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Organ Donation Registrations In Florida Down ... A Lot · Conversations: Special Guests with Preston Scott

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  Speaker 1: If I've passed the hour. It's the third hour of
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  Speaker 1: show five, three hundred and fifty nine of The Morning
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  Speaker 1: Show with Preston Scott and Preston. He's ose great to
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  Speaker 1: be with you, friends, Ruminators. We appreciate you making time
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  Speaker 1: for us, and trust me when I say I do
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  Speaker 1: not take for granted your time. Thank you so very much,
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  Speaker 1: and I'm pleased to talk about things that oftentimes just
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  Speaker 1: kind of get left behind the noise of the news
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  Speaker 1: just seems to drown out sometimes some of the more
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  Speaker 1: important things, and to kind of push one of those
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  Speaker 1: things front and center. I am joined by a friend
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  Speaker 1: of mine. I call Ron Sacks a friend, even though
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  Speaker 1: we don't share a lot of political things in common.
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  Speaker 1: But what we do share in common is a common
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  Speaker 1: love and respect for one another in our professions and
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  Speaker 1: the ability to have the conversation. And I, as I
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  Speaker 1: pointed out, Ron, you have been always so charitable and
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  Speaker 1: kind in your support of me and this program, and
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  Speaker 1: thank you for that. But welcome to the show.
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  Speaker 2: Well, Preston, thank you. You know I've always called you in
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  Speaker 2: my nickname for you, the morning Star of Tallahasse. You're
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  Speaker 2: in national quality talent and We're fortunate that you love
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  Speaker 2: this community so much You've chosen to stay. And while
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  Speaker 2: I disagree with you frequently and I sometimes talk out
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  Speaker 2: loud when I'm listening to the program when I'm shaving
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  Speaker 2: in the morning, I learn a lot from you. You
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  Speaker 2: only learn from people if you listen, even if you
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  Speaker 2: disagree with them. So you have helped inform this community
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  Speaker 2: on so many issues, and we don't disagree about this.
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  Speaker 2: We can be civil to people we disagree with and
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  Speaker 2: make the world a better place.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you and I I think are a great example
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  Speaker 1: of people being very different in terms of some ideology.
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  Speaker 1: There are a lot of things you and I agree on,
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  Speaker 1: but that you can have those conversations and still give
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  Speaker 1: each other a hug and yuck it up and be friends.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely. When I ran into you a few weeks ago,
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  Speaker 2: I think at Walmart, it was a stop and chat
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  Speaker 2: in seinfeld In language for kind of fifteen minutes, and
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  Speaker 2: it was a joy highlight of the day.
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  Speaker 1: I want to circle into why we're visiting this morning,
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  Speaker 1: and to do that, I think it's important for us
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  Speaker 1: to learn about your daughter, Amy.
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  Speaker 2: Tell us about her. Okay, Amy Nicole Sachs was my
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  Speaker 2: middle of three daughters, she was the premature, so she
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  Speaker 2: was thirty eight years old in twenty twenty three, four
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  Speaker 2: foot ten, one hundred pounds. A rabid journalist, baseball fan,
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  Speaker 2: and her greatest joy professionally was covering the bravee for
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  Speaker 2: MLB dot com in the press box with the bastion
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  Speaker 2: of men. Mostly she knew more about baseball than almost
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  Speaker 2: any ten men put together. Well. In May of twenty
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  Speaker 2: twenty three, Amy had terrible neck pain and a few
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  Speaker 2: days later, after being admitted to the hospital, had a
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  Speaker 2: small stroke. If there's such a thing, there is who
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  Speaker 2: was recovering from it? And several days later, on May
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  Speaker 2: twenty eighth, she had a major stroke, a devastatingly powerful
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  Speaker 2: stroke that plunged her into a condition called locked in syndrome.
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  Speaker 2: She was on a ventilator. She would never be able
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  Speaker 2: to talk or breathe on her own, or have any
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  Speaker 2: kind of movement or normal life for this active young woman.
