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Speaker 1 (00:16):
This says the Uncle Henry Show here on news radio
seven to ten WNTM. Now, in this half hour of show,
I'm a little more nervous than usual because I've got
a colonel and a retired rear admiral. I got a
colonel and a retired real admiral in the room, and
I don't even know if I'm am I gentlemen, am
(00:38):
I standing correctly to talk to men of your stature.
We'll let you slide this, okay, Well, thank you, I
appreciate the slack. Now we've got Colonel John Kilpatrick here
and retired Rear Admiral Kent Davis, both from That's Recovered.
Thank you both for coming in and talking about your organization.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
It's great to be here.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
Thanks for having us.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
Now, I want to find out real quick before we
get into why you're here and VET recover, I just
want to congratulate Colonel Kylepatrick. You are you the veteran
of the year this year. That's what they told me,
Veteran of the Year. What does that feel like to
be Veteran of the Year.
Speaker 3 (01:14):
Well, I tell you it's really humbling. Honestly, I don't
really care for all the attention but it is a
nice platform to bring attention to the work that we do.
I think that's really the most important part of it.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
Okay, well, let's talk about the work you do. The
reason you're here is to promote. We have a concert
coming up for ninety five KSJ on Veteran's Day on
Daulphin Island. Dylan Carmichael is the headliner. You can get
tickets now eleven dollars advanced tickets at ninety five KSJ
dot com. We're doing this to raise money for vets Recover.
(01:47):
So what is vetch Recover.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
Well, Vet's Recover is based right here in Mobile, Alabama,
and this community should be proud because for almost ten
years they've been doing outpatients services and now in patient
services for veterans. Most veterans are doing great in life,
they've made a good transition, but we know there's a
subset of veterans that just need a hand up, especially
with mental health issues, and veter Recovery provides out patient services,
(02:15):
in patient services, and even detox services for veterans who
might need that.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
Now, John Kirkpatrick, you you founded this right.
Speaker 3 (02:23):
I did, so, you know, like I was telling you
before the show, we you know, it really kind of
started out of my own need and my own recovery.
So what we know about veterans who struggle is, you know,
they don't like to ask for help. We don't like
to ask for help, and we typically are not going
to take help from somebody who we don't trust. And
so we know that that other veterans who've been through,
(02:44):
who struggle with substance use or a mental health issue,
we have a unique perspective, and the veteran who's struggling
will listen to somebody who's been there a lot more
than they'll listen to somebody who hasn't experienced military life
or combat or you know, we just want to talk
to people like us, and so that's really the basis
of vetri Cover. You know, I started out, you know,
(03:06):
I've been in for almost forty years now, struggle with alcohol.
Myself got recovery, and so it really just kind of
grew out of my own personal recovery, just trying to
help the next guy. And so that's a very powerful model,
and so we take other veterans. We've got several veteran
peer support specialists who are living their own recovery and
(03:28):
they work at vetro cover and really helped the veterans
kind of navigate the healthcare system, the VA the services
we provide, and it's very powerful and it's something that's
really unique to VET recover.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
So veterans helping veterans. Imagine that's for recoverness. So talk
to me about the other guy you talked about. You
you got yourself right and you wanted to help the
other guy. How many other guys are there out there
that need your help?
Speaker 3 (03:53):
Well, I mean last year in our clinical programs we
saw a little over eight hundred folks. Over the last
ten years, I mean, gosh, it's got to be thousands.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
This is all here, local, it's all local.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
You know, we started right here. We renovated an old
school overall spring Ht Avenue right in midtown. You know,
we now have our outpatient clinic and our you know,
thirty four bed residential treatment facility. That's state of the art.
I mean, there's really nothing like it.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
Tell me about your typical the typical person, the typical
veteran that you help.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
Let me let me explain that's recovers in the right
place at the right time, Because we are seeing increasing
rates of PTSD in Iraq and Afghanistan veterans. We're also
seeing Vietnam veterans as well. We see a whole range.
Alabama unfortunately, tends to have some of the highest rates
(04:50):
of mental health issues amongst veterans. We have a very
high veteran suicide rate. That's a tragedy in this state.
