counties, so we cover
Orange County. Jefferson County in HardenCounty, So parents, check with your
students, you know, and andfind out more about your crime Stoppers program
(34:35):
on the campuses. So what Imean, So since we do have the
wonder only Jeremy Railey here, Sowhat is the crime Stoppers campus Because I
know we've talked about it a littlebit in the past, but what does
that look like? So you know, the students can do the same thing.
They can report things that are wrongon their campuses. You know,
our ultimate goal is not to getkids arrested or anything like that. We
want the kids to feel safe andhave a great educational environment. You know.
(35:00):
We want the kids to go toschool safe, the faculty to go
to school safe, and then leavethere and go home safe. So the
kids are able to report anything thatis wrong on campus. So if they
know if somebody's stealing on campus,vapes on campus, drugs on campus,
weapons, it doesn't matter. Andit gets even deeper, you know,
because nowadays in school, you know, there's a lot of peer pressure,
(35:22):
even more than what there used tobe. And you know, some kids
sometimes get to that depression stage oryou know, eating disorders and everything because
they feel that they have to bethe top notch of the class and everything.
So if students know that these thingsare going on, they can report
them. And whenever they report on, you know, it's the same thing.
(35:43):
It's anonymous. There's no way thatanybody will know that they did it
unless they just run around waving theirhands up in the air and say,
hey, guess what, I turnedin a crime stopper stip. But we've
been very, very successful with acampus program. I love that, so,
I mean, you know, andthat just gives parents, you know,
a little bit of peace of mindtoo, knowing that there's a program
in place. And I know thaty'all do a good job of making sure
(36:06):
that the parents and the teachers andeverybody on campuses understand it um and understanding
that they could potentially help solve acrime or stop a crime from even happening,
because oftentimes it may seem small,right, I mean, it may
start with sneaking a vape on campusor doing something like that. But oftentimes
when those things go on check,that's when you start seeing the kind of
(36:27):
that snowball effect. And I'm surey'all see it. Working with these different
agencies, that's you know, relationshipeven in. Um, you know what
what the stand worm that happens reactingversus proactive When one of these truss happened,
(36:52):
such as huvality and stuff like that. Um, you know, and
then you had the one just recentlyyou know that took place. When when
these things happen, you know,everybody gets on their guard and they're all
worried about it. Then they allwant to implement different rules and everything.
Well, this program is their twentyfour seven three sixty five. We had
a tip come in that was ona Friday evening. And when the tip
(37:14):
came in, it was about astudent that said that they were about to
shoot up a campus. You know. All it was with a social media
post with a student with a clockpointing the glock towards the camera just like
this, and the student just puta little sentence across the screen that staid
about to shoot up a school.Well, okay, schools out on you
(37:35):
know, at six thirty in theevening on a Friday. But here's the
deal. There were extracurricular activities takingplace across the campuses in that district that
weekend. So what was the intent? We don't know, but I'm not
about to gamble that we got intouch with the local sheriff's department and the
school of ICPD, and within thirtyminutes, the student was arrested and the
(37:55):
weapon was found. So did westop something We don't know, but I
like to surely think that that wedid, you know, make something not
escalated into something that it could havebeen, especially here. And I hate
to say it, but I alwaystell people it's not a matter of if.
It's when we're just in that pointin time that we have to really
(38:17):
think about it from that standpoint.Yeah. Absolutely, Man, that's a
great story, um, And Iknow that y'all just have story after story
after story where people are making theseanonymous tips, and it's just important that
people realize that it's anonymous and it'seasy to do. Jeremy, Um,
where can people learn a little bitmore about crime stoppers and what y'all offer?
(38:38):
So I'm sorry, what else?I'm sorry? Where can people learn
it a little bit more about yourabout crime stoppers and where they can make
tips and things like that. Youknow, they can they can contact myself,
they can email me. My emailaddress is admin at eight three three
tfps dot com and more than welcometo ask me to come. I'll do
(39:01):
a presentation for you know, anywherefrom jobs, to schools to you know,
apartment complexes, it doesn't matter.We want the word to get out
there. We want people to understandthat this is something that's not just your
fly by night deal. I ama person that's here in Southeast Texas.
I live here, I'm bested here. This is my community and my family's
(39:22):
playground, so we want to makesure that our area is safe. I
want my wife to feel safe andeverything. So please reach out and you
know, if you've got any questionsor anything, I'd be more than happy
to help you out. Fantastic Jeremy, And what's the website again? One
more time? They can go toeight three three tpps dot com. They
(39:42):
can also call the hotline four Onine eight three three TPS or download the
P three tips app on a mobiledevice. Fantastic Jeremy. Thanks for being
on the show. We always appreciateyour insight with crimestopers. Thank you my
pleasure, Thank y'all so much forhaving us. Welcome back to the Royal
West Show. I'm your host,Zach Styles. We had a great show
(40:05):
today. We got to visit withthe one and only Dana Johnson. We
got to talk about her real estatecareer and all the amazing things going on
in the real estate world. Butwe also got to talk about s'more,
which is a program for single moms, and that's a single moms overjoyed,
regiminated, and empowered. You canlearn more about them at Smore for Women
(40:27):
dot org, or you can alwayscall Dana Johnson at four or nine three,
five one two one zero three.They've got a fun event coming up
Bingo Nights, so if you'd liketo get more information about that, give
Dana a call again. That's fourzero nine and three five one two one
zero three. We all so gotto visit with Be the Match and that
is a partnership between BASF and TotalGreat Golf Tournament. There. We got
(40:54):
to visit about how successful that wasand uh, you know a little bit
about Be the Match and us someother neat things going on with Be the
Match. You can go to WeSave Lives dot b the Match dot org
to learn more about that program andthat organization. We got to visit with
April Tolbert Insurance and all Things Insurance. That was a lot of fun,
(41:15):
and then we got to wrap itup with Jeremy Raley with crime stoppers and
some of the neat things that theydo right here in our community. Folks.
The show has been brought to youby the Roy West team of Guild
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