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  Speaker 2: And she could think, she could feel emotion, but the
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  Speaker 2: only physical action she had control over on her body
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  Speaker 2: were her eyes. She could open and close her eyes,
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  Speaker 2: and when we had them awaken her on May thirtieth,
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  Speaker 2: we gathered around her to tell her what had happened
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  Speaker 2: to her to make sure she understood, and asked her,
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  Speaker 2: if you want to live like this, we can do
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  Speaker 2: what people do with machines and doctors and institutions. But
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  Speaker 2: if you don't want to live like this, let me
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  Speaker 2: know by closing your eyes. And she closed her eyes instantly,
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  Speaker 2: so tight that her eye lids wrinkled. And then I said,
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  Speaker 2: you know you've had it on your driver's license since
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  Speaker 2: you were sixteen, that you want to be an organ
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  Speaker 2: downer choosing to leave this life? Do you want to
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  Speaker 2: donate your organs to help other people live? And she
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  Speaker 2: shut her eyes immediately again. So we spent the entirety
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  Speaker 2: of that day, May thirtieth telling her how much we
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  Speaker 2: loved her, and just loving on her individually and together
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  Speaker 2: my oldest daughter Samantha, who has had her little sister's
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  Speaker 2: side religiously from dawn till dark those whole nearly two
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  Speaker 2: weeks so to Amy's last days on this earth. We
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  Speaker 2: didn't know we were going to lose her, but we're
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  Speaker 2: so proud of the brave decision she made and impressed
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  Speaker 2: in a week before she died, Amy's laying in bed
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  Speaker 2: hooked up to an ivy recovering from the first strope.
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  Speaker 2: We're thinking she's making good progress with the physical therapist.
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  Speaker 2: And Samantha Amy loved music, loved to sing, turns on
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  Speaker 2: her phone Michael Jackson song Man in the Mirror and
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  Speaker 2: if you know it, it's a very inspiring song about
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  Speaker 2: and Amy's rocking for forty seven seconds in bed on
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  Speaker 2: an ivy lips thinking the song with just just crushing
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  Speaker 2: some phillips think. And that is a treasure to us.
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  Speaker 2: Because after Amy passed, Gary Orton, a good friend Josh mclahorn,
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  Speaker 2: Jay Revel and Samantha turned it into a one minute
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  Speaker 2: public service announcement to help spur people to register as
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  Speaker 2: organ donors. And that's what April is. It's National Donate
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  Speaker 2: Life Month. And many of your listeners may be organ donors,
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  Speaker 2: but many of them are not. And it's a pretty painless,
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  Speaker 2: free step to go to Donatelife Florida dot org register
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  Speaker 2: to be an organ donor. You know this is not
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  Speaker 2: all there is, this life. It's wonderful, but when our
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  Speaker 2: time here is through, how wonderful to deepen your own
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  Speaker 2: legacy by leading the gift of love and life to
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  Speaker 2: others by organ donation. Every day, five thousand Farridians are
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  Speaker 2: waiting for a transplant of some sort, and many of
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  Speaker 2: them are not going to make it and have an
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  Speaker 2: extended life. And yet Amy saved the lives of two
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  Speaker 2: young men in their twenties and a young mom wife
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  Speaker 2: in her early forties.
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  Speaker 1: The Morning Show with Preston Scott. You might not know it, friends,
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  Speaker 1: but sixty percent of organ I tissue donors are authorized
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  Speaker 1: by donor registration. This matters a lot. Joining me the
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  Speaker 1: founder of sex Media, Ron Sachs, and Ron, you were
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  Speaker 1: sharing how Amy's passing led to life transformation for others,
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  Speaker 1: share a little bit more about that.
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  Speaker 2: Sure, well, you know, when you become a donor, you
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  Speaker 2: really don't know where the organs are going, and neither
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  Speaker 2: there's your family. But you're allowed to write a letter
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  Speaker 2: as call it a blind letter, without any details about
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  Speaker 2: who you are or who the donor was, and through
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  Speaker 2: Donate Life and its related organizations, these letters get to
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  Speaker 2: the people who were recipients of organs, and my daughter
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  Speaker 2: Samantha took the lead for our family in writing the
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  Speaker 2: letters to find you know, hopefully just a reassurance to
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  Speaker 2: two young men and the young mom who received Amy's
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  Speaker 2: organs and didn't get a response, and she's not a
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  Speaker 2: patient person sometimes, so she wrote another letter and somehow
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  Speaker 2: the woman over in Mims, Florida, Chris Banni, who got
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  Speaker 2: the second letter, figured out how to find us. And
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  Speaker 2: the largest single thing that's helped our healing about losing
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  Speaker 2: Amy is actually knowing one of the people who's alive
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  Speaker 2: because of her and Chris. Amy did not just save
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  Speaker 2: Chris's life with her liver, she saved Christy's family unit.
