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SPECIAL INTERVIEW: 8 year old FOOD CRITIC Dalton DeMicheli · Johnjay & Rich On Demand

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  Speaker 1: Chris, are you there, Good morning, I'm here.
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  Speaker 2: I want to do a quick setup before I introduce you,
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  Speaker 2: because I want to give you little background. In our studio,
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  Speaker 2: the four of us are in the studio, there's a
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  Speaker 2: TV behind Rich's head, and almost all the time Colin
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  Speaker 2: and I can see the TV. Right Rich and Peyton
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  Speaker 2: won't release you have to make an effort to see
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  Speaker 2: the TV again. And let's say, say turn around and
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  Speaker 2: check this out and what we're doing the show. And
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  Speaker 2: I see on the TV a kid in a hospital
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  Speaker 2: bed with beautiful red hair and he's got like an
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  Speaker 2: oxygen mask on, and I see them moving the oxygen
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  Speaker 2: mask and then the kid talking, and then I start
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  Speaker 2: seeing it all over the place. Anyway, yesterday I get
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  Speaker 2: on my DMS and it's Christa and Christa is the
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  Speaker 2: mom of this kid, and so I was after hearing
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  Speaker 2: her story and putting tune together, I was like, yes, yes,
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  Speaker 2: come on our show.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you for having us.
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  Speaker 3: Good morning, guys.
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  Speaker 2: That's Dalton.
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  Speaker 1: That's Dalton. Dalton is a patient here at Phoenix Children's
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  Speaker 1: Hospital and he has a condition called hypoplastic left heart syndrome.
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  Speaker 1: And I'll sum it up basically, he's walking around with
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  Speaker 1: half of a heart. He's missing his left entricle. He's
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  Speaker 1: had six open heart surgeries and most recently here at
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  Speaker 1: pH he's had three within the last six months. And
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  Speaker 1: we're here for a little viral infection. He's just needing
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  Speaker 1: some oxygen support. But during our stays we do this
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  Speaker 1: fun little TikTok sing where Dalton reviews his hospital food
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  Speaker 1: and then it grew bigger into reviewing his door dash
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  Speaker 1: orders and one of his biggest orders was Payway honeyseed chicken.
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  Speaker 1: Payway caught his review and they wanted to do something
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  Speaker 1: special for him. So today is Dalton's honeyseered Chicken Day.
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  Speaker 1: And yeah, that's kind of how everything got started. We're
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  Speaker 1: really excited about today, Hun Dalton.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, oh hey Dalton, how old are you? Dalton eight?
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  Speaker 3: And you're already like a master food reviewer. And what
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  Speaker 3: is it about the what is about the honeyseed chicken?
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  Speaker 3: What happens today?
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  Speaker 1: People donate to us, some money comes to us.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, if they go buy you can go to at all.
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  Speaker 2: Right, So you go to any Payway, go to get
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  Speaker 2: the honey's your chicken, and a portion of proceeds go
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  Speaker 2: to you to help you in the hospital. You guys
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  Speaker 2: have a go fund me.
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  Speaker 1: We do have a gofund me, so any payway nationwide. Actually,
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  Speaker 1: if you go in and order Dalton's favorite Honeyseer chicken meal,
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  Speaker 1: a portion of those proceeds will go to us directly.
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  Speaker 1: If you do not have a payway near you or
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  Speaker 1: you just can't make it in, we do have a
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  Speaker 1: go fund me linked in our bio, which is in
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  Speaker 1: our TikTok and our Instagram as well. But more importantly,
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  Speaker 1: if you just want to like, check out our story
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  Speaker 1: adult in reviews, He's reviewed some really cool food and
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  Speaker 1: restaurants here in the valley, and one of them, most recently,
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  Speaker 1: Dentai Sung went extra viral. A Dulton calls himself famous famous.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, Kyl Payton, were there last week or two weeks ago? Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: So you like the Were they potstickers or dumplings?
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  Speaker 1: What was your favorite? The multi Chuck? I agree, that
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  Speaker 1: was our favorite too, like a delicious explosion inside your
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  Speaker 1: mouth with the sea salt cream.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, Dalton, are there any other restaurants on your list
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  Speaker 2: that you plan on going to? Clemens? He that's a
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  Speaker 2: great steak place. I haven't been there yet. Oh.
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  Speaker 1: We they've invited us actually, so yeah, if you want
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  Speaker 1: to be one of our plus ones.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's amazing.
