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Nov. 24, 2022 - Sean Hannity Show
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Carol Roth - November 23rd, Hour 2
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Welcome back.
It's the second hour of the Sean Hannity show.
Joe Concha in for Sean.
Five day weekend.
The guy finally took a day off.
He never takes off.
And that affects my earnings.
Nevertheless, we're having a good time so far, right, kids.
And we're going to continue to have a good time.
But first, it's shameless fuck fails time.
Come on, man.
The truth about Joe Biden's terrible, horrible, no good.
Very bad presidency.
That's my book.
Went all the way to number seven on the Wall Street Journal bestsellers list.
Went all the way to number two on the Amazon bestsellers list.
And the New York Times, the paper of record.
The old, old, old gray lady somehow couldn't find any spot for me on their bestseller list because it's not biased or anything.
I'm not angry about that whatsoever.
Please go out and buy this because you know what?
It's a great book for the holidays, right?
I mean, you may be traveling, maybe you got some time off.
Get off the phone, get off the Twitter, get off these places and read for once and educate yourself on the life of Joe Biden.
It's utterly horrifying and hilarious all at the same time.
And his presidency, of course.
Carol Roth, I know, the great entrepreneur, the great podcaster, the great hair designer overall.
She bought my book, I know, and we're going to get a live review of it right now.
Carol, act like you're read it.
Go.
No, it's fantastic, Joe, and I'm so proud of you.
And I actually think that it's a badge of honor that the New York Times snubbed it.
It goes to show that it was so damaging to Joe Biden that they couldn't even put it on their list.
So good good for you for stoking the fire there.
Can I tell you I I had inf inside information on this that there were two books on there that I doubled their sales and they still didn't put it on.
And then I I talked to Molly Hemingway, who who's also uh one of those Fox News the talking head folks, and she said, You gotta look at this 1983 lawsuit against the New York Times from the guy who wrote the Exorcist.
And really, and she said, Yeah.
She he went to number one um Publishers Weekly.
I made the publishers weekly list, went to the USA Today bestseller list, I was on that Wall Street Journal, all of them.
He made all of them except for the New York Times.
But he had a clause in his contract, apparently that said that he would get a bonus, but it specifically said he had to be on the New York Times bestseller list.
And he sued, and then in court, the Times had to admit that it's not just based on data.
In other words, we're we're both football people, right?
Like who had uh a higher score?
The Bears and Alliance.
No, it also was an editorial decision.
They finally admitted that it's just not about the numbers, and that's what it should be, you know, runs hits, uh, and that's that.
But anyway, I'm talking too much about myself.
Or call it something else.
Call it the New York Times favorite books that we deem appropriate list or whatever it is.
But if it's a a sales-based list, if that is a metric, that should be the metric that it goes off of.
The New York Times Book Club, yes, it could be like Oprah, but different.
Exactly.
Good stuff.
Hey, I I want to play a clip for you, and I want to get your reaction and uh and everybody listening at home or driving home, or maybe you're about to fly out somewhere and you and you got us in your ears off your phone somewhere.
Tell me where the misleading uh let's call what it is.
Tell us where the lie is in this uh sound bite from Joe Biden talking about student loan forgiveness and how it came to fruition originally.
What we've provided for is if you went to school, if you qualify for a Pell Grant, you're qualify for two thousand I mean, excuse me, uh you qualify right for $20,000 in debt forgiveness.
Right.
Secondly, if you don't have one of those loans, you just get 10,000 written off.
Okay.
It's passed.
I got it passed by a vote or two, and it's in effect.
And already a total of I think it's now 13 million people have applied for that service.
Okay, Carol.
What in that statement doesn't quite sound right.
So could it be that it passed by a vote or two?
In his household?
Is that what he meant?
That's my final answer.
Do I have to say that in the form of a question?
What is he even talking about?
I mean, here's the thing with it, Joe.
I'm not sure that he has any idea what's going on.
