Kentucky Hidden Wonders

How A Shelby County Ministry is Reshaping Veterans' Lives

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Some gaps are obvious once you’ve lived through them. Brady Wright, a combat Veteran turned ministry leader, describes the moment he realized why so many vets were cycling from hospital detox back to the street; there was no immediate bridge into stable, supportive housing. Together with event coordinator and fellow veteran Marla Kaiser, we walk through a three-step model that changes outcomes—clinical treatment with Fire Mission Ministries, six months of service-intensive transitional housing at the Veterans Village in Shelby County, and a guided transition into permanent homes.

You’ll hear how a small band of Vietnam veterans sparked the village with their own money and community grit, how Thursday dinners keep belonging alive, and why tiny homes become launchpads for benefits, healthcare, transportation, and credit repair. We unpack the meaning behind “Fire Mission,” a phrase borrowed from combat that now anchors a faith-forward, judgment-free approach: suppress the chaos—hunger, isolation, untreated PTSD, TBI, and addiction—so people can move again. The result is measurable: dozens of program graduates with many of them becoming homeowners within a year of completing the program, including one alumnus who now serves on the board.

If you care about veteran homelessness, addiction recovery, PTSD support, or community-led solutions, this story offers a blueprint. Want to help or refer a veteran? Visit firemissionministries.com and vroky.org, join a Thursday dinner, or follow VRO on Facebook for real-time needs and wins. If this conversation moved you, share it with a friend, leave a review, and subscribe so more people find pathways that work.

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SPEAKER_02:

Welcome to Kentucky Hidden Wonders. On today's episode, we have Brady Wright and Marla Kaiser with the Veterans Rural Outreach and Fire Mission Ministries. Thank you all for being with us. Yeah, thank you.

SPEAKER_03:

Absolutely.

SPEAKER_02:

I'd be excited to be here. So, first of all, um, Brady, let's start with you. Um, just tell a little bit about yourself and then um and then we'll go to Marla. But Brady, um, I know it's you are a veteran, but after that, I'm we would all love to know your background and maybe a little bit of how you got involved with the okay.

SPEAKER_03:

Yeah. Um so I was um, I'll do the quick synopsis. I was born in uh southern Indiana. Um I uh have a younger sister. Um during 9-11, I was in uh uh end of ninth grade, and I remember that happening. And so I felt like I needed to do something about it, and at the time I couldn't. And so when I got old enough to do something about it, I dropped out of school. I went and got my GD and enlisted in the army. Um it was a fairly quick process. Um, I went through basic training in uh 2007 and I was deployed to Iraq as a combat infantryman in December of 2007.

SPEAKER_02:

How old were you when you went to combat then?

SPEAKER_03:

Um I was 18. Wow. Or 19. Wow.

SPEAKER_02:

Wow, still.

SPEAKER_03:

So I turned I turned 19 in basic training. I turned 20 in Iraq and 21 in Iraq. So I spent three birthdays gone. Um, but um when I left, my wife was six and a half months pregnant. Um I got to come home when when my daughter was born um a month later for like two weeks, and then I went back to Iraq for a whole nother year. Um when I came home, my daughter was a year old. So it was a it was a crazy experience because um, you know, I was a young Christian, just deployed to, you know, the Middle East, where Christianity is not looked upon very well. Um, a new father, new husband. And so uh when I came, um, I got injured in Iraq, and when I came back, um, those injuries followed me, and I I had a lot of issues. So I they medically discharged me, and so I got out of the military on a med board. Um, but I went through, I struggled with um addiction through my injuries, but I had this mental side of things that I didn't know was there. And when the army sends you somewhere, they do really good at training you for war, but they don't train you to come home. And so when I came home, I had all of these hidden things, you know, that I didn't know were there. And so while I was rehabbing and taking my medication the way I was supposed to, it was covering up something deeper. So I went through addiction for um about a year. Um, and then I went decided to go through a Christian program um called Wheeler Mission Ministries. Um, it's in Indiana.

SPEAKER_02:

I know that program. I haven't heard Wheeler that mentioned Hebron.

SPEAKER_03:

Yeah, it's called Hebron.

SPEAKER_02:

Okay, yeah.

