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Hey, guys, I just want to welcome you to the Paul Junior Podcast.
This is gonna be a podcast where, you know, I could do some talking about the things I'm passionate about. Certainly some recap of American Chopper,
all these years of American Chopper. I'm sure you guys would like to
hear some I don't know, behind the scenes stuff, maybe some show rewatches, and then really honestly do some good for some charities, talk with some corporations. Just some of the stuff I'm really passionate about that I love to
talk about that I find interesting, that I hope you find interesting too.
And also, we were gonna wait to get in the can maybe like five or ten of these before we let them, you know, let them out publicly. But there's one in particular that I think we're gonna release early.
And it's really due to the situation in Afghanistan. I got my producer here
and so hey, folks, he's been helping me through all this, and honestly I couldn't do this. He's doing all the sound stuff and in the
cameras and everything like that, and so in any event, so you know, with everything that's going on in Afghanistan and the people that are hurting out there, especially military. We did a podcast about three months ago. It's
for this new institute called the Firearms Research Institute, and it was I'm not gonna lie to you, it was pretty heavy. I mean it was.
It really opened my eyes to some of the problems that we have out there, heartbreaking, yeah, with veterans and veterans suicide and people who are contemplating it. And so we just thought it'd be really good to release this now
instead of waiting just for you to hear and try and understand some of the stuff that's happened out there with our veterans. So just a few statistics that
are more current. The Veteran Affairs VA Suicide Hotline receives on the average seven
hundred and twenty five thousand calls per year. That's seven hundred and twenty five
thousand calls per year. Is that shocking team, that's just veterans. Those
are just veterans. Not one of them are offered the opportunity for firearm safe
storage. Now, make no bones about it, I'm not This hotline's amazing.
So this isn't this isn't anything against the hotline because they're obviously they're taking the calls. They're trying to help these guys that are struggling, or women
for that matter. And my point is firearm safe storage is something that we
feel could have a huge benefit moving forward to prevent veterans suicide. And that's
what this next podcast is really all about. The last two weeks of the
US military withdrawal from Afghanistan, the Veterans Suicide Hotline received an increased outreach of more than thirty five thousand made between August thirteenth and August twenty ninth. To
me, that's just staggering. You almost have to remember that that's like a
person behind that each number. Like that's what's kind of hard to You need
that second to kind of like realize that it's crazy, you know. And
what we don't realize even from the twenty years in Afghanistan, a lot of these guys are young eighteen to thirty four men and women that they're all kids.
I mean I say kids, I mean I'm older now, but this is really not These are not like older men and women that were used to when we think about Vietnam and some of the earlier wards. These guys,
these are very young people. So anyways, I just wanted to shout out
to you guys, let you know that this is what's coming. I'm very
excited about trying to do some real good and with this podcast, and also we're gonna have some fun. Thank you for listening to the Paul Junior Podcast.
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