Wiring Hope: TEKSGiving's Mission to Transform Domestic Violence Shelters

TEKSGiving 2025 transforms technology infrastructure at Sojourner House, a domestic violence shelter in Rhode Island, with volunteers donating their skills to install critical safety and communication systems at four shelter buildings.

• Technology Worldwide's annual charity project allows members to nominate deserving organizations for complete technology makeovers
• Sojourner House supports women escaping abusive relationships and human trafficking situations
• Project will address outdated infrastructure in century-old buildings converted to offices and shelters
• Volunteers will install Cat6 cabling, new WiFi networks, surveillance systems, and access control
• Verkada has donated access control systems, camera licenses, and intercoms
• All skill levels welcome - from experienced engineers to beginners willing to learn
• Technical professionals gain unique experience working alongside specialists from different disciplines
• Follows "community over competition" philosophy central to Technology Worldwide
• Provides life-changing impact for both the organization and the volunteers

Visit textgiving.org to register as a volunteer or make a tax-deductible donation. The project needs both skilled professionals and financial support to create safe environments for those escaping dangerous situations.

Chapters

• 0:00 Introduction to Tech Giving 2025
• 6:10 The Heart of Tech Giving
• 10:30 Introducing Sojourner House
• 15:54 Technical Infrastructure Needs
• 24:42 How to Get Involved
• 31:13 The Impact on Volunteers

Transcript

Speaker 1: 0:00

Hey Wiremonkeys, welcome to another episode of let's Talk Cabling. Imagine showing up at a job site where the deliverables not profit, it's hope, where the cabling you run powers safety and the Wi-Fi you install brings healing and the security system you activate literally protects survivors of abuse. That's the topic for today's show.

Speaker 2: 0:22

Welcome to let's Talk Cabling your gateway to the world of ICT.

Speaker 1: 0:39

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Speaker 1: 1:29

Wednesday night, 6 pm Eastern Standard Time. What are you doing? You know I do a live stream on TikTok and Instagram and Facebook and LinkedIn, everywhere I can find a place to send it, where you get to ask your favorite RCDD questions on installation, design, certification, estimation, even project management. But I can hear you now, chuck. I'm driving my truck at 6 pm on Wednesdays. I don't want to get into an accident. Relax, I record them and you can listen to them at your convenience.

Speaker 1: 2:00

And finally, while this show is free and will always remain free and you find value in this content, would you click on that QR code right there? You can buy me a cup of coffee. You can schedule a one-on-one call with me after hours, of course, and do lots of other stuff as well, and that's what text giving is all about. It's about techs like you who are using your skills to make and wire up something a little bit bigger than just that project for money. And to make and wire up something a little bit bigger than just that project for money. And we're pulling back the curtains on one of the most inspiring projects I'm aware of this year TextGiving 2025. So welcome to the show, mr Jeff from Better Days Technology. How are you doing, jeff?

Speaker 3: 2:35

Great. How are you doing tonight, Chuck?

Speaker 1: 2:37

Great, Glad to have you on. Is this your second time on? Third time on.

Speaker 3: 2:44

It's been a few times, but every time it's like the first. It's a true honor.

Speaker 1: 2:45

Thank you so much for having me. You're a seasoned veteran. Hey, let's start off right at the very top. What exactly is text giving, and where did that idea come from?

Speaker 3: 2:57

So text giving is Technology Worldwide's opportunity to give back. It is our annual charity project. Once a year we put out a call to all of our members to nominate an organization that they are close to and have them have an opportunity to give that organization a full technology makeover. Everything from network security surveillance. We've done phone stuff, a full cabling overhaul. Um, I feel like I'm leaving something I would do such amazing stuff so it's the whole entire low voltage game.

Speaker 1: 3:36

It's not just it's not just pulling voice and data cable. You're talking about almost every facet of the low voltage industry. So, yeah, almost anybody can help do this. It's the fourth year now. I was at one of them. I was at the, the one in Baltimore. I really wish I could make this event, but I'm speaking at Nika, so there's a conflict there with my schedule. Has this event grown over the four years it's been running?

Speaker 3: 3:57

Yeah, I have been at all four of them and, man, when I think about where we've come from, that first one, the first one was amazing. Let me stop by saying that it was overwhelming to go to the first one, but when I think of the last three and then to be able to have this opportunity to be the site lead for the fourth, it's amazing to think we're going to do four buildings for this project. We've typically only done one site, but the organization that we're going to talk about in a few minutes. They have 12 different buildings, so we're going to overhaul a third of them and we're really excited about it.

