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Spin At The Manhattan Beach Pier To Fight Cancer At Tour de Pier! · The iHeart SoCal Show

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  Speaker 1: Lisa Fox here. This is the Ihearts cal Show. So
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  Speaker 1: imagine it.
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  Speaker 2: Imagine a beautiful spring Sunday morning where thousands of cyclists
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  Speaker 2: take take turns riding more than three hundred stationary spin
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  Speaker 2: bikes parked right across the Manhattan Beach Pier and strand
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  Speaker 2: peddling to.
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  Speaker 1: Find a cure for cancer.
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  Speaker 2: It's happening next Sunday, May seventeenth. It's the award winning
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  Speaker 2: fourteenth annel Tour to Peer and we need you. We
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  Speaker 2: need your help and support. We need writers, volunteers, supporters
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  Speaker 2: to come enjoy the free family expo and then some
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  Speaker 2: Tour to Peer tourdepier dot com for all the infon
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  Speaker 2: and Onto tells all about it is lady behind this
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  Speaker 2: whole thing, Lisa Manheim. Hi, Lisa, Hi, Lisa, Lisa Mensa
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  Speaker 2: to Lisa's. Lisa is the co founder of that Lisa.
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  Speaker 2: She's a co founder of the Tour to Peer and
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  Speaker 2: executive director of the Hirschberg Foundation for Pancredit Cancer Research,
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  Speaker 2: one of the organizations that will benefit from this massive
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  Speaker 2: morning of all this love coming together. So when I
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  Speaker 2: know I feel like this one, we get excited for
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  Speaker 2: this one because the energy, the vibe at Towar to Peer.
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  Speaker 1: Is just it's really special.
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  Speaker 2: People get all pumped up to be out there by
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  Speaker 2: the beach to make a difference together and get their
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  Speaker 2: spin on.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you. Yes you've been there to witness it, so
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  Speaker 3: you know we say. It's not your average spin class.
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  Speaker 3: Absolutely more of a big party with lots of energy
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  Speaker 3: and emotion and really some super special moments throughout the
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  Speaker 3: five hour ride.
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  Speaker 2: So this event, look, it's fun to ride, fund to attend,
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  Speaker 2: fun to support, do all the above, But I imploy you
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  Speaker 2: if you want to spin with us next weekend, you
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  Speaker 2: better check a website right now. As a last check,
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  Speaker 2: it wasn't totally sold out, but that might change. This
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  Speaker 2: event sells out every year, so please go to toardpeer
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  Speaker 2: dot com right now to see if you can still
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  Speaker 2: grab a bike and some friends to pull this thing
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  Speaker 2: off next Sunday morning.
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  Speaker 3: You're right, we do sill out. We have to. We
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  Speaker 3: only own so many spin bikes, so when we fill
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  Speaker 3: them up, we fill them up. I would definitely encourage
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  Speaker 3: anybody to go to to peer too and hit register.
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  Speaker 3: And the way it works is you choose a bike,
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  Speaker 3: you choose to be a team captain of a bike,
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  Speaker 3: and that bike has five one hour sessions and eight thirty,
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  Speaker 3: nine thirty, ten thirty, eleven thirty and twelve thirty and
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  Speaker 3: you can ride all five hours, or you can get
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  Speaker 3: four other friends to ride along with you. And there's
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  Speaker 3: a reeducation fee and a fundraising minimum. But as long
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  Speaker 3: as the bike's got to raise seven hundred and fifty dollars,
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  Speaker 3: that all goes towards one of the three cancer charities,
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  Speaker 3: the Herschford Foundations, Uncle Party Foundation for Brain Cancer Research,
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  Speaker 3: and the Cancer Support Community South Bay.
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  Speaker 2: Everyone listening to this program right now. We know you
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  Speaker 2: have four friends. We know you have four friends. We
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  Speaker 2: know you have four coworkers that you must love dearly.
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  Speaker 2: No four neighbors, four girlfriends, guy friends. Should be pretty
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  Speaker 2: easy to get the five people together. And I will
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  Speaker 2: say this from first hand experience the people. It's such
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  Speaker 2: a great I guess it's such a great Five people
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  Speaker 2: do matching colors, there's different themes, All the different teams
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  Speaker 2: come with their flair. Thousands come together for toward Peer
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  Speaker 2: every year because usually we're affected by cancer. We lost
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  Speaker 2: a love wind to cancer and we're tired of it.
