Five Things EP17: American Red Cross of Eastern NC with Joshua Cain
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the truth is adding value will never go
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out of style
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hello and thanks for joining us for
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another five things podcast we've got a
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great group of guys here today we're
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going to talk a little bit about
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everything but ultimately we've got Adam
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Saad from rush hour carding owner of
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that location where's it end garner clay
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okay okay and I know is on the border
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there and we've got old friend of the
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the podcast here Scot rudder dropping in
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again and showing off some of his gear
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and then we've got Josh Cain from the
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American Red Cross and thanks for
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joining us fellows we're going to jump
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over a few different topics today a
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little bit different first time we've
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ever had three people on a podcast so
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this kind of cool got Moustafa all
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stressed out so we're excited to do this
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today and ultimately we've got a very
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successful business owner well I guess
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we'll start off dealing with that and
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tell people a little bit about how you
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ended up getting into business for
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yourself and why that field and and sure
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it's a process right together sure okay
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and we're not holding that against you
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okay there you go
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you just made a lot of friends right but
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we noticed that there's me and my
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brother and my cousins were the starters
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of it there was a big buzz going around
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the corporate world about team building
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and you know us being an RTP area with
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all these big companies starting to come
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out there to retain good employees team
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building company outings was so huge so
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we wanted something to really that was
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unique and different to do to be able to
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do that sure being in North Carolina
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we're racing country we have these big
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companies here and we got the three big
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universities you know state dick
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Carolina right and
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a seahorse but so 2004 we bought land
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2005 we built the building it opened up
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and almost 20 almost 15 years later
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we're still here I'll tell you what
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that's a success in itself you know 50%
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of the businesses fail in the first two
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years you know and it's staggering the
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numbers that when you look over the
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course of a decade businesses that
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actually survive that long it's it's a
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small number it's interesting you said
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that because on our second year was with
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the economy plummeted wealthy worse you
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know prescient we have ever had right
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and we were able to cut back a lot of
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stuff you know I got I fired the grass
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cutter I fired the maid I fired
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everybody we just let the staff do
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everything ourselves you know we cut
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back as much cost as we could we saved
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everything and two years later we we our
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business back into the back into the
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block and we haven't seen red and you
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know it's scary when you're going
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through that because you know ultimately
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it's a you got to take care of the
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company first and you know Scott was mad
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when you you cut him from cutting the
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grass he was definitely mad at you for a
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while but as he grew up in matured he
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understood yeah understood you know you
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had to do what you had to do but you
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know so ultimately a good principles
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this is that you identified a need and
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then you came up with a good strategy
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you knew your market you were catering
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to people hey this is racing country
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there's a big need out there and I can
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tell you this from being there several
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times you guys did it right I mean it's
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really nice facility yeah definitely
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nice facilities super fun so if you're
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watching this and you want to build some
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camaraderie with your your co-workers or
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employees or team rush hour carting is
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definitely a great way to do it and let
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me ask you this real quick what's the if
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you had to give advice to someone
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thinking about starting a company what
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is the number one thing that you would
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would tell them and I know there's a lot
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okay
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the absolute biggest thing is you have
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got to constantly reinvent yourself as
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soon as you become complacent and say oh
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I've made it you're gonna die because
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somebody's gonna come and take your
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lunch away and open up something better
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than you we have constantly changed we
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recently had ax throwing and you gotta
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invest you gotta figure out what are the
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customers want what is their meat one of
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the reasons we had ax throwing first of
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all it's become a big buzz country but
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it's also become a long wait to race and
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it gets people frustrated now they can
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throw axes while waiting we added some
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racing simulators actual real racing
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simulators they can play on a lot of our
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businesses coming from RTP they're
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gardeners got a very bad stereotype of
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being first of all we are the country
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bumpkin of the triangle number one
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number two we are so far away from RTP
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and morsel okay and none of those are
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true so to overcome that I bought a nice
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luxury corporate bus I'm talking about
