Bones Unfiltered Podcast : Special Needs Edition #8, featuring Ariel Hill

Join us this week for an inspiring conversation with Ariel , a registered nurse on her way to becoming a nurse practitioner.  She did her clinical hours at the Lee Specialty Clinic.  She is going to share her insights on this wonderful organization and we also dive into her personal life raising three wonderful children.

Transcript

SPEAKER_00 0:17

Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to today's episode of the Bones Unfiltered Podcast. This is the special needs edition, uh, number eight, I believe. And today I'm blessed to be uh to have the wonderful Ariel Hill, who she's got uh a unique story to tell about the Lee Specialty Clinic. So today is the first episode uh this week, and then next week we're also gonna have another uh individual on talking about their experience. I believe they are actually a family member that actually goes to the Lee Specialty Clinic. So the good thing about Miss Ariel here is she actually did clinical hours there, and we're gonna get into that. And she's gonna kind of give us a little bit of insight on what the Lee Specialty Clinic actually does, because as you all know, I'm quite was quite unaware of this clinic until just a few days ago. So, but before we get in with Miss Ariel and get her started and start uh grilling her about this awesome organization that really needs our help. Um, I do want to quickly add to the stage this this is the town hall rally flyer that is for the upcoming current um meeting that's gonna be held at the Annex building in our Capitol uh in Frankfurt, Kentucky, on July 17th at 1 p.m. Now, I unfortunately won't be able to attend that. I had prior engagements already set. However, for those of y'all that are gonna go out and protest on this, um, people are gonna go out to have their voices heard about various things. Now, at this specific town hall, I don't know if they're gonna get into um the Michelle P. Waiver. I don't know if they're gonna get into uh Medicaid cuts. I don't even know for sure if they're going to mention the Lease Specialty Clinic. However, I'm sure it's probably gonna come up. So without uh that being said, without further ado, I'd love to welcome Miss Ariel Hill to the stage. Ariel, welcome today.

SPEAKER_01 2:26

Hi, thanks for having me.

SPEAKER_00 2:28

Well, thank you for being on the show. And um, she like I say, everybody, this is gonna be a great show because this this really is a very important organization that needs our help. And this this young lady right here actually got to witness it. So um, so Ariel, but as we kind of get into getting you to the Lee Specialty Clinic, let's let's kind of fall back a little bit and let's kind of let's kind of talk about how you got into what prompted you and what brought you into the obviously she's got some scrubs on here, ladies and gentlemen. So she's she decided to become a nurse. So what prompted you to do that, Ariel? And when did that start?

SPEAKER_01 3:11

Oh uh well my nursing journey started. Um I got my um certified nursing assistant um certification uh when I was 19. Yeah, 19. So that's what started the whole thing, and that 36 now, so I guess we can do the math there a long time ago. Um but what prompted me to become a nurse, I originally wanted to teach history in high school, and I don't really know what happened. I just one day decided that I wanted to do more and be able to give back to the world a little bit. And when I just sat down and thought about it and talked to my mom about it, um I decided I I could do that by being a nurse.

SPEAKER_00 4:01

Excellent. Now, where did you uh where did you go to school to become a nurse? Because I believe you're from Campbellsburg, uh, Kentucky, correct?

SPEAKER_01 4:09

Yeah, yeah. I started with becoming a licensed practical nurse, and I did that through um an accelerated program at JCTC, and then I started to get my registered nurse through um midway college, but my mom passed away in the middle of that. And uh at that point, I just figured it was time to move back home. So I finished that degree through uh Galen there in Willis.

SPEAKER_00 4:35

Oh, okay, Galen. And yeah, they've got quite the reputation too. So now uh when you once you became a nurse, then um now where exactly did you start your your career in your nursing aspects? Was it at a hospital? Was it a nursing facility? What stuff where did you start?

SPEAKER_01 4:53

I started in the very beginning at um a long-term care facility in um Oldham County, the Richwood nursing home. Don't know if they're still called that now or not, but um, and then I worked at quite a few different long-term care facilities as an LPN until I got my RN. Once I did that, I st I started out at um Baptist in LaGrange.

SPEAKER_00 5:17

Oh, nice. Now, how did you like working out there?

SPEAKER_01 5:20

At Baptist? Oh, I loved it. It was it was a good good place to start. I think I was there five years, five and a half years, and then I've um transferred to uh the East Point Outpatient Surgical Center that's also owned by Baptist.

SPEAKER_00 5:35

Oh, yeah, yeah, that's the one out off of Owen Henry, isn't it? I think old Henry over by the off the gene. So yeah, that's uh that's a nice facility out there too. Now, what did you do when you went out there? Because a lot of things they do out there is to my knowledge, is like surgical stuff.

SPEAKER_01 5:52

Oh yeah. Um, I was uh packing nurse, so I'm the per I would um I'll recover all the surgery patients.

SPEAKER_00 6:00

Oh, nice, that's wonderful.

SPEAKER_01 6:02

And they do a lot of pain management out there too. Really, they have a great pain management uh team of doctors out there.

SPEAKER_00 6:09

Oh, I didn't know they did pain management out there.

SPEAKER_01 6:12

Yeah, it was that was probably one of my more uh favorite um experiences out there just because it was just so interesting seeing all the different injections they do and different procedures.

SPEAKER_00 6:23

Oh, nice. Now, did they do like um welcome, Miss Judy? Did they do the like spinal um what do they call that where they go in and they uh for people with back injuries where they go in and eject the spine and do the spinal ablasions and stuff like that, did they do that there?

SPEAKER_01 6:41

Yeah, they did um they they yeah, they do lots of epidurals um with steroid or without. They do um the ablasions, um, and they do it on all levels, you know, your cervical and your lumbar and your thoracic spine. Very, very interesting.

SPEAKER_00 6:56

That is cool. Now, did you when you were doing your nursing, you obviously had to do some clinical hours and in pediatrics. Uh would how did you how did you cope with that?

SPEAKER_01 7:06

I enjoyed it. Um, I actually wanted for a long time to be a labor and delivery nurse. So I I really enjoyed uh yeah, I enjoyed PEADs. Um I loved labor and delivery, and then I loved um psych. But um my pediatric rotation, um all of them, they were actually that there wasn't anything remarkable about it um to kind of scare me away from peeds. I just uh I think we did one rotation in NICU. Um, and you know, you saw some stuff in there that was sad, but nothing to to scare me away. Yeah, I loved working with kids.

SPEAKER_00 7:44

Did you really? Well, that's interesting, and that's good. That's very good. Now you you um let's see, was was it you and I talking to where you um oh man, I'm having a brain fart now. What we we were talking because we would mention something that you had done um in with with regards to your nursing, and I'm gonna have to circle back to it because now I'm just I just drew a blank. Um, but anyway, well, besides that, um obviously you eventually wanted to kind of get into uh pursuing your career to the higher level, which is nurse practitioner. And it's to my understanding, you've already done all the class, you're just kind of you're kind of ready to do all the final skill outs and that you know just kind of just kind of put the cherry on top of the of the ice cream uh and finish it off. Well, when are you projected to be done with that or do you know?

SPEAKER_01 8:38

I don't know. The um who I you have to apply to to take your boards. Um so I I applied two weeks ago and I'm waiting to hear back from that credentialing center to they have to email you back and give you uh permission to test. So I've heard from other classmates that that they've waited five to six weeks, four to five was the shortest amount of time. So I'm um I'm on the countdown now.

SPEAKER_00 9:03

Nice. Now do you have any do you have ideas what you want to do once you become a nurse practitioner? Are you gonna change things up or are you gonna stay where you're at?

SPEAKER_01 9:13

Uh well, I have already the I precepted, I shadowed at um a place down in DuPont called Hagen Healthcare and Psychiatry. And um I did two two rounds with them, and the psychiatrist there has actually um hired me contingent upon me passing my boards. So once I pass boards, fingers crossed, um, I get to start with him. Um, we're hoping August 17th.

SPEAKER_00 9:42

Oh, absolutely. Well, hell, that's perfect.

SPEAKER_01 9:45

Yeah, I love it there.

SPEAKER_00 9:47

Now, let me ask you what's what's going on in this photo here. Was this taken back during the whole like COVID time or what was what was going on with this uh this contraption here?

SPEAKER_01 10:00

That that that was a COVID photo. Um, if if they had COVID, we had to put those on. Um, and I cannot remember what those things are called now for the life of me. But oh my gosh, it's you when you took them off, it felt like you were coming out of a spa treatment, not a pleasant one either because oh, the humidity. Um just getting them on and tightening that was a whole whole thing.

SPEAKER_00 10:27

But yeah, I hadn't seen this version. I've seen the other ones that encapsulate and they've got the tube that kind of goes down to like a little a bat a pouch that went on your hip. Now, did you have that pouch? Was it just on your more on your backside where we can't see it in the photo? Or or uh was or is that what this was all about?

SPEAKER_01 10:45

That's what this was all about. We did have those pouches when it all began, but but then this kind of took over. I wish I could remember what those things were called, but they I think um don't quote me, I think they ran kind of like uh you know, on uh negative air pressure or whatever, you know, where you were just breathing in your own air because you had you can't see it, but that contraction around my face that shield has this plastic part that would go right around here, and you want to make sure everything is nice and tightly sealed so you weren't breathing in that air. Oh right.

SPEAKER_00 11:18

What a pain in the you know what.

SPEAKER_01 11:21

Oh, yeah, they were. Oh gosh. We did like them, lots of us comically would laugh because we like those better than than the the mask that we had to wear because at least you could see our faces, we said.

SPEAKER_00 11:33

Right. Well, that is true. Yeah, that is very true. At least you can see what somebody looks like. Exactly. Now, when uh obviously you ended up doing clinical hours at the Lee Specialty Clinic. Now, you you did mention that your school actually kind of turned you on to the Lee Specialty Clinic. Um, what do you mean by that? Like how how did they kind of know or or what did they have that was it kind of in cahoots with the uh Lee Specialty Clinic?

