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May 18, 2025 - Stew Peters Show
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Hope for Heroes: Ending Veteran Homelessness Starts Now
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A week ago this last Friday was one of the biggest wins veterans have got from our federal government in a long time.
I mean, recently we had the PACT Act, which was a huge thing.
It's helping people.
There's complaints, there's some things that aren't jiving, but that's all speculation.
I don't know that the PACT Act's been around long enough for us to pass complete and total judgment on it yet.
But a week ago Friday, President Trump signed in to law via executive order his new initiative for the veteran community.
And it's a big one.
It's a big win.
So we're going to talk about that today.
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As I said in the intro, a week ago, Friday.
President Trump signed an executive order that will put a huge gouge.
It's a huge help in this mission to combat veteran homelessness.
Not only that, I mean, there's more things in this executive order, but not much.
This one's pretty clear.
Pretty cut and dry.
And I gotta say, There's been so many discussions.
There's been so many promises made.
There's been so many action plans.
There's been talk and this and that and the other thing.
It's been going on for a long time.
This issue in our country surrounding homeless veterans has been a thing since I can remember.
And I started working in the veteran service space back in 2010, something like that, 2009.
And I got to say, there has been so many initiatives talked about, planned, started to combat veteran homelessness.
Just here in Minnesota, they had a whole task force of sorts.
And their goal was to end veteran homelessness in Minnesota altogether.
We're going to be done with it in a couple of years' time.
Well, here we are in spring, late spring, early summer of 2025.
And we still have hundreds of men and women who serve this country homeless on the streets of Minnesota.
So what is this executive order, you ask?
Well, let me show you, because I just so happen to have it keyed up and ready for us to take a look at.
On May 9th, 2025, President Donald Trump signed in to law via executive order that keeping promises to veterans and establishing a national center for warrior independence.
Executive Order.
And we'll read through this a little bit because I have some thoughts about this.
Let me switch back here.
I've got to tell you guys, this is something that kind of hits home for me.
I worked for an organization for a few years, and our whole goal was to...
To house veterans who were homeless or were about to be.
Move them into a space.
Have a staff to provide services to help them get over these hurdles.
Whatever it is that made you possibly become homeless.
Whatever it is that caused you to stay there if you were there for a significant amount of time.
All those things were things that we hoped to address.
And so there's a lot that comes along with that, and we'll get into that.
But for me, this is a pretty awesome thing.
I was pretty geeked out about it when I saw it, and I had been waiting to be able to talk to all of you about it.
Because I feel like it's been over a week now since this happened.
And I kind of held off last week talking about it because I figured, well...
Let's see if this gains any attention.
I was real interested to see if something like this, and in my opinion, in my eyes, this is pretty historic.
And we'll get into why.
But it really didn't.
It hit some news stations in California.
Where this plan is going to be taking place.
The National Center for Warrior Independence will be the first one, hopefully the first of many, will be constructed and put into motion and actually house homeless veterans.
But let's get into it, right?
Because it is going to be constructed and put in West Los Angeles on a VA facility.
But let's just talk about quickly.
How this plot of land came to be and what this means for the veteran population in L.A. anyway.
But more importantly, across the nation as we see how this thing plays out.
So let's get back over here.
So I'm just going to try to read through it quickly because I think that we have some other discussion points to get to.
Our nation's security, prosperity, and freedom would not be possible without our veterans.
Many service members pay the ultimate sacrifice.
Others bear visible and invisible wounds from their service.
Too many veterans are homeless in America, and each veteran deserves our gratitude.
Yet the federal government has not always treated veterans like the heroes that they are.
During the previous administration, accountable, Unaccountable bureaucrats treated them shamefully.
Failing veterans when they needed help most and betraying the taxpayers who rightfully expect better.
The story of the West Los Angeles VA campus is indicative of this failure.
More than 100 years ago.
Here's the good part, folks.
More than 100 years ago.
Senator John Percival and Arcadia Bandini de Stearnsbaker generously donated hundreds of acres of land that they owned in West Los Angeles on the condition that it be used to house disabled veterans.
And so when that happened, the VA took it, of course, and they did this.
They housed homeless veterans for quite a while.
Because that was the deal.
That was the plan.
Okay?
So, the campus once featured a chapel, billiard hall, a thousand-seat theater, and housed about 6,000 veterans by the federal government.
But the federal government has since allowed this crown jewel of veteran care to deteriorate over the last few decades.
The VA leased parts of this property to a private school, private companies, and the UCLA baseball team at significantly below market prices.
As of 2024, there were approximately 3,000 homeless veterans in LA, more than any other city in the country, and accounting for about 10% of all America's homeless veterans.
All of them.
10% of all of them, which is about 32%.
Just, just for, just for...
So we know.
There is about 32,000-ish, give or take 2,000 or 3,000 people currently homeless that serve in the military right now on our streets in America.
