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Speaker 1: It's seven nineteen now fifty five krsit talk station. I'm
Speaker 1: trying to make it a happy Thursday in studio. Brian
Speaker 1: Ibol from Help Squad wonderful charity to help Squad describe
Speaker 1: itself is a self described rather Christian faith collaborative helping
Speaker 1: struggling working families in West side neighborhoods Shitvy At, Colerain,
Speaker 1: Dell High and Green townships. So if you know someone
Speaker 1: who's in, you know, really struggling need and maybe a
Speaker 1: temporary situation, Brian Ibold is there to help, and he
Speaker 1: and his team are doing wonderful things. Brian, how long
Speaker 1: has it been since she's launched the Help Squad?
Speaker 4: So started in twenty twenty when I retire, So we're
Speaker 4: going about five years now, no kidding, Yeah, wow, I
Speaker 4: can't believe that much time has flown the Help Squad
Speaker 4: since he with a wide dot comms where you find
Speaker 4: them online.
Speaker 1: Give my listeners a couple of illustrations of what you've
Speaker 1: been able to do for folks of late, you know,
Speaker 1: the situation that led any given person to your doorstep
Speaker 1: and your lending support.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, I mean how much time we got you know.
Speaker 4: I mean we've turned on utilities for people that didn't
Speaker 4: have water and gas and elector. We've done that, and
Speaker 4: I when we do that weekly. We've we've fixed repaired
Speaker 4: cars for single moms that couldn't get to work. That
Speaker 4: happens quite often. Yeah, we've given I think this is
Speaker 4: the last time I've been on here, we've probably gifted
Speaker 4: four cars.
Speaker 3: I mean people will donate cars. That's wonderful.
Speaker 4: We take it to Broken Foles right behind Ward Way
Speaker 4: Fuels over there in the heart of Green Township and
Speaker 4: they fix the cars for free up to ten thousand
Speaker 4: dollars a year. That's what Matt Broken Foles does. So
Speaker 4: if you're a car fix go to Matt Brogan and
Speaker 4: Broken Foles because they give, I mean they give, They
Speaker 4: give ten grand. Now could you imagine if five other
Speaker 4: service stations in Green Township or Dala High if they
Speaker 4: gave ten grand to we even never spend a penny
Speaker 4: on fixing a car, and that would save us money
Speaker 4: to give to more people. See, that's our visions called
Speaker 4: out exactly. Come well, I'm easy to find in this.
Speaker 1: In this sixtent is more broadly because you've helped folks
Speaker 1: with you know, issues inside their homes. So like contractors, carpenters, electricians, plumbers,
Speaker 1: lotty dotty, everybody, we need everybody.
Speaker 3: This is we're not going to pull this.
Speaker 4: Off b ourselves, me, me, Sam Jasper and our crew
Speaker 4: or our board members aren' gonna be able to pull
Speaker 4: this off. We need everybody involved, you know, and that's
Speaker 4: our visions. Try to get the entire community together, and
Speaker 4: that's part of my job, and that's one of the
Speaker 4: reasons I was doing an interview with Channel five yesterday
Speaker 4: with Shari, and that's one of the reasons I'm here today.
Speaker 4: And we're gonna keep going until we get to the
Speaker 4: right person who wants to do something. You know, just real, quil,
Speaker 4: what we're talking about the city. You know, there are
Speaker 4: fifty two neighborhoods in the city. Do you know how
Speaker 4: many of those that the Help Squad covers?
Speaker 3: None?
Speaker 4: Do you think that there's anybody in these fifty two
Speaker 4: neighborhoods that need the same type of help that we
Speaker 4: give four places or four areas in Hamilton County?
Speaker 3: Of course there is. Yeah.
Speaker 4: So you know what would be a great idea, What
Speaker 4: about a meeting with the mayor? This is we give
Speaker 4: hope and we give healing to a city that really
Speaker 4: needs some right now. Could you imagine if we had
Speaker 4: to help Squad Ammondale, help Squad Evanston, to help Squad Madison,
Speaker 4: help Squad Westwood. There are people struggling. Do you know
Speaker 4: ever since we've had probably ten requestss the interview yesterday,
Speaker 4: they're all in the city. Like, we can't help the
Speaker 4: people in the city.
Speaker 1: You're limited in your ability because of limited funding, limited resources, manpower,
Speaker 1: if you want to call it that, right, So that's
Speaker 1: why you've chosen the West Side communities to focus on.
Speaker 1: That's where you're from, and you know there is need there.
Speaker 1: That's the other There's certainly need.
