Speaker 1: Celebrating American independence and like recognize the sacrifices to the
Speaker 1: people who made for us. Happy fourth or July fifty
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Speaker 2: ATO five, a fifty five KRCD talk station, A very
Speaker 2: happy Independence Day.
Speaker 3: Eve.
Speaker 2: Hope you got some nice plan set out for this celebration,
Speaker 2: and I hope you're celebrating the independence of our country.
Speaker 2: And I'm fully appreciative of the direction that seems to
Speaker 2: be going. But one of the great things we do
Speaker 2: have in our country are folks that willing to step
Speaker 2: up to the plate, engage in charity, help other people
Speaker 2: that are truly on life's margins. And you know, sometimes
Speaker 2: they have a religious mission behind that effort. Sometimes it's
Speaker 2: a simple altruism. But we've got a combination of both
Speaker 2: here in studio, Sam Jasper and Brian Ibol. You know,
Speaker 2: he's got to remember Brian, he's the original creator of
Speaker 2: and founder of a charity on the West Side called
Speaker 2: the Help Squad, And I will recommend you stop by
Speaker 2: the website The Help Squad Sincy with a y dot
Speaker 2: com and their Christian faith based mission five on one
Speaker 2: to three c helping struggling working families on the west Side. Brian,
Speaker 2: you've been on the and Sam both being on the
Speaker 2: program a few times, and I just want you to
Speaker 2: give my listeners a reminder about, first off, what you
Speaker 2: do and the type of services you offer, and we'll
Speaker 2: get an update on some of the great things you've
Speaker 2: been able to do for some folks who've gotten your assistance,
Speaker 2: and we'll talk about an upcoming fundraiser event we're going
Speaker 2: to be doing. So somebody take the floor and talk
Speaker 2: about you're the creator of it, You're behind it, Brian Ibold,
Speaker 2: What was the impetus behind starting this out and how
Speaker 2: many years you've been around now?
Speaker 1: So first of all, thanks for having us back out.
Speaker 1: Last time I was here, I was a little anxiety ridden,
Speaker 1: so I have broken my prozacts in half. This time
Speaker 1: I'm much calmer time, so thank you for having us back. So,
Speaker 1: first of all, we have been around about four years,
Speaker 1: so I retired from the police department in twenty twenty.
Speaker 1: We were established in twenty twenty one. But I think
Speaker 1: the first thing we need to do is just to
Speaker 1: figure out exactly what is the health squad, what do
Speaker 1: we do, and so just to give the listeners an idea.
Speaker 1: So the Help Squad is a Christian based to five
Speaker 1: oh one C three nonprofit organization and we assist financially
Speaker 1: struggling families focusing on single moms and dads on the
Speaker 1: west side of town. Only. It's just restricted to the.
Speaker 2: West side as a Bran Jivia Colerain Dell High in
Speaker 2: Green Townships.
Speaker 1: Yes, sir, that's the only side we can do. This
Speaker 1: is the west side right now. Our vision, of course,
Speaker 1: is to expand this everywhere. I have a Help Squad,
Speaker 1: nor would Help Squad, Blue Ash, Help Squad Westchester. But
Speaker 1: that's a vision and with the Lord's blessing, we'll get there.
Speaker 1: But not there just yet.
Speaker 2: No, I understand that. And I'm honestly, being a west
Speaker 2: Side born and raised a young person, I'm glad you're
Speaker 2: looking out for the folks on the west side. I'm
Speaker 2: not sure where the allocation of resources are, but I
Speaker 2: would imagine probably more heavily concentrated in the city or
Speaker 2: unless you're working with something like the United Way and
Speaker 2: dealing with the bureaucracy associated with that. So you're kind
Speaker 2: of a horse of a different color when it comes
Speaker 2: to charitable organizations.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, you know, one of the toughest things we
Speaker 1: deal with is the majority of the people that ask
Speaker 1: for our help they don't live in the four service areas.
Speaker 1: So that just goes to show you that there are
Speaker 1: plenty of areas that other people need help that we
Speaker 1: can't help. So if anybody on the east side, west side,
Speaker 1: or I'm sorry, east side and north side, south side,
Speaker 1: anywhere that want to step up and create a help
Speaker 1: squad in their neighborhood, give me a call, give you
Speaker 1: my number, or over the air. I don't care. But
Speaker 1: because we need, we need help, and we need our
Speaker 1: vision is to have this in every neighborhood, not just
Speaker 1: on the west side of town.
