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We got that information about the Public High School League reunion, which is
a fifty five kr SE dot com and I am happy as always to see
Brian Ibold in studio. It's good to see you, Brian. Welcome back
to talk about a really cool organization, the Help Squad, which you can
find online and I really strongly encourage you to do that because we're gonna solicit
your help today help the Help Squad so they can go out and help people.
It's Helped Squad Sincy with a y dot com help Squad sincey dot com.
Brian Ibold always great seeing you brother, Yeah, thank you for giving
us an avenue here to give the word out always squat you guys. It's
a great organization and they focus on of course, you know my area of
town growing up, you got Cole Ring Green dal High Township, Shivy at
Cleaves and Addiston where. Yes, like every area of the Greater Cincinnati area
and across this country, there are people out there in really really significant need,
most notably a lot of women, you know, failed relationships, they
got to get out of dodge. You have an abuse of husband, they
are on the lamb, they've got bills, they have no place to live.
You can go on and on and on and so Brian and his wife
and others you know, had this inspiration religious inspired it was, and that's
great help Squad. It's a five o' one c three corporate Christian nonprofit organization.
Their mission to share hope, compassion and grace through faith and community collaborative.
They assist families and crisis with short term financial support and wrap around services
for food, clothing, and shelter, as well as new paths for life
development and strategies. Brian, you know, it's just such a neat thing.
To see you do this, and how is it that you decided in
your life and what direction did you go down? And you're like, you
know what, I got time, I got ability. I'm going to help
other people. I'm going to dedicate my time to a Christian charitable mission.
Well, I'll agree with you. I definitely had the time. The ability
that's kind of up in the air. So at this points, I'm trying,
brother, believe me. I'm trying. So you know, I'm a
retired police when I had twenty eight years on in law enforcement, and a
lot of the times that I was in a uniform position, I would respond
to radio runs where it's a domestic dispute, domestic violence, some you know,
husband and wife arguing, brother and sister, however it is, and
when you separated them and you spoke to them, ninety nine percent of the
time they're arguing over some sort of financial disruption in their family. You know,
dad loses his job, Mom didn't pay the card payment last month.
They're going to get it repossessed, or they're late on their rent, they're
going to get evicted. And those types of problems really cause a lot of
grief in families. And then you add alcohol to it and just a bad
scene all the way around. So I would show up in these houses.
I'm thinking, there has to be an organization that will pay to have your
car not repossessed. There just has to be that it's only a couple hundred
dollars for these, you know, for a car payment. But there wasn't
There wasn't anything there. You can get food, clothing, shelter, you
know, the basics, but there was nothing like this. So when I
retired in twenty twenty, I said, we're going to create this and with
the help of myself and my wife, like you mentioned, we have some
really great people. Sam Jasper, she is a unicorn when it comes to
helping people. Nobody can compete with her. And we just all got together,
we merged, and we've been doing a lot of good work ever since
on the West side of town. Well, and let's talk about some of
the work by way of illustration. I know you got some just absolutely heartbreaking
but yet at the same time heartwarming stories because of the help that the Help
Squad provided. My listeners. Is an illustration or two about some of the
success you've had out there. Yeah, I'd be more than happy So just
last week, we had a lady from West Africas. Now, she did
it right. I'm not trying to get political here, but she did it
right. She's a US citizen and she lives in an apartment with her three
children, single mom, and her dying mother, and she was behind on
rent from a few things that had popped up, and they were going to
evict this woman and her mother, her sick mother and her three kids,
and she needed about I think it was twelve hundred bucks for her rent where
they're on the street. So we came through and invested twelve hundred dollars.
Now that's not a lot of money, Brian, twelve hundred dollars to save
a family? Are you kidding me? How? How is there not thousands
and thousands of people behind us, you know, supporting us and rallying behind
us with this. But that's the things we do, you know, And
that's that was even more, you know, a little bit higher than what
we normally do. You save a family for four, five, six,
seven hundred dollars. Right in the past, you've mentioned just a little cash
infusion like five hundred do I think I remember the story where you gave you
had this opportunity to give some of this woman five hundred dollars and that really
was able to turn her life around. Five hundred dollars Brian King, Floyd
Lyne for want of the price of tea and a slice, the old man
died. It's like, for one of five hundred dollars in this this person's
lifetime, you know, things could either go really great or they could be
tragic exactly. You know, we've and you know, just a couple of
days ago, I helped a veteran, uh from the Iraqi Bay. He
a veteran who they just didn't have food. He had been hurt and they
didn't have food, and their electric was going off. And I always thought
that they will not turn electric off or gas electric or heat and stuff like
in the winter if you have kids in this Yeah, but uh yeah,
they will after a while. They certainly will. Yeah, and you've got
a pretty long run out time. But if you just let it go,
it's going to get turned off at certainly. And uh so we paid that
and the guy end up getting a job and everything's fine. We invested I
think six hundred bucks in him and his family, you know, but we
can't continue to invest, you know, even five six, one thousand and
two thousand, whatever it is, without people getting behind us and rallying with
us and supporting us. Well, let's call to action that I'm going to
issue this morning again the help the Help Squad. Sincey with why the Help
squadsinsey dot com. It's easy to donate this blink right at there at the
top to do it. I also suspect that you wouldn't mind volunteer help with
your mission. We certainly can use volunteer help. You know. We always
will accept monetary donations. We will accept even donations items that we can auction
off or we can do bidden by services. You know, if you cut
hair, if you cut grass, if any type of service that you provide,
we can use that as well. There's just many ways of volunteering.
