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International Day of Peace: Peace Starts Within...Part 1 2026 · Good News To Go: Peace, Love & HOPE

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  Speaker 1: So next up, we're just going to take a moment,
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  Speaker 1: and then we're going to have a serious moment in
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  Speaker 1: due respect to 9-11's 25th anniversary.
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  Speaker 2: Because it's a call for it. So first we're gonna
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  Speaker 2: give an award with Monica Sanchez, Ambassador Sanchez. It's a
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  Speaker 2: United Nations CARICOM Award to the Paws of the World
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  Speaker 2: and to our show.
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  Speaker 3: And it's an.
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  Speaker 2: Award for everybody here who lives life in peace. Everybody
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  Speaker 2: worldwide who's watching this lives life in peace. So Ambassador,
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  Speaker 2: please share.
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  Speaker 4: Peace and love to everybody.
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  Speaker 5: Did you guys know that this gentleman has been bringing
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  Speaker 5: people together for more than 24 years under the umbrella of.
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  Speaker 4: Peace and love, sharing peace in the world?
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  Speaker 6: Congratulations, let's give him a big round of applause, please.
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  Speaker 4: So today, I am Ambassador Dr.
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  Speaker 5: Monica Sanchez, and under the United Nations NGO MCIF, we
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  Speaker 5: want to give him a global Platinum who's who because
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  Speaker 5: of what he's done.
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  Speaker 4: So congratulations. Reverend Paul and your organization. I know you
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  Speaker 4: have a back-end team.
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  Speaker 5: So to everybody who made this possible, congratulations.
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  Speaker 4: And that's 24 years. 24 more years. 24 more years!
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  Speaker 7: Come on, make some noise!
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  Speaker 4: Congratulations.
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  Speaker 2: Let's take a picture.
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  Speaker 8: Let's take a picture.
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  Speaker 2: Black Time Magazine.
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  Speaker 4: Thank you very much.
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  Speaker 2: As I say, this is for everybody. Thank you. All right, everybody,
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  Speaker 2: let's take a deep breath, because we're going to take
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  Speaker 2: a moment in due respect and reverence to 9-11. I
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  Speaker 2: will say, you see that gentleman? Stand up, Mr. Gentleman.
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  Speaker 2: This gentleman runs an event, starts 11 days of due
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  Speaker 2: respect to we.org as part of the We the World campaign,
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  Speaker 2: and it ends up on the 21st, which is the
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  Speaker 2: day of peace, the International Day of Peace. So let's
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  Speaker 2: give Rick Ulpik and his organization a big hand. All right,
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  Speaker 2: thank you, Rick, thank you. I think we gotta keep
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  Speaker 2: moving on here. But Rick and we're doing, Heidi Little's
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  Speaker 2: gonna represent We The World, and at that time you
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  Speaker 2: come on up and say something. But right now, it's
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  Speaker 2: a big honor, dear friends for a long time, like Rick, Dr.
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  Speaker 2: Judy Kuriansky, who's actually been on our board for about
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  Speaker 2: 30 years, and without who we wouldn't be able to continue.
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  Speaker 2: She's a well-known radio and TV personality. She's very involved
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  Speaker 2: with the United Nations. She's a psychologist. She was at 9-11.
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  Speaker 2: I'll say, if she doesn't mind, because I was affected
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  Speaker 2: as well, has cancer from 9-11 as well as I do.
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  Speaker 2: And we're here.
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  Speaker 8: To pay homage.
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  Speaker 2: And she's written a song with our good friend Russell. Daisy,
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  Speaker 2: come on out, please. and Russell and Dr. Judy have
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  Speaker 2: played this Tower of Light. Well, why don't you tell
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  Speaker 2: us a little more about it?
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  Speaker 4: Thank you, Paul. Hi, everybody, hello. Yay, thank you for coming. So,
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  Speaker 4: do you remember where you were on 9-11? Very, you remember.
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  Speaker 4: very critical day.
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  Speaker 6: So that's starting the song. So as Paul said, I
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  Speaker 6: was actually a first responder at 9-11. My assignment was
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  Speaker 6: to walk the circumference of the pit. That pit was
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  Speaker 6: where the towers fell in that big hole and comfort
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  Speaker 6: the police, the firemen, the rescue workers. They were trying
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  Speaker 6: to find anybody alive.
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  Speaker 4: Unfortunately, most people were not.
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  Speaker 6: So that was my assignment for months afterwards.
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  Speaker 4: So I was teaching.
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  Speaker 6: At that time and I told my class You need
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  Speaker 6: to write or do some project to make peace.
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  Speaker 4: That's why we're here, for peace. Because of 9-11.
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  Speaker 6: And this man was my student, my star student. And
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  Speaker 6: he said, I will write a song, because he's an
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  Speaker 6: internationally known musician and composer.
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  Speaker 4: So he wrote a song.
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  Speaker 6: And asked me to contribute lyrics as a psychologist because
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  Speaker 6: it's a song for healing from 9-11 and all traumas.
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  Speaker 6: And Russell is going to sing it for you now.
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  Speaker 6: It is called Towers of Light. Who knows what the
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  Speaker 6: Towers of Light are? Raise your hand if you know
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  Speaker 6: what the Towers.
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  Speaker 4: Of Light are. There, exactly.
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  Speaker 7: Yes.
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  Speaker 6: Those are the two beams that shine in the sky
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  Speaker 6: where those towers fell, where the terrorists ran into the planes,
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  Speaker 6: the planes fell, and then an art group made.
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  Speaker 4: Two beams of light every 9-11.
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  Speaker 6: So this song is for the towers of light, the heroes,
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  Speaker 6: and the survivors. It's very moving, so it's okay if
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  Speaker 6: you cry. I do when I hear it. And this
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  Speaker 6: song was played all over the world, including for Reverend
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  Speaker 6: Desmond Tutu, you know who he is, and the Dalai Lama.
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  Speaker 6: When we played it at the Peace Summit in Hiroshima, Japan,
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  Speaker 6: the Dalai Lama crossed the stage He went over to Russell,
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  Speaker 6: he took his hands like this, and he.
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  Speaker 4: Said, powerful, very powerful.
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  Speaker 6: So if the Dalai Lama liked it, I hope you
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  Speaker 6: will like it. Towers of light for healing, which we
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  Speaker 6: all need for peace.
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  Speaker 9: Thank you, Judy.
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  Speaker 4: Towers of light.
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  Speaker 10: I feel like I'm broken inside me I feel that
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  Speaker 10: it's so hard to heal There must be a sane
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  Speaker 10: way beyond.
