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The Dream Big Raffle Can Get You Incredible Prizes And Make A Huge Difference For Special Olympics Southern California · The iHeart SoCal Show

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  Speaker 1: Hi, Lisa Fox.
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  Speaker 2: Here, it's time for the seventeenth Anneal Dream Big Raffle
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  Speaker 2: or Special Olympics. Southern California is raffling off cars, vacations,
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  Speaker 2: and more than twenty eight hundred prizes, including the grand
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  Speaker 2: prize of a gorgeous mansion in Calabasas or.
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  Speaker 1: A million bucks if you don't want to take the house. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: such a tough decision, but hey, both would be amazing.
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  Speaker 2: And all these proceeds do incredible things to enrich the
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  Speaker 2: lives of special needs athletes through sports leadership and wellness programs.
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  Speaker 2: They do such incredible work year round for these athletes
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  Speaker 2: and their families. Are going to dive into all of it,
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  Speaker 2: and of course talk all about the Dream Big Raffle
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  Speaker 2: with the gal who's been with them for over twenty years.
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  Speaker 2: They're belleb CEO. My friend Kelly Pond.
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  Speaker 3: Hi, Kelly yay, Hi, Hi Lisa, So good to talk
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  Speaker 3: to you, and holy moly, you know us so well.
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  Speaker 1: I love the.
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  Speaker 3: Energy that you bring to a Dream Big Raffle and
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  Speaker 3: all things Special Olympics. So first of all, just thank
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  Speaker 3: you so much for your incredible support.
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  Speaker 2: Of course, of course, well this is a really fun
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  Speaker 2: one to talk about because I mean it's fun for
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  Speaker 2: people who buy a ticket and can be a part
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  Speaker 2: of the winning, but also knowing where the money goes
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  Speaker 2: is everything. So it's a win win for everybody to
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  Speaker 2: buy a ticket and be a part of it, have
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  Speaker 2: a chance of these incredible prizes, and to know where
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  Speaker 2: the money is going.
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  Speaker 1: That's what it's all about.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, we're special Olympics. You know, we're one hundred percent
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  Speaker 3: free to the athletes and their families. We provide year
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  Speaker 3: round sports training, competition, free health programs, programs in our
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  Speaker 3: schools and leadership programs as you mentioned, all free and
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  Speaker 3: the Dream Big Raffle is one of our largest fundraising initiatives.
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  Speaker 3: Its raised millions of dollars over the years and it
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  Speaker 3: also creates thousands of winners. Like you said, everyone that
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  Speaker 3: participates the one and twenty five chance of winning a prize.
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  Speaker 3: And if you've seen the pictures, this year's grand prize
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  Speaker 3: is an incredible home with canyon views in Calabasset or
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  Speaker 3: one million dollars in cash, and of course twenty eight
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  Speaker 3: one hundred other prizes including cars, vacation homes, cash, electronics,
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  Speaker 3: gift cards, all the things.
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  Speaker 2: I've got to think that by now, because you know,
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  Speaker 2: in your seventeenth year of doing the Dream Big Raffle,
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  Speaker 2: it's got to be a pretty easy phone call to
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  Speaker 2: get all these things right.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, you have these incredible trips to give away
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  Speaker 1: all over the world.
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  Speaker 2: You've got these super cool, brandy beautiful vehicles, You've got
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  Speaker 2: all these tech gifts, gifts from home, this gorgeous mansion
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  Speaker 2: and Calabasas I mean, and the reputation of Special Olympics
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  Speaker 2: Southern California. I'm thinking when you called, they're like, oh, yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: we're in whatever you want.
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  Speaker 1: We'll do it whatever you need.