And it's just not money. And Brian, this isn't even just about the
help Squad. You know, you can't just sit on your couch and do
nothing with your life. You've got to get out there because I find it
very hard that you can't have compassion without action. And I see a lot
of people saying, oh, you know, just look at that poor guy
on the side of the on the corner there asking for money. That poor
homeless guy, somebody should do something about that. Or Hey, did you
hear about the lady who lost her job. She has two kids and they're
getting evicted from their apartment. Somebody should do something about that. Well,
guess what, Yeah, We're doing something about it. People need some serious
help. Yeah. And you know it's interesting because I'm one who regularly like
in the context. And again, I don't want to get political in this.
We're talking about charity here, but it provides a great springboard during the
run up to the passage of Obamacare. And I guess even during Hillary Care,
you had men in well clergy people, women or men in front of
churches advocating for a government program because it was going to help folks on life
margins get healthcare. And I'm thinking to myself, you're abdicating the Christian mission.
The Christian mission is for the individual in the room there to do that
themselves, to give of their own time and of their own money to help
people on life smart that helps you. The individual who does that, giving
the charity and participating in the charity is uplifting for the person doing this exactly.
Christ came here to serve, not to be served. I'm sure we've
all heard it's better to give than to receive. Yeah, they just didn't
say that for no reason. It really is true. It is incredibly rewarding
when you can help these people. And the thing is we don't get paid.
We're all volunteers. If anything, this costs me thousands of dollars a
year to run this well, of course out of your own pocket, but
also time has a value of money as well, and clearly you have committed
an unbelievable amount of time to this charity. Again, the Help Squad Sinsey
dot com, Joe put a link at at youbot krecy dot com. We're
gonna pausor and it will bring Brian Ibol back to talk a little bit more
about the success their mission has and other ways we can help out. But
we're also going to get go down a little cul de sac because I know
Jim Keefer Westside. Jim wants you to talk about the sitcom that you are
doing, which we'll be able to check out real soon. Here more with
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give some great plans over the weekend. I'm in studio with Brian Eyebold of
the Help Squad again online vhelp Squad since you with y dot com help them
out a volunteer Listen. I have some money in my pocket. I just
gave it to Brian. Yeah, it wasn't that difficult to do to hand
him over some money out of my pocket. It makes it so easy going
to the website to do that. This is some beautiful work that they're doing.
You imagine just a small financial contribution to one of these folks living on
life's margins, and the statistics are on his website. You got a pretty
substantial poverty weight. You have a very low percentage of folks with a higher
level education. For the area that he's serving, fifty three percent are on
food assistance, are economically disadvantaged in the areas of Brian and the team at
the Help Squad are serving. Again. That's Cole Rain Green del High Shivi
at Cleaves and Addison. So huge need out there and simple solutions for very
complex problems. Help pay the rent, help get rid of that energy build
that's hanging over their head, helping turn their lives around. You also do
referrals don't you, Brian. Uh, yeah, we have some wrap around
services. So once we give a financial infusion to a family, we can
also offer them wrap around services that connect them with different organizations or agencies that
will further assist them down the road so they don't and back in the same
situation. We mentioned that last story that you got the guy got a job.
Yeah, yeah, exactly. Yeah, so problems just exactly. It
was just that temporary time, you know, that a month or so that
they needed help, and then we we invested in them, we paid it,
and they're they're fine. Again, if that wouldn't happen, they wouldn't
have it electric, they wouldn't have any heat and air condition and and chances
are their house was going to go up for uh you know, to auction.