10% of that 32,000, clearly, is in L.A. And this whole time, for over 100 years, There has been a massive plot of land that was initially intended to house disabled veterans.
And for all of these years that we've had massive numbers of homeless vets in California, in this case in LA, just chilling on the street.
Not getting the services that maybe they require or deserve or are in search of, but just on the street.
And what they say, Skid Row, Los Angeles' infamous Skid Row.
I guess I've heard of it before, but I don't know a whole lot about Skid Row.
And then Donald Trump goes on to talk about what he did in his first term.
But here's the other good parts.
Establishing the National Center for Warrior Independence.
So he has directed Doug Collins, who is the Secretary of the VA, to designate the National Center for Warrior Independence in West LA, in which homeless veterans in Los Angeles and around the area and around the nation Can seek the received care benefits and services to which they are entitled.
He also directed Mr. Collins to work with other municipalities and VA facilities to ensure homeless veterans outside LA who want to avail themselves of the National Center for Warrior Excellence are provided the means to do so.
In coordination with the Secretary of Health and Human Services, the Secretary of Housing, HUD, and And so the rest of this goes on to talk
about how...
Different metrics that are to be met.
But the last real notable thing in here is that the president has directed that this thing be constructed and operational by January 1, 2028.
Not too many years from now.
A few years from now.
In a few years, we're going to house 6,000.
Have the ability to house 6,000 homeless veterans in one spot.
And not only just one spot, guys, but on a VA campus where they have full access to a medical facility, they're going to have access to programs, help, food, whatever it is that they need.
And so, for me, as I was saying, this is kind of a bittersweet thing.
Because it's a really good feeling.
It's a really good feeling to be in a place where you are welcoming in men and women who serve this country, who were down on their luck.
Some of them, believe it or not.
Have chosen to be homeless.
Just life seemed easier.
And then, of course, you get into this rut and you stay there.
It's real hard to get out.
I can remember when I worked for this organization, this nonprofit that was doing this project that I was talking about earlier, where we took World War I military buildings that were still standing, some of them barely.
And all of it got repurposed and redone to house homeless veterans.
And in fact, this particular property, we had 64 or 66 units to put veterans in.
And when they moved in here, guys, all they had to bring was themselves.
Clothes, their personal effects.
Everything else was here for them.
Their apartments were fully furnished.
They had everything they needed.
King-sized bed, towels, sheets, pillows, cooking utensils, garbage bags, cleaning supplies, personal hygiene items, shampoo, soap.
Deodorant, razors, anything you could think of.
Anything you could think of at all.
And then, of course, also when they moved in, they were given gift cards who were donated by other organizations in the community so that they could go to the grocery store and fill up their refrigerator.
And so, it was a really good feeling to see some of these people.
Walk into the facility the first day, move-in day, the first day we opened.
Some of them with a backpack and maybe a garbage bag and some clothes.
Some of them had some more things, of course.
But it was really humbling.
It was really humbling because we hear these stories about people's service.
We see movies.
We talk to other people, but we never seem to really dig in on some of the deeper issues of veterans in our community, unless you're in that space.
People like me, other people you see on the show, Jason, Ben, Blake was on here.
Unless you're in the space or you are a veteran, it doesn't quite hit home, I don't think, the same.
But for the people who had volunteered to help on move-in day, that were not veterans, but were just volunteering to help, there was a whole range of emotions that you saw on people, from elation to sadness.
There were quite a few tears shed by folks.
And I gotta say, It's one of those experiences that you never think is going to make you take a step back and appreciate what you have and where you're at.
Not to the level it did.
And so then we got through all that.
We got these veterans in off the street.
And here's the thing about this National Center for Warrior Independence that I hope doesn't get overlooked.
Is that...
Taking veterans off the street, putting a roof over their head is a huge thing.
It's a huge accomplishment.
It's a big help.
But the one thing that I hope doesn't get overlooked is what comes next.
What comes next for these folks who have been maybe six months homeless, maybe six years, maybe 15 years homeless?
What happens once a safe spot is had?
When you can get into your own place, and some of the stories that I heard from veterans we moved into the facility that we managed and operated was that people were really excited to have their own space because you never know if you're going to wake up with all of your stuff.
It may get stolen from you while you're sleeping.
People had their belongings peed on.
People pour booze on your stuff.
Whatever it is.
They were super excited just to be able to ensure that they'd wake up with all of their things.
Not if they were going to be cold.
Not if they were going to be hot.
Not if they might get snatched up or beat up or taken advantage of.
Of course, those are all concerns, but their main concern was, I don't have much.
I want to wake up and have my stuff.
And, of course, there were a lot of other thoughts and a lot of other things brought to me, but that was one thing that stuck out to me in conversations I had with folks when they were moving in.
You never realize until you're in a position like that that I may not have all of my things.
I gotta sleep.
I gotta rest.
