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Mardi Gras for Homeless Kids -- 1/28/26 · Brian Thomas

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  Speaker 1: I think about pair CD Talk Station Brian Thomas. I
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  Speaker 1: am so excited right now. I just got town tell
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  Speaker 1: my guests in the studio. I wish we had an
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  Speaker 1: hour to talk. It is that time of year to
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  Speaker 1: take turn lemons and lemonade. It's a terrible thing that
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  Speaker 1: we have people in one We have homeless children in
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  Speaker 1: the area, and I know some people like, really, yes
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  Speaker 1: we do. And nobody knows that better than the Marti
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  Speaker 1: Grus Benefiting Homeless Children Foundation. They're up for their thirty
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  Speaker 1: fifth year at the Northern Kentucky Convention Center. With the celebration,
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  Speaker 1: everybody's going to get together, enjoy some sick awesome food
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  Speaker 1: and help put meals on the table. And welcome to
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  Speaker 1: the morning show. The folks behind this Gordy Snyder, who's
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  Speaker 1: a founding chairman of the Marti Garo Benefiting Homeless Children,
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  Speaker 1: Amy Floyd, executive director with the Joe Burrow Foundation, more
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  Speaker 1: on that in the moment, and Don Paparella, General manager,
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  Speaker 1: Mercedes Benz to Fort Mitchell, who is one of the
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  Speaker 1: awesome sponsors of this event. Welcome folks. It's a pleasure
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  Speaker 1: to have you in pleasure to be here and just
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  Speaker 1: briefly discuss the reality of homeless because sometimes like, there's
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  Speaker 1: no way homeless children, are you crazy? But I've talk
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  Speaker 1: to enough organizations like you over the years to know that, yes,
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  Speaker 1: it is indeed a fact.
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  Speaker 2: Well, actually, Brian, you know the thing about homeless children,
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  Speaker 2: is there the invisible homeless.
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  Speaker 1: Yes they are.
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  Speaker 2: People don't know they're out there because they're hiding. They're
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  Speaker 2: trying to stay away from you know, could be runaways,
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  Speaker 2: it could be a situation where they're afraid they're going
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  Speaker 2: to get put into some type of home or or
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  Speaker 2: you know, shelter, so they hide. They tend to height
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  Speaker 2: and they show up at school sometimes without you know,
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  Speaker 2: being properly bathed or closed, the proper clothes, clean clothes,
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  Speaker 2: or even being fed. And so you know, this event
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  Speaker 2: actually benefits three agencies Bethany House in Cincinnati, Brighton Center
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  Speaker 2: over in Newport, and Welcome House in Covington. And what
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  Speaker 2: they specialize in is actually making sure that these these children,
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  Speaker 2: these young children and their families have a place to
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  Speaker 2: live and have three meals a day.
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  Speaker 1: And hopefully, and I'm sure this is the case, hook
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  Speaker 1: them up with resources to help them improve their quality
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  Speaker 1: of life and find them a permanent place to live.
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  Speaker 2: Help them get stabilized.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely all right, So who can argue with that? Right?
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  Speaker 1: And the great thing about this is, in spite of
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  Speaker 1: the bad that goes on beyond it, I do work
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  Speaker 1: for the cure starts now pediatric brain cancer are awful.
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  Speaker 1: The event celebrating and putting together money and resources for
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  Speaker 1: it amazing. So I love these types of events. So
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  Speaker 1: we get to celebrate and enjoy some what I can
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  Speaker 1: only describe as truly amazing food and a shout out
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  Speaker 1: to it's Jimmy Curvell.
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  Speaker 2: Jimmy Curvell that Governor's house.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, Gordy reminded me that I had the best meatball
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  Speaker 1: of my life last year. He brought some of Jimmy's meatballs,
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  Speaker 1: and now I'm enjoying this unbelievable brisket or it's a
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  Speaker 1: short fall apart, beautiful taste, wonderful and some mushroom risotto. Anyway,
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  Speaker 1: the food is always top tier at this event.
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  Speaker 2: Just one of the items that will be served.
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  Speaker 1: This is event.
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  Speaker 2: That night we'll have over fifty restaurants and pyers.
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  Speaker 1: Fifty five from one reason. You also have a lot
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  Speaker 1: of yeah dB eight wonderful that's a drawl right there.