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  Speaker 1: Do you think, Dalton, I think that's going to be awesome.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I do want to ask you make it early though,
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  Speaker 3: I got to go to early dinner early darn Dalton.
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  Speaker 3: Was your refined palate as an eight year old? What
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  Speaker 3: is your favorite hospital food so far?
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  Speaker 1: I like Kenny, okay, he doesn't like any of the
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  Speaker 1: hospital foods. Are you're going to chime in here? Because
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  Speaker 1: he would order consistently the salmon with the side of
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  Speaker 1: teriokey sauce, and a lot of the nurses were like
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  Speaker 1: baffled that, Like, my eight year old son was consistently
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  Speaker 1: eating the salmon from the cafeteria with the side.
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  Speaker 2: Of that's great, that's great. You started healthy. I was
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  Speaker 2: on your Instagram yesterday, Chris, I saw you for you
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  Speaker 2: were like, Hey, I'm not sponsored by any of these things,
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  Speaker 2: but I'm drinking. You've been putting together electrolytes and creatine
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  Speaker 2: and all this stuff in your in your drink, and
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  Speaker 2: I have to tell you, yeah, one of the I
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  Speaker 2: think it was a creatine or something you're holding up
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  Speaker 2: is either momentous or transparent labs. I can't remember which one.
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  Speaker 2: Oh no, it was Seorn Foreign great company. So you're like,
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  Speaker 2: I'm just leating you that. Yeah, that's good stuff. You're
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  Speaker 2: putting good stuff in your drink. That's good. I did
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  Speaker 2: all the research.
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  Speaker 1: I did so much research on them because I'm like, uh,
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  Speaker 1: I have to take care of myself somehow, and they
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  Speaker 1: were like top notch and so yeah, and I'm not
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  Speaker 1: literally nothing, not getting paid or anything. I just love them.
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  Speaker 2: So how long have you guys been in the hospital
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  Speaker 2: and how long will this run be?
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  Speaker 1: This is day number five. Dalton is still on oxygen,
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  Speaker 1: but we just found out this morning that we're being
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  Speaker 1: moved over to the step down unit. So right now
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  Speaker 1: he's in the ICU, but he's progressing well, so they're
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  Speaker 1: going to move us down to where he doesn't need
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  Speaker 1: so many eyes on him. So that's a great sign.
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  Speaker 1: Was hopefully us going home. Maybe early next week.
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  Speaker 2: We'll head home. Where's the red hair come from?
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  Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, you guys. If you see our social media,
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  Speaker 1: you'll see that we have two other kids, my husband
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  Speaker 1: and I. They have dark brown hair like we do,
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  Speaker 1: and Dalton is our first one. He popped out. The
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  Speaker 1: nurse was looking at us. Both my husband and I
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  Speaker 1: were looking at each other like what's going on here?
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  Speaker 1: But no, my grandfather has the same red curly hair,
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  Speaker 1: and it turns out my husband's great great grandmother has
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  Speaker 1: the same color.
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  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, sure you had that ready to go with
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  Speaker 2: your husband's like what is about you?
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  Speaker 1: Guys? My mother in law made the funny comment like
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  Speaker 1: five minutes after I gave birth. You know, people are
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  Speaker 1: gonna ask and I'm like, okay, thank you.
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  Speaker 2: Well he's a beautiful kid. He's a beautiful Hey, Dalton,
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  Speaker 2: let me ask you this, Dalton, are there outside of
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  Speaker 2: hospital food? What other other other restaurants you guys? Forget
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  Speaker 2: that they invited you. Are there just any on your
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  Speaker 2: on your list that you want to go to?
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  Speaker 1: Thank for four?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I have good taste.
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  Speaker 3: This kid's on it.
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  Speaker 2: I can get you in there. If you can't get it.
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  Speaker 2: That's my go to too, that's my favorite restaurant.
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  Speaker 1: They will hold you to it. But I think after this,
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  Speaker 1: maybe the letst and what do you think?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, there's a lot of steak restaurants on his agenda.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah that's good.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, he went to Bourbon and Bones. So the night
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  Speaker 1: before he actually got sick. Bourbon and Bones at Chase
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  Speaker 1: Field invite Adult and Out as a hosted thing because
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  Speaker 1: his reviews are just so cute and he has such
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  Speaker 1: a refined palate. They said, come on in, come join
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  Speaker 1: us for a dbacks game and enjoy some steaks. So
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  Speaker 1: we did and he had the best time. And I
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  Speaker 1: haven't been able to upload that video yet, but it
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  Speaker 1: will be coming soon. So Bourbon and Bones is definitely
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  Speaker 1: one of our new favorites. Now, adultins, what's up?