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  Speaker 2: So two teenage boys instead of getting pre written cards
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  Speaker 2: and letters, their mom was preparing because she thought she
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  Speaker 2: was going to pass there with her for Christmas and birthdays,
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  Speaker 2: and so is her husband. So it's been a huge
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  Speaker 2: part of our healing. Chris considers herself and we consider
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  Speaker 2: her part of our family, and we're part of hers.
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  Speaker 2: So this really impacts people. One person's skin can help
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  Speaker 2: seventy five people's lives, and again it's kind of painless.
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  Speaker 2: You can do this by going to Donatelifeflorida dot orgon
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  Speaker 2: register and the more people who register, the more lives
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  Speaker 2: are likely to be saved. And again, this is not
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  Speaker 2: all there is. These are just vehicles star bodies that
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  Speaker 2: we're using this time around, and why not when you're
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  Speaker 2: done with your pathway here, leave something in a gift
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  Speaker 2: of love and life to others. That's what April is.
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  Speaker 2: It's National Donate Life Month. And we hope that this
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  Speaker 2: PSA that features Amy and there will be other PSAs
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  Speaker 2: will go statewide. Where we launched a statewide organ donor
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  Speaker 2: registration campaign a couple of weeks ago, and there's never
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  Speaker 2: been anything like it in Florida, the third largest state.
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  Speaker 2: We hope it's going to be kind of a bell
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  Speaker 2: weather that could be replicated in other states because the
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  Speaker 2: more of us who register, the more likely it is
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  Speaker 2: that many lives will be saved.
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  Speaker 1: Twenty one minutes past the how or just a little
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  Speaker 1: bit more time with my friend Ron Sachs from SAS Media,
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  Speaker 1: but more importantly, we're talking about his daughter, Amy, who
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  Speaker 1: passed away in May of twenty twenty three at the
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  Speaker 1: age of thirty eight, and who was an organ donor
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  Speaker 1: and who transformed lives not just of the recipient, but
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  Speaker 1: as Ron pointed out, this goes upstream downstream in all
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  Speaker 1: directions because of the lives that a donor recipient touches.
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  Speaker 1: It transforms everybody's life. And we're talking about some realities
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  Speaker 1: that are amazing and positive and some that are a
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  Speaker 1: little negative. And one ron that I want you to
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  Speaker 1: speak to is that in Florida, registrations are below where
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  Speaker 1: they need to be. Tell us more.
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  Speaker 2: Well, and in some of the big, large population urban areas.
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  Speaker 2: So that's the case too. That's why this campaigns intended
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  Speaker 2: to have people open up their hearts and open up
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  Speaker 2: their minds to This doesn't cost you anything. It's free
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  Speaker 2: to register to be an organ donor. You know, the
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  Speaker 2: Donate Life Florida website has so much information or treasure
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  Speaker 2: drove of information, frequently asked questions. Almost any pushback someone
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  Speaker 2: might have or reservations about being an organ donor can
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  Speaker 2: be addressed by these questions that are somewhat common. And
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  Speaker 2: this campaign is intended to motivate people to register. You know,
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  Speaker 2: you can register at tax collector's office when you're renewing
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  Speaker 2: a license tag or driver's license, but people don't do
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  Speaker 2: that so frequently, right, So Donate Life Florida dot org's
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  Speaker 2: website is a place you can register. Sitting in your
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  Speaker 2: jammis at the kitchen countership and coffee, and then you're
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  Speaker 2: on the registry and then whether you are a short
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  Speaker 2: term on a path to leave us as Amy was
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  Speaker 2: and we didn't know that, or you've been sick for
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  Speaker 2: a long time and it's almost your time to check
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  Speaker 2: out the registry will know that when notified and kick
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  Speaker 2: into action and lisably say, there's time is precious and
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  Speaker 2: short to get those organs to people. There a match
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  Speaker 2: for you know, Amy's liver reciping. Chris Fannie, the first
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  Speaker 2: liver they brought to her at Mayo up in Jacksonville,
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  Speaker 2: was not going to be transplanted. The surgeon didn't think,
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  Speaker 2: so she was kind of told she was dying a
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  Speaker 2: second time. And then Amy, who was sick in less
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  Speaker 2: than two weeks, her liver is a match for Chris Fannie.