I can't stay up 24 hours a day.
I can't sleep with one eye open.
I'm just excited to keep my stuff.
And so on this day when you're moving into a place and you have a new home, it was hot that day, so the AC is working good.
It's chilly in the place.
Everything you could ever need.
To just sustain is there for you.
It was all donated, or we bought it, whatever it was.
But what comes next?
And I don't know that a lot of folks who haven't worked in this space would really kind of understand, but what comes next is everything else.
All these thoughts about, am I going to have my stuff?
These thoughts about, am I going to have a meal in my belly?
Or am I going to have a warm place to sleep?
All of those things go away.
Those basic hierarchy of needs, I guess you could say, type things, once those are met and you're comfortable with that, everything else comes out.
All the other problems come out.
The chemical dependency.
Mental health issues.
Behavioral issues.
Lack of personal hygiene.
Just how to operate in a public space.
And I don't want to say be normal because normal is different for everybody it seems these days.
But to just be a regular guy.
All of those skills.
Social skills, like reading social cues, all that stuff, for some reason seems to kind of just dissipate from folks the longer that they've been on the street.
And so in my experience, it was a whirlwind of things that we as a staff, I don't know that we were 100% ready for.
I think that a lot of the people that worked on this project that were not veterans, which was just about everybody but me and one or two other people, they didn't quite get it.
I can recall having this planning meeting or maybe it was just a discussion, a roundtable discussion or something in the office, and somebody had made the comment.
Man, when this project, when this property and this renovation of this historic space is done, and we can get veterans in this space, it's going to be wonderful.
All their problems will be solved.
And you look around the room, and there's a lot of people raising their eyebrows.
Like, yeah, yeah, I really agree.
And of course, there were some verbal comments.
Yeah, that's a good point.
I think this is going to really help out.
That's going to be a wonderful space.
And all of that's true.
It's going to really help out.
But it is not going to solve all of their problems.
And it becomes then an issue of how do you approach?
How do you approach veterans?
And where there were some disagreements in methods, I would say, was that Some folks who have never been in the military or aren't close with a veteran don't really understand how veterans communicate effectively amongst each other.
Now, you get out into public space and maybe you're talking to strangers or you're getting on a camera here and you're talking to however many people tune in via this microphone and that camera.
There's just kind of this way that you do it, right?
And that is inviting or warm or informative or whatever.
It's not always very brash.
It's not very outspoken all the time.
And that's a whole lot different than the way that a lot of people in the military community just talk to each other.
And it became a barrier.
For me, as a service provider, leading a staff, a small staff, two other people, there was three of us, well, four of us total.
Our goal is to try to help these folks get on their feet, whatever that means.
For some of them it was finding them some training so that they could find their ways back to work.
Helping them get their commercial driver's license back because it had lapsed and they can't afford to renew it.
You know, different things like that.
Having discussions about personal hygiene.
And being in public spaces and being out amongst, you know, people in other spaces that aren't under a bridge.
They're not walking up and down a street.
They're not flying a sign, none of that stuff.
Just being out in normal spaces.
That was a huge challenge.
It was a huge barrier to the improvement of some of the lives of these folks.
They just, for whatever reason, lose the ability to...
Keep it as a priority of their daily routine, or they just don't care anymore, or sometimes the lack of resources.
Sometimes you don't always have a place to take a shower.
You don't have a place or the ability to get soap and things like that.
And so having all of these discussions with people was quite eye-opening for me.
And then things as simple as just keeping a key.
We had a fella move into our facility who had taken a 50-year vow of homelessness.
He was a Vietnam veteran.
In fact, he might have even been a Korean War veteran.
He was pretty old.
And his time had come up when our space was opening.
I think he was well over his goal by months.
But he had moved in.
Turned out he was a hoarder.
He had filled up his place in a few months, almost to the ceiling.
But he lost his key often.
I would say the first six, seven months that he lived there, he probably lost three or four keys.
And, of course, this was a newly remodeled facility, so it wasn't just a regular key.
It was like a fob that the doors were electric and automatic and blah, blah, blah, blah.
And I went to him one day, and I was frustrated, because now we have to charge him for a lost key, and he doesn't really have the money to pay it, so that means he's not going to pay it.
And so, like, this brings up problems.
If you're not paying your rent and blah, blah, blah, you know, you have to, we gotta move you on, right?
Because this place was funded by government subsidies, and they had their little share to pay, but even that was a challenge.
Sometimes $90 a month.
And he very calmly looked at me when I started riding his ass about losing his...
Man, you can't be losing all these keys.
They're expensive.
You got to pay for them.
You don't have the money to pay for, man.
And I just want to help you understand that you can't keep losing these.
We can't keep floating your keys.
And he looked at me very calmly and he said, It's been over 40 years since I've had to keep track of a key.
And so I apologize that I've lost some keys, but I'm trying.
And so, okay.
Fair enough.