Speaker 1: 4:42

So let me ask you this why is giving back through technology so important to the TKW?

Speaker 3: 4:48

I can speak for myself. I think that giving back for me is really important. I say this all the time, you know, not a religious guy per se, but these are God-given abilities that we've been given and it's an opportunity for all of us to use those for people who really need technology. You know I charge a rate every day that I don't really get to set. You know, even if I wanted to charge a lower rate, I think it would just be viewed as that's the company. That's cheap. They don't know what they're doing, so for me, I hate that side of the business. That's cheap. They don't know what they're doing, so for me, I hate that side of the business. So this is an opportunity for me to do what I want to do at the most reduced rate possible, free, and give back to a well-deserving organization, and that's what all four years of this project have been for me.

Speaker 1: 5:39

One of the catchphrases or I don't know if it's necessarily a catchphrase, but a phrase you almost always hear at every TKW event, whether it's text giving or, or you know, tech fest is community over competition. What does that mean in the context of text giving?

Speaker 3: 5:56

So I would say and when I think of that phrase, I think of it, as you know, breaking the truest of its form You're not worrying about competing with your low voltage skills, You're really making a point to try to spread that to as many people as possible Think about it as if you were working alongside your friends, because that's what these people have become. They've become friends, They've become family to me. And when you have that mindset, you're not thinking competitively, You're thinking about your community. And you know we can go into a million different cliches the high tide raises all ships. That's kind of what I think here. What TKW means to me is that you're elevating together.

Speaker 1: 6:43

So how does TKW select you know which nonprofit organizations that they're elevating together. So how does TKW select which nonprofit organizations that they're going to support each year?

Speaker 3: 6:50

So our procedure is the same. Every year we put a call out to our members and ask them to nominate an organization that's important to them. We have a preliminary round where we bring that to the leadership committee and the leadership committee narrows that down to their finalists. So this year we had, I think, a group of seven and the leadership group narrowed it down to three, and then those three get put out to the community and the community gets the vote on which organization they feel is most deserving.

Speaker 1: 7:29

So the, the, the, not the leadership doesn't decide who gets the actual award. It's actually decided by the membership of TKW, correct?

Speaker 3: 7:39

Yeah, so, so yeah, the leadership committee narrows it down to the three that they put out to the rest of the organization. And then, you know, our 500 plus members get an opportunity to vote on which organization means the most to them.

Speaker 2: 7:55

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Speaker 1: 8:51

You know this year's Thanksgiving. It's a project that probably can hit close to heart to a lot of us. It's for an organization that's doing some pretty incredible and life-changing work there in Rhode Island. Why don't you go ahead and tell us a little bit about, is it? Sojourner House? Sojourner House, yeah, so, jeff, tell us about Sojourner House and who they are and who do they serve.

Speaker 3: 9:11

Great. So Sojourner House is a nationwide organization with different chapters across the country. We happen to have one in Rhode Island. It's unfortunate that we have to have one, but we are very fortunate to have these people who have dedicated their careers to making this possible. Sojourner House caters to anyone who has a need to change their current lifestyle situation. So they started by catering to women in abusive relationships and they've focused their attention on that and things of human trafficking and things of that nature. So they really are an organization that are geared towards helping people when they need help are an organization that are geared towards helping people when they need help.

Speaker 1: 9:58

What do you think about Sojourner House that made them stand out to be the recipient for this year?

Speaker 3: 10:02

Yeah, that's a great question. First, I want to say we had some amazing candidates this year. There were two or three of them that I honestly, even though I nominated the Sojourner House, I would have. I'm actually disappointed I don't get a chance to work with two or three of these. I thought they were really amazing.

Speaker 3: 10:18

However, in my opinion, I think the biggest thing that stood out is during the voting process. I started to share stories, started to repost Instagram posts that the Sojourner House was putting out, and the one that hit home was a story about a woman who was pregnant and she was actually murdered during this process because she had nowhere to go. And you know, I think that really kind of tugged on the heartstrings of a lot of the people in our community. And you know not that it took away from any of the other amazing nominees that we had. But you know, it's really hard to look away when you're getting things like that. And you know, when I think back to, like you said, the other three, that we've done all very deserving organizations, but, man, this one is just of a different level, not better, but just different. Yeah, I just wish sometimes my schedule wouldn't, you know, conflict and I can attend to all of them.

