November 14, 2025 • 37 mins
Tim Virgilio does yeomans work for the hobby charity "Signatures for Soldiers", it's been double digit years and he's shattered his own goals for the organization which helps wounded and disabled veterans.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Sports, Guard Nations, Hobbies, the People, Weely News and Interviews.
It's yon number one song Sportscarnations.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Hobby is the people.
Speaker 3 (00:17):
Sports Guarnation. What is up? Everybody? Welcome to episode three
sixty two, and you know it's Friday. Tuesday was Veterans Day,
and it was a day where we, you know, think
about all those who are serving or have served in
(00:40):
their past to you know, defend our country home and abroad.
And we're blessed to live in a great country where
for the most part, we have the freedoms to do
many things we want to do. So I had a
day off from school Tuesday, and many people had the
(01:01):
day off from work. But I hope for most it's
more than just a day off, right, I mean, that's great,
and enjoy it right when we get days off, But
think about those who you know are keeping all our
freedoms and and you know, risking their own well being
(01:26):
to do so, you know that's served in the past
and currently serving. And sometimes I think people get Veterans
Day Immemorial Day mixed up or you know, interchange right,
Memorial days where we think about the people we lost
and we can do that every day. And same thing
(01:48):
with Veterans Day. Veterans Day is moored like to honor
just everyone who has served, whether they you know, made
the ultimate sacrifice or not, right, doesn't matter. Right. So again,
you know something I think about almost every day, and
(02:08):
the guests coming back for part two of our conversation,
I know it's near and dear to his heart as well.
And that's Timbergillio of Signatures for Soldiers. So he was
on last week. This is part two of that conversation.
And I'll be lying if I said I scheduled it
(02:28):
intentionally like that, because it wouldn't be true. But works
out that we you know, his two interviews kind of
sandwich Veterans Day, and check out Signatures for Soldiers and
what they're doing and if you can make a donation
or buy some signatures, one hundred percent of the proceeds
(02:49):
go to the organization to help homeless vets, wounded vets,
vets that need help, whether it's paying a bill or
having something built, or they need something medically. That organization
tries to get it done, not tries, they do get
(03:09):
it done for those folks and has a hobby, you know,
relation to it as well. So you can buy some
hobby stuff and help some great people in the process.
That's a win win if you ask me so. Enough
with the intro here, want to thank my sponsors Upper
(03:31):
Deck Sports Collectors, Digest Iron Sports Cards, Hobby Hotline making
the show possible. But we're going to get the show
started and talk with Part two with Timberrgillio of Signatures
for Soldiers. All right, here is part two of our
conversation with Timberrgilio of Signatures for Soldiers. I'm going to
(03:53):
start out kind of leading into like asking him about
maybe more hobby entity East getting involved with Signature Soldier.
Now they do have some and that's awesome, but yeah,
I love to even see more. So that's kind of
where we're going here when we start out the second
part coming up right now. I like to see maybe
(04:15):
some more hobby companies, whether that be supply companies, whether
that be the big time manufacturers themselves, the fanatics, slashtops,
Panini and others, uh, you know, sort of get get involved.
And I don't. I don't want to make it like
they're doing nothing for charity. They all usually do something, uh,
(04:37):
but more, maybe more for a charity. That's a sort
of hobby uh, you know, hobby centered, hobby based. It's
right in their own backyard, so to speak. Right, Yeah,
I mean that's something. Is that something you you hope happens.
Is this something that you that you reach out you know,
(04:58):
have you have? There's been and I wanted to you know,
you don't have to give away everything that goes on,
but is that something you've you've you know, sent feelers
out there or laid some of the groundwork. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (05:12):
Absolutely, I mean it's you know, that's one thing that
I've really worked hard at, is the relationship building. You know,
since probably since twenty eighteen, I've spent very little money
on hobby supplies because Ultra Pro and BCW have gotten
behind us and have you know, sent us stuff you
(05:34):
know as we which has been great, you know because
obviously that really cuts down on administrative expenses and that
just means, okay, you know they hypothetically they send me twenty.
Speaker 3 (05:44):
Dollars worth of supplies.
Speaker 4 (05:46):
You know, that's twenty dollars that I can turn around
and help, you know, get get a gift card for
for a veteran who's kind of struggling month to month
just to eat or you know, it's something like that.
So like those two companies and really good you know,
Heritage auctions. You know, we've gotten into a routine now
where kind of every August they're running an auction for us,
(06:10):
where literally they're waiving all the fees for us, so
all the money comes back to us. You know, We've
done that the last couple of years, and that alone
every year raises you know, twenty twenty one thousand dollars
in and of itself, which is huge. You know, Tops
has helped us in the past. I'm trying to who else.
(06:32):
I know, I'm out companies, but yeah, you know, and
then there's dealers that you know, have helped us, you know,
you know donating you know, donating product for us to
either sell or auction off or things like that. So yeah,
you know, you know, if any of those companies, you know,
any of the big companies, any of the smaller you know,
(06:53):
I mean pretty much, anytime anybody approaches me and says, hey,
you know, how can we help, you know, we want
to get you know, we definitely start to have some
conversations that way so that we figure out, you know,
what works best for everybody involved. You know, here locally
in Texas, there's a gentleman who puts together a show
twice a year. He's like ten, He's like, he's like,
(07:15):
every show, I have two tables set aside for you.
No charge, just get here and set up in your thing.
You know, So like even just things like that, and
you know, the guy's probably I mean, I don't know
how much he charges with tables, but you know, I mean,
you know the price of tables at card shows. You
know they can from seventy five dollars up depending on
(07:37):
the show.
Speaker 5 (07:38):
So I mean even just yea and there they're they're
never empties because there's usually a waiting list of dealers
who want to get in, right, So for that promoter
to say, hey, Kim, you know you.
Speaker 3 (07:51):
Have to with your name on it, you know, that's
knowing him that that's something he cares about and knows
is important. But I just kind of wanted to chime
in there.
Speaker 4 (08:02):
But yeah, but you know, but yeah, you know, back
to your point. You know the hobby may it's how
many billions of dollars in the hobby every year? And
you know, I I half joke and say, okay, if
if company A gave us a percent of a percent
(08:23):
of you know, that would basically basically be pennies on
the dollar for them, but would be huge we do
so so yeah, I'm I'm always I'm always trying to
build those relationships, you know, and and and not that
this should be the reason they do it, Tim, as
you well know.
Speaker 3 (08:41):
But it's also a tax right off for their books
as well. That shouldn't be that shouldn't be the leading factor.