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leather seats hardwood floors phone
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charger on every aisle TVs everywhere
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holds 34 people I will go to RTP
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pick up the people taking rush hour that
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way they can also drink don't worry
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about drive back and driving back well
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that's nice compensated by a bad
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location I didn't realize it you lived
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on by a bus so you have to constantly
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reinvent yourself figure out what's
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working what's not working does not work
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in digit if it is working expand on it
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look at what other people are doing you
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know that's awesome I mean your your
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spend out so much wisdom right now I'm
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gonna try not try to minimize how much I
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piggyback on that because there was a
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lot there but you know being in starting
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a brand ascent media obviously a media
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marketing company you know so many
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people think they're doing good and they
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don't have to do anything but that's the
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time you got to you gotta you have to
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invest you your and I can tell you're
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you're thinking outside of the box
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get blockbuster look at Sears look at so
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many people that were or so many
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companies that we're doing amazing and
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what did they do they never changed
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exactly and as opposed to Netflix which
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completely and so the thing about it is
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you got you know Netflix should have
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been invented by Blockbuster you know
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Airbnb should have been invented by
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Hilton you know these companies that get
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complacent and they're not growing and
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they're not evolving and you get a
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company like wish that comes along which
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a lot of people haven't even heard of
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but wish started 100% marketing online
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Facebook Instagram they went from zero
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to turning down a ten billion dollar
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cash offer from Amazon in three years
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ten billion dollars so most people a lot
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of people haven't heard of wish yet
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they're doing eight and a half billion a
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year okay so that's a great example
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actually but but I love how you're
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reinventing yourself I love how you're
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open minded to marketing and here's the
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other thing you're you're making a
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barrier to entry you're lowering the
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barrier to entry if people want to use
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your product or service you're making it
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easier for them to be able to do that
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and that's awesome and you're making a
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convenient you're making it fun I mean
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you can drink on the way to the the
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go-karting I mean that's called win okay
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not on the way after so you can talk
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trash to each other while you're
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powering down viewers okay and you can
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drink while axe-throwing now you can't
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drink well really long as you sign the
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waiver never ever neglect your employees
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because some your employees will give
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you some of the best ideas mm-hmm so
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because they're the ones who deal with
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the customers the most and they you know
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we have we usually try to have babies
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once a month and we do outings
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we just went to Alamo Drafthouse what
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but before we do that I like to talk
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with everybody as a group and so on
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they'll come up with great ideas I
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didn't think about so don't neglect any
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employee that let them and also improves
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their morale so much because hey that
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was my idea
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right so listen to your employees you
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always learnt so much it'll help your
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business I definitely agree reminds me
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about reading something a while back
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about Bill Gates when he goes on
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vacation he have he invites everybody to
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write a letter about an improvement to
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make in the company and Bill Gates on
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vacation literally reading letters from
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every employees all of the Microsoft
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employees back then so I thought that
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was really really pretty awesome because
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he wanted to your point he wanted to
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know this from my my memory here which
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is not spectacular but he wanted to know
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what the janitor thought about X and you
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know that's a you know you can't be
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everywhere at all time but you're good
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people can you know so definitely thank
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you for sharing that that was great
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content and moving over to Josh how long
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you been with American Red Cross ten
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years okay goes by quick doesn't it okay
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awesome
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you know we measure things by okay a lot
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of people sure and gosh we've certainly
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needed some help over the last decade
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for sure with the floods and hurricanes
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on the the eastern Outer Banks and all
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of that and tell us a little bit about
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yourself where you're from originally
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the DC Maryland area okay I came down
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for college in Eastern North Carolina
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North Carolina Wesleyan College Division
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three okay a lot of great for the love
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of the game athletes down there there
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you go but came down for for college
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there fell in love with the state you
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know I met my wife and fell in love with
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I was working nonprofit and a non-profit
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there and fell in love with the mission
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of the Red Cross been in the military
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and served in the military and
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interacted with them in different ways
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okay so what branch were you in I was in
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New York okay I'm not gonna hold that
