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Talk-Line: Gerald Lott, Sauk Valley Voices Of Recovery · WIXN AM 1460 - Shaw Local Radio

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  Speaker 1: We are a quarter past the hour. This is Tuesday,
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  Speaker 1: It's October seven, the year is twenty twenty five, and
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  Speaker 1: it's time for another informational edition of Talkline here at
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  Speaker 1: w i X and Radio. Good morning, I'm Steve Marco.
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  Speaker 1: It is time for a visit from an old friend
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  Speaker 1: who joins us this morning, and I'm glad to see
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  Speaker 1: him back in our studio a with us this morning
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  Speaker 1: to kind of pick up the pace as we move
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  Speaker 1: into the final quarter of twenty twenty five for our
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  Speaker 1: good friends from Stock Valley Voices of Recovery are represented
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  Speaker 1: this morning by a very dear friend of ours who's
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  Speaker 1: been with us before many times on the radio, and
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  Speaker 1: we're happy to have him back. Talking about a very
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  Speaker 1: important event on the Voices of Recovery calendar coming your
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  Speaker 1: way shortly, and we're going to spotlight that with our
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  Speaker 1: good friend Gerald Lot, who's lied with us this morning
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  Speaker 1: here at WIXING. Good morning.
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  Speaker 2: Hey how are you Steve?
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  Speaker 1: I am fine, so good to help you back.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you you too.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it is it is time to talk about Stock
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  Speaker 1: Valley Voices of Recovery. We are going to again have
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  Speaker 1: a special guest. I want to mention that up from
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  Speaker 1: We are going to feature a special guest. Jerald, please
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  Speaker 1: talk about this guest so a little bit before you
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  Speaker 1: and I get into our countal.
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  Speaker 3: Dev Panetta will be joining us. She is a mother
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  Speaker 3: of two young men who unfortunately were lost to addiction
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  Speaker 3: in our community. She's a mother in Sterling, and she
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  Speaker 3: has been kind of taking the last couple of years
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  Speaker 3: to raise awareness and to get people to understand.
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  Speaker 2: Just how serious this issue is.
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  Speaker 3: And she will be speaking at our recover conconference this
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  Speaker 3: weekend about what that journey has looked like for her.
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  Speaker 1: And we will be talking with Deb about that gathering
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  Speaker 1: in northern Illinois and about her topic and about her
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  Speaker 1: discussion and about her life again. We'll talk with Dev
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  Speaker 1: about her trip, her adventure through this time and speak
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  Speaker 1: with her lie by telephone. That will come between eight
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  Speaker 1: thirty and nine. It's a portion of our talk line
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  Speaker 1: today that we're going to reserve for the next half hour.
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  Speaker 1: We'll talk with Dev right here at w i X FAM.
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  Speaker 1: In the meantime, Gerald lot with us today on w
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  Speaker 1: Axen representing SoC Valley Voices of Recovery. As a matter
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  Speaker 1: of fact, that spotlight that you talked about with Deb
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  Speaker 1: and her young sons is a tribute part of your newsletter, right.
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  Speaker 3: Well, it's part of our newsletter, but it's also part
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  Speaker 3: of something we're calling our Recovery Lives Here campaign. Every
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  Speaker 3: month for the next couple of years, we will be
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  Speaker 3: selecting one person who is in recovery and thriving, and
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  Speaker 3: we will also, through Tevin Stribe, be highlighting people who
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  Speaker 3: have been lost and trying to remember them and just
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  Speaker 3: let the community know that one this is a very
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  Speaker 3: very serious issue, but that it is something that can
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  Speaker 3: be beat. Yeah, and so that's what the Recovery Lives
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  Speaker 3: Here campaign is. You'll see billboards, you'll see radio ads,
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  Speaker 3: you'll hear you'll see it in the newspaper, I mean,
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  Speaker 3: our social media, our newsletter, anywhere we can, you know,
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  Speaker 3: I may get a pictures of these people put on
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  Speaker 3: the side.
