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Dragon Con's 2026 Nonprofit Partner Hope Atlanta's Adam Hawkins · The Wes Carroll Morning Show

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  Speaker 1: The news, opinions, commentary, and interviews you need to start
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  Speaker 1: your day, and you're listening to the West Carrol Morning Show.
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  Speaker 2: Wednesday morning, twenty ninth day of July. I'm Wes, thanks
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  Speaker 2: for joining me. We are one month away from the
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  Speaker 2: twenty twenty six Dragon Con pregame show, which is the
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  Speaker 2: annual everything you need to know about Dragon Con event.
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  Speaker 2: I'm gonna say show, but it's really an.
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  Speaker 3: Event, isn't it.
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  Speaker 2: We cover everything, including the guests will appear there. Any
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  Speaker 2: updates on things you need to know about the convention.
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  Speaker 2: This is the fortieth dragon Con and it is happening
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  Speaker 2: Labor Day weekend in downtown Atlanta. It happens over five
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  Speaker 2: four star hotels in the downtown Atlanta area and then
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  Speaker 2: takes over most of America's Mart with vendors galore. And
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  Speaker 2: we will be there, of course covering the convention. Our
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  Speaker 2: coverage is brought to you by Columbus State University's Coca
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  Speaker 2: Cola Space Science Center has as has been the case
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  Speaker 2: for many years now, and they just added another big guest,
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  Speaker 2: Sean Aston, Sam from Lord of the Rings. Pretty exciting stuff.
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  Speaker 2: They lost David Tennant, who is going to be there
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  Speaker 2: as part of the Doctor Who contingency. He was booked
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  Speaker 2: for another event, some sort of not another event, but
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  Speaker 2: another a gig, an acting job, one would presume, and
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  Speaker 2: that pulled him away. They promised, we will get another
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  Speaker 2: guest of significance that will replace him, and they did so.
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  Speaker 2: Sean Aston returning to dragon Con this year. He's also
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  Speaker 2: the president of sag after, but he will be attending
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  Speaker 2: the convention this year in David Tennant's place. So many
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  Speaker 2: more guests that have already been announced. We've talked about
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  Speaker 2: from Trek, a few from Star Wars, the Firefly series.
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  Speaker 2: What's interesting is when you have Nathan Fillion from Firefly
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  Speaker 2: and several of the actors from Firefly there. They've also
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  Speaker 2: booked many cast members from the show Castle, so you're
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  Speaker 2: getting a little bit of extra Nathan Fillion. And there
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  Speaker 2: has been a case sort of you don't want to
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  Speaker 2: speak it because you don't want it to happen, but
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  Speaker 2: Nathan Fillion in the past has had a few situations
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  Speaker 2: where he's gotten booked on events. I keep saying events
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  Speaker 2: on gigs, that's the better way to put it. Where
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  Speaker 2: he's had to drop out of Dragon Con. He's pretty
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  Speaker 2: locked in now. I mean, I think if you've got
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  Speaker 2: Firefly and you've got Castle representation there, you're in good
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  Speaker 2: shape for expecting him to definitely be there this year.
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  Speaker 2: The dragon Con Pregame Show will air on August to
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  Speaker 2: twenty ninth on twenty ninth and thirtieth radios throughout the
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  Speaker 2: state of Georgia. Thanks to my friends at Georgia News
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  Speaker 2: Network for helping them make that happen. And then we'll
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  Speaker 2: also have it available as a podcast, the dragon Con
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  Speaker 2: Pregame Show Podcast wherever you get your podcasts. Now, there's
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  Speaker 2: a few things about dragon Con. Yes, it's this massive
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  Speaker 2: pop culture convention. It is different than all of the others.
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  Speaker 2: They sell memberships, they don't sell tickets. It's not the
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  Speaker 2: big commercial of it.
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  Speaker 3: Now.
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  Speaker 2: Sure you get the comic cons that are fun. San
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  Speaker 2: Diego Comic Con, of course, is fun New York all
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  Speaker 2: that San Diego is very much a paid for by
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  Speaker 2: sponsors kind of convention. And I'm not mocking it for it.