Speaker 1: 11:13

but just you know, I just wish sometimes my schedule wouldn't conflict, I can attend to all of them, but just sometimes you got to pay the bills. And I think I understand why this one probably tugged on the heartstrings. Because when you look at our industry, the vast majority and I don't know what the percentage is, but I know it's the majority are males. They're husbands, they're brothers, they're fathers. So when something happens to a woman, that's what a man wants to do, a husband wants to do, a father wants to do is they want to protect it, make it better. That's probably one of the reasons why and I don't remember who the other ones were, but I do remember reading through all of them and I do remember your story was the most compelling of all of them. So for the audience members who may not be familiar, can you paint a picture of the challenges that the Sojourner House faces with its current infrastructure?

Speaker 3: 12:04

Yeah, I can. I mean, the things that we take for granted working in offices all day long are just things that don't exist. At the Sojourner House, if you've never visited New England, these are turn of the century homes that have been turned into office buildings. So we're talking old Victorians of that nature, and they, you know they were not built for Wi-Fi, let's put it that way. So so you know, we have these office buildings that were in homes designed to be homes, and they have to literally turn off network appliances just to ensure that the Wi-Fi will have the best chance of working during a Zoom call, something that you and I take for granted every day in every office we've ever been in.

Speaker 3: 12:55

And then let's not forget about the fact that these are offices that people are going to when they're at their last resort. They're going here for safety, and these buildings have a flaw in safety. The cameras are inadequate. Sometimes they're just there, as you know, dummy cameras. So it's time to get these buildings safer with proper access control, proper security and surveillance equipment. Like I've been saying during this whole process, we are keeping the buildings safe that keep people safe.

Speaker 1: 13:32

Let me ask you this, Jeff have you spoken to the Sojourner House leadership and have they shared any kind of feedback or hopes that they may have with you on outcomes out of this project?

Speaker 3: 13:42

Oh yeah, I mean, I talk to them every week. They couldn't be more appreciative of the work that we're about to do for them. I really think it really hit me when I called them for the first time. Sojourner House was introduced to me as a potential customer and I sat down with them two or three different times and really tried to get this quote to be as cheap as we humanly possible could get this done. You know I knew I needed the help of my brothers and sisters of TKW to actually make this happen. When I called them and asked them if they wanted to be nominated, it was. You could feel the weight just being lifted off their shoulders just at the opportunity to be nominated for something like this. It was really powerful. I could tell it was going to change their whole world. And when the votes were counted and we and I was able to call them and tell them that we won, it was one of the best moments of my career.

Speaker 1: 14:44

Well, let's get technical, because this show is called. Let's Talk Cabling right. Let's talk about what it's going to take, what needs to go in and who we need to help pull this off. So what kind of technology infrastructure are you and the volunteers looking to install this year at the Sojourner House?

Speaker 3: 14:58

We want anybody who wants to be there, you know, because I want to take a second to actually answer this question in two parts. First off, if you have a talent that we need, we would love to have you there. But, more importantly, this is really one of life's few opportunities to work alongside another technician with a specialty that you might not necessarily normally get to work alongside. So, in addition to you helping an organization, you get to have some type of professional development and really help yourself be a better technician. But, to answer your question directly, we're talking cabling. We're going to be installing a full surveillance system, we're going to be doing access control, and one of the things that doesn't normally get discussed is the amount of conduit work that's going to go into this project.

Speaker 3: 15:52

We talk about cabling all the time, especially, you know, on your show. But it's this master of of pipe bending. It is a skill within itself and this is an opportunity to and and you know I'm an okay pipe bender, but I know that it's really came from practice and just watching people who are way better at it than I am. So you know, this is really an opportunity to do all of that. In this project, you get to use your skills but then also, you know, gain some on your way out the door. So it's there are not that many opportunities in our industry like this that exists, that you get to give back and take from at the same time.

Speaker 1: 16:34

You get to give back and take from at the same time. It's funny you mentioned pipe bending, because I've been putting off installing the conduit in the podcast studio just because I hate doing conduit and I'm getting to the point where I can't do much else until I put the conduit in the walls. I'm going to have to do it anyway. But just to kind of recap what you were saying obviously you need people with a lot of technical skills, but I want to make sure this doesn't get overlooked. You can also use people who just know how to pull cable. Oh yeah, you don't have to be an expert at access control or fiber optic cabling. They just need people just to show up and to be able to pull cable from one point to another point, label it maybe, terminate it and, like you said, maybe you might be next to somebody who might be able to teach you something.