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  Speaker 2: Of my car and drive around town and whatever we
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  Speaker 2: can do, whatever we can do right bring it awareness.
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  Speaker 2: We want to put a face on recovery.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely, and that's that's exactly what we're going to do.
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  Speaker 1: Remembering and recognize those are the two our words that
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  Speaker 1: we use in this segment. And again we'll be talking
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  Speaker 1: again with dep more about that again in the next
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  Speaker 1: half hour two right here on w I except we
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  Speaker 1: want to highlight that event that Gerald mentioned that deb
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  Speaker 1: will be speaking at this coming weekend that is going
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  Speaker 1: to be taking place once again at Northern Illinois University.
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  Speaker 1: Gerald take us through recover Con twenty twenty five, Sock
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  Speaker 1: Valley Voices of Recovery. I know is an active player.
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  Speaker 2: Right, Well, well, let's hope it's our event We've built.
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  Speaker 3: It's our fifth annual recovery conference, recover Con, you know,
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  Speaker 3: Comic Con, you know sports Con, recover Con, right, and
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  Speaker 3: it is a free event. It draws people from all
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  Speaker 3: over the state. And the idea was to build something
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  Speaker 3: so big that the state could not look past us
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  Speaker 3: because often resources and attention for these matters go to Chicago,
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  Speaker 3: go to Rockford, Right, So you know, how do we
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  Speaker 3: make sure that our community is seen? And so we
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  Speaker 3: created this and we we draw speakers from all over
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  Speaker 3: I mean we've had them from all over the world.
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  Speaker 3: This year, we've toned it down a little bit. We
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  Speaker 3: wanted to keep it a little more local. Our speaker
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  Speaker 3: is from Ohio. Our keynote speakers from Ohio. He was
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  Speaker 3: the elected sheriff of a county in Ohio that his
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  Speaker 3: addiction got in the way and he went from sheriff
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  Speaker 3: to inmate and now he is working in the addiction
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  Speaker 3: field and helping people to beat their addictions. We have
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  Speaker 3: deb speaking as a family member. We have a gentleman
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  Speaker 3: Mike Tyson. Not that we have Mike Tyson from southern Illinois.
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  Speaker 3: He started an r CL kind of like mine and
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  Speaker 3: is now the executive director of the National Peer Recovery Alliance.
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  Speaker 3: We have a gentleman Tyler Phillips. The other gentleman who's
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  Speaker 3: featured in Recovery lives here. He came to Recover KHN
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  Speaker 3: last year and got so excited by what he saw
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  Speaker 3: that he went back to the LaSalle, Peru area and
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  Speaker 3: started his own version of Soft Valley Voices of Recovery.
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  Speaker 2: And it's booming.
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  Speaker 3: And he just took like sixteen seventeen people to a
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  Speaker 3: Cubs game last weekend, and he's been doing events and
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  Speaker 3: building community. So yeah, it's you know, I've heard it
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  Speaker 3: said that recovery is a contagion, right, and we have
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  Speaker 3: to spread it, and so recover con is really about
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  Speaker 3: how do we kind of start that patient zero, How
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  Speaker 3: do we let people know that recovery is available and
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  Speaker 3: is accessible and keep it.
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  Speaker 2: Visible all right.
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  Speaker 1: It will be taking place on the campus of Northern
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  Speaker 1: Illinois University. It is October the eleventh, This Saturday, October
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  Speaker 1: the eleventh, from nine am until five pm, and it
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  Speaker 1: will again, as Gerald mentioned, feature very important speakers. Again.
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  Speaker 1: As Gerald talked about the keynote, speaker talked about our
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  Speaker 1: visitor next hour who will be speaking at the event.
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  Speaker 1: Are there various sessions there? Gerald?
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  Speaker 2: This year, This.
