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The Help Squad Christmas Toy Drive · Brian Thomas

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  Speaker 1: Station just Shiba, a fifty year fifty five Krcity talk
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  Speaker 1: station and enjoying the little Christmas tidbits. Just Strekker's putting
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  Speaker 1: in for bumper music, of course, has been declared from
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  Speaker 1: day one on the fifty five Carssey Morning Show, and
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  Speaker 1: I took over the vince Garldi trio Charlie Brown Christmas Album,
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  Speaker 1: the only officially sanctioned Christmas music for the morning Show.
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  Speaker 1: Joe Strekker agrees with me on that, No, you're not
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  Speaker 1: going to hear the Trans Siberian Orchestra. Welcome back, mister
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  Speaker 1: humanitarian himself. I've been referring to you, but a man
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  Speaker 1: who truly knows the joy of helping those who are
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  Speaker 1: truly in need and reaping the benefits of spreading in
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  Speaker 1: his mind God's mission. Charitable organization, the Help Squad. We've
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  Speaker 1: had Brian Ebold on many times before, and he's got
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  Speaker 1: an opportunity for us all to get together and help
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  Speaker 1: those in need on the West Side. The Help Squad,
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  Speaker 1: since he with the y dot com, is where you
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  Speaker 1: find Brian Ibold and the ability to help out. Brian,
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  Speaker 1: Welcome back to the program, my friend. It's always good
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  Speaker 1: talking with you.
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  Speaker 2: Well, good morning, my brother.
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  Speaker 1: It's been a minute, it's been a little while, but
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  Speaker 1: you know, happy to bring you back on hopefully generate
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  Speaker 1: some interest in helping you doing what you're doing. Over
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  Speaker 1: on the West Side, you've got a Toys for Tots
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  Speaker 1: campaign going on right now. What's that one all about?
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  Speaker 1: What can we do?
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  Speaker 3: Yes, sir, So we have a toy drive tomorrow at Bucketheads.
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  Speaker 2: It's the Shocking bucket Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Well that's ah, it's quite the staple on the West Side,
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  Speaker 3: it is, so yeah, So we're having a toy drive
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  Speaker 3: at Bucketheads five pm to nine pm. They were located
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  Speaker 3: at sixty five oh seven Harrison Avenue, right in the
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  Speaker 3: heart of Green Township, my favorite place as well. And
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  Speaker 3: we're gonna have brent Souter there the picture for the Reds.
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  Speaker 3: He's come, gonna sign some autograph, take some pictures. You know.
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  Speaker 3: He's a funny guy too, and he does impressions. He
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  Speaker 3: does a little bit of stand up. So I'm looking
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  Speaker 3: forward to seeing him and then kind of challenging him
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  Speaker 3: to see who's funnier me or him.
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  Speaker 1: Joe chimed in. He's a bowler guy.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, he's a local dude. Yeah, No, we're real excited
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  Speaker 3: to have him. I think he with the Rockies in
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  Speaker 3: the past, the Brewers, and now the Reds. He's been
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  Speaker 3: in he's been in the game for a while.
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  Speaker 1: Real cool dude, well apparently real cool. He's always he
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  Speaker 1: helping you out with the charity and the toy to
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  Speaker 1: toys for top Drive. Now, are there items specifically or
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  Speaker 1: is this bring in a random I presume unopened, brand
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  Speaker 1: new toy. You're not looking for secondhanders or anything, are
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  Speaker 1: you now?
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  Speaker 2: Just to unwrap brand new toy?
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  Speaker 3: And we have so many different age groups and boys, girls.
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  Speaker 3: We can take clothes, gift cards, I mean, you name it.
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  Speaker 3: The Just like every other nonprofit I can say is
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  Speaker 3: that we have a lot of need and we don't
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  Speaker 3: have a lot of volunteers, so anything anybody can do,
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  Speaker 3: I mean, even if you can't make it. I mean
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  Speaker 3: they're accepting toys now, they'll accept them afterwards. You can
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  Speaker 3: always go to our website. If you don't want to
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  Speaker 3: bring a toy, you can always donate money and we'll get.
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  Speaker 2: The toys ourselves. But there's just a lot of kids.
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  Speaker 3: In the area and the community that need our help.
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  Speaker 3: They're gonna wake up and have nothing. Just put it
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  Speaker 3: that way. Yeah, we've got a lot of work to do,
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  Speaker 3: and I feel like the way that the world's on
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  Speaker 3: my shoulders, we've got to get this done.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I share, and you know it's having grown up
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  Speaker 1: on the West Side, I really truly appreciate your focus
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  Speaker 1: on the West Side. I mean, there are a lot
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  Speaker 1: of charitable organizations out there, there are a lot of
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  Speaker 1: services that are available that not quite often reaching the
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  Speaker 1: folks that need on the west Side. So you're serving
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  Speaker 1: west Side neighborhood shivvy at Coleraine Dell High Green Township region,
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  Speaker 1: so you have to have a finite region. You have
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  Speaker 1: very limited resources. But it's just sort of a sad
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  Speaker 1: realization to know that, you know, folks on you know,
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  Speaker 1: my quote unquote west side are struggling, but there are
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  Speaker 1: quite a few. Do you have any recent sort of
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  Speaker 1: heartwarming stories about what you were able to accomplish to
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  Speaker 1: your efforts at the help Squad. I know you're always
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  Speaker 1: helping folks each and every day.