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against you Thanks I was in the 82nd so
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I would bring it up but yeah so to what
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brought me to North Carolina but you
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just love the field and just enjoy
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serving other people I'm guessing we
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can't we can't do things the way we were
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doing 150 years ago sure the nature of
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disasters man-made natural it has
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changed the technology partners have
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made things we can do a better job being
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humanitarians and serving serving the
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community so the Red Cross is big
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one of the biggest nonprofits out there
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but we still have a very very local
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touch to all of our communities offices
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all throughout the country really so so
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we're big and we have we have a
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corporate corporate footprint and we we
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follow we use a lot of the same tools a
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lot of corporate sales teams use and
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things like that but we also have a
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great mission that keeps us grounded to
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super when you talk about manmade
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disasters you're not talking about like
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Cam Newton's wardrobe right you're
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actually talking about some some
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different things but to each his own I
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don't judge so that being said kind of
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the purpose in the collaboration and
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Scott obviously old friend of the family
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here tell us a little bit about yourself
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real quick just I'm
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assuming everybody knows but they may
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not have seen the other podcast sure
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sure so networking this one that you see
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you kicked my song he's gonna be serious
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if he just actually served as a freshman
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no you're saying is pre rated for life
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awesome but yeah I mean the
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collaboration I mean Adam and I have
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known each other for a very long time
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it's very influential in the community
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and you know when I thought of where we
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were gonna host ear you know I
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immediately thought about him and you
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know we've had a lot of success with one
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another and I just admire where he comes
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from you know he's very passionate about
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giving back to community and that's also
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something we try and incorporate you
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know to deliver a superior networking
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experience support local businesses and
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also make it about to give back to the
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community so and there's no bigger
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advocate of the American Red Cross and
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what the Red Cross is the they are the
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first people out of their disaster
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before disaster happens they're out
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there preparing and just what they do is
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just amazing and so I love to give
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everything I can to help the Red Cross
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will that doubt and that's awesome and
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go ahead opposed it but you know it's
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bitch partnerships community
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partnerships with the local church with
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local business with local community
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leaders this is this is how we get out
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in front you know we talk about you know
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business business you know leadership
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advice and things like that it's so
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important to be as leaders as
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organizations what I call a learning
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leader right so so the Red Cross is
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constantly doing that every time we go
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through something like we just went
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through that's the last 15 days with
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Dorian we're learning the lessons we've
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learned from Florence we put in the soma
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in action with the with Dorian ahead of
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time and Adams right where we're out
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there beforehand on preparedness is a
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big thing it's amazing how many of our
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partners Fire Chiefs emergency managers
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will say you know what we spend millions
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of dollars on equipment but the Red
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Cross and the work you do and
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preparedness can save money property
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line
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in an equal or greater fashion just
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because you're out in front we proactive
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instead of reactive right you know which
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is awesome in a couple things before we
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get away from that I think it's really
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smart on a networking point of view as a
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business owner that I'm always kind of
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baffled that more businesses don't host
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things like this or host a networking
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event or host an opportunity to have a
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blood drive or whatever you want to say
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number one I think it's a good thing for
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a business to do to serve your community
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especially when you're pulling a profit
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out of the community and I just think
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that's really smart business number one
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but then of course it's the the good
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side of you as well you want to serve
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your community so I think that's awesome
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carve into a manager he's got the
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mentality of we gotta make me you know
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we got to make a penny from everybody
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you you nickel and dime and everybody
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you know if somebody grabbed these
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dollars you know we have 200 people
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there and one person took a bottle of
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water I'm not worried about to y'all
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sure so the way a prong explained to it
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to him is don't nickel and dime people
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give out freebies you want it's so much
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more important to develop a relationship
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so this company comes back in wearing
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about two dollars and disappointing you
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and I think a lot of business owners
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have that same mentality so a lot of
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thing a lot of business owners have that