Speaker 3: 17:23

Oh yeah, definitely. I mean, when you watch some of our promotional videos, we have people that are. I can think of the video right now there's a group of women who are sitting at a picnic table terminating a Keystone Jack, and those you know. Those were people that were volunteering helping out with you know the other things lunch, and you know. So it really is an opportunity for you know everyone there to help and learn, and I think there are so many different parts of technology that you can really take this opportunity to learn about something else while you're there. But yeah, that goes to say we do need people who have particular skills that can actually get us to the finish line.

Speaker 1: 18:08

Yeah, that's why I make sure I cover both sides of that spectrum, because I don't want the person who might be listening to this show, maybe somewhere nearby, and might get discouraged because they don't know how to terminate five or they don't know how to do access control.

Speaker 3: 18:22

Oh no, I, I would yeah, anyone with the right attitude comes to this event. You know that's. That's really all it comes down to, like, you know, if you don't have a skill, like that's, that's not what we're looking for right now. You know, like, if you're here, if you're in the industry, if you're parallel to the industry, if this is, if you're just a person who likes to help, like these are, these are the people. You know we we have some amazing, talented individuals that are coming to this event, you know, so, where those people can take the lead and and help some of these people along the way. We know what we're getting into when we sign up for these events. It is we're getting a lot of work done, but we're working with people that don't necessarily work in the same industry or the same subset of the industries that we work on every day.

Speaker 3: 19:09

And you know, I've gone ahead and complicated things to the fourth degree by adding four buildings to this project so if you're if, like you know, normally we have, like you know, a building and we have access control and we have, like though, the one access control specialist, how we kind of need four of those people to go to all four different places and then take that for the conduit bending guy, who's the you know, the master of that, and the person who's like the network, and so you know, but with that said, um, it's, we have a lot of us that can, you know, carry the weight.

Speaker 2: 19:42

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Speaker 1: 20:45

So we're talking what Cat6A?

Speaker 3: 20:47

Yeah, we'll probably stay with Cat6. There are no fiber terminations on this project, so it's mostly just running Cat6. What are you doing for the access control? No fiber terminations on this project, so it's mostly just running cat six. Um, and then, what are you doing for the access control? So we had a very generous donation this year from Verkata. Um, verkata is actually what introduced me to this project, so you know they were really um connected from the beginning as well. Um, when I told them I was nominating Sojourner House, you know from the jump they wanted to help.

Speaker 3: 21:14

So Vercotta is doing access control. They're donating camera licenses. They're donating intercoms, all the software that it takes to run these intercoms. But we have a lot of other Vercotta because they were connected from day one. We have solidified their donation, matter of fact. I just took delivery of it the other day. There are five other ones that are just in the works right now. I'd love to be able to share them with you, but I'd probably get in trouble if I said it. But you know we have a lot of generous donations that are coming through right now, all different types of vendors. So we're doing that. We're replacing their networks, we're replacing their Wi-Fi it's really going to be, and I think one of the things, like I said earlier, these are turn of the century homes that got converted to offices, so there were some times where renovations had happened and cabling got done during that renovation.

Speaker 3: 22:12

So I think, for the first time that I can think of in this project's history is an opportunity to work with existing cabling as well. So many times we're like, okay, we're going to come in and we're going to run all new wiring. Well, the projects that I can think of that we've done the last three have all been in drop ceilings and that was the option. So in this scenario, it's a turn of the century home that got renovated and while they did the renovations, maybe there was some cat five E that got dropped in, and you know. So I think it's an opportunity for technicians to learn how to work with existing cabling. When you have a wall drop that you need to turn to, a camera drop and and see there's more out there besides cat six or cat six or more out there than just running new stuff.

Speaker 3: 22:59

You know, like this is an opportunity, like, because you know like there is like I think about like a mechanic. Right, there's the people who just build cars on the assembly line, and then there are people who are actually at, you know, at a garage working with existing stuff. So this is an opportunity to kind of blend the two.

Speaker 1: 23:14

You know, so you're talking about the types of volunteers that you were looking for and you, I think you painted a pretty good description everywhere, from someone just to show up to help pull cables to to cable text, to maybe even some leads, but I noticed you left out one major category. Did I yeah, you did, you did. What about maybe maybe a network engineer or maybe an RCDD who's listening to this show? Who, just you know what? One of the things that I don't believe this I sometimes, I just sometimes. I just want to go back to the field because life is so much easier being in the field pulling cable Right. So maybe there might be a network engineer or maybe even an RCDD listen to show. Is there a place for them to?