Yes, so there's a lot of things, but it was a small
financial investment in this family and they're doing very well. And then we do
that all the time. These people are worth the money. Yeah, the
problem is we just we don't have a ton of money. But obviously,
and we're only as good as money we have in the bank. And that's
why we're doing all these things. That's why I'm on the radio that's why
we have fundraisers. And speaking of fundraisers, if I can real quick,
yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, well yeah you got you got
a big event coming up on Sunday. Yes, we have a huge event
coming up at Crimer's Beer House. Oh yeah, it's a staple on the
West Sie. It is. Indeed, they've got a huge river bar outside.
It's gonna beautiful weather. We have one of the best bands in town,
lunch Box, They're coming to play. We've got fun raffle bats.
It's all kinds of stuff that are good volunteers. Carrie Indris has taken so
much time of their time, uh to do this and get this organized.
We're very excited and there is really Look, it's sun, it's music,
it's fun, and you're helping people. What is not to like? Come
on out and one to five one to five pm Crimer's Beer House this Sunday.
We're gonna have a good time. Now. Do you have a link
to that information on your help Squad website? Finally chance, If it's not
on the webs I just certainly is on our Facebook page, the help Squad
Facebook the help Squad, and go ahead and like them there as well.
And you know, as you and I were talking off air, trying to
get people to donate money, that's one thing. But if you're not able
to donate money, and I'm thinking of folks who may be struggling on their
own with maybe some depression obviously with the news of the world that's enough to
depress me, are considering what I do. But you know, if you
get engaged and are working with folks that you work with Brian, who need
this type of assistance, I think not only might you feel better about your
own personal circumstance, but also you're going to get that feeling that only charitable
help can give you. It's uplifting. You're truly helping somebody on life margins.
You're gonna go home feeling a whole lot better about your situation and probably
meet some great people at the same time. Oh No, it's incredibly rewarding.
And here's the thing. If you're a listener out there, the problem
is we just have a segment of society that can help that just chooses not
to. And this is a way to do it. It's easy. And
here's the thing. Even if you don't want to help people, just being
in this type of field. You feel better yourself. Yes, you know
what I mean. Helping people there, there's nothing better than that, that's
our calling, nothing better than That's exactly right. And then again, going
back to your foundation in Christian philosophy, therein lies the reality it's good for
you to be good to other people. Amen's got to come from you personally,
not through some large government program. And here we have no government involvement,
just good people helping those on life's margins. Reassure my listeners before we
get to the sitcom. Reassure my listeners the vetting process. Someone just doesn't
walk up and say I need five hundred dollars and you hand it over to
them. Now you you find out what the situation is. Oh sure.
So we have an intake packet that you can that you will be You'll have
to fill out. It's on the website. We make it very convenient,
and then once we receive your intake packet, we review that. And I'll
be honest with you, not everybody can we can help. There's some people
that are there things are just so far gone we can't help. But there's
others too that seem to be kind of just trying to scam the system type
thing. So not everybody will get the help, but the true legitimate people
that need our help, and we have the money in the bank, we
will help them. And I'm just real quick. The lady who I was
talking about earlier from West Africa, do you notice that she had called fifteen
other agencies for help. We are the sixteenth agency. Fifteen agencies did not
return her call, shot the door in her face, did not return emails,
put her on a waiting list, said we can't help. And then
number sixteen, the help Squad, she gives us a call and we got
it done. And the reason we got it done is one, we don't
have any red tape. We don't have any bureaucracy, you know, red
tape all over the place. If you need help and we have the money
and it's legitimate, it's real simple. We get it done the help Squad.
Since you with the y dot com really quickly the sitcom Brian and Eve
been working on this locally lately. Yeah. On a side note, so
when I retire from the police, you know, I've always enjoyed writing and
I wrote, actually I wrote a short film it's on YouTube called Drunken Inheritance.
I've seen it and I and it's about a personal story. It's kind
of funny. And then you know, I was sitting around in some a
little bit of free time I had. I said, you know, let's
write a couple episodes of a sitcom. So we did three episodes and uh,
and we're getting ready to release them. It's called Typical west Siders.
We have a website, typic Typical Westsiders dot com and it's just for fun.
It was just a kind of a goofy, goofy thing. We're not
trying to make any money, no, nothing like that was just fun.
We got some good people involved and it's just silly. It's kind of like
a Seinfeld type goofy thing. You got west Side Jim Keifer in west Side
Jim's and there he's in all three episodes. Given the name of the sitcom,
that makes perfect sense. Brian ibold On, behalf of all those out
there that you have help and will help. Thank you for what you are
doing and continue to do. And to all my listeners out there, I've
been talking about every little bit helps, a little tiny bit can help this
mission be fulfilled and change people's lives. For the better, So please try
to help out in some way. The help Squad Sinsey with a y dot
com. Brian, thanks for what you're doing for the community and keep up
the great work, my friend. I know we'll talk again real soon.
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