So, what do we do?
We give him some lanyards.
We give him some other things to help him keep better track of his keys rather than just throw it in his pocket.
But, like, these are the things that folks don't really realize are going on.
In the lives of these veterans who are on the street.
And just having a space is not going to solve all these problems.
And, you know, people get into these modes and then they want to set goals that are unrealistic sometimes.
You know, we used to talk about that often.
We need to set tangible goals for your rise back to normality.
And for some of them, they wanted to get their kids back.
Okay?
Well, what do we got to do to get your kids back?
It's not as easy as, hey, I have a place to live now.
My kids, I can get my kids back.
They can come and spend time with me.
No, no.
Do you have a criminal background?
We got to go through that.
How are you going to support your kids?
What are you going to tell them?
And for a lot of these veterans, it wasn't necessarily that they couldn't support them.
That was true, but that wasn't their biggest barrier.
For a lot of them, it was pride.
For a lot of these folks, it's pride.
Why they are estranged from their families, their loved ones, their friends, the people that they served with, that they were close with.
I don't want them to see me like this.
I don't want them to see me homeless.
I don't want them to smell me stinking like a farm animal because I don't keep up my hygiene.
I haven't had the ability to or the resources or whatever the reason is.
And so we found out quickly that it takes a village, community partners, other people to come that have expertise in certain things and just have conversations.
But I think that where this is going to be a massive, massive win in L.A. for veterans is not only are we going to put a roof over their head, and not only do we know now that there are a lot more issues than just being homeless, we're going to have that stuff ready.
We're going to have services queued up.
We're going to have people in place that specialize in A, B, and C. We're going to have recreational, healthy recreational things for these veterans to do.
You know, maybe get back into exercising or find some training.
All kinds of things.
All in one place.
All in one place.
And when we're experiencing longer than usual wait times for care.
Which is pretty normal nowadays amongst VA facilities.
Now we're living a few blocks away.
So just let me know when I can come and get my eye exam.
Let me know when I can come and see my shrink.
Let me know when I can come and get some care.
I'm right down the street.
This is something that...
If you are a person that despises Donald Trump, if you hate his guts, can't stand the thought of looking at him if he was on fire, you wouldn't stop the piss on him to put him out.
Even if that's how you feel about the guy.
You can't hate this, can you?
I mean, I'm sure that there will be people that...
That will hate it.
And they'll put some spin on it that he's getting some personal gain out of it or something.
I'm sure there'll be some kind of spin zone bullshit.
But it's pretty indicative of other things he's been doing with his time since he was inaugurated back into office.
It's pretty cut and dry.
We read it here.
This land was donated to the VA under the premise that you do A, B, and C with it.
And that's where we started.
That's where the VA started, and it slowly transformed into a money grab.
It slowly transformed into, oh, UCLA, you need a baseball facility?
Yep, come on over.
We got a spot for you here at the VA campus.
Here you go.
Pay us 75 cents on the dollar, and it's yours as long as you need it.
Private schools, other businesses.
The whole time, this plot of land was meant for veterans who need help.
They need care.
They need a helping hand.
But I think that we need to be careful about the way that we approach this after it's built.
What we don't want to do is turn veterans into entitled people because that's not going to help them either.
Getting them off the streets, huge win.
But if we don't hold them accountable after that for their own success while providing them all of the resources and all of the tools to do so, we're setting them up for more failure.
Remember that at one point in the lives of these people, they put one hand on the Bible, rose the other one, sworn allegiance to this country to defend it against all enemies, foreign and domestic, that whole thing.
Did their time, for as little or as long as they did, were discharged.
And whatever life threw at them after their exit from the service, I guess we don't know everyone's story is different.
Even everyone's military story is different.
And somehow, somehow through all that training and an army career, no matter how short or how long, when you've been taught to be a team player, to pull your weight, to contribute, To demand better for yourself and the people around you and to do it with honor and courage.
Somehow, whatever the reason is, that was lost for many of them.
Is it situational?
Maybe.
Is it chemical dependency?
I think that's a huge issue for a lot of them.
Is it that they felt like they came home to a place that didn't accept them, which is an issue for a lot of older veterans, Vietnam-era veterans?
Is it also maybe possible that they lost faith in the country, especially Vietnam veterans, in the country that plucked them out of their lives, whatever they were doing via the draft, sent them to a combat zone?
Taught them to be warriors.
Taught them to do whatever it is that they do to a high level of execution.
And then, alright man, go home.
Now, granted, we didn't know the effects of combat on the mental health and physical health of people as well as we do now back then.
But even still, you would think that at that time, we're a lot closer to World War II, that we had this sense of patriotism about us.
And even if we didn't agree with the premise of the war that was fought, much like many people for Iraq and Afghanistan, didn't agree with the premise.
But a lot of people talked about how they still supported the troops.
