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  Speaker 1: Eight forty four thirteen ten wuiv A Your twenty seven
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  Speaker 1: thirty six with clouds here thirteen ten wiv A hanging
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  Speaker 1: out in studio this morning with Kevin Flork. He is
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  Speaker 1: the CEO at Toluri and Kevin, How you bad?
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  Speaker 2: I've been really good? Thank you.
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  Speaker 1: I always want to say Florian because it's Lurian.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, kind of ryme.
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  Speaker 1: That's kinder.
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  Speaker 2: I like that.
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  Speaker 1: It's good to have you in studio. You probably guessed
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  Speaker 1: along by the way, just because I'm easily distracted.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Who'd you bring along today?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah? I brought along. Swartz. He is the He was
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  Speaker 2: donated by Fairway Mortgage here in Madison. They paid to
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  Speaker 2: have him trained and then custom k nines and did
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  Speaker 2: the training and he is our chief Happiness Officer and
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  Speaker 2: he works with folks that are struggling with withdrawal anxiety depression.
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  Speaker 2: So he'll go to the different programs and literally, if
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  Speaker 2: you're having an anxiety attack, he'll come and put his
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  Speaker 2: paw on you. Or if you're ready to get you know,
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  Speaker 2: act out and get angry, he'll pick up his leash
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  Speaker 2: and have you take them for a while.
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  Speaker 1: Fantastic.
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  Speaker 2: So it's really cool.
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  Speaker 1: There are a few things more calming than a dog.
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  Speaker 1: I'll tell you that as I look forward every day
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  Speaker 1: when I get home sitting on the couch with our
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  Speaker 1: dog as well, that's fantastic. Let's talk about of course,
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  Speaker 1: we've got the big not a Galic Gala coming up
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  Speaker 1: on Friday, February twenty eighth, But before we get to that,
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  Speaker 1: I want to talk about Tulurian. For folks that don't
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  Speaker 1: know what you guys do at Tulurian, let's get a
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  Speaker 1: little bit of background and currently where things sit at Telurian.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. So Tilarian is located mostly here in Madison, and
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  Speaker 2: believe it or not, we serve over eight thousand people
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  Speaker 2: annually that people that are suffering from mental illness, addiction,
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  Speaker 2: and homeless services. And we're really proud of the work
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  Speaker 2: we do. We are duly credentialed with both mental health
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  Speaker 2: and addiction for all our programs, which really helps our
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  Speaker 2: outcomes because we treat both mental health and addiction simultaneously
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  Speaker 2: and we have twenty two programs that help people in
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  Speaker 2: need right here mostly in Dan County.
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  Speaker 1: What's the I know you guys have a fantastic facility.
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  Speaker 1: It's got to be having a place like that for
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  Speaker 1: people to go has got to be a great benefit.
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  Speaker 1: Previous to that, how how did things work at Telurian
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  Speaker 1: How before you guys had your and I feel I
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  Speaker 1: talk like it's a brand new building, but it's been
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  Speaker 1: it's been probably a decade.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, for our main facilities, the Teresa McGovern Center, which
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  Speaker 2: was named after I'm Jeorgie McGovern's daughter, Teresa, who tragically
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  Speaker 2: lost her battle with alcoholism and depression. She froze to
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  Speaker 2: death probably over twenty five years ago, leaving the Crystal Corner.
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  Speaker 2: So but out of that tragedy, we built a facility
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  Speaker 2: right here in Madison that serves people in need.
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  Speaker 1: So that's fantastic. And by the way, as we talked
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  Speaker 1: this morning with Kevin, if you want to learn more
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  Speaker 1: of the website for Tulurian, it's Telurian dot org. That's
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  Speaker 1: spelled t e l l e u a ia n
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  Speaker 1: Tilurian dot org. And Kevin, one of the things I
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  Speaker 1: love about Tilurian is the positivity and also the opportunity
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  Speaker 1: to help a great organization. And you guys make it
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  Speaker 1: fun and I'm looking at your fifth annual Tilurian and
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  Speaker 1: not a gala that's going to be taking place Friday,
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  Speaker 1: February twenty eighth at the Concourse Hotel here in town.