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  Speaker 2: And it's just amazing that my daughter to me is
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  Speaker 2: alive and these three people and her spirit is alive
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  Speaker 2: because her story is inspiring lots of other people and
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  Speaker 2: there are many other inspiring stories. So it's Donate Life
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  Speaker 2: month nationally and what you could do if you're a
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  Speaker 2: listener to the Morning Star President Scott is go to
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  Speaker 2: Donate Life Florida dot Org's website and register it's quick,
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  Speaker 2: it's painless, it's free. And again, once we leave this world,
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  Speaker 2: we don't need this chassis and all of its parts anymore.
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  Speaker 2: But if it could extend or enhance the life of
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  Speaker 2: someone else, what a great way to deepen your own
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  Speaker 2: legacy to be an organ donor.
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  Speaker 1: Ron and I talked in the break about are we
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  Speaker 1: are kind of examples of two types of people that
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  Speaker 1: are in the mix here. You were not an organ
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  Speaker 1: donor until Amy, and I. When I first saw that
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  Speaker 1: box when I was renewing my driver's license, I don't
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  Speaker 1: even know how many years ago, I was like, oh,
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  Speaker 1: well that makes sense, and I went ahead and checked
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  Speaker 1: the box because, like you said, the chassis's done, but
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  Speaker 1: the parts are still working, and so we both kind
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  Speaker 1: of represent where people are right now.
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  Speaker 2: Perhaps well, Amy, you know, I immediately overcame any reservations
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  Speaker 2: I had about it when my daughter showed me the
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  Speaker 2: way my little HAMI thirty eight showed me the way
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  Speaker 2: I saw. I'm an organ donor. Now I where the
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  Speaker 2: Donate Life bracelet on my left wrist. Every day, That's
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  Speaker 2: how I start my day. And this campaign, we hope,
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  Speaker 2: is going to really light up the universe of Florida
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  Speaker 2: and reach a lot of people to take that action step.
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  Speaker 2: That's quick, it's painless, it's free to go to Donatelife
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  Speaker 2: Florida dot org and register today. We'll be able to
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  Speaker 2: measure how many people's lives we touched in terms who
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  Speaker 2: become donors, but we won't be able to measure how
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  Speaker 2: many lives are positively impacted by being saved or improved
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  Speaker 2: by these donations. And again, one donor's skin tissue can
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  Speaker 2: help seventy five people. Think about that the math involved
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  Speaker 2: in that, and one person's organs can help as many
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  Speaker 2: as eight people. Amy helped three who are alive today
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  Speaker 2: because of her. So maybe one of the bravest things
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  Speaker 2: you ever do, and it's simply register and that act
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  Speaker 2: of courage will save lives and enhance your own legacy.
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  Speaker 1: Ron, thanks for making time. I know it was a
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  Speaker 1: little challenging, as it always is to talk about the
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  Speaker 1: loss of your daughter, but thank you for sharing about Amy,
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  Speaker 1: letting us get to know her a little bit better,
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  Speaker 1: and being behind this effort. I appreciate it very much.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you for the generosity of your time and friendship.
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  Speaker 2: God bless you and your family, friends and listeners. Present.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks so much for your generous time.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you Ron. Ron Sacks with us this morning on
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  Speaker 1: the Morning Show with Preston Scott. Let me remind you
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  Speaker 1: Donatelife Florida dot org. How simple is that? Donate Life
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  Speaker 1: Florida dot org. I'll be honest with you. I didn't
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  Speaker 1: wrestle with any questions on this.
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  Speaker 2: It just it.
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  Speaker 1: It clicked the second I saw the box. The information
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  Speaker 1: that's available to assuage any fears, it's all there for you.
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  Speaker 1: Donate Life Florida dot org. You know, we've talked on
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  Speaker 1: this program for how many years now of making a difference.
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  Speaker 1: I ended the show for years at when I first
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  Speaker 1: started it with the line make a difference, and then
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  Speaker 1: instead of just talking about it, we transitioned into the
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  Speaker 1: Mad Radio network, that make a Difference Radio network to
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  Speaker 1: really try to put some some muscle behind it. And this,
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  Speaker 1: this is this to me was three of the best,
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  Speaker 1: most important segments to reach that goal of making a difference.
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  Speaker 1: This will make a difference. Twenty seven minutes after the hour,
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  Speaker 1: Thank you Ron for joining me this morning here on
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  Speaker 1: the Morning Show with Preston's Cot