SPEAKER_01 12:04

Well, um when you do um your graduate program, um, and then you get ready for clinicals, you're technically supposed to find your own preceptors, you know, a nurse practitioner or psychiatrist that you shadow. And um for that particular term, I was out of time and out of luck, and I hadn't found anyone. So NKU, uh Northern Kentucky University has has this um agreement kind of thing that if you can't find your own, um, they'll find one for you. Now you might have to drive a little ways, but they'll find one for you. And they found the Lee Clinic. Um and that was the first I'd ever heard of it. So I yeah, and they apparently use Lee Clinic quite often. I know that um I pre-sept it with Jennifer Gordon, a nurse practitioner there, and she had multiple Northern Kentucky University students.

SPEAKER_00 12:58

No doubt. Now, how long did it take you? It took you a little while to drive. Would it take you about almost an hour?

SPEAKER_01 13:03

Almost an hour.

SPEAKER_00 13:05

Yeah, that was that's a pretty good haul back and forth. And you had to do that, what, five days a week?

SPEAKER_01 13:10

No, um, you had to have 125 hours there. So I there were some days, some weeks that I did four days. Um, most weeks I did three days there.

SPEAKER_00 13:22

Yeah, so that's still that's a lot of driving.

SPEAKER_01 13:24

It was. It was a lot of driving.

SPEAKER_00 13:26

Now, when they had you out, what did they what exactly did they have you do on your your clinical rounds while you were there each day?

SPEAKER_01 13:36

Uh well I didn't technically do do much. Um mostly what I did was observe and um do interviews with patients, but um it was it was difficult given the population, you know, so many are non-verbal. Um, so it was it was kind of difficult to have a really good interview with what you would imagine that you need to, you know, be a nurse practitioner. But um I I got to be in the room with patients when Jennifer would um do uh you know, check on them to see if they need med refills or medication adjustments, or you know, if they'd had something happen behavioral-wise, so she could talk to them and and their families and figure out you know, they needed something new or needed a different kind of adjustment. Um and then Jennifer and I would talk after each appointment was over and she would discuss, you know, like her her decision making and her rationale behind it, stuff like that. But um, I did that, you know, I got to see their dental department. Um, I got to see some of their therapy sessions, um, like with OTPT.

SPEAKER_00 14:50

And I heard their dental thing's really good, which you know, my my son's not he's not with them yet. Um, but obviously who knows in in the future that could be something that could happen. And of course, we're going through a a dental deal right now with him where I was a state retiree when when I retired from EMS, so I got a pension. Well, with him being handicapped, he's able to stay on my stuff. Well, eventually he, you know, he he became a Medicare recipient and then of course Medicaid. And so it's uh it got to the point where it was like we don't need all these extra insurance. It was more of a headache than it was anything because everybody wanted to pass the buck. It's like, well, uh no, I'm not paying for that. Uh send it to them, and then you send it to them, and they're like, Well, you know, I will pay that up, but only if they pay this. And it and it was just sometimes you can have too many irons in that fire, and it can make things kind of a headache. Um, but with him, like currently, he didn't need health care anymore, but he needed dental. Well, of course, at his work, it didn't they that was not on the same time with the um open enrollment. So we're in limbo kind of with him on what to do, and when they said that they deal with that, along with they to my understanding, the Lee Clinic does other things too, like like they pretty much coincide with a lot of these individual patients, uh specialty caregivers, whether it be, I guess, surgeons, uh uh, like you just mentioned, uh, dentistry, uh, all that stuff. It's like a one-stop shop where they kind of they kind of help control and run everything for that individual. And and I think that's what's so incredibly important about the the uh Lee specialty clinic. And here's just one of the this is what they look like when they were down there protesting. This was their yellow shirt. Um, and apparently it was a sea of yellow, uh, to my understanding, when they were down there. It was one of the largest turnouts I've heard that that they may have had down at the Capitol, that they had like four different rooms that they had they had the first main room, yeah, and four overflow rooms.

SPEAKER_01 17:05

When when I got there with um a current student um who's with NKU, uh, they only have two overflow rooms. It started, I think, at one, we got there at 1240. By 1256, there were four overflow rooms. We were we were just shocked. It was insane.

SPEAKER_00 17:24

That's and that's incredible. That's awesome. And here was here was the original flyer. Now, obviously, this one's outdated. This is uh I'm assuming this is probably what you're referring to when you went on June 24th. If you went to, unless they've had multiple ones, um, but obviously you can see it's a medical oversight advisory board meeting at that capital, and uh obviously it was a big deal because you know they're wanting to slash Medicaid benefits. Uh Michelle P. Waiver, to my understanding, is also something that's being threatened currently. Um and then, of course, just the livelihood and the existence of this actual um organization is um on the chopping block, which is you know scary because a lot of our adults, in my opinion, and I don't know, you you saw it because with the Lee Specialty Clinic, it's to my understanding, and you can correct me if I'm wrong, Ariel. Um, they definitely specified more with the adult handicap versus the children, which I thought was extraordinarily awesome because I think the adults, you know, obviously any child that anybody who's handicapped eventually is going to become a handicapped adult. I mean, that's just the lot the circle of life we all get at age. But I think a lot of times that's what the problem is, is the people that get swept under the rug or lost are the ones that are elder and they're handicapped. And the reason they get lost is because you know, maybe a lot of their family are starting to pass away, or maybe they just don't have anybody. Maybe the Lee Specialty Clinic is really the only salvation that those individuals may have. So for them to want to cut a program that vital, you you're you're taken away from somebody who cannot already really can't take care of their self and potentially taking everything that's important to them away. And and I just think that you know, in today's society, I think that our government can do a better job on cutting the mustard out of things that is not as important, but messing with Medicaid, messing with the handicap, um, these different programs is I just don't think is the way. Um what was your favorite thing that you saw that that they did out there on on the regular at the Lee clinic that you thoroughly enjoyed being a part of?

SPEAKER_01 20:00

I don't know if it's really a thing. I I thoroughly enjoyed it. They they had crisis meetings for patients that would be in crisis, and it was kind of like their last stop before something you know serious were to happen to um, you know, when other facilities might not want to have them as a patient anymore because of behaviors and stuff like that. Um I sat in on two or three of those um intervention meetings and they were spectacular. Um the whole team was there, therapy, dental, medical, psych, everyone. Um, and each of them got an opportunity to talk to the crisis patient. Um, but just seeing all those departments in one communicating with each other and the patient and whoever was representing the patient at the time, uh how sincerely they cared about that patient, any patient. But you know, in that setting, it it was just amazing because I've been in the hospital for interdisciplinary team meetings, and you know, I'm not trying to say anything mean, it's obvious that they cared, but it was a different level of of care. Does that make sense?

SPEAKER_00 21:23

Oh, yeah. I can I can see that it's kind of like your uh your hospice nurses, it takes a special kind of person to be able to do that job because that job is certainly not gonna be for everyone. Uh hence why I asked you about the pediatric things, too, is you know, same deal. I mean, pediatrics, some people can they they gravitate to it, they love it, and then other people could give two shits less if they had to deal with that, they just would prefer not to.

SPEAKER_02 21:53

Right.

SPEAKER_00 21:54

So, you know, like I in my career, one time I got lucky enough to deliver a baby and I Don't ever want to do it again. Never. Yeah. Never, ever, ever want to do that again. So I got that t-shirt, I got it put up, but I'm like, yeah, I'm good. You know, don't need to go down that road again. But that's just me. Now, some people would probably be like, dude, I would I could do this every day. Yeah. So, and that's the glorious thing about humans is that we're all so different, but we need everybody to be different because that's what makes this world go round, and that's what makes everything work. Now, uh, do you happen to know this lady in the picture next to this young man?

SPEAKER_01 22:38

Oh, what's her, but she's a nurse practitioner there also, um, on the medical side.

SPEAKER_00 22:44

Um, oh, she was.

SPEAKER_01 22:46

Yeah, I cannot remember her name right now. I'll I'll remember it at two o'clock tomorrow morning.

SPEAKER_00 22:50

But um oh, that's a story of my life too.

SPEAKER_01 22:52

You know, yeah, that's how it always goes. She she was very, very sweet. I liked her a lot. I wish I could remember her name though. Yeah, one of the nurse practitioners. Um, you know, Dr. Robinson, who does medical, and then um this little gal right here was uh that Dr. Robinson had two nurse practitioners that worked alongside her, and she was one of them.

SPEAKER_00 23:14

Not remember her name, but I'm terrible with names as well. So now faces I'm very good with. Yes, now this young man, I just love I I love the photo too because he's got his ACDC hat on, which I'm like, that's the shit. And he's got his little, I love his little tattoo, is just badass. I I'm just like his cool little cat right here. But I just thought it was a great photo, and I wasn't sure if you knew him or not, because you know, obviously you did clinicals, you weren't there forever, so you're not gonna know everybody, but um, but here's you know, just yet another photo of a lot of these ladies that were down there at that protest uh that were standing up for the rights of the individuals who can't stand for themselves. And I think it's just absolutely wonderful the amount of support that these that these people came out and like uh this young lady on the left of the picture here and the young man here with the headphones, you know. I have another photo of them floating around in here somewhere that um I was like, well, you know, I don't know if she's if he if he's a patient and she was like the mom or if she's one of the workers, or if they both work there, I don't know, but if I remember correctly, I believe he is a patient.

SPEAKER_01 24:24

I know she's his sister, and then the the lady in the middle of the photo, I believe is is his mom, if I remember correctly, but they are family. So they the mom and sister have um oh some kind of shop in Louisville. I cannot remember what it's called. It's it's um in that Lee Specialty Clinic group on Facebook, though they um they they posted a lot of their pictures, and their shop name is is them is who they posted through, like um the platform on Facebook that they posted through. And um, I know they do a lot of work with um special needs individuals because of that gentleman in the photo. Yeah, and and they spoke, uh both mom and sister spoke at that uh rally, and very, very inspiring. Um, right to your spies, they're very powerful words were spoken from both those ladies.

SPEAKER_00 25:19

No doubt. I bet that was the sight to behold. Now I I forget exactly where this is, so I should have asked this earlier, but we'll we'll digress. The the Lee Specialty Clinic, do you remember the location? It is it in PRP in in Louisville, Kentucky off Dixie Highway area.

SPEAKER_01 25:38

It's off Dixie, it's in Shively.

