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Our friend Aakash wants you to hang with Baker Mayfield for a good cause!! · Scotty and Abby UNFILTERED

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  Speaker 1: Tampa Bay's best music is Magia ninety four nine.
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  Speaker 2: And welcome to another episode of Scotty and Abbey Unfiltered.
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  Speaker 2: This one's exciting because with Tampa Bay being the growing
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  Speaker 2: place that it is, there are so many things happening
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  Speaker 2: in this community that it's cool that we get an
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  Speaker 2: opportunity to now spotlight the good that's going around Tampa Bay.
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  Speaker 1: I know it's growing so fast.
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  Speaker 3: I feel like it's going to be a completely different
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  Speaker 3: city in five years, just like five years ago was
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  Speaker 3: completely different every five years, every decade or so.
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  Speaker 2: It's so true. And that's why literally today's episode is
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  Speaker 2: really spotlighting one of the things coming to give you
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  Speaker 2: a little more awareness of it. And so we brought
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  Speaker 2: in a very special guest. And here's what's fun about you, Akash.
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  Speaker 2: There are so many people that know you. People are
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  Speaker 2: gonna be like, wait. Literally I was on the phone
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  Speaker 2: yesterday with a friend and they're like, wait, I saw
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  Speaker 2: you know a Cash. I was like, yeah, I know
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  Speaker 2: a cause you know a Kash. You are the most
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  Speaker 2: popular dude in Tampa Bay and I will say the
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  Speaker 2: king of networking throughout the Tampa Bay area. So kudos
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  Speaker 2: to you. Is an honor to have you in podcast
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  Speaker 2: right now. Thank you both.
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  Speaker 4: I appreciate it, But I mean I feel the same
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  Speaker 4: way about you guys.
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  Speaker 5: This is an honor to be here and here celebrities,
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  Speaker 5: so it's honored to be in the presence of ID
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  Speaker 5: not even.
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  Speaker 3: Give us that we're on a list, but not.
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  Speaker 5: When I walked in the green room a few weeks
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  Speaker 5: ago and Scott's in the green room prepping at the
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  Speaker 5: Fox thirteen, I'm like, Met's see, I'm always in the
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  Speaker 5: presidents of greatness, you know.
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  Speaker 2: The same circles. Well, what's super cool is that you
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  Speaker 2: get to do so much for Tampa Bay. And one
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  Speaker 2: of the things is how you work closely with talk
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  Speaker 2: about it aless celebrity Baker Mayfield. And that's kind of
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  Speaker 2: the reason why we wanted to even start this conversation
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  Speaker 2: is because I was just watching Netflix and they have
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  Speaker 2: this whole series it's called Quarterback.
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  Speaker 4: Great show.
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  Speaker 2: I love it, and the last one had Baker Mayfield
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  Speaker 2: on there. That's the whole reason I started watching it.
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  Speaker 2: And in the show they talk about the foundation that
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  Speaker 2: you're literally here to talk about, and I was like,
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  Speaker 2: what a weird crossover Because I was just watching what
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  Speaker 2: this looked like. So go ahead and give us the
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  Speaker 2: update on what is coming up in Tampa Bay. How
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  Speaker 2: you even got connected to Baker Mayfield.
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  Speaker 4: Well, it's a great story.
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  Speaker 5: So I personally have been in Tampa for two decades
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  Speaker 5: and I've been wanting to volunteer in organizations that are
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  Speaker 5: dealing with education and children. That's important to me. So
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  Speaker 5: in twenty fourteen, Governor Rick Scott, then Governor Rick Scott
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  Speaker 5: now Senator appointed me to chair the Early Learning Coalition
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  Speaker 5: in Hillsborough County And basically that board overseas volunteered pre kindergarten.
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  Speaker 5: But the Baker and Emily Mayfield story is when they go.
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  Speaker 4: To a city.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, he's been in several cities where he's played,
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  Speaker 5: and so of course highlights that they also want to
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  Speaker 5: get back to the community to serve. So they actually
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  Speaker 5: have a foundation and they choose three to four nonprofits
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  Speaker 5: a year. And he let's call it like maybe he
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  Speaker 5: started in July, looking July of the year before he
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  Speaker 5: started even playing a game with the Bucks, and in
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  Speaker 5: August of the before he even started a regular season
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  Speaker 5: game with the Bucks, he called the Early Learning Coalition.
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  Speaker 5: His office called the Early Learning coalition in Hillsborough County
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  Speaker 5: and choose us to be the nonprofit benefactor for his
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  Speaker 5: first ever Tampa event called b the Ball. And now
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  Speaker 5: this August thirtieth coming up in a few weeks, here
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  Speaker 5: is our fourth and you'll be the Ball where we've
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  Speaker 5: raised hundreds of thousand dollars for and they've raised the
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  Speaker 5: money and given it to us, so we're the benefactor.
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  Speaker 5: And if you watch episode two in season three of
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  Speaker 5: The Quarterback, you'll see Baker and Emily at Top Golf
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  Speaker 5: talking about the early only collotionals we're cutting.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I saw that. I was like, wait a second,
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  Speaker 2: the cash that's the event that you're talking about. I
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  Speaker 2: just watched the episode. That is so cool because I
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  Speaker 2: love that. Yes, the game is important, and what a
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  Speaker 2: lot of these athletes have done which is so cool
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  Speaker 2: is that they go beyond the game. It's we have
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  Speaker 2: so many eyes on us or are on athletes that
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  Speaker 2: if you take that platform, you could do so much good.