Speaker 2: And you can provide guidance to that newly started out organization,
Speaker 2: like what it's like to go from an inception to actually,
Speaker 2: we've already done the hard work, we're already established. So
Speaker 2: the template is there. Take on his challenge, get on
Speaker 2: the help out squad in your neighborhood. Wake up, let's
Speaker 2: do it all right. So services you offer for the
Speaker 2: people you serve so well, we do, okay.
Speaker 1: So you have a lot of nonprofits to do the basics,
Speaker 1: and they're great. The Food Clothing Shelter However, we take
Speaker 1: it to another step where we will assist people with
Speaker 1: utility shut offs. Let's say your water, your electric shot off,
Speaker 1: We'll turn it back on, or we'll prevent it from
Speaker 1: being shut off. Car repairs, that's a big one. I'll
Speaker 1: get somebody with a car repair. Can't afford it, We'll
Speaker 1: fix it. We've gifted cars. I bet we've given almost
Speaker 1: a dozen cars away to people in desperate need and
Speaker 1: dire need of transportation. We pay back rents to avoid eviction.
Speaker 1: Do you know have families we have prevented from being
Speaker 1: thrown on the street and because we save them from eviction?
Speaker 1: How many? Well, I mean just this year alone, what
Speaker 1: are we in half of this month, we're probably in
Speaker 1: I'd say forty families from eviction, no kids only the
Speaker 1: half of the year something like that might be more.
Speaker 1: And then if you take the families and help many kids,
Speaker 1: and what are with it? This is hundreds of people
Speaker 1: from being thrown on the street, is what we're going.
Speaker 1: So I don't see how like people are not calling us,
Speaker 1: like politicians people in charge and saying, hey, you have
Speaker 1: a great idea. How do we get involved? How do
Speaker 1: we help? Because you guys are doing it right. So
Speaker 1: my phones are here, I'm waiting for or to ring.
Speaker 1: Like I said, I'll give you my number if you
Speaker 1: want to go ahead and give it out. Go ahead, okay,
Speaker 1: if you want to do the Lord's work and you
Speaker 1: want to make a difference in the world, call this
Speaker 1: number five one three, six, seven eight eight nine eight six.
Speaker 1: It's my direct number. And we can together, we can
Speaker 1: do this and we can make this happen because we've
Speaker 1: all been told well, you can't do this and you
Speaker 1: can't do that, and it's always going to be like this.
Speaker 1: It doesn't have to be. And we're we're we're living
Speaker 1: proof of it.
Speaker 2: So and I you mentioned that you have gotten people cars.
Speaker 2: Obviously someone donates a car to you. Do you accept
Speaker 2: those contributions? I mean, film calls you up and say, hey,
Speaker 2: I got a car, runs fine, don't need it anymore,
Speaker 2: It's got one hundred thousand miles on it, but it
Speaker 2: runs great. I mean, will you pick that up or
Speaker 2: do you have a place where people drop that off?
Speaker 2: How do you work with that? Because you know, I'm
Speaker 2: thinking of like Saint Vincent de Paul. You know, they
Speaker 2: got trucks out there, they drive over to people's places,
Speaker 2: they get the furniture and they take it back and
Speaker 2: put it to the charitable cause.
Speaker 1: Do you operate on along a similar line, Yeah, so,
Speaker 1: answers real quick, I'll turn over to Sam. So yeah.
Speaker 1: So what we'll do is, so somebody wants to donate
Speaker 1: a car to us, we'll certainly take it, even if
Speaker 1: knees repair. So we have a company over in Green
Speaker 1: Township Broken Folds oil. Okay, they're on Bridge and the
Speaker 1: road right by Wardway Fuels. They give us ten thousand
Speaker 1: dollars a year. Matt Brogan gives us ten thousand dollars
Speaker 1: a year in free repairs. So if somebody wants to
Speaker 1: do he's a great he is a wonderful dude. If
Speaker 1: someone donates a car to us for you know, for free,
Speaker 1: or even if we buy a car for two grand,
Speaker 1: we take it there and get it fixed for free.
Speaker 1: For a two thousand dollars investment, we've just given somebody
Speaker 1: in dire need of transportation a very safe and dependable car.
