 We're 7th, that's a Friday. We will be voting our annual DAB Homeless Veterans standout. This is an event that connects homeless and at-risk veterans with community resources and support, including a free pair of ceds, free meal, and basic necessities. This event is made possible by generous volunteers and community supporters, including a standup wireless, who I'm joined with today. I'm joined by Nathan Stierwald, who's the Chief Sales and Marketing Officer for Standup. We thank you so much for being here. Thank you for having us. Thank you so much. Can you tell us a little bit about Standup Wireless and the work we all do? Yeah, absolutely. So Standup Wireless is a privately owned and seed-based here in the United States. Our headquarters are out of Washington, D.C. And what we do is we provide wireless services for those in need. So whether it be low-income, fixed-income, disinnovasable, or other various types of government assistance, that should be specialized in helping connect them to other individuals. And can you tell us about Standup's initiative to support veterans specifically? Yeah, absolutely. So as a son of a veteran and also a person who is very, very passionate about our veteran community, I identified a need where we have so many veterans that are out there that could just utilize our assistance. And so that's where it just made sense for us to step in and stand up, right? Stand up to help our veterans and help them be connected to the world. Tell us why I think most of us probably take telephone services for granted. It's embedded in our everyday life. Tell us how telephone services can help connect, again, veterans and meticulousness of their communities. Yeah, absolutely. So unfortunately, we're in a situation where individuals are having to make hard decisions, right? And those hard decisions are between medical bills, their utility bills, and who's that nature. And so fortunately, Standup Wireless has the ability to be able to provide that service for free. And so that allows them not only to be in touch with their community, right? So doctors, family members, education sector, right? So if they have kids that are in school, we experience that really during COVID where people are left behind because they didn't have connectivity. Whether it be through phone service or internet service. And so that's really where we get to step in and help bridge that gap, right? We get to bridge that, it deals with the vibe for our veterans. Any specific example, I think that you've witnessed, personally, in terms of how these services that have helped them. Yeah, I mean, fortunately, they get to experience this on a day-in, day-out basis. I'm very, very lucky that I actually get to work in an environment where we get to help people. And so on a daily basis, we truly get to identify and see these experiences where individuals were getting left behind, kids were getting left behind, veterans were getting left behind and couldn't get basic support that you and I get to take for granted, right? So being able to contact their doctors just as an example, right? Telehealth really became a thing during COVID. If you don't have internet access, if you don't have phone access, you don't have access to dollars, right? Individuals who don't have the ability to have transportation. Fortunately, we guys have all these transportation vehicles that help with that, right? But for the individuals that don't, right? They are dependent on this type of service to be able to have just the basic needle of connection with the doctors. That's where we get to step in. That's where we get to help out. This is where we get to serve our mission of connecting to these veterans and bridging that digital divide. And so tell us why Stand Up Wireless wanted to support and participate in the homeless veterans did. Oh my gosh. So I was fortunate that pre-COVID, we talked about the timeline of COVID, right? Pre-COVID, we had the opportunity to actually support one of the standouts. I knew it was gonna be impactful. I didn't realize how impactful it was gonna be. Until you were actually here and you're getting to physically experience the impact that we're having with these individuals, you mentioned the haircuts. You have medical services on site, right? You had, I remember there being clothing tribes going on and helping those individuals get those things. I recall there being people on site to help Ashley with jobs. Well, if you apply for a job today, what do you need? Internet, right? You need a phone number for people to call you back to be able to offer you those jobs. So it was a natural connection for Stand Up Wireless to be part of that community, to be able to provide the service so they can actually go online and apply for those jobs, get the phone call and make that connection to be able to actually apply for those jobs. It's just a natural fit for us. So you all will be in attendance to have Lou set up to help folks. Anything in particular that you're most looking forward to about that? I'm looking forward to continue to connect with the better community. I'm looking forward to continue to support and get back to our better community. I'm looking forward to actually seeing in person the impact that we're able to see with individuals walking away on that day with our services, smiling their face, making that first phone call, be able to get their first internet connectivity and allowing us to actually continue to serve our mission of bridging vision to buy for today's veterans. Nathan, thank you so much. Anything else you'd like to add? No, just God bless America and thank you so much for having us. I'm sincerely appreciative. Thank you for your support, for your caching through the veterans community. Thank you all for watching. Visit DAV.org for all of our like, teaching and free services. Again, the DAV homeless veteran stand down is October 7th.