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Big Christmas Wish for Jon Peterson · Podcast - Big 98.7

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  Speaker 1: Big ninety eight point seven Today's Variety. It's Pike and
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  Speaker 1: Amanda in the morning.
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  Speaker 2: Answer some showers this afternoon, otherwise cloudy and a hi
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  Speaker 2: have eighty three.
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  Speaker 1: Well, we wanted to bring a couple people into the
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  Speaker 1: studio today to talk about something you've maybe if you're
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  Speaker 1: like me, it came across your Facebook feed. You know,
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  Speaker 1: every once in a while locally there's somebody who just
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  Speaker 1: has a great network of people that love them and
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  Speaker 1: unfortunately something bad happens and we lose him. And that
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  Speaker 1: was the case with John Peterson. So we have Tyler
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  Speaker 1: and Nicoleon here actually who worked with John at Sanford Ambulance.
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  Speaker 3: Correct. Yes, awesome, Well, good morning both you thank you
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  Speaker 3: for coming in.
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  Speaker 2: I know this is so hard for you guys to do,
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  Speaker 2: to talk about somebody that you guys love so much,
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  Speaker 2: But also I want to take this minute for people
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  Speaker 2: to know that aren't familiar. You know, we all a
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  Speaker 2: lot of us, like Piken mentioned sad on social media.
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  Speaker 2: It was just last Thursday we got a big ninety
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  Speaker 2: eight point seven Christmas wish from one of your co
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  Speaker 2: workers who really wanted us to share this story.
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  Speaker 4: So can you tell us a little bit about John
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  Speaker 4: and what happened.
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  Speaker 5: He was an outstanding INDI visual, an outstanding paramedic, friend
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  Speaker 5: of father, husband. He was kind and he was very
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  Speaker 5: passionate about his job. He touched the lives of many
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  Speaker 5: individuals in our community. He started working at Stanford Ambulance
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  Speaker 5: in twenty twelve as an ala medic, came down to
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  Speaker 5: the Education department in twenty twenty one and was able
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  Speaker 5: to do a lot of outreach in our community and
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  Speaker 5: in the rural areas you know, in the state of
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  Speaker 5: North Dakota, Minnesota. So he was outstanding.
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  Speaker 3: It was an on privilege to be.
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  Speaker 5: Able to work with him.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's such a selfless job to do, like you said,
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  Speaker 1: and then to be passing it along to smaller communities
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  Speaker 1: and the education aspect of it. He just sounds like
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  Speaker 1: a great guy. And I know I never read the
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  Speaker 1: honor of meeting him, but just everything I've read and
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  Speaker 1: everything you shared, Nicole, what a great guy.
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  Speaker 3: And so when we saw the news, it just broke
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  Speaker 3: our heart.
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  Speaker 4: And tell us a little bit about what happened and
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  Speaker 4: how long ago.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, so last November November twenty twenty three, he started
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  Speaker 6: experience some of your muscle weakness throughout his body. He
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  Speaker 6: described as going from being thirty five to eighty pretty
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  Speaker 6: rapidly within a few weeks. In January, he was diagnosed
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  Speaker 6: with a wear out immune disease called immune mediated and
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  Speaker 6: necritizing myopathy, the disease that just literally eats the muscles
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  Speaker 6: inside the body and then eventually affected his hearts.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's just so horrible.
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  Speaker 1: And you know he was a young man, right, I mean, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: thirty five, that's just And how old are his kids.
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  Speaker 5: I'm fourteen and I believe eleven or twelve.
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  Speaker 2: Gosh, that breaks my heart on so many levels. Of course,
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  Speaker 2: you guys lost a friend and a coworker. Our community
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  Speaker 2: lost somebody who's just amazing. And I know that one
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  Speaker 2: of the reasons we wanted to bring you guys in
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  Speaker 2: here is because you guys have had this plan for
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  Speaker 2: a while. There is going to be a benefit because
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  Speaker 2: I can only imagine the medical expenses now just morning,
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  Speaker 2: the loss of him because he did pass away on Friday.
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  Speaker 2: Just his family, they've they've got to be going through
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  Speaker 2: such a hard time.
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  Speaker 6: Yes, very much so.
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  Speaker 3: So we partnered with lend a hand up.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, I work through So when is this benefit?
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  Speaker 6: The benefit is October twentieth, and it's going to be
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  Speaker 6: at Labby's in North Fargo from eleven am to two pm.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, perfect, And we're going to make it super easy.
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  Speaker 2: We're going to put all of these details on our
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  Speaker 2: Facebook page. But what we wanted to do, and I
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  Speaker 2: wish we could have done it sooner, but we want
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  Speaker 2: to be able to give you guys a big Christmas wish.
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  Speaker 2: It's a one thousand dollars check thanks to not only
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  Speaker 2: the Big Christmas Wish, but Gateways, Chevrolet and Heartline Chevy dealers.
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  Speaker 2: To kind of start a little fundraiser and put this
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  Speaker 2: also on our Facebook page. I know there's a lot
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  Speaker 2: of people that might not be able to make it
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  Speaker 2: out there, so we're going to put it on Facebook
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  Speaker 2: and one hundred percent of these donations are going to
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  Speaker 2: go right to John's family.
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  Speaker 3: That's amazing.
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  Speaker 4: That's really positive.
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  Speaker 5: Think your family will really appreciate that absolutely.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, the least we can do just to
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  Speaker 1: help them in any way. You know, nothing's going to
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  Speaker 1: make it better, but just to help ease it in
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  Speaker 1: any way possible. So we're happy to do that. We're
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  Speaker 1: honored to do it. Thank you guys. So much for
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  Speaker 1: sharing John's story. It sounds like a great guy that
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  Speaker 1: we were all lucky to have for the short amount
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  Speaker 1: of time we did.
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  Speaker 4: Thank you, guys, Thank you.
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  Speaker 3: Take in Amna in the morning.