But it's a it's a benefit helps you know, Yeah,
it's a it's a it's a fringe benefit, uh for
them as well as doing something good for for you know,
the community, the hobby, uh and veterans who served our
(09:05):
country that we get to enjoy all these freedoms like
going to a card show or opening a pack of
cards and that, uh, those sort of things. So uh,
you know, yeah, so again there's always room for for
more or even more long term, right Hey, let's we're
just on board. Uh. And if we don't exist anymore,
(09:27):
that's one thing. But as long as we exist, this
is what we're willing to do. Right And uh, you
mentioned Ultra pro and BCW. You know, anyone that collects
no supplies can get added up as you need them
and so that that again helps uh, you know, helps
you out with with obviously those have to be in
(09:49):
sleeves and top loaders, uh for presentation purposes. How much
uh you know obviously, like we talked about, you have
a nine to five job. What you know? I know
you probably again not to pat yourself on the back,
but this needs you know, I'll do it for you
in a sense by asking you know, how much what
(10:09):
kind of hours are you putting in you know, outside
of your your regular job. I guess you know, every
week's different. Maybe you don't do a show one week,
you do a show another, But you know, out of average,
what kind of time are you spending outside of your own,
you know job with the organization.
Speaker 4 (10:28):
Probably you know, evenings I'm probably doing you know, two
to three hours a night on average, and then you know,
weekends obviously depends on what's going on. I mean, you
know there's some saturdays I could spend it an entire day,
you know, putting putting in work, you know, and that
can be lots of an other show or just organizing
(10:48):
or listing or like you talked about earlier, you know,
packaging stuff up, getting it all out, you know, thing
like that. But you know, if I I mean, if
I had to guess, I mean, I hate to think
about it this in this way because I've always said,
you know, I'll do this as long as it's fun.
When it starts becoming work is calling a day. But
you know, I mean on average, probably twenty hours minimal
(11:12):
a week, you know, And I hate to think about
that because like, cool, well that's kind of a part
time job.
Speaker 3 (11:19):
But unders dad, that's half of that's half of a
forty hour work.
Speaker 4 (11:24):
Yeah, right, yeah, but but you know, if I'm not
doing that, then I'm probably doing something I probably should't.
Speaker 3 (11:30):
So and for you, like it's it's a labor of love,
right yet you're passionate about it, you love doing it,
you love helping folk, and again that's uh, that's kudos
uh to you. But I wanted to highlight that because
I know you don't necessary You're not gonna you know,
go on the mout top and bring that out, but
(11:51):
I think you know that's important to note that the
work you do and the time and the commitment you
have to it. And you know, I wanted the other thing.
You know, you're now in Texas as you mentioned, uh,
you were in Florida and you yourself had a couple
unfortunate you know, with weather related and flooding and some damage.
(12:14):
I mean just kind of uh. And yet you're still
you know, you you you over you got through that,
and and still you know, someone else might have said,
you know what I got, I got so much on
my plate with my own stuff and this, these bad
things happened. I gotta stop doing it, do it anymore?
And again estamate to you. You got through some of
(12:36):
these hardships, if you will. Uh, and signatures for soldiers
didn't have to suffer, so to speak. Uh uh, you
know kind of talk about uh some of that with
with living in Florida at the time and kind of
the move to Texas. Yeah, you know, I.
Speaker 4 (12:53):
Mean, I'm I'm just like anybody else. I mean, life happens.
You know, it's you know, I'm like, I think back
on it, you know, over eleven years, between my wife's
family and my family and friend, unfortunately, I've lost probably
a good dozen or so people.
Speaker 2 (13:11):
You know.
Speaker 4 (13:11):
We were living in Florida for seven years and in
the last four year our house flooded. Retime with the
last time putting three feet of water in our house,
so that kind of became the peroreal straw. It was
just time to move on, so you know, we went.
So then basically from September to January we were kind
(13:32):
of nomadic living VRB for thirty days in an apartment
with the bare minimum and furnishings, you know, the rest
of the then moving to Texas just to get out
of the get out of the path of the hurricanes
game too much. But you know, I've I'm blessed, probably
more than to be. You know, God's been good in
(13:55):
my wife, and you know, we just want to continue
to pay it forward, and this is our way to
do that. You know, I want for nothing. It's kind
of like today, you know, doing some stuff and my
wife was like, you know what would be good. Let's
let's stop and get a milkshake. I think we deserve
a milkshake, like, you know, like like I didn't have
to think about, you know, well could I afford the
(14:17):
milkshake or you know, anything like that, and so yeah,
you know, and that was really, you know, I think
what really, my wife and I have always been on giving,
not the receiving. This last time when our house flooded
and basically was a total loss. And we had so
many people, not just family friends, people that really only
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know me through sending your soldiers to say what can
we do to help you in your time of I
mean just you know, just talking about it now, I
mean I'm tearing up now because I'm just so moved
by it. So many You've done so much for others
want to help you. That was just some my wife
and not so grateful for.
Speaker 3 (14:59):
No, it's it's awesome. I'll give you a second here
and I'll kind of interject and even here and you
you know something, if you don't know what kind of
person Tom is, right, some of the stuff you went through,
like you said, with losses of flooding not once or twice,
but three times. And when I saw that, we're Facebook friends,
so I saw that and I just said, man, like,
(15:21):
this is horrible, like someone who's so giving of themselves.
And yet you know, even people of the strongest where
I'm going with this, even people of the strongest faith,
and I'm a person of faith, would have like have
a hard time. Some of that faith will get shaked shocken.
Let me put it that way. You know, when stuff
(15:42):
like that happens that often. And yet hearing you say
like how blessed you are and fortune like that's again
again that's a testament to who you are, you know,
and your wife as well, right where someone else would
maybe even blame God or say like, you know, is
there a guy like with this stuff? Like you know,
(16:04):
but yet your your your faith so strong that you
you find the good even in in in moments like that.
And that's tough, no doubt. Uh. But I mean that's
a lot of other people wouldn't wouldn't be like that.
I guess it's the short way that.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
I you know.
Speaker 4 (16:22):
I mean, you know, we've we've come out on the
other side of the storm literally and figured we're stronger
and we're better for it. You know, my wife, you know,
my wife and I. Anytime we really start to get
into a funk, you know, we we remind each other.
You know, there's people out there that would trade their
problems for ours and a heartbeat, you know that our
problems are not are not as bad, you know, like
(16:45):
talking about you know, homeless veterans tonight, you know I
have I'm not even thinking about where I'm laying my
head because I know it's going to be in my bed,
on my pillow under my roof. Life isn't that bad,
you know, I'm pretty darn blessed. So it's yeah, a
(17:09):
lot of a lot of things are perspective, you know.
You know, it's easy to it's very easy to get dragged.
It's hard to pull pull yourself, and you know, but
you become stronger for it. I think just to see
the hobby can be rallied behind my wife and I
that did more forever now and I almost feel like
(17:31):
I owe it to everybody else to keep going.
Speaker 3 (17:33):
You know, I owe it to everybody in the.
Speaker 4 (17:35):
Hobby to keep this thing going because there were so
many people that just I mean I had people that
were into Florida drinking two three hours just to help
my wife come and clean up our house. And you know,
and I mean you know, I've I never met them
prior to that, and they're like, you need help, I'm here,
you know, what do you need to do? You know,
(17:57):
it's just such a blessings. You know, this is what
I'm talking about, how this has just become a community which.