Speaker 1: And we also usually pay the first three months of
Speaker 1: car insurance too to help the person out. So it's
Speaker 1: just really it's really good stuff, really good things. Man.
Speaker 2: Well, that's got to really make your day.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's very rewarding. Man.
Speaker 2: You help somebody keep their job, You help somebody keep
Speaker 2: a paycheck coming in, You help somebody that's able to
Speaker 2: continue to live on with their life. Yeah, that's cool.
Speaker 1: Let me just if I can just give you this
Speaker 1: real example. I don't want to turn over saying because
Speaker 1: I want Sam to talk about a couple of things.
Speaker 1: But so I've been here before talking about the humanity.
Speaker 1: Humanitarian part of this, like help people, help people, help people. Okay,
Speaker 1: I don't know if it resonates with some people. Some
Speaker 1: of it does, some it doesn't. So I'm going to
Speaker 1: turn you over to money. Now. This will resonate to
Speaker 1: people because it's money. Everybody wants this money, money, money, money.
Speaker 1: So if you have a single mother who is working
Speaker 1: every day, the mother of three works every day, makes
Speaker 1: ends me. And that's the people we help, the working poor. Right, Okay,
Speaker 1: I was raised by a single mother. I know how
Speaker 1: these women struggle. I see this, I saw it, and
Speaker 1: I see it today, this single mother struggling. Her car
Speaker 1: breaks down. Brian, it's five hundred dollars to repair it.
Speaker 1: Now you have five hundred dollars I have five hundred dollars.
Speaker 1: Even if I didn't, none of us had, We could
Speaker 1: find five hundred dollars. We have friends, family, they have
Speaker 1: five hundred dollars. These people don't. They don't have five
Speaker 1: hundred dollars. Their parents don't have five hours, their friends
Speaker 1: won't have five hundred dollars. They don't have a credit
Speaker 1: card to put five hundred dollars on it. They can't
Speaker 1: get the car fixed. Mom can't get the car fixed,
Speaker 1: she can't get to work. Can't get to work, you
Speaker 1: don't have a paycheck, don't have a paycheck, don't pay
Speaker 1: your rent, and guess what, you're evicted, right, You're evicted.
Speaker 1: So there's a stat In twenty eighteen, eighty three thousand
Speaker 1: dollars is spent on a mother with to at least
Speaker 1: two single or two children. Single mom with two children
Speaker 1: in twenty eighteen eighty three grand a year. So when
Speaker 1: this mom who now because you can't get her car fix,
Speaker 1: is fired or as loser job, now she's on government
Speaker 1: assistance for eighty three thousand dollars for the year. If
Speaker 1: we just would have invested the five hundred dollars, we've
Speaker 1: just saved eight two five hundred dollars on this family alone. Okay,
Speaker 1: so if you want to give us a million dollars,
Speaker 1: we could save the government twenty million fifty million. So
Speaker 1: this has to resonate with somebody, like somebody should be
Speaker 1: calling like, wait, these guys are onto something. Let's help.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And it's easy to do that. Your money is
Speaker 2: absolutely well spent. I've criticized some other major charitable organizations
Speaker 2: because of the massive overhead they have, the bureaucracy, the
Speaker 2: salaries that are paid, and that's certainly not the case
Speaker 2: with the Help Squad. So it's the help Squad. Since
Speaker 2: he with a Y dot org, can you throws some
Speaker 2: money their way and they will make the most of
Speaker 2: that money. And it's great illustration of the realities and
Speaker 2: the practical realities of the problem that these people you
Speaker 2: serve face. So let's help them keep their job, let's
Speaker 2: get their car running, let's help them with that back
Speaker 2: rent and get them back on their feet and so
Speaker 2: they can move forward. More. With Brian and Sam, we'll
Speaker 2: get some more stories and some other informations. It'll be
Speaker 2: Sam's turn to speak when we get back. Faus for
Speaker 2: a minute to be right back after these brief words.
Speaker 1: Fifty five car the talk station our iHeartRadio Music Festival.