And yet, here we are, over a hundred years later, and we find out that our government has been sitting on hundreds of acres of land that they could be housing and helping veterans live a better life, getting them training.
Getting them healthy again, whatever the case may be.
But they were using that space and the ability to provide that help and resources to make money.
So maybe we shouldn't be asking a whole lot of why questions.
Why are veterans homeless?
I mean, of course, again, everyone's story is different.
But for those veterans out there who chose to be homeless or ended up homeless because they feel like their country abandoned them and set them up for failure, maybe we shouldn't ask them why.
Maybe it's just written right there.
Right there in the stars, it's written.
We know why.
And in one fell swoop of a pen, our president...
Called out some bullshit.
Said, here's what we're going to do.
Make it happen.
And that's really all that this executive order talks about, is how we're going to build this National Center for Warrior Independence.
Later on, down at the bottom, they talk about also, is it Rhode Island?
There's one state in the whole country that has not one VA hospital.
I believe it's Rhode Island.
He decrees in here also that we're going to build a VA facility there.
We're going to build one.
Oh, New Hampshire.
Sorry, not Rhode Island, but in New Hampshire.
We're going to build a VA hospital in New Hampshire for veterans in New Hampshire so they don't have to drive two, three, four hours to get care.
We also don't have to just provide blanket payments of money to civilian doctors to treat veterans under the CHOICE Act, the CHOICE Program.
But why don't we build a VA hospital for the veterans in New Hampshire?
Why has it never been done?
And then he goes also into talking about how he's demanding that they figure out wait times and better access to benefits.
But 90% of this thing is about this campus that we are going to see constructed.
One fell swoop, 6,000 veterans housed.
Now, we make it sound easy, but like we just discussed, it's not going to be that easy.
But this is a great step forward.
And veterans all over this country should be proud.
They should be proud of their president, in my opinion.
Like I said, love him or hate him, this is something that everybody should get behind.
I don't see why you wouldn't.
And I hope that if you openly, publicly are against this, you can articulate why, because I think that that'd be pretty important to know also.
But we've got to take a break.
We'll be right back.
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I wanted to just kind of round out the end of the show with some thoughts about, well actually it's more of a question.
I wonder how things like this happen.
I wonder how we get from a space where a couple people do something Selfless and pretty amazing for a community of people.
A community of people that our country for over 100 years have been saying are our nation's treasure.
So, we find ourselves 100 years ago with this plot of land.
And the agreement is you can have it.
Federal government, you can have it.
But only if we can agree that it's used for housing and taking care of military veterans.
And then, as they say in the executive order, over time, the place has become run down, dilapidated.
And it just got leased out to a college and some private schools and businesses or whoever.
It just got leased out to them.
Like, what was the thought process?
I'm curious.
And maybe there's a good answer.
But if we were doing it for a while and we had movie theaters and chapels and...
Places that people like to be.
Why did they leave?
I mean, there were 6,000 people living there.
Why did they leave?
What happened?
And I hope that we can find more information on it.
I hope we can dig into that.
But what happened that all these people left?
The promises that were made to these two people or families or however it went for this land and its purpose, how did that just end up going by the wayside?
Because to the best of my knowledge, there hasn't been a whole lot of government officials anyway who have been less supportive of military and veteran issues.
I believe that for many, many years, at least since the late 40s, veteran issues are probably one of those things that politicians have been running on and talking about every year.
Because we hear about it.
We hear how treasured these men and women are.
And we keep hearing about the promises to these men and women and how we can do better.
Well, how did we get to the place where all of these things that were promised just ended up going by the wayside and it became a place for us to make money for the VA or whoever's benefiting off all of this rent?
When did that happen and why would be my question.
And maybe it's somewhat of a rhetorical question because...
Maybe most of us have a pretty good idea.
But it's just another thing to outline that we talk about it.
We talk about taking care of veterans.
We talk about making their lives better.
We talk about all of these things.
And then, again, ends up by the wayside.
And at some point in the future, Like we have now with this particular space.
We find out that it's always been there.
And the agreement that was made, as far as we can tell up to this point, was never nullified.
There wasn't really any words or any kind of letters written or any decrees or any legislation or whatever.
Any direction to just...
Cut it off.
Like, the country hasn't stopped supporting veterans.
And so, where did they go?
Were they forced out?
Did we come to a spot in time where L.A. had no homeless veterans so it wasn't necessary anymore?
Maybe that's the answer.
Maybe the answer is that there were no homeless veterans at one point.
Well, we have all this land.
What are we going to do with it?
Well, we might as well use it to put money in the coffer for other programs or projects, which we all know is probably bullshit if that was a discussion anyway.
It all went to somebody's pocket.
it.
I think that there's many examples of this happening now and in the recent or distant past.
We just...
nobody knows.
And so, what do we do to ensure that now, when this National Center for Warrior Independence is up and it's running and people are living there, hopefully thriving, hopefully they're thriving in the space, how are we going to be confident that this is still going to be something that stands for a long time?
