COUSIN CARL CHECKS IN THIS MORNING 5/4/26

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SPEAKER_03 0:00

As many of you know and love, my cousin Carl. He is joining us right now on the air. Good morning, Carl.

SPEAKER_02 0:07

Good morning, Liz. Good morning, Nick. Happy Monday. Thanks for having me on the show. How are you guys?

SPEAKER_03 0:12

We are good. We're good. We're celebrating seven years on Wednesday.

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Congratulations to uh a great team and continued success to you guys.

SPEAKER_03 0:21

Thank you. Yeah, we're having a big parte over at um where are we going to be, Nick? At the Voodoo Brewing Company.

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Right across from Daven Busters, Broadway at the beach, 5 30 to 7 30. Bring some stuff for moms. Get on our guest list, text me now. And win a free iPad from TC. That's right, HTC for Conway Ford. Big giant foray. Of course, it is the Conway Ford Allama Lodge party to help out moms.

SPEAKER_03 0:45

I love it. So um Cousin Carl has been very involved with the um the events of 9-11, the aftermath, first responder, and then Tunnel for Towers. And right now he's representing Tunnel to Towers uh Foundation. There's an an event coming up and it's uh traveling across the country. If you want to be part of it, now's the time to listen up to learn what it's about. All right, so what do you have? What is this Steel Across America? That's with two E's, by the way.

SPEAKER_02 1:16

That is correct. So uh the tunnel, the Stephen Siller, Tunnel to Towers Foundation is presenting the Steel Across America tour, which kicked off over the weekend in Staten Island, New York. Is a piece of Trade Center steel, a steel I-beam from the South Tower. That was the second tower to be hit on September 11, 2001, but the first one to collapse. And it's in the back of a truck and is going all across America. So it was in it was in uh Staten Island on Saturday. Today it's gonna be at the Michael Murphy Museum out in Long Island. Michael Murphy was a Navy SEAL. Oh, that's my old hometown.

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Yes, yeah, yes.

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And then uh the STEAL is uh gonna make its way south and then west, north, and then make its way back to New York on September 10th. And um I have the honor that I will be an ambassador on one leg of the tour. I'm waiting to just get confirmation. So I'm really honored to represent the foundation and to share the story of September 11th, the story of resilience and sacrifice.

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Mm-hmm.

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Now, this this event, um, you know, it's gonna be 25 years. Um 9-11 um happened. It's unbelievable. Twenty-five years has gone by and it's uh still so raw for so many people. Uh and we promise never to forget, and Tunnel to Towers is definitely you know heading up that charge. So when this piece of steel comes through town on the back of a truck, what exactly happens? Like how like what are the events surrounding that?

SPEAKER_02 2:56

Well, you know, it's it's very it's very interesting. I happen to be visiting some friends in Manhattan. I I thought the steel would be in Staten Island already for uh for Saturday's you know kickoff of the tour. And I happened to be in Manhattan as I made my way through the Brooklyn Battery Tunnel, Manhattan to Brooklyn, I saw a bunch of uh iron workers lined up with traffic vests. I was in front of, uh, which was just a few minutes behind me, the actual procession of the steel. So the steel which is is gonna be treated with full honors as it makes its way across the country. So it went through the Brooklyn Battery Tunnel, the reverse uh path of Steven Stiller on that day of September 11th and made its way. Yes, with a full escort from uh TBTA police, which you know watch over the Brooklyn Battery Tunnel and the NYPD. And there was an there will always be an official ceremony to welcome everybody to visit the steel, and the story will be told about that day. And uh I really encourage everyone that's listening. I have your terrific audience, spread the word. It's gonna be all over the country. I bet, and I would take this money to Vegas and bet it. I bet that there's people in your audience that have loved ones all over the country that will turn out to greet this part of American history, the worst attack uh on American soil.

SPEAKER_01 4:19

Yeah.

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And it's important, Liz. I know Nick gets it. I know you know a lot of your listeners get it. We must commemorate the sacrifice of that day.

SPEAKER_03 4:27

We have so many people here that are transplants that have been impacted by 9-11. I'm surprised it's not making a stop here. We're so um we have so many Persian Gulf uh veterans here, you know, people who joined the war because of 9-11. I mean, it is unbelievable. Like that should be coming here to Warbird Park. It should be coming here for sure. Um too bad it we're not on the list. What it where's the closest that it's gonna be?

SPEAKER_02 4:56

Hold on. I'm trying to I'm trying to go through my fact sheet over here. Uh I guess it's really, it's really I don't think any place is gonna be close to your great state. I mean, it's it's in Long Island and then it's coming to Atlanta, Georgia, and then going down to Florida.