SPEAKER_00 25:40

So it's in Shively. Okay. Uh because I cannot believe that I never knew about this place. I can't believe it, especially having a handicapped son. You know, mine's 27 now. So I mean, it's not like that we're just now getting into this game. And it's like, how the hell did I not know about this awesome clinic? But never had never heard of it. I had I actually have some employees that I used to work with, um, obviously in the county days, Rick Roller, Amy Roller, they are all nurses that actually work for the Lee Specialty Clinic now. And um, and of course, you know, I'm I don't I doubt I could have them on a show because you you know how it is when you work at a business, a lot of times they don't want you. Um I know when I worked DMS, they didn't want anybody that wasn't brass talking to the media. And I was a sergeant and they really didn't even want me to do it. Like they wanted your upper enchalant to only be the ones to address the media. And I think a lot of businesses are that way. I guess they're afraid somebody's gonna say the wrong thing and and and do damage versus help. And uh, and that's one thing, you know, when I when I found out from a couple of my individuals, another lady I used to work with too, she I don't think she works there, but she definitely goes to support because she had a very bad mishap during the COVID era and she was comatosed for a while, um innovated and all that stuff. She she got really close to having a very unfavorable ending. And by the grace of God, she turned everything around. She's now expedited off everything. She finally is recently had been expedited even off the cannulas where she don't need to wear oxygen anymore. So she's been out there hardcore and heavy. She's the one that actually reached out to me, Katie O'Reilly, and was like, hey, you know, do you know, do you know about this Lee Clinic? I was like, uh are you going to Frankfurt? I think is what she asked for when you when you went. And I was like, I don't know what you're talking about. And I don't know how the hell I missed it, but apparently I live under a pretty good size rock because I did. But um, but anyhow, um I'm just so glad to talk to somebody that actually worked out there for a short time, even if it was clinical hours, you're still witnessing something really great. Now, was that more of a day program where you saw the same patient, like say Monday through Friday, or was it uh more of a scheduled thing to where it was like they came in like once a month or once a week or something like that? How did it work uh with the Lee Clinic out there in that regard?

SPEAKER_01 28:20

Typically um about once a month they would come in, um, unless something more you know acute was going on with them, and then she would you know have the want to have them follow up with her in a week, sometimes two weeks. So sometimes I saw the same patient. I can think of one patient in particular I saw four times. And the second week I was with her four times. Um yeah, typically once a month. Uh and Bingham Gardens, which is right next door to them, they uh Lee Clinic um is they service the Bingham Gardens um population as well. And they those clients there uh are required to be seen once a month.

SPEAKER_00 29:06

Now the Bingham Gardens, I don't think I'm familiar with that either. Now, do you know do you know anything about that? Can you elaborate a little bit on that?

SPEAKER_01 29:14

So what I I don't know a whole lot about it, but what I learned when I was shadowing Jennifer is it's um, I believe it's state-owned and operated, um, and it's basically uh residential um housing for um people, patients that go through that kind of crisis interventions. Um, and it's wards of the state, people that um you know have intellectual disabilities as well as other mental health um uh disorders, and have been deemed kind of you know just not safe to live on their own. So the state puts them in in this housing area, and Lee handles all of their uh medical and psych and dental and all that kind of stuff for them.

SPEAKER_00 30:01

Oh wow. So Lee, so Lee literally manages they they not only do met so you heard it right there, folks. They don't just do medical. It's not like they're just they're just doing a a treatment or here. I mean, the this clinic actually helps people who cannot run their life, run their life to where they're safe, where they're protected, where they're good. How could anybody want to cut anything from a program like that? What is just beyond me.

SPEAKER_01 30:27

Um the only one in the state like them. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 30:30

What's up, Scott? Chris, welcome. Miss Wolfson here. Just to take a quick second to say hi to everybody. Miss Judy was in first. Miss Judy's good to see you, honey. Uh, thank you all for tuning in. And uh this is Miss Ariel for those that are just coming in. Miss Ariel Hill is a registered nurse, uh fixing to be a nurse practitioner, and she had done some um clinical hours at the uh Lee Specialty Clinic here in Louisville, which is as if you are a local resident of Louisville or Kentuckyana area, you are quite aware that the Lee Specialty Clinic was on the chopping block due to all these budgetary cuts. Well, thankfully, by the grace of God, they were sanctioned to continue in existence through the next fiscal year, which would be in July of next year. So make no mistake, they won that battle uh on the 20, I think it was the 26th of June, 24th of June. They won that battle and got the extension, but we have not won the war. So please, please, please, please, anybody out there listening to this episode, check out the Lee Specialty Clinic. Um, and again, just to show for those who just walked in, boom, there it is, Friday, July 17th, 2026, 1 p.m. at the Frankfurt, Kentucky's actual Kentucky State Capitol Annex Building is where they're gonna have yet another uh uh rally in uh support of Medicaid cuts, Michelle P. Waiver cuts, uh, and of course this Lee Specialty Clinic. We do not want to see them go away. We don't want to see anything be even being trimmed off them. They are incredibly important, as you've heard Miss Ariel here speak. They do so much for our adult populace. And again, the adult populace are the ones that I don't know, I could be wrong, but I would think that cuts coming from people like that would probably happen first because they probably get more benefits if they don't have families and they don't live with people, and so they probably get a lot more. And sadly, those would probably be the ones that would get hit first, and those are the ones that don't need to be hit at all. So we're trying our best to raise awareness. And I've got Miss Ariel Hill here with me today, who has been very sweet to want to come on the show and talk. Um, super awesome lady, very easy to talk to. Um, and I'm so blessed to have her. So we're gonna continue on. Um, we're gonna kind of we'll we'll step a little bit away and we'll come back and forth, obviously, to the least specialty clinic because that's what's most important out of all this. Um, however, you know, Miss Ariel is pretty, she's pretty amazing woman as well. And the reason I say that is she is a she's a mother of uh three beautiful little kids. I mean, they are just absolutely and the one the the one on the right there uh definitely looks like mama. But they are they are a they are just adorable. But so here she is, a mom raising three youngins. Um she lives on a farm. If you could just hear the goat, you know, he just I just heard him make a noise. But um here she put herself through school, she became a you know, a nurse, LPN, then she became an a registered nurse. Yeah, I believe you got your BSN. Um and then she decided, hey, I'm gonna, I want to go and become a nurse practitioner, which in today's society now, nurse practitioners are very, very, very important. And the reason they are is I don't know why this is. Probably my guess is schooling, but uh apparently from what I've been told, if what I've heard is true, and again, this is just my opinionated statements, uh, do your own research. But apparently it's a lot harder for them to find doctors anymore because there's just not as many people wanting to go through all that to become a doctor. So nurse practitioners have really exploded because they've been very much needed. Um, so you know, even myself, my I my when my primary care doctor retired, I have a nurse practitioner now, and I love her. She's awesome. So I don't have any problems, and I don't feel like I get any lesser care than what I would get from a doctor using a nurse practitioner because we've got some pretty talented nurse practitioners in in in our state that I can at least speak for. So um, but she here she is raising raising young'uns and then going to school and trying to do trying to do all that on her own. So I t I definitely tip my hat to you. And uh, you know, I say they they live out on a farm because they do, and uh, as you can tell here, this was at a obviously this was at a fair. They were standing probably in front of the uh the tobacco stand there.

SPEAKER_01 35:36

Yep, state fair.

SPEAKER_00 35:38

Now, was that the Kentucky State Fair or was that a different one?

SPEAKER_01 35:41

Kentucky State Fair, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 35:43

That was the Kentucky, yep.

SPEAKER_01 35:44

We go every year.

SPEAKER_00 35:47

Well, and you used to be in it, did you not, years ago when you because if I'm not mistaken, you were also a member of the uh 4-H Club, correct?

SPEAKER_01 35:57

Uh no, no, my kids have joined 4-H. Um I I learned about 4-H when I when I was too old really to get into it, um, because I I took a stint and went to a private school for a few years, and they don't have 4-H at uh at that school. So when I came back to Henry County, I was a junior and I did um FFA, Future Farmers of America. Um, that's you know what?

SPEAKER_00 36:23

FFA. Yeah, yeah. That was the emblem I think I saw in one of your shirts.

SPEAKER_01 36:28

Oh, yeah, you probably did. I was um I was actually the secretary in the for the FFA um when I was in H. Oh really? So that's probably what you probably saw that.

SPEAKER_00 36:37

Yeah, yeah, I pr that's probably what I saw. And I thought I had a picture of you with uh with that shirt with the cow, but I guess I don't. I thought that was at the fair. Now this is these must be yours, I'm assuming.

SPEAKER_01 36:51

They were. Um that was a that was a few years ago, and um both of those boys have new owners now.

SPEAKER_00 37:00

Oh, nice. So do you all board horses as well? Is that what your dad does?

SPEAKER_01 37:05

No, no, he my dad does income taxes.

SPEAKER_00 37:08

Oh, your dad's the one that does the income taxes. Oh, nice. So he just does kind of little farming stuff, you know, stuff in regards to like taking care of of horses or uh she's got a goat, which I'm gonna show him here in a minute because apparently he headbutts everything. Yeah, I mean a laptop. And he looks like he would.

SPEAKER_01 37:32

We were having a disagreement while we were talking.

SPEAKER_00 37:39

So uh now how much property do you have, if you don't mind me asking?

SPEAKER_01 37:43

We have 20 acres.

SPEAKER_00 37:45

20. No, that's right. 20. I knew you had told me, but I was trying to remember off the top of my head. Now, this is a great photo, and this I couldn't remember if this was the same horse. No, was that this that wasn't the same horse that was on the left of the last picture, was it?

SPEAKER_01 38:00

No, that was a that was a different horse. Um he he was a Morgan horse and um very, very fun, fun horse. But as I started to get older and the kids, you know, might be interested in riding, mommy hope so. Um, he he was fun, but he was he was the kind of horse that he wanted he had a very fast walk and he didn't really like walking, he liked the trot. So he he really liked we call them hot when they're like that hot horses because they don't want to slow down. So I decided to sell him and look for something um you know more just slower in case my kids want to start learning how to ride.

