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TOPIC: American Diabetes Association Step Out® Walk · Pittsburgh Sunday Morning

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  Speaker 1: And welcome in. This is a public affairs program shedding
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  Speaker 1: the light on the interest, issues, and concerns of the
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  Speaker 1: greater Pittsburgh. Garrett, good morning. My name is Johnny hert Well,
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  Speaker 1: your host. Today's topic is the American Diabetes Association and
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  Speaker 1: their Step Out Walk, which is coming up on September
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  Speaker 1: twenty sixth. Welcome to the microphone again. Let's say good
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  Speaker 1: morning to Chelsea Musual. Chelsea, good to see you again.
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  Speaker 2: Hello, friend, it's great to see you.
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  Speaker 1: Executive director, and you brought a friend. How about introducing
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  Speaker 1: Elizabeth to us?
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  Speaker 2: I sure did.
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  Speaker 3: I have the great pleasure of bringing alongside Elizabeth Dunn,
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  Speaker 3: the Chief Development Officer of the American Diabetes Association.
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  Speaker 4: I'm so excited to be here.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks. Are you are You're not from Pittsburgh, are you.
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  Speaker 4: I'm afraid to say that out loud, but I'm not.
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  Speaker 4: I'm just visiting and I couldn't be more happy to
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  Speaker 4: be here.
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  Speaker 1: Well, it's okay, pittsway, we won't bite.
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  Speaker 2: Pittsburghers are nice. We welcome you it.
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  Speaker 1: They are very n but I like to be with
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  Speaker 1: local you know. All right, we're going to be talking
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  Speaker 1: about a little bit of what the American Diabetes Association does,
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  Speaker 1: but we really want to focus out on a focus
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  Speaker 1: on the Stepout Walk, which is coming up on September
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  Speaker 1: twenty sixth at P and C Park once again, and
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  Speaker 1: let's welcome to the zoom line. We've got Mark tam Burry,
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  Speaker 1: Executive vice president and chief Legal Officer of UPMC. Mark,
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  Speaker 1: are you with us this morning?
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  Speaker 5: I am, good morning, all.
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  Speaker 1: Right, So Mark, I want to since we only have
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  Speaker 1: a few minutes with you, tell us everything we need
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  Speaker 1: to know. Tell us why you're passionate about the ADA,
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  Speaker 1: and tell us how you started, you know, participating with
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  Speaker 1: the ADA.
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  Speaker 5: Thank you, thank you for having me.
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  Speaker 6: And four years ago, my wife and I, our youngest
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  Speaker 6: son was diagnosed type one diabetes. We have no family
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  Speaker 6: history and we've come to learn over the last four
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  Speaker 6: years what a challenging disease is to manage and how
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  Speaker 6: much support families and loved ones need to help people
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  Speaker 6: with type one and our son and we have benefited
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  Speaker 6: it so much from the American Diabetes Association. Our son
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  Speaker 6: has attended their summer camp, which has been amazing. So
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  Speaker 6: we're huge fans and we want to do everything we
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  Speaker 6: can to help the ADA and the people who benefit
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  Speaker 6: from it.
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  Speaker 1: Now, this year's lofty goal. Now, Chelsea, you can speak
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  Speaker 1: to this. What is your goal this year?
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  Speaker 3: So much thanks to Mark and our board and so
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  Speaker 3: many wonderful leaders. So we blew past our original goal
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  Speaker 3: which was six hundred and eighty four thousand, and we
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  Speaker 3: have an official campaign. We're calling it the Bridge to
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  Speaker 3: one million.
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  Speaker 1: That's amazing.
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  Speaker 2: So we have the chance to be the eighty as
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  Speaker 2: oh I got Josh Buck the reaction we're looking for.
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  Speaker 3: So we have a chance to be the American Diabetes
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  Speaker 3: Association's first million dollar walk in history here in Pittsburgh.
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  Speaker 1: And Mark is a big reason why Mark is at.
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  Speaker 2: The helm of the boat.
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  Speaker 3: And it's been so much fun and the community has
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  Speaker 3: just really rallied around Mark and our mission and the
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  Speaker 3: impact of the ADA can make. And so we're just
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  Speaker 3: having such a good time and being at PNC Park
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  Speaker 3: and Johnny you've been able to experience our day of event.
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  Speaker 2: I do think that's a part of our secret sauce.
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  Speaker 1: And so speak of speaker sauce, Mark, what is your
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  Speaker 1: secret sauce? How have you done this?
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  Speaker 6: I'm just building on all the amazing work that Chelsea
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  Speaker 6: and the team have done. I've joined this board in
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  Speaker 6: January of this year, and it's an incredible organization and
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  Speaker 6: we're having great success because of the leaders like Chelsea
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  Speaker 6: and really was an incredibly generous community and Pittsburgh is
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  Speaker 6: rallying behind this effort and we're so grateful for it.
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  Speaker 1: Well, we are grateful for all your out How about
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  Speaker 1: the big round of lass from Mark, this team at UPMC.
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  Speaker 1: I thank you for taking the time to talk to
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  Speaker 1: us just for a few minutes and hopefully we'll see
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  Speaker 1: you on on September twenty six. Mark, thank you for
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  Speaker 1: your time.
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  Speaker 5: But you will see there. Thank you so much.
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  Speaker 1: Here you go. Mark Tambury, Executive vice president and chief
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  Speaker 1: Legal Officer at UPMC, and a big reason you've kind
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  Speaker 1: of upped your goal this year.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, he is a huge reason why.
