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JJR Christmas Wish 2025: Wish #2 - Merry LovePUP 'Mas! · Johnjay & Rich On Demand

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  Speaker 1: It John Jay and Rich time for Christmas wish Kara
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  Speaker 1: in the studio. Good morning, Kara, Good morning.
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  Speaker 2: Tell us a little bit. Don't read the letters, hip,
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  Speaker 2: but just tell us a little bit about this person.
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  Speaker 1: Who are they to you?
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  Speaker 3: So I met Melissa about twenty five years ago. We
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  Speaker 3: worked together. We worked together for a lot of years,
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  Speaker 3: and she's just she's been a light in my life
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  Speaker 3: the whole time. And she had this grueling corporate job
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  Speaker 3: and she decided about a year ago to leave and
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  Speaker 3: so she could spend more time with Sam, and she
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  Speaker 3: started a pet sitting slash dog walking business. And over
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  Speaker 3: the last few months, she's been struggling to make ends meet,
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  Speaker 3: and she's constantly scrambling at the end of the month
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  Speaker 3: to make rends on time, and she's been door dashing
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  Speaker 3: when she can supplement, and she's just she's tired, she's
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  Speaker 3: exhausted mentally and gale and now she doesn't have extra
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  Speaker 3: time to be with Sam, and so she's just been struggling.
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  Speaker 3: And I thought, you know, maybe we could give her
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  Speaker 3: a little boost, and.
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  Speaker 1: I think we can do some good things here for her. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: all right, So we're gonna get her on the phone
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  Speaker 1: right now. Okay, Okay, is she home?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, she's supposed to be. I told her she's waiting
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  Speaker 3: for a package that I sent her that she has
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  Speaker 3: to sign for.
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  Speaker 1: When you're sneaky like that, that's good.
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  Speaker 4: Hi, you preach Melissa Myers. I'm sorry that I've missed
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  Speaker 4: your call.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, she's not so up. An she have salad? She's struggling.
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  Speaker 1: She doesn't necessarily what else? Hey man calling? No one's
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  Speaker 1: going to say that in their outcome.
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  Speaker 5: Melissa Myers, I'm sorry that I've missed your call.
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  Speaker 1: She's she's like, who is this? What's to say? When
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  Speaker 1: you call? Can you?
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  Speaker 2: It's like one hold pribly he I just put it away. Hello,
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  Speaker 2: good morning, John, is just Melissa Myers.
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  Speaker 5: This is me.
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  Speaker 1: I'm Melissa Myers. You're calling John, Jay and Rich. Hi.
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  Speaker 4: How are you?
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  Speaker 1: Are those dogs from your dog sitting business? Or are those.
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  Speaker 2: Do you have any idea what we're calling you?
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  Speaker 5: No, I'm not. I'm not really sure what's going on
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  Speaker 5: right now?
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  Speaker 1: Okay? How many dogs are there right now?
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  Speaker 4: I just I have a small crew today, so I
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  Speaker 4: have four and then my own So fine.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, Well, we want to advertise for your your friend
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  Speaker 2: Kara's in the studio. She was telling us about your
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  Speaker 2: business and we wanted to bring you on and advertise
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  Speaker 2: your dog sitting business.
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  Speaker 1: Hi, what is do you want to advertise your business?
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  Speaker 1: What's your business?
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  Speaker 4: So the business is Positive Vibe Pet Tribe. So we're
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  Speaker 4: all about positive vibes over here, and we I do
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  Speaker 4: in home pet sitting with dogs walking. We have a
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  Speaker 4: little Sunday sun day where I take a group of
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  Speaker 4: pups out or three hours to different dog tarks and
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  Speaker 4: out for pub tubs and all things pets.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, So Kara actually wrote us a letter about you,
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  Speaker 2: and we asked her to come in the studio and
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  Speaker 2: read you the letter. But I'm wondering if you need
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  Speaker 2: if you can go into a different room so you
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  Speaker 2: can hear, because I have six dogs in my house
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  Speaker 2: and I know how hard it is to be on
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  Speaker 2: a phone call with them all do Can you go
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  Speaker 2: into another room or can you let all the dogs
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  Speaker 2: run free in the street?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah? I can let them run.
