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SPEAKER_02All right, welcome back to the Talk Lama Lodge. Uh the Talk Lama Lodge. The Conway Ford Talk Lama Lodge is now in session. We have a live studio audience.
SPEAKER_08Hey, look, my wife and baby are here.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, so you can tune in to our Facebook Live if you would like to watch and listen at the same time. We have a lot going on here. Even Magadon is here, and we'll bring him on in just a little bit. We have a couple of things that we would love to do right now as we celebrate Vietnam War veterans getting an Orange Heart Medal. It's a very solemn moment and a very important moment. And we've heard so many stories. And if you've missed any of the show, it will be put on our Facebook page in segments, also on our talkradio mb.com website. You'll be able to scroll down on the homepage and look at the various clips from each hour of the show. So if you missed a little, you missed a lot. But we have to move on to different topics, and we have to recognize other veterans that are here at the Veterans Cafe and Museum. Northgate Drive. There is still time for you to get here today for the live broadcast. We'll be broadcasting live until 10 a.m. Breakfast is sponsored by First Choice Plumbing Services for the first 50 veterans to come through the doors. I don't know if we got to that number yet, but there's a lot of people here, and uh they all look like veterans to me. You have to come and check out all of the memorabilia that's on the walls, the Vietnam War Room. 47. You have three more breakfasts to go. So come and join us. And uh right now I'm gonna turn the mic over to Robin Spence. She is with the Orange Heart Metal Foundation, and you can go to orangeheartmetal.org to learn more about it. But she is going to present two veterans with their Orange Heart Metal uh Vietnam veterans. I'm gonna give you this microphone. All right, Robin. Thank you, Liz. Thank you so much. The first can we have everyone's attention, please? We're gonna do a medal ceremony. Please, please pay attention to Robin.
SPEAKER_17I'd like to call to the center of the floor here, Mr. Larry Wills. Would you please come forward, sir? Mr. Larry Wills is a Vietnam Army veteran. He served from 1965 to 1971. We are here today to honor him with his Orange Heart Medal. Mr. Larry, on behalf of the Orange Heart Medal Foundation, it is my honor, sir, to meet you today. It's my honor to be in your presence. You stand in the middle of a room full of people that enjoy freedom because of things that you did. And we honor you, sir. We're grateful to you. You will never be forgotten. Welcome home, sir. May I pin your medal on you, sir? Now I would like to call up Mr. James Whitmer. Mr. Whitmer is also a United States Army Vietnam veteran. He served from 67 to 69. Is that correct, sir? We are so glad that you're here. We said I understand that a friend of yours brought you here today, is that right? Yes, ma'am. And he said, you gotta get this orange heart medal, right? That's what he said. That's what he said. Is there anything you would like to share with us, sir, about your time in service and about what this medal would mean to you?
SPEAKER_15Well, it's um something I, you know, I wouldn't take anything for the experience of it, but I wouldn't want to do it again.
SPEAKER_17I understand. You gave up your childhood, sir. Yeah, I was 18, so. Yes, sir. Well, what I would like to say to you, Mr. James Whitmer, on behalf of the Orange Heart Metal Foundation, and millions of Americans that enjoy freedom today, many of whom are in this room, your service and your sacrifice will never be forgotten. We're going to work to continue to bring the awareness of our Vietnam veterans of what they went through and the effects of Agent Orange exposure has had on their health. Please, sir, know that I am humbled to be in your presence. I'm grateful for you. Welcome home, sir.
SPEAKER_02All right, so we are going to do one more Orange Heart Medal ceremony in this segment. And um Robin is going to gather all of that together for us. But um I that is just one of the most moving things. It's just it's just so heartwarming to see and heart breaking at the same time because as we hear the stories of of many veterans that have come through these doors and sit and join us for this show, my heart is just oh my gosh, it's heavy. And the way she does it too.
SPEAKER_03Sorry, with her your voice and how warm you are when you do that. It is it's amazing. I love it. It comes from the heart. Yes.
SPEAKER_02We have one more um uh award that we're going to uh witness here with Robin.
SPEAKER_17I'd like to call up uh U.S. Army veteran Robert Harmon. Excuse me, Harrison. Would you come forward, sir? We're gonna have Mr. Gene Elliott, one of our Breakfast Club members, present you with your Orange Heart Medal. He's behind you, Mr. Gene. Mr. Robert Harrison, is there anything you would like to share with us about your experience?