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  Speaker 3: We're very lucky that we have wonderful partnership that helped
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  Speaker 3: make this fundraiser possible every year. And I will also
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  Speaker 3: say we're very lucky to have so many supporters that
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  Speaker 3: are willing to participate and buy tickets and enter for
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  Speaker 3: that chance to win and also a chance to support
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  Speaker 3: Special Olympics Southern California athletes. You know, with the Dream
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  Speaker 3: Big Raffle, we're always trying to add new and fresh
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  Speaker 3: ways to keep it exciting for participants so they'll want
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  Speaker 3: to come back and support your year. Yeah, this year
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  Speaker 3: for the first time. You can also purchase tickets through
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  Speaker 3: SMS text message, which has been something that makes it
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  Speaker 3: easier for people to participate. And then we still have
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  Speaker 3: you know, lots of added bonus ways to win, So
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  Speaker 3: we have early bird drawings, so our next early bird
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  Speaker 3: to drawing, if you buy tickets by April twenty fourth,
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  Speaker 3: you also get entered into an additional chance to win
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  Speaker 3: a twenty twenty six electric Mini Cooper Exciting. And we
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  Speaker 3: also have multi tickets package drawings where if you buy
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  Speaker 3: multiple tickets you get entered to win a twenty twenty
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  Speaker 3: six Genesis. And then you have add on weekly drawings
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  Speaker 3: where if you buy add on tickets, we're giving away
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  Speaker 3: of dollars each week. So in addition to the you know,
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  Speaker 3: dream Big Raffle itself, there's like all these add on
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  Speaker 3: ways to win even more prices, and it's really easy.
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  Speaker 2: Just go to the website for all the information. Honestly,
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  Speaker 2: you're gonna be on there for a while because you're
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  Speaker 2: not going to believe all the possibilities that you could
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  Speaker 2: win when you see the list and all the gorgeous
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  Speaker 2: pictures of these vacations and the cars and the cash
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  Speaker 2: and all the stuff. So cal Raffle dot com is
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  Speaker 2: the website, by the way, for the dream big Raffle.
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  Speaker 1: So cal Raffle dot com. And then yeah, so it's
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  Speaker 1: going on.
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  Speaker 2: Now, what's our official we have until when it's constantly
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  Speaker 2: every day you can buy every week. There's additional additional incentives.
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  Speaker 2: But when is it? What's our deadline to make sure we.
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  Speaker 3: Get people on there. Yeah, deadline to buy tickets is
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  Speaker 3: May twenty second. That's our final opportunity to buy tickets. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I love the transparency of this contest too, because I
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  Speaker 2: enter every year buy tickets, and I love it. Now
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  Speaker 2: I don't need to call because before it was a
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  Speaker 2: phone call. You give your credit card over the phone,
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  Speaker 2: and you know, make sure it's verified person and your information,
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  Speaker 2: keeping it private.
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  Speaker 1: Now we can do the texting. I love that as well.
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  Speaker 2: But at the end of all this, you release all
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  Speaker 2: the names of every person who won everything, which got
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  Speaker 2: me very excited.
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  Speaker 1: All the Lisas that win I feel, I'm like, is
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  Speaker 1: it mein Lisa?
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  Speaker 2: Oh different Lisa, but no, very cool to see every
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  Speaker 2: name of every person who did indeed win every prize
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  Speaker 2: of the twenty eight hundred prizes. It's all right, there
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  Speaker 2: on the website, that's.
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  Speaker 3: Right, and go to Sokelraffle dot com to check to
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  Speaker 3: see all the winners that we select. We also have
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  Speaker 3: live drawings for each early bird and then the grand
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  Speaker 3: prize drawing is live online, so you can watch in
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  Speaker 3: whose names we pick.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, so you're probably doing that, right, You're probably doing
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  Speaker 2: that because you know you're you do the KTLA. You're
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  Speaker 2: all over the TV commercials promoting this thing.
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  Speaker 1: And there's Kelly Pond on TV. So proud, right, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: so proud.
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  Speaker 3: I get to do it. I get to do it
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  Speaker 3: alongside some of our athletes who are really the stars,
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  Speaker 3: so you know, so I would say that's who you
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  Speaker 3: really want to tune in and watch because we usually
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  Speaker 3: partner with some of our athlete leaders that will share
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  Speaker 3: their story and how you supporting the Raffle goes to
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  Speaker 3: help support them and their experiences with Special Olympics.
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  Speaker 1: I love that.