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  Speaker 3: Year we took it a little smaller, So from nine
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  Speaker 3: until twelve, we will have our exhibitor booths. We have
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  Speaker 3: about thirty different agencies, treatment centers, and other vendors that
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  Speaker 3: will be kind of there for people to mill about
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  Speaker 3: in network with. And then at noon we will shut
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  Speaker 3: that down and go into our talks. And the talks
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  Speaker 3: will be from noon until five. We will have a
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  Speaker 3: couple of breaks in there, but yeah, it's going to
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  Speaker 3: be a full day.
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  Speaker 2: It's free, ok.
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  Speaker 3: Although you can earn what they call CEUs Continuing Education
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  Speaker 3: units if you like that. I think they're five dollars
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  Speaker 3: per and there's five available. So a lot of clinicians
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  Speaker 3: and people like that need those for their certification and
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  Speaker 3: you can earn those.
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  Speaker 1: All right, but again a free event. Don't pre registration
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  Speaker 1: anything like that.
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  Speaker 2: For pre register that way, you know, we bring enough candy.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, there you go. Okay, Okay, there you go. But
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  Speaker 1: you don't have to okay, but recommend it. And there
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  Speaker 1: is a phone number, and there is information on your website. Yes, okay,
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  Speaker 1: at svv R dot org. You can go to the website.
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  Speaker 1: Check it out. Recover Con twenty twenty five is right
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  Speaker 1: there on the website. You can check out registration information.
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  Speaker 1: We'll give you a phone number. It just in a
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  Speaker 1: little bit here at wix. But it all takes place
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  Speaker 1: once again on the campus of Northern Illinois University. This
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  Speaker 1: is into Calb, Illinois this Saturday, October the eleventh, nine
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  Speaker 1: until five. It's the annual recover Con conference. It is
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  Speaker 1: again built by Sock Valley Voices of Recovery. This is
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  Speaker 1: their fifth end. I can't believe it's five years.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, five years.
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  Speaker 1: Well, that's terrific though it is. That's terrific that we're
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  Speaker 1: still getting the word out and still getting the again
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  Speaker 1: voices heard in this area. And again well worth the
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  Speaker 1: visit to the Calb if you are one that again seeks, need, seeks, information,
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  Speaker 1: seeks education. Don't have to be directly involved, right job,
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  Speaker 1: I mean caregivers, family members.
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  Speaker 3: Think you know anybody, anybody, anybody, anybody, Okay, somebody, You
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  Speaker 3: will get something out of it.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: Recover Con twenty twenty five is this weekend in the calb.
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  Speaker 1: We'll be talking more about it in the next half hours,
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  Speaker 1: so stay with us because we'll have that special guest
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  Speaker 1: joining us by telephone here at w Yingxent. Wanted to
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  Speaker 1: spotlight a couple of other areas before we get to
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  Speaker 1: news at the bottom of the hour, and then to
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  Speaker 1: our special guests and a couple of activities taking place.
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  Speaker 1: You already recognized those that you're going to be again
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  Speaker 1: remembering and recognizing. This will be monthly then, Jerald, Yes, okay,
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  Speaker 1: this will be monthly that we'll be talking about those
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  Speaker 1: individuals and again spotlining those through stock Valley voices of recovery.
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  Speaker 1: You wanted to talk about a couple of other activities
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  Speaker 1: going on, one taking place at the historicics in theater.
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  Speaker 3: Tell us, Yeah, no, number six. We will be starting
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  Speaker 3: our documentary series whenever somebody joins our company organization. The
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  Speaker 3: first thing we do is we sit them down and
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  Speaker 3: we have and watch a few movies so that we
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  Speaker 3: all get on the same page and we're all talking
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  Speaker 3: the same language. And the first of those is Anonymous People.
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  Speaker 3: It was made, I believe in twenty thirteen, and it
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  Speaker 3: just talks about what addiction looks like and what is
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  Speaker 3: being done in the country, and it really was a
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  Speaker 3: jumping off point for some of the theories of how
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  Speaker 3: we started Sock Valley Voices of Recovery. So that'll be
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  Speaker 3: the first one we're showing. It is be a free showing.