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  Speaker 2: And because of that show, I already love Baker Mayfield,
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  Speaker 2: but because of that show, I love them even more
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  Speaker 2: and his family because of what they do to the community.
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  Speaker 2: Just like what you're.
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  Speaker 5: Saying and what's really cool is they didn't have kids
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  Speaker 5: at the time, so when I was talking to him
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  Speaker 5: and explaining what we do, they were just new to Tampa.
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  Speaker 4: They didn't have any kids.
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  Speaker 5: Now they have two young kids, so now they actually
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  Speaker 5: know of Vpka's because their kids are going about to
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  Speaker 5: interview kay M.
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  Speaker 2: That is so cool.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and this is a really sick event.
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  Speaker 3: I mean it's top golf and you said there's going
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  Speaker 3: to be all kinds of celebs there, So I'm assuming
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  Speaker 3: you've been for all four runs.
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  Speaker 5: For one year, I was traveling, but I've been at
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  Speaker 5: two of the three, two of three, and I'll be
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  Speaker 5: out the fourth one. And last year we were literally
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  Speaker 5: just at one of the bays playing golf and Cuba
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  Speaker 5: getting junior walks in.
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  Speaker 1: Oh my gosh.
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  Speaker 5: I was in toown film in a movie and heard
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  Speaker 5: a new baker somehow and showed up.
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  Speaker 4: So like, you never know who's going to show up.
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  Speaker 3: What's it like to bump elbows with people that are
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  Speaker 3: just very casually famous. You got to keep it cool,
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  Speaker 3: you got it, like this is normal running these people
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  Speaker 3: all the time.
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  Speaker 5: Just casual conversations. So I had a conversation like where
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  Speaker 5: are you going to go to lunchor what are you
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  Speaker 5: doing here? Asking about the movies. But what's really cool
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  Speaker 5: is they all love the Tambay community because of the
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  Speaker 5: reason we talked about.
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  Speaker 3: Oh yeah, exactly, And I'm sure they get to experience
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  Speaker 3: a lot of the restaurants that we love. Where do
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  Speaker 3: you find that, like a lot of the upper upper
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  Speaker 3: resural people like to go for lunch or dinner, Like,
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  Speaker 3: where are they going out to dinner and stuff?
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  Speaker 5: I think, well, I think for most of the people
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  Speaker 5: that google Tampa that Columbia restaurant and Burns always comes out.
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  Speaker 2: They always want to go, Yeah, you.
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  Speaker 5: Know, Columby's the oldest restaurant in the state of Florida.
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  Speaker 5: Burns just like the large wine cellar the nation. So
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  Speaker 5: people know those. But then you find people that actually
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  Speaker 5: they know about Water Street and.
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  Speaker 4: They know about the Saint Pete downtown.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, downtown Saint Pete. I feel like is catching so
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  Speaker 3: much attention for good reason. Because even my family who's
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  Speaker 3: lived here like their entire lives, like they grew up
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  Speaker 3: in Lithia, went to New Some high school. I took
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  Speaker 3: them to downtown Saint Pete for the first time. They're like,
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  Speaker 3: we had no idea this was here. I'm like this,
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  Speaker 3: it's literally over the bridge.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: And people talk about the annoy because people do know thenoy.
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  Speaker 5: But people forget elliot astras and the annoying and people
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  Speaker 5: love led us.
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  Speaker 1: Uh huh, that is very cool.
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  Speaker 2: I have still yet to go all.
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  Speaker 4: We got to get you the Scott, I.
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  Speaker 3: Know, I know.
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  Speaker 2: You open my eyes to so many new places. Though,
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  Speaker 2: And I will say, because I've lived here now for
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  Speaker 2: eleven years, as soon as I gotten around these circles,
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  Speaker 2: I was like, wait a second, I didn't know about
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  Speaker 2: these new bars or new restaurants for you. What have
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  Speaker 2: been the spots that like, you're happy that they're now
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  Speaker 2: getting the recognition that they deserve in the Tampa or
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  Speaker 2: Saint Pete area, Because I feel like, I don't know
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  Speaker 2: when you sleep a cash I'll be honest, it just
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  Speaker 2: seems like you do. It seems like you're always on
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  Speaker 2: the move. So what are the places for you that
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  Speaker 2: you're like, all right, someone's coming into town. These are
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  Speaker 2: the places maybe of ken I recommend the Columbia. I
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  Speaker 2: do the Burns as well. I love those spots. What
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  Speaker 2: are the other spots that you're like, wait a second,
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  Speaker 2: if you haven't heard. You might not gotten the word yet.
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  Speaker 2: Let me put you onto these places. Well, I think
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  Speaker 2: you know you and I've talked about Sapphire. It's a
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  Speaker 2: new spot that Ibby and I've been to too. You've
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  Speaker 2: been there as well with your girlfriend. I know she's
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  Speaker 2: ole her birthday there.
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  Speaker 5: Happy people lated birthday to Brienna, so of course, but
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  Speaker 5: that opened in May and that kind of changed the
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  Speaker 5: structure of where elegant people get tressed up, go out
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  Speaker 5: and have a safe space. So that's been a great
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  Speaker 5: summer addition. It's newer, but people are still learning about it,
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  Speaker 5: but it's kind of very social because now we're on
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  Speaker 5: the social media trends. And then I still love Hyde
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  Speaker 5: Park Village. I mean, Timpano is still a staple. I
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  Speaker 5: went there a few weeks ago. I mean, just just
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  Speaker 5: a great catchup place on a Tuesday. It was busy, That's.