SPEAKER_15No, not really. It was a good experience. I'm glad I was able to do it.
SPEAKER_17We're honored to have you here with us, sir, and honored, honored to be in your presence.
unknownThank you. Totally unfortunate.
SPEAKER_15Totally.
SPEAKER_02Totally unexpected, he said. But well deserved, sir.
SPEAKER_17Mr. Robert Harrison, thank you for your service and your sacrifice. Thank you for standing up. Thank you for running in when other people would not.
SPEAKER_02We are watching uh this gentleman, Robert, is it? It is Robert Harrison. Robert Harrison uh get his uh medal pinned on him before Robin can actually do the official presentation. And you can follow along on our talk radio Facebook page either now or later. Um but we are live right now at the Veterans Cafe and Museum, and we are witnessing Robin trying to pin this on. But there we go. Robert Harrison. All right, do the official presentation, Robin.
SPEAKER_17Mr. Harrison, on behalf of the Orange Heart Metal Foundation, my family. We just we enjoy freedom. My grandchildren and my great-grandchildren enjoy freedom because of the things that you did and so many other Americans. That's exactly right. And we are forever in your debt. We will continue to work to honor you. We will never let you be forgotten. Welcome home, sir. Thank you very much. God bless you.
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SPEAKER_02All right, we are back at the Talk La Melage event for this month. It's the Conway Ford Talk La Melage in session for the Orange Heart Metal ceremonies that we're doing with the Orange Heart Metal Foundation. And we want to thank First Choice Plumbing Services for sponsoring 50 Veterans for Breakfast this morning. Today we want to introduce you to a very special guest and his mom. We have 14-year-old Bubba Turner, who is here with his mom, Katie Turner. Thank you so much for joining us to tell the story of Bobby Tiner.
SPEAKER_09Yes.
SPEAKER_02Now Bobby Tiner is the veteran and the gentleman that introduced us to the Orange Heart Metal Foundation. And I had him in my studio and he handed me this placard. I have it hanging on my wall for years now. And it was because of how his story, how he shared his story with us about not only his own personal story, about the plight of Vietnam veterans and the impacts of Agent Orange on his life. And we have learned since then the 19 conditions that impact veterans and not only them but their children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren in some cases. So Katie is here with us, the daughter of Bobby Tiner. Unfortunately, we lost Bobby to Agent Orange complications.
SPEAKER_09Yep, that we did.
SPEAKER_02So tell us a little bit about your father.
SPEAKER_09Oh, he was an amazing dad. But I'm gonna cry. I know, I'm sorry. No, you're good. This I'm gonna go ahead and just say he was a hard-working man, the best dad ever, the best grandpa ever. Um but this right here in us, this is his family. Yeah. He started the group in South Carolina thanks to Ken Gamble, and he got all these guys and their wives together to have breakfast every Wednesday morning, and they made sure that the VA, everybody has stepped up and helped. They made sure that they got the recognition that they deserve.
SPEAKER_02Absolutely.
SPEAKER_09So my dad, he was the best dad, hardworking dad, even to like the last day, like the last breath he had.
SPEAKER_02That's amazing.
SPEAKER_09It was all about Agent Orange.
SPEAKER_02So Katie, how has that impacted your life as witnessing what your dad went through? Oh, was it right away that he had impacts from Agent Orange or was it dormant? It was dormant.
SPEAKER_09He was I felt like he was healthy. He had a you know, growing up, he was always at my basketball games, he was always at every activity that I had. But at I want to say it was maybe 2019 is when everything started with him. And it just it hit him so hard. But you know, he also had some health issues, but never knew about Agent Orange in the beginning. It wasn't until Mr. Ken Gamble that I get believe is the reason why Dad did all that research.
SPEAKER_02So we spent the 7 o'clock hour with Ken Gamble, and if anybody missed that interview, uh he called in from Tennessee, and we will be posting that interview on our website, talkradio mb.com website. And we do have it on our Facebook so you can scroll back and watch the two live segments we did with him. But um, you know, it's amazing how important this show is. Tell us how Agent Orange has impacted you and your family and what you've been through because of it and because of your father's service.
SPEAKER_09Well, I'm gonna say uh that I'm okay, but my son, he's double exposed from my father-in-law and my dad.
SPEAKER_02Um and this is Bubba, he's 14 years old. Can you say hi, Bubba? No, he's gonna be quiet today. But I saw you talking up a storm over there.