SPEAKER_00 38:40

No, I feel you. I love his little his little diamond shape on the tip of his nose. I thought that was so cool. It's like a diamond inside of another diamond, it looks like white in the center, it's just almost grayish. I was like, wow, what a good, what a good looking horse.

SPEAKER_01 38:56

It was a fun, fun time.

SPEAKER_00 38:59

Now, how many horses did do you all have currently?

SPEAKER_01 39:03

We have two.

SPEAKER_00 39:04

So you have two. Now, what was the most that you've ever had at one time?

SPEAKER_01 39:08

Oh gosh. Um I would I would say I think it was six. I think we had six at one time. That was a little that was quite a number of years ago. Um my my dad, my mom had texted me. I was um out on a date or fishing or something with with a uh former boyfriend, and um, like I said, this was forever ago, and she texted me something like uh, well, your your dad came home with four baby horses. Like, what? So yeah, we know we had actually we had seven at one time because my my horse at the time had uh broken out of our fence and spent one night away with a stallion next door and she she got pregnant, so she had a baby, and then he brought home four babies.

SPEAKER_00 39:58

That wasn't her, was that wasn't her, was it?

SPEAKER_01 40:00

No, that wasn't her.

SPEAKER_00 40:01

No, this one has this very mischievous look on her face. Like she would have been uh she'd have been in some stuff. But I love the I love her face.

SPEAKER_01 40:10

She was she was very she was very much she did not like dogs, so and we have dogs, so we had to, we had to. I found her a new home too. We've had some bad luck with some horses, but yeah, she was very sweet, great with kids, did not like dogs at all, to the point where she was dangerous with dogs.

SPEAKER_00 40:33

Oh, no doubt. So she would she'd put it to him if she could get to them.

SPEAKER_01 40:37

She would. Uh absolutely, yes.

SPEAKER_00 40:40

That is so it's so funny. Especially when she's been around because you all got dogs. Now, this this horse here is beautiful too. Oh, yeah. Very beautiful. Just I love that light color, it's just so pretty.

SPEAKER_01 40:56

She she was. We um we ended up, she was a very good little trail horse. Um, anyone could ride her. So we know some people that have um, I think it's called the Jesse James Stables down there in Cave City. Um let's see. They made a trade on on her for a horse that I have right now. His name's Kermit, and I've had him for about three years now, and he's he's what the kids need. He's perfect for kids. He was a kid trail horse for the longest time.

SPEAKER_00 41:30

Oh, no doubt.

SPEAKER_01 41:32

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 41:32

Now my uncle, he he used to board horses. He had one that her name was sugar. She was a little bit bigger than a pony, but um, she was definitely kind of a runt, I would say. In in what you know, not she wasn't an actual pony, so she was just a little bit bigger than them. So I would imagine she was pretty runty, but she was really, really good with children. Uh like she was so gentle, it was unreal. Yeah, whereas some of the other ones that I would ride occasionally were there was there was one, it was kind of more like what you described. He didn't he didn't really have a slow gear, and I was like, dude, I need slow, man. Ain't no horseback riding. But he didn't want to go slow, he wanted to book. And I tell you what, if for those of you all that don't, like she knows because she she rides all the time, but but for somebody like me that that didn't ride all the time, I tell you what, it it's very interesting when you're on a horse because when they walk and when they trot, and then when they take flat off takeoff run, is it's it's almost like you're on a rocking chair when they run because it feels like you're it feels like you're just like it's so smooth, but they're so quick. It's like, oh my god, man. Really cool. Now, did you do any equestrian stuff where you actually did like show horses and you dressed up in the the little outfit and you you rode like you know, prim and proper and did the little jumps and all that good stuff? Did you do that?

SPEAKER_01 43:04

I wanted to. Um, that's how I started learning. I started learning to ride on Morgan horses and the people that um taught me did and still do a lot of horse shows. But at the time, I forget why I didn't do it. I can't remember. I think I was just really busy with high school because I was also one of those kids that was very focused on um making sure I took all the honors classes and all the AP courses, so I was extremely busy, a little nerdy. But um I did.

SPEAKER_00 43:33

There ain't nothing wrong with that.

SPEAKER_01 43:35

I my dad and I did um take a couple of our horses to um a couple of local horse shows um that the little county fairs throw here and there. Um and did like halter class and a couple of western rides with them and they they got a couple of ribbons from that.

SPEAKER_00 43:53

No, that's cool. Now, did you did you ever do any kind of barrel racing or anything like that?

SPEAKER_01 43:58

No. No, I I Wanted to, but I'll be honest, I started um riding when I was 16. I was born with a love of horses, but um I never got to start learning how to ride until I was about 16 years old. So kind of came in. No doubt.

SPEAKER_00 44:14

Yeah, that's a lot later than I thought. I figured you would have yeah, I figured you would have started, yeah, way sooner than that. So that's very interesting.

SPEAKER_01 44:22

Yeah, my mom was a single mom until she remarried uh to my stepdad. So um she was kind of like me, you know, you you do what you do for your for your kids, and you know, she took a lot of sacrifices to do the best she could with me. So yeah, I know uh horseback grinding lessons. I can't, I don't even know what they cost now, but back then I just know they were expensive, and uh she she was more artistic, so it was piano lessons.

SPEAKER_00 44:50

Oh, the hell ain't nothing wrong with that either.

SPEAKER_01 44:52

Yeah, my stepdad's a horse guy, so luckily um we both kind of strong armed her into the horse world.

SPEAKER_00 44:59

Now, the one one cool thing about Miss Ariel here, too, which uh some of you all may not know what this is, and I'm fortunate enough that we got the ability to understand what this was and to experience it with Brandon uh many moons ago. This was back when he was I don't even know what how old he would have been. I guess he'd have probably been five or six or something, I guess. But but anyhow, uh it Miss Ariel here was a part of uh a company that actually did hypotherapy. And for those of y'all that don't know what that is, that is therapy for handicapped individuals, um, or for uh anybody that's just being rehabbed, but it's rehabbing on a horse. So with our son Brandon, they actually would put him on the horse. Of course, he had to wear a protective helmet in case he were were to fall off. And of course, you had guides on you had a guy leading the rain, then you had the uh, I guess you would say it was the uh the individual that was the side sidewalk. So all right, so sidewalkers. Well, the sidewalkers are there to make sure that that you know, like in this situation, Brandon stayed on the horse, and it's not like they were moving fast, I mean they were walking at a snail's pace, but that apparently it was really good for him and with his disability because it helped to build core strength. Uh, I guess the movement of the horse caused, you know, with with your body, it caused him to have to engage those that that core to really maintain good posture on this horse. So it was a really fun and really interesting to watch. Now, kind of walk us through that. Like, how did you find that to do that? Was that part of clinical hours? How long did you do it? Uh, and what was your role when you did it?

SPEAKER_01 46:52

Well, um, when I did it, I sometimes I was the sidewalker and other times I would be the the leader. It just depended on um the owner and who she wanted where. And um but it was a it was a place called the Lucy Center, it's no longer open, but it was located in Shelby County, Kentucky. Um and I started that when I was 13. My my mom knew that I loved horses so much, and she found this place, and um uh mainly she found it thinking, okay, this would be a great start for her to you know get to know how much work it's gonna be to have a horse, you know, because I I clean stalls and I would go around and fill up all the large water troughs. Um and they had an assortment of animals too, goats, llamas, alpacas, you name it. But um really so I started there doing that, and then we found out that she also did those hypotherapy lessons for for uh children and adults with a handicap. Um so I I got I got started helping out with that. Um if I recall correctly, there was a camp. She had a she had a little horse camp, and then it just grew from there for me. I offered, I told her how interested I was in staying on and helping after that two-week camp was over. So I've I volunteered out there for I think two or three summers doing the hippotherapy. I loved it.

SPEAKER_00 48:20

Just want to take a quick second to say hi to Miss Val for joining in. And Miss Val says that uh to tell you hi and that she she loves your name.

SPEAKER_01 48:27

Oh, thank you.

SPEAKER_00 48:29

Miss Val is another one that like everybody in here. I've got I've got a certain uh eclectic group of individuals, both men and women, that are incredibly supportive of me. And I cannot I I can't say enough about all of the individuals that are currently in this room. And I know you may not be able to see the comments because I didn't really tell you how to bring it up, and you may not be messing with it to figure it out, but you can see it. Wolf said she said hi. Um Scott Brayley's in here. He's a guy that does a lot of music production now, used to be band management, but now he does productions. Chris Wells, uh, he's a guy from Echo TV. So if you don't know what that is, he uh he works for Echo TV, which is a religious-based television programming that puts out they put out different kinds of movies and stuff. I guess it's kind of like um your, you know, like uh, well, I don't want to say turning point USA, but turning point USA is a obviously it's they have a certain guideline. Now I'm not saying that that that's what they do because it's not, but it's religious based. So it's they do movies, they do TV series, stuff like that, but it's all religious based. And it's all I'm assuming I don't know where Echo TV actually distributes to everything at, to be honest with you. I have to uh I'll have to do dive into that, but anyway, Chris Chris is in here, and of course, Miss Judy, she's always very pivotal with watching everything, so uh, so I'm very blessed to have certain individuals, and there's a lot that tune in after the fact, so we're very lucky with that. But let's get back, uh, we can kind of get back to uh some more photos, but I just wanted to welcome everybody. Thanks, Chris. I appreciate that, brother. And he said to tell you hi, Miss Ariel.

SPEAKER_01 50:18

Oh, hi. I I tried to comment, but I have to join through YouTube, and I I'm not very tech savvy to a degree, so I don't I don't want to do that on the off chance that it kicks me off of here.

SPEAKER_00 50:29

Well, you're in good company because uh I'm not very tech savvy. You should have seen the shit show yesterday, and apparently I can't say the word starts with an R, and I'm old, so it's an inappropriate word, apparently, but it starts with a R. And um I said that word on TikTok, and then somebody came in the room and they're like, Bob, what's up? And I was like, Oh, I said the R word, and uh yeah, apparently I got banned for three three days. Oh god, I can't do lies. They said I'm hate speech. I was like, hate speech. I was talking about myself. I was like, I ain't hating on nobody, but apparently, you know, apparently you can say the F word and you could say all sorts of derogatory crap, but you can't say that word no more, even though that word back when I was a kid was actually a diagnosis.