SPEAKER_03:

So I went through that. Um, I went through that and graduated. During that time, God called me to ministry. Um, when I graduated, we visited Colorado because my brother-in-law and sister-in-law were there. And when we went out there, I told my wife, I said, this is where I want to be. Like, we need to move here. And so we packed everything up in like two weeks and moved to Colorado on Thanksgiving. Like it was very quickly. Um, I got enrolled in Bible college. She got a job working at USAA. Um, we raised our kids in Colorado. Um, I graduated Nazarene Bible college in 2017 with a degree in ministry, um, counseling and social work. And I became an associate pastor at a Nazarene church. Um, I did that for a while, and then I became the director of children's ministry. I did that for about six months, and then I worked at the Springs Rescue Mission in Colorado Springs, which is an addiction recovery program for men. Um, I worked down there as a program manager. And then COVID happened, and we decided we wanted to change, we want to be closer to home. And so we moved back, uh, we moved to Kentucky. My wife got a job and she just graduated with her master's. And when we got here, we ended up in Shubbyville. Um, and I went to talk to my pastor and I told him, I said, you know, I feel like God's calling me to do something. I don't know what it is. And he's like, you should go see the, you know, go down to Veterans Royal Outreach and talk to them. And, you know, I was telling them I wanted to do something. And so I started volunteering at the VFW. I volunteered into Veterans Royal Outreach, and um, I got involved with helping veterans um in Colorado. I was doing it with the disabled American veterans with disability claims, and so I started that when I moved here, and it was kind of what I was focused on. And I started seeing the homeless side of veterans, and I quickly realized that there was this huge gap um that wasn't being filled, and that gap was housing, but immediate housing for addiction recovery. So the the Veterans World Outreach, it covers um transitional housing, service-intensive transitional housing for six months. But a lot of times the veterans come out of homelessness and they're struggling with addiction or uh mental health issues, and they need those clinical services first because they're not successful if they go skip step one and go to step two. And that's how fire mission was created. Um, you know, I kept going home and telling my wife, I'm like, we're missing a piece. Like the veterans are going into the hospital at the VA, they're getting detox, and then they're giving them a bus ticket and sticking them out on the street in Louisville, and they're going right back to where they started, and they're not ready to go to the VRO, and we're turning down all these veterans because they're not eligible. And I'm like, we should be that first step. Like, we need to cover that. And so um, you know, I felt like God was around the whole thing and he was just orchestrating all of this stuff in my life, and so we founded fire mission ministries in the middle of an election, um, presidential election. When we founded it, everyone told us, um, you know, it's gonna take a year or two, maybe three, before you get your nonprofit status, and it's gonna be this difficult road. And I was like, Well, we're just God, you know, we're going on faith on this, and so we did it, and we got our exempt status in 47 days.

SPEAKER_02:

Wow.

SPEAKER_03:

It was really quick. Um, and so I felt like God was behind that. And then our mission statement has the Holy Spirit in it, and you know, we're very unapologetic about, you know, we believe in Jesus and we believe Jesus is the way, the truth, and life. And so um, people would tell me, don't put that in your mission statement. Don't do that. And so you won't get donations, you won't make it like you need to change it. And I'm like, no, this is God's or God orchestrated this, this is his mission. I'm just fulfilling it. And um, so here we are now, and it's been a year and a half, and we have And you're the director? So I'm the president of I'm the president of Fire Mission Ministries. Um, as of now, um, we're working on some grants. Um, once those grants come through, then I will step down from the board and become the executive director of the Fire Mission Ministries program. Um right now I'm the president of Fire Mission and I'm the executive director of Veterans Royal Outreach.

SPEAKER_01:

Okay. So uh Bertie. I know that was long time. No, you're fine. Uh that was wonderful executive director and of VRO and president of Fire Mission Ministries. So, Marla, what is your what's your title? What's your responsibility? What's your role there?

SPEAKER_00:

I am the event coordinator for Fire Mission Ministries. Okay. Um I And Marla, can you talk a little?

SPEAKER_02:

What is that? What do what does Fire Mission Ministries do? Just in a nutshell.