Speaker 2: A nineteen thirty five KIRCD talk station from the Help
Speaker 2: Squad online at the Help Squad sincey with y dot
Speaker 2: com the Help Squad, since he dot Com, Sam Jasper
Speaker 2: and Brian Ibold. He's the founder of it and CREATI
Speaker 2: of it. He offered his phone number for anybody out
Speaker 2: there and beyond the West Side who's interested in opening
Speaker 2: their own chapter of the Help Squad to help people
Speaker 2: on life's margins in your community. You'd be happy to
Speaker 2: free to give MC call five one three six, seven,
Speaker 2: eight eight nine eighty six. Otherwise, get over to the
Speaker 2: website and learn about what they do. And you mentioned
Speaker 2: Brogan Folds the auto repair people, and what a wonderful
Speaker 2: thing donating ten thousand dollars worth of auto repairs to
Speaker 2: get those cars fixed for people to use. I imagine
Speaker 2: you're probably looking for some other community partners that can
Speaker 2: volunteer services along the same lines. Not necessarily an outright
Speaker 2: here's a check kind of thing, but hey, we do
Speaker 2: fill in the black, like carpentry projects or something. I
Speaker 2: know you've done some other projects like in people's home
Speaker 2: over the years as well, so.
Speaker 3: Right right, yeah, So we are looking for community partners
Speaker 3: like Matt Brogan at Brogan Foles. Such a great team
Speaker 3: out there, but we can't do this alone. We need
Speaker 3: community partners to step up. Whether it's auto repair, whether
Speaker 3: it's home repairs, whether it is also like AC units
Speaker 3: that's a big thing right now, air conditioning repair and
Speaker 3: heat and air those are all very important services. So
Speaker 3: anybody out there who owns a business who would be
Speaker 3: willing to donate services and their time for our families,
Speaker 3: that would be great. You could reach out to us
Speaker 3: through our website and just fill out the contact form.
Speaker 3: Brian just gave his phone number, so you can you
Speaker 3: could contact him directly website, yeah, or use the website
Speaker 3: probably the best option, and then we can reach back
Speaker 3: out to you. We would love to have you join
Speaker 3: our team, and we are trying to build that base,
Speaker 3: you know. And our volunteers have been so great, but
Speaker 3: a lot of our volunteers do still work, like I
Speaker 3: work full time and a lot of our volunteers do work,
Speaker 3: so we always need more volunteers to join the crew
Speaker 3: and that way we can you know, cover when people
Speaker 3: go on vacation and things like that and that really
Speaker 3: helps us so we can be efficient and effect helping
Speaker 3: people as quickly as possible.
Speaker 1: Oh that's great. Yeah, so I understand.
Speaker 2: I mean, you've got some awards to prove that you're
Speaker 2: the real deal too. So an extent, someone's like, what's
Speaker 2: the help Squad? Never heard of them helps Squad sinceiwwy
Speaker 2: dot com. But what about some you've gotten some recent
Speaker 2: acknowledgments and awards for the work that you're doing.
Speaker 3: We have Yeah, I mean, well, we certainly don't do this,
Speaker 3: you know, for the recognition, but you know, it is
Speaker 3: very nice when people step up and say, hey, we
Speaker 3: see what you're doing, We see the kind of impact
Speaker 3: that you're making in the community and the families that
Speaker 3: you're helping. We have an organization that is called Since
Speaker 3: He Serves, and they're associated with the Cincinnati Open and
Speaker 3: Fifth Third Bank that's coming this summer in August with
Speaker 3: the tennis tournament, and they are awarding the Help Squad
Speaker 3: a fifty three hundred dollars grant.
Speaker 1: All nice.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and they're recognizing our organization for the work that
Speaker 3: we've been doing. So Brian's gonna receive that award, and
Speaker 3: I think that's on August fourteenth, so we'll be recognized
Speaker 3: during that Cincinnati open event.
Speaker 2: Well that's great, you know, word of mouth and it's
Speaker 2: just one more vehicle to get the word out about
Speaker 2: the organization. More people will find out about it, and
Speaker 2: hopefully more people will volunteer services, goods, and of course
Speaker 2: their time and money to support your cause and for
Speaker 2: the purpose of growing it. I imagine limited resources. Mean,
Speaker 2: there's maybe these are there people that you have to
Speaker 2: say no to so they are vetted. But the people
Speaker 2: that are vetted and that are deserving of help and
Speaker 2: need it and it's legitimate. If we have the funding,
Speaker 2: of course we will help them. And what I like
Speaker 2: to report is that all our funds have been given
Speaker 2: It's through people. It's not government. We don't get grants,
Speaker 2: it's people just give us the money to help other people.
