Chuck Burge has spent over 30 years in the entertainment and marketing business.
Nothing is more important to him than bringing good people together. It allows him to follow his passion every single day.
From being a host/emcee for the Diet Pepsi Uh-Huh Girls…to creating grassroot Fortune 500 companies like GM, Dunkin Donuts & Pepsi… to creating events for non-profits and producing them. He connects corporations to large audiences from across the globe.
He serves as a bridge for networking groups and associations that I think would find value in knowing each other. He makes it his personal business to reach out and get to know people the organic way. He’s a true believer in the power of networking. There’s nothing more effective in marketing than talking with others, being a great listener, and truly getting to know people.
We all know that the world of marketing is a dynamic, ever-changing landscape. Businesses must find creative ways to sell their products, and consumers, who demand great content and endless information, are savvier than they’ve ever been. They want something that shines, that has that original, fresh spark.
If they don’t see anything worth looking at, they ignore it. And that’s dangerous for business. He builds relationships– and you can bet he lives by that credo every day.
Connect with Chuck on LinkedIn.
Many years back, Tim Turner’s son happened to be playing baseball with the son of the founder of a non-profit food distribution program. Tim and the father got to talking about his work, and he was stunned by his words.
At the time, Tim had no idea about the local hunger issue. For all he knew, Gwinnett was a prosperous county. When Tim began to look into it, it was like a curtain was raised. Hunger wasn’t just an abstract problem on another continent, but a real crisis that affects our friends and neighbors in Gwinnett.
Once Tim knew about the ubiquity of food insecurity, he had to do something. It’s who he is, and it’s what he wanted to do. With the help of like-minded individuals, and with onsite training from veterans in the field, Tim started his own program of food rescue and distribution.
Satisfeed was born out of Tim’s wish to serve the community that is his home. Fueled by the joy of receiving a meal, and by the human connections we build along the way, Tim works to nourish Gwinnett.
This transcript is machine transcribed by Sonix
TRANSCRIPT
Intro: [00:00:07] Broadcasting live from the Business RadioX Studios in Atlanta. It’s time for Charitable Georgia. Brought to you by B’s Charitable Pursuits and Resources. We put the fun in fund raising. For more information, go to B’s Charitable Pursuits. Dot com. That’s B’s Charitable Pursuits dot com. Now here’s your host, Brian Pruitt.
Brian Pruett: [00:00:45] Good, fabulous Friday morning. It’s another fabulous Friday. It’s nice and crisp outside. I like the way the morning feels. And Sharon got to ride in on her motorcycle, so that was cool seeing you come in there.
Sharon Cline: [00:00:56] Well, thank you.
Brian Pruett: [00:00:56] Glad to have you back. I guess Stone’s at another function. So always good to have you here with us, Sharon. Again, I’m glad that you do this because I would not be able to work the board. But we’ve got two fabulous guests this morning. And today’s show, if you don’t know about Charitable Georgia, is first time listening. This is all about positive things happening in the community. And today’s show is all about community. We’ve got two gentlemen here who love their communities and do all kinds of stuff for the community. So we’re going to jump right in with our first guest, Chuck Burge.
Chuck Burge: [00:01:25] Good morning, Brian.
Brian Pruett: [00:01:26] Chuck, glad you’re here. I know you’ve had some medical issues this past month, but I’m glad you’re up and about and out and been able to join us this morning.
Chuck Burge: [00:01:33] Nobody is happy about it than me, I promise you. Yeah.
Brian Pruett: [00:01:36] So, Sharon, I was sharing you before we got on air how small of a world it is and how we all know each other. But Chuck and I met several years ago, probably close to almost ten years, I guess. Seven, eight, something like that. Yeah. So. And when I met him, I was working for a digital marketing agency and he had interviewed for that same agency. And then we just started networking same places and doing all kinds of stuff. And Chuck is no stranger to the microphone. He’s been on with Stone a couple of times and you have your own shows that you do, and but you also are no stranger to big events. So if you don’t mind just sharing about your background and we’ll get in and talk about karaoke in just a minute, okay?