SPEAKER_09Yeah, he talks like crazy to all these veterans.
SPEAKER_02Okay, I don't blame him though.
SPEAKER_09He's Bobby Tiner Jr. Yes. So kick in. Yeah, no, just wait. He might not be quiet here soon. You can ask God.
SPEAKER_02Katie, feel free to share whatever you want to share in order to help people, to help others. Okay. What they need to know, what we need to do next as a society.
SPEAKER_09Well, you know, the VA and the government, they need to start recognizing that the Agent Orange has gone down into great grandkids, grandkids, other kids, but they only see spina bifida spina bifida. Yes, right. But that's it. It they don't want to see anything else and recognize anything else when it comes to our kids or their health. Like this boy has had 40 surgeries. Oh my goodness. And he's 14 years old. Like he has bone issues, but the last one we're not even gonna talk about. Um, he has he had neurological issues, he has GI issues, pulmonary issues, and his entire life. His entire life. He came out of stillborn.
SPEAKER_02Seriously.
SPEAKER_09Yeah, he's still born.
SPEAKER_02You're a miracle. Bubba Bubba is a miracle. Look at this beautiful boy.
SPEAKER_09Yeah. Yeah, Sergeant. They the Vietnam veterans here on Wednesday mornings. We come and have breakfast with them every morning. And they have honored him as a Vietnam veteran. And they he's Sergeant Bubba. He is, like I said, Bobby Tiner through and through. Um but no, we need to really get the government involved to really recognize everything that is happening. All of us, like our the kids, the grandkids, everybody needs to just step up and reach out to somebody. I don't I that's the only way I can think of getting it done.
SPEAKER_02You mentioned how we just had Congressman Russell Fry on, and he's gonna hear me in the background here while he's having a conversation with somebody. But you knew Bobby Tiner. And and Katie was telling me um before we went on the air how helpful that has been for this, Katie. Yes.
SPEAKER_09I know my dad has reached out to him. I don't know about the whole story. I'm gonna let him tell it. That's okay. Because I don't want to misword it. Oh, sorry.
SPEAKER_11Um, so Bobby Tiner was a great American. We can we can all agree with that. Y'all knew Bobby Tiner, right? Um Bobby was a force, right? He didn't take no for an answer well. So Bobby, I'm trying to remember where it was, but we were approached. He approached me. I was I think I was in the middle. Uh I don't know if I had announced for Congress yet, but at the state house, he writes uh a letter to me, he emails. Me, he calls me, he got a hold of my cell phone somehow, and um and he wore me out. Um, persistence is you know, no pressure, no diamonds, as they say, right? Uh but it was such a moving time, and he uh but he had this thing, he said other states are doing this uh orange heart recognition, and I want South Carolina to do the same thing. So I said, okay. He's like, I remember I've already got it drafted up. Uh and he he had a mo we had to like we had to finesse it a little bit, like you know, there's a uh and so but we got that thing through the House and the Senate. But Bobby was I just it struck me that you you know you meet people in politics sometimes um like Bobby who who just give it their all and they don't stop and they don't quit and they don't take no for an answer well. And uh I was fearful that you know if I said no, like he he was gonna come find me.
SPEAKER_02And uh again.
SPEAKER_11But but it was such a great partnership. And then when I when I decided to run for Congress, he uh you know he he was introducing me. Well, I think we came here a couple times and we went to uh a m a motorcycle rally that they had uh a couple doors down, and I mean he just he knew everybody, and then and some people are like that. They're not elected, but they're like the unofficial mayor of their community, and that was that was totally Bobby. Well, we miss him greatly.
SPEAKER_02How cool is it to meet his daughter and grandson Bubba here?
SPEAKER_11Well, we love him to death, and he's gonna come visit me in DC, aren't you?
SPEAKER_02Are you? Yeah, that is so cool.
SPEAKER_11We'll make sure you don't get arrested or anything, okay? But uh y'all are coming up in what June, right? June? Yeah, so we're gonna go do uh Capitol tour, show him some stuff. There is a jail underneath the uh the facility. It's not really a jail.
SPEAKER_02It's a holding pen.
SPEAKER_11Well, it it could be. It could be. Uh but it's uh we love doing that. I did a tour this week actually with some people. Um sometimes I'll do them myself, but it was a late, later, later tour than normal. It was like 9 30 at night. And that's usually the honestly, I love it. It's the best time to do it because you get the whole place to yourself. Um it's it's cool at any point during the day. With with a member of Congress, it is, yeah, absolutely. Um but it for the this was this was a lot of fun. So just seeing it, seeing the history of it, especially America 250, uh 250 years of survival and this great American experiment that we have and that we enjoy today. Uh it's kind of a special time.