How are we going to ensure that this is an initiative, hopefully, that goes out in other corners of the country, in other places?
Maybe not as big.
Maybe we don't need multiple facilities that hold 6,000 people.
But as we discussed earlier in the show, there's roughly 32,000 homeless veterans.
So maybe we do need a bunch of places that house 6,000 veterans.
I guess that remains yet to be seen.
And so, I also wonder, I also wonder what's going to be, what's going to be the hurdle with finding enough service providers, enough people to do all of this work to help these folks into a better spot in life.
And I think that it takes passionate, people who are passionate.
But I'll tell you, compassion fatigue is certainly a real thing.
And so, those things are going to happen.
And maybe that's part of the answer in the first place.
Maybe it's part of the answer for many other initiatives.
In the veteran space that just haven't, for whatever reason, worked out or haven't stood the test of time or whatever.
Because that, my friends, is a real thing.
Not taking home with you the stories of these people, the things that they've been through, situations they've put themselves in.
And then being a person working with them that can see the answer.
You can see the solution to one of their problems.
But it takes buy-in from them.
It takes work.
It takes follow-up on the part of the service provider.
And it takes accountability.
Holding them accountable for the things that they do or don't do to better their situation.
And it becomes difficult.
It becomes difficult to digest that every day.
And it takes people that are passionate about it, that are willing to bear that burden.
And usually, usually I think you find other veterans who are not in a spot where they're homeless, who are not down on their luck, That will volunteer.
Or they will apply for those jobs.
And they will learn to be peer-to-peer counselors.
And they will learn how to work with veterans to help them through some of these issues that they have after being housed.
Come up.
Because they are going to.
But, you know, I mean, it's a trial and error thing.
I really wish...
At this point, I kind of wish a little bit that...
I was closer to California.
I'd love to see this thing play out.
I would love to be involved in it somehow, if that would be possible.
But I think that this is going to be the litmus test for how we carry out the treatment of veterans into the future.
I am super stoked that our president did something like this.
That he just, it seems like he just kind of strong-armed it back.
Nope, we're done with this.
We're going to take this back.
This is what we're going to do with it.
And I love that.
This is what I voted for.
I think this is what a lot of people voted for.
They voted for a person that will occupy that office, make a decision, put it out, And make sure it is seen through to completion.
And it doesn't seem like the president really gives a crap about what people have to say about him, what people say about his initiatives.
He keeps going back to the fact that this is what I was elected on.
These types of approaches is why I was voted into office.
Again.
And again, man, I just have a hard time understanding how anybody can oppose that.
The only viable excuse, in my view, is that they just hate him.
They just hate him, and they will not just concede that he does good things.
There's always talk of this ulterior motive, and there's always talk of all these other things.
And I will also say this.
Maybe as time goes by, people like me will be proven to be wrong.
Maybe we're not reading it correctly.
Maybe we're not seeing something.
Maybe we're just, as other people have told me, maybe we're just cucks for Donald Trump.
But...
My argument is it's been a really long time.
It's been a really long time since we've seen anybody stand up for us on the level that I believe that he has.
And I'm the first person to admit in just about any circle, in any conversation, there are many things about Mr. Trump that I really don't like as a person, as a man, but who cares?
Who cares about that?
What I do love about him is his ability to pick out a problem, make a decision, even if it may end up being the wrong one.
But as a leader, you have to make a decision.
You have to be confident in the decision that you're making.
And then you've got to see it through.
If we're talking about a place for our nation's heroes, who are down on their luck, to go and get care and have this ability to build themselves back up to being self-sufficient, and icing on the cake is all the money that was set aside for illegal aliens and services to illegal migrants and immigrants.
We're going to use that money because we're not doing that anymore.
So not only is he helping veterans, but he's also knocking out this DEI and this woke bullshit.
We're not going to continue to financially support this invasion that's been happening to us.
We're going to nip it in the bud by just...
Taking the money away and putting it into a place where we know it'll be appreciated, it'll be helpful, and also fulfill a promise that the man made to take care of veterans.
And maybe Donald Trump and also Doug Collins will be justified as if they need to justify their actions at all.
I don't know if people understand quite what this means.
We're going to build a facility to house 6,000 people.
Guess what?
There's going to be a lot of VA jobs coming available, especially if this is just the first of many.
So, hang in there, folks.
Stick with it.
Let's keep watching.
And I am going to try to find more information on how this land went from Being donated with a promise.
That promise going away.
All of these veterans leaving.
Where did they go?
Why did they leave?
Why did this happen?
And hopefully we can find some answers.
So, stick in there.
Keep watching.
We're going to keep researching.
We're going to keep finding things to talk about.
And I think that this is going to be a good one.
So, stay tuned.
We'll see you next week.
Good night.
Good night.
