Let Me Tell You This About That
Let Me Tell You This About That is a weekly heart-to-heart between lifelong friends Hess and Delbert. With six decades of friendship, struggles, triumphs, and life lessons between them, they invite listeners to pull up a chair and join their intimate conversations about everything from daily challenges to life's bigger questions.
Think of it as your weekly dose of wisdom and warmth, served up by two friends who've seen it all and aren't afraid to share both their victories and vulnerabilities. Each episode feels less like a podcast and more like joining two trusted mentors for coffee, where genuine conversation flows freely and every listener is welcomed like family.
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Let Me Tell You This About That
Take Care of Yourself and Others--SNAP to it!
November 2, 2025 Episode 55
Taking Care of Yourself and Others—Snap to It!
On today’s episode, Delbert is NOT on the green couch joining in on the conversation with Hess—because of the SNAP benefits being paused, she is has been asked by more schools to help kids with food insecurity—her time this morning, is taking care of those burdens being placed on families and kids. Hess wanted to still show up because it is important for you know how it affects so many, including the helpers like Delbert. SNAP is an important federal program since 1964 that helps families with food insecurity. It is tied to the Farm Bill, and is implemented and distributed through each state. A family of 4 could get as much as $900 dollars a month to buy food related items, and it allows them to use other money’s to pay their rent and other expenses. It helps them afford healthy foods like fruits and vegetables. Hunger causes other social ills to arise, like kids not being able to study and concentrate, businesses losing income, losing housing, crime rising, etc. Be a helper, do what you can!!
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One of her mission's is for all of our lights to shine--when we see each other and allow ourself to be seen--and we can say to the person in front of us, There You Are! the world will be an amazing place!
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Her philanthropic work to continue her sister Carole and niece Meghan is Carole's Kitchen. Blessings in a Backpack helps feed the many hungry students in our schools. The instagram account is: https://www.instagram.com/caroleskitchen.nonprofit?utm_source=ig_web_button_share_sheet&igsh=ZDNlZDc0MzIxNw=...
Hello, this is Hess and I am sitting in the white chair looking out the window, and unfortunately this morning Delbert is not on the green couch joining us. Delbert's it's not our usually Sunday, our usual Sunday morning chat. She contacted me yesterday and gave me a heads up. She is busy in her advocation of helping kids in Louisville with food insecurity, with the SNAP benefits stopping yesterday on November 1st. She's been asked this past week, like bunches of other schools have reached out to her for food support. I think she told me like 15. So she's doing a bunch of food drives. And I'll list them at the bottom here for you to help support that. And she has some things set up. So I was up late last night watching 11 innings of the World Series. I was for the Blue Jays and they almost won it. They had two opportunities to win it, or they had bases full with one, with only one out. And all they would've had to do was a popup fly. But, and that happened twice, but with the fantastic pitching by the Dodgers, they struck the batter out. And so then with just then with two outs, the Blue Jays and I called'em the ojs'cause I just like saying that the Blue Jays were not able to do that pop-up fly thing. And score a runner. Anyhow, I wanna talk to you all about Snap. What is it? Yeah, I just wanna show up for you and like the way Delbert showing up for food for Kids. We're all in this together. Even though I'm alone on this podcast and it feels a little empty it feels real empty without the Delbert. You all are important to us and our conversations, you all are important for these times, and we can work together and contribute so we don't have a weather report from Delbert this morning and her good humor and her partnership on this. But I know that she's hear in spirit, so I'd just like to talk to you all and see where you're at. Let's have a conversation, a Sunday morning chat about where you're at with what's going on and how you're affected because you're important to us. We love you. What are you doing? What can you do? I was at my conference in Chicago last weekend and at the airport in O'Hare. I asked the ts, I asked this TSA guy are you getting paid? He said, Nope, but I'm glad I have a job. He replied, A friend I was with the other night, she's worked for the IRS for over 20 years. She had a friend from work with her and they're not getting paid. They're on furlough. Are you gonna get back pay? We hope so. She said, so there's a lot of federal workers that aren't getting their paychecks. There's a lot of tough stuff going on. So let me go into SNAP and what is it exactly? Snap is a supplemental nutritional assistance program. It was started in 1964 by President Lyndon b Johnson. It helps an average of now get this number. It helps an average number of 41.7 million Americans a month, one in eight Americans. I remember a long time ago I might see somebody at the checkout counter. At the a and p and they had actual stamps, food stamps, and now it's a card, like a credit card. And that's a whole lot better, right? There's less embarrassment. They're just bringing out a card at the checkout line. But