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  Speaker 7: This To accept that this.
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  Speaker 10: Insanity's real I want to wake up and remember That
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  Speaker 10: morning before it all changed But sadly it's real, not
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  Speaker 10: a bad dream.
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  Speaker 7: Our lives have.
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  Speaker 10: Been all rearranged. Towers of light.
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  Speaker 11: Shine in the night.
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  Speaker 10: A pathway for new stars.
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  Speaker 4: Souls taking flight.
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  Speaker 11: Move to the light where.
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  Speaker 10: They become new stars.
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  Speaker 7: There are friends.
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  Speaker 4: There are lovers.
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  Speaker 10: There are sisters and our brothers. There are mothers and
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  Speaker 10: our mothers taken away.
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  Speaker 4: There are husbands, there are wives.
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  Speaker 10: There's a children in our lives.
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  Speaker 12: And there's spirits that survives that fateful day.
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  Speaker 13: Told us to get back to normal but normal's so
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  Speaker 13: far from my mind I'm looking for some kind.
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  Speaker 14: Of closure to leave all this.
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  Speaker 11: Sadness behind but right now let's honor the heroes.
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  Speaker 12: Who sacrificed all for our lives there must be a
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  Speaker 12: far greater purpose where love a break of truth survives.
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  Speaker 11: Towers of light shine in the night, a pathway.
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  Speaker 7: For new stars.
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  Speaker 4: Souls taking flight, new to the.
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  Speaker 12: Light, where they become new stars.
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  Speaker 15: There they are, new stars.
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  Speaker 7: We're still.
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  Speaker 11: Chasing at new stars New stars New stars new stars.
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  Speaker 4: Thank you so much.
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  Speaker 7: Namaste.
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  Speaker 4: Bravo to you.
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  Speaker 9: Most importantly, bravo to those souls who perished and those
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  Speaker 9: who have perished since 9-11. And Dr. Judy herself is
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  Speaker 9: a 9-11 cancer survivor having been in the pit.
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  Speaker 8: And I honor her and.
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  Speaker 7: I love her.
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  Speaker 9: And she is my dearest friend. and my partner.
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  Speaker 16: Forgive me for crying, but that line, but right now
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  Speaker 16: let's honor the heroes who sacrificed all for our lives.
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  Speaker 16: There must be a far greater purpose where love.
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  Speaker 4: Over hatred survives. Blessings to all of you.
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  Speaker 10: And thank you, Paul.
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  Speaker 11: Bless you.
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  Speaker 7: We love you.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, we love you. We love you. And we're to
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  Speaker 2: show with love and more love and talking about love. Love.
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  Speaker 2: Do you know, have you ever heard the, it's love,
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  Speaker 2: sweet love, no, that's not it. Dionne Warwick, okay. So
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  Speaker 2: we're gonna now, I interviewed Dionne Warwick, and we're gonna
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  Speaker 2: do a tribute to Dolly Parton now also, okay? Our
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  Speaker 2: good friend Dionne Warwick, she sang with Dolly, sang a
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  Speaker 2: song called Peace in the River. And we're going to
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  Speaker 2: hear from Dionne, who will share her experience with Dolly Parton.
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  Speaker 2: And then we're going to hear the song that Dolly
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  Speaker 2: Parton wrote, and she asked Dionne to do it. So
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  Speaker 2: let's go to the video with Dionne and Dolly Parton. Hi,
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  Speaker 2: Paul Sack. It's Good News Broadcast. Pause the world for peace.
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  Speaker 2: We're going to talk to peace. We're here with Dionne Warwick. Lovely, fantastic, wonderful. Hi, Dionne.
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  Speaker 2: How are you?
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  Speaker 14: Wonderful.
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  Speaker 17: How are you?
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  Speaker 14: I'm good.
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  Speaker 2: I'm great. I always love to spend even that 30 seconds,
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  Speaker 2: 10 seconds with you in my life. And you've been
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  Speaker 2: so kind to us over the years. You helped us
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  Speaker 2: with our Woodstock forever. I got the freedom tie. I'm
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  Speaker 2: not there to Jersey and the love section of the movie.
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  Speaker 2: And we're going to talk in addition about Dolly Parton. Yes.
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  Speaker 14: Peace. Peace.
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  Speaker 17: Like a river.
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  Speaker 2: Like a river. Tell us about it and your experience
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  Speaker 2: with Dolly.
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  Speaker 17: You know, I received a phone call from her. And
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  Speaker 17: I said, oh, how are you, darling? And she said, well,
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  Speaker 17: I'm calling you because I want you to come on
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  Speaker 17: down to Nashville. And I wrote a song. I want
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  Speaker 17: you to sing with me. I said, okay. So I said,
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  Speaker 17: no problem. And I got on a plane and went
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  Speaker 17: down to Nashville. And she played the song for me.
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  Speaker 17: I said, oh, wow. I said, it's like a river.
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  Speaker 17: It's not the same one, is it? She said, no,
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  Speaker 17: it's not. I just wrote this one. I said, oh, okay.
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  Speaker 17: She said, I just felt I might as well keep
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  Speaker 17: it in the family. I said, oh, okay, fine. And
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  Speaker 17: we decided to go ahead and record it, and we did.
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  Speaker 17: And then the next day, decided to do it as
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  Speaker 17: a video. And we went in the studio, and we
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  Speaker 17: did the video. It was such a joy, first of all.
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  Speaker 17: Dolly's been a friend for quite a while. And to
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  Speaker 17: be able to sing with her has been a joy
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  Speaker 17: for me. And to sing this particular song, because it
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  Speaker 17: was something that came from her heart, and it said
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  Speaker 17: everything she wanted to say. I felt so privileged and
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  Speaker 17: so proud to be able to do that for her.
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  Speaker 17: And she, in fact, let me know that she was
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  Speaker 17: as proud of me Getting on a plane without any
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  Speaker 17: reason other than to be there with her and to
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  Speaker 17: sing this song.
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  Speaker 14: Oh, wow.
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  Speaker 17: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, that's a beautiful thing. And so what was
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  Speaker 2: she like?
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  Speaker 7: Oh, wow.
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  Speaker 17: A bundle of energy and of joy and laughter and happiness.
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  Speaker 17: She was a true doll. That's exactly what she was.
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  Speaker 2: The song has a lot of, I'll say, spiritual, religious. Now,
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  Speaker 2: I know you're somehow related to a preacher, I think, somehow.
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  Speaker 2: Is that right?
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  Speaker 17: It's my grandfather.
