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It is time to leave your worries outside and come
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laugh with us inside the tree House. On a Friday,
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August sixteenth, twenty twenty four, we have a massive show
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to share with you today. For starters, we will be
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sharing an exciting announcement inside the Treehouse. It's exciting to
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us and we hope that it is equally as exciting
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to you. Also, number two, I swear to God and
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I can sindue proof of this later. Raj, the shirt
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you were wearing, which is your alma mater, a Texas
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State Bobcats shirt, turned out to be pretty prophetic when
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you put that on this morning.
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And I'll share with you why coming up in the show.
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Okay, what did we do now?
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It's a new strain of chlamydia.
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We already have the one, like the most powerful strand,
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so let's just keep what did we do?
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I'll tell you later, Okay.
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And while this is typically the portion of the show
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where I would declare, let's get stupid, before we get stupid,
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today we need to get serious. We had tragedy before
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the city of Fort Worth and North Texas as a
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whole on Monday, when news came out early Monday morning
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that there was an incident involving a Fort Worth police
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officer and there was no immediate word as to his
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or her condition for a few hours, And as Trey
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and I are all too familiar with, that's never a
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good sign because in those situations, when you hear a
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lack of information on the status of the officer or firefighter,
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it's usually not good and so not good to the
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point it's because they're not publicizing it yet, because they're
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still trying to notify next.
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To Ken, Yeah, okay.
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And that is exactly what unfolded Monday morning. So it's
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not a plus side, but it is a reality that
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it had been almost two years that the Foundation had
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written a check to the family of a police officer
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or a firefighter killed in the line of duty.
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So while we were glad that it had been so
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long for us to.
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Do that, we are of course extremely you know, heartbroken, sad,
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all of those things about what happened this week. The
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positive side of it is that you the listener, have
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given so profusely to the Foundation over the years, especially
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in the wake of July seventh, where the Dallas five
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were killed ironically during a police protest. So much money
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came in after that incident that it has super funded
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the foundation and many people, including us, continue to contribute
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to the foundation and we appreciate that and because of
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those efforts, because of your efforts, we were able to
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write a check from your foundation, from the RMS Treehouse
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Listeners Foundation to the family of Sergeant Billy Randolph, specifically
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his widow. The family is obviously going through a very
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difficult time, and again on the positive side.
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There is a hell of a framework.
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In place to help in these situations, not just from
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our standpoint as a foundation, but as a police and
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first responders community as a whole. There are things that
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immediately start occurring to help the families in these types
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of situations, and I'm very proud that we get to
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be able to be among those that do something, even
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on a small scale, to benefit those families and everything
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that they're going through. So, if somehow you missed the
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news of what happened on Monday morning, I will let
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Fort Worth Police Chief Neil Noakes share with you what
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he shared with the rest of us.
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Monday morning.
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While working that accident and trying to clear the scene,
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a driver drove through the barricades that were there to
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protect the officers striking Sergeant Billy Randolph. Sergeant Randolph was
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taken to a local hospital for treatment for his injuries,
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but very sadly, he did not survive those injuries. Sergeant
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Billy Randolph passed away today, a hero serving the city
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of for Worth in the line of duty. Our hearts
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are broken. Sergeant Randolph have been with the department almost
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thirty years. I've been here twenty four and I don't
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know the department without him. But that's a new reality
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for all of us. He was a leader in our department,
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but not because he had strips on his sleeve because
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he was a sergeant. He was a leader because he
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was always there for his people no matter what and
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willing to do anything for them to help them out
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with what they might have to deal with the work.
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I want people to see him not just as a
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hero and a police officer, but as a man, a
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human being, part of this community, part of our city.
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What I know is he was a selfless guy who
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always thought of others ahead of himself, as willing obviously
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to put himself at harm's way to protect not only
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his team, but also protects residents here and forward.
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It's the Fort Worth Police Chief Neil Noakes.
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A little while later.
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I can't remember if it was later Monday afternoon or
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if it was into Tuesday. All my days of this
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week have kind of run together. The surviving family members
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of Sergeant Randolph issued a statement, and part of that
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statement read. Part of that statement read that Billy was
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more than a public servant. He was a faithful husband, father, grandfather,
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brother son, and good friend to many. And a candlelight
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vigil was held Wednesday night and hundreds gathered to pay
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their respects, not only to Sergeant Randolph, but his family
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as a whole. And in foundation fashion, we were able
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to carry out the mission of the Foundation as it
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was set forth all the way back in the wake
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of nine to eleven. Tray was it? It was two
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thousand and two when the foundation was officially formed, right
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after all the paperwork and everything got filed with the irs.
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Yes, and I think the first check, say, the first
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check was like.
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A red oak.
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It was like it was Sansum park Samson Parker was
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for twenty five hundred.
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Honestly, you may be right. It might have been red Oak.
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It was one of those.
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But yeah, yeah, but I mean, I remember it was
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because it was twenty five hundred dollars and that was
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you know, and to look at what the foundation has
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grown to and become is pretty spectacular.
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It's amazing. Yeah.