Speaker 3 (18:05):
Cares about one. Yeah, there's never enough, even though there's
a lot there's there's never enough. And I think you're
you're you know, you're a great spokesman for that with
what you're doing with Signature Soldiers. And I don't you know,
I know you said, well, people may be helping you
for I think people, I think humans, human nature at
(18:27):
least for most is to you know, try to help,
try to help others. But sometimes it's easier said than done, right,
or people will talk sometimes a good game, but when
it comes to action, you know, it's a different story.
So the fact that, like you said, people will drive
a couple hours to help out never met you in person,
per se again, that's a testament to human goodness and
(18:52):
and that there's people are are real like yourself and
that's important. Uh. I think that's important, And like you said,
kind of helps you to keep going as well. Right,
that stuff is you know, it can be inspired, You
can inspire others and you can be inspired yourself all
(19:12):
at the same time. And I know that I speak
to that myself. It's important, right, we need those we
need that in our lives. Should be no shortage of
people willing to do that.
Speaker 2 (19:30):
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Thanks for sticking with us. Let's return to the show.
Speaker 3 (20:11):
As the organization has grown, as you has the like
the space that you that of all this stuff. You know,
talk about the space when you and I guess the
space eleven years in.
Speaker 4 (20:25):
Yeah, you know, the space I guess when I started
was you know, a handful of five thousand count boxes
and in a spare closet.
Speaker 2 (20:34):
You know.
Speaker 4 (20:35):
Now, you know we have to rent a ten by
ten storage unit to keep overflow of stuff.
Speaker 3 (20:42):
You know.
Speaker 4 (20:43):
I have one room in our house that's dedicated to
just signatures for soldiers. You know, it's it's kind of
my own little mini man cave, kind of like your
worst there. You know, I've got the TV set up
so I can listen to music or watch a game
and stuff. You know, I've got two or three desks
in there for all the all the space that I need,
(21:05):
you know, the closets full of cards that are signed
and unsigned, stuff that needs to be sorted, and all
the supplies and so yeah, it's become quite a production.
Like you said, this was not what I envisioned.
Speaker 3 (21:22):
You know, that's not a mad thing.
Speaker 4 (21:23):
I mean, you know, I used to get stuff together
and then I'd have to go to the post office.
Way it pay for it. Now I've now I've got
the online account, I've got my own scale. You know,
I'm going to the post office just to drop stuff
off at you know. Yeah, it's like I said, it's
just while they stopping. Just how much in it?
Speaker 3 (21:45):
Yeah, well listen, it's amazing, uh, you know, because you're
you're doing you know, the omen's work and putting in,
like you said, twenty hours in addition to your regular job.
And and not a lot of people you know, can
keep up to maybe they could start it right, but
to keep up that sort of pace and to do
(22:06):
it for as long as you do it and continuing
to do it right. That my hat's off. I'm not
wearing a hat, but my hat's off to you, Tim.
And I know I've said that to you before, but
I don't think it can be said enough, you know
how you know, you talked about setting up at shows.
How many on average now per year? Like how many
(22:28):
shows do you get to part of signet? So yeah,
probably doing.
Speaker 4 (22:32):
Like six shows a year now, counting the National Obviously,
the Nationals is the show for us, that's our that's
our biggest fundraiser every year. You know, the last couple
of years we're bringing in you know, fifty to sixty
thousand dollars, which is probably about two thirds of our
fundraising every year, and so that that's far the biggest.
(22:54):
But otherwise, you know, the shows are just local shows,
you know, I mean Florida local shows. We're here Texas
and kind of getting settled in. Talked about the one
the Texas Sports Hall of Waco that looking to get
connected with someone Gonna loved to possibly trying to get
connected the Dallas show only a couple hours from there's
a big one in Austin or so, you know, So
(23:15):
there's definitely there's definitely kind of local show that I
can do on weekend, having to take time off and
travel the country and that type of thing. Definitely, there's
definitely big show at some point you just have to
logistics on that.
Speaker 3 (23:29):
So yeah, no, and and letting you're in you know,
you don't need me to tell you this. With Texas,
you know, there's a lot of hobby you know, I
know you're not in Dallas, but at least the same
state Dallas as a hobby hot bed. You mentioned the
Dallas Card Show. That's a lot of people who argue
it's the second biggest show or in you know, arguably
(23:52):
the second biggest show after the National or in you know,
one of the biggest shows in the country, you see,
you know, but the nash being sort of the super Bowl,
the hobby you take that out. The Dallas is a
huge show, uh in its own right.
Speaker 4 (24:08):
So there's so many great regional shows now. But I
don't ever remember a time like this, you know, you know,
the Anaheim Show, the Las Vegas show, you know, there's
just so many.
Speaker 3 (24:22):
Yeah, and even in cities, small little cities and towns
that never had shows before. I can tell you here
in New York. I'm in Central New York and we're
getting shows and cities you would have never even thought
about there being a show there.
Speaker 4 (24:37):
So yeah, yeah, I definite mean that's just that's just
that's just a testament to how how the hobby has
grown in popularity. And you know it's yeah, you find
shows all over the large and sometimes sometimes smaller shows
are some of the best shows.
Speaker 3 (24:53):
Yeah, I agree with you so well, Tim, I appreciate you.
You know, you're working c Sixty hours a week. You
make some time for us. I know that's not always easy.
And you know you already know how I feel about
you and and signatures for soldiers, and you know I
(25:14):
look forward to the National myself for obvious reasons, but
also getting to see giving you a hug and talking
with you in person as well, and you know, it's just,
you know, it's it's one of those inspiring hobby stories
that sometimes we don't talk again, we don't talk enough
about them. So anytime, you know, I've tried to have
(25:36):
those kind of folks on to highlight them, highlight what
they're doing because it's so important and just it's not
even necessary a hobby thing. I know, it's hobby based,
but just important to humans, right, you know, the human community,
not just they, but us as a whole, and especially
(26:00):
when it comes to people who have you know, given
to this country in more ways than one. And you know,
we talk about some of the physical stuff, but it's
even more than physical. You know, people who have served
some of the things they may have seen or you know,
coming back to society and it's difficult. Sometimes it's easier
(26:22):
said than done. And so the fact that your organization
can help those folks, you know, like you talk about
having a roof over your head and hearing someone, you know,
someone who served this country not having one of those
for twenty five years. That shouldn't happen. It's it's yeah.
Speaker 4 (26:42):
I just I think in doing this, the one thing
I've heard that has moved most, and both in good
and bad sense of that phrase, is when a veteran
says to I didn't I thought nobody. I didn't I
didn't think anybody, And you know that.
Speaker 3 (27:02):
I mean that.
Speaker 4 (27:03):
That just kind of sums up how some of these
women feel after they get out of the service. You know,
they're just tossed aside and nobody cares about it. You know,
I've talked about signature for soldiers a community, John, You've
been a huge part of them for seven years. You
know from day one, you and I that I'm just
I'm very grateful for your support and you continue to
(27:25):
help us get the word out there, and I'm blessed to.