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  Speaker 2: There you go. And there's a lot of symbolism. We're
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  Speaker 2: using the song as a lead-in to actually a Billy
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  Speaker 2: Graham group called His Life, but as a representative of
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  Speaker 2: all the good religion does and starting our show. What's
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  Speaker 2: your thoughts in that regard?
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  Speaker 17: I think it's something that we are unfortunately not paying
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  Speaker 17: much attention to these things and need to be. Religion,
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  Speaker 17: not necessarily religion, but believe in God and the power
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  Speaker 17: of God. I think people are now beginning to lean
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  Speaker 17: towards that, which is something that we absolutely need to do.
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  Speaker 17: And I certainly hope it continues to be heading in
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  Speaker 17: that direction.
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  Speaker 2: And that song represents that in a powerful, powerful way.
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  Speaker 17: Yeah. I totally agree with you.
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  Speaker 2: She got the right person to sing it with her.
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  Speaker 2: And you're just a special woman. And you've done so
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  Speaker 2: many good philanthropic things over the years. And whether it's
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  Speaker 2: a big or a little... You're all about the mission
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  Speaker 2: and about the heart, right?
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  Speaker 17: Absolutely. That's what it's about. There you go.
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  Speaker 2: From AIDS to, I mean, you just never, you've got
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  Speaker 2: the energy of a 12-year-old.
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  Speaker 17: I wish I did.
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  Speaker 2: All right, Dionne, thank you for taking time. I know
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  Speaker 2: you're always running around. I still want to go out
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  Speaker 2: to that manor and have a nice dinner with you
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  Speaker 2: and Lucia when you're ready. Are you going to be
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  Speaker 2: in town for a while?
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  Speaker 17: For another couple of days, and then out on the
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  Speaker 17: road again.
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  Speaker 2: There you go, out on the road again. Okay. Leanne,
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  Speaker 2: thanks so much, and I look forward, when will you
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  Speaker 2: be back?
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  Speaker 17: I'll be back, be back or leave out. I'll be leaving,
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  Speaker 17: go out on, when do I leave? In about four days, actually. Uh-huh.
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  Speaker 17: And then I'll get back in a couple of weeks.
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  Speaker 2: There you go. All right, when you get back, maybe
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  Speaker 2: our show will be over. Thank God, no. Making a
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  Speaker 2: show is not easy.
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  Speaker 17: Well, that show will be over. We have more to come.
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  Speaker 2: We have more to come. Then we have an Earth
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  Speaker 2: Day and you have more to come. And we want
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  Speaker 2: to do a big, big, big show with you and
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  Speaker 2: have you involved.
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  Speaker 17: Absolutely.
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  Speaker 2: We're planning that out. Actually, we have K-pop. Women are
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  Speaker 2: going to be right after you are going to perform
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  Speaker 2: And they have the right mission, and they're part of
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  Speaker 2: the God mission, too. So it's all good. So we're
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  Speaker 2: going to make that happen in a bigger facility. So
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  Speaker 2: I look forward for you to joining us for that.
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  Speaker 17: Okay. Got to do.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks so much, Dionne.
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  Speaker 17: Take good care.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, you too. Bye-bye.
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  Speaker 17: Bye.
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  Speaker 18: Peace like river bathe me in your.
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  Speaker 7: Holy stream.
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  Speaker 18: In your soothing living water flood my soul and wash.
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  Speaker 7: Me clean oh in the end.
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  Speaker 18: In the right direction Usually ends You think you're sure.
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  Speaker 7: And may I be.
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  Speaker 19: A great reflection.
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  Speaker 20: Of the things That's right and.
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  Speaker 18: Good It's like love It's like love It's like love.
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  Speaker 19: He's like a river.
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  Speaker 20: He's like a river He is the answer.
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  Speaker 19: To all questions.
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  Speaker 7: To all prayers.
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  Speaker 20: To all things He is.
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  Speaker 21: Forgiveness The provider of all things.
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  Speaker 7: And he is.
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  Speaker 18: Hope in desperation.
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  Speaker 7: Comfort too.
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  Speaker 14: Where is our God and our connection to a land
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  Speaker 14: that transcends.
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  Speaker 18: Time His hand is ever.
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  Speaker 19: Reaching and His joy.
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  Speaker 14: Beyond compare.
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  Speaker 18: His words.
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  Speaker 7: Are ever teaching and His burdens.
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  Speaker 21: Are light to bear.
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  Speaker 7: He is there and ever willing.
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  Speaker 20: The darkest night that the.
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  Speaker 18: Darkest heart and his love is ever given and his.
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  Speaker 19: Soul The guiding.
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  Speaker 7: Light. Oh, peace like a.
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  Speaker 3: River flowing on.
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  Speaker 19: Sweet peace.
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  Speaker 4: Wash me down, Lord.
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  Speaker 20: Oh, wash me clean, Lord.
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  Speaker 7: Wash me clean. Wash me clean. In your living water.
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  Speaker 7: He is the answer. He is the answer. To all questions.
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  Speaker 18: To all questions.
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  Speaker 7: To all prayers. And to all.
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  Speaker 18: It's hope in desperation.
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  Speaker 7: Desperation.
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  Speaker 18: Upward to the soul and mind.
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  Speaker 19: Soul and mind.
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  Speaker 3: He is peace.
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  Speaker 7: He is peace.
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  Speaker 19: Like a river.
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  Speaker 3: He is peace. And he is mine.
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  Speaker 7: He is mine.
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  Speaker 8: That's beautiful.
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  Speaker 2: You're all clapping for Dolly and Dionne Warwick. Let's give
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  Speaker 2: another hand to Dionne Warwick, who's in Brazil today. continuing singing,
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  Speaker 2: even though she's only 25 years old, and she continues.
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  Speaker 2: These are what you call troopers. These are people who
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  Speaker 2: love so much to share what the world needs. That's
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  Speaker 2: the song. What the world needs now is love, sweet love. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: we can't say it any more clearly than that. My
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  Speaker 2: grandkids know that song. They said, Papi, you gotta sing
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  Speaker 2: that song on your show, all right? So, I mean,
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  Speaker 2: who could ask for anything more? My grandkids are in school. Duke,
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  Speaker 2: and the other one's taking a test today, or she'd
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  Speaker 2: be here getting to college. So, we're all so lucky,
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  Speaker 2: we're all so blessed. We're singing again about religion and
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  Speaker 2: thoughts and spirituality. Once again, this show is a show
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  Speaker 2: for everybody, okay? The beauty of everything and everybody. And plants,
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  Speaker 2: you know, they can talk. They have similar DNA as us.