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  Speaker 2: What's so wild. I went out to Hyde Park because
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  Speaker 2: I'm on the same Pete side, so I live the
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  Speaker 2: same Pete lifestyle. Very rarely do you get me over
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  Speaker 2: the bridge. And that's the one thing that did was
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  Speaker 2: the Sapphire. You're like, you gotta come out of the
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  Speaker 2: Sapphire and you were so spot on with that. That
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  Speaker 2: was everything that you and Abbey talked about. I was like, Wow,
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  Speaker 2: this is what we've been waiting for. But when I'm
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  Speaker 2: running around Saint Pete, I'm just, you know, getlounting on
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  Speaker 2: the same spots that I go to. And it's very
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  Speaker 2: cool to show people these new spots because you get
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  Speaker 2: so in routine of we go out to dinner. Like
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  Speaker 2: one of my favorite places is the Savvion Winelocker in
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  Speaker 2: Saint Pete. I go there a few times. I'm like,
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  Speaker 2: I know it's good. I like the environment, but what
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  Speaker 2: I love is that new places are catching on where
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  Speaker 2: the environment and what you bring and what people dress
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  Speaker 2: that's almost just as important as the food because we're
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  Speaker 2: so used to walking around. And Abby noticed this as
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  Speaker 2: soon as she started coming more to Tampa, like people
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  Speaker 2: were just dressed so casually, which I'm a fan of.
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  Speaker 3: But I feel like people are stepping it up though,
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  Speaker 3: Like I've noticed ever since I've moved here, it does
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  Speaker 3: feel like more of an occasion.
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  Speaker 1: And maybe it's because I've been going to the.
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  Speaker 3: Sapphire a lot, where it feels like there's an expectation,
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  Speaker 3: Like when you go out, you're going to be seen,
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  Speaker 3: so dress expected to be seen by people.
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  Speaker 2: It is a very busy lifestyle right now, with how
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  Speaker 2: how much there is to do when and what do
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  Speaker 2: you do when you actually take a day off a
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  Speaker 2: cock because we could go some like some of the
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  Speaker 2: things that you've done in Tampa Bay are extraordinary. It
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  Speaker 2: is truly so cool to see everything you do. What
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  Speaker 2: is like your kick back like you're not working? What
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  Speaker 2: is your activity level looking like?
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  Speaker 4: Well, it's funny.
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  Speaker 5: I think I've laid on the trend, but I've gotten
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  Speaker 5: into pickup ball. I play actually, even though I live
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  Speaker 5: in Tampa, I played Saint Pete Athletic a lot across
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  Speaker 5: the bridge for pickle ball because I've got a good
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  Speaker 5: social It's a social sport in general. But you know,
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  Speaker 5: you meet people and then I have a bunch of
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  Speaker 5: friends that are members, so I can hang out with
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  Speaker 5: them and play. But and then just kind of relax
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  Speaker 5: and kind of get ready for you know, re energize
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  Speaker 5: for the week. There's always at least two or three
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  Speaker 5: cool network events going on, and then I prepare one
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  Speaker 5: once a month. I know Abby's been to Noodles networking.
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  Speaker 5: We've been doing and then and long on short of
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  Speaker 5: it is it's like, you know, people always told me
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  Speaker 5: Tampa was going to be hip. I sort of my
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  Speaker 5: company fourteen years ago, and now we're hip, and it's
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  Speaker 5: kind of cool.
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  Speaker 4: It's like kind of cool to see it happen.
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  Speaker 5: Right, you're here still, like you don't leave and you
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  Speaker 5: could have left in those eleven years because.
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  Speaker 4: That hip ten years ago.
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  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, Like literally, I remember when I got put
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  Speaker 2: at USF. I was coming across the state and all
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  Speaker 2: my friends were going to FSU and Gainesville and Orlando.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, we're representing kind of the three main universe. We're
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  Speaker 3: missing like a USF REP. But like I'm Florida, you Asu,
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  Speaker 3: you went to us F.
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  Speaker 2: They all rep in different corners of it. But I
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  Speaker 2: did love when I came over here. I was like
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  Speaker 2: the one of two and everyone's like, why are you
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  Speaker 2: going to Tampa. I'm like, man, let me just go
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  Speaker 2: live my life now. All those friends are moved right
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  Speaker 2: over to Tampa and.
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  Speaker 5: Was getting a football stadium, like the one thing you
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  Speaker 5: didn't know we got the local Stateum no, you're getting one.
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  Speaker 1: To a second, but it's getting there.
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  Speaker 2: It's getting there very bittersweet because that's like all my Like,
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  Speaker 2: I wanted that so bad. I will get season tickets
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  Speaker 2: when that stadium is up, Like I will be a party.
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  Speaker 4: We'll go to a game. I'll go with you. I
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  Speaker 4: will go with you.
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  Speaker 3: I love that you guys are embracing it, though, because
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  Speaker 3: I the narrative I hate is people who are mad
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  Speaker 3: at transplants coming because I understand it, it boosts the
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  Speaker 3: cost of rent, but like rent is expensive everywhere. But
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  Speaker 3: I feel like the fact that we have so many transplants,
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  Speaker 3: and I guess I'm technically a trans I like to
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  Speaker 3: say I'm like half transplant because my family's here and
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  Speaker 3: I've been coming here my whole life, so I'm like
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  Speaker 3: a habsie.
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  Speaker 4: But well, you were in Atlanta, so we'll just give you,
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  Speaker 4: you know for ten years years.
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  Speaker 1: I'm from Jacksonville. I went to Florida.