gosh, one in eight people in America. That's the embarrassing thing. Not that people have to use it, but yeah, and it's, it is known as Food Stamps Anti-Hunger program, and it was invented to help families afford meals. In the face of rising food costs, an average family of four might receive a little over$900, and it's all income dependent. Immigration status dependent non-citizens are not getting SNAP benefits. It helps the Americans that are most vulnerable people with low incomes, seniors, older adults, children, veterans, people with disabilities. It is a major stimulator for the US economy. It's a main source of income for a lot of retailers, so when the SNAP benefits aren't there, retailers are hurt. It's funded via the farm bill and it's administered by the state. So it's the state that distributes it to eligible residents. Then recipients can spend that money on food and beverages. They're not allowed to spend it on certain things, like alcohol, tobacco, non-food, things. You can't use it with prepared foods. I, I don't think women can use it for feminine needs. I think that's crazy. But it's part of the largest federal nutritional program. Redu. It reduces food insecurity. Bert's talk so much on our pod that, and it's such a fact that when kids live with food insecurity, and that's what her program in Louisville is there to help. How can that child study, how can you think when you're hungry? I didn't eat breakfast right away. When I got up, I usually do, and it was a couple hours into the morning that I ate my Love Crunch cereal and my body felt pretty uncomfortable. I started to get hangry. Can you imagine going all day without eating what it feels like? So people that are on this SNAP program with food insecurity, they have limited access, to good food and vegetables and fruit. And so having this$900 can help'em buy those kind of things, nutritional food, and also they could use that$900 they might spend on food for their rent. The people that receive snap, they have jobs. Sometimes they have two jobs. Usually it's in the service industry. It's not lazy. People getting SNAP benefits, God's pantry. It's a huge warehouse and it's based here in Lexington and it serves about 50 counties in central and eastern Kentucky. I remember when I visited there a couple years ago, they told me that this one county, I forgot exactly what county it is. It's one of the two poorest counties in the whole United States. Oh. There's over 600,000 Kentuckians children, seniors, and working families that depend on Snap. In this whole state, God's pantry sees an increase in demand from their. From God's pantry because there's about 17,000 federal workers that work in central and Eastern Kentucky that they're not getting their paychecks, and that creates more pressure on God's pantry. The President for God's Pantry stated that every one meal that God's pantry serves. Every one meal that the food bank provides, the SNAP provides nine, and God's pantry can't fill that gap alone. They need donors. One in six people in Kentucky don't know where they're gonna receive their next meal. One in five in central and eastern Kentucky don't know where they're gonna receive their next meal. God's pantry sends its food out to over 500 food pantries and meal programs across central and eastern Kentucky. The vision of God's pantry is to nourish life for every kentuckian to nourish life, for every kentuckian. Yeah. It's not just food, it's life. It's living. Their mission is to reduce hunger by working together to feed the Kentucky communities. Andy Beshear has created a food emergency across the state. He said that the monthly cost of Snap and Kentucky's about a hundred million dollars. The monthly cost a hundred million dollars and that it provides assistance to 600,000 Kentuckians. When we have that food insecurity, it doesn't help the overall wellbeing and the mental wellbeing of people and other social problems can increase without food, incur without food security, crime and things like that can increase. Be one of the helpers. Do what you can do. Donate, send money. Take food. At the end of the pod I'll put down Bert's drop off points and what she needs for her pantries anyway. So even though my team, the Blue Jays didn't win last night, there were a lot of people that were glad the Dodgers won, a lot of Dodgers fans, the Blue Jays, they did play really well. There's really a positive about that. Yeah. Another thing that happened early yesterday morning was Martha Lane, Collins died. She was 88 years of age When she became governor of Kentucky. She was only the third female governor, the only the third female that had become governor in the United States, and she's still the only female governor for Kentucky. She helped revolutionize the state's economy. By landing that Toyota manufacturing plant there in Georgetown. She was also really big in helping with educational reform and something that, that we're in the horse industry really have benefited from she began the Kentucky Horse Park. Anyway, she's gonna be missed. She did great things. Remember Delbert and us have said it's not the big things. Just do whatever little small thing that you can. Delbert, I miss you today. I love you. We love you pods, and I know that you can understand Delbert leaning in and having to do everything that she can for those students with food insecurity. Plus run a real estate business. To help those kids get some food. Y'all peace and love. I don't mean to be a Debbie Downer on this kind of damp Sunday morning. There's a sunshine above those clouds. There's more good than bad, and always look for the helpers and be a helper. We love you.