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  Speaker 4: Free in the backyard. How is that?
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  Speaker 1: Okay?
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  Speaker 4: Then she's going the bathroom, which is always.
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  Speaker 1: The quietest end. Okay, good, good, good, Because you really
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  Speaker 1: want you to hear this letter. I set okay, Carara,
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  Speaker 1: whenever you're ready.
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  Speaker 3: Dear John, Jay, and Rich, I'm writing to nominate Melissa,
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  Speaker 3: a single mom who works so hard to provide for
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  Speaker 3: her son Sam. She struggles daily and works extremely hard.
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  Speaker 3: She recently left the corporate world to launch her pet
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  Speaker 3: sitting business, but because money is tight, she has been
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  Speaker 3: supplementing by door dashing. She's been struggling a lot over
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  Speaker 3: the last several months. Rent is a huge dresser and
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  Speaker 3: her car which helps her provide for her family. Her
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  Speaker 3: car has issues with its doors and needs two new tires.
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  Speaker 3: Melissa son Sam is growing so fast. He's six foot
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  Speaker 3: one at fourteen years old, and she can't keep up
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  Speaker 3: with his clothing and shoes. He loves basketball, especially the
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  Speaker 3: Phoenix Suns. He plays himself and is always in need
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  Speaker 3: of new shoes. I'm worried that with all of her expenses,
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  Speaker 3: Melissa and Sam won't have much of.
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  Speaker 1: A Christmas and that breaks my heart.
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  Speaker 3: She's been my friend for twenty five years and I've
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  Speaker 3: never known a more deserving person. Please consider granting this
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  Speaker 3: Christmas wish Kara.
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  Speaker 1: Melissa, we'd like to grant you a Christmas wish.
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  Speaker 5: Thank you so much, Thank.
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  Speaker 1: You are you on a speakerphone? By chance?
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  Speaker 5: I had?
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  Speaker 4: Is that better? I had you on speaker?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, because I want you to be able to hear
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  Speaker 1: everything that's about that.
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  Speaker 5: I know you hate that. Sorry live My son and
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  Speaker 5: I listen to you on the way to school every
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  Speaker 5: single morning.
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  Speaker 2: Well, well, thank you for listening. Let me tell you.
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  Speaker 2: Let me we're gonna grant you a Christmas wish. We're
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  Speaker 2: gonna give you. We're gonna try to make your Christmas
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  Speaker 2: a little bit brighter.
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  Speaker 5: Thank you so much so.
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  Speaker 2: United Food Bank. United Food Bank is going to make
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  Speaker 2: sure you have all you need for holiday. For the
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  Speaker 2: holiday meal, We're gonna give you turkey, rolls, produce stuff,
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  Speaker 2: being can goods, all the fixings for your family.
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  Speaker 1: Wow.
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  Speaker 5: Okay, thank you.
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  Speaker 2: Our friends that Schnepp Farms are giving you and Sam
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  Speaker 2: Admission tickets to World of Illumination train tickets to Chris
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  Speaker 2: Mission and Schnepp Farms this holiday season.
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  Speaker 1: It's beautiful.
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  Speaker 5: Oh my gosh, that's awesome.
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  Speaker 4: Thank you.
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  Speaker 1: Oh that would be so fun. Our friends at road
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  Speaker 1: House Cinemas are going to give you, guys tickets four
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  Speaker 1: tickets for any movie for popcorn tickets twenty five dollars
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  Speaker 1: or drinks for a movie night for you and your
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  Speaker 1: son or whoever whatever you want to go.
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  Speaker 5: Yay.
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  Speaker 1: You also have a family sized farm box of vegetables
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  Speaker 1: grown in Agritopia Farm and Gilbert courtesy the Arizona Urban
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  Speaker 1: Agricultural Foundation. So cool.
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  Speaker 2: You know, my wife and I we have a dog
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  Speaker 2: rescue they Love Pup Foundation, and you are a dog walker.
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  Speaker 2: So we would like to give you. Have you both
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  Speaker 2: come out, you and your son come out and hang
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  Speaker 2: out with our pups.