That' recover That unique model of using traditional clinicians combined
with peer support specialists is a very effective model. There
are a shortage of those services to address veterans, and
(05:12):
we are seeing rising rates of mental health issues amongst veterans. Again,
it's a subset of veterans, but vet's recovers in the
right place at the right time. I firmly believe.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
Well, and I'm hearing these numbers from you, that a
lot of folks that don't see the issue every day
would never realize how many veterans do need your help.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
Yeah, I mean, just you know, in Alabama we have
about four hundred thousand veterans, So generally speaking, eighty percent
of them are never going to need a clinical intervention.
They're going to get everything they need in their community,
their job, their church, their family. About twenty percent are
going to need something, and about eighty percent of them
will need you know, an outpage, they just need to
(05:55):
talk to a counselor up peer, and then a small
subset of them are gonna need a very intensive residential,
you know, clinical medical intervention. And that's really what we
started for. So those are the guys that are gonna
die either by an overdose or suicide if they don't
get the help that they need. It's a very small number,
(06:17):
but a huge impact.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
Have you have you intervened? Have you helped people that
were considering taking their own life.
Speaker 3 (06:24):
Over the last well, I've been at this for a
long time, even before we started That's Recover. But I
would say in the last ten years, I've personally taken
the gun out of probably one hundred miles.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
And that is that is just a breath taking thing
to hear.
Speaker 3 (06:41):
It's it's a breath taking thing to do. And why
I keep showing up it is very.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
Well, you certainly know what your purpose is here on
this planet right now?
Speaker 2 (06:51):
Do you not?
Speaker 3 (06:52):
No doubt at all? And it's not just me, I
mean there's you know, like I said, most of the
folks that Ve's Recover are also veterans. I'm not the
only one doing this work. I mean, we've got a
whole team of folks. But there's just something very unique about,
you know, going to see a veteran who's in a
struggle that you've experienced, and we can talk to them
(07:13):
in a way that really cuts through all of the
minutia and just gets down to the point, and we
can communicate with them in a way that really nobody
else can.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
Just to bring it all home. Statistics sometimes can be powerful.
So on nine to eleven, we just stopped and commemorated
the twenty fourth anniversary of the nine eleven attacks. We
lost three thousand people on nine eleven, two thousand and one,
and we've lost about seven thousand service members in combat
since nine to eleven, places like Rereck in Afghanistan. Most
(07:48):
people don't realize that we are. Probably a conservative estimate
is we're approaching two hundred thousand veterans suicide since nine
to eleven. That figure alone, two hundred thousand lives lost
in the veteran community to suicide. In Alabama, we lose
a veteran to suicide about every thirty six hours in
(08:10):
this state. We are in the business of saving lives
at Vet's Recover, and we are firmly convinced we have
a great model to save those lives.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
Hey, we're going to talk more about this in the
next segment. But if someone wants to help right now,
of course, we're going to tell you how to buy
tickets to this concert. But if somebody wants to help
right now, how can they get to you to help?
Speaker 3 (08:33):
So we answer our phone twenty four hours a day,
and a veteran answer to the phone, so literally they
can call anytime. It's two five to one, four zero, five, three,
six seven seven, And again, a veteran answer to the phone,
twenty four hours a day, and all they have to
do is call and ask for help.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
All right, We're going to be back with more on
Vets Recover as The Uncle Henry Show continues here on WNTM.
The Uncle Henry Show continues here on news Radio seven
to ten WNTM. We have news headlines coming up in
ten minutes. In this segment of the show, we're talking
(09:10):
about BET's recover. We have John Kilpatrick and Ken Davis
here from Bets Recover. Really some staggering stats. In the
last segment of the show about the mental health of
a lot of veterans in Alabama that need help. BETS
recover is veterans helping veterans recover. So what do you
(09:30):
need to do your job better?
Speaker 2 (09:32):
Well, we largely rely on grants and donations to do
our job. We don't turn anybody away, regardless of their
ability to pay. In fact, just over the past year long,
we've provided about one point seven million dollars in uncompensated
treatment to veterans. That's out of the kindness of a
lot of benefactors and those grants that come in. So
to do these services, it does take money, and we
(09:55):
always rely on the kindness of those who hand out
grants and more importantly, those who want to donate to
the cause. Every penny I promise that we take in
goes directly to serve those veterans who have served their
country and we're in the business of saving their lives.
Speaker 1 (10:11):
Now, I mentioned in our last segment, we're doing a
Veterans Day concert with ninety five KSJ, the headliners Dylan Carmichael.