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  Speaker 2: The sky, the air. Look at where we are. This
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  Speaker 2: is the crossroads of the world. How wonderful is that?
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  Speaker 2: We're so fortunate, okay? Very blessed. Every day we're so blessed.
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  Speaker 2: I want to shout out for the Olive Garden. They
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  Speaker 2: catered our food here and they made a donation. I
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  Speaker 2: want to thank them. And we have a lot of
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  Speaker 2: wonderful people. If you look on the LED screens on
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  Speaker 2: the side, all those people cared enough to be part
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  Speaker 2: of this show. It's a non-profit show, and we work
• 25:02
  Speaker 2: all year to pull it together, and put in your calendars, 2027,
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  Speaker 2: April 22nd, we already booked the space for Earth Day.
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  Speaker 2: We do the largest Earth Day concert as well. Okay, so,
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  Speaker 2: we're gonna now put on one of our commie comrades,
• 25:24
  Speaker 2: I'll say. She's been with us maybe 15, 18 years.
• 25:29
  Speaker 2: Her name is Georgia Fumante. Unfortunately, Georgia's husband that sent
• 25:35
  Speaker 2: prayers out has to do some medical-ish procedure, let's put
• 25:40
  Speaker 2: it like that, today. She comes down every year from Toronto,
• 25:45
  Speaker 2: just like my friend Katia, who's sitting over there. She's
• 25:48
  Speaker 2: not gonna play now, but she's gonna play soon. She
• 25:51
  Speaker 2: fills up Carnegie Hall. You see that piano? You're gonna
• 25:55
  Speaker 2: hear a pianist who will inspire you to go out
• 26:00
  Speaker 2: and take piano lessons. And it doesn't matter what age
• 26:03
  Speaker 2: you are, you can play the piano. Everybody can play
• 26:08
  Speaker 2: the piano. Doesn't matter what age. And you don't have
• 26:11
  Speaker 2: to sing. So if you're not a good singer, a
• 26:13
  Speaker 2: lot of people can't sing. In fact, without people that
• 26:17
  Speaker 2: can't sing, then who's going to listen to singers? Because
• 26:20
  Speaker 2: everybody will want to sing. So we need people that
• 26:22
  Speaker 2: can't sing. All right, so now let's go to Georgia.
• 26:26
  Speaker 2: Let's play the video. And this is a great song
• 26:29
  Speaker 2: by Freddie Mercury. Okay, Queen.
• 26:45
  Speaker 3: Now this place is, what are.
• 26:54
  Speaker 7: We leaving for? Abundant places, I guess.
• 27:00
  Speaker 3: We know this call.
• 27:04
  Speaker 20: All I know, does anybody know what we are looking for?
• 27:12
  Speaker 20: Show must go on Show must go Inside my heart
• 27:45
  Speaker 20: is breaking My makeup may be flaking But my.
• 27:49
  Speaker 15: Smile still stays on.
• 27:59
  Speaker 4: I leave it all to.
• 28:02
  Speaker 22: Chance Another heartache Another pain, romance On and on Does.
• 28:11
  Speaker 20: Anybody know what we are living for? I guess I'm.
• 28:17
  Speaker 3: Learning I must be warm.
• 28:20
  Speaker 20: Enough I'll still be turning From the corner now Show
• 28:33
  Speaker 20: my God Show my God It's time, my heart is breaking,
• 28:53
  Speaker 20: my makeup time is breaking, but my smile, it's still
• 28:54
  Speaker 20: the same.
• 28:56
  Speaker 20: .
• 29:12
  Speaker 3: .
• 29:13
  Speaker 15: My soul is painted like the wings of butterflies.
• 29:23
  Speaker 20: Fairy tales of yesterday grow but never die.
• 29:31
  Speaker 18: I can fly more. easily Show.
• 29:39
  Speaker 7: Us the.
• 29:45
  Speaker 20: World Show us the world I'll face it with a
• 29:50
  Speaker 20: dream I'm never giving in I'm with the show Show
• 29:55
  Speaker 20: us the world.
• 30:07
  Speaker 7: I'll call the bill. I'll overkill.
• 30:10
  Speaker 20: I have to find a will to carry on with
• 30:18
  Speaker 20: the show.
• 30:22
  Speaker 7: So let's go.
• 30:33
  Speaker 2: How about that? All right, let's hear it for Georgia.
• 30:37
  Speaker 2: Let's send prayers to Maurice, her husband today, who's in
• 30:42
  Speaker 2: the hospital doing a serious procedure. So, God, pray for
• 30:48
  Speaker 2: him and take a moment to show due respect. You know,
• 30:53
  Speaker 2: life is very precious. We just had 9-11. We just
• 30:57
  Speaker 2: had Dolly Parton. And.
• 31:06
  Speaker 2: I wonder if they could rev them up a little
• 31:08
  Speaker 2: bit louder. It sounds like a great idea, doesn't it? Sound, sound,
• 31:15
  Speaker 2: what do they call that? Sound, bad news?
• 31:18
  Speaker 8: No.
• 31:20
  Speaker 2: I think the decibels. You know, we have to keep
• 31:23
  Speaker 2: this a certain decibels. We can't play this too loud.
• 31:27
  Speaker 2: We have to get a police sound permit to be
• 31:31
  Speaker 2: able to do this show here. There's stores all over here.
• 31:34
  Speaker 2: There's people that live all over here. There's people that
• 31:37
  Speaker 2: are paying a lot of money to stay in this
• 31:39
  Speaker 2: Renaissance Hotel or in the Marriott Marquis Hotel and all
• 31:43
  Speaker 2: these hotels around here. And I'm sure they don't want
• 31:45
  Speaker 2: to hear noise. Pollution, that's the word. You know, we're
• 31:49
  Speaker 2: going to soon talk about environmental kinds of things. We
• 31:52
  Speaker 2: have Andreas Deutschman.
• 31:54
  Speaker 8: He's here.
• 31:54
  Speaker 2: He's going to tell us a little story. We've got
• 31:57
  Speaker 2: David Katzmeyer. He's going to say a little thing. I
• 31:59
  Speaker 2: think Reid and... the greatest sailor ever, 1,152 days. I
• 32:05
  Speaker 2: don't know, he sent me a text. Maybe they can't come,
• 32:07
  Speaker 2: and Maxine. But, so we're gonna have an environmental section soon. Okay,
• 32:14
  Speaker 2: so back to the live entertainment. Our next super duper
• 32:19
  Speaker 2: talent who's, she was so excited to come here and
• 32:25
  Speaker 2: to sing and share her talents. She's also going to
• 32:28
  Speaker 2: pay tribute to Dolly Parton. So let's have a big
• 32:31
  Speaker 2: hand for Camilla St. James.