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same mentality we've got to make money
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on every single thing I disagree
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completely I think if you if you give
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give give you'll get back two three
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times for sure so gifts especially given
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to the community because people remember
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that and they'll come back and you get
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publicity out of it anything else you
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get free publicity PR is so much better
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than advertisement by all means so don't
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worry about nickel and dime and worry
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about giving people a good time and
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you're gonna see them come back and
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you're gonna see even more in value you
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want to give people value yeah
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yeah I mean it's definitely a balance I
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mean you got to make money you guys got
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to pay the bills and take care of
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employees and plan for the future and
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get ready for the next recession because
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it will come and we got to be saving for
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that and planning for that but it is a
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balance you want to serve your customers
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and B value orientated for sure and so
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part of the reason why we're here today
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is to talk about an upcoming upcoming
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collaboration with you guys and who
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wants to take the lead on start and
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starting that off you know just we
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decided just how we can serve and you
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know bring you guys value so we have an
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event that's coming up next Tuesday
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September 17th from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. and
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out of the generosity of Adam of a
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percent of the revenue generated Oh Adam
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talked about that piece but I personally
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want to make a hundred other donation
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which would you have a landing page set
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up so nice following this on behalf of
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myself firstly in sphere we're going to
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go ahead and keep that campaign off and
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what's the goal how much money were
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looking at a razor
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well my actual goal was gonna be 15
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million dollars so anything close to
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that I'll be happy mmmm-mmm
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Scott is an amazing networker he is a
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personable person if I've ever seen
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everybody the community you know Scott
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so when we first started doing these
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networking events you know I've hosted
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many networking events usually at 20 or
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30 people yeah over-under people come
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small business owners people the
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community sure so he's got a great great
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way of bringing people together and they
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almost lie on you know people exaggerate
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a little bit but no Scott really knows a
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lot of people and these business owners
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are they're happy to network with each
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other but on top of that from what I saw
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they did not mind me they were happy to
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pay extra to donate to the Red Cross
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sure so that's happened last time so I'm
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gonna do the same thing and we're still
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going to give discounts so that we can
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get give them a good value for the money
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but we're donating a hundred percent of
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everything that comes in that day
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directly to the Red Cross
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okay well that's awesome so it's the
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more people that come the merrier so
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obviously people out on the coast with
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all these hurricanes here lately you
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know there's a lot of needs there's not
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a help that is needed and this is where
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the American Red Cross comes in and
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sounds like a great time yeah you know
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it's one of those things where we go we
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talked about partnerships earlier
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networking the Red Cross having someone
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like Adam Russia recording that has come
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up time and time again this is not the
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first time like you mentioned that they
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have stepped up to help the people the
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communities in Eastern North Carolina so
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we're getting together it's gonna be a
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lot of fun oh yeah a ton of fun it
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really is a lot of time yeah and it
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really it's it's it's it's fun for a
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great cause you know this the Red Cross
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we're so we try to be so diligent when
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it comes to community support and you
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see a lot of nonprofits you go to places
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like guy at Starcom and you see some
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nonprofits out there that spend a lot of
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money on the administrative
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administrative and we are so focused
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that we we spend ninety cents out of
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every dollar goes right to serve in the
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community and ten cents goes to making
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sure that we have the administrative
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whatever you have to do that is gonna
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pay people and structures right so so
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we're very but having a partner like
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this to come out and engage people a lot
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of people sat there and we've seen a lot
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of comparisons to well you know this
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this wasn't Florence but you got to stop
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and think you know to the to the
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thousands of people who spent last
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weekend in a shelter and some of them
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still have tarps on their roof from
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course some of them of year ago today is
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the one-year anniversary of the landfall
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of Hurricane
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jeez some of them spent spent almost a
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year ago spent nights and Red Cross
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shelters and that takes that takes a lot
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of funds to be able to get out to have
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these shelters operational and so having
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folks who come in and help us help us
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raise this raise the funding to be out