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  Speaker 2: I'm just saying that's what it is. Dragon Con is
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  Speaker 2: just different and it's special because this is just kind
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  Speaker 2: of a non stop party that starts on Thursday. For
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  Speaker 2: some it starts before Thursday. Officially, it starts on Thursday
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  Speaker 2: and runs through Labor Day, all hours of the night,
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  Speaker 2: and everything take more. Most everything takes place in the
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  Speaker 2: hotels in America's mart, so everything takes place in those
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  Speaker 2: two things. But most things take place in the hotels
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  Speaker 2: other than of course the vendors and things. And it's gaming,
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  Speaker 2: it's movies, it's comics, it's actual scientists that are there,
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  Speaker 2: it's music, it's wrestling. It covers every you have a
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  Speaker 2: young adult in your life that likes, you know, young
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  Speaker 2: adult fiction, there will be tracks for that where you
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  Speaker 2: can go and take them and just do that and
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  Speaker 2: they'll have plenty of fun. And it's elite level cosplay
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  Speaker 2: that takes place for the whole weekend. It's just giant
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  Speaker 2: costume party that's just kind of going on while you're
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  Speaker 2: attending the convention, which makes it even more fun. But
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  Speaker 2: also there's this component of it that takes place during
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  Speaker 2: the convention and lead up to the convention. But every
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  Speaker 2: year dragon Con selects a nonprofit to be their partner
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  Speaker 2: for dragon Con that year, and I have tried for
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  Speaker 2: the years that I do the pregame show, We try
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  Speaker 2: to give you an opportunity to hear a little bit
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  Speaker 2: from the nonprofit partner this year. The partner is Hope Atlanta.
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  Speaker 2: They provide what they call a holistic approach to taking
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  Speaker 2: care of a homeless crisis in Atlanta and they, you know,
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  Speaker 2: work towards taking care of FOK. Now, when we talk
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  Speaker 2: about homelessness in Atlanta, and I mean this is just
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  Speaker 2: going to hit some of the spectrum of it, but
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  Speaker 2: fixed income, older adults, people with mental health challenges, physical disabilities,
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  Speaker 2: families with children, people that are trying to get away
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  Speaker 2: from abuse, and people that have HIV and AIDS, veterans
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  Speaker 2: and that's part of the story. There's certainly every person
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  Speaker 2: has a story, every family has a story that goes
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  Speaker 2: with while they're in the situation that they're in. And
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  Speaker 2: this morning I'm interviewing joined by Adam Hawkins. He's the
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  Speaker 2: director of Outreach and Emergency Services for Hope Atlanta and Adam,
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  Speaker 2: I want to talk to you about this idea, this
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  Speaker 2: concept of holistic approach and what exactly that means for
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  Speaker 2: you guys there at Hope Atlanta.
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  Speaker 3: So basically, a holistic approach is that Hope Atlanta realizes
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  Speaker 3: or we realize that homelessness isn't just ant isn't solely
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  Speaker 3: just an issue of someone not having a place to live.
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  Speaker 3: There are usually a lot of other components that go
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  Speaker 3: into it. So the holistic approach essentially is that we
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  Speaker 3: case manage clients and we work with clients who may
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  Speaker 3: need health services or connection to some kind of health service,
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  Speaker 3: may need connection to documents. If you've been homeless and
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  Speaker 3: you've been on the street for a while, you probably
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  Speaker 3: don't still have your birth certificate or your ID or
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  Speaker 3: your Social Security cards. So a lot of especially a
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  Speaker 3: lot of my Owry staff that is a lot of
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  Speaker 3: the work that we do is connecting with people who
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  Speaker 3: are on the street to make sure that they have
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  Speaker 3: those kind of documents that are needed for housing. In addition,
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  Speaker 3: we do we offer snack packs and higing kits. We
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  Speaker 3: have the Women's Community Kitchen that feeds that feeds women
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  Speaker 3: and children three times a week, and basically just are
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  Speaker 3: working to meet clients really where they are, wherever that is.
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  Speaker 3: And the holistic approach really is to really meet a
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  Speaker 3: person where they are and help them see the benefit
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  Speaker 3: of getting into housing and help them overcome the barriers
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  Speaker 3: into getting into housing.
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  Speaker 2: It's a teacher man of fish Philosophy.
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  Speaker 3: Right, exactly, that is exactly it exactly.
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  Speaker 2: So every year dragon Con selects a different nonprofit to
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  Speaker 2: work with the impact always significant, not just financially word
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  Speaker 2: of mouth volunteers. What has dragon Con meant to Hope,
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  Speaker 2: Atlanta so far in twenty twenty six?