Speaker 3 (27:27):
Be with call you.
Speaker 4 (27:28):
I will always make time for you.
Speaker 3 (27:30):
Well, I appreciate that. Likewise, I'm not gonna take a
lot of credit for that, because here's here's why, Tim,
Because I think it's easy to get behind something that's
so great, right, That's that's easy, and I think more
people should do it. So I'm not gonna, you know,
really pat myself on the back, you know, And I've
said this to you on air off air. You always
(27:54):
have a place on this podcast, on this show anything,
and I don't even make it just like and anything
we can do, I can do. It doesn't even have
to be like you said in view, we don't have
to do you know. That's nice too, but that's not
why you should do it. You should do it because
you care. And again I'm not saying I care just
(28:18):
because of this. I care regardless of this fact. But
coming from a family that's had a lot of military
personnel who have served current and past, you know, I
think it's important and I think you know, you mentioned
how the one soldiers says like they felt forgotten, right first,
of all shouldn't be the case. But I get that,
(28:41):
and you know, I think a lot of people there's
a misperception that when a soldier retires or is out
of the military, they're taken care of, and that's not
not the way people think. And there's there's people fall
through gaps. Some of the funds that you think they're getting,
they're not getting or not enough or not what they're
(29:04):
entitled to. And that's a whole show in itself. But
you know, so it's it's not easy that transition post
service career, even even when there's not injuries or or
stresses or trauma involved. And then you add in those
factors even even more so, and the fact that you're
(29:25):
there for those people so they're not forgotten like that
again is a testament to signatures for soldiers to Virgilio
and what you guys do. So it's easy for me
to say, you know, what can we do or come
on whenever you want to. That's what I should be
saying that I'm not you know, I'm not gonna do
(29:48):
any credit. I appreciate you saying that and saying thank you,
but that's what we we I should be doing and
it's easy to do. It's not hard for me to
do so and you.
Speaker 4 (29:59):
Know what's what's really cool, you know, really pause and
think about that. We're literally changing lives for the better
by using the pieces of cardbo. I mean, how how
crazy is that? And you know, and it.
Speaker 3 (30:16):
Can get and it can get bigger and better, and
we can get more people hopefully involved. And like you said,
even you know, when you think even like even a dollar, right,
that young man that gave a buck, I mean, it
don't matter how old you are, you you know how important, Uh,
you know this this is. And so even some of
(30:38):
these other companies, right, and the hobby is so big
and yet so small. Right with social media, you know,
people are in other countries communicating and dealing and wheeling
and and all that stuff. So even eleven years in,
as much as you've grown over the like, there's more
as long as you're willing to to keep doing it
(31:00):
and keep going, right, that that's you're gonna get bigger
and better. And again, I know you don't give yourself credit,
but uh, I'll give you. I'll give you that. And
in the hobby too, right, we're all trying to to
do you know, or majority of us are trying to
do good things and and you know, like you said,
to to get to enjoy this great hobby and help
(31:24):
others at the same time. I mean, what else do
you need to say? Like, you can't get behind that
and I can't get you problem that's them? Are you
problem that don't? Right? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (31:35):
And you know, and I can't get in trouble with
my wife when stuff shows up at the house because
I go it's for.
Speaker 3 (31:40):
The charity, you know there you go to burns exactly exactly. Yeah,
Well listen again, you know, we know how busy you
are and you make some time. And I know I've
said it before, but uh, you're just this door is
always open. You just say when and what you want
(32:03):
to do, We'll get behind it. And easy to do
that again, you know, easy uh and as it should be.
And we need more of that. So, uh, you know,
for those who were interested, kind of give out websites,
social media, anything you want to share. For those who
maybe want to jump on board, uh yeah, do their part.
Speaker 4 (32:25):
Yeah, definitely check us out more. Our website signatures the
number four Soldiers dot Com is our website. You can
kind to read up more about what we're doing and
all of that. I put out a monthly uh email
with updates of kind of what's happening things like that,
(32:45):
so you always sign up for that. Through the website
social media, Facebook, Instagram and x you can find us there,
you know, just search signatures for Soldiers f R Soldiers
and you can, you know, follow, give us a like,
give us a follow, and then you know, if you
(33:08):
want to reach out to me via email, it's Signatures
for f O R Soldiers at yahoo dot com. You know,
feel free to email me, and you know, let me
know your thoughts, let me know what you'd like to
see us do, let me know if you help get involved.
Eight donations of any kind monetary and verry. I don't
know if you have. You know, if you're one of
these people that just breaks packs after packs and you
(33:29):
have a bunch of base cards that you're not really
sure what to do with, wee that and either get
them signed or turn them into money they used to
help homeless, and so lots of different ways.
Speaker 3 (33:38):
To get Yeah, and I'll put a lot of that
stuff in the show notes, folks, So even if you
you know, if you'll be there, just check out the
episode notes get redirected there, so we'll make sure to
get that in the show notes as well, Tim, So
easy easy to do and easy to click, and then
get to where they need to go and be a
(33:59):
part of a growing community and an important community helping.
Uh great people who you know, help this great country. Right,
and it's our turn to to you know, reciprocate that,
uh love for for country, love for them, right. You know.
Sometimes you know, I get it that they feel. I
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think sometimes certain people we kind of take for granted
some of that stuff. Sometimes I think we're all at
some point or another can can fall into that category.
But uh, uh you can always do something like you said,
even even a dollar. All those add up a dollar here,
dollar there. Together as a community, that number gets big.
(34:44):
And here you are, like that's even thinking about it.
Half almost half a million dollars. Uh, you know that's
awesome and uh again, uh you deserve a lot of
I know you're not doing it for this reason, but
you deserve a lot of a lot of that credit.
So you know. So all right, thanks Tim, Well again,
(35:07):
we'll do it again. But yes, sir, I appreciate it.
Speaker 4 (35:11):
All right, Thanks John, Thanks for having me On, appreciate you.
Speaker 3 (35:14):
Always great having Tim back on the show, doing great
work obviously with signatures for soldiers and great great organization.
One of any donations go to wounded, wounded, homeless, vets,
people veterans who need need our help right need things,
(35:36):
whether that's to pay a bill so they don't lose
their their home or shelter, wheelchair ramp, whatever the medical bill,
whatever the case may be. And Tim does it out
of the kindness of his heart. Now all these years and
almost up to half a million dollars. They started with
(35:56):
a five hundred dollars goal and they're almost at five
hundred thousand dollars. That's just amazing. No other word can
can fit that description. And we'll have always have Tim
on and like he you know, I don't tell this
to every guest, quite frankly, but I tell it to
(36:16):
Tim anytime he wants to come on to promote something,
talk about an event or an appearance. He has that
Carte Bloch show uh and uh, and he knows it.