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  Speaker 3: So I love that you guys are embracing the fact that, like,
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  Speaker 3: transplants allow us to have these exciting things like Water Street,
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  Speaker 3: And if we didn't have so many people moving to Tampa,
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  Speaker 3: we wouldn't have places like the Stapphire wanting to open
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  Speaker 3: because you know, the crowd wouldn't be as big or
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  Speaker 3: wouldn't be coming from cosmopolitan places that were going to
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  Speaker 3: kind of up the anti for people to want to
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  Speaker 3: dress up and make it an event.
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  Speaker 1: To go out.
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  Speaker 2: It's so true. I mean, because people have moved here
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  Speaker 2: and because we've become so popular, we now get all
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  Speaker 2: the nice things. Yes, we have that big city lifestyle.
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  Speaker 2: I want to jump back to the Baker and Emily
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  Speaker 2: Foundation because it's coming up and I know there's going
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  Speaker 2: to be some people that are like, wait a second.
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  Speaker 2: You guys talked about it so casually. It's at Top Golf, Like.
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  Speaker 1: Can we go? Where does the money go towards?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: Like what does your boy got to do to go
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  Speaker 2: over to Top Golf and hang out with Baker?
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  Speaker 5: And we got to talk about it. It's August thirtieth,
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  Speaker 5: it's from one to five pm. You can still purchase tickets.
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  Speaker 5: We have information on our website ELCCHC dot org, which
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  Speaker 5: is Early Learning Coalition of Hillsborough County and then of
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  Speaker 5: course Baker Emily Mayfield Foundation. They're the ones that are
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  Speaker 5: administering the whole process. But what I love, like I said,
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  Speaker 5: is we had Emily Mayfield read to children right after
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  Speaker 5: the first event. I mean, they give there's so much
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  Speaker 5: of their time. They choose other nonprofits to their foundation.
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  Speaker 5: But the Early Learning Coalition, you know, what happens is
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  Speaker 5: we were funded by our state legislature and every year,
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  Speaker 5: as you know, costs have gone off for everything yep,
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  Speaker 5: and our budget we haven't gotten comp but we've been
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  Speaker 5: saying neutral and then unfortunately childcare is expensive that part yep.
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  Speaker 5: So they're offsetting a really important budget item for doesn't
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  Speaker 5: matter your you know, your income level. Everyone deserves the
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  Speaker 5: quality of access to education and so that's why it's
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  Speaker 5: so important. It's life changing. And we are the Early
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  Speaker 5: Learning Coalition in Hillsborough, but now's has one. There's about
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  Speaker 5: thirty coalitions throughout the state. I've been blessed to be
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  Speaker 5: the cheer for twelve years. We were great board of
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  Speaker 5: directors and so my role is to make sure that
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  Speaker 5: the business community, which you guys are business leaders, I
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  Speaker 5: don't review that.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, however, you're the first person to tell us.
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  Speaker 4: That and won't be the last.
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  Speaker 5: So and understand what we do and why it's important because,
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  Speaker 5: as you know, learning to read is so important. It's
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  Speaker 5: the first three years of read childhood development, and we
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  Speaker 5: are having a summit in September at the end of
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  Speaker 5: the end of September and twenty fourth at the Motor Enclave,
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  Speaker 5: which I love for you guys to be at my table.
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  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, give us a beat.
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  Speaker 5: So Tember twenty fourth, it's a lunchtime at the Motor Enclave.
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  Speaker 5: I'm intown and it's it's the middle of the week
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  Speaker 5: and we're having just leaders come and talk about why
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  Speaker 5: early learning education is so important and so this Baker
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  Speaker 5: and Emily Mayfield kind of we didn't know we were
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  Speaker 5: going to get selected again, you know, you know, we
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  Speaker 5: were hoping and it kind of fell perfectly. August started
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  Speaker 5: this their event that's going to be where the benefactors,
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  Speaker 5: and then September twenty fourth is the Coalitions event.
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  Speaker 2: That's so cool, And I think one of the good
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  Speaker 2: things that you all do is you've done such a
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  Speaker 2: good job of showing people, like when they go out
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  Speaker 2: to the events, like what the money actually does, because
• 12:59
  Speaker 2: obviously there are so many options for where people could
• 13:02
  Speaker 2: donate or where people could volunteer, but so many times
• 13:06
  Speaker 2: you give that money, you're like, uh, did it do anything?
• 13:09
  Speaker 2: What does it look like for somebody that's like, Okay,
• 13:11
  Speaker 2: I donated to this fund. How do they see that
• 13:15
  Speaker 2: direct effect? Like do you have examples of like maybe
• 13:17
  Speaker 2: people that you've worked with their families that have been impacted.
• 13:19
  Speaker 5: Absolutely, So every dollar you invest in early learning, seven
• 13:22
  Speaker 5: dollars comes back in the community. And that's for like
• 13:24
  Speaker 5: you talk about like safety, right, Like one of the
• 13:27
  Speaker 5: things that I always tell people is that there are
• 13:29
  Speaker 5: certain states.
• 13:31
  Speaker 4: Were not one of them.
• 13:31
  Speaker 5: But if depending on your third grade reading level score,
• 13:35
  Speaker 5: which is how you measure successful graduation rates, that's how
• 13:38
  Speaker 5: many prison cells you built into that state.
• 13:40
  Speaker 1: Wow.
• 13:41
  Speaker 5: So this is an economic issue, this is a safety issue.
• 13:44
  Speaker 5: People are more likely to not graduate, go to gangs.
• 13:47
  Speaker 5: I mean, it's just it's just incredible.