So this is, you know, his interpretation of what somebody's told him over the telephone game.
It's not like he's actually involved in these decisions, but it's, you know, very representative of the falsehoods and the lies and the exaggerations, and they're just made-up stuff that comes out of Joe Biden's mouth.
And I'm just glad that corn pop isn't here to see all this.
Hey, Carol, we have a very young and and beautiful audience.
Uh uh can you explain what the telephone game is exactly for those who aren't familiar with that?
Are people not familiar with the telephone?
I mean, I guess, yeah, I guess people I guess back in the day it was very it was very different.
So we used to play this in school, right?
Somebody would would have a phrase that they would say and they would whisper it in the ear of the next person, and the next person would hear what they heard and whisper it in the ear of the next person, and by the time you got like 15 people down the line, what started out as, you know, I like Joe Concha is, you know, black cats, you know, have nice hair.
You know, it's fun and it it kind of proved what happened as you pass information along, how it gets misinterpreted and adapted.
But Joe Biden is the telephone game all wrapped up in himself, isn't he?
Pretty much, yes, and uh just celebrated his 80th birthday.
If Joe Biden runs for president again and somehow gets a second term, we could be looking at an eighty-six-year-old version of Joe Biden in the White House.
Sleep tight, America.
Wow.
That would be I mean, let's put it this way.
If it didn't affect all of our lives so deeply, it would actually be pretty, you know, amusing.
But unfortunately, it's affecting our lives, it's affecting our pocketbooks, it's affecting our freedom, it's affecting our national security.
So from that respect, it's not so funny.
Yeah, if he took a night shift at like the quickie mart, then we're we're fine with that, right?
Okay, you gotta fill the hour somehow, but this is uh the most powerful person in the in the world in theory.
We're talking to Carol Roth, the the great entrepreneur.
And and Carol, I I'm just curious, uh as far as these student loans are concerned.
I I think the big story that everybody is missing is while you forgive these loans and something like 50% of the loans go to those that have a graduate degree or master's degree.
And those are the type of folks that become lawyers and doctors and go into professions where you earn a lot of money where you could probably afford to pay back the loan.
Won't this just ultimately, because it's just a temporary band-aid?
Well, let's call it what it is.
It was a gambit to get votes from young people that they knew wasn't going to be constitutional, that he knew was going to be thrown out, but hey, it's after the midterm, so if they throw it out, so be it.
It it served its purpose.
But in the end, won't this just, if it does somehow survive, raise the cost of tuition where at schools like Harvard, we're talking now north of $85,000 a year all in just to go, or Georgetown, 80,000, Duke, 80,000, Stanford, 80,000, or your average state school, like where I went, the University of Maryland, I think is something like almost $50,000 a year all in, and that's a state school.
So I I don't see how people, even upper middle class can afford to send their kids to college at this point.
Yeah, I mean, that that's the real tragedy here is that it's not addressing the problem.
I mean, basically getting the government involved in the student lending business, not having any underwriting or risk assessment is basically just allowed the colleges to continue to increase their prices, not the value of the education, but what they're charging for it.
Um and it's become a a huge wealth transfer.
It's basically created students that are indentured servants for the rest of their lives.
Um and this doesn't hold them accountable.
I mean, already it's enabled the colleges to not have any skin in the game and to to extract more fees.
All this does is tell them, okay, well, this is working and we can continue to do that.
And so, you know, it's very emblematic, emblematic um, you know, of government trying to uh quote unquote not solve the the problem that they've created.
It doesn't address the issue of why it's so expensive.
If if colleges were effective, people should be able to pay down their loans.
Unfortunately, people are not getting a return on that investment, and so you know, we have to go back, get government out of student l lending, fix the problem.
Um, otherwise this is just going to continue in a really bad trajectory.
I personally think Carol Roth that college is overrated.
Uh, my my brother runs uh a school where basically he trains people to become electricians or contractors.
Uh it's a trade school, right?