SPEAKER_00:

We help veterans at this is the base. We help veterans when they're at their lowest. And it's, you know, as my story is not near as cool as Brady's and as, you know, intensive, but I am a veteran myself. And you know, I grew up here in Shelby County. I enlisted in the Army because I had a guy tell me I couldn't do it. So I did it anyway. Um and I went to Christian Academy of Louisville until I was a sophomore, and then I transferred back to Shelby County. Um, and I had a falling out with faith, um, a big one. And it's been many years since I felt any kind of closeness to a religion. Um, I've always struggled with it because I had it basically shoved down my throat, wasn't allowed to formulate my own opinion. So I've finally kind of gotten to the point that I've able to formulate my own opinion of my own opinions. And I've just felt this calling to really be a part of fire ministries and the veteran veterans' rule outreach. Um, it's been really important to me to give back to veterans in a way that helps them when they're at their lowest. So as the event coordinator, I help run the events where we're going to where we're looking for donations, where we're getting community um community outreach, um, trying to get our our name out there so people understand, you know, what we do and how we do it and how we really truly help veterans. Um it's I've just felt this calling. And so recently uh Brady and I have spoken, and I will be joining the Veterans Rule Outreach um at the beginning of the new year to help with running the programs for the transitional housing that we have.

SPEAKER_02:

Oh, con congratulations. That sounds good. And speaking of the transitional housing, one of you can, I mean, it's a hidden gym or a hidden wonder um in downtown Shelbyville. So um one of you talk about the transitional housing and and how it came to be. Where did the funding come from?

SPEAKER_00:

And it's amazing. So I don't know how it started. That's a good question for Brady. Um, I know that it is a hidden wonder. I had heard about it many, many years ago. Um, but it wasn't until I stumbled upon fire mission ministries at uh Shelby Christian Church, I legitimately stumbled upon them. Um, because I don't normally go to church. Um, my church is when I'm out in the middle of nature. That's when I feel the closest to God and to Jesus and all of those things. Um, that's where I feel the closest to him. But the six tiny homes, um, they're close here, they're on Bradshaw Street here in Shelby County. It's not far from where we're physically sitting right now. Um they house veterans for six months, um, get them through the we send them through the program where we help file help them file for housing vouchers, we help their disability claims, um, we get them to and from doctor's appointments, um, things like that. We basically give them that leg up. So that's, you know, what Brady talked about, that step two, we help get them to step three, which is permanent housing, um, to help them really set themselves up for success so that they don't fall back into homelessness at any point. Um, it's really important for us to give them the power to do this for themselves. So we just we're there with a helping hand, but they're the ones that are responsible for making these appointments and getting to these places. We just we're that helping hand that we help walk with them, just exactly like how Jesus walks with us. That's we walk with them.

SPEAKER_02:

Oh, that's that's amazing.

SPEAKER_01:

So, how did the where did the idea for the the transitional housing, where did that come from? How did it start?

SPEAKER_03:

Sure. So um in 2015, there were a group of Vietnam veterans, Dr. Carlin Pippen, Stanley Pfister, Bobby Pridmore, Robert Baker, Gerald, Jerry Caram, Gerald Seabrie. They were at the food pantry and they were just volunteering. And they realized that there was this need for veterans, and so they kind of all um got together over, you know, a couple of years and um decided that they wanted to do more than just give veterans food boxes or put them in a hotel for a night or pay for you know a utility bill. And I think that's how it started is they they started to see that veterans were in need of housing when they were coming to get the food boxes. And so they all got together and they put like$500 of their own money together. And um they came up with this idea to build a tiny home. Originally they were just gonna build like one or two, and then it, you know, it just quickly grew um into six, and then the spot where it was planted, um, the the property was being leased by the industrial foundation for like a dollar. They were leasing it to them, and then eventually um the building next to them, which used to be the old bar there on Bradshaw Street, um, that building was it was almost needed torn down. And so they they purchased that um and they were able to rehab that building and get it cleaned up, and that's the community center, what we call the veterans village. But those guys got together um and created that. And we lost um Robert Baker. He passed away during you know the the building of it. Um but the VRO got together with Awake Ministries actually because they didn't have their 501 uh C three three Cive One C3 C three. Sorry, it's for the line. I get it wrong every time I say it, so it was not piping in there. So they didn't have that, and so Awake Ministries decided that they want you know that they would partner with them and help them, and so they were able to bring in Crossroads Mission, and they were the project manager for it, and they helped fundraise um and build it together, and then in 2000 and um it was it was built in 2020, that's when they took their first veteran. Um, and then shortly after that, Awake Ministries um and the VRO separated because the VRO got their own nonprofit. That's kind of when everything took shape, I think, for the VRO. But those guys, they did this all on the backs of the community. The community supported them and all of this. I mean, um, there wasn't a lot of large grants, it was donations from you know, local churches and businesses and the people of Shelby County. And so, you know, I tell everyone all the time like this is Shelby County's gym. Like, um, you know, the community center is open to anyone that wants to use it. You don't have to be a veteran. Uh, we do dinners every Thursday night. Um, you're welcome to come down, even if you're not a veteran. If you want to come support veteran or you want to volunteer, you can come down there. Um, you know, if you would like to give to the veterans, um, you know, they're there, you can come down and visit them. Um, just come down, get a hold of me, um, set up an appointment, and we would love to get more of a community involved. But that's that's really how it started. Um, is just a bunch of veterans want to help other veterans.