• 13:49
  Speaker 2: That's Like one of the things I'm so passionate about
• 13:51
  Speaker 2: is I speak around to schools all throughout Tampa Bay,
• 13:54
  Speaker 2: and you're very motivating.
• 13:55
  Speaker 4: I love life your stuff, but thank you.
• 13:57
  Speaker 2: I'm so passionate about it because I do believe in
• 14:00
  Speaker 2: giving a student the vision and having them have a
• 14:03
  Speaker 2: plan for where they're going. Because I do understand like
• 14:05
  Speaker 2: for so many students, and I was the student, like
• 14:08
  Speaker 2: you show up at class and like, why the heck
• 14:10
  Speaker 2: am I here? Why does this matter is this even
• 14:13
  Speaker 2: going to pay off in the long run? And what
• 14:15
  Speaker 2: I love is that I go in and I help
• 14:17
  Speaker 2: them create that blueprint to their ultimate life where it's like,
• 14:19
  Speaker 2: here's why it matters. Like maybe you're not the biggest
• 14:21
  Speaker 2: fan of math, but you might be the biggest fan
• 14:23
  Speaker 2: of eventually going off to college and then stepping into
• 14:26
  Speaker 2: your dream career. And this is just one of the
• 14:28
  Speaker 2: steps that you have to do. But you got to
• 14:30
  Speaker 2: give people the access. You got to be sure that
• 14:32
  Speaker 2: these kids and these students have the opportunity to be
• 14:35
  Speaker 2: able to be in an environment where they could truly learn,
• 14:38
  Speaker 2: grow and thrive.
• 14:39
  Speaker 5: Seventy to eighty percent of people of students sorry, children
• 14:42
  Speaker 5: that graduate from VPK are ready to They're more likely
• 14:45
  Speaker 5: be ready for kindergarten, and so that's how you know
• 14:48
  Speaker 5: they're going to graduate.
• 14:49
  Speaker 2: Wow, that just speaks to volumes. And because of these foundations,
• 14:54
  Speaker 2: you're able to see that impact.
• 14:55
  Speaker 5: And Hillsborough County, as you know, has over one point
• 14:57
  Speaker 5: six million residents. We serve our dealition serves twenty or
• 15:01
  Speaker 5: thirty thousand students and children a year.
• 15:04
  Speaker 3: Oh, isn't it one of the biggest school districts in
• 15:06
  Speaker 3: the nation, like it's like the seventh largest or something
• 15:08
  Speaker 3: crazy like.
• 15:09
  Speaker 5: That, seventh largest by by school size. We have over
• 15:11
  Speaker 5: two hundred and fifty schools, I think or something like that.
• 15:13
  Speaker 1: Insane.
• 15:14
  Speaker 5: And you know, you know, we are the third largest
• 15:16
  Speaker 5: coalition that state, behind Miami, Dada and Palm Beach. We're
• 15:19
  Speaker 5: always three or four, you know, And that's that's important
• 15:22
  Speaker 5: to note because I mean, you want to know, just
• 15:24
  Speaker 5: like your point, there's so many nonprofits support. Right, We're
• 15:26
  Speaker 5: a state agency, so we are in a weird spot.
• 15:29
  Speaker 5: We get money from LEGISLATUIP, but it's not enough.
• 15:32
  Speaker 2: And the more obviously that you get in, the more
• 15:33
  Speaker 2: lives that are impacted. That's the biggest thing here. And
• 15:36
  Speaker 2: that's why I love that they jumped in their helping
• 15:38
  Speaker 2: as well. I do want to go to the personal
• 15:40
  Speaker 2: side of you do a cosh because obviously as soon
• 15:42
  Speaker 2: as I met you, I was like, Wow, this man's everywhere,
• 15:44
  Speaker 2: this man's got a drive.
• 15:46
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's true.
• 15:48
  Speaker 3: That's where his big break was to get the company
• 15:50
  Speaker 3: that he built fourteen years ago.
• 15:51
  Speaker 1: Did you guys see the video of him on Bay Shore?
• 15:54
  Speaker 2: Well, let me go ahead and ask, so what is
• 15:56
  Speaker 2: your drive though? Like, what is your why that actually
• 15:59
  Speaker 2: kicked all this off? Because I was looking at all
• 16:00
  Speaker 2: the things that you've done and been a part of it.
• 16:02
  Speaker 2: I'm like, that takes so much energy and effort, and
• 16:05
  Speaker 2: probably so many times you're just hating against the wall,
• 16:07
  Speaker 2: hating against the wall, and eventually you break through. Like
• 16:10
  Speaker 2: when did this drive start for you?
• 16:12
  Speaker 5: And what was actually the spark that kicked it all off?
• 16:15
  Speaker 5: Great question, Thank you for asking. It was right around
• 16:18
  Speaker 5: the time I was probably laid off for graduate college,
• 16:21
  Speaker 5: bounced around a couple of different jobs, and I was
• 16:22
  Speaker 5: laid off for one of my jobs because of the recession.
• 16:24
  Speaker 5: Right the economy tanks where the first thing get well
• 16:26
  Speaker 5: goes marketing. I'm a marketing guy, and I said, you
• 16:29
  Speaker 5: know what, I don't want that feeling anymore. So my
• 16:31
  Speaker 5: friends were like, well, you like Tampa. But I'm like, yeah,
• 16:33
  Speaker 5: but I'm not. I was renting at the time, you
• 16:35
  Speaker 5: know whatever. It wasn't but my family here. But I
• 16:37
  Speaker 5: was like, I'm going to bet on Tampa. And so
• 16:40
  Speaker 5: my whole point is if I'm going to bet on
• 16:41
  Speaker 5: a city to live here, to start a business here,
• 16:45
  Speaker 5: I didn't make it where I can have fun.