It's going to be on Dolphin Island at Doherty's. Advanced
tickets are eleven dollars. You the listener can go ahead
and get that ticket at ninety five KSJ dot com.
And we want to thank Taylor Martino Rownd Law Firm
(10:32):
for sponsoring this. They're helping us keep these ticket prices down.
So thank you to Taylor Martino round Law Firm. I
know Ed Rowan as a marine, if I remember correctly.
But if somebody wants to do more than the eleven
dollars ticket, can they just do they visit your website?
Do they call you? How do you want them to
get in touch?
Speaker 3 (10:51):
They can get in touch with us anyway they like.
Speaker 1 (10:54):
OK.
Speaker 3 (10:54):
Yeah, So just just recently, we created the Veterans Endowment
Fund and that's a it's a new separate five oh
one C three organization specifically designed UH to create an
endowment so that so that we can pay for uncompensated
care at vetro Cover. You know, we've got a staff
of doctors, you know, physicians, social workers, counselors, therapists, we
(11:18):
have a full nursing staff. You know, our overhead is
is not cheap, and it costs a lot of money
to deliver the life saving care that we deliver, and
so we want to make sure that we never turn
anyone away. And so we see a lot of veterans
who are not eligible or they're not enrolled in be
a healthcare and those are the guys who are falling
through the gap. So we're really there to fill that gap.
(11:39):
So they can go to our website vetrocover dot org.
We've got a golf tournament coming up on the sevenths.
You can certainly support that. You know the best way
you know, I say, if all else fails, just call
the number two five, one, four oh five, three, six,
seven seven. We will we will help you give money
to support VET re Cover in any way that you need.
Speaker 1 (12:02):
Do you also, do you need any vets who want
to help, who want to do what you're doing.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
Yes, we love to have people come in and volunteer.
We have a whole community integration program where we work
with partners in the community. We love to have civic groups,
church groups come in and do service projects with us
and connect with those veterans and first responders. We not
only treat veterans, we treat veterans, first responders and their
families or our primary audience. So those who serve in uniform,
(12:31):
if you really want to thank them for their service,
you can support Vets Recover.
Speaker 1 (12:38):
And I know you talked about the mental health challenges
that veterans have. How many of our veterans are also
in the streets, Well, it depends on who you ask, right,
I know, it's hard to quantify.
Speaker 3 (12:52):
Yeah, I know we see a lot, you know we
I think we saw one hundred and seventy homeless veterans
last year.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
One hundred and seventy homeless veterans last year, that's correct.
That's on the local level. So when I see somebody
sleeping on a sidewalk in front of a bank, could
be a veteran, could be somebody that defended this country,
that's right.
Speaker 2 (13:14):
Yeah, we take a holistic approach when we treat a veteran.
We don't just cut them loose. There are an alumnus
of our organization, and we work with a lot of organizations.
We work with Hope for All and Housing for Veterans
for instance here in Mobile, so we stay in a
long term relationship with that veteran to see what their
needs are.
Speaker 1 (13:34):
Okay, well, we're running short on time here. So the
website is vetracover dot org.
Speaker 3 (13:39):
That's correct.
Speaker 1 (13:40):
We got the concert coming up on Daulphin Island for
Veterans Day. You can get tickets at ninety five KSJ
dot com. And you've got a golf tournament coming up
in November.
Speaker 3 (13:49):
We do at Magnolia Grove and it's going to be
for the endowment. It's called the Veterans Endowment Fund. And
I think it's on our website. If not, it's certainly
on our Facebook page.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
All right, well, thank you so much for coming in
and talking about this. Please keep my number and come
in anytime you want to get some publicity for something.
Speaker 2 (14:10):
Absolutely, thanks so much for your time, and.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
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This says the Uncle Henry Show here on news radio
seven to ten WNTM. Now, in this half hour of show,
I'm a little more nervous than usual because I've got
a colonel and a retired rear admiral. I got a
colonel and a retired real admiral in the room, and
I don't even know if I'm am I gentlemen, am
(00:38):
I standing correctly to talk to men of your stature.
We'll let you slide this, okay, Well, thank you, I
appreciate the slack. Now we've got Colonel John Kilpatrick here
and retired Rear Admiral Kent Davis, both from That's Recovered.