• 32:33
  Speaker 8: Thank you.
• 32:45
  Speaker 2: All right, let's hear some music.
• 32:52
  Speaker 14: Music.
• 32:58
  Speaker 7: Hello Times Square.
• 33:00
  Speaker 23: Everybody put your hands together.
• 33:07
  Speaker 24: There must be higher love down in the heart or
• 33:12
  Speaker 24: hidden in the stars above. Without it, life is wasted time.
• 33:27
  Speaker 24: Everywhere in this.
• 33:30
  Speaker 7: Whole world, what is fair?
• 33:34
  Speaker 24: We walk the line and try to see, falling behind
• 33:40
  Speaker 24: what could be.
• 33:43
  Speaker 7: Oh, bring me a higher. Bring me a higher. I
• 33:58
  Speaker 7: keep thinking love.
• 34:03
  Speaker 18: Bring me higher love. Bring me higher love, oh yeah.
• 34:12
  Speaker 18: Bring me higher love. Bring me higher love.
• 34:29
  Speaker 7: Oh yeah.
• 34:31
  Speaker 18: Bring me higher love. Bring me a higher love.
• 34:40
  Speaker 24: Worlds are turning, and we're just hanging on. Facing our
• 34:46
  Speaker 24: fear and sin. We walk the line and try to see.
• 35:13
  Speaker 7: Falling behind what could be.
• 35:15
  Speaker 18: Oh, bring me a higher love.
• 35:20
  Speaker 7: My Lord.
• 35:22
  Speaker 18: Bring me a higher love.
• 35:26
  Speaker 7: Oh, oh. All right.
• 36:49
  Speaker 2: Tribute, tribute, tribute, tribute, tribute. Dolly Parton, Parton, Parton, Parton, Parton.
• 36:54
  Speaker 2: Who wrote this song, song, song.
• 36:55
  Speaker 3: Song, song.
• 36:59
  Speaker 7: This one's for you, Dolly. We love you. should stay.
• 37:16
  Speaker 20: Well, I would only be.
• 37:20
  Speaker 7: In your way. And so I'll go. And yet I know.
• 37:30
  Speaker 18: That I'll think of you each step of my way.
• 37:41
  Speaker 18: I will always love you I will always love you.
• 37:59
  Speaker 5: Bittersweet memories.
• 38:06
  Speaker 24: That's all I have and all I'm taking with me.
• 38:14
  Speaker 7: Goodbye. Oh, please don't cry.
• 38:18
  Speaker 14: Because we both know that I'm not.
• 38:23
  Speaker 7: What you need.
• 38:31
  Speaker 18: Will always love you. I will always love you.
• 38:50
  Speaker 7: And I hope life will treat you kind. And I
• 38:57
  Speaker 7: hope that you have all. that you ever dreamed of oh.
• 39:04
  Speaker 6: I do wish you joy and I wish you happiness.
• 39:11
  Speaker 7: But above all this I wish you love I love you.
• 39:19
  Speaker 23: I will always love you.
• 39:20
  Speaker 18: I will always love you. I will always love you.
• 39:38
  Speaker 18: I will always love you.
• 40:00
  Speaker 2: Let's hear it, hear it, hear it, hear it. Okay, Camila,
• 40:04
  Speaker 2: thank you, thank you. I'm gonna switch mics. Okay, thank you,
• 40:14
  Speaker 2: thank you, thank you. What's your name? I'm so sorry.
• 40:17
  Speaker 7: Kaz.
• 40:18
  Speaker 23: Kaz.
• 40:19
  Speaker 7: You're Kaz.
• 40:20
  Speaker 15: She's Kaz.
• 40:21
  Speaker 2: All right, let's hear it for Kaz. She's pulling this
• 40:24
  Speaker 2: audio all together for our good friends, her. Michelle Narciso,
• 40:31
  Speaker 2: she's the OM organization. You see the big sign, OM Presents? Okay,
• 40:36
  Speaker 2: thank this lady, all right? It's because of her and
• 40:40
  Speaker 2: her desire to share the positiveness, the calmness, the respectfulness
• 40:50
  Speaker 2: of humanity. She's the head of the organization working with
• 40:56
  Speaker 2: Maria who has 42 kids, no, who's, I don't know,
• 41:02
  Speaker 2: I guess she's with the whole family here. Is she here, Maria?
• 41:05
  Speaker 2: She's coming, okay, all right. And it's a beautiful thing.
• 41:10
  Speaker 2: And we've done seven shows together. And let's have a
• 41:13
  Speaker 2: hand for Om and Michelle and Maria, who also, without,
• 41:21
  Speaker 2: we would not be doing this show. Okay, so it's
• 41:24
  Speaker 2: very important to us. And what that means is we're
• 41:27
  Speaker 2: doing a portion of the show. We are going to
• 41:30
  Speaker 2: eight o'clock. And we're, OM is coming on Yeah, maybe
• 41:38
  Speaker 2: it'll even paint work. 5.30 at this point, we're praying.
• 41:44
  Speaker 2: And that'll be that. They go to 8 o'clock. So
• 41:48
  Speaker 2: stick around. I believe you can watch the show if
• 41:52
  Speaker 2: you do have to go home or so on and
• 41:54
  Speaker 2: so forth. But you continue to watch the broadcast. It's
• 41:59
  Speaker 2: on our main broadcaster or one of our main broadcasters,
• 42:03
  Speaker 2: It's called wedonthavetime.org. I'll say it again, wedonthavetime.org. So today
• 42:09
  Speaker 2: is the 19th, and we decided we would do the
• 42:13
  Speaker 2: show on the 19th because it's Saturday, and because Times
• 42:19
  Speaker 2: Square is the busiest, this is one of the busiest days,
• 42:23
  Speaker 2: and we wanted to share peace and love with everybody.
• 42:26
  Speaker 2: The official day of the United Nations, the International Day
• 42:30
  Speaker 2: of Peace, is September 21st. So 193 countries raised their
• 42:36
  Speaker 2: hands and agreed to a day of peace. Okay, so
• 42:41
  Speaker 2: what we've been working hard to do is to pause
• 42:43
  Speaker 2: the world for peace on September 21st at 12 noon,
• 42:47
  Speaker 2: which is when 193 countries have agreed to make that happen. Unfortunately,
• 42:54
  Speaker 2: we know that 193 countries don't have yet, yet total peace.