Speaker 3: 23:56

Of course. I mean, you know we would be honored to have someone like that come to one of these projects. I think it's a real opportunity. And you know, like I know rcdd's, like they, you know there are certain components that they, that you know they get to work on um and and sometimes they get tunnel vision in their projects. So this is an opportunity for them to come and see, like you know, like you may be an RCDD and really specialize in structured cabling for wifi and networks. You know, and then you're, and then so you. So, just like any of us, like we've kind of honed in on our specialty. So and and RCDD is, is the pinnacle of a specialist, and then they, and then they cater to like what interests them the most. But this is an opportunity for them to come and maybe work side by side and apply their base level of working understanding to like something like access control, something. Maybe they just never gravitated to, you know.

Speaker 1: 24:52

Yeah, get the opportunity to touch and pull and terminate and stuff that you don't normally, wouldn't normally get access to Right.

Speaker 3: 25:00

Right, yeah, no, it's so true. I mean, like I think about, you know, my first uh text giving and you know I'm doing things now professionally, that I didn't do um before that first text giving because I just feel like that was my little intro to that and you know that, with my basic understanding, was able to get me to a place of confidence. And then now there's a whole division of our company that we're offering things that we didn't offer before the first text giving.

Speaker 3: 25:29

So again it's it's help us, help others and help you.

Speaker 2: 25:34

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Speaker 1: 26:19

So to the person who's listening to this show right now, from you know, the apprentice to pull cable, to the technician, the cable, so even maybe the RCDDs. I would love if a couple RCDs show up, right. What's the best way for them to get involved?

Speaker 3: 26:33

Yes, everyone, if you want to get, get involved, needs to go to textgivingorg. All of our information is there, um, the more information about the organization and the project, our agenda, um, this is and that's you know. Everything will be updated there. So, like you, you should, you know, save it as a bookmark. Go there often. You'll have your hotel registration there, the actual registration for the event. So we'd love it if, you know, you could start registering for the event.

Speaker 3: 27:04

We really need that because, as you can imagine, this is a big undertaking for a project of this size. So we'd like to know, you know, how many people are coming. Like I said earlier, I got this crazy idea to have us at four different locations, so now we need to divide up into four different teams. So we really need to know who's coming. This isn't like, oh, maybe if I'm not doing anything that weekend, I'll come check it out. You know like it would be amazing if you could, you know, commit to this now, because we're doing a lot of work on the back end to make sure that this is super successful and you know where to. How are we going to feed you guys? How? Where are we going? Where are we feeding, like all these different things. Like we, we'd love to know um, who's coming um, what kind of skills are coming to the table, and we'd like to start building our teams, um and and our schedule.

Speaker 1: 27:52

And you don't have to be a TKW member to do this.

Speaker 3: 27:58

I mean, anybody can jump in and do that correct. I mean, obviously, um, you know, uh, we'll, we'll want you to become a TKW member. Um, after coming to the event which you know isn't a heavy lift you're, you're, you're joining something that you do every day anyway. It's just a bunch of men and women who are doing the same thing you're doing. So it's like you know, there's no fees, there's's no dues, membership hurdles, nothing. So, you know, come to the event, join this awesome organization and be looking forward to the fifth one. You know, I can't imagine what next year's will look like.

Speaker 1: 28:30

So you mentioned, you know, one or two manufacturers. Is there still any unfulfilled needs from maybe other manufacturers or maybe even distributors to maybe step up and come up with maybe some product sponsorship?

Speaker 3: 28:44

Yeah, I would say, you know, we have had an amazing response this year. We've had a lot of generous donations that have come across, that have come across. We've had different industries that have donated to this project that haven't donated in the past. But, with that said, obviously this is a charity. We are always looking to get as much as we can for the recipients.

Speaker 3: 29:12

So, yeah, I think, and then, furthermore, we would love for you to feel like you were part of TKW and if you were a vendor or a manufacturer who is interested in being part of our community, um, that's a bigger deal to us than than this project, you know. So, if, uh, if there, if, if you're attracted to the idea of this project, cause, who wouldn't be right? Uh, if you're attracted to the idea of this project because who wouldn't be right? If you're listening to this and it's like, hey, I want to help, but they already have cameras donated to this project, you know that doesn't mean that there isn't another opportunity around the corner, and this is we want to. You know, like we talked about earlier, it is community over competition and we would like any manufacturer or vendor to be introduced to our membership group and really be a part of this project.