Thank you both for coming in and talking about your organization.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
It's great to be here.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
Thanks for having us.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
Now, I want to find out real quick before we
get into why you're here and VET recover, I just
want to congratulate Colonel Kylepatrick. You are you the veteran
of the year this year. That's what they told me,
Veteran of the Year. What does that feel like to
be Veteran of the Year.
Speaker 3 (01:14):
Well, I tell you it's really humbling. Honestly, I don't
really care for all the attention but it is a
nice platform to bring attention to the work that we do.
I think that's really the most important part of it.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
Okay, well, let's talk about the work you do. The
reason you're here is to promote. We have a concert
coming up for ninety five KSJ on Veteran's Day on
Daulphin Island. Dylan Carmichael is the headliner. You can get
tickets now eleven dollars advanced tickets at ninety five KSJ
dot com. We're doing this to raise money for vets Recover.
(01:47):
So what is vetch Recover.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
Well, Vet's Recover is based right here in Mobile, Alabama,
and this community should be proud because for almost ten
years they've been doing outpatients services and now in patient
services for veterans. Most veterans are doing great in life,
they've made a good transition, but we know there's a
subset of veterans that just need a hand up, especially
with mental health issues, and veter Recovery provides out patient services,
(02:15):
in patient services, and even detox services for veterans who
might need that.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
Now, John Kirkpatrick, you you founded this right.
Speaker 3 (02:23):
I did, so, you know, like I was telling you
before the show, we you know, it really kind of
started out of my own need and my own recovery.
So what we know about veterans who struggle is, you know,
they don't like to ask for help. We don't like
to ask for help, and we typically are not going
to take help from somebody who we don't trust. And
so we know that that other veterans who've been through,
(02:44):
who struggle with substance use or a mental health issue,
we have a unique perspective, and the veteran who's struggling
will listen to somebody who's been there a lot more
than they'll listen to somebody who hasn't experienced military life
or combat or you know, we just want to talk
to people like us, and so that's really the basis
of vetri Cover. You know, I started out, you know,
(03:06):
I've been in for almost forty years now, struggle with alcohol.
Myself got recovery, and so it really just kind of
grew out of my own personal recovery, just trying to
help the next guy. And so that's a very powerful model,
and so we take other veterans. We've got several veteran
peer support specialists who are living their own recovery and
(03:28):
they work at vetro cover and really helped the veterans
kind of navigate the healthcare system, the VA the services
we provide, and it's very powerful and it's something that's
really unique to VET recover.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
So veterans helping veterans. Imagine that's for recoverness. So talk
to me about the other guy you talked about. You
you got yourself right and you wanted to help the
other guy. How many other guys are there out there
that need your help?
Speaker 3 (03:53):
Well, I mean last year in our clinical programs we
saw a little over eight hundred folks. Over the last
ten years, I mean, gosh, it's got to be thousands.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
This is all here, local, it's all local.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
You know, we started right here. We renovated an old
school overall spring Ht Avenue right in midtown. You know,
we now have our outpatient clinic and our you know,
thirty four bed residential treatment facility. That's state of the art.
I mean, there's really nothing like it.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
Tell me about your typical the typical person, the typical
veteran that you help.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
Let me let me explain that's recovers in the right
place at the right time, Because we are seeing increasing
rates of PTSD in Iraq and Afghanistan veterans. We're also
seeing Vietnam veterans as well. We see a whole range.
Alabama unfortunately, tends to have some of the highest rates
(04:50):
of mental health issues amongst veterans. We have a very
high veteran suicide rate. That's a tragedy in this state.
That' recover That unique model of using traditional clinicians combined
with peer support specialists is a very effective model. There
are a shortage of those services to address veterans, and
(05:12):
we are seeing rising rates of mental health issues amongst veterans. Again,
it's a subset of veterans, but vet's recovers in the
right place at the right time. I firmly believe.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
Well, and I'm hearing these numbers from you, that a
lot of folks that don't see the issue every day
would never realize how many veterans do need your help.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
Yeah, I mean, just you know, in Alabama we have
about four hundred thousand veterans, So generally speaking, eighty percent
of them are never going to need a clinical intervention.
They're going to get everything they need in their community,
their job, their church, their family. About twenty percent are
going to need something, and about eighty percent of them
will need you know, an outpage, they just need to
(05:55):
talk to a counselor up peer, and then a small
subset of them are gonna need a very intensive residential,
you know, clinical medical intervention. And that's really what we
started for. So those are the guys that are gonna
die either by an overdose or suicide if they don't
get the help that they need. It's a very small number,
(06:17):
but a huge impact.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
Have you have you intervened? Have you helped people that
were considering taking their own life.