And it's in Patterson, New Jersey, which will never be confused with Fiji or St. Bart's.
It's it's a tough, tough town, and it's like 10 minutes from me.
So I'm not talking down about it in any way, shape, or form.
I'm just saying that a lot of kids there, they can't afford to go to uh even a community college be because they're they're they're priced out, right?
They they they grow up in poor uh families.
And his classes, and I'm not doing this to promote my my my brother's business, but their his classes are filled to the tilt.
And when these kids get out, something like 97% of them have jobs waiting for them because there is such a demand.
Like when was the last time you tried to get like a handyman or a contractor to come to your house and they actually were able to come on the day they were supposed to and then they were able to follow up.
And there's such a shortage here and I think that we should be talking about that a lot more, but that would take sane and soda sober leadership for talking about solutions instead about all the things that we we seem to focus on.
Yeah, unfortunately the left has come up with education as a right instead of what colleges are providing which is an accreditation and that's an investment.
And so an investment has to be evaluated on investment parameters.
What kind of return are you getting on that investment?
And unfortunately for you know many students they're not getting anywhere near uh the appropriate return if they're getting return at all.
And that goes back to your point of the trades in pushing people and saying that you have to get this college education and it's so important we've now created the shortage in really important trades and and skilled areas you'd mention you know some of contractors, plumbers and the like also things like airline pilots.
There's going to be a huge shortage there's already starting uh but we've got so many people if we're going to be retiring over the next 20 years the airlines are panicking and doing whatever they can to try to recruit people and these are you know really well paying jobs.
You know these are jobs that you know could be in the six figures.
So we really need to embrace and talk to people about the full range of options and also the the things that we're talking about pilots and plumbers and electricians and contractors those are the kinds of of jobs that aren't going to be outsourced they're not going to be replaced by robots and so on and so forth.
So these are really solid jobs with security as the job market continues to shift and change.
So yes the the the narrative needs to uh to continue to shift we need more education and we need to get the government out of the student lending business.
Well said she is the author by the way Carol Roth is of the war on small business.
Now my people tell me that thousands are now currently on Amazon since I promoted my book earlier in this segment buy my book make it to the cart people the war on small business how the government used the pandemic to crush the backbone of America.
She is Carol Roth yes.
Even better Joe send them to a small business bookseller.
Send them to bookshop.org that fulfills from a small business bookseller so that we can get those small businesses getting those dollars not Amazon.
Excellent excellent point that's why we have you who Carol by the way you mentioned plumbers before I I can say given that I had a little uh pipe burst uh in my basement a couple days ago uh the ass crack still lives I mean it's amazing how consistent plumbers are with that where they just can't seem to get the genes that that cover that that very uh uh sensitive area so I I saw another one and and it was tremendous.
We're talking to Carol Roth.
You know how I feel you know when any time we talk about plumbing you know how I feel about uh bidets and the washlets and always like to give a plug there that the fact that that has not been embraced um as as widely as it should be in this country I I want to just add that recommendation to our to our talk about plumbing that everybody should get a washlet because it's a it's a life changer.
Well you know it's funny right before we came on the air I was talking to the great producer Linda here and she could not advocate the bidet enough right she said that you know she stayed with a guy for like three months after the relationship clearly was over because he had a bidet.
So congratulations that Linda I'm sorry didn't work out but you must miss that bidet gift.
Carol, have you heard of the phrase fake news?
This is that moment I may have made that up the Wednesday before Thanksgiving we're having fun.
So Carol, uh just to go into a more sober thought here as far as the midterms are concerned, given the conditions on the ground with inflation and with crime you live in Chicago you know it uh quite well that even the miracle mile you know Michigan Avenue is Chicago's one of my favorite cities you know this there's no safe place anymore, right?
It just doesn't happen in the bad parts given inflation, given crime, given what's happening with the U.S. Southern border, uh given that we have an unpopular president in the White House.