SPEAKER_02:

That's amazing. So you mentioned a food pantry. Is that in the community center, I guess, that veterans can go to?

SPEAKER_03:

The the food pantry is actually the await the serenity center here.

SPEAKER_02:

Okay.

SPEAKER_03:

So we send our veterans down when they're when they have time to help volunteer down there. But the serenity center, um, you know, we get our food boxes for the veterans there every week. Really beneficial to us, especially during this time with uh the government shutdown. And um, you know, a lot of veterans um, you know, that come out of homelessness are, you know, they don't they don't have any income. And so SNAP benefits is really crucial to them. And so right now, like I just in the past two days, I have eight veterans that's called me that's like we're gonna run out of food this weekend. So that's what I'm working on right now is trying to make sure that these veterans have food for the next month because without us, they I don't know what they would do, to be honest. I mean, even even their pets, you know, a lot of them have service dogs, and so they use that to to help get dog food and stuff. And so I just went this morning and picked up a 50-pound bag of dog food and took it to a veteran because his dog hadn't eaten in two days.

SPEAKER_02:

Oh gosh. And that's sad for people. And I'm so glad you all are here in Shelby County and you're doing such great work. Marla, do you have uh what kind of events do you have coming up for maybe that the community could get involved with that to help or donate or anything on the horizon?

SPEAKER_00:

So right now, see we like I said, we have those dinners every Thursday night. Um we have a women's veterans event coming up. Um it's the second Tuesday of every month. Um, it's the next one's November the 11th. It's from 6:30 to about eight. Um, which is a sense of community. That's um the biggest thing we have coming. Those are the two biggest things that we have coming up right now. Um we are see the next, um, at least say up in the coming month. Um, but we are also preparing for Operation Veterans Santa. Uh that is a uh what we do is we look for 10 families generally in the surrounding counties in Shelby County and then the surrounding counties. Um, we look for 10 families where we raise money um to provide Christmas for them. We're looking for families that have kids that are generally 12 and under, um, makes it a little bit more enjoyable for Christmas, you know, and things like that. Although we'll today we're looking for veteran families just in general. Um, we have a gun rifle, gun raffle going on right now to help raise money for it. Um, you can find that say on our website.

SPEAKER_03:

If you go on um Fire Mission Ministry's Facebook, um it's posted on there. So it's actually um we're looking for 10 veteran families, veteran families or first responder families. Uh, it can be either um children under the age of 12, and it's for Shelby County, Spencer County, Bullock County, Jefferson County, and Nelson County. And so we'll sponsor two veteran families per county, um, and we'll provide them with Christmas. And last year we did it, and we covered so we partner with Warrior Rounds. It's a place out of an organization out of Tennessee, and Warrior Rounds goes and visits um veterans, um, and the veteran tells them their story and they write a song about it.

SPEAKER_02:

Oh, wow.

SPEAKER_03:

So it's a pretty different so they have a chapter here, and so we partner with them, and last year we did it, we raised almost five thousand dollars for uh three families, and one of the one of the families was the veteran was actually their their grandfather. He was like eighty years old, and he had COPD and agent orange issues, and his wife couldn't hardly breathe, and she was on oxygen, and you know, the the parents weren't around, and they had like um six grandkids that they were raising, they were all teenagers, and um, so it was just we we were able to get them everything that they you know asked for. And um the other families that we did were in Shelby County, and and it's just cool to see um, you know, because they like I talk to these veterans, and like I know right now, if you're a if you're a dad in general, like you, you know, Christmas time is stressful because you're like, I want to make sure that my children have stuff under the tree. And I talked to a veteran just the other day, and he was like, you know, I'm gonna be able to get my children a hoodie. You know, I got two daughters and a son, and they're each gonna get a hoodie for Christmas. And he's like, that's all I can do. And um, so I know it's a really stressful time for those veterans, and so we just wanna take away all that stress.