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  Speaker 1: It looks like this. According to this, we're actually putting
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  Speaker 1: you to work.
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  Speaker 2: So now we're also gonna give you, guys, a bunch
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  Speaker 2: of dog food, a bunch of dog food toys, and
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  Speaker 2: a bunch of other goodies for your dogs and all
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  Speaker 2: the dogs you walk.
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  Speaker 1: We're gonna give you a bunch of sun.
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  Speaker 5: That's awesome.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you, Kroger. They've donated two hundred and fifty dollars
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  Speaker 1: a Fries gift cards for you for any more groceries
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  Speaker 1: you need.
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  Speaker 4: Wow, listen, thank you.
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  Speaker 2: We also got you a new Better Homes cozy blanket,
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  Speaker 2: an Olay limited edition let It Glows set. We're giving
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  Speaker 2: you one hundred dollars gas card.
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  Speaker 4: Oh my gosh, that's amazing that Oh my goodness, thank you.
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  Speaker 5: Very very much.
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  Speaker 1: We're also giving you one hundred dollar Visa gift card
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  Speaker 1: maybe for a spa day. One hundred dollars Amazon gift card.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe you can buy some new PJS for you and Sam.
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  Speaker 1: Anything else you guys need for a cozy Oh.
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  Speaker 5: My god, you know we do.
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  Speaker 4: Our Christmas Eve tradition is Christmas jammies at some so yeah,
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  Speaker 4: please the movies every jammies.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Oh my god, good you gotta get your jammies
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  Speaker 1: to go to Roadhouse because they got they got some
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  Speaker 1: of these great reclining chairs.
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  Speaker 2: Well, let's go over Sam. Sam's fourteen. We got him
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  Speaker 2: some stuff, okay. We got him a Queen betting set
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  Speaker 2: and comforter set.
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  Speaker 3: It's so cool.
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  Speaker 2: A cozy blanket. We got him some old spice hairdge set.
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  Speaker 2: We got him ex body spray. You know you're fourteen,
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  Speaker 2: got a smell good.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: We got him fifty dollars in the gaming gift card.
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  Speaker 4: For Xbox, oh wow.
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  Speaker 1: One hundred and fifty dollars of coals for some new clothes, oh,
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  Speaker 1: thank you, And a two hundred dollars gift card Visa
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  Speaker 1: gift card for whatever he needs.
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  Speaker 4: Oh my gosh, he is going to be so excited.
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  Speaker 4: Thank you so much.
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  Speaker 5: Oh my goodness, welcome you.
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  Speaker 1: Merry Christmas, Thank you.
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  Speaker 4: Merry Christmas to you.
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  Speaker 5: Thank you so so much.
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  Speaker 1: So you do door dash? Yes, and your car has
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  Speaker 1: got some issues.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, oh yes, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: We have this friend. His name's Tony Williams. He's the
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  Speaker 1: owner of Big O' Tires and he is going to
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  Speaker 1: give you two new tires for your car.
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  Speaker 5: Wow, that's awesome.
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  Speaker 1: And you also got some banged up doors.
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  Speaker 4: They just don't opened from the outside.
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  Speaker 2: You got to crawl into the window like dukesa hazard
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  Speaker 2: the hazard style. That's right, Okay, well, okay, wait, this
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  Speaker 2: is good. We got this guy. He's a friend of
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  Speaker 2: our show. His name is Shane Orlando. He owns a
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  Speaker 2: company called Orlando Autobody. The guy is an incredible human being,
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  Speaker 2: much like Tony. They're both incredible human beings. And Shane
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  Speaker 2: Orlando at Orlando Auto Body has offered to look at
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  Speaker 2: your car and fix your doors.
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  Speaker 5: Oh yay, thank you.
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  Speaker 4: That's amazing, Thank you so so much.
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  Speaker 1: And you can still get in the Dick's hazard way,
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  Speaker 1: but at least they'll work for you normally if you
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  Speaker 1: want Okay, now, this is it, right.
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  Speaker 5: That'll be perfect.
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  Speaker 4: And when I'm just trying to you know, I pressed
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  Speaker 4: people or super runs for the police and I'm kidding.