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  Speaker 1: And the Marty Gross Parade. You have most of these events,
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  Speaker 1: you have live or silent auctions. Obviously you need to
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  Speaker 1: raise money. This is going on right, correct, good?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, the silent auctions are unbelievable. There'll be tables of
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  Speaker 3: things that will probably be well over one hundred different
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  Speaker 3: silent auctions, and then the live auction will have six
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  Speaker 3: to eight different things. And you know from sign jerseys
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  Speaker 3: to events, the experiences and things like that, it'll be unbelievable.
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  Speaker 1: Well, and this is fact Tuesday's just say right after Valentine. Correct,
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  Speaker 1: So people are still being that cellbent to where we're
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  Speaker 1: gonna get all out of our system before were going
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  Speaker 1: to let you know, you're free to say it's okay
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  Speaker 1: if somebody wrote that down somewhere party like a rock star,
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  Speaker 1: you got to give it up the next day. So
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  Speaker 1: the how many people can I ask generally attend or
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  Speaker 1: attended last.
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  Speaker 2: Year we have about fifteen fifteen hundred. That's fifteen hundred
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  Speaker 2: people there at night. It's a big event. It's a
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  Speaker 2: big party for with a purpose, Brian, right, with the purpose,
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  Speaker 2: that's see, that's the justification. Yes, eat, drink, be merry
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  Speaker 2: because everything you do is in the name of helping
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  Speaker 2: these these you know, unfortunate children. So good, that's the
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  Speaker 2: excuse you got. You've got it now. In terms of.
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  Speaker 1: Tickets, obviously tickets are still available and you would like
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  Speaker 1: people to purchase them. Yeah, we still have a few.
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  Speaker 1: Just a few, Yeah, just a few. So hurry up
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  Speaker 1: and get on the bandwagon and get your tickets. It's
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  Speaker 1: going to be a lot of fun, and I assure
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  Speaker 1: you'd be blown away by the food.
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  Speaker 2: If we also have some sponsorships left too for corporation, Yeah, absolutely,
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  Speaker 2: because I was getting ready to talk to to darn
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  Speaker 2: about Mercedes Ben's involvement with this.
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  Speaker 1: Before we do that, though, let's ask Amy, is this
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  Speaker 1: the first year that Georgia the Joe Burrow Foundations got involved.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, this is our first year being a partner with
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  Speaker 4: the event.
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  Speaker 1: How did Joe get get in touch with you or
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  Speaker 1: you get in touch with Joe? What drew him to
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  Speaker 1: your organization?
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  Speaker 4: I actually attended the event a couple of years ago. Obviously,
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  Speaker 4: Joe being went to l s U and Vetonie so
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  Speaker 4: Marty Girl is a big thing, So it just felt
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  Speaker 4: like a natural tie for us to be a part
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  Speaker 4: of this, bringing Marty Girral to Cincinnati and kind of
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  Speaker 4: pulling in that Louisiana.
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  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, Claire, Well, can he can teach us how
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  Speaker 1: to properly party for the uninitiated who haven't been down
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  Speaker 1: that road. You mentioned corporate sponsorships, folks, they could use
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  Speaker 1: some additional sponsors like Mercedes Benz of Fort Mitchell, who's
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  Speaker 1: stepped up to the plate. Don Paparella's here to talk
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  Speaker 1: about that. You've been involved with the organization for a while.
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  Speaker 3: Thirteen years so ever ever since we've been open. So
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  Speaker 3: we've been opened thirteen years. And the first charity that
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  Speaker 3: we really partnered with was was the Marty gra for
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  Speaker 3: Homeless Children, and it's been it's our favorite charity. You know,
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  Speaker 3: the work that these these these people do on a
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  Speaker 3: day and day out basis with the three organizations at help.
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  Speaker 1: But we're very, very fortunate now in terms of donations
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  Speaker 1: for the silent auctions? Are you still accepting those? So,
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  Speaker 1: I know there's usually like a cutoff point.
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  Speaker 2: Oh no, absolutely, Yeah, we'll take donations, we'll take money,
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  Speaker 2: we'll take everything, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Anything and everything, And that's the way it's supposed to be. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: I am I right for the ticket purchases. Let's get
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  Speaker 1: this out of the way. It's Marty Gras two or
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty six dot org work, that's correct if partigra
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty six dot org. And I'll ask Sean McMahon
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  Speaker 1: my filling today. He does a wonderful job if he
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  Speaker 1: can add this information to my blog page. D you
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  Speaker 1: buy caresea dot com. Someone's driving to work. They can't
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  Speaker 1: write this stuff down, and I know that is plus
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  Speaker 1: if they're like me, you forget a moment after hearing it.