So thanks everybody. We're going to wrap up the show
with the Hobbies the People announcer of the week, and
(36:37):
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Sports Guarnation. What is up? Everybody? Welcome to episode three
sixty two, and you know it's Friday. Tuesday was Veterans Day,
and it was a day where we, you know, think
about all those who are serving or have served in
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their past to you know, defend our country home and abroad.
And we're blessed to live in a great country where
for the most part, we have the freedoms to do
many things we want to do. So I had a
day off from school Tuesday, and many people had the
(01:01):
day off from work. But I hope for most it's
more than just a day off, right, I mean, that's great,
and enjoy it right when we get days off, But
think about those who you know are keeping all our
freedoms and and you know, risking their own well being
(01:26):
to do so, you know that's served in the past
and currently serving. And sometimes I think people get Veterans
Day Immemorial Day mixed up or you know, interchange right,
Memorial days where we think about the people we lost
and we can do that every day. And same thing
(01:48):
with Veterans Day. Veterans Day is moored like to honor
just everyone who has served, whether they you know, made
the ultimate sacrifice or not, right, doesn't matter. Right. So again,
you know something I think about almost every day, and
(02:08):
the guests coming back for part two of our conversation,
I know it's near and dear to his heart as well.
And that's Timbergillio of Signatures for Soldiers. So he was
on last week. This is part two of that conversation.
And I'll be lying if I said I scheduled it
(02:28):
intentionally like that, because it wouldn't be true. But works
out that we you know, his two interviews kind of
sandwich Veterans Day, and check out Signatures for Soldiers and
what they're doing and if you can make a donation
or buy some signatures, one hundred percent of the proceeds
(02:49):
go to the organization to help homeless vets, wounded vets,
vets that need help, whether it's paying a bill or
having something built, or they need something medically. That organization
tries to get it done, not tries, they do get
(03:09):
it done for those folks and has a hobby, you know,
relation to it as well. So you can buy some
hobby stuff and help some great people in the process.
That's a win win if you ask me so. Enough
with the intro here, want to thank my sponsors Upper
(03:31):
Deck Sports Collectors, Digest Iron Sports Cards, Hobby Hotline making
the show possible. But we're going to get the show
started and talk with Part two with Timberrgillio of Signatures
for Soldiers. All right, here is part two of our
conversation with Timberrgilio of Signatures for Soldiers. I'm going to
(03:53):
start out kind of leading into like asking him about
maybe more hobby entity East getting involved with Signature Soldier.
Now they do have some and that's awesome, but yeah,
I love to even see more. So that's kind of
where we're going here when we start out the second
part coming up right now. I like to see maybe
(04:15):
some more hobby companies, whether that be supply companies, whether
that be the big time manufacturers themselves, the fanatics, slashtops,
Panini and others, uh, you know, sort of get get involved.
And I don't. I don't want to make it like
they're doing nothing for charity. They all usually do something, uh,
(04:37):
but more, maybe more for a charity. That's a sort
of hobby uh, you know, hobby centered, hobby based. It's
right in their own backyard, so to speak. Right, Yeah,
I mean that's something. Is that something you you hope happens.
Is this something that you that you reach out you know,
(04:58):
have you have? There's been and I wanted to you know,
you don't have to give away everything that goes on,
but is that something you've you've you know, sent feelers
out there or laid some of the groundwork. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (05:12):
Absolutely, I mean it's you know, that's one thing that
I've really worked hard at, is the relationship building. You know,
since probably since twenty eighteen, I've spent very little money
on hobby supplies because Ultra Pro and BCW have gotten
behind us and have you know, sent us stuff you
(05:34):
know as we which has been great, you know because
obviously that really cuts down on administrative expenses and that
just means, okay, you know they hypothetically they send me twenty.
Speaker 3 (05:44):
Dollars worth of supplies.
Speaker 4 (05:46):
You know, that's twenty dollars that I can turn around
and help, you know, get get a gift card for
for a veteran who's kind of struggling month to month
just to eat or you know, it's something like that.
So like those two companies and really good you know,
Heritage auctions. You know, we've gotten into a routine now
where kind of every August they're running an auction for us,
(06:10):
where literally they're waiving all the fees for us, so
all the money comes back to us. You know, We've
done that the last couple of years, and that alone
every year raises you know, twenty twenty one thousand dollars
in and of itself, which is huge. You know, Tops
has helped us in the past. I'm trying to who else.
(06:32):
I know, I'm out companies, but yeah, you know, and
then there's dealers that you know, have helped us, you know,
you know donating you know, donating product for us to
either sell or auction off or things like that. So yeah,
you know, you know, if any of those companies, you know,
any of the big companies, any of the smaller you know,
(06:53):
I mean pretty much, anytime anybody approaches me and says, hey,
you know, how can we help, you know, we want
to get you know, we definitely start to have some
conversations that way so that we figure out, you know,
what works best for everybody involved. You know, here locally
in Texas, there's a gentleman who puts together a show
twice a year. He's like ten, He's like, he's like,
(07:15):
every show, I have two tables set aside for you.
No charge, just get here and set up in your thing.
You know, So like even just things like that, and
you know, the guy's probably I mean, I don't know
how much he charges with tables, but you know, I mean,
you know the price of tables at card shows. You
know they can from seventy five dollars up depending on
(07:37):
the show.
Speaker 5 (07:38):
So I mean even just yea and there they're they're
never empties because there's usually a waiting list of dealers
who want to get in, right, So for that promoter
to say, hey, Kim, you know you.
Speaker 3 (07:51):
Have to with your name on it, you know, that's
knowing him that that's something he cares about and knows
is important. But I just kind of wanted to chime
in there.
Speaker 4 (08:02):
But yeah, but you know, but yeah, you know, back
to your point. You know the hobby may it's how
many billions of dollars in the hobby every year? And
you know, I I half joke and say, okay, if
if company A gave us a percent of a percent
(08:23):
of you know, that would basically basically be pennies on
the dollar for them, but would be huge we do
so so yeah, I'm I'm always I'm always trying to
build those relationships, you know, and and and not that
this should be the reason they do it, Tim, as
you well know.
Speaker 3 (08:41):
But it's also a tax right off for their books
as well. That shouldn't be that shouldn't be the leading factor.
But it's a it's a benefit helps you know, Yeah,
it's a it's a it's a fringe benefit, uh for
them as well as doing something good for for you know,
the community, the hobby, uh and veterans who served our
(09:05):
country that we get to enjoy all these freedoms like
going to a card show or opening a pack of
cards and that, uh, those sort of things. So uh,
you know, yeah, so again there's always room for for
more or even more long term, right Hey, let's we're
just on board. Uh. And if we don't exist anymore,
(09:27):
that's one thing. But as long as we exist, this
is what we're willing to do. Right And uh, you
mentioned Ultra pro and BCW. You know, anyone that collects
no supplies can get added up as you need them
and so that that again helps uh, you know, helps
you out with with obviously those have to be in
(09:49):
sleeves and top loaders, uh for presentation purposes. How much
uh you know obviously, like we talked about, you have
a nine to five job. What you know? I know
you probably again not to pat yourself on the back,
but this needs you know, I'll do it for you
in a sense by asking you know, how much what
(10:09):
kind of hours are you putting in you know, outside
of your your regular job. I guess you know, every
week's different. Maybe you don't do a show one week,
you do a show another, But you know, out of average,
what kind of time are you spending outside of your own,
you know job with the organization.