What what happened to that uh red wave that uh so many folks like me were talking about yeah it is staggering.
Like if you can't win with these economic conditions and the broader social conditions it makes it really challenging to think of what it would take to get some people to switch their votes.
My personal feeling and I know some people aren't going to be happy about this, is that I think that the Republicans lean too heavily into some of the social issues.
And not to say that they're not important, but fix them in your communities, not with the government, and didn't spend enough time really hammering on not only the economy, but what they would do to fix it.
And so, you know, I think this is an opportunity for lessons to be learned and for prioritizing.
Um but again, you know, we're we're so far gone as a as a population that um you know it's hard to say that even with that focus if that would have shifted things.
That's the thing, right?
It's more about voting against the other party than voting for the party that you may support.
Uh just to own them or or something, or you just have this this notion that one side is evil, it becomes down there uh like good versus evil, like we're watching Star Wars all over again, and that's that's that's a big deal.
Anyway, uh Carol, thank you so much for joining us once again.
The book is The War on Small Business.
She's right.
Go to a local bookstore, support your local businesses, uh, whether it be buying books or whether it be buying clothes or buying food, uh, that they could all use your help right now.
Certainly.
Carol, you enjoy your Thanksgiving weekend, I assume you'll stay in Chicago.
Absolutely.
And you have a wonderful Thanksgiving as well.
And uh, I'm gonna do my family a solid.
I'm not gonna actually cook anything.
I'm just going to bring something so that everybody can actually eat it and be happy.
Good.
You're bringing Arby's again, and everybody loves Arby.
So thank you, Carol.
Have a good one.
All right.
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Come on, man.
It's taken me 47 years to perfect doing nothing.
I had to become president.
The show, yeah, I could do that better than anybody.
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You're gonna want to hear from these folks.
I mean, this is truly what Thanksgiving is all about, giving back without asking for anything in return.
Back with more in a moment.
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Hannity is on right now.
No, he isn't Scott Shannon.
It's Joe Kantya.
Filling in for Sean Hannity.
I listened to Scott Shannon when I was like eight on WPLJ here in New York.
And maybe it was E100.
No, it was PLJ.
So it's it's funny, like having him in my ear.
And he sounds great.
He's still doing an awesome job.
Thank you, Scott Shannon.
Well, let us welcome.
And this is a special guest, uh, only because here we are the day before Thanksgiving, and so many of us are gonna celebrate with our families, or we're gonna travel somewhere to see our families.
Uh these folks uh are gonna be working hard.
They have been working hard as far as what they do to give back to their communities and then some particularly to veterans.
Uh let's introduce Ken Falk.
He's the founder and chairman, and Josh Goldberg, co-founder and executive director of Boulder Crest.
Get that name in your head, Boulder Crest, a foundation centered around post-traumatic growth and supporting veterans and first responders.
Boulder Crest, they have this new campaign called Operation Struggle Well, in addition to their annual holiday dinners and stays at their locations.
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Thank you very much.
And let's bring in Ken Falk and Josh Goldberg.
Gentlemen, thanks for joining us on the Shawn Hannity show.
We really appreciate it.
Thanks for having us.
Quick question for you.
Thanks, Kevin.
Yeah, of course.
Some folks may be a little confused about what post-traumatic growth is.
You know, we was here about syndrome.
Uh, but how do you define that exactly?
Well, you uh you're you're right.
I think most people, you know, they hear post-traumatic, and then the next thing that they're expecting to hear is uh uh stress disorder.
Um post-traumatic growth is a science that came out of the University of North Carolina um uh back in the early in the mid-90s, and and the concept of post-traumatic growth at the highest level is what doesn't kill us makes us stronger.
And the idea that after a traumatic event, what we can actually do uh and learn from uh can can allow us to become a better version of ourselves or thrive uh um, you know, in the aftermath of that trauma.
And Ken, you've spend the majority of your time educating the public and private sectors on the issues surrounding the long-term care of our returning military personnel and their families.