SPEAKER_01 51:21

But no, no, I got banned on Facebook once for um telling uh an aunt that uh she she posted a picture of some cute dog or something at the Humane Society, and I I said, Don't worry, we can hire someone to to kidnap my dad so he doesn't get mad about it later. And Facebook Facebook banned me. I got Facebook jail for like I don't I think it was a week, honestly, because I was talking about kidnapping someone. I thought, oh my gosh, that was totally a joke. Like you know, no.

SPEAKER_00 51:51

Now, every now and again you'll hear a noise on Ariel's End, and that's uh that's probably this guy right here. Yes, apparently this guy, she's bad. She uh she apparently likes to headbutt a lot of shit, and apparently she she she gets into a lot very mischievous. Now, what's her name?

SPEAKER_01 52:11

Her name is Daphne.

SPEAKER_00 52:13

Daphne, that's a great name. I love that name.

SPEAKER_01 52:17

She's finally going to sleep in front of me. I think the heat's gotten to her.

SPEAKER_00 52:22

She's done being bad for now, for the for this five minutes.

SPEAKER_01 52:26

For this five minutes, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 52:29

You definitely got a lot going on at your house, I have to say, because she's also got looks, it looks to me like, and now I don't know if you still got this uh this little guy here.

SPEAKER_01 52:41

Oh yeah. No, she's she's gonna be 13 in September.

SPEAKER_00 52:45

Yep. Oh, I've got to know when he's 13 now, he'll be 14. Now, obviously, she's got husky in her.

SPEAKER_01 52:54

Husky blue healer, and blue.

SPEAKER_00 52:56

I was gonna say, and it looks like blue healer with the top part of the face.

SPEAKER_01 53:00

Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 53:01

So I had a blue healer back in the day, but uh man, what a I mean, she's so beautiful. What a what a pretty pretty dog.

SPEAKER_01 53:09

The energy on that, but the fur. Oh gosh.

SPEAKER_00 53:12

Oh my god. I you you mop up a dog every day.

SPEAKER_01 53:16

I brushed out a whole litter of puppies from her last night. I guarantee it.

SPEAKER_00 53:22

I guarantee you did.

SPEAKER_01 53:26

Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_00 53:28

I know. I definitely can, I definitely know that feeling because my dogs, I got well, I got a German shepherd. The mom was German, full-blooded German shepherd, the dad was full-blooded cattle dog. So she looks like a puppy German shepherd, but she's really not. She's full blood, she's full grown, she's just cattle dog size. But uh, but here's another shot of of of the pup when she was little. Um her eyes and just the just the the design on her face is just so cool. And of course, you know, you the perky ears that stand up like like radar dishes. I mean, you gotta love it. It's a girl, but she almost blends in with the with the kind with the snow and the and the leaves.

SPEAKER_01 54:15

She does, doesn't she?

SPEAKER_00 54:17

I mean, she's almost almost camoed up. Very, very pretty dog, though. Very, very pretty.

SPEAKER_01 54:23

She's a good girl.

SPEAKER_00 54:25

And getting up there in the age, which that sucks. You know, nobody wants nobody wants to see that. You know, and then you know, just to brag on their her little ones. Now she's got one. She's got one child that you know uh that has really bad ADHD. Uh, what do you mind saying which one or do you not want to? If you don't want to, don't do it.

SPEAKER_01 54:47

But oh no, it's it's it's my my son Aiden, he has ADHD, and he it's finally um pretty well under control now, but it took a couple of years of a lot of medication adjustments. Um you know, we've had to struggle with the the schools a little bit and and getting them to be patient and um allowed him, you know, to be able to stand at his desk sometimes and you know kind of rock back and forth a little bit, just you know, and I I mean even neurotypical people, you know, kids can't sit still for very long. So I yeah, I mean I have ADHD and and I find myself moving around in my seat and tapping my foot. So to be a kid and have to sit for eight hours at a desk constantly, it's just now that ain't gonna happen. That's too much.

SPEAKER_00 55:40

Well, and I'm I'm like you. I've I don't I don't sit still. I hell I can't even I have to move when I'm trying to go to sleep. I'll sit there and I'll it's almost like I'm rocking myself. I'm like Jimmy Chris, I'm such a weirdo. It's like god dang man, you know, unbelievable. So I probably I probably got it too, but just uh back back when I was a kid, they didn't give a shit. No, they didn't care if you had that or not. Here's another shot of the kiddos. I thought this was a really cute photo because with their little bows and their hair and stuff and matching outfits.

SPEAKER_01 56:17

Yeah, that was back in March.

SPEAKER_00 56:20

Well, you got a good looking family, that's for sure.

SPEAKER_01 56:23

Thank you. There goes that.

SPEAKER_00 56:27

Oh, there he is. That sounds like my neighbors behind me. I'm like, oh yeah.

SPEAKER_01 56:32

That rooster is his name is Redford.

SPEAKER_00 56:34

Redford.

SPEAKER_01 56:35

Named after the Robert Redford, yep.

SPEAKER_00 56:38

And he'll he'll cockadoodle do all damn day, won't he?

SPEAKER_01 56:42

Yes, he will. Yes.

SPEAKER_00 56:45

I found a um I did find a really cool, I found a cool photo of that you had, and obviously you uh it is cool. I mean, without a doubt. Um when I bring this up, you're gonna know. You had quite a few of these, so obviously you're quite passionate. I just thought this was a killer, killer photo. Oh that is so that turned out, and you had not only did she have this one, she had I don't even know how many were on there when I was stalking your site. You had so many. Uh uh and this is called what what what is this called again?

SPEAKER_01 57:25

It's called the um Aurora Borealis.

SPEAKER_00 57:28

Yes, thank you. I could not remember to save my life. Such a cool photo. Now, how did you take that? What did you take it with?

SPEAKER_01 57:37

Oh, that was my phone. Um, and it took a long time to figure you had to um oh there's a there's a button that you push to maybe I think it's the raw. There's like a is it raw RAW button on uh I have an iPhone, um and then you had to like there's a contrast thing, exposure. It was an exposure type of button, and it's not you're not really editing it, but it's allowing that camera when because it's dark outside to capture as much of the original color of those lights as you as it can.

SPEAKER_00 58:13

I guess it's like time lapse. Did it take a while to do it?

SPEAKER_01 58:16

Yes, thank you. See, so time lapse, not tech savvy at all here.

SPEAKER_00 58:20

Well, see, two mine, two mines. We're able to we're able to figure that out. See, two mines are better than one, so it's good.

SPEAKER_01 58:27

It was time lapse.

SPEAKER_00 58:28

So yeah, I can't believe you did that with your phone though. Like that turned out real and all of them turned out really good. Like I was like, damn, I don't even know which one I like better. Like I was looking at it and I was just like, that is just so damn cool.

SPEAKER_01 58:40

You know, it was it was gorgeous.

SPEAKER_00 58:42

And you know, like a lot of people think like our sun, you know, they're like, you know, if you ask people what color is our sun, they're gonna be like yellow or orange, and it's like, no, it's white. And they're like, what? And it's like, yeah, it's with the sun, is it's not yellow, it's not orange, it's white. But the color you see in the sky is just due to all of the atmospheric stuff, like dust, pollutants, and all that different stuff. And I'm sure that I don't know for sure, but I would assume that that maybe plays a little bit of a row uh a role with the way this is. But the what you captured there was just absolutely amazing. I just thought that was so damn cool.

SPEAKER_01 59:23

I just wow, my dad got to see them in Iceland once.

SPEAKER_00 59:27

And uh, I bet that was awesome.

SPEAKER_01 59:30

Oh, he well, that the tour he went on, it was of course at night, and they told people if you if you want to try and capture it, you you want to take a video for sure. And it was the breathtaking. He said the video was breathtaking to someone like me. He said, But to just see it in person, he said the video just didn't do it justice.

SPEAKER_00 59:48

But as the video was spectacular. Well, that was that turned out what you did. When I saw those, I was like, I know it really doesn't have anything to do with what we're talking about, but I gotta talk about this because that's just it was just so damn cool. But you know, but where's where you where you live at, you're you're out on 26, 20, or 20 acres. You're you're out far enough to where when it gets dark, it's dark. Whereas in the city, when it gets dark, you walk outside and you're like, with all the damn lights everywhere, it it really never feels dark, and you really don't ever really get to appreciate, in my opinion, the the stars because you cannot see them near like what you can at your house, um, because you just don't have all that city background lighting to just wash everything out, you know. But uh, but yeah, that I just had to bring that up. I I saw that, I was like, man, that is so cool. And um, you know, just to throw up now now this picture, uh this picture was just comical. So I figured there was probably a pretty good story behind behind that. Where were you and what was going on in this prehistoric egg?

SPEAKER_01 1:01:07

I have fool for that egg. Uh have you heard of Dino or Jurassic Quest? That's what it's called.

SPEAKER_00 1:01:13

Uh no, I haven't heard it. Where's that? Is that is that that thing that's out near like Cave, uh uh what is it, Cave City?

SPEAKER_01 1:01:20

Uh no, that I is that Dino World?

SPEAKER_00 1:01:24

Maybe that's Dino. I've never even been there either.

SPEAKER_01 1:01:27

Jurassic Quest, um, it's like a traveling kind of um show. I guess you could call it a show, but that like uh there it's going on right now, I think in Lexington or Cincinnati. But this we caught this in Louisville, and they they have I forget how many, at least 50 life-size dinosaurs on display that you can see. And then they have um on like um a robotic one too, that uh like a lady will come around carrying this um baby T-Rex and and it's its neck moves and stuff, and you can head it and kind of feel what their skin would have felt like. And uh then they have uh rhymon ones that are that are just hilarious, um different levels, and you could you can have a T-Rex, you can have like a Bronosaurus, and they move around and it's kind of like a theme park, right? Really, but uh that's the neatest thing. And they and then they have another area, it's the same exhibit, um, with uh like a Jurassic type of um uh well fish, you know, sea creatures, and it um like they had a megalodon, and it was really cool.

SPEAKER_00 1:02:34

Oh no doubt.