SPEAKER_00:

So if anyone knows of any veteran families, feel free to reach out on to us on our Facebook page. Um, we will get them. Say we'll add them to our to our list and um get them and help them for Christmas. You can also purchase the gun raffle tickets, uh, which does go to helping raise money. Um, but you also can feel free to just donate straight to Fire Mission Ministries or their veteran control outreach. And we will, as a sponsor, um, say especially for businesses, local businesses around here, we're looking for sponsorships. We'll add you to the trailer that we take around uh for Christmas. We have fire trucks, police cars, vehicles, trucks, and things like that. We show up and it's a big party to celebrate Christmas with these families to give them, you know, the ability to give their families Christmas presents.

SPEAKER_03:

Um Yeah, we have a box trailer. Um, it's like a eight by twelve. And so what we want to do is put all the sponsors on that trailer, you know. Yeah. Anyone that supports veterans and gotcha.

SPEAKER_02:

That's very, very neat. And I don't think we talked about it, we talked about it before the show started, but um how the name Fire Mission Ministries came about, people might be really, really interested in that.

SPEAKER_03:

So um w when we decided we were going to do a nonprofit, you know, me and my wife talked about like, well, what do what do we want to call it? And I wanted it to have some kind of meaning to veterans, like civilians, most of them have no idea what a fire mission is, but to veterans, especially you know, combat veterans, they know what fire mission is, what a fire mission is, and so um I think I was trying to create a logo and it just I was like, Well, I want a soldier in there and I want it like where they're being protected in a way, and then I s it just clicked and I was like, fire mission. And so in our mission statement, it kind of ties to that. So um a fire mission is when uh a combat soldier is penned down by the enemy, they're being um you know overran and they call in support from aircraft, artillery, mortars, um, and their quick reaction force, and they show up and help suppress the enemy so that they can continue to move forward on the battlefield. And so, just like in the military, Fire Mission wants to help suppress whatever a veteran is struggling with so that they continue to fight on and and move forward in life. And so, um, you know, I tell everyone that just because they don't look at veterans at their current situation, a lot of people will will see someone and say, Well, that guy's homeless, you know, and and and they're quick to make assumptions about them. But I can tell you, like, I've had veterans that come in and you're like, their beard's all grown out, their clothes are raggedy, they're covered in mud. You bring them in, you sh you know, give them a haircut, shave, put new clothes on them, you know, feed them, put them in a house for a week, and you could run into that same veteran, and that veteran could be running, you know, he could be the CEO of any company in town. Like so a lot of times is it just you know, the basics is it's hard to do anything when you're hungry. You know, you're surviving, right? You're trying to find food, water, shelter. So if you can cover those three things, then that takes off so I mean it helps with even like mental health issues, it it fixes those for the most part. Like it alleviates a lot of those symptoms. Um, physical issues, it alleviates a lot of those symptoms. Um even relationships, you know, um that they struggle with with family and things like that. You get them fed, you know, and put in a house and cleaned up, and and then they're able to start working on those relationships. So um, you know, all of that is I consider the enemy, right? So if we're able to suppress all of the things that the veteran everything that's attacking the veteran, then we can help the veteran overcome that. And fire mission is we do clinical treatment services, we want to cover that mental health, addiction, PTSD, um, military sexual trauma, um, traumatic brain injury, like those are our focuses. But we're also ministry and um, you know, we want to build a foundation in Christ for these veterans. We don't ask them to sign any kind of statement uh of faith, we don't ask them to get baptized, um, we don't even force them to go to church. We just tell them, hey, uh we're going to um help you, and all of our principles are gonna be biblical principles, and and we're gonna meet you right where you're at, just like Christ did. And so through that we do outreach, um, we do uh suicide awareness, PTSD, TBI and MST awareness. Um we help veterans with all their you know immediate needs, like the dog food today. Um, you know, last week it was a veteran that needed insurance. The week before that was a veteran that needed car battery, you know, Christmas.