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  Speaker 2: Now I have to like set the date and make
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  Speaker 2: sure I'm watching because I want to see you guys
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  Speaker 2: do that live. And as you know, I've mentioned over
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  Speaker 2: the years my cousin. My cousin has rubal palsy and
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  Speaker 2: he's been a part of the Special Olympics up in
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  Speaker 2: Northern California for a number of years and it's just
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  Speaker 2: such a special part of our family. And I know
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  Speaker 2: how much it means to the families of these athletes
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  Speaker 2: because it's something that they look forward to and work
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  Speaker 2: towards year round. It's not just about the summer games
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  Speaker 2: or you know, things here and there. This is something
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  Speaker 2: that they work hard for a year round and just
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  Speaker 2: talk about you know, you, as a person who's been
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  Speaker 2: with the organization for over twenty years, talk about that
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  Speaker 2: connection and why it's so important for these athletes to
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  Speaker 2: have Special Olympics in their life.
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  Speaker 3: Absolutely, as we talked about before, I started as a volunteer.
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  Speaker 3: And so one thing I'll say is for anyone out
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  Speaker 3: there interested in a volunteer experience, I invite you to
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  Speaker 3: come out to a Special Olympics event we have. We're
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  Speaker 3: just kicking off our spring sports season, so there are
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  Speaker 3: many competitions that are happening, likely in your community that
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  Speaker 3: you can go out and support. Once you volunteer. You know, Lisa,
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  Speaker 3: you're hooked. That's how I got hooked over twenty years ago.
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  Speaker 3: And you know, a lot of people think that Special
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  Speaker 3: Olympics is one big sport event, sporting event, but we
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  Speaker 3: actually are providing programs to children and adults with intellectual
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  Speaker 3: disabilities every day in every community. And we like to say,
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  Speaker 3: you know, Special Olympics changes life through the power of
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  Speaker 3: sport and so much more for a lot of people
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  Speaker 3: that participated in sport. You know, sports is training for life,
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  Speaker 3: and so a lot of our athletes are healthier, they're
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  Speaker 3: twice is likely to be employed, live independently, and then
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  Speaker 3: everyone else who's involved, their hearts and minds are open
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  Speaker 3: to celebrating people for their abilities and not focusing on
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  Speaker 3: the disabilities. It really just breaks down the barriers of
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  Speaker 3: understanding and helps everyone just form meaningful relationships with people
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  Speaker 3: with intellectual disabilities. And with our programs, you can go
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  Speaker 3: out and whether it's you want to be a cheerleader,
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  Speaker 3: a fan in the stand, just to go out and
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  Speaker 3: cheer our athletes on that is super meaningful. You can
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  Speaker 3: also play alongside our athletes, so we have programs called
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  Speaker 3: Unified Sports where individuals with and without intellectual disabilities play
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  Speaker 3: and compete together. Or you can coach or be a
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  Speaker 3: team volunteer. So if coaching sounds a little like too
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  Speaker 3: big of a commitment. You know, you can start the
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  Speaker 3: team volunteer where you come out to pices and just
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  Speaker 3: support the assistant coach and the coach and be a
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  Speaker 3: part of the athlete's journey. We really could use more coaches.
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  Speaker 3: That's something that we're always looking for so that we
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  Speaker 3: can support more athletes than the experience and.
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  Speaker 2: To start out at the cheerleader level is kind of
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  Speaker 2: everything because you know, people to do this like woo
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  Speaker 2: to folks who have worked so hard to get where
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  Speaker 2: they are and to see how hard these athletes have
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  Speaker 2: worked most of their lives and it's just something that
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  Speaker 2: they strive for. It's what they live for often and
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  Speaker 2: their families are so proud. It's a tough journey when
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  Speaker 2: you have a child with intellectual disabilities and this is
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  Speaker 2: like part of their greatest moments and to see it
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  Speaker 2: all in front of your eyes and to see it
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  Speaker 2: happen and the joy on everyone's faces is just so
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  Speaker 2: so special. And whatever sports they're trying to win at
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  Speaker 2: or just compete in, just the joy is really everything
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  Speaker 2: to see them do it.