SPEAKER_02Absolutely. Thank you, Congressman Fry. So, Katie, yes, um, before we uh take a break here, uh, you know, obviously you have the ear of the congressman. Yes. Um, because Bobby, your father, bent it in your direction. So hopefully um, you know, uh step by step. We'll get there. Yeah, we'll get there. And Bubba, it's been such a pleasure to meet you. It really is. You're an inspiration and it it's unbelievable. I'm sorry, baby.
SPEAKER_09Oh, he's fine.
SPEAKER_02Okay. Um, it's it's unbelievable that um all the things you've been through medically and how you represent your grandpa so well. What did you call your grandpa? Papa. Papa. So you you are representing him so well, and we are so honored to meet you, aren't we?
SPEAKER_04Say thank you.
SPEAKER_02And if you haven't had a chance to meet Bubba and actually say hello, make sure you do, because he's gonna be sticking around here for a few more minutes here at the Veterans Cafe. But it's really cool to meet you. You are like so, you're like a rock star, Bubba. Yeah, you really are. And anytime you want to come on the radio, you can come on over to our show, right, Nick?
SPEAKER_03Absolutely, and that's Sergeant Rockstar to you.
SPEAKER_02Sergeant Rockstar. So you're always invited to come to the radio show, Bubba. So if you decide you'd want to talk next time, our doors are open, okay? I promise you that. And in fact, after you get the grand tour from Congressman Fry, because you know what? We've never been invited. I would love to hear how it was so I can be all jealous and stuff, okay? Sound good? Yes, sounds good.
SPEAKER_11And then you can take a tour of our closet.
SPEAKER_02There you go. It's 10 minutes from when we bang our heads against the wall, right?
SPEAKER_09Oh, he wants to show him Papa. Dad's picture is in that room.
SPEAKER_02His picture is in that room there, right? Yes. All right. Well, we'll definitely make sure we put that on Facebook in just a few minutes. Okay. Thank you so much, Katie. Baba, thank you so much. Congressman Fry, we appreciate it. Sergeant Baba, I'm sorry. Sergeant Congressman Fry, thank you so much. All right, we're gonna take a break and we'll be back in a moment. Or in the cafe. Cafe museum. Um, yes, cafe, the veterans cafe museum. It's our final segment of the talk, Lumbalange, sponsored by Conway Ford. And of course, many veterans here, 50 veterans today, have uh enjoyed breakfast on uh first choice plumbing services. So thank you all for that. Um, we are so appreciative of our of our sponsors here.
SPEAKER_11My baby's awaiting.
SPEAKER_02The baby is here, yes, Nikilea, and Magadon is here. Look how cute he is.
SPEAKER_03He does look like his diaper needs to be changed. Oh, sorry. Excuse me.
SPEAKER_02So, um, Magadon, this is always such a cool show.
SPEAKER_03You know, this is something that really kind of hits home to me. I heard so many stories this morning about veterans and and Orange Heart and just everything that's happened over the years. And of course, I was in the Navy in 1965, 1971 in Vietnam. I never went overseas, I stayed stateside. But when we got done, I come home and there was no fanfare, no ticket tape parades, no nothing. It was like, just go home and die, pretty much. You know, we don't want to hear from you because you were not good people. Right. And so I just kind of put my military service, submarine service behind me and just kind of worked my way through life to be successful in business. And then in 1991, 293, I can't remember now exactly the year, but I had a White Rolls Royce and I used to do a lot of free entertaining with it, take different people around. And I had a wedding facility, so anybody that couldn't afford a full wedding, I would take my White Rolls Royce and pick them up and do it. And one day, one of the I was from Bow, New Hampshire is where my restaurants were, and we had seven young men and women go into Desert Storm from that one town of less than 7,000 people. And one day uh a uh guy came in that was in the restaurant quite often. He said, Don, will you do me a favor? Can we do a little celebration for my son coming home from Desert Storm? Well, that really hit me side the head. You know, here's somebody that's only 19 years old. I'm older than dirt, as Nick says, and I never got recognized for what my service was.
SPEAKER_02And but they actually were almost Were you ashamed at all? Did they make you try to make you feel ashamed?