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  Speaker 3: Man? Can I first of all, can I just tell
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  Speaker 3: you I've been a dragon Con volunteer for I believe
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  Speaker 3: this will be my eleventh year with dragon Con as
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  Speaker 3: a volunteer. But having the having dragon Con be our
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  Speaker 3: partner is it is. I can't even begin to describe
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  Speaker 3: how meaningful it is for us to have them be
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  Speaker 3: our partner, to have the outreach, to have our name
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  Speaker 3: out there, and to have people see the work that
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  Speaker 3: we do. We hosted a dragon Con Superheroes event at Hope, Atlanta,
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  Speaker 3: I believe it was last month and had an accused
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  Speaker 3: number of volunteers come out where where dragon Con provided
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  Speaker 3: all sorts of items that we need for our clients
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  Speaker 3: who are housed and our permanent supportive housing programs, So
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  Speaker 3: things like dish washing liquid and laundry soap and paper
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  Speaker 3: towels and bars of soap and wash claws and you know,
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  Speaker 3: all those things that you just don't think about. Dragon
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  Speaker 3: Con brought them as well as a huge supply of
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  Speaker 3: can goods and all different all different sort of perishable
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  Speaker 3: items that we were able to take uh and distribute
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  Speaker 3: out to the clients that are in our permanent supportive
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  Speaker 3: housing programs. And they spent the whole day they came.
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  Speaker 3: We had a great time, you know, dragon Con showed up,
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  Speaker 3: everyone participated. Everyone, you know, we unloaded the truck, you know,
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  Speaker 3: huge pallettes like off the truck, unloaded, got everyone involved,
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  Speaker 3: had tables everywhere of supplies and were able to not
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  Speaker 3: only we have enough for the clients and are for
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  Speaker 3: all of our permanent support of healthing programs, but even
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  Speaker 3: additional items for clients that might come in and need
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  Speaker 3: those kind of items.
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  Speaker 2: And I know you mentioned volunteering at dragon Con, so
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  Speaker 2: I know that you're ingrained in it. I've even seen
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  Speaker 2: a photo of you with Luke Cage. But also you understand,
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  Speaker 2: you understand things about the dragon Con community because of
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  Speaker 2: that involvement, and it's something that it's such a unique
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  Speaker 2: gathering of people every year for this convention, and it's
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  Speaker 2: great just the way that their passions translate into volunteerism,
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  Speaker 2: isn't it.
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  Speaker 3: Absolutely Yeah. I've really enjoyed, you know, just being a
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  Speaker 3: part of dragon Con for the last few years. I
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  Speaker 3: mean I was, I loved I mean just personally at
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  Speaker 3: a personal investment in dragon Con, being a part of
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  Speaker 3: the Heart Writers Foundation than Nami last year, and just
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  Speaker 3: the fact that we're selected as a charity for you know,
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  Speaker 3: twenty twenty six for the forty eight anniversary is you know,
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  Speaker 3: it is just I mean, I personally, I am. I
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  Speaker 3: feel like I walk like every day is like it
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  Speaker 3: feels like walking on waters or it feels it just
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  Speaker 3: feels incredible. You know that what I love to do
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  Speaker 3: when I'm not at work is getting to impact the
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  Speaker 3: work that I do every day and vice versa.
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  Speaker 2: So it's nice when it comes together. This is my
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  Speaker 2: twenty fifth year covering dragon Con Media, and I felt
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  Speaker 2: the same way when I first stumbled into it and went,
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  Speaker 2: wait a minute, I can go do this and work.
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  Speaker 2: It's just amazing when those things come together. So you
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  Speaker 2: mentioned the work that you guys did with dragon Con
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  Speaker 2: as far as raising things for people that are getting started.
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  Speaker 2: I know that you guys have needs. The financial donation
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  Speaker 2: that will come from dragon Con. It's always huge, But
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  Speaker 2: if you could talk just a little bit about anybody
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  Speaker 2: that wants to be involved, that wants to participate. I
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  Speaker 2: know you guys are looking for always looking for volunteers.
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  Speaker 2: I'm sure you're looking for donations and things kits for
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  Speaker 2: people moving into their new home, or meals or snack
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  Speaker 2: things for kids, all sorts of things that you guys do.
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  Speaker 2: If you could just talk about where they would go
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  Speaker 2: to learn more about.