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  Speaker 2: So we're out there spin our little butts off to
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  Speaker 2: make a difference. And if we are sold out for
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  Speaker 2: the bikes for next Sunday, Twitterpaer dot com.
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  Speaker 1: If we are sold out by the time you go
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  Speaker 1: to the website, just show up.
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  Speaker 2: Anyways, It's such a great experience and watch people spend
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  Speaker 2: watch these enthusiastic, passionate teams and spend with these incredible
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  Speaker 2: instructors with so much energy and inspiring words on the mic.
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  Speaker 1: With the music.
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  Speaker 2: Just a really cool thing to be a part of.
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  Speaker 1: And it's not a competition.
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  Speaker 2: You can spin at your own pace, so just take
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  Speaker 2: it all in.
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  Speaker 1: You're right there at the beach and with all these
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  Speaker 1: amazing people.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's right. I tell people all the time. You
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  Speaker 3: just have to be able to sit your seat on
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  Speaker 3: the bike and peddle your legs. You can turn off
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  Speaker 3: the tension and nobody cares because it's not a race.
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  Speaker 3: You're not going anywhere. And while you're there, you're able
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  Speaker 3: to watch five different you have five different hours with
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  Speaker 3: five different themes, and so many different celebrity appearances and
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  Speaker 3: entertainers and LA sports teams, mascots. They're all out there,
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  Speaker 3: entertainers all out there trying to keep you motivated. And
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  Speaker 3: add to the you know, add to the shared energy
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  Speaker 3: of sport of peer.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Talk about some of the instructors you have on the stage. Boy,
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  Speaker 2: these people are just wonderful. I want them to be
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  Speaker 2: like my life coach. These spin instructors that she gets.
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  Speaker 2: Like Lisa said, each each Spin instructor essentially hosts an hours, right.
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  Speaker 1: They picked the music, they picked the vibe for that.
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  Speaker 2: Hour, and they are literally talking to you and they
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  Speaker 2: what they have to say is so impactful. And many
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  Speaker 2: of them have been affected by cancer in so many
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  Speaker 2: shape or form, like most of the people who come
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  Speaker 2: to this event, and it's a beautiful thing to see
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  Speaker 2: us all come together seriously spinning to make a difference.
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  Speaker 2: But those moments with the music and the ocean right
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  Speaker 2: in front of you is just and all these sweet people,
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  Speaker 2: it's a must experience.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, we are really lucky to have the five instructors
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  Speaker 3: that we have. The majority of them work teach out
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  Speaker 3: of the Bay Club in the South Bay, and they
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  Speaker 3: put a lot of energy into getting their playlist and
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  Speaker 3: all the all the various antics that go on during
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  Speaker 3: their ride. The detail level that they put in is
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  Speaker 3: really super special. And then we we of course on
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  Speaker 3: the stage. Always have a celebrity rider for every hour,
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  Speaker 3: sometimes two on the main stage, and we always have
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  Speaker 3: a hero rider each hour. We feature a different story
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  Speaker 3: of a cancer survivor or somebody who's riding for someone
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  Speaker 3: and I think that provides extra motivation as we share
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  Speaker 3: their story and you see them up there. And then
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  Speaker 3: I mean, my favorite parts are just seeing all of
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  Speaker 3: the One of my favorite parts of seeing all the
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  Speaker 3: local sports teams and the mascots. I mean, I'm a
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  Speaker 3: huge mascot. I don't for some reason. I just love
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  Speaker 3: a mascot. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: We Bailey comes sometimes right and kings Bailey Bailey.
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  Speaker 3: Bailey all the time. We've got this year's Sparky from
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  Speaker 3: the Sparks. We have Chuck the Condor from the Clippers
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  Speaker 3: making the first toward to peer appears nice Gizmo from
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  Speaker 3: the Galaxy, so so so many, and we have the
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  Speaker 3: World Cup is going to be making a making its
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  Speaker 3: way to toward a peer. They're going to be really
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  Speaker 3: activating with their Yeah, they're giant. They've got a forty
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  Speaker 3: foot bus that's going to bring out you know, energy
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  Speaker 3: and activations. Amongst the many other sponsors that are activating
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  Speaker 3: in the free health and Fitness Expo.