SPEAKER_03Oh, yeah, you never talked about it. Or most people didn't, some people, whatever. But so this guy said, Can you do us a favor? My son's coming home from Desert Storm, and we'd like to bring him in. And can you do something special for him? And after about maybe five minutes or ten minutes, I realized, you know what? This is my chance to do something that no one ever gave me a chance.
SPEAKER_04There you go.
SPEAKER_03So I said to him, I'll do one something better. And this will be in my book. I'll do something better. I will go to the airport and pick him up in my white Rolls Royce.
SPEAKER_04That's so cool.
SPEAKER_03And I went to the airport and I knew when he was coming in and who he was. So I had a little sign with his name on it.
SPEAKER_02And uh and he was deployed where to Desert Storm. Okay.
SPEAKER_03And and uh here's a six foot two, I'm only a you know, a pygmy, a five foot seven or eight, or whatever. And he comes out of the airport and I'm there with a sign he couldn't see my car. And she came around the corner, and I said, Your father I still choke up because I said, Your father asked me to your father told me you were coming home, and I'm taking you home in this. And so he wasn't expecting and he saw the white rose and lost it. Lost it right in front of me. Oh my gosh. And that story, I can I'll never forget it. And I picked up every single one of those seven people in the world.
SPEAKER_02That's such a cool story, Magadon.
SPEAKER_03And uh one of them was I got a picture I just showed somebody this morning. I picked a marine up that was coming back in uh in Boston. And I was at the top of the deck of the parking lot, and he came in, and when I picked him up, it's the same thing. You know, a Marine just balled when I said, I'm taking you home. And so that was my way of of putting my military stuff behind me. And so and then so when I come here and I see and hear the stories of these people and what they've gone through, yeah. Um I kind of under I don't understand how they could have done it. Now, my boss, when I got out of the restaurant business, I went to work excavation again, and my boss was a combat veteran in Vietnam. And I heard a couple of people say this morning they don't talk about it. I got to be very close with my boss, and he still comes down here and visits with all the time. Yeah, is that the one you were telling me about in the hospital? Yeah, yeah, that guy. Yeah, and um he I can't remember more than once or twice on a very light-hearted type of thing, he talked about his his his what he did over there. Yeah. So I can't, you know, I didn't I don't have any of those stories, but you know, my story was I went and I joined, raised my hand, and and like somebody said to me a little few minutes ago, once you raise your right hand to defend this country against foreign and domestic enemies, you never take your hand out. You're always defending it. And people right here today are talking about what they're doing, and then Jim, he he was talking, met Russell this morning. Yeah, and Russell said you never stop defending your country. Once you raise your hand and you know what it means, yeah I mean that doesn't mean that that people that didn't join a part of your DNA. It really does. Yeah. And then it's so I I know a lot of friends of mine that have never been in the military, but they're still good people and they want to care. It's just they didn't go in. But there's it separates, I think, espe especially people that went to Vietnam that was in combat. That separates them from every other veteran that is out there because you just you can't explain or understand what they went through. Right. I can tell you what I went through. I didn't go through anything. Yeah, I stayed here, I was in a sub tender, and I had good duty. Yeah. So I can't even imagine what they went through. And I want to end with one thing. Yes, I did go to Congress, I did go up and go through at night a tour.
SPEAKER_04A tour at night.
SPEAKER_03And I tell anybody that that goes, go at night. Because Russell will take you places that you don't go during the day.
SPEAKER_02Well, Nick, we're gonna put that on our bucket list.
SPEAKER_03Okay, I want to go.
SPEAKER_02We'll take the Amtrak because it's fun. I want to go to DC.
SPEAKER_03Well, we've been up there a couple of years. I'm the bro. I'm one of the bros.
SPEAKER_02Well, um, thank you so much, Magadon, for sharing that really cool story. It's really awesome. You're like an onion, right?
SPEAKER_03You keep feeling back the layers. And you fry every time you hear it.
SPEAKER_02All right, we're gonna take our microphone now and bring it to Robin. Robin is going to be um awarding a Vietnam veteran here at the Veterans Cafe and Museum with their Orange Heart medal. And uh, so we have a couple of more ceremonies here to squeeze in before the end of the show. And we are on also Facebook Live, so you can witness it as well. Um, or watch it a little bit later. Robin?