As Christians, in a Christian country, we have a right to be, at minimum, agnostic about the leadership being all Jewishly occupied.
We literally should be at war with fucking Israel a hundred times over, and instead we're just sending them money, and it's fucking craziness.
Look at the state of Israel, look at the state of Tel Aviv, and look at the state of Philadelphia.
You tell me where this money's going, you tell me who's benefiting from this.
I am prepared to die in the battle.
Fighting this monstrosity that would wish to enslave me and my family and steal away any rights to my property And if you've got a foreign state, you've got dual citizens in your government, who do you think they're supporting?
God, right now, would you protect the nation of Israel and protect those of us, not just our church, but every church in the world and in this nation that's willing to put their neck on the line and say, we stand with them!
We stand with you!
You can look at Trump's cabinet.
You can look at Biden's cabinet.
for Jews I have a black friend in school.
I have nothing against blacks.
She has nothing against me.
She understands where I'm coming from.
Excuse me, I'm a Jew, and I'd just like to say that, you know, in our Bible it says that you're like animals.
The Jews crucified our God.
The Jews crucified our God.
Here on the break, folks, we're going to talk about mushrooms.
What do you know about mushrooms?
Specifically, Coriolis versicolor mushrooms.
Well, I don't know a whole lot, but I have some friends here that do.
So I want to introduce you to Kurt and Kristen Ludlow.
Hello, folks.
How are you?
Great.
How are you doing?
Very good.
We have limited time.
I don't want you to feel rushed, but I'd like you to tell us quickly about Coriolis versicolor mushrooms.
This breakthrough that seemingly not a whole lot of people have been informed about or know about, but we're here to change that.
So help us out.
What do you know?
Absolutely.
Well, let me give you some background real quick on it and how we got our hands on it.
First and foremost, one of our partners here at the company, his mother was dealing with a very severe issue that affected her lung.
She was attending Sloan Kettering.
That issue ended up getting worse.
They tried everything medically they could to resolve it.
Nothing worked.
And so they gave her two months to live.
He started reaching out to friends and family regarding her circumstances.
And her cousin or her nephew out in Japan reached back and said, look, I have something.
It's just in a capsule form.
It's a mushroom.
We have a proprietary way we extract it.
He was talking to her son, his cousin, and said, why don't you have your mom try it and just see if this might help her out in any way.
And so she started taking it.
And after 30 days, she noticed quite a considerable difference in the way she's feeling.
Month two went by, more improvement.
Month three, she's feeling as if there's no issues whatsoever.
And she goes back to Sloan Kettering.
Sure enough, they run lab work on her and find that condition to no longer be there.
And so they were flabbergasted.
They wanted to know what she was doing.
And of course, she was able to reach out to her nephew and bring all the information that they requested to them.
And that's where the first clinical study started here in the United States.
And from there, MD Anderson started studying it, the American Cancer Society, Loma Linda, Harvard.
It's been published in the Library of Medicine many times.
Hundreds of studies on this mushroom, and what they concluded was that it didn't cure, it didn't mitigate it, it didn't prevent anything, but specifically it would modulate the immune system and get it working optimally again.
And if we can get our immune system working optimally again, I think you can agree that it's the best way to resolve any type of issue that we might be dealing with, because that's what it's designed to do.
And so for years, you know, if that happened to your mother, Our partner, Simon, could not keep from telling anyone that would listen to him about it.
And he started getting all types of reports back from different people with all kinds of different things that they were dealing with that they were noticing some great results with it.
And it wasn't just for sick people.
It was for people...
That didn't want to get sick, that wanted to be proactive versus reactive.
And many great things that people were saying with renewed energy, feeling younger, sleeping better, things like that.
And so eight years ago, what ended up happening is one of our partners, aside from Simon, Steve, he lost a dog due to cancer.
Within two months, Gino, our other partner, also lost a dog due to cancer and two of their children.
They were sitting around looking into it and the dogs are all between the ages of four and eight.
They were young and they weren't happy about it.
And here they had this mushroom that, you know, they'd been getting out to people for years as well as us.
They thought to themselves, well, I wonder if this is safe for animals.
And sure enough, they found a study done by the University of Pennsylvania declaring that dogs that were taking this product were living three times as long as the dogs that weren't that had a very aggressive form of cancer.
And so at that point, that's where Pet Club 24-7 was born because they knew that they had an incredible strain.
And here's what they found out, Richard, is...
65% of our pets are getting cancer today.
One in three allergies.
Six million new cases of diabetes are going on.
They're medicating them with human medications.
And our pets are living half as long as they used to.
In the 70s, the average age of a golden retriever was 17. Today, that average age is nine.
And they wanted to do something about it.
So they added this mushroom into...
Incredibly well-put-together products with no bad ingredients because what they found and why these conditions were happening was it came down to like our humans.
You know, it's the foods, treats, and toys they're eating.