Speaker 1: 30:07

So let me ask you this, Jeff the people, the volunteers, are going to show up at this event, right? Do you think they're going to walk away changed?

Speaker 3: 30:14

No, they're going to come to this, of course. Do you think they're going to walk away changed? No, they're going to come to this, of course. Yeah, you're going to come to this event and I mean you would have to be a rock to come and not be changed. I mean, this is just. This is such a humbling event.

Speaker 3: 30:29

You know, first and foremost, the organization that we're going to be doing this work for I moved. I get an opportunity to go there almost two or three times a month now just to prepare for this project, and just I'm changed every time I leave. I'm just like we are doing something so amazing right now for this organization. Every time I go there and I just overhear like, oh, this doesn't work or this is broken, and that's just like the you know the technology complaints that I overhear, you know, but just like the work that they're doing. So, inherently, you will be moved just by being part of this project, working with this organization. As far as technical skills that you yes, I can't think of anything else uh, that's, it has a greater chance of you leaving with some type of professional development than this event. I mean, you're going to be exposed to things none of us are an expert in everything. So you are going to be around experts in everything just individuals and you get to watch masters, people, the best installers in the us and canada all I was going to say, under one roof, all under four different routes, but you, um, it's uh, man.

Speaker 3: 31:47

And and then the downtime too. You know we have dinners, we have events, the opportunity to talk with you know, because that's the other thing, right, you come to one of these events. You don't want to be caught slipping, right? You don't want to be like over there talking when we're supposed to be working, right? So there are these opportunities later on at night to be like, hey, man, like I've always wanted a chance to talk to you about X, y, z, you know. So that exists and it's I remember that from my first sex giving like an opportunity to talk to folks. I like an opportunity to talk to folks. I mean, it wasn't the first time I ever talked to you, but it was probably the first time I got a chance to actually break bread with you and get a chance to, you know, talk about certain things. So you get to meet people that you see on Instagram, you know, like these are, it's funny, like my wife, all your computer friends like they're not real people and it's like no, they are real people.

Speaker 1: 32:35

No, they're not real people and it's like no, they are real people, like well, they're real people, they really are. Let's say there's somebody out there who they like me. I just I can't be there, you know, because of conflict in my schedule. Is there a way for them to donate to this, to help fund this?

Speaker 3: 32:49

Yeah, of course, and that's where we need the help the most because, you know, like I said, we've had a great response from our vendors. A project like this was very defined right away. You know, we knew we needed what we needed for network equipment. We have a network vendor that's donating. We knew what we needed for doors. We knew what we needed for cameras. It's really these sundries that are coming up, you know, like the like little, like a box of this, or you know adapters for this or something like that. So, you know, I I think the opportunity to just have this pile of cash that we could jump for. You know these things that come up that so don't. Yeah, donations are, at this point, very much needed.

Speaker 1: 33:34

You can donate at textgivingorg and all the information and they're a 501c3, so it's tax deductible.

Speaker 3: 33:42

Yes, of course it is a 501c3, so our development director will send you a donation letter and it's a real awesome thing that you'd be giving to. I know everyone wants to be able to donate to everything and I know it's hard, but, man, this one's important.

Speaker 1: 34:04

Yep, jeff, I appreciate you coming on and talking to us about Sojourner House and all these opportunities for people to make an impact in their community and stuff, and I'm really going to be watching this one with eagle eye and I'm going to be following up with you. Make sure that you know you guys get everything done right.

Speaker 3: 34:20

Well, we, we certainly don't want to let you down. Uh, no, and uh, you know I'm I am sad that you can't be there, but I know that you really would want to be there if you could. And, um, you know this is, uh, you know, thank you so much for allowing me to take some time with your show to. You know, talk about this event. It's really for me the biggest honor of my career to be able to be the point person for this event and I'm really looking forward to it. I'm looking forward to seeing a lot of my fellow brothers and sisters here and working towards a project in my home state. This really is a professional dream come true for me, and I'm really looking forward to what we're going to be able to hand off to the Sojourner House when we're done on that Sunday night, and they're going to have a whole new experience on that Monday morning, and it's going to be an emotional day for me for sure.

Speaker 1: 35:13

Absolutely, and if it wouldn't, I'd tell you check your your pulse. Thanks for coming on the show, mr jeff thank you, chuck, really appreciate you.

Speaker 3: 35:24

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