Chuck Burge: [00:02:14] Sure. Thanks, Brian. Yeah, I have been in the kind of entertainment marketing world since the early 90s. I guess some of you may remember when Diet Pepsi did the You got the Right one, baby. Uh huh. Tour with Ray Charles and the Uncles. I was fortunate enough just happen to be in the right place at the right time and wound up being one of their emcees and hosts. So anytime they were between Orlando, Nagshead, Nashville and Biloxi, Mississippi, I would fly and perform with them and be with them on stage in front of ten, 15,000 people. So that’s kind of where I got my guts to get up on stage and do stuff. So ever since then, I became number two most requested corporate disc jockey in metro Atlanta for six years, DJ for 35,000 people in the Georgia Dome. And did Evander Holyfield’s 4th of July party and a lot of stuff for Bill at the Braves did the grand opening of Philips Arena and actually got to sing Under the Boardwalk with Lenny Wilkins. The Hawks coach was one of my favorite memories. That was really, really cool. And then got into creating grass marketing campaigns for General Motors and Cingular Wireless and Dunkin Donuts and had a really good career of doing that till about 2008 when the economy tanked and our company kind of folded. And I just started doing everything locally that I was doing nationally and just kind of built my own brand.
Chuck Burge: [00:03:35] And karaoke is kind of like my signature event. Karaoke is an event that I do for the 9/11 Fallen Heroes project, and the first two years we had it at Corbin International Airport, we emptied a hangar. We had an airplane face the hangar, wrapped a stage around the nose of the plane. First year we had 250 people in the audience. Last year we had 450 people in the audience. We brought 40 people up to sing karaoke, and then four finalists come back up and somebody wins a thousand bucks. Very, very successful. Wsb came out and covered it last year and did a two minute piece on it. We had silent auction. We still have silent auction, but we had food trucks out there. And then but we’ve grown so much that we’re now moving it to the Strand Theater in Marietta, and eventually we may convert it from karaoke to Square Yolki. But right now we don’t want to lose the branding that we’ve got, so we’re going to stick with karaoke and it’ll be September 30th of this year. And we’ve got the whole strand rented out where we’re going to do the silent auction up on the fourth floor. We actually have artifacts from Ground zero at 9/11, from 9/11 that will be there for photo ops and all that stuff. So it’ll be a fun event. Sharon’s going to come sing to that.
Sharon Cline: [00:04:41] And but you better practice now.
Brian Pruett: [00:04:44] Buying tickets just to see that.
Chuck Burge: [00:04:45] Well, that’s the whole premise. You know, the whole thing. We have five live judges there, but the whole premise is come sing and bring all your friends to vote for you. And that’s how you can win a 1500 bucks. It’s a lot of fun. We’re going to do VIP tickets. I don’t know if you’re familiar with the Strand Theater or not, but they have like 400 seats in the downstairs general admission and 130, I think, up in the balcony. And there’s also like a Lumiere Sports bar or a lounge on the second floor. So that’s going to be the VIP level. So everybody that’s VIP pays like $100 a ticket, but they get fed and they have free access to roam back and forth. And we’ll block off a couple of the first rows and the downstairs if they want to sit down there, too. So 250 bucks will get you in the swag bag. Everybody’s going to get a swag bag when they lead two levels, VIP and general admission and just a good opportunity to reach 500 plus people. Plus, I don’t know how many online. Like I said, last year, WSB covered it and we got, you know, millions of views on our website.
Brian Pruett: [00:05:43] From that. So is it still possible for people to sign up and take part?
Chuck Burge: [00:05:47] Yeah, we have 20. We reducing the number of singers from 40 to 25 to try to shorten the event. And but we also raise the prize limit from $1,000 for the winner to $1,500 for the winner. So, yeah, everybody can sign up, go to karaoke and you misspelled it horribly on the Post. But it’s Ira. Let me. There you go. Ira Okay. Dot org. If you look@karaoke.org, you’ll see all the information.
