675. The fascinating world of Mourning Doves with Elizabeth Stoaks.
Release Date: 08/04/2025
699. Don Crost makes it to the end of Route 66 bringing awareness to ShelterBox'd relief to millions in desperate need.
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Don Crost set out from Evanston Illinois to California in his 1953 truck on Route 66. He did this to bring awareness to ShelterBox. ShelterBox is a global disaster relief organization that provides emergency shelter and essential household items to families displaced by natural disasters and conflict. It supplies items like tents, tarpaulins, and cooking equipment, and offers aid that is tailored to the specific needs of each community and disaster, such as tools for repairs or water filters. He is raising money for it's funding that sincerely helps people all over the world. Helping...
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698. You Just Have To Take Risks to get to a better place.
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Taking a risk is a choice. Sometimes a scary one, but never the less a leap of faith to get to a new and better place. Some risks lead to places we may not have wanted to go, but ended up being better place because we took the risk. Thank you all for being a part of the You Just Have To Laugh Family. yjhtl.com
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697. Hospice is to be embraced not feared and Meaghan Wood-Georgiana shares the heart and care of her calling to help people through life's most vulnerable time.
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Meaghan Wood-Georgiana serves as Hospice Outreach Coordinator for Kansas Palliative & Hospice and Missouri Palliative & Hospice, where she leads community engagement and education initiatives. Drawing on her clinical background in various management roles in Assisted Living, Skilled Nursing, and Memory Care and academic experience as an adjunct college instructor, Meaghan designs and delivers in-service programs that empower healthcare teams with practical skills and compassionate approaches to end-of-life care. She holds a master’s degree in gerontology with a specialization in...
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696. What is the meaning of The Messiah from the Christian and Jewish perspective? With Reverend Bob Hill and Rabbi Michael Zedek
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Reverend Bob Hill and Rabbi Michael Zedek join the YJHTL podcast once again to offer their unique perspectives. This time we will be discussing the Messiah. It's always a joy to discuss different insights on a subject that is dear and important to those in the Christian and Jewish faith. Just as humor, laughter, music and helping other are part of the YJHTL message - so is faith. We thank you, Michael and Bob for being a part of the YJHTL family.
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695. Let's start this month off with some funny stuff and facts about animals with your very funny host, David.
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This episode is just to make you laugh with some very funny jokes and intetresting facts about your favorite animals. David offers his unique humourous twist about these glorious creatures we share the planet with.
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694. Helping others is the heart of You Just Have to LAUGH and these two stories PROVE IT!
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These two, true stories prove the impotance of helping others. The YJHTL philosophy - Example is the only way to teach. Hopefully you will do the same in helping others. When we do, we help ourselves as well.
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693. Bukeka Blakemore is about to light up your heart and soul with her joyful gifts of music and caring.
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Through global connection, community engagement, and creative enterprise, Bukeka empowers people worldwide. She is an award-winning singer, speaker, and songwriter, recognized for her inspiring voice, both on and off the stage. Her unique storytelling emphasizes equitable leadership, diversity, inclusion, and creativity in business Bukeka is also the Co-Founder and CEO of FAVunite is a multimedia enterprise uniting FAVunite TV (video streaming) and FAVunite Radio (digital audio) under one mission: to center Black stories, creators, and culture...
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692. Standing on the Corner in Winslow, Arizona - Don Crost keeps the Route 66 ShelterBox boogie going.
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Making his way across the country on Route 66, Don Crost is bringing the importance of Shelter Box to the world. ShelterBoxes include family-size tents, though the contents differ depending on the disaster and climate. Many are packed with solar lights, water storage and purification equipment, thermal blankets, and cooking utensils. Depending on need, the organization may deliver ShelterKits, smaller aid packages that include tools, ropes, and heavy tarpaulins used to provide emergency shelter and repair damaged structures. Don is raising money as well as awareness to helping...
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691. Route 66 and Healing with Shaman Don and ShelterBox
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The You Just Have to Laugh connects on Don Crost’s Route 66 journey to California – bringing awareness to ShelterBox. Rotary’s ShelterBox brings shelter and relief to those in serious need after a major catastrophe. YJHTL is dedicated in helping others. Picture (Don Crost and Bonnie Johnson) Link to donation - https://shelterboxusa.org/blog/2500-miles-for-25-years
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690. Shelter Box heads on Route 66 to bring awareness to help real people in a real crisis to bring shelter.
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Don Crost joins the YJHTL podcast to share the brilliance of the Rotary shelter box. The signature green boxes are adapted to fit the emergency before being transported on scant notice. Most boxes include family-size tents, though the contents differ depending on the disaster and climate. Many are packed with solar lights, water storage and purification equipment, thermal blankets, and cooking utensils. Depending on need, the organization may deliver ShelterKits, smaller aid packages that include tools, ropes, and heavy tarpaulins used to provide emergency shelter and repair damaged...
info_outlineEver since Mourning Doves started using my patio as their nesting home I have been fascinated by these glorious creatures. Elizabeth Stoaks joins the YJHTL podcast to explain all about Mourning Doves. Elizabeth is with the Burroughs Audubon Society of Greater Kansas City.
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