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A GoFundMe Raised $1 Million for 78-Year-Old Doordasher · The Cubby and Christine Morning Show

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  Speaker 1: One of six point seven NINEFM Cubby Christine producer Christen
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  Speaker 1: on this hum day, a cold day ahead only get
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  Speaker 1: into thirty eight for a high currently twenty eight degrees
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  Speaker 1: and a feel good story here regarding door dash and
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  Speaker 1: an old dude.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, we've been talking about this for a while, right,
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  Speaker 2: so it's about time we shared. So Yes. A viral
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  Speaker 2: ring camera video This is out of Manchester, Tennessee, has
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  Speaker 2: prompted an outpouring of support for a man named Richard Pulley.
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  Speaker 2: Mister Pulley is seventy eight years old and he is
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  Speaker 2: a door dash driver and the video was posted by
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  Speaker 2: homeowner Britney Smith showing Richard struggling to deliver food. Smith
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  Speaker 2: said she was concerned about his age and the fact
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  Speaker 2: that he was working instead of enjoying retirement, and she
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  Speaker 2: wanted to get some help and recognize his efforts. So
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  Speaker 2: she gave him a two dollars tip for his door
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  Speaker 2: dash delivery and then she put this video online and
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  Speaker 2: she set up a GoFundMe. She didn't expect a lot.
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  Speaker 2: She launched the campaign title give Richard a Chance to
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  Speaker 2: Rest Again. Within five days, they raised one million dollars
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  Speaker 2: for Richard and his wife, Brenda, who've been married for
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  Speaker 2: fifty six years.
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  Speaker 1: Are you kidding me? I'm really shocked right now because
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  Speaker 1: I didn't know.
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  Speaker 2: You didn't expect it was going to be a million,
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  Speaker 2: one hundred.
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  Speaker 1: Thousand, maybe ten thousand.
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  Speaker 2: A million, a million dollars a million. Richard had to
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  Speaker 2: return to work because his wife lost her job, and
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  Speaker 2: his story has picked up national attention, while CBS News
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  Speaker 2: has even done a profile on him.
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  Speaker 1: Look at that, Richard Pulley.
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  Speaker 2: Richard Pully.
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  Speaker 1: He was a great name, by the way. Yes, it
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  Speaker 1: is it is that we need, you know, we need
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  Speaker 1: more feel good stories like that. If you know people
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  Speaker 1: doing great things in your neck of the woods, so
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  Speaker 1: like Al Roker with your neck of the woods.
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  Speaker 2: Well you do love weathers, you love weather.
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  Speaker 1: Hit us up on that talkback feature. You can leave
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  Speaker 1: a message for us and if there's somebody doing good
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  Speaker 1: like somewhere in our area, we'd love to hear the stories.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I love it. Helping people, animals, whatever. It
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  Speaker 2: might feel like the smallest gesture, and it makes such
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  Speaker 2: a big difference because we just need the positivity and
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  Speaker 2: the love and the light. Right absolutely, There's only so
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  Speaker 2: much we can do and This is something that may
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  Speaker 2: have felt small to Britney Smith and it turned.
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  Speaker 1: Out to be a million dollars.
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  Speaker 2: She changed this guy's life.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah really did, really did. You can hit us up
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