Brian Pruett: [00:06:13] My editor wasn’t around yesterday, so it was my fault. Always is.
Chuck Burge: [00:06:17] But that’s pretty much sums up karaoke. It’s a lot of fun. It’s unique. It’s not a golf tournament. It’s not A5K. It’s something nobody else has done before. First year we didn’t know what we were getting into, but now everybody loves it and I love producing it and it’s just something that’s fun. Music and sports are my two big gigs and this takes care of the music.
Brian Pruett: [00:06:37] So is it still possible for business to be on jump on board for any sponsorships?
Chuck Burge: [00:06:41] Yeah, sponsorships run from like 250 to $3500. So again, look on archive.org, all the information there. Or you can reach out to me@karaoke.org or (770) 428-9930. Once again in Marietta that’s (770) 428-9930.
Brian Pruett: [00:06:58] Awesome. So you also have two shows that you do Facebook Live shows, correct?
Chuck Burge: [00:07:02] I do. I do it to support some friends that have had prostate cancer. And it’s called three Guys Who Love Sports. Like I said, that’s my other passion. So at 5:00 on Wednesdays at Miller’s Ale House in Kennesaw, we do three guys who love sports. First time you’re on, it’s free. Second time it cost you 100 bucks and we’ll give $75 that to help pay somebody’s prostate cancer bill that can’t afford it and help with that and happen to have a friend of mine named Carrick Martin Carrick is he works for he used to be Vinings Bank. They just got bought by somebody and I can’t remember Georgia’s own credit union. Is that right? Yeah. So. Carrick I wanted to have him on to talk about Kennesaw State sports because carrying us all states now the second largest school in the state of Georgia, people don’t know that. Just had their first ever football player drafted to the NFL last week. Travis Bell He was on our show a few weeks ago, so I had Carrick on and and just talk about KSU sports and he invited me and Robert, my co-host, to come out to Dogwood Golf Club the following week and produce and go live from there. I think it was US Open last June and do the show there. So we did and he pulled me and Robert off and I said, Would you guys be interested in doing a show just about KSU Sports? And Robert and I looked and he said, Well, yeah. I said, We don’t know anything about it now, but we’ll learn.
Chuck Burge: [00:08:20] So we started that on August 17th, and now we do three guys who love sports at 5:00 and at 7:00 we do. We do The Owls Who Live Sports, the acronym, The Owl Show. And we interview coaches and players and ex-players and fans. And it’s a lot of fun, you know, And I got really wrapped up in the basketball team. I know Sharon said she went to a couple of games. I went to Greensboro to watch the game up there. So I don’t I think I missed one men’s home game. But like this last week, this past Wednesday, we had Kel McDaniel, the coach track coach on and a couple of the kids that had just broken Atlantic Sun Records at the track meet last week. So it was a blast. They wrote me and they said we can’t wait to be back on the show. And we got a pretty good following. Probably 15, 20 people come out and watch the show every week now and again, we’ve given money to the Owl Collective, which is like the. Arm of KSU to help raise money, because we say on the show every week, you know, you get 500 bucks to go to Georgia or to Georgia Tech or Clemson or Alabama. It doesn’t mean anything. You get 500 bucks, Kennesaw, you become part of the family. And I’ve learned that I’ve made so many new friends from doing this show, and it’s just a lot of fun. So that pretty much sums up my life. Brian, am I done?
Brian Pruett: [00:09:35] Not. Not quite. Not quite. For real. Quick, too, is an opportunity for businesses to sponsor any of those shows? Yep.
Chuck Burge: [00:09:42] 100 bucks a month will get you a show and you’ll get you a commercial on both shows every week. And again, same phone numbers. (770) 428-9930. And I think our phone number is 777 Go owls or no go sports no for 707 sports is the is the other number and the other one is for 709 goals. So there.