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  Speaker 3: People can just come on by, take a look at
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  Speaker 3: it and then we'll have some kind of discussion afterwards.
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  Speaker 3: Sure we'll have popcorn or something, Okay, but yeah, it's exciting.
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  Speaker 3: The Dixon Theater is willing to kind of stand behind
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  Speaker 3: us and partner with us and allow us to do
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  Speaker 3: these showings on a monthly basis excellent.
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  Speaker 1: That's Thursday November six, market on your calendar, friends, Thursday
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  Speaker 1: November six, seven thirty at the historic Dickson Theater. Again
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  Speaker 1: a free screening of the Anonymous People. And these features.
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  Speaker 1: I'm looking at the you know, the featured and these
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  Speaker 1: are entertainers, These are entertainers and actresses and actors that
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  Speaker 1: are going to be talking about their situations, right, I.
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  Speaker 3: Mean Kristin Johnson, Yeah, Patrick Kennedy is in that one.
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  Speaker 3: They talk about Dick Van Dyke, a few others. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: it's some big names. It's a really I mean, it's
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  Speaker 3: one of those things where when I first saw it,
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  Speaker 3: it definitely changed my trajectory.
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  Speaker 2: Of my life.
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  Speaker 1: And it will be shown at the historic Dickson Theater
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  Speaker 1: in early November. Also wanted to talk about something in
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  Speaker 1: the newsletter having to do with the Community Needs Survey.
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  Speaker 3: Talk about Yeah, our Ross Council, which is a kind
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  Speaker 3: of a think tank of stakeholders in the four counties,
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  Speaker 3: are doing our annual survey and you can go on
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  Speaker 3: to our website, or you can find the the QR
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  Speaker 3: code on bulletin boards around but or you can go
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  Speaker 3: to our Facebook page and look it up. And every
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  Speaker 3: month we are going to select one of the people
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  Speaker 3: that have filled it out and give them one hundred
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  Speaker 3: dollars gift card. We'll do that through the end of January.
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  Speaker 3: But this Community Needs Survey allows our Council to see
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  Speaker 3: kind of what are attitudes about addiction and mental health
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  Speaker 3: in our community. Questions such as, do you believe that
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  Speaker 3: people with mental health issues can find the resources they need,
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  Speaker 3: the help they need? Do you feel like there is
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  Speaker 3: enough substance use facilities or treatment in our community? Those
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  Speaker 3: kind of questions that then allow us to kind of
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  Speaker 3: chart our course as we decide what we as a collective,
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  Speaker 3: and I'm talking about a group of you know, police
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  Speaker 3: departments and schools and hospitals and you know, people with
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  Speaker 3: lived experience, how do we as a unit try to
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  Speaker 3: move policy and programming in our community?
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  Speaker 2: All right?
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  Speaker 1: And that is featured again on many different platforms. You
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  Speaker 1: can actually obtain this by going to as Jerrold mentioned
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  Speaker 1: the website address again and we mentioned that s v
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  Speaker 1: v O R dot org or again, uh find it
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  Speaker 1: on various platforms, Facebook, various platforms. All it takes is
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  Speaker 1: just a zoom in on the you know, UH symbol
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  Speaker 1: and uh and then complete the survey uh and again
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  Speaker 1: uh no no purchase.
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  Speaker 3: So a friend of mine completed it yesterday while we
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  Speaker 3: were sitting at my daughter's volleyball game. It took him
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  Speaker 3: about four minutes.
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  Speaker 1: There you go, there you go and uh and and
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  Speaker 1: an opportunity to again walk away with some nice gifts
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  Speaker 1: but again the importance here is your response and your
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  Speaker 1: your input, uh again into this community needs survey because
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  Speaker 1: as Gerald mentioned, this is a lot what what what
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  Speaker 1: basis SOT Valley Voices of Recovery moving forward uh in
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  Speaker 1: their efforts as they have been for the many years
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  Speaker 1: that they've been uh here in our Sock Valley area.