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  Speaker 1: It doesn't get much more fun in Wisconsin, Charlie Barns,
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  Speaker 1: And you've got Charlie coming to your event, don't.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, we have Charlie coming to our event, which is
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  Speaker 2: awesome and we do We talked about this before we
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  Speaker 2: went on air. Tilarian does two events. We do a
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  Speaker 2: celebrity golf tournament in the summer and now we do
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  Speaker 2: the Tilarian Nata gal in the winter. And we need
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  Speaker 2: to do this because the need for services are so great,
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  Speaker 2: but the funding for services is so poor, So we
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  Speaker 2: truly need the help of the community to help us
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  Speaker 2: serve people in need. Our waiting lists are long and
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  Speaker 2: so we scratch and claw to do anything we can
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  Speaker 2: to help people in need. And what's cool about the
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  Speaker 2: Nata Gala. It's a great way to have fun, raise
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  Speaker 2: some money, raise awareness, reduce the stigma. And if you're
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  Speaker 2: talking fun, Charlie Barons is our master MC comedian for
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  Speaker 2: the nights so and right at the Madison Concourse. So
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  Speaker 2: we are just pumped to have Charlie and celebrate and
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  Speaker 2: raise some funds.
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  Speaker 1: And some other big names. Gilbert Brown I saw also
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  Speaker 1: going to be participating in silent Auction.
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  Speaker 2: Also silent Auction, Live auction, plenty of fun. We're doing
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  Speaker 2: poll tabs. It's a Northwood supper club theme. As you
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  Speaker 2: can imagine with having Charlie, that's going to be our theme.
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  Speaker 2: So we're gonna do Shake of the Day, so different
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  Speaker 2: dice games and poll tabs and you name it. When
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  Speaker 2: it comes to supper clubs. So we tell folks where
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  Speaker 2: your flannel, where your Northwoods boots and swampers, and it's
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  Speaker 2: it's very informal but really fun.
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  Speaker 1: It should be a real fun night. Individuals. Tickets for couples. Also,
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  Speaker 1: I've got to guess a lot of businesses in the
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  Speaker 1: area by buying Bulker.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, so we are really close to selling out, which
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  Speaker 2: is amazing and as you can imagine having someone like
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  Speaker 2: Charlie Barn's, it doesn't take long to sell it out.
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  Speaker 2: But we do have some individual tickets available. But yeah,
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  Speaker 2: a lot of the corporations jumped in right away, one
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  Speaker 2: because they want to see Charlie, but two they support
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  Speaker 2: the work that Tillarian does. And when you talk about supporting,
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  Speaker 2: and like I just mentioned with Schwartz our dog there
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  Speaker 2: there isn't a bigger supporter than Fairway Mortgage located right
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  Speaker 2: here in Madison. But also some other really big sponsors
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  Speaker 2: if you don't mind love to highlight them. Tricor Insurance
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  Speaker 2: and Harker Heating and Cooling are our presenting sponsors, and
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  Speaker 2: Greenwood State Bank and Prairie Shades and Shutters are our
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  Speaker 2: beverage sponsor where we're going to have full fashions instead
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  Speaker 2: of old fashions is our signature drinks. And our auction
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  Speaker 2: sponsors are Sullivan Charitable Fund and cru Concrete. And our
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  Speaker 2: game sponsor is GRB Academy right here and located in
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  Speaker 2: some prairie. And when it comes to baseball lessons, they're
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  Speaker 2: the folks to go to. And then kind of a
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  Speaker 2: cool thing at the end of the night, Chick fil
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  Speaker 2: A is going to be giving everybody free free food
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  Speaker 2: at the end of the night. So yes, so you
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  Speaker 2: gotta love that.
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  Speaker 1: Come hungry, come thirsty, that's right, yep, be ready for it,
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  Speaker 1: ready for a good laugh. And what a great cause
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  Speaker 1: this is going to be. I guess we taken place Friday,
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  Speaker 1: February twenty eighth. Limited number of tickets still available. You
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  Speaker 1: can purchase them online to Lurian dot org slash Gala Gala,
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  Speaker 1: I always want to say gala.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm not sure which one is feels very right
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  Speaker 2: exactly And iHeart also our media sponsor, which that's a
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  Speaker 2: big shout out to you guys and thirteen ten And.
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  Speaker 1: I know some of those folks are pretty decent, decent.
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  Speaker 2: There's some really good folks that will be there.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that'll be a lot of fun. And I know
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  Speaker 1: we're obviously we're the weather. I think a lot of
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  Speaker 1: us are itching for spring. You mentioned the golf outing,
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  Speaker 1: you mentioned some of Kevin, some of the different events
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  Speaker 1: that you guys do at Tulurian. For folks that say,
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  Speaker 1: you know what, I just want to make an impact.
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  Speaker 1: There's other ways to donate as well. Also, aren't there well.