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  Speaker 3: That's right. We have we talk about summer games, which
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  Speaker 3: will be happening June fifth, sixth, and seventh at cal
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  Speaker 3: State Longs each so we still have our Summer Games
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  Speaker 3: is a three day event with that Friday night opening
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  Speaker 3: ceremony happening in the Pyramid with some exciting entertainment, and
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  Speaker 3: our athletes will be competing in fatchiball, basketball, track and field, swimming,
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  Speaker 3: flag football. Leading up to Summer Games is when all
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  Speaker 3: of the competition is happening in the communities across Southern California.
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  Speaker 3: So between now and Summer Games, there's lots of activity
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  Speaker 3: activity that people can go check out. You can see
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  Speaker 3: the calendar of our events and competitions at SOOSC dot org.
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  Speaker 3: That's where all of our competitions are on the calendar.
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  Speaker 3: And then really fun special thing that's happening this year
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  Speaker 3: after our Southern California Summer Games, we are also sending
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  Speaker 3: a delegation of eighty athletes and coaches to USA Solyms.
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  Speaker 3: USA Games is in Minnesota, and that's the last week
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  Speaker 3: in June, I think June twenty first through the twenty
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  Speaker 3: six there's we have athletes competing in seven different sports
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  Speaker 3: and so we're really excited to have a large delegation
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  Speaker 3: representing Southern California on the national stage.
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  Speaker 1: Look at that.
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  Speaker 2: That's so cool and I can imagine too, you're probably
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  Speaker 2: get excited for the Olympics coming to Los Angeles in
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  Speaker 2: twenty twenty eight. I'm sure you're going to find some
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  Speaker 2: ways to connect Special Olympics with that as well.
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  Speaker 3: Right, that's right. We were talking about how because Special
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  Speaker 3: Olympics Southern California has over three hundred events in any
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  Speaker 3: given year, we're a great place that volunteers can get
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  Speaker 3: warmed up and ready to volunteer for the twenty twenty Olympics.
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  Speaker 3: So we've been having a lot of fun conversations about
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  Speaker 3: how we can be supporting people and getting that energy
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  Speaker 3: and excitement towards the Olympics coming to LA.
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  Speaker 1: I love that.
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  Speaker 2: I love it, And again, any anything you want to
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  Speaker 2: learn and know more about their programs, like Kelly mentioned,
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  Speaker 2: the Healthy Athletes Program, the Unified Champion Schools Program, Athlete Leadership,
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  Speaker 2: youth leadership, so many programs in ways that they support
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  Speaker 2: these athletes and their families, wealth and information. Right they're
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  Speaker 2: on the website if you want to volunteer, get more
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  Speaker 2: involved and see their event schedules all right there at
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  Speaker 2: SOSC dot org, SOSC dot org and happening now through
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  Speaker 2: May twenty second. A super fun way to raise money
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  Speaker 2: and support their mission is with the dream Big Raffle
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  Speaker 2: and super exciting. The odds of winning, I mean, I
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  Speaker 2: don't want to say it might be better than odds
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  Speaker 2: of winning a prize to the radio, but I mean
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  Speaker 2: it's pretty dark good odds one in twenty five, a
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  Speaker 2: twenty eight hundred prizes and maybe the grand prize of
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  Speaker 2: that man to that beautiful mansion Calabasas.
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  Speaker 1: That shows all the pictures.
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  Speaker 2: You got to take a look at this on the
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  Speaker 2: other website, the Raffle website, overlooking these sweeping Santa Monica Mountains,
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  Speaker 2: the five thousand square foot custom home offering six bedrooms,
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  Speaker 2: five baths, elevated craftsmanship throughout, it's just stunning. Your chance
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  Speaker 2: to get in for all of it, one hundred and
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  Speaker 2: fifty dollars tickets, and like Kelly mentioned, so many different
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  Speaker 2: incentives and trips and electronic prizes and cars and cash prizes.
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  Speaker 1: It's all right there, all the info.
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  Speaker 2: Help them raise this money and support special Olympics at
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  Speaker 2: so cal Raffle dot com. So cal Raffle dot com. Kelly,
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  Speaker 2: which which prize do you wish you could win. Because
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  Speaker 2: I know we're going at radio. I'm not allowed to
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  Speaker 2: win anything, but I can go for your contest, so
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  Speaker 2: I can. I can buy rafhle on try to win yours.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe you should try to win a radio contest. What
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  Speaker 2: am I trying to say here?