• 16:46
  Speaker 2: Ah.
• 16:47
  Speaker 5: So I was like, we're gonna join organizations, we're gonna volunteer,
• 16:50
  Speaker 5: and I'm going to meet some fun people.
• 16:51
  Speaker 4: And that's where you guys came in and.
• 16:54
  Speaker 5: What an honor and then create fun events And that's
• 16:56
  Speaker 5: why I created, you know, helped create noodles and networking
• 16:58
  Speaker 5: or before I was creating a lot, I mean, and
• 17:01
  Speaker 5: we put together friends Group, friends of Saffire. I'm like,
• 17:03
  Speaker 5: I'm like, if I'm having fund, let me bring in
• 17:05
  Speaker 5: just like you're very guys inclusive. You guys are very inclusive,
• 17:07
  Speaker 5: bring everyone together.
• 17:08
  Speaker 2: That's so cool. And I love to see where people's
• 17:10
  Speaker 2: drive starts because I think we all have that within
• 17:13
  Speaker 2: us and we just got to find the thing that
• 17:14
  Speaker 2: really lights us up. And you have nailed it when
• 17:17
  Speaker 2: it comes to being a master networker. When you talk
• 17:19
  Speaker 2: to people out and you go out and Tampa and
• 17:21
  Speaker 2: they're like, oh do you know that boom? You're always
• 17:23
  Speaker 2: the common link And I think that speaks volumes because
• 17:26
  Speaker 2: that's a skill. And I do want to point out
• 17:28
  Speaker 2: because Abby and I have talked about this so many times,
• 17:30
  Speaker 2: and you go out through the events or you go
• 17:31
  Speaker 2: out to run clubs, like, for you, what are the
• 17:34
  Speaker 2: things that you maybe have learned or that you have
• 17:36
  Speaker 2: used that are like, these are good skills that have
• 17:39
  Speaker 2: helped me network, that have helped me make connections. Are
• 17:42
  Speaker 2: there like actual tangible things that you've learned or is
• 17:44
  Speaker 2: this always who you were? No?
• 17:46
  Speaker 5: I think I mean you know this too because you
• 17:48
  Speaker 5: talk to so many people. I have to do instant
• 17:50
  Speaker 5: follow up. So if I meet someone like I'm you
• 17:53
  Speaker 5: know what, we go to the Moxey pool party or
• 17:55
  Speaker 5: we go to one of those you know, the run
• 17:56
  Speaker 5: clubs or whatever, and I say, hey, let meet your
• 17:58
  Speaker 5: Instagram or my email whatever, and I say, I'm gonna
• 18:00
  Speaker 5: invit you to Noodles and Networking or the Sapphire to
• 18:03
  Speaker 5: come check it out on a special DJ night. I
• 18:06
  Speaker 5: have to do it with twenty four hours cause and
• 18:08
  Speaker 5: they have to get respond within twenty four hours because
• 18:11
  Speaker 5: like people a short your.
• 18:11
  Speaker 4: Memory loss, right, Yes, you're gonna forget who you talked to.
• 18:14
  Speaker 5: You talked to so they probably got twelve Instagram accounts
• 18:16
  Speaker 5: and I'm probably the least more, you know so, and
• 18:19
  Speaker 5: I like got to be hey, this is the guy instantly,
• 18:21
  Speaker 5: or take a selfie and send it them right away.
• 18:23
  Speaker 2: That's such a good thing I had a buddy that
• 18:25
  Speaker 2: did that all the time, and I was like, why
• 18:26
  Speaker 2: are you doing that? Oh, because you now have the
• 18:28
  Speaker 2: name and the face, and so anytime you see them,
• 18:30
  Speaker 2: it's not a who is it? Nope, it's right there
• 18:32
  Speaker 2: on your phone. They have an entire note made out
• 18:34
  Speaker 2: for that. That's genius.
• 18:35
  Speaker 3: Well, I think also a really great example of what
• 18:37
  Speaker 3: a great networker you are is not just the fact
• 18:39
  Speaker 3: that you can network for yourself, but you're so great
• 18:41
  Speaker 3: at connecting other people to Like at the last noodles
• 18:44
  Speaker 3: and networking event that I went to is at Ja Luigi,
• 18:47
  Speaker 3: and I showed up like thirty minutes after it started,
• 18:49
  Speaker 3: thinking well, I'm just gonna mosey in and like I'll
• 18:51
  Speaker 3: just like I walk in. It is freaking packed, and
• 18:54
  Speaker 3: I'm like I don't know where to go. Instantly, like
• 18:57
  Speaker 3: you appeared out of nowhere. You're like freaking Houdini. You're like, hell,
• 19:00
  Speaker 3: let me introduce you to this person, this person. And
• 19:02
  Speaker 3: then I got to meet some of your real estate
• 19:04
  Speaker 3: friends that are around my same age. One of them
• 19:07
  Speaker 3: came on base on Bayshore and I was like, oh
• 19:09
  Speaker 3: my god, thank god a cash was there, because otherwise
• 19:11
  Speaker 3: I as somebody with social anxiety would have walked in
• 19:14
  Speaker 3: and like, I think we're I'll leave now because I'm scared.
• 19:17
  Speaker 3: There's so many people. So you're so great at that.