SPEAKER_01 1:02:35

Yeah, it was a neat thing to go see, yeah. Now that's a bunch of bouncy houses too, which not my favorite thing. Takes forever to get those kids out of those things.

SPEAKER_00 1:02:44

But oh my gosh. Yeah, I can only fathom. Yeah, luckily, luckily, mine never I don't know if we ever even did a bouncy house, but now mine are old enough to drink, so I don't have to worry about it. Now we're in a bouncy house, we're in for different reasons. Yep, yeah, it's so true. But um, but yeah, that's uh I just had to show some of them photos and then uh you know, and again, you know, uh of just a few more photos for people to since we were talking about the Lee Clinic earlier. I mean, you know, here's just another collage of of different pictures that people had posted, and you could see it's kind of hard to tell, obviously, in this photo, but you can see that that you know there's several different rooms. There's uh there's a lot of yellow shirts, and apparently that didn't even do it justice. Um, with the amount of people that actually turned out for that. So I think it's just it's it's wonderful that we have that many people that want to kind of help our special needs community out.

SPEAKER_01 1:03:48

If I recall correctly, I think it was a patient's mom and dad that had all of those yellow shirts made. I forget how many shirts that I I knew the number that day, but they had them made and they gave them away because um because I I wanted I wanted one, so I asked her. I didn't have any cash though because I didn't think they'd be doing stuff like that. I said, Do you have Venmo? And she said, Oh, we're giving these away for free. Oh wow, they had all those shirts made, and it was in like the hundreds, it must have been several hundred shirts, and um yeah, giving them away for free just so they could help the word out. Yeah, I thought that was pretty awesome.

SPEAKER_00 1:04:25

Now, this is what the outside of the building looks like for those of you all that are in the Shively area that are looking for the Lee Specialty Clinic. There you there's the outside of the building, and again, Miss Ariel said it's it's in Shively. I don't know exactly where without looking it up because again, I'm I'm learning about the Lee Specialty Clinic too. I can't believe that I knew nothing about this place, especially doing all the stuff that I've done for so long with EMS too. It's uh you know, I don't know how long it's been there. Do you know? Do you happen to know how long they've been established?

SPEAKER_01 1:04:56

2014 was when they were established.

SPEAKER_00 1:04:59

2014. And it's to my understanding that they actually originated, or at least a a group of people that originated that that set up the Lee Specialty Clinic were actually at the um oh crap. What was the uh it was the psych place out in Anchorage? Oh, is that um um I'm drawing a blank state central state? Thank you. I've I was gonna say I've been there a bazillion times, not as a patient, probably should have been, but not as a patient. But um so you did go there. I used to go in there a lot, but I rolled Middletown, so uh, you know, a lot of times if Anchorage wasn't in quarters, we'd we'd have to go, you know, okay over to Central State and get patients and whatnot. But uh but apparently, yeah, apparently if that's true, that's you know, that's where it kind of got its spark, and then they moved out, I guess they moved out wherever they could to get it.

SPEAKER_01 1:06:00

get a you know a good place to be and looks like they've got a nice facility so oh it's gorgeous inside it's is it really i it is it's phenomenal the uh you go straight to those doors and and you have this huge waiting room area with a large reception desk and I mean it's very ec eclectic the the they have nice um it's not like going to your local doctor's office and sitting in those chairs with those you know hard plastic arm breasts or anything like they it's it's couches um put along the walls and they have um pictures of patients and and um different things hanging on the walls you know the uh professionally done it's beautiful in there and the then the you know you have to go through lock doors to get to where the offices and and other rooms are and back there too I mean everything's so clean um and it's just every it's it's not sterile looking it's very warm and welcoming the the building itself is it's it's beautiful it's beautiful that's awesome that's really a lot of care was put into building that building in my opinion at least right now roughly how how many people you and you may not know the exact number I'm sure you don't but roughly how many patients do you think the least specialty clinic actually sees in like say in a given year um you know how many or how many clients they have that come out to them well it sounds to me like maybe once a month um what do you think they have out there now I know that's a hard question that is a hard question I I I don't honestly know or I don't think I could guess but I know when they were shutting it down um they had I think I had read multiple times over they served 1500 cards wow that's a lot and and apparently there's a waiting list like you just can't go and get on like it's kind of like the Michelle P waiver you know you gotta you gotta bide your time and and you know for those of you all like my son we I don't know how long we had to wait to get him on the Michelle P waiver it took a long time but of course he's been on it now for years.

SPEAKER_00 1:08:12

Now um but there's people to my understanding that have waited you know like in excess of like say four to eight years and still are have not got their number called to where they can get on this Michelle P. waiver and that's a very that's a very nice um that's a very nice program as well. It's very beneficial but uh it's one of those programs that's you you just can't get in. It takes time. Same with kind of like what you're talking about with the um it sounded to me like that place that's near the Lee clinic that you I forget what you called it but it it turned out it was more like a a living uh like condos for special needs or apartments. Um 24 hour staff too and 24 hour staff so it kind of sounds to me like uh kind of like that you know like it's they they just gotta it's just a one-stop shop now what's what's the thing that they focus or maybe that they do the most yeah like is it more psych is it more uh behavioral uh in regards to outburst is it more um your your doctor's like nurse practitioner like your your uh what do they call that your uh primary care kind of thing uh what would you how would you classify the Lee clinic in in that regard I would say now I don't know if this is accurate but if I had to take a guess from what I was there witnessing um I say it's a really probably even balance between psych slash behavioral and then um you know your uh physical occupational and speech therapy and then the medical just kind of comes with it you know like um getting your labs done and and stuff like that that's you know if if you need labs for certain meds you're on or you know they're not feeling well and they then they get them in but I saw a lot of a lot of psych behavioral stuff and then um a lot there therapy all day every day pretty much nice excellent well that's uh I'll tell you it's I've learned it's definitely learned more about this place I it I just I'm so interested it's just so cool I just can't believe that I didn't know anything about it I'm still I'm still blown away at how could something that awesome be right under your nose and you not even see it.

SPEAKER_01 1:10:43

I was flabbergasted when I looked it up and I thought oh my god because I told you I worked for Cedar Lake Lodge there for a while and um you know I think when I worked for them though Lee wasn't opened yet but just and I'm still you know affiliated with the with people that work with Cedar Lake so I just for me to not have even heard of Lee Clinic I was I was shocked.

SPEAKER_00 1:11:05

Now once you become a nurse practitioner do you you do you think you want to do more of the behavioral aspects or the psychological aspects of of of the patient's care or do you want to focus on primary care what what's your end goal with the once you do finish your nurse practitioner what you're knocking on the door all you got to do is skill out uh what do you what do you think you want to specialize with that? Oh well I specialized in psych so you did psychiatric nurse practitioner oh nice yeah and uh and and and what's awesome is like you she said before she's already got a job offer pending that she just passes her uh her uh final boards which you know she's already made it this far graduated that's just a one more hurdle she's got to jump through so and I wish you the very best when it comes to that oh thank you thank you I'm I'm ready to get that done now here was another sh photo this is just a photo of you just all dolled up oh yeah long time ago I think I love your hair in that though looks oh thank you thank you yeah I I miss it being long I had to get a lot of it cut off apparent here's a goat again apparently I had um some pool damage from it in my hair last year so the lady I go to she she cut well it was down to here I think so she cut a lot off and it was actually up to here when she cut it in August so it's it's grown I like my hair long I don't like it short yeah so the chlorine damaged your hair that bad eh that's what she said but I'm I'm questioning that because we've had a pull for a long time and I've never had chlorine damage like that in my hair so I don't I don't know I don't yeah I don't know well I know chlorine is hard on shit that's for sure sorry the goat is vaccine I was gonna say I can I can hear the goat is uh scratching the rear end on the chair I'm sitting on oh I won't bear anything now here's the people that I knew from the clinic um I don't I don't know if you recognize any of them now the two on the right obviously the the real short the shorty Amy shorty there she uh and then the the the guy the Chris Crinkle aka Z Z top looking guy back there in the back that was that he was actually my first once I was I was kind of being precepted when I started EMS many many many moons ago and um once I got cut loose and I was you were precepted with in a third three man unit then you got cut loose but you still were with a preceptor to kind of make sure like you were far enough along where you could do your own shit but you still kind of had to have watchful eyes on you to make sure that you were you know you didn't have any issues. Well that's what Rick did so he just I rode with him at on nights and uh he just made sure that I didn't do dumb stuff and was still staying the course and then of course you know Amy uh is his wife and she used to work at uh county as well so did the young lady there Katie she's the one that actually introduced me to the Lee Clinic so she was like you don't know about it I'm like no but she she worked for county as well so all three of those were county brats like I was back in the day before merger and then merger happened and that's why Rick's white is because merger happened see all that white beard and hair it's uh he he he's only like 26 years old but no just kidding but still that's probably why he turned white he got into management and then of course merger was just a headache for everybody but I love all three of these peeps they're good really good people and yeah I met Rick and Amy when I was there and they were both very very sweet people um I yeah well everyone that I met there was amazing um and kind um but yeah definitely can't forget those two because they always have those big smiles on their faces. Oh heck yeah and they're very passionate and about the program as well so once I once I knew even found out they were even there because hell I haven't seen them since well I'd say I've been retired now I want to say it's almost eight eight nine years oh nine years in August maybe so I've been retired eight or nine years it's a lot so um it's been a long time so I don't see as many people as I used to oh I hear ducks now oh yeah the duck population is descending upon me you're like the queen bee they're all coming like why why is she on the porch why is she talking into this computer I had one in my shower for the past week and I finally put her back she was trying to hatch an egg and then it didn't work out and she and I were both over it so she finally went back outside two days ago she's probably over here checking on me thinking is she gonna kidnap me again I tell you what I tell you what ducks are incredibly intelligent too because when when I rode ems now you may you may know even though you're not from around here you say you may not but but you've been in Louisville enough you probably know where Baptist hospital is oh yeah um but the Baptist hospital off Creske in Louisville well I used to go there obviously that was one of the hospitals I frequented the most because I rode Middletown so that was one that was the always that suburban hospital or now it's women Norton's women and children's but uh in Jewish east those were all hospitals that were all in a cluster right there in the east end so those those are the ones that were the closest to us so we went went there the most well at Baptist they had like the ambulances parked out here then the building kind of goes back a little bit and it kind of l's it l's over and you had the ER entrance back here. Well right to the right of the ER door they had a it was a landscape thing in the sidewalk that was for a tree so it wasn't super big but it had a bush underneath the tree and it had the tree and um anyway a mama duck uh laid she laid her eggs there well sadly they we would see this duck she would lay all the time they they would stay there and have their babies there in that same spot and it got to the point where people would leave out saucers of water or like put out little bits of food and stuff for them too because I mean it this this went on forever well finally one year uh the the mallard he I don't know if he got hit by a car I don't know what happened to him but he apparently obviously died. Well mama had the eggs and the other mallards were coming in wanting to obviously eliminate those eggs so they could you know hook up with her instead and of course she's trying her best to defend the nest well she was smart enough to where when these other mallards would come in and one would almost try to draw her off the nest she'd come off to fight with him and then the other one would try to go in and get the eggs and then she would turn around well you could tell this poor mama was getting exhausted so she finally was smart and she when they would show up she would waddle her ass and wait till the electric door opened up and she would go in the ER and go up to the security station just squawking just quack qua qua qua qua qua qua and then they would get up and they would come outside with her and they would run the mallards off. So she would get a little bit of a break and then she'd go and sit back and rest on her on her nest and then once they came back again then she would go back in and it was so comical to be standing there at triage talking to a nurse and all of a sudden you're hearing you know it's like did the Aflac duck just walk in this bitch because he he would he would just they she would come in just uh raising cane man but that was her way of saying hey I need help and security got up and helped her it was so awesome it was so hilarious it was it was it was one of the most one of the coolest things to ever witness but uh yeah that's that's comical that's so funny oh my gosh but what's bad is after those eggs hatched I never saw mama again so I guess I guess after that's not the best place to lay these eggs yeah maybe so either that or she she finally you know hooked up with somebody else and they had they picked a different spot I guess but but I thought it was really neat um yeah how she would go in there you know because it just it's just interesting how animals like that can actually communicate with you like they can figure shit out and uh for her to know I if I go in there squawking these guys are gonna come walking out with me and then they'll run them off I mean it's like it's she didn't have to speak English but she got the job done so I just thought it was so neat. So sorry for that story I just had to tell it because I heard that when I heard that duck squawking I was just like oh that brings back memories you know makes me think of that but um that's adorable gosh oh yeah it was so so stinking cute that's oh my god that story I love that and it went on like I say for for years and then that's why I knew something was bad once once I saw her trying to defend the nest I said daddy must have died and uh I don't know how and it's sad because I don't even know if ducks if the if their mate dies do will they eventually because I know they stay mates for life but if one patches do they move on or do they not? I don't know.