• 43:01
  Speaker 2: We also know that 193 countries have mostly peace. And
• 43:06
  Speaker 2: we also know that most of the world is living
• 43:10
  Speaker 2: in peace. So that's a good thought. It's a real thought.
• 43:15
  Speaker 2: There's 8 billion people. How many people are in war?
• 43:19
  Speaker 2: How many people? I stood here, I did Woodstock. I
• 43:23
  Speaker 2: did the 20th anniversary of Woodstock. Right here, I had
• 43:27
  Speaker 2: the Great Lawn, I couldn't raise the money. I had PBS,
• 43:30
  Speaker 2: I'm a former PBS, CBS guy. And we ended up
• 43:34
  Speaker 2: doing it here. I did it with Richie Havens. Who
• 43:37
  Speaker 2: remembers Richie Havens? And Richie Havens started the original Woodstock
• 43:42
  Speaker 2: in 1969, singing a song called Freedom. So Richie came
• 43:46
  Speaker 2: over to me and said, hey, we got to do
• 43:49
  Speaker 2: the 20th anniversary. Let's do something. So I tried. I
• 43:53
  Speaker 2: got the park. Henry Stern said, you can have the park.
• 43:58
  Speaker 2: I'll give you a yellow light. You have to get $ 700, 000. Okay?
• 44:03
  Speaker 2: Just the security. Now, unfortunately, Central Park is $ 7 million.
• 44:07
  Speaker 8: Okay?
• 44:09
  Speaker 2: Times have changed. This place used to be $ 25. It's $ 30, 000, $ 60, 000
• 44:14
  Speaker 2: if you're doing both sides. So times have changed. In
• 44:17
  Speaker 2: any case... It's all good, and we're gonna show later on, hopefully,
• 44:23
  Speaker 2: when we did our 20th anniversary, we started making a movie,
• 44:26
  Speaker 2: and we called it Woodstock Forever, Peace, Love, and Hope.
• 44:29
  Speaker 2: There was only one billboard, uno, one billboard on the
• 44:33
  Speaker 2: one Times Square building, the building where the ball drops. Okay,
• 44:38
  Speaker 2: when we took out that sign, I paid $ 1, 500 to
• 44:41
  Speaker 2: select a vision to use the sign all day. Now
• 44:44
  Speaker 2: you get six seconds.
• 44:47
  Speaker 8: For $ 1, 500.
• 44:48
  Speaker 2: Okay, and so you can see our movie. You'll see
• 44:50
  Speaker 2: Beefsteak Charlie's over here. Two Times Square won't be there.
• 44:55
  Speaker 2: And it's historic. And what I did is Peace, Love,
• 44:59
  Speaker 2: and Hope. Dionne Warwick's a host for the love section.
• 45:02
  Speaker 2: I put in Taylor Swift. I put in Lady Gaga.
• 45:05
  Speaker 2: I put in superstars, the A-listers, who are singing and
• 45:10
  Speaker 2: living and life for Peace, Love, and Hope. And I
• 45:13
  Speaker 2: produced it with my two grandkids, Julia and Jason. So
• 45:18
  Speaker 2: we're going to show that.
• 45:20
  Speaker 3: Put a little love in your heart.
• 45:45
  Speaker 4: You see it's getting late.
• 45:47
  Speaker 7: Oh, please don't hesitate. Put a little love in your heart.
• 45:55
  Speaker 4: Freedom, freedom, freedom, freedom.
• 46:01
  Speaker 20: Sometimes I feel like a motherless child.
• 46:22
  Speaker 2: It was a lot more than just sex and rock
• 46:24
  Speaker 2: and roll. It was about a nation coming together for three.
• 46:26
  Speaker 14: Days around music in a peaceful way.
• 46:29
  Speaker 8: And we're giving that.
• 46:30
  Speaker 25: Message to the next generation so that they'll understand the
• 46:33
  Speaker 25: importance of working together for change, involvement, and growing minds.
• 46:37
  Speaker 26: My feeling is that what is happening in this 20th
• 46:40
  Speaker 26: anniversary is, in.
• 46:42
  Speaker 2: Fact, clarity of the issues, clarity of the past, clarity of.
• 46:46
  Speaker 26: What Woodstock really stood for. And it's all going to
• 46:49
  Speaker 26: the younger generation, whether the media knows it or not,
• 46:51
  Speaker 26: or whether we know it or not, that's who's looking
• 46:53
  Speaker 26: at it. We are far, far, far, far ahead of
• 46:56
  Speaker 26: our times in terms of getting over the hump, in
• 46:59
  Speaker 26: terms of having the actual material who's going to change it,
• 47:02
  Speaker 26: which are the young people today.
• 47:04
  Speaker 2: In addition to the 1989 20th anniversary celebration, our movie
• 47:09
  Speaker 2: has included some of those media icons and everyday citizens
• 47:13
  Speaker 2: that represent peace, love, and hope.
• 47:16
  Speaker 26: It's been a long, long, long time.
• 47:49
  Speaker 2: We also have a lot more happening here, and we're
• 47:52
  Speaker 2: going to get to it. And our next group of wonderful,
• 47:57
  Speaker 2: talented people are all coming to us through a wonderful man,
• 48:04
  Speaker 2: Soho Johnny. Okay, I wanted to also say, Camille has
• 48:07
  Speaker 2: two songs, I don't know if you know, and let's
• 48:09
  Speaker 2: pay due respect to her. Whitney Houston, okay, sang those
• 48:13
  Speaker 2: two songs. Dolly Parton wrote That second song. And Whitney
• 48:19
  Speaker 2: Houston was related to Dionne Warwick. That's the history of
• 48:26
  Speaker 2: that industry. And the history of music comes from this guy,
• 48:30
  Speaker 2: Soho Johnny. He is Tribeca Records. He's a philanthropic gentleman.
• 48:36
  Speaker 2: He has a philanthropic outreach. Everything he does, he puts
• 48:40
  Speaker 2: money away for do-good projects. Functions and people and love.
• 48:47
  Speaker 2: He's just the greatest guy.
• 48:48
  Speaker 17: All right.
• 48:49
  Speaker 2: Soho Johnny, bring on your show. This is serious stuff.
• 48:52
  Speaker 2: We're going to have some good things for keep life healthier.
• 48:55
  Speaker 7: All right.
• 48:56
  Speaker 2: Thank you so much.
• 48:57
  Speaker 21: Love you.