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  Speaker 2: Sure people can go online? And like I said previously,
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  Speaker 2: I can't stress enough how many people are calling us
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  Speaker 2: for help and they're just isn't the funding. As you
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  Speaker 2: can imagine, if you are suffering from addiction and mental
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  Speaker 2: health issues. A lot of times folks that we see
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  Speaker 2: have lost their job, they've lost insurance. So we do
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  Speaker 2: these two events because we as a company need to
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  Speaker 2: do more to help people in need. And we invite
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  Speaker 2: folks that anybody who wants to volunteer money and or
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  Speaker 2: time please reach out to us because we'll take every
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  Speaker 2: bit of help we can. Yeah, that's gocy too.
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  Speaker 1: About as we talk about, you know, the different programs
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  Speaker 1: offered at Tilurian a lot of success and obviously when
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  Speaker 1: we talk about mental health or we talk about addiction
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  Speaker 1: issues a lot of times for good reason, people want
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  Speaker 1: to and I know it's probably kind of a fine
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  Speaker 1: line want to remain anonymous or want to kind of
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  Speaker 1: you know, get back to normal living. So we don't
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  Speaker 1: always get to see or hear firsthand some of those
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  Speaker 1: success stories because of again some of the things involved.
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  Speaker 1: But you get to see this every day. You get
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  Speaker 1: to witness every single day people going through recovery and
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  Speaker 1: people really getting their lives back. It's it's it's a
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  Speaker 1: huge again, maybe something that people don't always notice, but
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  Speaker 1: you get to see it is a it is a
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  Speaker 1: it has a real huge impact on lives, doesn't it.
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  Speaker 2: Well, part of the reason we go on shows like
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  Speaker 2: yours or do events is because we need to reduce thist.
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  Speaker 2: We know that mental health and addiction is a medical condition. Unfortunately,
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  Speaker 2: though with those two diseases, people are afraid to get
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  Speaker 2: the help because they get judged. But we also know
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  Speaker 2: that through the counseling, through our medical director, through our addictionologist,
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  Speaker 2: our psychiatrist, our psychologists, our master's degree, folks, there is
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  Speaker 2: a great chance that people's life become much better. And
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  Speaker 2: I can't encourage folks enough to reach out to get
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  Speaker 2: the help they need because it works, it really does.
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  Speaker 2: People's lives can become a heck of a lot better.
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  Speaker 1: So can people contact Laurian if they if they are
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  Speaker 1: someone to hear about.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, so I would encourage folks to call our local
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  Speaker 2: number six oh eight two two two seven three one one.
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  Speaker 2: Also go to our website Telarian dot org. And I
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  Speaker 2: want to spill it one more time because people butcher it.
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  Speaker 2: It's teas and Tom ell you in ralph Ia. N
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  Speaker 2: is in Nancy dot org and you can check out
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  Speaker 2: all our services there. We've got a brand new website
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  Speaker 2: that twofold Marketing just put together for us that we're
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  Speaker 2: really proud about. And if you want to get involved
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  Speaker 2: in the gala. I'm just Tellarian dot org backslash gala,
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  Speaker 2: fairly simple and we're there to help.
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  Speaker 1: So anytime, great night for a great cause. Again, it's
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  Speaker 1: gonna be taking place Friday, February twenty eighth at the
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  Speaker 1: Madison Concourse Hotel right here in Madison. Doors open at
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  Speaker 1: five up North Supper Clubs. The theme Charlie Barrens is
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  Speaker 1: going to be there, Gilbert Brown's going to be there,
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  Speaker 1: Grave Digger. Yep, Kevin, You're going to be there.
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  Speaker 2: I will try to make it so.
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  Speaker 1: We'll have plenty of friends and a lot of fun,
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  Speaker 1: so make sure if you are looking to get some tickets,
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  Speaker 1: you can go online Toulurian dot org, slash gala or gala,
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  Speaker 1: and of course more information about Tulurian on the website.
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  Speaker 1: That's t E L l U R I A N.
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  Speaker 1: And again if you are looking for services, are looking
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  Speaker 1: for help six O eight two two two seventy three eleven.
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  Speaker 1: That's two two two seventy three eleven. Kevin, it's great
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  Speaker 1: to see you as always. Have a fantastic day and
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  Speaker 1: now get forward to a great event that should be
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  Speaker 1: a it should be a lot of fun.
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  Speaker 2: Appreciate you having me on and appreciate iHeart for all
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  Speaker 2: their support.
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  Speaker 1: Again. More information available at Tulurian dot org. Vicky McKenna
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