Speaker 4 (10:28):
Probably you know, evenings I'm probably doing you know, two
to three hours a night on average, and then you know,
weekends obviously depends on what's going on. I mean, you
know there's some saturdays I could spend it an entire day,
you know, putting putting in work, you know, and that
can be lots of an other show or just organizing
(10:48):
or listing or like you talked about earlier, you know,
packaging stuff up, getting it all out, you know, thing
like that. But you know, if I I mean, if
I had to guess, I mean, I hate to think
about it this in this way because I've always said,
you know, I'll do this as long as it's fun.
When it starts becoming work is calling a day. But
you know, I mean on average, probably twenty hours minimal
(11:12):
a week, you know, And I hate to think about
that because like, cool, well that's kind of a part
time job.
Speaker 3 (11:19):
But unders dad, that's half of that's half of a
forty hour work.
Speaker 4 (11:24):
Yeah, right, yeah, but but you know, if I'm not
doing that, then I'm probably doing something I probably should't.
Speaker 3 (11:30):
So and for you, like it's it's a labor of love,
right yet you're passionate about it, you love doing it,
you love helping folk, and again that's uh, that's kudos
uh to you. But I wanted to highlight that because
I know you don't necessary You're not gonna you know,
go on the mout top and bring that out, but
(11:51):
I think you know that's important to note that the
work you do and the time and the commitment you
have to it. And you know, I wanted the other thing.
You know, you're now in Texas as you mentioned, uh,
you were in Florida and you yourself had a couple
unfortunate you know, with weather related and flooding and some damage.
(12:14):
I mean just kind of uh. And yet you're still
you know, you you you over you got through that,
and and still you know, someone else might have said,
you know what I got, I got so much on
my plate with my own stuff and this, these bad
things happened. I gotta stop doing it, do it anymore?
And again estamate to you. You got through some of
(12:36):
these hardships, if you will. Uh, and signatures for soldiers
didn't have to suffer, so to speak. Uh uh, you
know kind of talk about uh some of that with
with living in Florida at the time and kind of
the move to Texas. Yeah, you know, I.
Speaker 4 (12:53):
Mean, I'm I'm just like anybody else. I mean, life happens.
You know, it's you know, I'm like, I think back
on it, you know, over eleven years, between my wife's
family and my family and friend, unfortunately, I've lost probably
a good dozen or so people.
Speaker 2 (13:11):
You know.
Speaker 4 (13:11):
We were living in Florida for seven years and in
the last four year our house flooded. Retime with the
last time putting three feet of water in our house,
so that kind of became the peroreal straw. It was
just time to move on, so you know, we went.
So then basically from September to January we were kind
(13:32):
of nomadic living VRB for thirty days in an apartment
with the bare minimum and furnishings, you know, the rest
of the then moving to Texas just to get out
of the get out of the path of the hurricanes
game too much. But you know, I've I'm blessed, probably
more than to be. You know, God's been good in
(13:55):
my wife, and you know, we just want to continue
to pay it forward, and this is our way to
do that. You know, I want for nothing. It's kind
of like today, you know, doing some stuff and my
wife was like, you know what would be good. Let's
let's stop and get a milkshake. I think we deserve
a milkshake, like, you know, like like I didn't have
to think about, you know, well could I afford the
(14:17):
milkshake or you know, anything like that, and so yeah,
you know, and that was really, you know, I think
what really, my wife and I have always been on giving,
not the receiving. This last time when our house flooded
and basically was a total loss. And we had so
many people, not just family friends, people that really only
(14:40):
know me through sending your soldiers to say what can
we do to help you in your time of I
mean just you know, just talking about it now, I
mean I'm tearing up now because I'm just so moved
by it. So many You've done so much for others
want to help you. That was just some my wife
and not so grateful for.
Speaker 3 (14:59):
No, it's it's awesome. I'll give you a second here
and I'll kind of interject and even here and you
you know something, if you don't know what kind of
person Tom is, right, some of the stuff you went through,
like you said, with losses of flooding not once or twice,
but three times. And when I saw that, we're Facebook friends,
so I saw that and I just said, man, like,
(15:21):
this is horrible, like someone who's so giving of themselves.
And yet you know, even people of the strongest where
I'm going with this, even people of the strongest faith,
and I'm a person of faith, would have like have
a hard time. Some of that faith will get shaked shocken.
Let me put it that way. You know, when stuff
(15:42):
like that happens that often. And yet hearing you say
like how blessed you are and fortune like that's again
again that's a testament to who you are, you know,
and your wife as well, right where someone else would
maybe even blame God or say like, you know, is
there a guy like with this stuff? Like you know,
(16:04):
but yet your your your faith so strong that you
you find the good even in in in moments like that.
And that's tough, no doubt. Uh. But I mean that's
a lot of other people wouldn't wouldn't be like that.
I guess it's the short way that.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
I you know.
Speaker 4 (16:22):
I mean, you know, we've we've come out on the
other side of the storm literally and figured we're stronger
and we're better for it. You know, my wife, you know,
my wife and I. Anytime we really start to get
into a funk, you know, we we remind each other.
You know, there's people out there that would trade their
problems for ours and a heartbeat, you know that our
problems are not are not as bad, you know, like
(16:45):
talking about you know, homeless veterans tonight, you know I
have I'm not even thinking about where I'm laying my
head because I know it's going to be in my bed,
on my pillow under my roof. Life isn't that bad,
you know, I'm pretty darn blessed. So it's yeah, a
(17:09):
lot of a lot of things are perspective, you know.
You know, it's easy to it's very easy to get dragged.
It's hard to pull pull yourself, and you know, but
you become stronger for it. I think just to see
the hobby can be rallied behind my wife and I
that did more forever now and I almost feel like
(17:31):
I owe it to everybody else to keep going.
Speaker 3 (17:33):
You know, I owe it to everybody in the.
Speaker 4 (17:35):
Hobby to keep this thing going because there were so
many people that just I mean I had people that
were into Florida drinking two three hours just to help
my wife come and clean up our house. And you know,
and I mean you know, I've I never met them
prior to that, and they're like, you need help, I'm here,
you know, what do you need to do? You know,
(17:57):
it's just such a blessings. You know, this is what
I'm talking about, how this has just become a community which.
Speaker 3 (18:05):
Cares about one. Yeah, there's never enough, even though there's
a lot there's there's never enough. And I think you're
you're you know, you're a great spokesman for that with
what you're doing with Signature Soldiers. And I don't you know,
I know you said, well, people may be helping you
for I think people, I think humans, human nature at
(18:27):
least for most is to you know, try to help,
try to help others. But sometimes it's easier said than done, right,
or people will talk sometimes a good game, but when
it comes to action, you know, it's a different story.