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there beforehand sure to help respond
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and help do long-term recovery because
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we've been with these with thousands
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over over six up it's over sixty six
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hundred families were impacted we're
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still doing Lord's work with them Wow
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and so we were there for McGann with
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Dorian and these you know our
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organization is volunteer led volunteer
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volunteer called out yeah caroling out
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everywhere doing great things people
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came from all over the country from
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Florence and they did the same thing for
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Dorian so local volunteers from from
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here will be coming out helping us with
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this event helping us do what we need to
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do here as well but we're volunteer-led
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and that helps us state again we won't
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talk about being connected to a
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community when they're coming are part
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of us and our integral part of who we
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are so we have this event it's going to
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be a ton of fun we have the opportunity
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to to raise funds to support the victims
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of Hurricane Dorian and some people said
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well this wasn't Florence but again
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there are people who lost their own
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people in Emerald Isle lowkick Rhode
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Island
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we're still doing a lot of work there
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this week was really the big week for us
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because we had to get on a ferry get all
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of our stuff on a ferry to drop to Erica
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crook and so we a lot of that work
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started they were people they were
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taking people off helicopters and
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bringing them to us and now we get to go
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onto the island starting Sunday Sunday
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afternoon so a lot of great work has
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been going on there as well but this is
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going to be money raised to help support
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them help them get what they need and so
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we're very appreciative Adam rushing our
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card it's time and time again to have
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that partnership it's a big deal
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definitely and great networking if
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you're a small business owner or a large
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business owner you get out and meet
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people you know I say all the time it's
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not about it's not about who you know
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it's who knows you and to do that you
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got to have relationships and with
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purpose network with purpose and if I'm
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not mistaken the axe-throwing
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going on that day you get to throw an
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accent it's got one time for coming out
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oh thank you for the correction that's
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what I meant yeah but it's good practice
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good times and so that leads us to our
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five things and ultimately the five
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things that the five lines of service is
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not used right that's you so the five
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things that I normally talk about is
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actually the five lines of service at
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the Red Cross offers so love to hear
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about those five things yes so you know
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when we first met you know Brian that
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you know people often think about what
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we call blood and flood so what the Red
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Cross actually does a lot of different
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things when we focus on five key areas
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and the American Red Cross and there are
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there are over a hundred and fifty Red
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Cross societies out there in other
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countries okay we're partnering with the
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Bahamas Red Cross right now for the
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impact that they do not sure insolvent
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Dorian but with the American Red Cross
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we focus on five things first of all
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we're responsible for 40% of the
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nation's blood supply so blood is not
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one of those things that you can go and
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artificially manufacture right so it
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takes these same partnerships we're
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talking about to go out and get the
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community engaged people to donate blood
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and the Red Cross does all the testing
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with deputy a regulated so we go through
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all that work of labs you should see
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some more facilities where where this is
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like you know it's it's it's like a
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medical environment but that's to make
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sure that the nation has a safe supply
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of blood product when you need it so 40%
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and I think I take a Dorian the impact
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the Dorian it canceled a hundred blood
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drives which is you know the hospital's
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still needed people are still going on
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hospital patients still need it so
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actually one of the things that Adam has
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been generous enough to do is you know
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so where our office in Raleigh is often
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100 North pear tree lane right across
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from Wakeman so we have blood drives
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there you get a red cross.org and
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scheduled blood drive and if you
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schedule a blood drive and
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our rally office 100 North Pier Tulane
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these things happen multiple times a
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week you go in there and you donate
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blood
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and you ask there the desk ask for Josh
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Cain Animas adam has donated a free cart
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ride for the first 25 people who do that
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so just awesome you got a Red Cross that
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organ get on the schedule it's pretty
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organized and then just let me know
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reach out I'll come down and get you
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this rate this great connection with
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cording and you cannot volunteer you're
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your ex to do this you have to actually
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do it and all the requirements are on
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the web Red Cross by the word you can
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get all the stuff to see if you're
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eligible right but I tell you what if