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  Speaker 3: That, that's a that's a really good question. So there
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  Speaker 3: are a lot of parts to that and I'll do
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  Speaker 3: my best to cover all of them. So first and
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  Speaker 3: foremost is our Women's Community Kitchen that is Tuesdays, Wednesdays,
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  Speaker 3: and Thursdays. That serves anywhere between fifty and eighty women
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  Speaker 3: and children every day or every Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday,
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  Speaker 3: and we always need volunteers for that event. I know
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  Speaker 3: our volunteer coordinator has done a really great job of
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  Speaker 3: reaching out the organizations and we love that dragon Con
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  Speaker 3: also came and volunteered and worked in the Women's Community Kitchen.
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  Speaker 3: But that is a that is something that we do
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  Speaker 3: that is really it's funded by donations from the community,
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  Speaker 3: and it's it's just it's really it's a really incredible
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  Speaker 3: opportunity and that's open to anyone. You know, you don't
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  Speaker 3: have to be homeless to come to the Women's Community
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  Speaker 3: Kitchen on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays. And it's not just
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  Speaker 3: a place for food, but it's also a place for fellowship.
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  Speaker 3: It's a place to come together for support, and it's
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  Speaker 3: just a it's a really great opportunity for anyone. We
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  Speaker 3: have a ton of different programs that are run by
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  Speaker 3: OP Atlanta, like you mentioned earlier. We have services for veterans,
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  Speaker 3: we have services for clients who are ATOV positive. We
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  Speaker 3: have services for folks who are older who need housing.
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  Speaker 3: We have a tan of program. My program that I
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  Speaker 3: over sie is is outreach, where we have four outreach
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  Speaker 3: teams or I oversee four outreach teams in the Metro
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  Speaker 3: Atlanta area. So my my staff are you know, at
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  Speaker 3: Marta on Marta, they're at the airport, they might be
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  Speaker 3: downtown working with some of the encampments in downtown. Like
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  Speaker 3: during FIFA, A lot of my staff for that part
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  Speaker 3: were really involved. In fact, we were all really involved
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  Speaker 3: with FIFA. Uh And then I have another team that
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  Speaker 3: does outreach around our around our selected keyt location. So
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  Speaker 3: there's there's a lot of different ways that Hope and
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  Speaker 3: Land of operates we have. You know, we have clients
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  Speaker 3: who just walk in sometimes who know that we're there,
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  Speaker 3: and that's a really great way for people who are
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  Speaker 3: needing assistants to come in. Of course, you know, everything
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  Speaker 3: has everything has some kind of eligibility requirements, so but
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  Speaker 3: you know, we're able to We're able to offer some
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  Speaker 3: amount of rental assistance for people who might have fallen
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  Speaker 3: behind on rent. We're able to sometimes offer like a
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  Speaker 3: movement assistance for someone who's you know, who's who's been
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  Speaker 3: on let's just say they've been out, they've they've gotten
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  Speaker 3: they've gotten the services, they found the place, but they
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  Speaker 3: just need help like getting started. So we're able to
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  Speaker 3: offer some uh some limited amount of movement assistance for
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  Speaker 3: those kind of clients. We have you know, food, uh,
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  Speaker 3: snack packs, hygien kids, all different, all different ways that
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  Speaker 3: we're able to really impact the community that that don't
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  Speaker 3: probably look like what you would normally expect, I mean.
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  Speaker 3: And then one of the biggest things that I've I've
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  Speaker 3: heard from even even my friends, and it's everywhere is
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  Speaker 3: you know, the cost of food, you know, and inflation
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  Speaker 3: is is impacting everyone. So you know, we're able to
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  Speaker 3: we're able to have the Women's communitchen and also have
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  Speaker 3: uh the ability to provide some of those resources is
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  Speaker 3: just it's an incredible thing. So as far as you
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  Speaker 3: know needs and how people can get involved, I mean
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  Speaker 3: really connecting with our volunteer coordinator on our end, she
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  Speaker 3: does in con donations, so there's lists out there of
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  Speaker 3: the items that you know, we're constantly in search in
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  Speaker 3: search of. That's a really great way for people to
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  Speaker 3: get involved is to you know, look on our website
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  Speaker 3: Hope Atlanta dot org and that information is there, and
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  Speaker 3: it's just a it's a really great opportunity because i know,
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  Speaker 3: you know, not everyone can. Now everyone has the ability
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  Speaker 3: to come down on a Tuesday, Wednesday or Thursday and
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  Speaker 3: volunteer at the Women's Community Kitchen. We're going to have
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  Speaker 3: some more opportunities as well. You know, most of them
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  Speaker 3: happened during the week. We do have some opportunities available
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  Speaker 3: like on the weekends for some of our permanent support
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  Speaker 3: of housing programs. So there's there's lots of really great
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  Speaker 3: ways to get involved. With Hope Atlanta that involved more
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  Speaker 3: than just making a donation. I mean, we absolutely appreciate
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  Speaker 3: donations because a lot of our a lot of our
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  Speaker 3: programs are funded, you know, they're funded through grants and
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  Speaker 3: have strict requirements. So it's really nice when we receive
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  Speaker 3: donations that can help pay for things that you wouldn't
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  Speaker 3: really necessarily expect, Like, for example, just just thinking about
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  Speaker 3: one of the things that came up, Like we help
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  Speaker 3: people move into a new place, and it takes a
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  Speaker 3: while for us to get referrals from a furniture bank.