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  Speaker 1: Very cool.
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  Speaker 3: The King's the Galaxy, they'll all be out there. So
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  Speaker 3: that part is that's the pure.
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  Speaker 2: Fund And if there's still spaces for you and your
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  Speaker 2: plus four to take over a spin bike, each bike
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  Speaker 2: needs to raise seven fifty right.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, so it's a fifty dollars registration feet and one
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  Speaker 3: hundred dollars fundraising minimum per person, which is so easy
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  Speaker 3: these days with social media when you register, when you register,
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  Speaker 3: you get an individual fundraising page and all you have
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  Speaker 3: to do is share that link on on any social
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  Speaker 3: media or drop that link in an email to friend's family.
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  Speaker 3: And we always say, like everybody's always surprised. We're like, oh,
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  Speaker 3: that was a lot easier than I thought. Yeah, people
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  Speaker 3: really do. People really do want to give and want
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  Speaker 3: to support you, and it doesn't have to be large gifts.
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  Speaker 3: But I think that's what that's what we all so
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  Speaker 3: often here is how surprised people are when somebody from
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  Speaker 3: their you know, middle school supported them.
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  Speaker 2: Or a coworker, a co worker gave twenty five bucks,
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  Speaker 2: like oh so and so Valentine Tip gave twenty five dollars.
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  Speaker 2: You hear coworkers, people in your friend group people who
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  Speaker 2: just have a big generous heart twenty bucks, thirty bucks,
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  Speaker 2: fifty bucks, whatever they can give. It all adds up
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  Speaker 2: and next you know, you met your goal. Your fellow
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  Speaker 2: writers met their goal. And then hopefully, as we pretty
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  Speaker 2: much every year, you raise a million every year.
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  Speaker 3: Right, yeah, we we we raised over a million dollars.
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  Speaker 3: We hit a million, a million and a half last year. Wow,
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  Speaker 3: And we should be on target if everybody, everybody who's
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  Speaker 3: outriding to to raise more than you know, set the
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  Speaker 3: goal of one hundred and fifty per person, seven thirty
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  Speaker 3: per bike, but so many will raise more and again
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  Speaker 3: with the tools and that it's about you got it.
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  Speaker 3: You got to ask. That's how that's how fundraising works.
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  Speaker 3: And long ago was told that it's a mythsta to ask,
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  Speaker 3: it's a good deed to ask and as well as
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  Speaker 3: it is to give. And the beauty of this event
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  Speaker 3: is that we have so many active, engaged sponsors who
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  Speaker 3: cover the costs of the event. So one hundred percent
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  Speaker 3: of everything that a participant raises goes right to our
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  Speaker 3: cancer charities, which is really phenomenal. We're super blessed with
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  Speaker 3: the sponsor sponsorship community that we have and it's like,
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  Speaker 3: not only are do we have great sponsors like Sketchers
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  Speaker 3: as are are presenting sponsor, and day Club and the
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  Speaker 3: Clippers as even this year the Clippers are spaunshing. We
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  Speaker 3: have so many but they not only are writing the check,
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  Speaker 3: but they're bringing out the riders to ride, they're setting
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  Speaker 3: up the boosts and they're really involving up the boots
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  Speaker 3: and the expo. They're very involved, and I think it's
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  Speaker 3: really speaks volumes about the event that sponsors are coming
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  Speaker 3: back year after year and recognizing what an awesome date
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  Speaker 3: is to engage their employees and to obviously market their
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  Speaker 3: company and share goodwill. Yeah, we're super excited. Yeah, I
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  Speaker 3: can't believe it's your fourteen already.
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  Speaker 1: Oh my gosh.