Brian Pruett: [00:10:06] You go. So another another cool thing. I don’t know if you know this, Sharon. So another former owl who played football is now the NXT, WWE wrestling champion. Is he really? Yeah. Bron Breakker Rick Steiner son. So I gotcha. But that’s cool. So and the other thing, you know, Sharon, you talked about your the radio station. I worked in the athletic department two different stints at KSU, some one time, 90 through 95, and then again oh 6 to 0 eight. So were you there? George Yes. George Olney Yeah, yeah. That was my second stint. So, you know.
Sharon Cline: [00:10:34] More people together. You guys are funny. Like you have lots of, like, intertwining histories.
Brian Pruett: [00:10:39] Yeah, we do. We do. So. So I do want to ask you, Chuck. You do a lot within the community other than this you network all the time and and stuff. So why is it important to be part of the community? Why do you do what you do?
Chuck Burge: [00:10:51] Well, you know, it’s funny. I’ve lived here my whole life. My brother used to run the YMCA back when he was on Austin Avenue in Marietta, back in the 60s and 70s. And that’s kind of why I got a feel for what he did and helping kids and all that stuff. And we took a group of kids, 46 underprivileged kids to International Falls, Minnesota, and we canoed to Canada for five days. And that was a trek. But I loved his passion for helping people and helping other organizations and always been involved. I actually started the Fellowship of Christian Athletes chapter at Kennesaw Junior College and also at Georgia Southern and just always been involved in some way. It’s just I’ve been blessed so much and I just want to give back. And I volunteer for Must Ministries was on the phone with Tom Garner this morning, and he was calling me saying how I was doing, but it’s I’m fortunate enough to be old enough to collect Social Security and all my bills are paid for. So now what I do is the things that I love and the things I’m passionate about.
Brian Pruett: [00:11:53] So that’s awesome. Yeah, I was part of FCA when I was at Kennesaw State as well the first time and got to hear Mark Marrow come another wrestler. I’m a big wrestling fan too, so as you can tell. But but anyway, so. Well, Chuck, I thank you for coming and sharing just a little bit of your story. Just if you don’t mind just hanging out for a minute. We’re going to listen to this next gentleman. And because I got a couple other questions for you as well as we go along. But Tim Turner from Satisfeed, thanks for being here this morning.
Tim Turner: [00:12:18] My pleasure.
Brian Pruett: [00:12:19] So, Tim, I guess gets the prize for coming the furthest. He drove all the way from Gwinnett this morning to be here.
Tim Turner: [00:12:26] I didn’t get on the road until 530.
Brian Pruett: [00:12:28] Yeah. So well I wasn’t even up yet, so. Wow. So we also found out Tim and I share some background, too. He came from Dayton, Ohio in 1979, and I came from Dayton, Ohio, in 1979. He also was a sports information director for Miami of Ohio. And I worked in the CID department at Kennesaw State. So it’s just all entangling. It’s pretty cool. Tim, so share about Satisfeed what you guys do, your vision and why you’re passionate about what you’re doing.
Tim Turner: [00:12:57] Satisfied feeds people, and we start with food because we know hunger interferes with healing. Back in 2001, my wife and I and our five children had just gotten back from a two month missions trip to Australia, and we were there for the 2000 Summer Olympics and Paralympics, which was just a. Life changing. So we come back and my boys are teenagers. And so they wanted to play baseball, so I enrolled them in fall baseball in Dunwoody and one of their teammates. His dad was running a food co-op in downtown Atlanta, actually within the shadow. The shout of Grant Park Zoo. And they tell the story that they could hear the lions roaring at night as they were getting ready to go to bed. So anyhow, I got the started talking with Chad, who’s the dad? And the more we talked. The more incredulous it became. It wasn’t logical to me that in the breadbasket of the world. There was this much hunger. Chad Hale was running a ministry in downtown Atlanta, a food ministry, and he had created 25 food co-ops of 25 families who would come to Thursdays a month. To come together. Unload the truck. Stock. Stock the shelves. Pack the banana boxes and then create community with each other to learn what they needed, what was what was going well. Where the where where were they suffering and how could they help each other? And the more I learned about it, the more smitten I became. And so I just I kept meeting with Chad. He had a passion for baseball. So once a year.