You know, we we've pulled uh so many folks out recently, obviously Afghanistan, uh a year ago, August, uh the the Iraq war as well.
Uh we we were basically have nobody over there.
Well, when they've come home, what what what is the one condition that you've seen most that that seems to have an impact on them that isn't going away anytime soon?
You know, I I think the thing we see most is probably post-traumatic stress, but there's a lot of depression and stress around just the military transition and uh in general terms.
You know, the military is a very tight knit group of people, and and you know, when you're separated from that, you know, and and and sent back to a place where it's it's it's not that.
Um it becomes a very difficult way to live life and and I think that stress and and and the missing of of their brothers and sisters, I think is really where we see the the biggest challenges that that that come from this community.
You know, as a kid, I I grew up in, you know, outside outside of DC during the Vietnam War.
And I mean, we we we still see the Vietnam era generation, you know, suffering with the same thing.
So, you know, I tell everybody every day these these invisible injuries of war don't get better with age, and and and I and I worry a lot about this generation.
And Josh Goldberg, when you see reports about veterans being homeless, about veterans being on food stamps.
I mean, that that must be something uh as somebody who has led the development and delivery study scale of post-traumatic growth-based solutions, you know, uh you must see this and just scratch your head like how can we do that to people that sacrifice so much for us and protecting this country.
Well, and it's appalling, right?
And I think you go back to George Washington who said the likelihood of the next generation to serve is going to be based on how this generation is treated and fair.
And I think, you know, it does, it worries you from a national security perspective if nothing else.
And I think when you look um in particular at the suicide statistics, I mean, uh what I don't understand and what I shake my head at is we have lost more people every year who are military and veterans to suicide than we have in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Wow.
And we lose more people in terms of police to suicide than in the line of duty.
And these are dangerous jobs they're doing.
And that's where you have to say that we have got to stop, and we've got to figure out how to show up to these folks because there's no question when we need help, when we need protection, when we need people to go to the front line, they don't hesitate.
And I think what we're asking for as part of this effort is we have to return that favor and and and try to figure out how do we be, how are we there for them?
And we've got to do something differently.
And that's what this whole post-traumatic growth effort is about.
Is far too many of these men and women feel like they get a diagnosis and it's a death sentence for the rest of their life, and it's going to be a permanent permanently diminished life, and they deserve better than that, and we deserve better than that.
And we need these men and women, they're the pillars of strength in our society, and you're darn right.
We don't we don't want them on the streets, we don't want them on food chance, we don't want them in early grades.
We need them to be leaders in our communities because that's when we're at our strongest.
We're talking to Ken Falk and Josh Goldberg of the Bouldercrest Institute.
That that's a uh a stunning and and horrifying stat you just shared as far as more folks are serving coming back home committing suicide than actually died in the line of duty.
What what is the primary driver as far as what would uh have someone get to a point where where they they take their own lives and possibly in many cases probably leave families behind.
But What what ultimately do you see as far as them getting to that point of no return?
Well, I think this is kind of people all the time, I think suicide is a disease of hopelessness.
You know, when you get to the point where you can't see what what anything anything's gonna get better tomorrow or the next day or the next day.
And you know, the three major uh uh you know causes of suicide are our depression, our substance abuse, and our um undiagnosed or misdiagnosed traumatic brain injuries, which a lot of people during these last two wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have received because of all the explosions and the and the closeness to the explosions that many of them have been, and we just haven't done enough for for the traumatic brain injury work or or the depression work or the substance abuse work.
I mean, it's you know, ninety-seven percent of people that go through substance abuse care, you know, come out and they still have to go back a second time.
It's just the the system doesn't work, and that's what we're really trying to do at Boulder Crest is come up with a new way of triaging these injuries and to get people better so that they can thrive in the aftermath of the trauma and not get to this you know this this state of hopelessness where where suicide becomes an option.