Speaker 4: There's need everywhere, don't get me wrong, but I'm certain
Speaker 4: there is need in these fifty two neighborshood neighborhoods, and
Speaker 4: just real quick, just just for the numbers here. So
Speaker 4: if you take a single mother and she has a
Speaker 4: let's say her car breaks down, it's a five hundred
Speaker 4: dollars car repair. What most people don't understand, these aren't
Speaker 4: the people smoking weeds, sitting on their rear end and
Speaker 4: playing Xbox all day. These are hard working Americans that
Speaker 4: are trying to survive. They're making ends meet, their single
Speaker 4: parents a lot or their families that are struggling. You know,
Speaker 4: I grew up with a single mom. I saw at
Speaker 4: firsthand how she struggled. Our lights were off at one time, Okay,
Speaker 4: so these people, So let's say she has a five
Speaker 4: hundred dollars car pant. She doesn't have the money to
Speaker 4: fix that, her friends don't have money to fix it,
Speaker 4: she don't Usually the people in this position don't have credit.
Speaker 4: They can't put it on a credit card, they don't
Speaker 4: have credit. So what happens is the mother who has
Speaker 4: this five hundred dollars car repair, can't get it fixed,
Speaker 4: can't get to work, doesn't make money, and gets evicted.
Speaker 4: And now she becomes homeless. And she's part of the statistic.
Speaker 4: Once she gets on this on government assistance, it's going
Speaker 4: to cost taxpayers tens of thousands of dollars. If you
Speaker 4: just would have gave me the five hundred dollars to
Speaker 4: pay her car payment, we wouldn't be dealing with any
Speaker 4: of this. It's a win win, win win for everybody.
Speaker 1: Well, I mean, you've just decided to describe what the
Speaker 1: original intent of social welfare programs was all about, to
Speaker 1: provide a temporary bridge to get you, to get you
Speaker 1: through the problems until you are capable of, you know,
Speaker 1: going back into the workforce and contributing to society.
Speaker 3: You're exactly right.
Speaker 1: Nobody can use the help squad as a permanent crutch.
Speaker 4: Absolutely not. And that's a perfect point to bring up.
Speaker 4: So we helped seventy three families last year in twenty
Speaker 4: twenty four, roughly fifty of those families had requested assistance
Speaker 4: with rent to avoid eviction, which ultimately leads to homelessness.
Speaker 4: My wife is a realer with hooting ridler. She tells me,
Speaker 4: you do not want an eviction on your record because
Speaker 4: nobody is going to ever again wants you to be
Speaker 4: in their in their house, uh, you know, a rent
Speaker 4: to you. So it's it's a it's a very big thing.
Speaker 4: You don't want the the eviction uh to go forward,
Speaker 4: you know. So we tried to prevent that. But out
Speaker 4: of the fifty families that we helped and we paid
Speaker 4: and we avoided eviction for them and we avoided the homelessness, uh,
Speaker 4: less than ten requested help again, meaning we filled that
Speaker 4: small financial gap to keep the fill that and to
Speaker 4: keep them moving forward with their regular lives, making ends
Speaker 4: meet and continuing forward. That's forty families. Man, do you
Speaker 4: know what that would have cost the tax pairs? So
Speaker 4: if you give it seriously, if let's just say, I'm
Speaker 4: just throwing to figure out, you give us a million dollars,
Speaker 4: we're gonna save you five million.
Speaker 3: Does that make sense? Like it does.
Speaker 4: I'm banging my head against car to wards like no
Speaker 4: one wants to listen to me. I've talked to some
Speaker 4: of the county commit I've tried to get down to
Speaker 4: the city hall. I don't know what it takes, you know,
Speaker 4: to get someone to listen to us.
Speaker 1: Well, I think you you vet those who are asking
Speaker 1: for the resource. We certainly do you, unlike most government
Speaker 1: programs who aren't interested in being accountable to the taxpayer dollar.
Speaker 1: Because they get these budgets and they have the money already,
Speaker 1: they don't have to be responsible, accountable for making sure
Speaker 1: it goes to those truly in need and worthy of
Speaker 1: it to get to pass this little hurdle, rather than
Speaker 1: just giving to someone who intends to stay on the program. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's what makes your program efficient, that's what makes it
Speaker 1: very successful, and I applaud your efforts in that regard.
Speaker 1: We'll bring Brian back because they've got a couple of
Speaker 1: events that you can help out with and help the organization.
Speaker 1: Of course, if you're out there, you're in the trade.