Tim Turner: [00:15:25] We would go down to the Braves stadium. Turner Turner Field, specifically on the day that Georgia and Georgia Tech would play their their fundraising game and we would go to the barbecue place diagonally across the street called Daddy D’s, which it’s unbelievable. The bar. And it is so throwback. It just it it is a shack. But the food that comes out of that place is to die for. So Chad and I would continue to talk. And then one day I picked up the phone and called the Board of Education. And I said. Nine months out of the year. You feed the kids. What happens to ten weeks of the summer? And it took him about two months to get back to me. And they said, well. We feed the kids who come to summer school for that three week period of time. But they have to get to them. They have to get to us. And they have to get home. And I said. That’s not a solution. 53% of your students are receiving free and reduced nine months out of the year. We’re talking about. 100,000 students. Not every student has to go to summer school, and they just kind of threw up their hands and said, that’s what we do. So. I started thinking about it, trying to figure out what was going on. And then I launched a mobile food pantry. In December of 2012. I had a I had a little Ryder box truck. The yellow truck. And so in a driving rainstorm, we went to an apartment complex that had 72 apartments, and we distributed 72 boxes of food to the the apartments.
Tim Turner: [00:17:32] It was principally 100% Hispanic. Many of the apartments. They were only two bedroom apartments. Many of those apartments had 6 or 8 construction workers. And it was you know, they were thrilled. It turns out that there were two single moms in the complex who were. Preparing empanadas. For the workers. So they would go to their houses in the morning and pick up their lunch. They come home at night and go to the ladies and pick up their dinner. So the ladies had had a cooking business right in the complex and and the guys were getting the food that they that brought back wonderful memories of home. Turns out one of the guys, one of the construction workers had been in the States for over 20 years. He was sending money back to Mexico. Every every time he got paid. He put his daughter through dental school. Wow. Yeah, I just it was incredible to me from the from the mobile pantry. I then was distributing food two Thursdays a month. I was going to the west side of Atlanta. My. My yellow Ryder truck. Coming back to Duluth, setting up a mobile operation. Tables, food. They would come down the hill with their banana boxes or their laundry baskets. Pick up the food and go back and. Then my food source became. Too many carbs and not enough protein. So I shut it down. That’s when I was introduced to most ministries. Summer lunch. So in the summer of 14, we launched summer lunch, and that first summer we served 5000 brown bag lunches, running three different routes, just within a ten, 15 minute drive time of our commissary.
Tim Turner: [00:19:58] And we did that for five, five summers. The summer of 18, it had grown from 5000 to 25,000, and we had an additional satellite location, but it was brown bag lunches. And so we were barely scratching the surface of the hunger issue, the food insecurity that that existed. But we were doing something. And that’s that was the bottom line for me. We can’t just turn our backs on it. We’ve got to do something. September of 18, I converted from summer lunch to a full fledged food pantry. Mirror image of what Chad Hale had trained me and taught me. And so at that point, we began serving families two Saturdays a month. And they were not only were they receiving, but they were also volunteering. They were helping us to unload the trucks, stock the shelves, clean the pantry and distribute the food. It was just a wonderful situation. I was just very, very I was very encouraged by the entire process. Shortly after we launched the pantry, we also launched a recovery program on Wednesday nights, and the director of the recovery program came to me and said, Tim, can we start feeding these folks that are coming for the recovery meeting? And I thought about it for about a minute and I said, Well, sure. So we then began every Wednesday night I would get volunteers from the recovery group and they would help me pack the bags.