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  Speaker 1: One more thing that we wanted to spotline. You gotta
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  Speaker 1: a night out coming up?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah boo boo, scary.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, going over to Haunted Haven on the twenty fourth.
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  Speaker 3: Anybody that wants to come just can call our office
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  Speaker 3: or they can go to the new form app which
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  Speaker 3: is the New Phoenix. I've talked to you about that
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  Speaker 3: before and they can RSVP. Last year we took about
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  Speaker 3: forty people. We want to double that this year. But
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  Speaker 3: the night of the twenty fourth, we will be going
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  Speaker 3: over to Haunted Haven. I believe it's in Nelson. I
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  Speaker 3: think it's at the who Else And we'll be getting
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  Speaker 3: scared crazy there.
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  Speaker 1: You go just that week before Halloween and again again
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  Speaker 1: a nice night out and this is kind of a
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  Speaker 1: monkly thing.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, well every month, every month we do a
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  Speaker 3: night out and it's open to anybody. You don't have
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  Speaker 3: to be in recovery. You can be an ally, you
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  Speaker 3: can be a family member, just be general public. The
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  Speaker 3: whole idea is just to show people in recovery that
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  Speaker 3: they're still fun.
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  Speaker 1: And to show, you know, show what Souck Valley Voices
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  Speaker 1: of Recovery is all about. I'm sure there's information and
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  Speaker 1: you can, you know, connect with a lot of people
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  Speaker 1: that are using Sock Valley Voices of Recovery as their
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  Speaker 1: tool or one of their tools in this effort. And
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  Speaker 1: again that is October the twenty fourth, As Gerald mentioned
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  Speaker 1: again their night out during this month courtesy of Sock
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  Speaker 1: Valley Voices of Recover. We're going to take a break
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  Speaker 1: for five minutes of news at the bottom of the album. Well,
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  Speaker 1: when we come back, we're going to talk with a
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  Speaker 1: special guest who's going to be appearing at Recover Con
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty five. Her name is dep Panada and she
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  Speaker 1: will be with us in the next half hour here
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  Speaker 1: at Wixon First to check of news first with Brandy Clark,
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  Speaker 1: next a Wixen stay with. We are continuing our coverage
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  Speaker 1: of a very important event coming up this weekend at
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  Speaker 1: the Calb Illinois. It's called recover Con twenty twenty five.
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  Speaker 1: It's brought you a way by our good friends at
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  Speaker 1: Sock Valley Voices of Recovery and our first portion of
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  Speaker 1: the talk line. Today we had our good friend Gerald
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  Speaker 1: a lot with us from Sock Valley Voices of Recovery
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  Speaker 1: to describe that event, to tell you where it's being held,
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  Speaker 1: how it's being held, the format that's again up for
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  Speaker 1: this Saturday into calb. Now we have a special guest
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  Speaker 1: on board with us who will actually be speaking at
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  Speaker 1: recover Con twenty twenty five. Visit with Deb for just
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  Speaker 1: a short bit here at wixen as we have her
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  Speaker 1: online with us this morning on AM fourteen sixteen FM
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  Speaker 1: ninety five one. Deb, Good morning to you, Good morning.
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  Speaker 1: Nice to have you with us, ma'am. Thanks for joining
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  Speaker 1: us today. We appreciate your stop by and visiting with
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  Speaker 1: us for this upcoming event that you will be speaking at.
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  Speaker 1: Deb On behalf of Stock Valley Voices of Recovery, and
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  Speaker 1: I wanted to talk to you about obviously your involvement
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  Speaker 1: with Stock Valley Voices of Recovery, how you became involved
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  Speaker 1: with this area, Deb, And it is very close to you,
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  Speaker 1: I know because we talked about it in the first
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  Speaker 1: portion of our talk line today, but Deb explained a
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  Speaker 1: little bit more how this area, you know, affects you
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  Speaker 1: directly and what you'll be doing at Recover Con twenty
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  Speaker 1: twenty five this weekend at DICALB.