• 48:59
  Speaker 8: I love you, Paul. Good afternoon, everybody. Happy International Day
• 49:03
  Speaker 8: of Peace. I want to shout out to my beautiful friend,
• 49:06
  Speaker 8: Reverend Paul Slackus, who's produced this wonderful event of peace
• 49:10
  Speaker 8: and love for 24 years. A lot of work goes
• 49:13
  Speaker 8: into this. We had a little situation today, but the
• 49:16
  Speaker 8: show goes on thanks to his heart and the whole
• 49:18
  Speaker 8: team here. We love you, Paul. My name is John Pasquale,
• 49:21
  Speaker 8: although many of you know me as Soho Johnny. It's
• 49:24
  Speaker 8: an honor to be here today to speak about peace, compassion,
• 49:28
  Speaker 8: and the importance of helping one another. I grew up
• 49:31
  Speaker 8: in the Bronx where music became one of my great
• 49:33
  Speaker 8: passions of my life, which taught me that people from
• 49:36
  Speaker 8: completely different backgrounds could come together in harmony. As an entrepreneur,
• 49:40
  Speaker 8: I did real estate, particularly in Soho, through peprealestate.com, which
• 49:44
  Speaker 8: provides commercial pop-ups and long-term locations all throughout Soho West Village.
• 49:49
  Speaker 8: Real estate has never only been about storefronts. It's about
• 49:52
  Speaker 8: people and communities. My love of music eventually brought me
• 49:56
  Speaker 8: into entertainment, producing events, and promoting artists through Tribeca Records,
• 50:00
  Speaker 8: New Era Music. However, one of the most important chapters
• 50:03
  Speaker 8: of my life came from one of the most painful...
• 50:07
  Speaker 8: During the pandemic, I lost my mom, like many of
• 50:10
  Speaker 8: us have lost loved ones. She taught me that kindness
• 50:13
  Speaker 8: is never wasted and that when someone needs help, you
• 50:16
  Speaker 8: do what you can. It's a mandate. It's an obligation
• 50:19
  Speaker 8: of our humanity. And her memory, I found in LetMeHelpInc.org,
• 50:23
  Speaker 8: dedicated to helping people and families facing difficult circumstances. And
• 50:27
  Speaker 8: for years, a wonderful team here at LetMeHelpInc.org has brought
• 50:31
  Speaker 8: together celebrities and stars to volunteer and raise funds for
• 50:34
  Speaker 8: those in need. Beautiful people. This is what peace means
• 50:38
  Speaker 8: to me. Peace is more than the absence of war.
• 50:41
  Speaker 8: It's about compassion, supporting family, giving someone an opportunity, and
• 50:45
  Speaker 8: choosing understanding instead of division. Whether through peprealestate.com, Trebekka Rickards,
• 50:50
  Speaker 8: or letmehelpinc.org, my goal has always been the same, bringing
• 50:55
  Speaker 8: people together, truly from my heart. This is not propaganda
• 50:58
  Speaker 8: for me. On this International Day of Peace, I ask
• 51:00
  Speaker 8: everybody to remember that you do not have to change
• 51:03
  Speaker 8: the entire world Sometimes changing one person's world, even a little,
• 51:09
  Speaker 8: is enough. I'm John Pasquale, Soho Johnny. I believe peace
• 51:12
  Speaker 8: believes in our communities, businesses, and families. Thank you, and
• 51:15
  Speaker 8: thank you to my mom up in heaven for showing
• 51:18
  Speaker 8: me the way. Please reach out to all of us
• 51:20
  Speaker 8: at john at sohojohnny.com and sohojohnny on Instagram. And next,
• 51:26
  Speaker 8: we have David Schleppenbach, who is a high-tech entrepreneur and
• 51:29
  Speaker 8: advocate for the visually impaired. Dave works with letmehelping.org to
• 51:33
  Speaker 8: provide award-winning... Cadence Tactile Tablet to help blind children, which
• 51:39
  Speaker 8: is produced by Tactile Engineering of Afriyat, Indiana. He's organized
• 51:44
  Speaker 8: huge events for the visually impaired people, such as a
• 51:48
  Speaker 8: recent collaboration with the producers of 2026 Indianapolis 500 Race,
• 51:54
  Speaker 8: which I attended in the 2024 solar eclipse. At these events,
• 51:59
  Speaker 8: blind people can participate using the Cadence to feel the
• 52:02
  Speaker 8: action in real time. So they're a part of it.
• 52:04
  Speaker 8: They're not left out. It's my pleasure as chairman of LetMeHelpInc.org
• 52:08
  Speaker 8: to present the first 2026 Philanthropy Award to David Schleppenbach
• 52:13
  Speaker 8: for his work in helping disabled people worldwide right here.
• 52:20
  Speaker 8: Thank you. Thank you, Dave. LetMeHelpInc first Philanthropy Award. I'm
• 52:26
  Speaker 8: going to put it down to save some time. And
• 52:30
  Speaker 8: today we have a special treat as Dave will be
• 52:33
  Speaker 8: performing a song together with Dave Hillebrandt, a blind musician
• 52:37
  Speaker 8: from Orlando, Florida. This song is about the experience that
• 52:40
  Speaker 8: David Hillebrandt had as a blind person experiencing a solar
• 52:44
  Speaker 8: eclipse with 50,000 people. Let's go.
• 52:58
  Speaker 23: It's just a couple minutes early And the world just
• 53:01
  Speaker 23: seems to stop As the time's growing near The animals
• 53:10
  Speaker 23: all seem to know.
• 53:11
  Speaker 4: They take their place to see the show.
• 53:15
  Speaker 23: Watch the sun disappear Nighttime in the daytime As we
• 53:22
  Speaker 23: take it all in.
• 53:25
  Speaker 7: You know, it's Mother.
• 53:26
  Speaker 27: Nature's spectacle as our amazing world spins.
• 53:39
  Speaker 23: Oh, the sun is about to sliver now as the
• 53:43
  Speaker 23: moon takes its stage up there.
• 53:46
  Speaker 8: For a moment or two.
• 53:50
  Speaker 23: And wondrous colors fill the sky still.
• 53:53
  Speaker 4: Harmful to the naked eye.
• 53:56
  Speaker 23: Lord, I wish I'd see them too. Nighttime in the
• 54:02
  Speaker 23: daytime as we take it all in. You know it's
• 54:07
  Speaker 23: Mother Nature's spectacle.
• 54:10
  Speaker 27: As our amazing world spins.
• 54:21
  Speaker 23: Oh, I can touch the sky and hold it in
• 54:27
  Speaker 23: my hand. Anything is possible in this time and this land. Oh,
• 54:42
  Speaker 23: I can feel the horizon inside my fingertips. Anything is possible. Oh,
• 54:58
  Speaker 23: you can touch an eclipse. Oh, anything is possible. You
• 55:08
  Speaker 23: can touch an eclipse.