• 19:19
  Speaker 3: And I think that's a tribute to ay how good
• 19:22
  Speaker 3: you are at business, but be good you are at
• 19:24
  Speaker 3: relationships as well.
• 19:25
  Speaker 5: I appreciate It's all yeah, and you do this all
• 19:26
  Speaker 5: the Time's goal setting, right, So I tell people, if
• 19:28
  Speaker 5: you're not here to socialize with the friends, you know
• 19:31
  Speaker 5: meeting new people, So try to meet at least five
• 19:33
  Speaker 5: new people.
• 19:34
  Speaker 4: I try to meet five two.
• 19:35
  Speaker 2: Yeah exactly. I think that's the goal you go in there.
• 19:37
  Speaker 2: But like Gabby said, like some of us do face
• 19:40
  Speaker 2: that little bit of social anxiety. Is that an emotion
• 19:42
  Speaker 2: that you understand or you've had to deal with or
• 19:45
  Speaker 2: are there things that you've used that have helped you
• 19:48
  Speaker 2: get through that? Like if you're showing up, let's say,
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: what is it August seventeenth, the Noodle's and networking showing
• 19:52
  Speaker 2: up and you're like, ah, I'm a little nervous and
• 19:55
  Speaker 2: I know a cash to talk to five people?
• 19:57
  Speaker 5: Like what do you do in that moment? Like what
• 19:58
  Speaker 5: is your thought process that I like, like with I'd
• 20:00
  Speaker 5: grabber over here, say hey, meet these three people. You
• 20:03
  Speaker 5: guys are both in the same area of reliving or
• 20:05
  Speaker 5: whatever I know in common, and then I'll just kind
• 20:07
  Speaker 5: of walk away. Once you break the ice, I think
• 20:09
  Speaker 5: I can. You know, you guys can do create on
• 20:10
  Speaker 5: your own. But sometimes it's just that initial push. And
• 20:12
  Speaker 5: someone gave me that initial push. When I was starting
• 20:14
  Speaker 5: my business. You were talking about rejection people. I mean,
• 20:17
  Speaker 5: I got rejected one hundred times before I got my
• 20:19
  Speaker 5: first client.
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: Yeah it was your first client.
• 20:22
  Speaker 5: It's a I was a buddy mine owns an insurance
• 20:24
  Speaker 5: agency and in in North Tampa, and and I was
• 20:27
  Speaker 5: just like, listen, I just need to win.
• 20:28
  Speaker 4: I need to I need to win.
• 20:30
  Speaker 5: And he's like, well, I'll give you a shot because
• 20:31
  Speaker 5: I like your energy. Plus you don't you don't say
• 20:33
  Speaker 5: no very well, so like, let's just keep it going.
• 20:37
  Speaker 3: But it's crazy how much that's grown. So, for example,
• 20:39
  Speaker 3: a cash represents pop up bagels. Everybody we know loves
• 20:42
  Speaker 3: pop Yeah he did, Okay, he didn't just drop off
• 20:46
  Speaker 3: like three bagels. We got a freaking thirty pack with
• 20:49
  Speaker 3: like seven different tubs of shmears. I was dealing bagels
• 20:53
  Speaker 3: out of my townhouse for like four days to my
• 20:56
  Speaker 3: entire family. I was like, I have a Sea Salt one,
• 20:57
  Speaker 3: I have a plane one. And then I love Bacon
• 21:00
  Speaker 3: Babes on Davis Islands. I walked in there and I
• 21:02
  Speaker 3: think I met the owner because she gave me. Yeah,
• 21:05
  Speaker 3: she was like, oh, we love your Instagram and she
• 21:06
  Speaker 3: gave me like a free cookie or something, and I
• 21:08
  Speaker 3: was like, shut up.
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: I was like, I'm connected.
• 21:11
  Speaker 4: I'd like food as well.
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: I just learned, Oh my god, like the greatest food.
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: I'm a big foodie. I'm a big foodie, a big big.
• 21:17
  Speaker 3: Alcohol galto I love a bed, but I love a
• 21:19
  Speaker 3: cocktail and I love music. So like the DJs at
• 21:22
  Speaker 3: Sapphire have been killer. So yeah, I mean, I so
• 21:26
  Speaker 3: wish i could go to the Baker Mayfield event. I'm
• 21:28
  Speaker 3: going to be in Texas actually that weekend, but I'm
• 21:30
  Speaker 3: sure that's going to be a party as well.
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's going to replace me.
• 21:33
  Speaker 2: I'm so down. When I saw that on Netflix, I
• 21:35
  Speaker 2: was like I want to be there, and then you're like, wait,
• 21:37
  Speaker 2: we literally run that event. I'm like, oh my god,
• 21:39
  Speaker 2: I'm going to be there. That is so cool and
• 21:41
  Speaker 2: I'm sure that They're going to absolutely love that people
• 21:43
  Speaker 2: are out there supporting their events. So you could obviously
• 21:45
  Speaker 2: get a bay, you could be there at the event
• 21:47
  Speaker 2: to support. That's the biggest thing that we want people
• 21:49
  Speaker 2: to see. But are there highlights that people could see
• 21:51
  Speaker 2: from the past? Is there on an Instagram page or
• 21:54
  Speaker 2: something people could follow along? Because one of the cool
• 21:56
  Speaker 2: things about this podcast is so many of the people
• 21:59
  Speaker 2: have followed along with Abbey's journey, and so they're all
• 22:01
  Speaker 2: over the country and they want to be a part
• 22:04
  Speaker 2: of the story to see how it's impacting.