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  Speaker 3: Now? Maybe I should? Yeah, I was gonna say, well
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  Speaker 3: if you if you win, you know, the trip to
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  Speaker 3: Athens Grease, maybe maybe I can convince you to take
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  Speaker 3: me by see. I of course cannot. Staff and board
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  Speaker 3: members do not qualify to price Dream, But.
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  Speaker 2: Your eyeballing the Athens Grease prize right, that trip looks
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  Speaker 2: amazing stunning.
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  Speaker 3: Oh yeah, I mean there are so many cool trips.
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  Speaker 3: We got Montego Bay and Jamaica. You have Switzerland, you
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  Speaker 3: have Singapore, Alberta, Canada. I mean, wherever you want to go,
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  Speaker 3: there's probably an opportunity to get there. If it's not
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  Speaker 3: a part of one of the vacation price packages, it
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  Speaker 3: could be. You know, how you use some of the
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  Speaker 3: cash prizes that are out there. A single ticket is
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  Speaker 3: one hundred and fifty dollars, and then there's deals if
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  Speaker 3: you buy multi tickets and all proceeds go to help
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  Speaker 3: us cover the cost of things like facility fees, transportation, uniform,
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  Speaker 3: sports equipment for our Special Olympics athletes.
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  Speaker 2: And again specially in books Outhern California, it's a massive region.
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  Speaker 1: How many counties again do you cover? It's so many,
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  Speaker 1: It's so many people.
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  Speaker 3: That you that you Yeah, eleven counties across Southern California
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  Speaker 3: from San Luis Obispo to San Diego County, and all
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  Speaker 3: of our athletes are all of our programs are one
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  Speaker 3: hundred percent free to the athletes and their families. We
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  Speaker 3: have over thirty thousand participants across Southern California and there
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  Speaker 3: are over five hundred thousand individuals that we potentially could
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  Speaker 3: be participating in our program, So lots of opportunity for
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  Speaker 3: us to continue welcoming more participants in.
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  Speaker 2: And again, so many incredible programs that you offer, and
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  Speaker 2: just a great big family and support system through Special Olympics.
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  Speaker 2: All the information if you would like to get involved.
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  Speaker 2: Like I said, even just at the cheerleader level, feels
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  Speaker 2: so good to be out there supporting these athletes and
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  Speaker 2: their families. Super Special, learn more, volunteer, do whatever you can.
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  Speaker 2: SOSC dot org for all the information there and the
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  Speaker 2: dream big Raffle. Oh my gosh, wait you open up
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  Speaker 2: this website because just the possibilities are limitless, and of
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  Speaker 2: course the money goes to such an incredible cause. So
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  Speaker 2: cal Raffle dot com, hurry, do it way before, mate,
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  Speaker 2: don't even wait till May twenty second.
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  Speaker 1: Do it now.
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  Speaker 2: Pop on there now and get in there and see
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  Speaker 2: all the exciting things are up for grabs and with
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  Speaker 2: the proceeds going to such a tremendous cause. So it's
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  Speaker 2: so cal raffle dot com and Kelly Pond, thank you
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  Speaker 2: for you and your team and that you all do
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  Speaker 2: over there, and thanks for your continued dedication to these
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  Speaker 2: athletes and their families and all these programs, and thanks
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  Speaker 2: for just loving your job and loving and doing what
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  Speaker 2: you do so much.
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  Speaker 1: I know you do, and that's just so special.
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  Speaker 2: Not everyone feels that way, so not everyone loves their
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  Speaker 2: job as much as you do. So thank you for
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  Speaker 2: all that you do for Special Olympics Southern California.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you for all your support. Lisa. You are incredible
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  Speaker 3: and just we truly appreciate everything that you do for
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  Speaker 3: Special Olympics and the heart that you have for our mission.
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  Speaker 1: Ah, thank you.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, Dream big raffle. Get in there, get your tickets,
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  Speaker 2: and do something good. So kelraffle dot com. Thank you, Kelly,