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  Speaker 2: What are some of the things, because you've be getting
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  Speaker 2: a lot of pressure. You have People Magazine and who
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  Speaker 2: else is is ever been posted in People magazine or
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  Speaker 2: it's coming out?
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  Speaker 1: So it's been posted on their social media. That was
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  Speaker 1: released on Sunday. That was a huge shock, Like I'm
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  Speaker 1: still like, wait, did that really happen? Us? Everybody has
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  Speaker 1: really like wanted to show Dalton and his story and
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  Speaker 1: more importantly, my mission here is to just bring more
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  Speaker 1: awareness to congenital heart defects and the pictures that they
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  Speaker 1: paint for us when they're first born is you know,
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  Speaker 1: these kids may or may not have the great quality
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  Speaker 1: of life, but I do want to show aside from
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  Speaker 1: the hospital stays. He can kids can have a fun,
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  Speaker 1: normal and exciting life. Dalton plays baseball. We go out
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  Speaker 1: to restaurants and enjoy good food. We do a lot
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  Speaker 1: of fun things when you know he's not here. So
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  Speaker 1: that's kind of the story I'd like to paint for
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  Speaker 1: other people.
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  Speaker 2: I love that. How about this? What about if we
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  Speaker 2: move from food to TV shows and movies? Can you
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  Speaker 2: review those? Is there any TV show he's watching? I
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  Speaker 2: need some recommendation.
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  Speaker 1: He's a big YouTube kid. But what's the most Oh, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: that you saw that you absolutely loved? Maya Galaxy movies?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah? Has he watched The Chosen on Netflix? Unchosen Unchosenlix?
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  Speaker 1: I don't think so.
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  Speaker 2: Might fee a little spicy for him? Okay, what about
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  Speaker 2: you for it? Is he in a euphoria? Can you
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  Speaker 2: ask him to review the most recent episode of Euphoria? Chris?
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  Speaker 2: You know what?
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  Speaker 1: It's so funny because he's like, he's not really into shows.
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  Speaker 1: He's a big sports guy. So anytime the diamondbackster on
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  Speaker 1: or sometimes the Sun definitely the Cardinals will be tuning in.
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  Speaker 1: But my husband's a big WWE fan and Dalton's eight,
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  Speaker 1: and I'm like, I don't know is he too like
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  Speaker 1: young for this? But he's recently gotten into like wrestling,
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  Speaker 1: and he watched like UFC fighting when Logan Paul was so,
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  Speaker 1: I'm like, you know what, maybe maybe he can watch
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  Speaker 1: a little bit more of an adult adult What do
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  Speaker 1: you think?
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  Speaker 2: There?
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  Speaker 1: You go, Yeah, he's ready.
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  Speaker 2: What about this? Can he review our radio show?
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  Speaker 1: Do you want to review their radio show?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah? I'd better be positive.
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  Speaker 3: Thought hospital.
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  Speaker 2: Mom likes aria.
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  Speaker 1: You guys. He will review the hospital food and he'll
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  Speaker 1: tell the it's the camera, it's a ten out of ten.
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  Speaker 1: And then after I'll be like, aren't you going to
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  Speaker 1: finish your meil He's like, well, actually I didn't like
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  Speaker 1: it that much, so he.
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  Speaker 2: Can be bride all right. I'm really glad you reached
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  Speaker 2: out to us and you have a beautiful family, and
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  Speaker 2: thank you so much for shooting me a DM. We
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  Speaker 2: will post will post the GoFundMe with a link on
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  Speaker 2: our John Ja and Rich Instagram account, okay and Facebook.
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  Speaker 1: That means so much. And if I can just end
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  Speaker 1: with one more thing, if you guys can anybody who
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  Speaker 1: wants to follow along on our journey, we would really
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  Speaker 1: appreciate it. We are in the early stages of starting
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  Speaker 1: what's called Dalton's Field of Dreams Foundation, and we would
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  Speaker 1: love for people to follow along on that journey too,
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  Speaker 1: so we can give back to families and kids just
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  Speaker 1: like ours.
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  Speaker 2: You got it. Christa, Thank you so much and God
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  Speaker 2: bless you.
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  Speaker 1: Oh thank you so much of you.
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  Speaker 2: All of you let me know what we're doing. That
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  Speaker 2: clear by