SPEAKER_01 1:21:14

I don't know I I know um right now I know I have one female and two males that we we lost um our other three hen duck hens and then I I did hatch in our incubator this spring I hatched three little duck eggs so I think I I think from what I can hear the their noises so far I think I've got two females and a male in there so I don't know I'll have to look that up that's pretty interesting.

SPEAKER_00 1:21:40

Yeah it is interesting and that's uh and now do your ducks are is your pond close to the house it's it's not super far away but it's not super close.

SPEAKER_01 1:21:52

So when when I first started with the chickens a couple years ago I I got some some ducklings raised them up and um my husband took them out to the pond when they got old enough because he thought they they'd enjoy it. Well two nights later out of four only two were left so something had gotten them so uh we took those remaining two to our Amish friends because he he wanted some ducks for his barn. He I have one Amish friend he's very very funny got the driest sense of humor and he loves animals. He's it's and I know that sounds funny because everyone knows they have a lot of animals but this guy like he's got a bunch of miniature horses that he breeds and my dad one day said well what do you what do you do with them? Why why why minis he said I just think they're cute and the kids love to ride them you know it's just so he's funny but he wanted some ducks and I gave him some those two ducks and then I waited a while before starting over with with ducks and I've not they free range all day long but and I know they've got to know it's there but they they don't go down to the pond. Now they do give my pool the eye yeah they've never been in it though thank god thank god for that good goodness gracious boy that'd be a mess now do you have an above ground pool I'm assuming yeah yeah we have an above ground pool we we put in a a big water trough uh my dad dug out an area in their little run and installed a water trough and made it into their own little stuff pool for him so I think that appeases them.

SPEAKER_00 1:23:27

Now Miss Mary says sometimes she thinks that they do find other mates and she says sometimes they might not I guess it just depends it's probably just like any you know like people right any other yeah any other situation sometimes they may say you know what um that was that was my guy or that was my gal and I just don't I just don't want to deal with anybody else I'll just finish up life the way that it is I guess but uh that's very interesting but thanks for chin in and welcome Miss Mary I appreciate you coming in honey as always and Miss Mary's yet another one that I talk about that's that uh she tries to make everything and uh I know people can't make everything I mean hell it's and sitting through an hour and a half show or a two hour show is it can be hard but uh a lot of people some people really dig podcast but I tell you the these peeps that are in here now are just actually out they're just outstanding people. So I'm really glad they're in here to hear your story and and um you know again when we upload this when it's all said and done um it's gonna be on all platforms. So Lee Specialty Clinic you are you are going to be disseminated either today or tomorrow and within 24 to I'd say 48 hours you should be on all platforms um that bus sprout puts up so most I should say most I don't want to say all because I don't I don't even know I'll tell you what Ariel some of these damn podcast channels that this is going to be uploaded to I've never even heard of it's like I've I've there's like 12 that I was like I've never even heard of these so you're gonna be on a lot of platforms a whole lot um but Spotify is probably the biggest that people know that's audio based uh YouTube my YouTube channel is always gonna have what you see so you'll always get to see her as well as hear her on the YouTube channel. A lot of the other ones uh just go to audio because it was so it's so dang expensive to do both and I already spend a lot of money to do what I'm doing. The middle of the road package is already expensive per year. So especially when you're not making any money doing it. So it's like you know or you're making little bits here or there like stars or something for Facebook and you know and I don't know TikTok well apparently I I don't know how to be a good boy on TikTok. So apparently I got my pee pee slapped yesterday for uh being insensitive whatever you know but you know gotta be the bad boy every now and again I think I went through most I thought I had a picture I thought I had some more in here but I guess I don't so anyway anyway I think I've I think I've gone through most of the photos on here but I tell you what you have got you've got a uh great looking family sounds like you got a pretty uh definitely a cool life I mean you living living out where you live you got a lot going on and you're furthering your education so you gotta tip your hat to you for that for sure now um the are you are you able are you gonna be going to the rally on July uh what is it this one again July 17th I'm not sure if I'm gonna be able to make that one my kids are doing a summer camp that's an all-day thing right now and that will uh I picked them up at 3 30 so I don't think I'm gonna be able to make that one yeah and I can't make this one now I'm sure there's gonna be many more for all of you all out there I mean the Lee uh you know like we were saying in this podcast for those that are showing joining late the Lee specialty clinic is is definitely one of them that's on the chopping block uh in the future due to budgetary restraints with uh with the state of Kentucky and Medicaid and Michelle P. Waiver are on chopping block as well but we want to raise awareness so much and that's why Miss Ariel is here um because she's very passionate about uh the handicapped community she's very passionate a very passionate nurse just in general and she got the privilege thanks to her um school because she didn't really know where to get all of her clinical hours they actually hooked her up and they they they they allowed her to find the Lee clinic and she she said she you know just What short time she spent doing clinical hours out there, she said, you know, she actually loved it. And it was a really, really great program. And that's why when I reached out to them wanting to do a podcast, she was one of the first ones that chimed in and says, Hey, I would love to talk to you about it. And I'm so glad that she did because she's obviously she's a very good speaker. Um very easy to talk to, and um, and she's she definitely gave me some knowledge of the Lee Clinic. And we're only gonna get more from here, folks, because the next episode we're gonna be doing on Tuesday will be a young lady by the name of Sharon, and she's got an autistic daughter who, to my knowledge, if I understood everything correctly, which we're gonna make sure, if not, it'll be cleared up on Tuesday. But she's a patient out there, and that Lee Clinic had done wonders for her because she had a lot of uh very bad violent outbursts, and I've got pictures that I'll show on that episode that the uh Sharon had sent me that um that her child destroyed her house. I mean, it it looked like they got ransacked. So it just shows that even with people that deal with handicapped individuals or you know, especially uh different ones like say autism or whatnot, uh that sometimes they have outbursts and they they it's not like they're trying to be shitty. It just that's just what happens, and but you got to deal with it. And uh there's a lot of people out there that couldn't because it can be a lot, uh, especially when they explode. And um sometimes sometimes they're very very friendly, sometimes they're very cooperative, and then it's like a light switch, all of a sudden you could ask them to do something and they ain't having it. So the places like Lee Clinic actually work to instill into these individuals that there is a certain etiquette that needs to be, you need to, you kind of need to adhere to, and they're not gonna learn this without people educating and helping them. So you got people like Miss Ariel, which I guess is she's this way, I think I'm mirror image, but Miss Ariel here, she um you know, she's gonna be one that is pivotal, and especially what she's doing, because she's gonna she's gonna be a nurse practitioner here very soon. And obviously, as you just heard her say, she is specializing as well with the kind of the behavioral uh uh aspects of things, so the psychological side of things. So that's a very interesting topic. Um and you never know where you may see Miss Ariel in the future.

SPEAKER_01 1:30:48

So I will say one thing about the Lee clinic that you don't find among many other things about it, that you won't find anywhere else. The second day that I had a clinical care, um they had some, I guess one of the employees smelled gas. So they had to evacuate the building and um call and you know the fire department to come and clear all that up. Um, and one of Jennifer's patients um doesn't like to come into the building anyway. So we saw that gentleman in the parking lot in the car. And it wasn't just because of the gas situation, they do this quite frequently. You know, some individu you know, you know, lots of people with mental health disorders don't like change. So the change in environment, you know, anything unfamiliar. I mean, I I only have ADHD and I I don't like unf I don't like change. So you know, you know how that is. So um, but they see them in the parking lot. So I thought that was pretty cool how they um you know adjust what they do just in order to make sure that those patients are taken care of.