Tim Turner: [00:21:55] And then we would distribute the bags to the folks as they were leaving the the recovery meeting. Covid hits just before COVID, we were serving 45 families and about 50 folks in recovery. Every families, two Saturdays a month recovery every week. When COVID hit. We went to 500 families a week. Wow. And we were operating out of 950ft². And we had 19 refrigerators or chest freezers that we had all of our all of our food in. And that first Saturday after COVID. My kids had sat me down the night before and said, Dad, you are not going in to distribute food. I said, you’re killing me. And they said, you’re not going. So I went. I went at 6:00 in the morning. I set everything up and then I handed it off to my volunteers. And I said, You all know how to do this. Here’s all the food. This is hot. And I went home and I was like a caged animal for the next four hours. I just kept pacing back and forth and pacing back and forth. And my wife was like, I got to get out of here. So at at the end of that distribution, we had served 135 families and there was not a speck of food left in the 19 refrigerators and freezers. It looked like the grasshoppers had come in and eaten everything. The cars were backed up for over a mile. And the police were very concerned. They came knocking on my door and saying, what are you doing? And I said, I’m feeding the people.
Tim Turner: [00:24:13] They said, well, I can’t have these. I can’t have all these cars backed up. So I had to figure out the traffic situation, all that to say from that point in March of 22. Today we are still serving every Saturday. Wow. And now we moved from the intersection of Peachtree Industrial and Pleasant Hill over in Duluth to the parking lot that’s immediately adjacent to the Gwinnett Stripers baseball stadium. And my guests start lining up at 630 in the morning. So by the time we open the doors, euphemistically open the doors at 9:00, because we’re still doing a drive through. There’s somewhere around 70 or 80 cars in line, which represents over 100 families because they they pack their families into the car. So there are maybe 2 or 3, 4 or 5 families in a vehicle. And so from 9 to 11 Saturday mornings, we have cars going through and we’re loading somewhere in the neighborhood of 70 pounds of food per family. Into the back of their vehicle. And from all we’ve seen and all we’ve understood that 70 pounds of food is providing them with a week to ten days worth of food. Expands their budget. It allows them to not have to make a decision of do I pay the water bill or do I feed my kids? Because the food we’re distributing is principally. Meet. And veggies. We don’t do. We do very little when it comes to carbs. We have the bread and we have bagels. But beyond that, it’s meat and it’s veggies. And it’s it’s just beautiful.
Brian Pruett: [00:26:35] So if somebody is listening and wants to know how they can get involved, I’m assuming there’s ways that the community and businesses can be involved in helping you. Oh, absolutely. How can they do that?
Tim Turner: [00:26:44] Well, there’s a couple of ways. First thing is our website, which is satisfied s as in Sam, A T as in Tom I. S, as in Sam F as in Frank E, D as in david.org. Now, if you put it into your spell check, it’s going to come up satisfied. So make sure it’s satisfied.org. That’s the first place. And then my telephone number is 470. 2028114. And that hits my hip. Whether it be a text or a voicemail or a phone call. And then the other way is what I call show and tell. Uh, the show and tell process is pretty simple. And I remember growing up in elementary school, you know, the dad would come in, who was the fireman, and he would tell all about being a fireman. And I just, Wow, this is cool. So I thought, why don’t I invite my guests to to show and tell? And it works. Usually what happens is that they will come on campus to kick our tires to see what are we doing? How are we doing it? Why are we doing it? Then they leave. They and they register to volunteer. So they become a first time volunteer. And then they come a second time and they bring their friends or they bring their family. And that’s what’s really important for me is middle school, high school, college. All the way up to the blue hairs. And believe me, I got some.
Brian Pruett: [00:28:37] Well, or no hair.