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So the idea of the foundation was to bridge the
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gap financially for families from when an officer or firefighter
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falls in the line of duty to win death benefits
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kick in, which and sometimes take months. Lots of red tape,
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lots of bureaucracy paperwork that has to get filed, and
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there can be instances where, you know, these people don't
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make a ton of money and they need some financial
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assistance because unfortunately, when someone dies in the line of duty,
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the paycheck stops. They don't get like an extra two
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weeks of pay or something like that. It's the idea
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is that all these benefits are supposed to kick in,
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but it takes time. That's why the foundation was started,
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is that so these families wouldn't have to worry about
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any financial matters. They could focus on grieving and healing.
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And thanks to the efforts of our very own Trade
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Trenholm and too retired Farmers Branch police officer Steve Rutherford,
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I almost got there Lisa Randolph had a check in
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her hands that afternoon for forty thousand dollars. In case
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you missed the letter that we sent on August twelve,
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twenty twenty four, addrafted cha addressed to Chief Neil Noakes,
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So the fourth Police Department please accept our sinceres condolences
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on the loss of the Fort Worth Police Sergeant Billie Randolph.
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We will not forget to sacrifice on August twelve, twenty
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twenty four, on behalf of the listeners of the former
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RUSS Martin Shaw and the Treehouse. Please accept this check
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for Sergeant Randolph's family. While I cannot relieve the terrible grief,
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it can provide immediate financial needs the family may have
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in the wake of this tragedy. Sergeant Randolph's impact on
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the community of Fort Worth and his fellow officers is
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a testament to his dedication as a police officer and
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as a person. We grieve with you, your officers, and
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all who support our first responders. Sincerely, the RMS Treehouse
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Listeners Foundation. And this is usually the part where Trey
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calls me a robot because I can read the a
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letter without breaking down.
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That emotion chip really working well.
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It's had many upgrades over the years, as you can
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tell from as you could tell from before I started
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reading at the salt Air has had a little bit
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of an effect on it.
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I'm just gonna call you download Dan.
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But it is not only sincere condolence is that we
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send to the citizens of Fort Worth, but obviously all
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of North Texas and those who support first responders to
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family of Sergeant Randolph, but a series thank you to you, Trey,
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and to Rutherford for getting that check out there in
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expeditious fashion and so on. Behalf of all the listeners
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and the Foundation thank you.
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You know.
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It's when you think about what they're going through, it
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that small sacrifice of time is it's just nothing. And
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uh yeah, like I said, the uh, the whole mission,
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I don't you know, the mission of the Foundation came
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out of the stories of you know, the officers of
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nine to eleven and how your families were struggling. They
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not just you know, funeral expenses, but just rent and
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mortgage payments and.
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Everything else and keeping the lights on.
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Yeah, and the fact that we have the ability to
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leave those worries so quickly is it's just It's cool,
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It really is. And thank you to all the listeners
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over the years that have given and continue to give.
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And to go from twenty five hundred being the first
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check to now just cutting you know, the forty thousand.
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I mean, I know it's not like you said, it's
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about grieving and healing and this helps in that process
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so you don't have to worry about the other stuff.
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But to go from that to that is just a
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testament to how cool the listeners are. So thank you
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for doing that.
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And we will continue to do it. And as I
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told someone on Facebook earlier this week, need to be
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very clear about this and want there to be no confusion.
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The RMS Foundation is operational. It has never had a
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lapse in so far as covering families in the face
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of loss and tragedy, and it will continue to do
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so until either there is no money left I almost said,
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or even to our dying breath. But even if we
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all were to die in some sort of freak treehouse accident,
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there are board members that can still carry out the
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mission of the foundation, and we'll make sure that if
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something were even to happen to us, it still goes on.
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As long as you keep funding it, we'll keep we'll
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keep providing it. That's basically what it boils down to.
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So thank you to everyone, and again our sinceres condolences
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to the family of Sergeant Randolph into the City of
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Fort Worth. That being set with all the reverence and
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respect that it deserves. We also have another job to do,
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and that is to make fun of raj. That's the
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job it is today, so we will do that. Coming
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right up inside the treehouse.
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You're in the treehouse, visit us online at Treehouse on
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air dot com.
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All right, let's get Daniel Cook from COOKDFW Roofing and
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Restoration into the Treehouse now for your free roof inspection
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and to get on that cook list. Give them a
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call at eight three three cook DFW, the website cookdfw
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dot com. Anyone that owns a home, Nos, Okay, things
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are gonna happen. But the good news is when things
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happen on top of the house, like with a roof,
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or if some things happen on the inside where there's
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damage and it needed some restoration or maybe some good
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old fashioned remodeling.
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You're really nice to the homeowners, aren't you.
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Dan.
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There's a saying that it's just like most things in life.
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It's not if it's gonna happen, it's when it's gonna happen.
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And there's things that are around your house that are
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just gonna happen and you cannot stop it. Now, Hopefully
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you're you're preparing yourself and you're and you're mediating a
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lot of those things from getting worse. But there's gonna
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be things out of your control.
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And so yeah, when those things happen, that's why we
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want to step in and assist you and try to
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help you figure out the best most organized approach of
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getting those repairs done and stopping it from happening, and
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again and trying to help when we need it, because
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you know, those things are they.
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Just blow up at the worst worst times. Also, usually
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it's like you're you're fixing leave on vacation, your hot
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water heater breaks, are you know you're about to you know,
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you're about to have a baby, and you get this
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major hailstorm at your house, you know, and it's like
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you're preparing, you know, to take your wife to the
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hospital and there's freaking three inch heilstones dropping outside, you know.