So the fact that, like you said, people will drive
a couple hours to help out never met you in person,
per se again, that's a testament to human goodness and
(18:52):
and that there's people are are real like yourself and
that's important. Uh. I think that's important, And like you said,
kind of helps you to keep going as well. Right,
that stuff is you know, it can be inspired, You
can inspire others and you can be inspired yourself all
(19:12):
at the same time. And I know that I speak
to that myself. It's important, right, we need those we
need that in our lives. Should be no shortage of
people willing to do that.
Speaker 2 (19:30):
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Thanks for sticking with us. Let's return to the show.
Speaker 3 (20:11):
As the organization has grown, as you has the like
the space that you that of all this stuff. You know,
talk about the space when you and I guess the
space eleven years in.
Speaker 4 (20:25):
Yeah, you know, the space I guess when I started
was you know, a handful of five thousand count boxes
and in a spare closet.
Speaker 2 (20:34):
You know.
Speaker 4 (20:35):
Now, you know we have to rent a ten by
ten storage unit to keep overflow of stuff.
Speaker 3 (20:42):
You know.
Speaker 4 (20:43):
I have one room in our house that's dedicated to
just signatures for soldiers. You know, it's it's kind of
my own little mini man cave, kind of like your
worst there. You know, I've got the TV set up
so I can listen to music or watch a game
and stuff. You know, I've got two or three desks
in there for all the all the space that I need,
(21:05):
you know, the closets full of cards that are signed
and unsigned, stuff that needs to be sorted, and all
the supplies and so yeah, it's become quite a production.
Like you said, this was not what I envisioned.
Speaker 3 (21:22):
You know, that's not a mad thing.
Speaker 4 (21:23):
I mean, you know, I used to get stuff together
and then I'd have to go to the post office.
Way it pay for it. Now I've now I've got
the online account, I've got my own scale. You know,
I'm going to the post office just to drop stuff
off at you know. Yeah, it's like I said, it's
just while they stopping. Just how much in it?
Speaker 3 (21:45):
Yeah, well listen, it's amazing, uh, you know, because you're
you're doing you know, the omen's work and putting in,
like you said, twenty hours in addition to your regular job.
And and not a lot of people you know, can
keep up to maybe they could start it right, but
to keep up that sort of pace and to do
(22:06):
it for as long as you do it and continuing
to do it right. That my hat's off. I'm not
wearing a hat, but my hat's off to you, Tim.
And I know I've said that to you before, but
I don't think it can be said enough, you know
how you know, you talked about setting up at shows.
How many on average now per year? Like how many
(22:28):
shows do you get to part of signet? So yeah,
probably doing.
Speaker 4 (22:32):
Like six shows a year now, counting the National Obviously,
the Nationals is the show for us, that's our that's
our biggest fundraiser every year. You know, the last couple
of years we're bringing in you know, fifty to sixty
thousand dollars, which is probably about two thirds of our
fundraising every year, and so that that's far the biggest.
(22:54):
But otherwise, you know, the shows are just local shows,
you know, I mean Florida local shows. We're here Texas
and kind of getting settled in. Talked about the one
the Texas Sports Hall of Waco that looking to get
connected with someone Gonna loved to possibly trying to get
connected the Dallas show only a couple hours from there's
a big one in Austin or so, you know, So
(23:15):
there's definitely there's definitely kind of local show that I
can do on weekend, having to take time off and
travel the country and that type of thing. Definitely, there's
definitely big show at some point you just have to
logistics on that.
Speaker 3 (23:29):
So yeah, no, and and letting you're in you know,
you don't need me to tell you this. With Texas,
you know, there's a lot of hobby you know, I
know you're not in Dallas, but at least the same
state Dallas as a hobby hot bed. You mentioned the
Dallas Card Show. That's a lot of people who argue
it's the second biggest show or in you know, arguably
(23:52):
the second biggest show after the National or in you know,
one of the biggest shows in the country, you see,
you know, but the nash being sort of the super Bowl,
the hobby you take that out. The Dallas is a
huge show, uh in its own right.
Speaker 4 (24:08):
So there's so many great regional shows now. But I
don't ever remember a time like this, you know, you know,
the Anaheim Show, the Las Vegas show, you know, there's
just so many.
Speaker 3 (24:22):
Yeah, and even in cities, small little cities and towns
that never had shows before. I can tell you here
in New York. I'm in Central New York and we're
getting shows and cities you would have never even thought
about there being a show there.
Speaker 4 (24:37):
So yeah, yeah, I definite mean that's just that's just
that's just a testament to how how the hobby has
grown in popularity. And you know it's yeah, you find
shows all over the large and sometimes sometimes smaller shows
are some of the best shows.
Speaker 3 (24:53):
Yeah, I agree with you so well, Tim, I appreciate you.
You know, you're working c Sixty hours a week. You
make some time for us. I know that's not always easy.
And you know you already know how I feel about
you and and signatures for soldiers, and you know I
(25:14):
look forward to the National myself for obvious reasons, but
also getting to see giving you a hug and talking
with you in person as well, and you know, it's just,
you know, it's it's one of those inspiring hobby stories
that sometimes we don't talk again, we don't talk enough
about them. So anytime, you know, I've tried to have
(25:36):
those kind of folks on to highlight them, highlight what
they're doing because it's so important and just it's not
even necessary a hobby thing. I know, it's hobby based,
but just important to humans, right, you know, the human community,
not just they, but us as a whole, and especially
(26:00):
when it comes to people who have you know, given
to this country in more ways than one. And you know,
we talk about some of the physical stuff, but it's
even more than physical. You know, people who have served
some of the things they may have seen or you know,
coming back to society and it's difficult. Sometimes it's easier
(26:22):
said than done. And so the fact that your organization
can help those folks, you know, like you talk about
having a roof over your head and hearing someone, you know,
someone who served this country not having one of those
for twenty five years. That shouldn't happen. It's it's yeah.
Speaker 4 (26:42):
I just I think in doing this, the one thing
I've heard that has moved most, and both in good
and bad sense of that phrase, is when a veteran
says to I didn't I thought nobody. I didn't I
didn't think anybody, And you know that.
Speaker 3 (27:02):
I mean that.
Speaker 4 (27:03):
That just kind of sums up how some of these
women feel after they get out of the service. You know,
they're just tossed aside and nobody cares about it. You know,
I've talked about signature for soldiers a community, John, You've
been a huge part of them for seven years. You
know from day one, you and I that I'm just
I'm very grateful for your support and you continue to
(27:25):
help us get the word out there, and I'm blessed to.
Speaker 3 (27:27):
Be with call you.
Speaker 4 (27:28):
I will always make time for you.