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  Speaker 4: I'm sure I lost both of my boys to now poisoning.
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  Speaker 4: What what what?
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  Speaker 1: YEH know You're okay, You're okay. Uh, I know this
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  Speaker 1: is an emotional time for you, and I know that
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  Speaker 1: you know, losing loved ones. Deb, this just has to
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  Speaker 1: be you know, uh a in an agonizing trip.
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  Speaker 2: Uh.
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  Speaker 1: Uh you know, uh and and and and and we
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  Speaker 1: we talked about that, as I mentioned with Gerald earlier.
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  Speaker 1: Uh and and these two individuals, your sons are being
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  Speaker 1: honored right through Sock Valley Voices of Recovery in a
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  Speaker 1: special section of Sock Valley Voices of Recovery. But uh,
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  Speaker 1: your deb connection obviously as as the mother of these
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  Speaker 1: two sons. Uh, you know, tragically, uh, you know, taking
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  Speaker 1: the wrong path obviously, right. Uh you know in this
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  Speaker 1: trip that they made uh and and and making the
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  Speaker 1: decisions that they had to. I mean, what will you
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  Speaker 1: be talking about at recover Khan in connection with this
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  Speaker 1: dep can you kind of you know, share that what
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  Speaker 1: you're going to be discussing, you know, and and what
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  Speaker 1: you're going to be relaying to the audiences that you'll
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  Speaker 1: be speaking to.
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  Speaker 4: Absolutely, what I want to or what I will be
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  Speaker 4: speaking about, is the rooth of my children growing up.
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  Speaker 4: My oldest son had battled addiction for twenty years prior
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  Speaker 4: to his passing. My younger son had a shorter path
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  Speaker 4: with addiction. But I want to explain, you know, the
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  Speaker 4: family dynamics, the the things that they went through personally.
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  Speaker 4: I also really want to break the stigma around addiction.
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  Speaker 4: They are deemed as I don't want to say worthless,
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  Speaker 4: but you know that they never had much in life,
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  Speaker 4: that they never have a purpose, and you know, I
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  Speaker 4: want to break those wealves down. They are human beings.
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  Speaker 4: They were loved and are loved by someone, and no
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  Speaker 4: family member wants to see their children, their parents, their cousins,
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  Speaker 4: their brothers, their sisters, whoever it is, go down the path.
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  Speaker 4: It is heartbreaking to see them go from human beings
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  Speaker 4: that are functioning in the world to someone you don't
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  Speaker 4: recognize anymore. And they necessarily don't choose that path per se,
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  Speaker 4: but it's a way for them to numb their pain.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, and you and I think that the connotation is
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  Speaker 1: their debu. You mentioned it breaking the stigma, and this
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  Speaker 1: is important that we do this, breaking the stigma. It
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  Speaker 1: is not you know, Uh, it is not routine. This
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  Speaker 1: is nothing routine. And this does not come deb uh.
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  Speaker 1: And you can correct me if I'm wrong here. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: this has not come uh, you know as a result
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  Speaker 1: of you know, family values of past you know, uh,
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  Speaker 1: you know, problems things like that. I mean, are you
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  Speaker 1: are you you know you're you're you're talking about you know,
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  Speaker 1: coming from a regular you know family, right, I mean
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  Speaker 1: you know you're talking about a regular family background where
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  Speaker 1: all this took place.
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  Speaker 4: Correct, Correct? You know, My my boys unfortunately didn't want
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  Speaker 4: for much, but I mean they went on family vacation. Sure,
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  Speaker 4: you know, love sports. They were outdoor kids, you know,
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  Speaker 4: so gosh, the video game were you know, that was
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  Speaker 4: their whole life. They would hurry up and do their
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  Speaker 4: laundry so they could play videos. Sure, I mean they
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  Speaker 4: were taught respect and if you ever met my boys,
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  Speaker 4: you would know that they were very respectful young men.