• 22:06
  Speaker 5: Where could people go check all that out? Yeah, ELCHC
• 22:09
  Speaker 5: dot org is our website. We have all of our
• 22:11
  Speaker 5: early on in Collitionals County social media, Baker and Emily
• 22:13
  Speaker 5: Foundation they have their own social media Facebook and Instagram,
• 22:17
  Speaker 5: and then of course Baker and Emily have their own
• 22:18
  Speaker 5: Instagram accounts that are very prominent and they do share
• 22:21
  Speaker 5: these videos and share this. What I tell people is like,
• 22:23
  Speaker 5: I mean, just think we have thirty two NFL teams, right,
• 22:26
  Speaker 5: I believe it? And who in I mean all the
• 22:31
  Speaker 5: organizations and all these other thirty one other cities and
• 22:34
  Speaker 5: we have one quarterback. There's the most prominent position prevably
• 22:39
  Speaker 5: in the game. That chows us over all the other
• 22:43
  Speaker 5: nonprofits and so this every other nonprofit I think traditionally
• 22:47
  Speaker 5: does a gala, They do a golf tournament, they do
• 22:49
  Speaker 5: a clay shoot. They might even do a pickle ball tournament.
• 22:52
  Speaker 5: Who thought a top golf Baker Emily Mayfield.
• 22:56
  Speaker 3: Because everyone can play top golf, like, you know, you
• 22:58
  Speaker 3: don't be a golfer. You just have to love it,
• 23:00
  Speaker 3: good time and be able to kind of swing the club.
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you just got to stand there. They have so
• 23:04
  Speaker 2: many games at top golf that I'm like, thank God
• 23:06
  Speaker 2: because I'm a horrible golfer.
• 23:07
  Speaker 4: Yeah, and that we had a good team. In fact,
• 23:10
  Speaker 4: my Papa Bagels Clim will be there with us too, Yes, and.
• 23:13
  Speaker 3: Hopefully they'll be bringing bagels for Scott. Can just anybody
• 23:18
  Speaker 3: buy tickets to this event or is it like, oh,
• 23:20
  Speaker 3: you have to know no.
• 23:21
  Speaker 4: Tickets are online, They're available.
• 23:22
  Speaker 5: There's also sponsorships available and yeah, I bought a bay
• 23:25
  Speaker 5: and I think I mean individual tickets will sell on sale.
• 23:28
  Speaker 4: I think, of course, you know it will sell out.
• 23:29
  Speaker 5: Because yeah, popularity.
• 23:31
  Speaker 4: Of Baker and Emiley.
• 23:33
  Speaker 5: What I what I would suggest is go online, try
• 23:35
  Speaker 5: to secure you a ticket today. But if you can't
• 23:38
  Speaker 5: come and it does sell out and if it's out
• 23:40
  Speaker 5: of your price, I understand. But you can send me
• 23:41
  Speaker 5: a message on social media. I know you'll tag my
• 23:44
  Speaker 5: handles and things like that. But if you want to
• 23:45
  Speaker 5: come to the Early Learning Collision of a Summit, which
• 23:48
  Speaker 5: is on September twenty fourth, we'll love to get you
• 23:51
  Speaker 5: to that event, especially parents, especially providers, you know we
• 23:54
  Speaker 5: call the Provider's Daycares and or something right, and especially
• 23:58
  Speaker 5: business leaders because the more USUESS leaders knowing about the
• 24:01
  Speaker 5: need we have for early learning in our community, the
• 24:04
  Speaker 5: better it is for everyone around us.
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: And it's going to transform our community.
• 24:08
  Speaker 3: And just like what we just said, you know, in
• 24:11
  Speaker 3: passing with all of this other information about the event
• 24:14
  Speaker 3: is really like Tampa is growing so much and the
• 24:17
  Speaker 3: kids of the future, so when you support the kids,
• 24:18
  Speaker 3: you're supporting the growth of Tampa.
• 24:21
  Speaker 2: It's so powerful. I love what y'all are doing. I
• 24:23
  Speaker 2: cannot wait to go golf and then get my selfie
• 24:25
  Speaker 2: with Baker and Emily.
• 24:26
  Speaker 4: I better got him in the show.
• 24:29
  Speaker 2: Oh yeah you got Oh absolutely, I'll throw it out there.
• 24:31
  Speaker 2: He'll be like, uh nah, I got practice.
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think he's a little busy. He's got a
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: lot going on.
• 24:35
  Speaker 2: They got a big season coming up. But a gosh,
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: thank you for swinging in and telling us about that event.
• 24:39
  Speaker 2: We'll make sure to share as much as it possibly can,
• 24:41
  Speaker 2: and I'll make sure to put it on my Instagram
• 24:43
  Speaker 2: how I crush it at top Golf.
• 24:45
  Speaker 3: And I'll link everything in the episode description as well,
• 24:47
  Speaker 3: so if you want to.
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: Check it out, check out the episode naturally.
• 24:49
  Speaker 4: To change your plans, Ibby, what.
• 24:53
  Speaker 3: I got, Olivia Dean, I gotta go to Baker Mayfield
• 24:56
  Speaker 3: and the kids.
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: But I'm gonna be out in Texas.
• 24:58
  Speaker 5: Ye, how well, we'll see you and then I'll invite
• 25:00
  Speaker 5: you both also on September, but.
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: You will see me on September twenty fourth.
• 25:03
  Speaker 2: Yes sounds awesome, my gosh, thank you so much.
• 25:05
  Speaker 4: Thank you Scott and having I really appreciate you both.