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you can't give yourself it's a good
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point to say if you can't give yourself
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bring somebody else in and we'll honor
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that too sure so recruit yeah that's
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right network recruiters have now so we
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do blood supply that's one of the
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biggest things that we're known for and
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it's an important job it's important
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responsibility doctor how big the
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organization is but we have a big job
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big jobs and big commitments to the
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American people sure
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the second thing is is our disaster
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response so the media really gets
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involved when things like dorian
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happened and you can't click on a web
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link without seeing the the eye of the
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storm and the track and i didn't make
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sure the reality for us though is we're
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going to be there but we're there 360
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365 24/7 when people experience the same
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impact of a disaster where the whole
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fire campaign these things are happening
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in Eastern North Carolina at an average
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rate to their late night so we do a lot
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of work we do a lot of work to try to
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install smoke alarms and try to save
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lives because we're such a big
27:09
organization we have an opportunity make
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a big impact and we've made a commitment
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that we wanted to reduce the number of
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deaths and home fires by 20 percent over
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over 10 years and we're doing that by
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installing working smoke alarms and airy
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people and you're not plugging the
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iWatch security monitored smoke security
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systems that integrate with your alarm
27:32
system but there's it's it's a it's just
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a solution that's all I'm saying
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potential solutions
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sure making sure people understand what
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resources they have minimum noise you
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guys man mm noise yeah for sure we
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always talk about here the people where
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you sleep so you want to be we want to
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be out there educating people because
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that's those save lives and house fires
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are devastating they just it takes
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everything don't you know you're sitting
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out there in your underwear 3:00 in the
27:58
morning and everything's gone I mean
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that's we can kind of joke about it but
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it's it's devastating when it happens
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you know it doesn't get the media
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attention to Doreen does or Florence
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when you've lost your entire home yeah
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and maybe even a family member it's the
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exact same shirt absolutely see you know
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the fire department were the first call
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the Red Cross is the first call when the
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fire comes out and there's when a family
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needs something okay so we're there
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volunteers right here in the middle of
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night I didn't realize that that's good
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to know we have volunteers who go out
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the building become disaster action team
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members okay the third thing we do which
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is near dear to my heart because what we
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talked about earlier is our work with
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the Armed Forces and veterans okay I
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remember when I first went to our army
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boot camp they said you got they lined
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us up back in the day in front of pay
28:41
phones believe it or not I remember
28:44
those yeah and you're sitting there
28:45
stressed out you know they're getting
28:46
screamed out and they said you know and
28:48
we a giftcard 17 digit gift cards in
28:51
their hands making and they said call
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your mom and dad yeah 30 seconds tell
28:56
them you made it and if there's an
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emergency call the Red Cross you
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remember it maybe remember that from the
29:02
from your own experience but they call
29:04
the Red Cross and so the Red Cross is
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there with the military from the day
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they raise their hand and take an oath
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til til they're getting care and veteran
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in VA facilities as well so we do a ton
29:16
of stuff for military children military
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spouses connecting them when they're
29:21
overseas my brother actually wear this
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as I I support someone serving and it
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has the phone number for how you can
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connect with the Red Cross during
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emergency my brother's in Iraq right now
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he's been there for five months and it's
29:32
a big piece of mind for our family to
29:34
know you know if something happens and
29:36
he needs to get back quickly we can call
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the Red Cross sure an emergency the
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fourth thing we do is making sure that
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people are prepared for the emergency
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a choking hazard CPR AED
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those are big deals right those are big
29:55
deals and you go around you're in a
29:57
restaurant and you see you hear the
29:58
commotion or you know you pediatric CPR
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and people just don't know what to do
30:03
yeah you know all these settings where
30:05
there's restaurants going on and people
30:07
are choking an elderly person to having
30:09
a cardiac event do you know what to do
30:11
if there's an a deal could you save a
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life and we honor a lot of people this
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last year we honored over 400 people who
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were recognized having taken Red Cross
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training in CPR and and have saved a
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life with CPR when no one else in the
30:26
room knew what to do Wow nice yeah and
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the fifth thing we do is we do a lot of
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work with the international community
30:32
helping people connect a lot of people
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right now we have a shelter in the
30:37
Bahamas or in the West Palm Beach for
30:39
people who came for the Bahamas when
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communication goes down in another
30:44
country if they were war torn or if
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there's a natural disaster the Red Cross
30:48
helps people here connect family members
30:51
we call restoring family links so so
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those are the big five blood the flood
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and when it comes to the military
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especially we are there you talk to
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anybody's be served in the military they
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have a Red Cross story awesome well
31:04
we're all looking forward to the event
31:06
on the 17th and thanks for sharing today
31:09
guys and looking forward to this event
31:11
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31:14
as well for our young hustlers out there
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trying to make trying to make it happen
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