We're talking to Ken Falk and Josh Goldberg of the Boulder Crest Foundation, an organization focused on the wellness teachings of post-traumatic growth.
Uh Ken, uh you were just inducted into the veterans hall of fame.
That must have been quite an honor.
What what was it?
What was it like?
What did it feel like?
Well, it's you know, for me it was uh I don't like awards, so I I'm a little you know a little bit embarrassed by it.
But you know I think the thing that I was most honored by with were the other people, the uh the the other five, and specifically is one guy Jan Scruggs.
I don't know if if you know the name Jan Scruggs, but Jan's the one who basically raised the money and built and and and policied through the uh uh the the Vietnam Memorial Wall in Washington DC.
And you know, Jan uh Jan is just an amazing man, and for me to be, you know, in a in a category anywhere near that guy is just it's it's humbling and and um it was an interesting event, but it's uh I'm just I'm just not an awards guy.
No, neither do I. I I I think it it's something you know what, don't make it about yourself.
It's it's about the cause and uh that that's why you do what you do along with Josh.
Uh but we do uh just to feed uh into your non-existent ego, uh just a little bit.
We have your biggest fan here, and that is Linda, our producer, who can't speak highly enough of you guys, and when she asked me to fill in, she said, by the way, we're doing this the day before Thanksgiving, and you're gonna talk to Bouldercrest, and here's why.
So uh Linda, I know you have a couple of questions for the boys as well.
Yes, full disclosure, I love BoulderCrest.
I am working with them, I donate to them, they're a fantastic group.
And I think it's you know, this is the time of Thanksgiving.
And I think one of the things that I know Josh talks about this a lot, you know, the holiday season is one of our highest times of suicide among people who work these very difficult first responder and military jobs.
And I think Josh, maybe you could just discuss that just a little bit and talk about how we can be more aware of what we can do to help, and then I'm gonna go back and embarrass Ken a little bit about his military service.
Yeah, and I think um and I just echo in and Ken's uh humblism he's he's the epitome of why it's so important that we allow veterans to kind of continue to transition and live great lives.
He's just he's an amazing man in a match.
Um, you know, to your question, Linda, I think there's two parts of that.
There's no question, I think, for folks who um you know you've got divorce rates in first responder land at 75 percent.
You've got a ninety percent divorce rate within special ops.
And so people who are sitting there reflecting on their own in the holidays all alone with alcohol and the rest of it, it creates a world where I think it really crystallizes the scorched earth nature of people's lives when they really go through struggle.
And so part of it really is just the act of reaching out to another human being.
And if you think about somebody detects them and say, hey, I'm thinking about you, because you you have no idea how much that means to somebody.
And and it goes to this broader idea and a broader sort of I think narrative in our society is the people who are said to be essential keep feeling left to be disposable.
Right.
You know, we send our troops to Afghanistan and they bleed, they die, they watch their friends die, and we withdraw, and they essentially feel like what was it for, right?
Does my life even matter?
And it's the same with the police.
It's the defund the police stuff.
It's like I'm willing to put my life on the line for a society that does not value me.
And I think it really does contribute to struggle.
And so you've got you know, the mental health system telling you you're broken.
You've got society telling you they don't really care, and and you're left, and then you're just dealing with a lot of stress personally and professionally.
And I think it's easy to see why that's such a toxic cocktail.
And so part of what we have to do isn't just to do programs, but I think is we have to change the nature of our our societal narrative uh about trauma, about struggle, and we've we've got to show up to these men and women, and sometimes that just means saying thank you, acknowledging the value they provide uh and being grateful for for the things that they do.
Absolutely.
And and Ken, you you got a big year coming up next year.
For what I'm seeing, you've been married to your wife Julia for 39 years.
You're coming up on 40.
That's a lot of pressure.
You know, you gotta find something that you haven't bought for before, and then shopping for for the wife is very tough.
That I've learned.
Forty uh 40 years ago, you know, I'm the bomb disposal guy in the Navy and the and and and in the military.