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  Speaker 2: Oh boy, how much time we got.
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  Speaker 3: Well just I can tell you that just yesterday, I
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  Speaker 3: personally now I'm the president of the place and I'm
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  Speaker 3: running around like a check on my head, cut off
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  Speaker 3: write and checks, trying to you know, put out fires
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  Speaker 3: with people in people's lives all over town.
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  Speaker 2: Just yesterday there was four people, three of which we
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  Speaker 2: prevented from being homeless. They're going to be evicted. We
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  Speaker 2: paid their rent.
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  Speaker 3: That's that was just yesterday. And there was two people
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  Speaker 3: that we brought food to food cards because they're starving
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  Speaker 3: to death. So we stay busy and one hundred percent
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  Speaker 3: of every donation goes directly to help people. I'm not
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  Speaker 3: getting paid, None of us are getting paid. We sacrifice
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  Speaker 3: a lot and we we're just here to give.
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  Speaker 2: So anybody anything that anybody can do.
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  Speaker 3: Blieve me, we're more than willing to accept the cratuity
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  Speaker 3: because we need a lot of help on our side
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  Speaker 3: as well.
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  Speaker 1: All right, So Buckethead's a place to be. Sixty five
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  Speaker 1: h seven Harrison Avenue Again. What time in which day?
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  Speaker 3: Again? So it's tomorrow Bucketheads from five pm to nine pm.
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  Speaker 3: Like I said, man, you can bring a toy. You
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  Speaker 3: can bring their put it now, bring on now and
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  Speaker 3: put out front of the door.
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  Speaker 2: But it can be you can you can anytime, just
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  Speaker 2: show up anytime. We'll take toys.
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  Speaker 1: Come on right, admit it. You got a cot back there.
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  Speaker 1: You spend most of your time that bucketthead. You'll open
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  Speaker 1: the door, grab the toy, lock it back up and
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  Speaker 1: go back to sleep.
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  Speaker 2: I do whatever it takes.
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  Speaker 1: Whatever it takes, man, five to nine pm tomorrow at Buckethead.
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  Speaker 1: You'll enjoy Bucketheads. I went there with my dad when
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  Speaker 1: he was still living, took him out for lunch one day.
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  Speaker 1: That's a cool place. And uh, donate, you can donate.
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  Speaker 1: Make it really easy if you can't make it over
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  Speaker 1: to Bucketheads. The help Squad Sinsey with a y dot com.
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  Speaker 1: There's a little button right there. It says donate, but
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  Speaker 1: then also a volunteer. It sounds to me like if
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  Speaker 1: there are folks over there on the west side that
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  Speaker 1: want to help you out on your mission, that you
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  Speaker 1: could use some additional volunteers.
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  Speaker 3: Brian, Yeah, I will say this that people are starting
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  Speaker 3: to come to life over here.
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  Speaker 2: We are starting I mean people, we are getting recognized.
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  Speaker 3: I mean we've won. I couldn't tell you how many
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  Speaker 3: awards we've won. I don't know what else is going
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  Speaker 3: to take for people to realize this is working. And
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  Speaker 3: you know you had mentioned were rolling on the west side.
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  Speaker 3: I wish we could do all of since I I
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  Speaker 3: wish we could do the do you know what I mean.
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  Speaker 3: So there's a challenge to the mayor.
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  Speaker 2: Call me.
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  Speaker 3: I'll give my number, call me. We can fix this.
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  Speaker 3: It's not it's not as difficult as people or tried.
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  Speaker 2: The politicians and whatnot try to make it sound so anyway,
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  Speaker 2: that's for another.
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  Speaker 1: Well, you're you're on a it's your Christian mission of faith.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I know you're inspired by your Christian faith,
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  Speaker 1: but it's just it's a it's inspired by love and
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  Speaker 1: a desire to help folks truly in need. And I
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  Speaker 1: know you're very good about you know, not just randomly
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  Speaker 1: handing out money to folks, but if somebody is truly
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  Speaker 1: in need, you get them the resources they need in
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  Speaker 1: a variety of different ways. So help them out the
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  Speaker 1: help squadsensey dot com. I can encourage my listeners enough
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  Speaker 1: to give you the help that you're looking for, Brian Ibel,
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  Speaker 1: And I want to think, uh, every you on behalf
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  Speaker 1: of everyone, not only that you help from from everybody
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  Speaker 1: in my listening audience. For serving as an inspiration to
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  Speaker 1: engage in this charitable work. It's really a beautiful thing
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  Speaker 1: you're doing there, Brian.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I really appreciate it.
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  Speaker 3: Thanks so much for having me on at you and
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  Speaker 3: Joe for always getting us on there and kind of
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  Speaker 3: getting our getting the word out and our mission out
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  Speaker 3: to the masses.
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  Speaker 1: Well, make it bigger and better next year, Brian. I've
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  Speaker 1: old be happy to help you out throughout the year.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I love the organization what you're doing. Have
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  Speaker 1: a great If we don't talk between now Christmas brother,
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  Speaker 1: you have a fantastic Christmas man.