SPEAKER_17Okay, um this medal is going to be presented actually posthumously uh to uh the Vietnam veteran's name was Robert W Spedeler. And I would like to call up his son, Michael Spedelery. Nice to meet you, Michael. On behalf of the Orange Heart Medal Foundation, it is my honor to meet you, and it is my honor to know that you have so much love and compassion for your dad that you would come here today to receive this Orange Heart Medal in his memory. What he did for me and for you and for millions of Americans so many times is taken for granted. Today, I want you to be aware that that service and that sacrifice is not taken for granted in this atmosphere. We will forever honor him and honor the millions of Americans who served, the family members who also served while the Vietnam veterans were away from them. Thank you so much, sir, for being here. And I am honored to present you with your dad's Orange Heart Medal.
SPEAKER_07I'm honored to be here with you as well. Thank you so much. Thank you, everybody. I appreciate it.
SPEAKER_02And we will watch Robin pin that on Michael. And then we have one more ceremony coming up as we round out our show here at the Veterans Cafe and Museum. Uh Roddy Lewis, can you please come up as we get ready and positioned for um our next presentation? I know. Thank you, Michael. Congratulations. Thank you. Yes, nice meeting you. Thank you so much. Oh, well, hang around a few more minutes. Yeah. Um We have five minutes here to do this presentation before the show ends. So uh we are just going to bring up Roddy. He has a few words to say. Well, maybe a few more than a few.
SPEAKER_17Um Roddy, I'm gonna give this microphone to you so that we can go Facebook Live on our foundation page, and um I'll let you take it away. You and George.
SPEAKER_12Okay, uh I'd like to have uh Sergeant Bubba, Ryan Turner.
SPEAKER_02Sergeant Bubba, here he is, here he comes. This is Bobby Tyner's grandson, and this is why we're here is because of Bobby Tyner.
SPEAKER_12And this is an elderly young man here. That's why we awarded you sergeant of the orange hearted veterans, your honorary sergeant to represent us and all the children that have gone through similar situations. And on behalf of the Orange Heart Metal Foundation, we'd like to award you with your new vest. There you go.
SPEAKER_02Whoa, that looks amazing.
SPEAKER_12Along with that vessel, the Orange Heart Metal Foundation would like to award you with this plaque, and it reads, awarded to Ryan Sergeant Bubba Turner, grandson of U.S. Army Sergeant Bobby Tiner, in recognition of the daily battles you have faced and overcome, and our admiration of your strength and resilience, we appoint you our honorary Vietnam veteran. Thank you. Thank you, Liz.
SPEAKER_02Thank you so much, Roddy. Wow. Sergeant Bubba, did you want to say thank you? I know you saying thank you, though. That is the coolest vest ever, and you are awesome. You are a hero, and you represent so many of the children and grandchildren. It's just so amazing. And and Robin, we didn't know we were gonna get to meet Sergeant Bubba today.
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SPEAKER_02No, we did not know. So we go with the flow here, as we said, and we never know how this show is going to kind of roll out, but together with Nick, it's just amazing how all of this comes together and all of you come together. And because of everyone showing up and sharing their stories, it's really just been such, it's always such an incredible experience. And I always say it's the best show and the most important show we do. It definitely is. So thank you so much, um, Sergeant Bubba and Katie and your husband uh for coming down and sharing your story. I know it's difficult, but it's an important story to tell, and we're so glad that we can be a part of sharing that and maybe helping others. Uh and if you missed any part of the show today, you don't have to worry. We are uh putting it all hour by hour on our website, talkradio mb.com, and our Facebook page. We have a lot of clips that are Facebook Live. And Robin, if uh you want to invite people to the Wednesday meetings here.
SPEAKER_17Absolutely. Um every Wednesday uh we have our Agent Orange Awareness Group of South Carolina breakfast uh group meets at this table right here. When you come into the front door of the cafe, you can't miss this whole group. And the table's always open. And trust me, the table fills up. But you know what? That doesn't matter, it overflows. So please come out, join in on the camaraderie, the support, the brotherhood. And throughout this entire segment, there has been one man that is so instrumental in keeping this group together, keeping things going, not only for here, but for the tiny homes. And that's Scott Dulabon with the Veterans Welcome Home and Resource Center. And he's standing back behind the bar. Never got to put Scott on the air today. And so we we want to bring Scott over and uh recognize him. So, Scott, if you would please come over step in front of the camera a little bit.
SPEAKER_08Thanks for listening to the Liz Callaway Show with Nick Summers. Land back is up next on Talk 94.5 106.7. Talk for the entire grand strand.