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  Speaker 3: So something that we that we have purchased, you know
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  Speaker 3: as air mattresses, you know, it's it's something that we buy,
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  Speaker 3: you know, basically help people who are you know, just
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  Speaker 3: moving into a new place and might need that. Like
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  Speaker 3: we make sure, we really want to make sure that,
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  Speaker 3: you know, you don't just move into a place and
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  Speaker 3: you're just kind of living there with nothing. At least
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  Speaker 3: you know, have something until until you're able to get
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  Speaker 3: all of the essentials that you need. So the donations
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  Speaker 3: really help in that respect. They help us do help
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  Speaker 3: us go beyond the scope of what maybe our funders
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  Speaker 3: don't realize. Are some of our needs.
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  Speaker 2: So again the website Hope Atlanta dot org. Adam Hawkins
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  Speaker 2: soon to be appearing in the parade at Dragon.
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  Speaker 3: Con Yes with angel wings.
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  Speaker 2: I know you guys will have some great representation there
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  Speaker 2: walking through the parade. Adam, great talking with you. Keep
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  Speaker 2: up the great work there.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you. Ed.
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  Speaker 2: after the break. We haven't talked about it, but it's
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  Speaker 2: always exciting to some degree when it's Shark Week. And
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  Speaker 2: how about this woman who I'm sure celebrates Shark Week
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  Speaker 2: every week? A main woman just set the Guinness World
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  Speaker 2: Record for having the most shark tattoos on a female body,
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  Speaker 2: with an incredible one hundred and six shark tattoos from
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  Speaker 2: her feet to her neck. Emily Morrison, the Shark Lady Emily,
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  Speaker 2: as she's known, is a shark biologist and tour operator
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  Speaker 2: whose love for sharks actually started with fear after watching
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  Speaker 2: Jaws as a kid. Yep, I've been there. Her father
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  Speaker 2: challenged her to learn the facts about sharks, and that
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  Speaker 2: childhood fear eventually turned into a career studying and protecting them.
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  Speaker 2: Many of her tattoos represent different shark species that she
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  Speaker 2: has encountered, and some even commemorate shark teeth that she
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  Speaker 2: has found herself. Morrison says the tattoos are a way
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  Speaker 2: to celebrate and raise awareness about those often misunderstood ocean predators.
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  Speaker 3: I like it.
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  Speaker 2: I like everything about it, and as a former Guinness
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  Speaker 2: World Record holder myself, I say kudos, congratulations, welcome to
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  Speaker 2: the I would say brotherhood, but you know it's they
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  Speaker 2: stressed very much that it's the most shark tattoos on
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  Speaker 2: a female body. It's a brotherhood in general, you know,
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  Speaker 2: welcome to the club. How about that. It turns out
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  Speaker 2: that the hottest travel trend isn't about adventure, luxury, or
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  Speaker 2: the beach. It's about feeling better. More and more travelers
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  Speaker 2: are skipping the typical vacation and heading into wellness retreats.
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  Speaker 2: According to a recent USA Today report, wellness tourism is
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  Speaker 2: booming and the industry is expected to hit one point
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  Speaker 2: four trillion dollars by twenty twenty nine. Experts say that
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  Speaker 2: people aren't just traveling to see new places anymore. They're
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  Speaker 2: looking to recharge, reduce stress, improve mental health, and build
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  Speaker 2: healthier habits in general, and it's not just about relaxation.