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  Speaker 1: But let us see here. So it's it's it's fat Tuesday.
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  Speaker 1: What time does it start?
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  Speaker 2: Gordy starts at five thirty for the VIP tickets and sponsorships.
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  Speaker 2: If you just want to buy a regular ticket starts
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  Speaker 2: at six thirty. But most people buy VIP and get
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  Speaker 2: in there and get the big piece of chicken or
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  Speaker 2: you know whatever.
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  Speaker 3: Or the meat balls, the little steak sandwiches from Rubies.
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  Speaker 3: No pressure, and is Jimmy the meatballs are gonna show?
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  Speaker 3: He probably will because they are a huge hit.
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  Speaker 1: Listen. I don't know and I don't care how much
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  Speaker 1: a ticket costs. Whatever, folks, it's worth it. Get in
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  Speaker 1: there and try Jimmy's meatballs. They're sick awesome. Good. Well,
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  Speaker 1: everything is so five thirty to ten pm. Now, I
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  Speaker 1: don't recall ever having a problem parking over by the
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  Speaker 1: Northern Kentucky Convention Center. What's the parking situation all about? Well,
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  Speaker 1: it's actually free. Actually, our sponsor, Mercedes benz a Fort
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  Speaker 1: Mitchell provides free parking over in the Kenton County Garage
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  Speaker 1: right there across the street from the convention Center. So
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  Speaker 1: all you do is got to get there pulling the
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  Speaker 1: garage and you're all set. Well, thank you Mercedes Benz
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  Speaker 1: a Fort Mitchell.
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  Speaker 3: And we're glad to help. It's not just Mercedes parking only.
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  Speaker 3: Everyone's available, Okay, So.
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  Speaker 1: It's by the fact I have a I don't have
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  Speaker 1: a say I have a German car, but that'd be okay,
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  Speaker 1: that would be.
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  Speaker 3: Totally fine, and we should talk about that. It's time
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  Speaker 3: for you to upgrade.
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  Speaker 2: Let's just be honest.
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  Speaker 1: It is all right. I got a statement, brother, bold statement. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: what am I missing on this? If I forgot anything?
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  Speaker 1: So corporate sponsors, please step up in the plate. You
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  Speaker 1: got something really cool you want to donate? Ik some
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  Speaker 1: friends of mine. His wife one of those spas where
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  Speaker 1: they do all kinds of facial treatments and this and
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  Speaker 1: that and the other. She donated a sizable package to
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  Speaker 1: the cure starts now thing. But I will I will
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  Speaker 1: call him at my buddy after the se if you're
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  Speaker 1: willing to do it for this too wonderful. If I
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  Speaker 1: say that generally speaking, because somebody out there owns a
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  Speaker 1: business or does goods and services or something, they probably
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  Speaker 1: could easily donate to the event. No skin off your back.
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  Speaker 1: Just make the donation. You guys will handle all of that.
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  Speaker 3: Right, we'll handle all that. There's also tables that are available.
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  Speaker 2: Sponsorship tables are very cossive tables if you want fifteen
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  Speaker 2: hundred and go all the way up to ten thousand,
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  Speaker 2: if you want to jump in at that level.
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  Speaker 1: Step up to the plate. This is this is great.
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  Speaker 1: I am so pleased that you're in studentity. Thanks for
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  Speaker 1: bringing the food, and thank to Jimmy Cravall for being
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  Speaker 1: the guy that he is. He's with the Governor's House
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  Speaker 1: and he did do the food drop this morning and
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  Speaker 1: it is impressive. Folks, get to wog Pagerety by Cassey
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  Speaker 1: dot com or go directly right now to Marty Graw
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty six dot org. Get your tickets, maybe even
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  Speaker 1: consider getting a couple of tickets for some friends. You know,
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  Speaker 1: it's Valentine's Day weekend. You just continue the celebration. But
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  Speaker 1: this is great, and now thank you all for helping
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  Speaker 1: these homeless children. It's a beautiful thing what you're doing
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  Speaker 1: each and every year. In congratulations on thirty five years
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  Speaker 1: of it. Yeah, hopefully next year the need will evaporate.
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  Speaker 1: That would be wonderful.
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  Speaker 3: That's all of our goals, correct, that's all of our goals.
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  Speaker 1: Amen, Thank you very much. A big picture with Jack
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  Speaker 1: great job, brother folks, have a great day, and don't
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