• 55:15
  Speaker 7: Woo-hoo!
• 55:17
  Speaker 8: Thank you, Dave and Dave. Spreading the love, spreading the
• 55:20
  Speaker 8: magic here on the Pause for Peace stage. Dave, take
• 55:23
  Speaker 8: your award. You don't want to lose that. Before we
• 55:28
  Speaker 8: continue now, I want to tell you a little bit
• 55:31
  Speaker 8: about another man we're about to honor. Dan Romano runs
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  Speaker 8: a pizza place in the Bronx. That's the simple version.
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  Speaker 8: But here's the fuller one. For years, long before anybody
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  Speaker 8: was watching, long before anyone thought to give him an award,
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  Speaker 8: Dan was making sure that people on his block who
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  Speaker 8: didn't have a warm meal got one anyway, even if
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  Speaker 8: they didn't have money. No cameras. It could be a
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  Speaker 8: homeless person. No fanfare. Just a guy behind the counter
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  Speaker 8: decided that a pizza place could be more than a business.
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  Speaker 8: It could be a place where nobody who walked in
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  Speaker 8: hungry left that way. At LetMeHelpInc.org, we talk a lot
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  Speaker 8: about what it means to take care of our neighbors.
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  Speaker 8: Dan didn't need us to tell him that. He was
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  Speaker 8: already doing it for years. One slice, one pie, one
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  Speaker 8: open door at a time. He fed people through freezing
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  Speaker 8: winters and possible summers and a pandemic that emptied out
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  Speaker 8: half the city. He never once made it about recognition.
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  Speaker 8: That's exactly the type of person the 2026 Let Me Help, Inc.
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  Speaker 8: Philanthropy Award exists for. Not the loudest, not the visible,
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  Speaker 8: but the one who just shows up every day. So
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  Speaker 8: Dan Romano, on behalf of everyone at Let Me Help,
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  Speaker 8: and on behalf of every person that ever walked out
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  Speaker 8: with a full stomach that couldn't afford to eat through
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  Speaker 8: your doors, okay, here is the Philanthropy 2026 Award for you.
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  Speaker 8: His Instagram is DRomano's Pizza. Now, I have one question, Dan.
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  Speaker 8: Tell me about your recent encounter at DRomano's Pizza.
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  Speaker 25: We had a woman come outside in the garbage area.
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  Speaker 25: She was eating garbage. I took her by the hand.
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  Speaker 25: I threw the garbage away. I brought her to the pizzeria.
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  Speaker 25: I opened up the oven. We gave her some fresh pizza,
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  Speaker 25: bottle of water. She started crying. I told her, don't cry, eat.
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  Speaker 25: After that day, we put a sign in the window.
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  Speaker 25: If you're hungry, if you got no money, we'll feed you.
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  Speaker 25: Very simple. I dedicate it to my mother, Carmela Romano,
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  Speaker 25: who always told me her favorite saying, a desperate person
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  Speaker 25: will always make a better decision on an empty stomach,
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  Speaker 25: on a full stomach, than on an empty. It stuck
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  Speaker 25: with me. So that's what we do. I think every pizzeria,
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  Speaker 25: every restaurant out there should give away their food. If
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  Speaker 25: they know it's not going to... It better to feed
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  Speaker 25: somebody than throw it in the garbage as long as
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  Speaker 25: it's good. That's the way the world should be. One
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  Speaker 25: act of kindness at a time. God bless everybody.
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  Speaker 8: Thank you so much, Dan. He started a trend in
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  Speaker 8: his neighborhood. A lot of restaurants and other establishments are
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  Speaker 8: doing the same thing.
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  Speaker 7: Okay.
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  Speaker 8: Now, the final but not the least. We have Gabriel Garcia,
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  Speaker 8: who is new era music recording artist and songwriter from Rochester,
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  Speaker 8: New York, whose music tells stories of love, healing, and
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  Speaker 8: finding the strength to start again. We all have to
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  Speaker 8: start again. Her songs include Distance Feeds the Fire, What
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  Speaker 8: Almost Was, and From Strangers to Lovers to Strangers Again. Today,
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  Speaker 8: she brings her own voice, heart, and passion to share
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  Speaker 8: with us. Please welcome to the Pause for Peace stage,
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  Speaker 8: New Era music artist, Gabrielle Garcia.
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  Speaker 19: Hello, New York.
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  Speaker 9: Whoop, whoop.
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  Speaker 7: We stood.
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  Speaker 22: At the border of a love untamed Close enough to
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  Speaker 22: lose it but you walked away you said if we
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  Speaker 22: touched we'd never turn back that the fire between us
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  Speaker 22: would burn through the cracks So you chose the simple,
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  Speaker 22: chose what was near. What I would have chosen, love
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  Speaker 22: over fear. Distance never scared me, I'd have made the climb.
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  Speaker 4: But you said, wait, it's not the time.
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  Speaker 22: If you would have called me back I would have
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  Speaker 22: risked it.
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  Speaker 7: All Broken every rule Just.
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  Speaker 22: To answer your call I'd let the world burn Surrender to.
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  Speaker 7: Us For one taste.
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  Speaker 3: Of the fire.
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  Speaker 22: In what almost was.
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  Speaker 28: You say divine.
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  Speaker 22: Timing Writes every move.
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  Speaker 28: That the stars decide When a heart can choose But
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  Speaker 28: I was ready to bend Ready to.
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  Speaker 22: Fall While you built your walls I gave it my.
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  Speaker 3: All.
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  Speaker 22: Still you let me in through the cracks of your life.
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  Speaker 22: Shared the secrets you guard in.
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  Speaker 7: The dead of night.
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  Speaker 22: Is it fate or just a cruel disguise that I'll
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  Speaker 22: still see forever in your eyes?
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  Speaker 7: Say a call.
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  Speaker 22: I'd have let the world burn surrender to us for
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  Speaker 22: one taste of the fire and what almost was. Maybe
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  Speaker 22: silence was mercy. Maybe distance was grace. Maybe the universe
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  Speaker 22: saved me from.
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  Speaker 18: But when I close my eyes, I still feel your touch.
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  Speaker 22: And I can't stop aching for what almost was.
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  Speaker 7: I love you, New Era. I love you, New York.
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  Speaker 8: Let's give her a round of applause. Gabriel Garcia, we
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  Speaker 8: love you, Gabriel.
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  Speaker 19: Thank you.