That's EOD explosive ordinance disposal.
And in the Navy, it was a joke when I first joined the EOD for everyone's divorce.
So we've we've made it we've made it through uh a a lot of uh a lot of turmoil and had a great marriage and a great family.
Good for you.
And and Josh, we we can't let you go without talking about, you know, before I transfer to University of Maryland, I was an Emerson College guy in the back bay of Boston, and I always just remember like going to the coolest party at Tufts.
And I I I I just wonder if you remember back that far to say, yeah, you know, Tufts was a tough school, but also, boy, you guys could do kegstands like nobody's business.
We did.
We we had some very good parties.
The ones that stick in my mind are some ice luge uh ice lose events debate if I wanted to put my mouth on that.
But it was uh it was a great experience.
I love Boston.
I love the food up there, and and and I did fall in love with the Red Sox as well.
So um judge me if you will, but I did it was uh amazing experience to get to go to school there, and I think uh, you know, study the world and and get to where I am today.
It's just amazing.
I had a love hate relationship with the uh Red Sox in a sense where Emerson, where I lived, was right over Kembore Square, basically, and then you you could look into Fenway almost.
At least you could see the Green Monster.
But then that damn Sitco sign, you know, that's above the wall.
It was right in my window.
I had to put up like hefty bags over it because it didn't go off until exactly at the strike of of midnight.
So uh that that's what I remember about Boston.
It's probably why I transferred, Linda, now that I think about it.
I'm like, I gotta get a ton of sign.
Enough time, man.
Yeah, first first real problems, no question about it.
Hey guys, how do we donate to Boulder Crest as far as uh I I know go to the website, but but uh is there faster ways to do this where we could get as much money in the coffers as possible for the most worthy clause I could think of in this holiday season.
Uh thank you for saying that.
It's uh you know, there's so many great causes and and we do need help, but it's it's it's the easiest thing is to go to the website.
There's a click donate button, and you can put your credit card information and it's as it's we've made it as easy as possible, right on the right on the front page.
That's great to hear.
And how much have you raised so far?
Just uh ballpark category.
Well, you know, we we have to raise every year about eight and a half million dollars, and and for this campaign right now we've raised about two hundred thousand dollars, and our goal is to raise a million.
So we're we're we got a long way to go, and we could use all the help we can get.
Well, being on seven hundred stations right now, it certainly I hope will help.
Uh Linda, I know you had uh wanted to put in one more plug for uh one more worthy call for the organization.
So you've got Operation Struggle Well, just tell people about Operation Struggle Well, this new campaign, and and how we're gonna be putting out more information on that.
Yeah, you know, our focus is on serving 1,500 combat veterans and first responders as part of this operation struggle well.
So uh the funding we're seeking, the million dollars, Ken mentioned, is really designed to help us transform the lives of 1,500 people.
And what I would say to anybody listening is is the commitment we have is is it's really about transformation.
It's not catch and release, it's not one and done, it's not a few days away.
This is really about fundamentally changing people's lives and allowing them to then change the lives of the people in their family and in their community.
And so it pays dividends everywhere down the line.
And so we'd love you to join us to be part of that effort and and to help us transform the lives of of these fifteen hundred men and women who who, like I said, they need us to show up for them ahead of time because darn knows uh they show up for us.
And it's only ten bucks a month, right?
Exactly.
Yeah, so it's ten bucks a month, you know, give what you can.
You know, we're so grateful, you know, for all you guys are doing.
Linda just bought me a cup of coffee that was twelve dollars here in Midtown Manhattan.
So you can afford it, people.
All right, so sad.
It's so true.
Go into this week and feeling good about yourself and and donate the ten dollars a month.
I mean, well, what is gas go for these days?
Ninety bucks to fill up my 183,000 mile car yesterday.
All right, enough.
Donate to Boulder Crest.
Josh Goldberg, Ken Falk.
Thanks so much for joining us.
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