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  Speaker 2: And again all the money raised and this is for
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  Speaker 2: Tour the Peer Manhattan Beach next Sunday morning, May of seventeenth,
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  Speaker 2: Tour to Peer dot com for all the information and
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  Speaker 2: the three charitys again, I want you to touch on
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  Speaker 2: Hirschberg Foundation for paying credit cancer research elements and the
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  Speaker 2: other two that the Tour to Peer benefits, the cancer
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  Speaker 2: support community South of Bay. It's the Dando Beach based
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  Speaker 2: nonprofit founded back in the eighties free emotional support, education,
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  Speaker 2: and wellness programs to cancer patients and their families, and
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  Speaker 2: they are wonderful. And also the Uncle Corey Foundation for
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  Speaker 2: Brain Cancer Research. They're another nonprofit that's dedicated to funding
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  Speaker 2: innovative adult in pediatric brain cancer research, particularly focusing on
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  Speaker 2: how do you say geoblastoma, geoblastoma, geo blastoma, Inspired by
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  Speaker 2: the loss of Corey Hunter. Uncle Corey, the Foundation has
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  Speaker 2: raised millions to support over one hundred research grounds aimed
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  Speaker 2: at improving treatments and survival rates.
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  Speaker 1: So you got two biggies right there.
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  Speaker 2: And then yours named after your late step dad, the
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  Speaker 2: Hirshberg Foundation for pan Credit Cancer Research, to talk about
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  Speaker 2: what you do.
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  Speaker 1: I know we have you on the show regularly, and gosh,
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  Speaker 1: you guys are.
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  Speaker 2: Just on the forefront of advancements in the pancredit cancer
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  Speaker 2: research space based right there at UCLA, and you've just
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  Speaker 2: made so many strides since you began your organization thirty
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  Speaker 2: years ago.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you, thank you. Yes, it's been hour in our
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  Speaker 3: twenty ninth year, which is hard to believe. But our
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  Speaker 3: whole focus is to keep raising money to find a
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  Speaker 3: cure while also supporting patients who are living with the disease,
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  Speaker 3: and we do that through our fundraisers like Tour to
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  Speaker 3: Peer and LA Cancer Challenge, and through patient events. We
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  Speaker 3: just had a symposium last month at UCLA where over
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  Speaker 3: forty survivors came together with doctors, family members, caregivers, community
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  Speaker 3: members and spent the day learning about the latest updates
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  Speaker 3: in pancradic cancer research, things like nutrition. We've really been
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  Speaker 3: able to not only fund research, but you know, support
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  Speaker 3: patients steadily. And there's more breaking news happening right now
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  Speaker 3: in the pancratic cancer space than there have been in
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  Speaker 3: a really long time, exciting, a lot of yeah, really exciting,
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  Speaker 3: big positive results with some drugs that are extending life expectancy,
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  Speaker 3: and a lot of positive work in immunotherapy. So there's
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  Speaker 3: a lot of things happening. And what we've been doing
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  Speaker 3: for over twenty years now is funding seed grants, which
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  Speaker 3: are little small grants up to seventy five thousand dollars
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  Speaker 3: that we give to a young investigator who's got a
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  Speaker 3: novel idea that they want to pursue. But you really
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  Speaker 3: need money in order to pursue pursue research, and you
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  Speaker 3: need to do your research in order to get the
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  Speaker 3: real money which comes from NIH. So these SE Grant
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  Speaker 3: awards that we've been giving out for years have really
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  Speaker 3: produced phenomenal results. I mean just in the personnel of
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  Speaker 3: the SEA Grant recipients who are now running major cancer,
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  Speaker 3: major pancratic cancer programs at institutions around the country, to
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  Speaker 3: patient care and all of the various accomplishments that these
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  Speaker 3: SEA Grant recipients have been able to do and to
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  Speaker 3: be able to still be engaged in still want to
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  Speaker 3: be working in pankcredic cancer and still finding working, you know,
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  Speaker 3: so hard to find a cure.
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  Speaker 2: But also we talked about this before, Lisa, how your
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  Speaker 2: organization has also made strides in earlier detection of pan
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  Speaker 2: credic cancer.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. I mean there's so much we know now that
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  Speaker 3: we didn't know no gosh, of course, and even things
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  Speaker 3: like genetic testing was something that wasn't talked about and
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  Speaker 3: now is a common thing that we talk about. I mean, immunotherapy,
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  Speaker 3: customized therapies. I mean, there's there's been so so much
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  Speaker 3: work that's been done that it's just really it's exciting.