Speaker 3 (06:24):
Over the last well, I've been at this for a
long time, even before we started That's Recover. But I
would say in the last ten years, I've personally taken
the gun out of probably one hundred miles.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
And that is that is just a breath taking thing
to hear.
Speaker 3 (06:41):
It's it's a breath taking thing to do. And why
I keep showing up it is very.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
Well, you certainly know what your purpose is here on
this planet right now?
Speaker 2 (06:51):
Do you not?
Speaker 3 (06:52):
No doubt at all? And it's not just me, I
mean there's you know, like I said, most of the
folks that Ve's Recover are also veterans. I'm not the
only one doing this work. I mean, we've got a
whole team of folks. But there's just something very unique about,
you know, going to see a veteran who's in a
struggle that you've experienced, and we can talk to them
(07:13):
in a way that really cuts through all of the
minutia and just gets down to the point, and we
can communicate with them in a way that really nobody
else can.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
Just to bring it all home. Statistics sometimes can be powerful.
So on nine to eleven, we just stopped and commemorated
the twenty fourth anniversary of the nine eleven attacks. We
lost three thousand people on nine eleven, two thousand and one,
and we've lost about seven thousand service members in combat
since nine to eleven, places like Rereck in Afghanistan. Most
(07:48):
people don't realize that we are. Probably a conservative estimate
is we're approaching two hundred thousand veterans suicide since nine
to eleven. That figure alone, two hundred thousand lives lost
in the veteran community to suicide. In Alabama, we lose
a veteran to suicide about every thirty six hours in
(08:10):
this state. We are in the business of saving lives
at Vet's Recover, and we are firmly convinced we have
a great model to save those lives.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
Hey, we're going to talk more about this in the
next segment. But if someone wants to help right now,
of course, we're going to tell you how to buy
tickets to this concert. But if somebody wants to help
right now, how can they get to you to help?
Speaker 3 (08:33):
So we answer our phone twenty four hours a day,
and a veteran answer to the phone, so literally they
can call anytime. It's two five to one, four zero, five, three,
six seven seven, And again, a veteran answer to the phone,
twenty four hours a day, and all they have to
do is call and ask for help.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
All right, We're going to be back with more on
Vets Recover as The Uncle Henry Show continues here on WNTM.
The Uncle Henry Show continues here on news Radio seven
to ten WNTM. We have news headlines coming up in
ten minutes. In this segment of the show, we're talking
(09:10):
about BET's recover. We have John Kilpatrick and Ken Davis
here from Bets Recover. Really some staggering stats. In the
last segment of the show about the mental health of
a lot of veterans in Alabama that need help. BETS
recover is veterans helping veterans recover. So what do you
(09:30):
need to do your job better?
Speaker 2 (09:32):
Well, we largely rely on grants and donations to do
our job. We don't turn anybody away, regardless of their
ability to pay. In fact, just over the past year long,
we've provided about one point seven million dollars in uncompensated
treatment to veterans. That's out of the kindness of a
lot of benefactors and those grants that come in. So
to do these services, it does take money, and we
(09:55):
always rely on the kindness of those who hand out
grants and more importantly, those who want to donate to
the cause. Every penny I promise that we take in
goes directly to serve those veterans who have served their
country and we're in the business of saving their lives.
Speaker 1 (10:11):
Now, I mentioned in our last segment, we're doing a
Veterans Day concert with ninety five KSJ, the headliners Dylan Carmichael.
It's going to be on Dolphin Island at Doherty's. Advanced
tickets are eleven dollars. You the listener can go ahead
and get that ticket at ninety five KSJ dot com.
And we want to thank Taylor Martino Rownd Law Firm
(10:32):
for sponsoring this. They're helping us keep these ticket prices down.
So thank you to Taylor Martino round Law Firm. I
know Ed Rowan as a marine, if I remember correctly.
But if somebody wants to do more than the eleven
dollars ticket, can they just do they visit your website?
Do they call you? How do you want them to
get in touch?
Speaker 3 (10:51):
They can get in touch with us anyway they like.
Speaker 1 (10:54):
OK.
