Hey, everybody. Welcome to the Krebscast. I'm your host, Charlie Barence. This is the podcast

where we talked to people for Andor from the Midwest. And this week, my guest is CVI President

and CEO Eduardo Garza. CVI stands for Center for Veterans Issues. And Ed has a few connections

to the Krebscast. Actually, the first time I met him was with Jason Johns, who Commander Jason

Johns at the Wisconsin VFW. He introduced me to Ed. We had lunch or no, we had dinner. It was

dinner. Yes. Over at O'Brien's in Milwaukee, I'm like, what is that? I think it's on like 49th and

delete. And I will say, it's an Irish pub and I got some tacos. So, you know, that's a real

interesting move, Charlie. Why did you get tacos at an Irish pub? Because the tacos were the special.

And I will say this about O'Brien's. Like, when you go to a fancy restaurant and they start

listing off the specials, I tune that out because that's just code for this shit's more expensive.

But at O'Brien's, they pride themselves on their specials not being more expensive. They're

actually special because it's a good deal. So anyway, I got tacos at an Irish pub and so I was

there with Ed and I was there with Ed's wife and I was there with Jason. And yeah, we had a great

dinner and we just talked about CBI and one amazing organization. It was and so I was like, you know,

come on the Cripes cast and the VFW, by the way, many of you have been, have been so generous

giving to the VFW over the years. And they also assist with CBI, which does amazing things for

veterans from a mental health perspective, but also a real pragmatic taking a homeless veterans,

giving them not only access to home and to shelter and to what they're working on mental

health support, but also real job skills. So they have a kitchen and they have a workshop and they

teach, you know, just how to how to build things, how to cook things. And they get these

men and women who served our country and, you know, just need a little bit of assistance. They

give that to them and they get incredible employment opportunities from this. So that's just a

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