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  Speaker 2: So your your son Sam, fourteen year old Sam? He
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  Speaker 2: does he play au basketball? He plays in high school
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  Speaker 2: or she just loves to play basketball.
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  Speaker 5: He right now just loves to play basketball.
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  Speaker 4: He's gonna he's played with the City of Phoenix and
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  Speaker 4: then he's gonna go out for a club.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, great, Well, the Phoenix Suns and the Phoenix Mercury.
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  Speaker 2: They heard about what a big basketball fan Sam is
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  Speaker 2: and they've invited you guys to come to a Sun's game.
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  Speaker 2: You got two lower ticket levels, and they're also going
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  Speaker 2: to give you a warm up experience. You get to
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  Speaker 2: go watch them warm up before the game, and you
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  Speaker 2: get it. He's gonna get an autographed Nick Richards jersey,
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  Speaker 2: and they're getting you getting him a pair of basketball shoes.
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  Speaker 1: Are you out of the bathroom now, because we're just
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  Speaker 1: this is a very much.
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  Speaker 4: Oh my god, that is oh my gosh.
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  Speaker 5: Thank you so so much. Oh that is going to be.
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  Speaker 4: The most he is going to be so excited. We
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  Speaker 4: are a huge Sence fan, and oh my gosh, thank you,
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  Speaker 4: thank you.
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  Speaker 1: That was supposed to be like the emotional part, but
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  Speaker 1: the dogs are barking. You were freaking out. They were like,
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  Speaker 1: this is a exactly are you not in the bathroom anymore?
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  Speaker 4: I'm just kind of yeah, thank you. Oh my goodness.
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  Speaker 1: How much is your rent?
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  Speaker 5: Twenty one fifty?
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  Speaker 2: My wife and I am Rich and Rich's wife. We
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  Speaker 2: also run the Love Up Foundation, and the Love Up
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  Speaker 2: Foundation is going to take care of one month's rent
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  Speaker 2: for you.
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  Speaker 5: Gosh, oh my goodness, thank you so much. I can't
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  Speaker 5: even I cannot.
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  Speaker 4: Even believe this right now, you guys are you don't
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  Speaker 4: even know how much you have just brightened our holiday.
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  Speaker 4: I I am so grateful.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you.
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  Speaker 2: Melissa, my wife Lake, she just had to hysterarect me
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  Speaker 2: like ten days ago when she wanted to deliver these
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  Speaker 2: things to you personally, and she is outside your front
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  Speaker 2: door right now with everything that we have.
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  Speaker 1: Don't let the dogs show the dogs, don't let them
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  Speaker 1: jump on her. She loves dogs.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, let me see what we're doing here.
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  Speaker 2: Then just a second.
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  Speaker 5: Okay, hey, okay, okay, okay, hold.
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  Speaker 4: On, give me just a second.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, I'm gonna create the big ones. You can hear
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  Speaker 5: all the dogs going crazy.
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  Speaker 4: Still right a home here.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean they definitely knew you were at the
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  Speaker 1: front door.
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  Speaker 5: Hi, Okay, they smell.
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  Speaker 4: I'm going to try to open the door.
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  Speaker 5: I wouldn't have to create up your Okay, the dog hair.
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  Speaker 5: Now we're right here. Try orry everybody, they all found out.
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  Speaker 4: I'll get the other to it.
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  Speaker 5: I hope you come on. Oh okay, Henry, Henry, come on,
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  Speaker 5: let's go.
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  Speaker 2: I know you just a.
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  Speaker 5: Very see you. Oh my god. Yeah, that's amazing. Thank
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  Speaker 5: you so much, Thank you, Merry Christmas.
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  Speaker 2: Blake, can you put the list on the phone really quick?
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  Speaker 2: Give me your phone, Blake, give me your phone really quick.
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  Speaker 5: Okay, hold on, he wants me to give you hello.
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  Speaker 1: H Merry Christmas.
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  Speaker 4: Thank you so much, Thank you you.
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  Speaker 5: Oh we I am shocked. And I love you guys,
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  Speaker 5: and I love you Caros, love you too so much.
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  Speaker 4: Oh my god, thank you. This is the most amazing
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  Speaker 4: thing ever. Thank you so much, Christmas.