Speaker 2: It's amazing.
Speaker 1: What a concept, right, But if the four years we've
Speaker 1: been around we have never had to turn someone down
Speaker 1: because of lack of lack of funds, is that amazing
Speaker 1: That that's God's gift right there? Then yeah, I'll hear that.
Speaker 1: That's try that well.
Speaker 3: And then we also partner with other organizations like the
Speaker 3: Five to one three relief Bus and we also were
Speaker 3: just recognized for our work with them. So the Commissioners
Speaker 3: of Hamilton County presented us with the five to one
Speaker 3: to three Enhancement Award for the work that we did
Speaker 3: bringing the five to one three bus to our community
Speaker 3: helping to connect families to services. So that was very
Speaker 3: nice to be recognized in that way.
Speaker 2: Wonderful recognition. So I understand, at least in terms of fundraising,
Speaker 2: you have the annual golf fundraiser coming up. It's August sixteenth.
Speaker 2: Let me listen to some details about this, so may
Speaker 2: may very well want to play.
Speaker 3: Yeah, So our golf event is going to be at
Speaker 3: Pebble Creek Golf Course over in Coleraine Township, and it's Saturday,
Speaker 3: August sixteenth. It's a seven am registration, so it's an
Speaker 3: early one in eight am T time. We'll have some
Speaker 3: Continental breakfasts and we'll have lunch and our awards right
Speaker 3: after the golf. But we are looking for golfers. We
Speaker 3: have VIP packages or you can just register as a foursome.
Speaker 3: We need donations, sponsors, We need sponsors, yeah, so we
Speaker 3: need tea sponsors, all types of different sponsorships levels and
Speaker 3: those are on our website as well. You can get
Speaker 3: registered for golf on the website. You can make a donation,
Speaker 3: you can do sponsorship, you can sign up as a volunteer. Again,
Speaker 3: we need those volunteers and so we'd love to have
Speaker 3: you come out and join us. We also have Queen
Speaker 3: of Hearts going on. That's over at Bucketheads over on
Speaker 3: Harrison Avenue. It's Buckethead Sports Bar and Grill. They are
Speaker 3: such a great partner as well. We talk about the
Speaker 3: partnerships that we have, just venues like that giving us
Speaker 3: their time, their stay, aft and the venue to make
Speaker 3: all of this happen and raise money for our organization.
Speaker 3: So that Queen of Hearts is done. Every Wednesday, they
Speaker 3: do the drawing at five thirty. So if you want
Speaker 3: to go out and support the Help Squad and maybe
Speaker 3: take a chance on winning some money, that's a great
Speaker 3: place to go.
Speaker 1: So at at Bucketheads Bugeheads.
Speaker 2: Yeah, every Wednesday.
Speaker 3: At at it's three thirty to five thirty three five
Speaker 3: they sell the tickets and then they do the drawing
Speaker 3: by five thirty.
Speaker 2: All right, well I'll tell you what the Help Squad
Speaker 2: since I'm going to courage my listeners. Please please please
Speaker 2: consider don't any some time, consider being a sponsor for
Speaker 2: the golf event, consider a check, anything you can do
Speaker 2: to help out this wonderful mission. And you know, in
Speaker 2: helping them out, if you're inclined to have a Christian
Speaker 2: ideology or philosophy, you have an obligation as a Christian
Speaker 2: to fulfill the goals of the mission. Listen, that's what
Speaker 2: you're doing when you're helping out the help Squad. So
Speaker 2: thank you both for all that you do for the area,
Speaker 2: and I'll encourage my listeners to help you out and
Speaker 2: look forward to having you back on the program with
Speaker 2: some more uplifting information about the fine work that you're doing.
Speaker 3: Thanks Brian, thanks for having us out. And I just
Speaker 3: want to give a shout out to all of our
Speaker 3: friends and family who have supported us along the way.
Speaker 3: We certainly couldn't do this without the support of our
Speaker 3: and the love of our family and all of those
Speaker 3: people who have stepped up and then wanted to wish
Speaker 3: everybody a happy Fourth of July. Be safe out there.
Speaker 2: Amen to that too. Keep have a great weekend and
Speaker 2: a safe weekend, and keep up the great work. It's
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