The regulations are very loose and it's causing all types of issues as a result of that on top of all the other things that are going on.
And that's where the company was born and that's where we are today.
That's a beautiful story.
There are so many people that are looking for something that's not from the mainstream, not from Big Pharma, or whatever the case may be.
I mean, we all have these stories, right, about Grandma's old home remedies.
And I'll tell you what, I'm super interested in this because I have a dog.
His name is Gus.
He's a Burma Doodle.
He's five or six years old.
He was supposed to be a Mini.
He's now a 108-pound lap dog, and he does struggle with some hip issues only at five or six years old, and he also has these subdermal, almost acne-like bumps on his skin along his back and his side.
And so as you're explaining all this, I'm thinking about Gus, and I'm thinking, man, we need to get him these mushrooms.
I also...
Think about veterans, right, who have service animals and they get super attached.
And I know a few that have been through two and are on their third dog now.
And it's a real struggle for some of these guys because the training's long.
They get super attached.
They take these pets everywhere.
And so this type of product, the mushroom, I think would be perfect for the veteran community as well.
Do you guys see veterans or law enforcement or anything like that?
Do people use them for these pets as well, on top of some other supplements or anything else that might be out there on the market?
Absolutely, because regardless of what...
Our pets are going through or even what they might potentially have to go through.
Their immune system is always going to be their first, their best bet, right?
It's intelligently designed to handle everything in the body.
Repair, recover, rebuild, regulate, renew, rebalance.
Everything that's happening inside of the body.
So especially therapeutic dogs or dogs that are trained to do jobs where they have to focus and they have to have stamina and endurance.
We have spent a lot of time and resources training them.
It's very important that we're Not only keeping them with us longer, but that they actually have a good quality of life during those years.
And so that's why we say every pet, every person, every day should be getting this Coriolis versicolor mushroom into their system.
We've been so blessed.
God has given us a really pure and potent strain of this mushroom, and we've perfected the extraction process.
So that's why we're seeing such positive results relatively quickly from anything that you can think of with dogs, cats, horses, even.
It's just been absolutely amazing.
And we just want to be good stewards with what we've been given and take good care of it and be a part of restoring creation.
So especially in those conditions, we encourage you to get your pet on the Coriolis Versicolor Mushroom.
Or if you're a veteran yourself and maybe you've been through some trauma and your body's been through a lot mentally, spiritually, emotionally, physically, let's get this mushroom into your system so that you can get that support that you need to really be able to recover from the inside out.
Well, and it makes a lot of sense to me, right?
I mean, let's get our immune systems working as our creator intended it to, instead of feeding it all this other junk and God knows what they give us in pill form and our food and all that other stuff these days.
So this is actually very refreshing.
A conversation that we're having, because it doesn't seem like there's a whole lot of things out there that are holistic and are natural to help us feel better.
Explain to us, we've got a couple minutes left, why Pet Club 24-7?
Why is it put out as a club?
I think that this is an important thing to touch on.
Yeah, it was really important to us.
We feel very called to do what we're doing, and we know that we're able to offer the world a gift.
And so we never really wanted to build a company.
We want to build a community.
That's the idea behind it, is that if we stand up together and lock arms, change the way that we're doing things so that we can get different results and educate each other, make each other aware, connect each other with better solutions and better options that are going to give us better results.
It's a lot more affordable in many cases.
We believe that this community can truly change the way that pets and people are being treated just by being a voice for those that don't have one.
Name of the company is Pet Club 24 /7 is because we want to be a community of people that are solution-oriented, that do something about it, that don't wait for other people to fix our problems or solve what's going on, that we just stand up, control what we can control, and contribute how we can contribute through this community.
That's beautiful.
See, folks, here at the Stu Peters Network, we're here to help you feel better.
We're so thankful that you guys are here, Pet Club 24 /7.
Kurt and Christine, we're very happy to have you.
Thank you for everything that you've done, bringing this stuff out to people.
Let's get healthy again.
What was the movement that you talked about, Kurt?
I said, you know, we have the Maha movement.
Yes.
We also have it here for our animals.
Make animals healthy again.
Absolutely.
We're allowed to do so, just like on the human side.
And people can count on the fact that there's no bad ingredients in our products.
Everything made in human-grade whole food commercial kitchens, all sourced from the U.S. and made right here in the U.S. Very important.
Well, Kurt, Kristen, thank you very much for being here.
Folks, Pet Club 24-7, make sure you get there.
Get your supplies of mushrooms, not just for you, but for your pets, dog, cats, horses, all those things.
Pet Club 24-7.
Guys, thank you very much for being here.
Let's connect soon.
I'm going to get my supply, and I'm going to report back for me and Gus to make sure that...
We do this full circle conversation.
I'm super excited to talk to you guys again.
We'll see you very soon.
Thank you.
Thank you, Richard.
All right.
Bye-bye.
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They're like our children.
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