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  Speaker 2: For many travelers, the retreats offer a chance to reconnect
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  Speaker 2: with themselves, recommit to their health, and even make lasting
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  Speaker 2: friendships along the way. So basically, you can have a
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  Speaker 2: vacation that can end and then you don't feel like, boy,
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  Speaker 2: I still need a vacation, because sadly, that's what happens
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  Speaker 2: a lot, isn't it. There's a dating trend called roster dating,
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  Speaker 2: and it's getting a lot of attention among younger singles.
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  Speaker 2: The idea is that you simply focus on one person.
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  Speaker 2: Instead of one person, you keep a roster of people
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  Speaker 2: that you're dating, all at the same time. There used
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  Speaker 2: to be a term for this, and often like four
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  Speaker 2: or five people, and then you decide whether you want
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  Speaker 2: to commit to one of them. Supporters say that it
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  Speaker 2: helps keep expectations in check, reduces the sting of rejection,
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  Speaker 2: and prevents people from getting too attached too quickly. But
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  Speaker 2: relationship experts are divided. Some say that it can help
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  Speaker 2: people explore their options and make better decisions, while others
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  Speaker 2: warn that it can make dating feel more like managing
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  Speaker 2: a fantasy football team than building a genuine connection. See
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  Speaker 2: that's the question. The key experts say is honesty, communication
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  Speaker 2: and knowing what you're really looking for, and of course,
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  Speaker 2: what if you start to feel like you're making a
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  Speaker 2: connection with someone and then they're making a connection with
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  Speaker 2: one of the seven people that they're dating, and then
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  Speaker 2: you got some drama. So I don't think you're going
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  Speaker 2: to avoid their ever being potential hurt feelings or drama
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  Speaker 2: or any of those things, right, I don't know. I'm
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  Speaker 2: just glad I'm not out there. I'm very happily not
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  Speaker 2: out there and haven't been out there for thirty years,
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  Speaker 2: and I'm very excited about that. So Jill and I
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  Speaker 2: just had this conversation recently about how it's just nice
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  Speaker 2: knowing that that's not even on the table at all
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  Speaker 2: and people that are getting out there and having to
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  Speaker 2: navigate stuff like this roster dating. So there's a new
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  Speaker 2: beauty trend that's taking over. It's about keeping things simple.
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  Speaker 2: It's called bare nail trend, and instead of elaborate designs,
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  Speaker 2: people are embracing healthy, natural looking nails with either no
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  Speaker 2: nail polish or just a sheer, glossy coat that in
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  Speaker 2: mind for the lady in your life. Beauty experts say
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  Speaker 2: that they have a look that focuses on well shaped nails,
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  Speaker 2: healthy cute and a clean, polished appearance. Rather than bold
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  Speaker 2: colors or intricate nail art. That's what I focus on,
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  Speaker 2: having some clean, polished nails, healthy cuticles, well shaped, take
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  Speaker 2: care of all that with my I used to do
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  Speaker 2: it with my teeth. I don't do my teeth anymore,
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  Speaker 2: just do with other nails. Fans of it say the
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  Speaker 2: trend is less expensive, less time consuming, gives nails a
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  Speaker 2: chance to recover from years of gels and acrylics. Social
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  Speaker 2: media has helped fuel the movement, many women showing off
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  Speaker 2: their natural nails and ditching those salon appointments. You know
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  Speaker 2: who's not happy about this, Those ladies in the salons.
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  Speaker 2: They don't like that at all. Finally, Arizona State offering
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  Speaker 2: a new bachelor's degree in Content Creation designed for aspiring influencers.
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  Speaker 2: According to the website for the school, it offers students
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  Speaker 2: the opportunity to create powerful content across video, podcast, social media,
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  Speaker 2: emerging platforms while building your brand. The program teaches everything
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  Speaker 2: from personal branding and social media marketing, videography, audience analytics,
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  Speaker 2: podcast production. One of the most talked about classes is
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  Speaker 2: called how to Become an Influencer. I can work a
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  Speaker 2: deal with you if you want to help on a
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  Speaker 2: podcast and social media. I did that for a really
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  Speaker 2: long time. If you want to do a podcast, you know,
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  Speaker 2: just let me know. It'll cost you far less than
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  Speaker 2: a university degree at Arizona State. But I do admire
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  Speaker 2: and for jumping in the trend. That'll do it for
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