Speaker 3 (10:54):
Yeah, So just just recently, we created the Veterans Endowment
Fund and that's a it's a new separate five oh
one C three organization specifically designed UH to create an
endowment so that so that we can pay for uncompensated
care at vetro Cover. You know, we've got a staff
of doctors, you know, physicians, social workers, counselors, therapists, we
(11:18):
have a full nursing staff. You know, our overhead is
is not cheap, and it costs a lot of money
to deliver the life saving care that we deliver, and
so we want to make sure that we never turn
anyone away. And so we see a lot of veterans
who are not eligible or they're not enrolled in be
a healthcare and those are the guys who are falling
through the gap. So we're really there to fill that gap.
(11:39):
So they can go to our website vetrocover dot org.
We've got a golf tournament coming up on the sevenths.
You can certainly support that. You know the best way
you know, I say, if all else fails, just call
the number two five, one, four oh five, three, six,
seven seven. We will we will help you give money
to support VET re Cover in any way that you need.
Speaker 1 (12:02):
Do you also, do you need any vets who want
to help, who want to do what you're doing.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
Yes, we love to have people come in and volunteer.
We have a whole community integration program where we work
with partners in the community. We love to have civic groups,
church groups come in and do service projects with us
and connect with those veterans and first responders. We not
only treat veterans, we treat veterans, first responders and their
families or our primary audience. So those who serve in uniform,
(12:31):
if you really want to thank them for their service,
you can support Vets Recover.
Speaker 1 (12:38):
And I know you talked about the mental health challenges
that veterans have. How many of our veterans are also
in the streets, Well, it depends on who you ask, right,
I know, it's hard to quantify.
Speaker 3 (12:52):
Yeah, I know we see a lot, you know we
I think we saw one hundred and seventy homeless veterans
last year.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
One hundred and seventy homeless veterans last year, that's correct.
That's on the local level. So when I see somebody
sleeping on a sidewalk in front of a bank, could
be a veteran, could be somebody that defended this country,
that's right.
Speaker 2 (13:14):
Yeah, we take a holistic approach when we treat a veteran.
We don't just cut them loose. There are an alumnus
of our organization, and we work with a lot of organizations.
We work with Hope for All and Housing for Veterans
for instance here in Mobile, so we stay in a
long term relationship with that veteran to see what their
needs are.
Speaker 1 (13:34):
Okay, well, we're running short on time here. So the
website is vetracover dot org.
Speaker 3 (13:39):
That's correct.
Speaker 1 (13:40):
We got the concert coming up on Daulphin Island for
Veterans Day. You can get tickets at ninety five KSJ
dot com. And you've got a golf tournament coming up
in November.
Speaker 3 (13:49):
We do at Magnolia Grove and it's going to be
for the endowment. It's called the Veterans Endowment Fund. And
I think it's on our website. If not, it's certainly
on our Facebook page.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
All right, well, thank you so much for coming in
and talking about this. Please keep my number and come
in anytime you want to get some publicity for something.
Speaker 2 (14:10):
Absolutely, thanks so much for your time, and.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
Now we are out of time here on the Uncle
Henry Show on News Radio seven to ten WNTM. Now
a reminder that if you ever want to listen back
to previous episodes of the Uncle Henry Show, they are
available as a podcast on the iHeartRadio app. Look on
the iHeartRadio app for the Uncle Henry Show. And this
year we have that iHeart Radio app updated to be
(14:34):
more like a car radio, so you can actually set
a preset for the Onclemery Show in the iHeartRadio app,
or you can set a pre set for News Radio
seven to ten WNTM in the iHeartRadio app. You'll make
it really easy to find me or the radio station
anytime you open up that app. And if you're a
big fan of radio in general, I think I've told
(14:56):
you this before. The app has a feature where you
can you you can enter a zip code or enter
the name of a city, and you can scan the
radio dial live in that city and just hear what's
on in the radio on the radio in that city.
So iHeartRadio app a great fun app to have there
on the phone. You can also find the unc Clambery
(15:17):
Show as a podcast at NewsRadio seventy ten dot com
or on iTunes or any of those other places that
weirdos get their podcasts. All right out of time. Thank
you so much for listening to the Uncleanbery Show. I
appreciate that ver very much. As they say in Sarahland,
have a good one. And by the way, I did
hear I heard that same phrase in Midtown last week,
(15:42):
although it was given to me in a foreign accent.
But as they say in sarah Land, have a good one.
As they say in Theodore, take it easy all right
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