Tim Turner: [00:28:41] Anyhow, they all come and volunteer. It is. I have we. We need about 35 volunteers a week. And they will help to distribute. 22, 25,000 pounds of food in that two hour period of time. And we look like a MASH unit because I don’t have any interior storage space. So I have I have six containers, four of which are refrigerated. And two, which are dry. And that’s where we store our assets. We store our two forklifts, all of our pallet jacks, and then all of the food, whether it be frozen, refrigerated or shelf stable. We have the capacity to store it. And then we roll it out Saturday mornings at 6:00 in the morning. We roll it in at 1:00 Saturday afternoons. And it’s like we weren’t we were never there.
Brian Pruett: [00:29:49] How about another way for businesses that might be wanting to financially support you? There are ways to do that.
Tim Turner: [00:29:54] Great question right now. I’m at a I’m at a tipping point because I love food drives. Food drives are just phenomenal. And we can give the business a list of the primary items that we need and they collect it and then they bring it to us. Or they can call us and we can go out and pick it up. Usually what happens is the employees will go to Kroger, Ingles or Publix and they’ll spend 20 bucks and that 20 bucks will maybe include a dozen items from macaroni and cheese to whatever. And that’s great. If they were to take that same $20 and donate it to us. We would be able to distribute 80 meals. Wow. So I love the food. It’s going to go. We’re going to distribute it. But it’s more cost effective. For us. If they make the $20 donation. And interestingly enough, that 20 a $25 donation will feed a family of three for a month. Three meals a day. For for a month now.
Brian Pruett: [00:31:29] Wow. Awesome. Well, if you guys are listening, you just heard two great organizations and two gentlemen are doing great things in the community, helping other people other than the reason why you just shared your story and why you started status Feed share, why it’s important to be part of the community.
Tim Turner: [00:31:45] I have the unusual opportunity to look my guests in the eye every single vehicle. Not only see their pain, but see their joy and their relief that they’re getting food. And I know food is a very, very, very simple. Item. But the difference that it makes from the infant. To the great grandparent. It’s life changing. We’re talking about schools earlier. In the typical classroom of 30 students. Right now. 15 of those students. Are food insecure. Mhm. The teacher doesn’t know which ones they are. But hunger exists. Food insecurity exists. Hunger exists. Food deserts exist, and food waste exists. And those four elements, if we can get them to work together. We overcome hunger. We overcome food insecurity, we overcome deserts, and we overcome waste.
Brian Pruett: [00:33:14] Now, You know, it’s amazing. You talked about the life changing thing. And to me, it’s those little things, right? Everybody thinks talks about these big, big things. It’s the little things that make the differences. Not saying the big things don’t, but the little things make more differences than than the big things. I love doing the smaller community events because I can see the community come together, have fun, and then the the effect it has on whoever I’m doing the event for. Even if it’s just a smaller check versus a very large check. You know, and as somebody pointed out to me not too long ago, that what I’m doing. You know, these are even smaller than karaoke. But what I’m doing and I never thought about this is I’m helping provide the daily financial means for these nonprofits. It’s kind of cool.
Chuck Burge: [00:34:06] Well, you know what amazes me, Brian? If you excuse me, but you’re listening to Tim’s story and knowing mine and knowing yours. You know, there’s so many great charities out there, so many good charities, and there’s a lot of great companies. And the things they all get service is because of the passion that the people have for a particular thing. Some people say, I hate to see people go hungry. Some people say, and nine over 11 affected me deeply and that’s why I got involved with the firefighters. And that’s why Charlie Dairy and my title sponsor with Charlie’s Angels Movers got involved with me and she said, As long as Chuck’s doing this, I’m going to be the title sponsor because everybody’s got a passion about something. I mean, some people don’t care about sponsoring karaoke because they may be passionate about feeding people, and some people won’t feed people because they’re more concerned about the firefighters based on what they’ve got or who they’ve had. And fortunately, Charlie and I have had the same passion for the three years, but the same people like she supports you too. But there are other people that support every charity out there. But from my personal perspective, if you tell your story enough, you’re going to find somebody that wants to help. And if they tell somebody, if they tell somebody, that’s how we make this place a better place to live. This world.