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  Speaker 4: They would shake your hand, they would look you in
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  Speaker 4: the eye, you know, they love to hear about what
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  Speaker 4: you were doing that day. I got phone calls every
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  Speaker 4: night from them, you know. It was Josh's was between
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  Speaker 4: seven and eight and Jason's was eight nine.
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  Speaker 2: There you go.
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  Speaker 4: So the family meant everything to them, They just didn't
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  Speaker 4: love themselves enough and.
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  Speaker 1: And made some wrong moves again in that regard, W
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  Speaker 1: I mean you're you're you're talking with an outsider looking in.
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  Speaker 4: Uh.
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  Speaker 1: I am an outsider looking in. Uh, you know, and
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  Speaker 1: I will admit that, you know, in talking with you today,
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  Speaker 1: obviously you are more directed you know again the uh,
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  Speaker 1: the LIFs you know that that that you've had to
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  Speaker 1: lead uh and and and and especially the aftermath of
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  Speaker 1: of what has happened uh in your family. Uh and
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  Speaker 1: and you'll be speaking to a lot of us, you know,
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  Speaker 1: who are on the outside looking in, and hopefully maybe
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  Speaker 1: some insiders that are looking for a search right you know,
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  Speaker 1: in this path?
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  Speaker 2: Correct?
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  Speaker 4: Correct? I. I if I could reach one person, yes,
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  Speaker 4: that would make this all worthwhile. And I know everybody
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  Speaker 4: says it, but it's true. My oldest son, Jason, he
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  Speaker 4: he always told me that if all the crap that
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  Speaker 4: I went through dave somebody, then I guess it was
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  Speaker 4: worth the heartache that I went through.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely, Depanada will be Deadpanata will be speaking at recover
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  Speaker 1: Cond twenty twenty five this weekend at CALB. She is
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  Speaker 1: going to be one of the keynote speakers in that
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  Speaker 1: session that we talked about. After the breakout organizations take
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  Speaker 1: part in recover Con. Deb will be on the speaker's
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  Speaker 1: platform later in the afternoon into CALB. This is during
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  Speaker 1: recover Con twenty twenty five Saturday, October eleventh, from nine
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  Speaker 1: until five. But Deb will be one of those that
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  Speaker 1: will be sharing her story and she has shared it
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  Speaker 1: with us this morning. Deb, how old were your sons?
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  Speaker 4: Dash was thirty four and Jason was thirty six?
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  Speaker 1: Okay, all right, and again succumbed to the misfortune of
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  Speaker 1: traveling the wrong rope and becoming involved, as you mentioned,
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  Speaker 1: with fentanyl and the addictions with fentanyl, and again travel
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: the wrong path again which led them down this line
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  Speaker 1: which Deb is talking about with us today here at WIXM.
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  Speaker 1: Deba talk about Tevan's tribe. Can you talk about Tivin's
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  Speaker 1: tribe in the program They're Dead?
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  Speaker 4: Yes. Lauren Metzler was a good friend with both of
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  Speaker 4: my boys. They loved and respected her, and when she
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  Speaker 4: started Tevin's Tribe, I was I was so excited, and
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  Speaker 4: she has honored my boys every year that she's had it.
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  Speaker 4: I wish more people would come out just to see
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  Speaker 4: what it's about and know that, you know, Lauren has
• 23:34
  Speaker 4: worked so hard in this community to bring awareness to
• 23:41
  Speaker 4: overdose and suicide. To see all of those beautiful faces
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  Speaker 4: on a poster just breaks my heart.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm sure that that will be part of your
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  Speaker 1: subject dead that you will deliver. Then at the cow
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  Speaker 1: this weekend, is that correct?