Speaker 1: You have your own automobile repair shop. You want to
Speaker 1: help out Brian and the help squad over on the
Speaker 1: West side. Of course, you're a resource that they would
Speaker 1: love having available and you'll help fulfill this wonderful mission
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Speaker 1: Seven thirty on a Thursday and a happy one to you,
Speaker 1: Ryan Eyebol from the Health Squad along with Sidekicked Westside
Speaker 1: Jim Kiefer, who's remaining quiet. He's not feeling real well
Speaker 1: today and that's why I asked my listeners to pray
Speaker 1: for Jim. He's in remission with his cancer, but he's
Speaker 1: struggling with some pain issues. So everyday occurrence and God
Speaker 1: bless each and every cam suffer out there. We got
Speaker 1: your back here in the morning show, Brian Ibold, you
Speaker 1: got your back for folks in need. You did a
Speaker 1: wonderful job explaining how how important your organization is and
Speaker 1: how important it is for us to help those folks
Speaker 1: get over those little speed bumps and likes so they
Speaker 1: don't end up permanently affixed with the social welfare system.
Speaker 1: So I applaud your efforts and thanks for all the
Speaker 1: Thanks to you for all the folks that you've helped
Speaker 1: out over the past five years the Help Squad. Since
Speaker 1: you with thewy dot com or you can get details
Speaker 1: on a couple of events that are coming up. Let's
Speaker 1: briefly dress first, the Help Squad Annual golf fundraiser taking
Speaker 1: place at Pebble Creek Golf Course, and Events Center that's
Speaker 1: coming up on August sixteenth, fast approaching. Are there still
Speaker 1: some slots available for that one?
Speaker 4: There are, there's a couple. There's some slots for golfers,
Speaker 4: and more importantly, there's some spots for some sponsorship opportunities.
Speaker 1: Sponsors.
Speaker 4: Yeah, check us out. You know, they got the website.
Speaker 4: We certainly could use to help with that. And just
Speaker 4: just to reitererate. You know, one hundred percent of every
Speaker 4: donation goes to wards helping people. I don't get paid,
Speaker 4: our board don't get paid. We're doing this for free,
Speaker 4: very important part. Yeah, you know, and that's what really
Speaker 4: really irks me. You know, like you think United Way,
Speaker 4: like all I'm going to have part of a paycheck
Speaker 4: go United Way. And they may do some wonderful things,
Speaker 4: but their overhead is massive.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean salaries that they pay.
Speaker 1: And you know, it's like you're lucky if you get
Speaker 1: what seventy five cents on the dollar that you donate
Speaker 1: to go actually for charitable work with you, it's one
Speaker 1: hundred percent. You're not taking anything out of the till.
Speaker 4: No, now you give me what one of those guys make,
Speaker 4: I'll change the entire landscape of the West.
Speaker 3: Side is a good one.
Speaker 1: Pride, I hold, all right, But you got something else
Speaker 1: going on with my friend Tom Brenneman, who's currently speaking
Speaker 1: on over at seven hundred. I don't want to have
Speaker 1: to give him promotion because I don't want listeners to
Speaker 1: turn off the radios. But Tom is an outstanding guy,
Speaker 1: I'll tell you, dude, and he's helping you out as well.
Speaker 4: He is so so on August twenty thirds, it's a Saturday,
Speaker 4: from nine am to eleven am, Tom is going to
Speaker 4: come out and speak at Bucketheads. That's my favorite place
Speaker 4: in the world to go. And he's coming to Bucketheads
Speaker 4: and we're gonna have coach Michelle from the UC baseball team.
Speaker 4: He's going to kind of host it, and then Tom's
Speaker 4: going to speak, and well that's cool, yeah, And I'll
Speaker 4: mc it a little bit. Maybe I'll write up some
Speaker 4: new material, some comedy stuff, maybe try to make some
Speaker 4: people laugh.
Speaker 3: Probably won't happen, but.
Speaker 1: Typical Westsiders he's got a running video sort of like
Speaker 1: web series. There you go, the Typical Westsiders, which is very,
Speaker 1: very funny. Brian's behind that effort, and you do record
Speaker 1: that at Bucketheads too.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah, we do a lot bucket you know.
Speaker 4: So, like I said, we started about five years ago
Speaker 4: with the help squad, and Tom Scott of the owner
Speaker 4: of Bucketheads, has just been man.
Speaker 3: He has been our number one supporter.
Speaker 4: It was our first fundraiser there, I think we made,
Speaker 4: you know, five hundred bucks and we were going to
Speaker 4: save the world with five hundred dollars, and you know,
Speaker 4: and just to see the advancement of the progress we've
Speaker 4: made in the last four and five years. You know,
Speaker 4: it started out, hey, let's help a few people here
Speaker 4: and there, and this is a corporation. This has become
Speaker 4: a forty hour work week, not for just myself, but
Speaker 4: even for Sam. You know, Sam's been on here many times.