SPEAKER_02:

We were able to help with all those things, I guess.

SPEAKER_03:

Yeah, we just amazing. We we have an amazing board, and the VRO does the same thing. Um, the VRO, um, so Veterans World Outreach does service intensive transitional housing, six-month program that helps veterans. Um, so there's step two, I tell everyone. And then fire mission ministries um does um clinical uh treatment services, um, case management outreach um and immediate support. And so we try and capture the veteran in the beginning. Um, a lot of times the veteran goes into the VA hospital in the emergency room, and they will send them up to um a separate floor called SARP and it's addiction recovery unit, and they can stay there for like four to six weeks. I mean, they can stay there longer if they need to, but on average it's four to six weeks, and then they try and send them out to one of the programs. And oftentimes these programs are transitional housing, and so it kind of just jumps from I'm a week, you know, I'm a month sober to I'm six months away from moving out on my own, and it just doesn't ever go well.

SPEAKER_02:

Well, I love that you've said you all help with the final getting them their own their own health. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00:

It's not see, it's not just a a stepping stone. This is something that we help them for all the future. See, in the veterans that have moved out of the tiny home village, they still come every Thursday. Um, they're still a huge part of the community that we can rely on that we can, you know, pull towards if we have veterans that are struggling with something because they have help in their peers. So it's something that's really helpful to us to talk to somebody that has gone through what you're going through. Um, so it's it's a really amazing, strong community that we're building.

SPEAKER_01:

Uh, we're coming up on time. Uh so kind of closing question, whoever wants to answer it, feel free. Uh, is there one shining success story? You can leave names out uh from someone who has gone through the transitional housing program, and you know, you've really been able to kind of watch them.

SPEAKER_03:

You want me to do it?

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah, I'll let you take this one. Flourish, you know, once they've gone through the program.

SPEAKER_03:

Sure. Um before I say that, I do want to say so. There's three steps in this. There's the step one, which is fire mission, um, step two, which is veterans for outreach. So you got clinical treatment, then you got transition transitional housing, and then you have um the permanent housing. And so fire mission and VRO have been doing the permanent together. Like we have an apartment here in town um that we do love subsidy for veterans, and we have a house that veterans rent through fire mission. And so we're trying to capture all three of that. So we have the veteran for like, you know, two years. So we ensure their success. Um, but with that success story, I would say one of the most successful um guys that I've worked with, um, he's actually on our board now. Um, he came to us, he was um, you know, recovering. Uh, he was homeless. Um, he had a lot of trouble with his health. And um, he was able to come through the um the tiny homes and you know, he was able to have get his surgeries done. We were able to help him get his VA disability, so he was getting income. Um, we were able to help him get his own car. We were able to help him find a job, and um we helped him with his finances, he helped fix his credit. Um, and he actually moved, so he was in the tiny homes and then he moved to our apartments for about eight months while he was uh finishing fixing his credit, and he just recently purchased his own home.

SPEAKER_01:

Wow. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03:

So we've had forty forty-seven veterans successfully complete the six-month program at the BRO. And we've had five over five veterans that I know of purchase their own home within a year of leaving our program. And we've had seven or eight vehicles that have been donated, and we just when people when someone donates a vehicle to us, we just make sure it's safe, we get it fixed up, and then we just donate it to the next veteran in line that needs it.

SPEAKER_02:

So you guys are doing such great work and we are so thankful you're in Chelsea County.

SPEAKER_01:

Absolutely. Um that is everything that we have. Do you have anything uh thing you want to add? How do people learn more? Uh what's the website address, social media, stuff like that?

SPEAKER_03:

So they can go to um www.fire mission ministries.com. Um and we're about to have a new website up here in the next month. Um and it's very interactive. It's got all it's gonna have all the resources on there um for everything that a veteran needs. And or you can go to www.vroky.org. Um that's where you'll find um there's application on there. If you know a veteran that's in need of um housing, you can go on there and fill out a pre application and that gets the process started. Um you can also follow us on Facebook um and Instagram for VRO and Facebook, but Facebook is really where you want to be. Um that's where all of our information goes out. So Okay.

SPEAKER_02:

Well thank you both. Yes, thank you for being here. Absolutely thank you for having us. We really appreciate Salu thing us to thank you for all you do. Yeah, just spread our word.

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