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  Speaker 4: Correct? I will be discussing my boys and then I
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  Speaker 4: will also discuss my journey after their loss, after their passing. Yes,
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  Speaker 4: it is hard, but I really do believe it's something
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  Speaker 4: that needs to be said. And I think the more
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  Speaker 4: awareness that's brought to this problem that we have here
• 24:29
  Speaker 4: in the US, but mostly in this community needs to
• 24:34
  Speaker 4: be discussed well.
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  Speaker 1: And there are those platforms like Sock Valley Voices of
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  Speaker 1: Recovery right deb that help along with this.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, I do care deeply about Sock Vallet Voices of Recovery.
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  Speaker 4: They I to watch them through activities that don't involve
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  Speaker 4: alcohol or drugs, and the activities being open to the
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  Speaker 4: families and open to the public. It is. It's amazing
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  Speaker 4: what they do. I donate to them when I can.
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  Speaker 4: I donate to Sevin's tribe every year. It's not something
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  Speaker 4: that I realize everyone can do, but in honor of
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  Speaker 4: my boys who fought the hard fight, and it's not easy.
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  Speaker 4: It's a road none of us can understand. To be clean,
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  Speaker 4: I don't even understand it. I to know what it's
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  Speaker 4: like every day to have to fight that fight.
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  Speaker 1: Deb, We're going to let you again again joined Recover
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  Speaker 1: Con this Saturday and and talk more about that. That's
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  Speaker 1: where we want the folks, of course, to venture to
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  Speaker 1: to listen to you, to listen to your story from
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: start to finish. I know that we just don't have
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: time for it today. We could, but we just don't
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  Speaker 1: have time for us. So we're going to encourage everybody
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  Speaker 1: to get over to thecalb this weekend nine until five.
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  Speaker 1: Deb Pineda is going to be speaking as one of
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  Speaker 1: the special speakers on the Stock Valley Voices of Covering
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  Speaker 1: Where cover Con twenty twenty five platform and again go there,
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  Speaker 1: if not for anything else, to listen to Deb's story
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  Speaker 1: because it is one that you'll want to again connect with,
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  Speaker 1: especially if you are connected the way Deb is with
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  Speaker 1: the situation that she had to go through with her family. Deb,
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  Speaker 1: we appreciate your time. I know it's an emotional time
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  Speaker 1: for you.
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  Speaker 2: Ma'm well.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you so very much for spending time with us
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  Speaker 1: and talking with us today here at WIKES and good
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  Speaker 1: luck with the event this weekend. We'll be looking forward
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  Speaker 1: to your speech this weekend as part of rerekever Con
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty five, and we appreciate you joining us today
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  Speaker 1: here at wix and Radio.
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  Speaker 4: Thank you for having me. I appreciate that and yes,
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  Speaker 4: I I have begged for people to come and hear
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  Speaker 4: these stories. And if you are involved with any type
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  Speaker 4: of addiction, come and see that you are not alone.
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  Speaker 4: Absolutely have people on your side.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely into Calb. This weekend. Recover Con twenty twenty five
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  Speaker 1: starts at nine am on the campus of Northern Illinois University.
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  Speaker 1: Deb Aghan, thanks for joining us and we'll look forward
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  Speaker 1: to seeing you in New Calb this weekend. Depanata has
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: been our guest in this session of our talk line
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: here at WIXN. That takes care of our talk line
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  Speaker 1: for today. Don't forget Recovery Con. Recover Con twenty twenty
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  Speaker 1: five is this weekend at the Calb. You can call
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  Speaker 1: for more information at seven seventy nine seven zero seven
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  Speaker 1: zero one five one. That's the Soft Valley Voices of
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  Speaker 1: Recovery phone number. You can go to their website for
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: registration information at SVVR dot org. And we appreciate Gerald
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: and Depp for joining us this morning here at wixent
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  Speaker 1: Sports for