SPEAKER_00 1:31:54

Wow, that is cool. So they will actually they'll actually say, oh, you know, Johnny's having a Johnny's having a bad day today and don't want to come in. Okay, well let's walk out in the parking lot and let's hang out with Johnny.

SPEAKER_01 1:32:04

They do. They hang out and they they ask how they're feeling, and you know, they they go through the host field that they would go through in the office, but they do that in the parking lot just to make sure, you know, because lots of those patients and their family they drive from hours away. So they've you know and they do such a good job of it too. But they just want to make sure that they get the care that they've driven hours and hours to receive, you know, instead of the city.

SPEAKER_00 1:32:27

Oh, so the Lee Clinic serves it, they'll serve people that don't even live in Louisville.

SPEAKER_01 1:32:31

Oh, all over I people would come from, I mean, Richmond and Pike County and um only recently before, but you know, it's still a drop um way up in northern Kentucky because it's the only clinic like it in the whole state. So people have a draw for several hours just to have an appointment for that. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:32:50

No, I and I didn't realize that was the only one like that. Yeah, and yet, and then here we are, you know, it's hard to believe we're even having a discussion about shutting it down. If it's the only one they got, it's like um, you know, and you know, I was talking not to be overly redundant, but I'm gonna do it anyway. Why? Because it's my show and I can do it, and people don't get tired of hearing it, but I'm gonna beat this horse. You know, I think I think that in our society today, you know, it's I I spoke on this on the podcast the other night, and I think you would agree with me. I mean, everybody hates cancer. Cancer sucks. Uh, cancer is the absolute worst, but it is a billion-dollar charitable industry that happens all the time. And and to me, it's yeah, it's noble, but if if I had the ability to donate millions of dollars for something charity-wise, I would me personally, I wouldn't want to be in the in the uh cancer basket with everybody else because it already makes so incredibly much amount of money per year, to my understanding. Now, that's just what what I've heard and what I've what I've read. Now, granted, you got to do your own research on shit. And again, anything we've said today on this podcast is our opinion on stuff. So we, you know, we especially me, I don't pretend to be something. I ain't I ain't nobody. So I'm trying to learn about this stuff too. But to me, if you're gonna donate the uh millions of dollars to a charity, it's like, why do they always want to be on the cancer bandwagon? I and and maybe it's because it is the worst thing ever to humanity, and it is it is you know the worst disease, and they want to be, they want to have their name attached to that way. If there is a huge breakthrough, I guess it's like, hey, I donated to that. But it's like to me, I don't understand why people don't want to donate to stuff like Saving the League Clinic, you know, and it's it's just like you know, why why would you not want to donate to that or donate to the Special Olympics, you know? Like I was saying on a podcast before, you know, the thing that irritates me about the Special Olympics is the fact that the handicapped people, because there's less of them, I guess, and it's more popular, you know, like like with sporting events, you've got fall ball and spring ball for kids with no disabilities. And but then like with us, we'll take softball because that's what's currently going on right now. You know, we have softball in August, July, and it's like so the most vulnerable people we have in our society are the ones that have to go out in the hottest time of the year to participate in sports. And I just think if somebody donated millions of dollars instead of cancer to say, hey, maybe we're we're gonna help start your own, you know, buy this land and put up this great big facility for you all. And that way they can use it, and it's just for them, just for the handicap. They can run their programs the same as everybody else. That way they're not doing it in the hottest time of the year or the coldest time of the year. They can they can be in a climate-controlled area or at least minimize the amount of heat exposure or something that our vulnerable community have to face if they want to participate in sports like everybody else. So I don't know. With that rambling, you know, I just think that sometimes money is better well spent, but then I also have read shit which you don't know how true it is, and not to go not to get political because I try to stay out of politics and religion because you can't win with either. But I do I have seen some weird shit that if it is true, you know, our government spends money on some pretty asinine shit, and it's like you're threatening to cut something like the Lee Clinic, which is so incredibly valuable, and but you but you want to spend millions of dollars on some nonsensical crap that it's like even if you find out what the hypothesis is on this, what does it solve? Nothing, you know. So it's like, why are why are we spending money on that then? Why don't we spend money on something that does make a huge difference? And you heard it from Miss Ariel here today, folks. The Lee Clinic does a superb job with uh taking care of people, and apparently it's not just Louisville, they are coming in from all over the state of Kentucky. So I thank you so much, Miss Ariel. Uh Mary said, Miss Ariel was nice to meet you.

SPEAKER_01 1:37:25

I know it was nice to meet you guys too. I can't comment because, like I said, I don't want to get kicked off before you know prematurely, but it was nice to meet everyone too. You all are so sweet.

SPEAKER_00 1:37:34

Yeah, and thank you so much for taking time out of your day um to to do this show because this is really the first big one. I've I've been mentioned in the Lee Clinic, but you're the first one to get this kind of kick started. So I learned a whole lot from you today. So thank you so much for sharing your knowledge and your experience of working out there because it's uh it seems like just an uh just an amazing place. And we're gonna see what's gonna happen. Like I say, I got Miss Sharon up in the future, and apparently there's some other people that um that want to participate as well. Now, as for staff, I don't know if that's ever gonna be a possibility. It probably was because they're I'm sure their upper ensalants are gonna be like, hey, we don't, first of all, we don't know bones, you know. That's just like it's kind of like you know, the charity stuff. You know, I did uh I sponsored uh golf scramble for Kozairs uh for kids with my business. And I told them, I said, hey, I would love to, you know, do the podcast. Well, uh, you know, apparently they they must have looked at me, they looked up podcasts. Well, when they saw Bones Unfiltered Podcast, and that the you know, I have a music side, which is for up-and-coming musicians. Well, I am not the cleanest mouth. Now, I've I do pretty good on this because I try to tell myself, don't say the F-bomb, don't you know, try not to cuss other than stuff that's like shit or damn, whatever that's regular television. But I've tried not to on this because there may be more sensitive ears or some you know that may see this show, and I want to try to be respectful, but I love to cuss, I cuss a lot, especially working EMS all them years. So, my my music side of things tends to all have explicit content because I let everybody say, We say whatever the heck we want to say, and if you want to drop enough bomb, you drop it. But I think they saw that and then they thought, well, that must be his what his show's about, and we can't have all that foul language. Well, you know, they I wouldn't have done that, but they don't want me to do the podcast, but that's okay. So I'm gonna participate in the golf scramble and and um at least donated stuff. But anyway, this special needs podcast is near and dear because of Brandon, but you know, because of stuff like saving the Lee Clinic and meeting people like her that are in the medical field, she's gonna be in our community uh all the way up through a lot of people's lives. So you never know. You may get her as a doc in the future. She may be one of them that takes care of you. And she's young, so she's gonna be doing this for quite a while. She ain't going anywhere anytime soon. So so uh Ariel, we I wish you the very, very, very best. Um I I can't wait to hear how everything pans out once you finish your skill outs. And um, once you start the new job, I hope you enjoy it and love it. And uh anytime you want to be on the show, I would love to have you back on. You've just been an absolute dream. And um thank you so much for letting me stalk your life to kind of get photos and and put up to ask questions about. I appreciate you letting me go through your your personal page like that and um to gather some intel on you and uh and again just for you taking time out of your day to try to step up and and and help with this podcast to try to help and see what we can do for the League Clinic because if we can save them, dang, that's gonna be. I I I would love to say that you and I are are a part, we're a part of the solution of that at the end, and we helped get them be a part of that solution versus the problem. I hope it I hope it works out. I really do. I hope that this doesn't die after one fiscal year of bailout. I don't see why it should. And I think I think that the bean counters out there need to they need to start looking at what are we really dropping our money on and is this really a worthwhile venture versus well, let's cut this program, which we know is worthwhile because our handicapped people need us, folks. And some of them need us way more than others, and some of them do not have family, like my son's fortunate enough, he's got a big family unit that rallies around him, but there's some people out there that that lee clinic may be the only people they have. Don't take that away from them. I mean, they don't they may not know how to survive on their own. And this Lee Clinic, apparently, I mean, you've heard stories from her, and she was just an outsider doing clinical hours, and the stuff she told me was already amazing. I can only imagine if you worked there, what you what the stories you could have uh of hope and of uh of everything, you know. So again, Ariel, much love. Thank you so much for taking time out of your day. Um, thank you so much for letting me. Yeah, I had a great, great time. I look forward to seeing you in the future. And hell, you never know. Uh, it sounds like neither one of us can really make this meeting, but this ain't gonna be the last one. So you never know. We may end up down in Frankfurt together sometime. And uh, you know, if I can learn my gimbal and take that thing, hell, I'll just I'll just go live and we'll just do a bullshit thing while we're down there in front of the Capitol. I think that would be fun.

SPEAKER_01 1:42:58

I think so. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:43:00

All right. Well, ladies and gentlemen, thank y'all so much. It's we're at an hour and 45 minutes, so that's actually pretty dang good. So um um I'm gonna uh get ready and uh sign off for now. Um, but again, this is Miss Ariel Hill. Thank her so much uh for joining into this podcast and sharing her knowledge with us. And uh I look forward to the next one, which will be on Tuesday with Miss Sharon. I think her last name was Raymond, if I if memory serves. Um, but Miss Sharon Raymond's gonna get on here and tell her story, and we're gonna continue to kind of push and talk about the Lee Clinic. So more to come on that. Um, as for Special Olympic wise athletes out there, ladies and gentlemen, there are definitely some I had spoken to at our um softball game last night. There are several other of my Special Olympic kids that I want to have on the show to brag about their life achievements. So there's definitely more of them that are in the pipe that are going to be coming down. So for those of you all that are interested in listening to a handicapped person brag about their life achievements and stuff that they've gone through, but also hear about the struggles they've had to deal with, then uh obviously this podcast is gonna end up being for you. So thanks again, Miss Ariel. Best of luck to everything and everybody out there, be good. This is Bones saying be good or be good at it, and we'll see you on the next episode.

SPEAKER_01 1:44:31

Take care.

SPEAKER_00 1:44:32

Peace. You too, honey.