Speaker 3 (27:30):
Well, I appreciate that. Likewise, I'm not gonna take a
lot of credit for that, because here's here's why, Tim,
Because I think it's easy to get behind something that's
so great, right, That's that's easy, and I think more
people should do it. So I'm not gonna, you know,
really pat myself on the back, you know, And I've
said this to you on air off air. You always
(27:54):
have a place on this podcast, on this show anything,
and I don't even make it just like and anything
we can do, I can do. It doesn't even have
to be like you said in view, we don't have
to do you know. That's nice too, but that's not
why you should do it. You should do it because
you care. And again I'm not saying I care just
(28:18):
because of this. I care regardless of this fact. But
coming from a family that's had a lot of military
personnel who have served current and past, you know, I
think it's important and I think you know, you mentioned
how the one soldiers says like they felt forgotten, right first,
of all shouldn't be the case. But I get that,
(28:41):
and you know, I think a lot of people there's
a misperception that when a soldier retires or is out
of the military, they're taken care of, and that's not
not the way people think. And there's there's people fall
through gaps. Some of the funds that you think they're getting,
they're not getting or not enough or not what they're
(29:04):
entitled to. And that's a whole show in itself. But
you know, so it's it's not easy that transition post
service career, even even when there's not injuries or or
stresses or trauma involved. And then you add in those
factors even even more so, and the fact that you're
(29:25):
there for those people so they're not forgotten like that
again is a testament to signatures for soldiers to Virgilio
and what you guys do. So it's easy for me
to say, you know, what can we do or come
on whenever you want to. That's what I should be
saying that I'm not you know, I'm not gonna do
(29:48):
any credit. I appreciate you saying that and saying thank you,
but that's what we we I should be doing and
it's easy to do. It's not hard for me to
do so and you.
Speaker 4 (29:59):
Know what's what's really cool, you know, really pause and
think about that. We're literally changing lives for the better
by using the pieces of cardbo. I mean, how how
crazy is that? And you know, and it.
Speaker 3 (30:16):
Can get and it can get bigger and better, and
we can get more people hopefully involved. And like you said,
even you know, when you think even like even a dollar, right,
that young man that gave a buck, I mean, it
don't matter how old you are, you you know how important, Uh,
you know this this is. And so even some of
(30:38):
these other companies, right, and the hobby is so big
and yet so small. Right with social media, you know,
people are in other countries communicating and dealing and wheeling
and and all that stuff. So even eleven years in,
as much as you've grown over the like, there's more
as long as you're willing to to keep doing it
(31:00):
and keep going, right, that that's you're gonna get bigger
and better. And again, I know you don't give yourself credit,
but uh, I'll give you. I'll give you that. And
in the hobby too, right, we're all trying to to
do you know, or majority of us are trying to
do good things and and you know, like you said,
to to get to enjoy this great hobby and help
(31:24):
others at the same time. I mean, what else do
you need to say? Like, you can't get behind that
and I can't get you problem that's them? Are you
problem that don't? Right? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (31:35):
And you know, and I can't get in trouble with
my wife when stuff shows up at the house because
I go it's for.
Speaker 3 (31:40):
The charity, you know there you go to burns exactly exactly. Yeah,
Well listen again, you know, we know how busy you
are and you make some time. And I know I've
said it before, but uh, you're just this door is
always open. You just say when and what you want
(32:03):
to do, We'll get behind it. And easy to do
that again, you know, easy uh and as it should be.
And we need more of that. So, uh, you know,
for those who were interested, kind of give out websites,
social media, anything you want to share. For those who
maybe want to jump on board, uh yeah, do their part.
Speaker 4 (32:25):
Yeah, definitely check us out more. Our website signatures the
number four Soldiers dot Com is our website. You can
kind to read up more about what we're doing and
all of that. I put out a monthly uh email
with updates of kind of what's happening things like that,
(32:45):
so you always sign up for that. Through the website
social media, Facebook, Instagram and x you can find us there,
you know, just search signatures for Soldiers f R Soldiers
and you can, you know, follow, give us a like,
give us a follow, and then you know, if you
(33:08):
want to reach out to me via email, it's Signatures
for f O R Soldiers at yahoo dot com. You know,
feel free to email me, and you know, let me
know your thoughts, let me know what you'd like to
see us do, let me know if you help get involved.
Eight donations of any kind monetary and verry. I don't
know if you have. You know, if you're one of
these people that just breaks packs after packs and you
(33:29):
have a bunch of base cards that you're not really
sure what to do with, wee that and either get
them signed or turn them into money they used to
help homeless, and so lots of different ways.
Speaker 3 (33:38):
To get Yeah, and I'll put a lot of that
stuff in the show notes, folks, So even if you
you know, if you'll be there, just check out the
episode notes get redirected there, so we'll make sure to
get that in the show notes as well, Tim, So
easy easy to do and easy to click, and then
get to where they need to go and be a
(33:59):
part of a growing community and an important community helping.
Uh great people who you know, help this great country. Right,
and it's our turn to to you know, reciprocate that,
uh love for for country, love for them, right. You know.
Sometimes you know, I get it that they feel. I
(34:21):
think sometimes certain people we kind of take for granted
some of that stuff. Sometimes I think we're all at
some point or another can can fall into that category.
But uh, uh you can always do something like you said,
even even a dollar. All those add up a dollar here,
dollar there. Together as a community, that number gets big.
(34:44):
And here you are, like that's even thinking about it.
Half almost half a million dollars. Uh, you know that's
awesome and uh again, uh you deserve a lot of
I know you're not doing it for this reason, but
you deserve a lot of a lot of that credit.
So you know. So all right, thanks Tim, Well again,
(35:07):
we'll do it again. But yes, sir, I appreciate it.
Speaker 4 (35:11):
All right, Thanks John, Thanks for having me On, appreciate you.
Speaker 3 (35:14):
Always great having Tim back on the show, doing great
work obviously with signatures for soldiers and great great organization.
One of any donations go to wounded, wounded, homeless, vets,
people veterans who need need our help right need things,
(35:36):
whether that's to pay a bill so they don't lose
their their home or shelter, wheelchair ramp, whatever the medical bill,
whatever the case may be. And Tim does it out
of the kindness of his heart. Now all these years and
almost up to half a million dollars. They started with
(35:56):
a five hundred dollars goal and they're almost at five
hundred thousand dollars. That's just amazing. No other word can
can fit that description. And we'll have always have Tim
on and like he you know, I don't tell this
to every guest, quite frankly, but I tell it to
(36:16):
Tim anytime he wants to come on to promote something,
talk about an event or an appearance. He has that
Carte Bloch show uh and uh, and he knows it.
So thanks everybody. We're going to wrap up the show
with the Hobbies the People announcer of the week, and
(36:37):
we'll see you next week.
Speaker 2 (36:40):
Time for all the People Announcer of the week.
Speaker 1 (36:47):
Hello, we are Great Rory.
Speaker 3 (36:51):
And we are like collectable.
Speaker 4 (36:55):
Please remember the high the people.
Speaker 2 (37:00):
If you'd like to be the hobby is the People
Announcer of the week. Do have one or MP three
file and send it to Supportscardination PC at gmail dot com.
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