Speaker 4: I'm fortunate I'm retired, yeah, you know, and I can
Speaker 4: put my thirty five forty hours in a week of
Speaker 4: doing this. Sam works for the full time job. Sam's
Speaker 4: doing like seventy hours a week, and so is Carrie.
Speaker 4: We have a carry went on our team. She works
Speaker 4: full time and she's doing this like eighty hours a week.
Speaker 4: I don't know, you know, So everybody's put in a
Speaker 4: lot of effort for others. You know that we're not
Speaker 4: getting anything out of this. Accept the reward and being
Speaker 4: the hands of feet of Jesus Christ. Well, and you know,
Speaker 4: isn't that important Because I've always said about my charity,
Speaker 4: it's okay for you to feel good personally for helping
Speaker 4: someone out. That's kind of the reward that you get
Speaker 4: from being charitable. You're fulfilling God's mission. If this, if
Speaker 4: you're a person of Christian faith or maybe other faiths,
Speaker 4: feel the same way. Helping out folks that are on
Speaker 4: life's margins get over their struggles, maybe encourage them to
Speaker 4: pursue the faith themselves. Considering where your charitable motivation came from,
Speaker 4: it's like prostlytizing. It's a foot in the door toward
Speaker 4: perhaps them getting some enlightenment.
Speaker 1: And I know that's part of your goal, Brian, and
Speaker 1: I think it's a laudable goal.
Speaker 3: I appreciate that. You know, I have.
Speaker 4: I have a few tattoos, and uh, if you know,
Speaker 4: people see with the tattoos, they immediately long hair and tattoos,
Speaker 4: they're become intimidated. But if if someone just take the few,
Speaker 4: well I do look a little odd. But if you
Speaker 4: took the time and just looked some of the tattoos,
Speaker 4: they're all Christian, you know, I know Christian tattoos. And
Speaker 4: it says here, and this is the one I always
Speaker 4: refer to the most, especially with the Help Squad stuff.
Speaker 4: It says, I am my brother's keeper. I didn't put
Speaker 4: that on my skin just as a joke. We are
Speaker 4: our brother's keeper. You how do I sleep at night
Speaker 4: sound knowing that they're a family h enchiviot with a
Speaker 4: single mom and three kids are sleeping on the floor.
Speaker 4: How do you do that? You know, I don't think
Speaker 4: you're human if you can do that. And that's the
Speaker 4: stuff we're doing every day, all day of the week.
Speaker 4: You know, that's what the Help Squad is. And it's
Speaker 4: just such a rewarding feeling and we're not going away.
Speaker 4: Someone's going to have to We're gonna have to get
Speaker 4: some sort of spot sponsorship from, you know, some big companies,
Speaker 4: because let me tell you something, the days of playing
Speaker 4: split the pot and raffle baskets, that's about over for us.
Speaker 4: Like it's time to either or get off the pot.
Speaker 4: I mean, something has to really, we're gonna need some
Speaker 4: big sponsors here coming up, or we're gonna have to
Speaker 4: figure out some other things.
Speaker 3: Well.
Speaker 1: On that happy note, I'll remind folks the Help Squad
Speaker 1: since you with the y dot com, there are all
Speaker 1: kinds of opportunities for you to help out. If you're
Speaker 1: in the trades, help out by dedicating some time for
Speaker 1: some folks, you know, fix up projects that they deal with.
Speaker 1: If you have a check in your hand, or you
Speaker 1: have an opportunity financially to donate, of course you can
Speaker 1: easily do that on the website as well. And maybe
Speaker 1: you have some just free time to help out in
Speaker 1: some way. I'm sure they'll accept your help. So volunteer work,
Speaker 1: cash contributions, sponsorships, whether it's maybe for the annual golf
Speaker 1: fundraiser or just being a sponsor of the Help Squad.
Speaker 1: Generally speaking, corporate sponsors are all welcome. And thanks to
Speaker 1: all those folks who have stepped up, which you have
Speaker 1: on your website, so like Broken Folds you mentioned, you
Speaker 1: got link to the buckettheads there and all these other
Speaker 1: organizations that have helped you out, And thanks to all
Speaker 1: of them for doing so. If only more people would
Speaker 1: step up, we'd have a lot fewer problems, right.
Speaker 3: We could change this. I guarantee it we could change it. Well.
Speaker 1: Keep up the great work, Brian, you've done wonderful work
Speaker 1: so far. And all to the team over at the
Speaker 1: help Squad, thank you very much. And Jim Keefer, I
Speaker 1: know you've been quiet today. It's good scene, real quiet. Sorry,
Speaker 1: good scene anyway.
Speaker 3: Man.
Speaker 1: Well you know, maybe we've got some prayers coming your
Speaker 1: way next time I see you have a big smile
Speaker 1: on your face, free of pain. Let's hope that's something
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