SPEAKER_03 5:11

All right, Atlanta is not bad.

SPEAKER_02 5:14

Okay, so yeah, it's gonna be Atlanta to make its way down to Florida for a bit, and then uh two stops in Florida.

SPEAKER_03 5:20

Yeah, three, three stops. Oh, three, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, me oh man. I might be in the Sarasota area this weekend for Mother's Day, but it's not until the 19th. That's too bad.

SPEAKER_02 5:31

Um it's uh it's got a pretty it's got a pretty cool itinerary. It's gonna be in Florida, it's gonna be in Texas, Oklahoma, you know, Arizona and and uh and California. A lot of stops in California on the West Coast. That'd be uh that's a big state. And then Washington and Utah and uh South Dakota, Colorado, Missouri, Illinois.

SPEAKER_03 5:51

And it comes back to Brooklyn on September 11th, which is wow. Where do you think you'll be uh picked up at there um to speak?

SPEAKER_02 6:00

So fing so fingers crossed, uh most as as I'm told I just need confirmation, I most likely will be in Lando Lakes, Florida, and Sarasota.

SPEAKER_03 6:10

Okay.

SPEAKER_02 6:11

And possibly I will be in California and Simi Valley. So uh I'm kind of it's really it's really an honor. Uh I'm honored to to donate my time to the foundation. And you just meet incredible Americans anytime you do something for T2T. And I I don't want to say this, but I think I should say this. I think Frank has found a way to beat inflation through the kindness of of of Americans. I mean eleven dollars a month to donate.

SPEAKER_01 6:37

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 6:38

Uh he hasn't increased his his asking. Liz and Nick, so many people are so generous. Uh in addition to monies from from everyday people, they are now accepting vehicle and land donations. And uh but three weeks ago they just cut the ribbon for a veteran center in um Island Park, New York. So the generosity is coming in from everyday people, from people that have land that wish to donate, and these veteran villages where veterans are no longer going to be homeless to get the service they need. Uh, as of now, 17,000, 17,000 homeless vets have been removed from being homeless. They have a place to live. I mean, that's that's wonderful. Yeah. That's a great accomplishment.

SPEAKER_03 7:24

It sure is. And um, as you know, because you've been to the cafe, the veterans cafe and museum there, I mean, they made a tiny home village um and they have gotten over twenty people uh off the uh people, veterans, off the uh streets and being from being homeless. Many of them have um, you know, been able to regain footing and move on and make room for the next. So um I mean we're we're doing our own part over here in this little part of the world, uh, but it is a a problem that's very systemic and uh we're always very shocked on how veterans are treated. And uh we um I know we have amplified Scott Dilabon's voice on that, saying, you know, he wants to wipe out um veterans' homelessness in Ori County, and uh he's doing that work every single day. And that's all these little groups all around the world are all trying to do this very same thing.

SPEAKER_02 8:23

It's it's amazing this the the unification in the grassroots moment of just everyday people just you know rolling up their sleeves and lending a hand. And uh it will be a wonderful day, and I think I think that day will happen where none of our vets are uh are without a place to live and the services that they so rightly deserve. It's a great cause, and you know, all our line of duty families, police and fire that are sacrificing as well. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 8:50

And like I said, many of them signed up. I mean, so many people signed up to serve. Um in fact, where we're going, the voodoo brewing company, the owner Todd, told us his story that after he's from Jersey, and after 9-11, he and his brother both signed up to serve. That's right. He worked in reconnaissance and his brother served and got out and he made a career out of it. But it was because of 9-11 and being a young man growing up in New Jersey that he was like, uh yeah, we're signing up, and the brothers came home, all signed up, and now he lives here and he has the voodoo brewing company, and that's where we're having our event on Wednesday at 5 30. And then on the 29th of May, we're gonna be doing another talk lamelage with Conway Ford. We're gonna be doing uh a beautification project over at the Veterans Tiny Home Village. So we're gonna be beautifying it with plants and mulch with beach landscaping. So we're excited about um, you know, what what we can do here. But yeah, we have so much connection to all of that. So but thank you for bringing that. I mean, I wish I could I could see it. I did share on our page uh um the link to uh their Facebook for Tunnel to Tower so you can see that uh steel coming in on the truck. It's pretty impactful. A lot of great social media content on that that you can feel like you're you've seen it. Um, and also the list of all the uh places it's gonna be. Cousin Carl, thank you so much. Say hi to your mom and give her a kiss for me.

SPEAKER_02 10:16

I will, and thank you to you guys, your friends at Veterans Cafe, and my dear friends at at Hot Stacks on 17. Good people in Myrtle Beach.

SPEAKER_03 10:24

Very good, very good. All right, we'll talk to you soon.