Brian Pruett: [00:35:19] That’s another reason why I started the show. I mean, because there’s too much mainstream negative media. Let’s pump all the positive we can back out there. What I love, too, is we had a couple of weeks ago, we had Doug Belisle, who was the director for the Good Neighbor Homeless Shelter in Cartersville. And you and he have the same terminology, which I think is awesome. It’s their guests. They’re not you know, I just like that, you know, because they’re being respected, right? No matter what their circumstance is, they’re still being respected. And I just think that’s really, really cool. Um, I got a couple of questions I’d like to ask both of you. And Chuck, we’ll start back with you. I always like to kind of wrap a show up in this way, but before I do that, I do want to do one house cleaning or house cleaning house maintenance, whatever you want. Housekeeping. Housekeeping. Thank you. You know, it’s that live moment. We will not have a show next week. Next weekend is my wedding anniversary, and I’m taking my wife. Congrats. Thank you to Decatur, Alabama, for their hot air balloon festival. So if I’m not if I’m here and not on the road with her, I’m in trouble.
Chuck Burge: [00:36:23] I’ve always wanted to be in a hot air balloon. Can I come? Sure.
Brian Pruett: [00:36:26] You can take my spot because I will not be in a hot air balloon.
Tim Turner: [00:36:30] How many.
Brian Pruett: [00:36:30] Years? It’ll be seven.
Sharon Cline: [00:36:32] Congratulations.
Brian Pruett: [00:36:33] Thank you.
Tim Turner: [00:36:33] Thank you. Patty and I celebrate 45 next Saturday.
Sharon Cline: [00:36:37] Awesome. What? Your anniversaries are the same weekend, too. Wow. Take it. Take all these things. Right. It’s amazing.
Chuck Burge: [00:36:44] I don’t have an anniversary.
Tim Turner: [00:36:47] You will in a year.
Sharon Cline: [00:36:49] Truth.
Chuck Burge: [00:36:51] I guess I will. Yeah.
Brian Pruett: [00:36:53] What is that one for?
Chuck Burge: [00:36:55] Recovering from my surgery.
Brian Pruett: [00:36:56] There you go. There you go. You actually. You technically have one every single year on your birthday.
Chuck Burge: [00:37:01] I prefer not to talk about that, but. Yeah.
Brian Pruett: [00:37:05] So. All right. Real quick, I do like to ask this question because, I mean, everybody’s heard your stories, what you’re passionate about, why you’re doing what you’re doing. I just like for each of you to share either a quote, a term, a piece of positive nugget people can live today and beyond with. So, Chuck, what do you want to start with?
Chuck Burge: [00:37:24] Well, I’m going to cry if I do this. Mine is Jimmy Valvano’s. If you laugh, if you think and you are brought to tears in a day, that’s a good day.
Brian Pruett: [00:37:34] That’s awesome. Awesome. Tim, how about you?
Tim Turner: [00:37:37] A day without a smile is not a good day.
Chuck Burge: [00:37:40] Sounds like a Barry Manilow song. There you.
Brian Pruett: [00:37:41] Go. There you go. I know you’ve done this before, Sharon, but give me one.
Sharon Cline: [00:37:46] I really think it’s very important to treat people how you want to be treated. It’s kind of the basic golden rule. But I do think if you lead with that, that it just kind of exponentially touches people. So yeah, treat people how you want to be treated. Be kind.
Brian Pruett: [00:38:00] I like to yes. I like what Doug shared earlier because all of these are the great two and you think about all of them. But when Doug was here, it puts us all in perspective that we all have to think about. Everybody has a story, so I don’t care if you’re having a bad day or a good day. Remember that person, whoever you’re dealing with, has a story and something’s going on and you have the same same thing going on. So Chuck, Tim, I really appreciate you guys coming and sharing your stories, sharing what your passions are and how you’re involved with the community and doing what you’re doing. Everybody listening. Let’s remember. Let’s be positive. Let’s be charitable.