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  Speaker 3: It's a good.
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  Speaker 1: Time to put money into fighting cancer.
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  Speaker 3: You'll be finding. Yeah. Yeah, especially especially after the last
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  Speaker 3: year where there was a lot of a lot of cuts.
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  Speaker 3: It really impacted twenty twenty five. So you know, the
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  Speaker 3: researchers that we fund just you know, we're holding on
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  Speaker 3: to keep on going. And when you cut a researcher
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  Speaker 3: and stop their work, not just stopping you know it
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  Speaker 3: for a week or a month, you're setting back that
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  Speaker 3: work years and years. So the cuts are not you know,
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  Speaker 3: just like a temporary Oh I'm not going to be
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  Speaker 3: able to do this work for a month. Oh no,
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  Speaker 3: it has longstanding implications. So yeah, So it's been twenty
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  Speaker 3: twenty six has definitely been more positive on that front.
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  Speaker 3: And again it's you know, we're so lucky that we're
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  Speaker 3: able to raise so much money at toward a peer
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  Speaker 3: for all three cancer charities, and we're we're really lucky
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  Speaker 3: that it's quite unique that this event is put on
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  Speaker 3: by three cancer charities. I mean, we we do it
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  Speaker 3: ourselves and we work together, and.
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  Speaker 2: Usually charities don't like to share. Usually charities don't like
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  Speaker 2: to share it, so thank you for sharing.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, But they're all special groups, special people, so and
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  Speaker 3: it allows it allows us to you know, to connect
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  Speaker 3: with people who we you know, wouldn't have had the
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  Speaker 3: opportunity to because maybe they haven't been impacted by Paying
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  Speaker 3: Credit Cancer. But they'll know we're here. And it's the
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  Speaker 3: same thing for the other organizations. You know we're here,
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  Speaker 3: why when they need them hopefully they hopefully you won't
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  Speaker 3: and hopefully there will be a cure. We feel like
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  Speaker 3: it is it is a common.
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  Speaker 2: Well to know this money this hopefully this million dollars
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  Speaker 2: we're going to raise at tour to Pier next Sunday morning,
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  Speaker 2: May seventeenth, right there at the pier, Manhattan Beach Pier.
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  Speaker 2: We know now it is definitely making a difference every
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  Speaker 2: single year with proceeds going to, like Lisa said, Hirstburg
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  Speaker 2: Foundation for Paying Credit Cancer Research, Cancer Support Community South Bay,
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  Speaker 2: and the Uncle Corey Foundation for Brain Cancer Research.
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  Speaker 1: Hopefully you'll be able to get get a team together
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  Speaker 1: a U plus four.
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  Speaker 2: We know you got four friends to join thousands who
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  Speaker 2: are coming together and spend they'll be spending their little
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  Speaker 2: hearts out for a couple hours at three hundred plus
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  Speaker 2: stationary spin bikes right there on the beach.
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  Speaker 1: Thousands coming together.
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  Speaker 2: If it's not sold out, you can grab your U
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  Speaker 2: plus four and spin do the spinning, or just show
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  Speaker 2: up and be a part of it. You can pop
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  Speaker 2: on the website and make a donation. I always usually
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  Speaker 2: donate to Lisa Manheim her team. Thank you and come
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  Speaker 2: out and be a part of the vibe and you know,
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  Speaker 2: bring your family and come hang and enjoy the free
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  Speaker 2: health and fitness expo and kid zone, all that things
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  Speaker 2: to eat, drink, sample while we cheer on the writers,
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  Speaker 2: the spinners and be a part of this whole, very
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  Speaker 2: special day in hopes of raising a million plus dollars
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  Speaker 2: to fight cancer. Fourteen Daniel Tour to Peer next Sunday morning,
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  Speaker 2: bright and early, May seventeenth, Manhattan Beach, Peer tourdpeer dot
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  Speaker 2: com for all the info, Lisa Manheim, thank you so
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  Speaker 2: much for all that you do and we'll see you
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  Speaker 2: next Sunday.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you, thank you so much. Appreciate it.