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  Speaker 3: And I think that you can hear from his story,
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  Speaker 3: like it's very personal to him, and I think that
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  Speaker 3: like when we find executive leaders that have the respect
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  Speaker 3: that Mark does. But he's really leading from his heart.
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  Speaker 3: It's just been like a huge ripple effect in the community.
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  Speaker 3: And because of Mark's role obviously being you know, a
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  Speaker 3: legal officer, he's really rallied the legal community around this.
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  Speaker 3: So we've welcomed so many new law firms in and
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  Speaker 3: we have a little council for our cause we're caught
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  Speaker 3: like a little competition between the firms and so it's
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  Speaker 3: just been really fun and we're actually going to make
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  Speaker 3: it more hometown pride. We actually have a chance to
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  Speaker 3: be the largest fundraising event for the ADA in the country.
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  Speaker 3: Our competitor is a torticure ride, a bikeling ride that
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  Speaker 3: we do in Silicon Valley, so we're calling it Silicon
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  Speaker 3: Valley to Steel City. So there's all this fun, just
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  Speaker 3: so much fun in sub layers of competition.
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  Speaker 1: No, Pittsburgh has punched above our weight when it comes
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  Speaker 1: to eighty A and they and they you know the walks.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, yes, Elizabeth actually just shared this at our board meeting.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, so tell us all the line graphs.
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  Speaker 4: So Pittsburgh is doing incredible with everyone coming out to
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  Speaker 4: support and they're the largest stock in the Free Tree.
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  Speaker 4: I'm not afraid. I want to be part of Pittsburgh.
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  Speaker 4: It's amazing.
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  Speaker 1: So we have this philosophy and it's to our core
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  Speaker 1: Pittsburgh's take care of Pittsburgh's. I love that, and we
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  Speaker 1: realize that you know, diabetes touches so many lives and
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  Speaker 1: this is an opportunity to educate people about diabetes. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: this is a way to fund research, and there's so
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  Speaker 1: many reasons why people participate. And I think we've come
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  Speaker 1: out and realized your mission and so we want to
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  Speaker 1: support that.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, yes, And I think that we've really tried to
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  Speaker 3: capitalize on that in the region. And like I said,
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  Speaker 3: we all like to see Pittsburgh when my team and
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  Speaker 3: I call it like a Pittsburgh Flex And I do
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  Speaker 3: think that too. We have really really good healthcare in
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  Speaker 3: this region and that's like and that's a gift too
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  Speaker 3: that we have like UPMC and high Mark and all
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  Speaker 3: these great organizations in our backyard. But to your point,
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  Speaker 3: diabetes just resonates with so many people, unfortunately, just due
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  Speaker 3: to the nature of the disease and where we're at
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  Speaker 3: with diagnosis. And we talk about this as a development team.
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  Speaker 3: But like our events, like the walk is the front
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  Speaker 3: door into the organization. It's many times people's first interaction
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  Speaker 3: with us and how we can kind of bring them
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  Speaker 3: into our family and support them and provide resources and
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  Speaker 3: education and so the you know, Mark and I and
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  Speaker 3: my team we're just trying to create as wide of
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  Speaker 3: a net as possible, just to kind of welcome people
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  Speaker 3: into our home and introduce them to the work of
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  Speaker 3: the ADA.
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  Speaker 1: Now you have a personal story reasonab.
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  Speaker 3: Why Yes, Yes, So I was diagnosed with type one
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  Speaker 3: diabetes at the age of two. So it's the only
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  Speaker 3: life I've ever known. So this memorial Day was thirty
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  Speaker 3: four years with type one.
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  Speaker 1: And let's talk about the difference between type one and
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  Speaker 1: type two.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, it's one of the biggest like misunderstandings, I would say,
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  Speaker 3: of the disease. And so at the ADA we support
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  Speaker 3: all types of diabetes. And so there's four types that
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  Speaker 3: we speak to, being type one, type two gestational which
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  Speaker 3: affects women in pregnancy and pre diabetes. So type one
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  Speaker 3: and type two being the two you know formally diagnosed
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  Speaker 3: types ninety five percent of cases are type two diabetes
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  Speaker 3: and five percent is type one. It's all around the
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  Speaker 3: relationship with the hormone insulin, and so the pancreas produces
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  Speaker 3: insulin to break down the glucose in your body and
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  Speaker 3: what you eat to convert into energy. And so when
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  Speaker 3: you have type one diabetes, you don't produce any insulin.
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  Speaker 3: So all that glucose and whatever you eat is just
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  Speaker 3: stuck in your bloodstream with nowhere to go. Because insulin
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  Speaker 3: is the hormone to get it to the cells to
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  Speaker 3: fuel your mind and your body and quite frankly live.
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  Speaker 3: So when you have type one like myself and Mark
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  Speaker 3: Sun and the five percent of those diagnosed cases, you're
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  Speaker 3: on twenty four to seven, insulin therapy could be injections
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  Speaker 3: or a pump. Type two diabetes is when you are
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  Speaker 3: still producing some level of insulin but it's not enough
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  Speaker 3: to cover what you need. And so this could be
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  Speaker 3: due to hereditary factors. Some ethnicities are at higher risk,
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  Speaker 3: and so type two can be treated in a myriad
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  Speaker 3: of different ways. It doesn't necessarily mean that you're on insulin,
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  Speaker 3: but you're definitely experiencing some level of insulin resistance or
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  Speaker 3: not producing enough.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm I don't have any insulin in me because
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  Speaker 1: I'm fasting today because I have to get a blood
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  Speaker 1: But those are some of the tests that you want
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  Speaker 1: to encourage people to do tested.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, and so you know, an annual an A and
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  Speaker 3: C is kind of like the blood work that people
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  Speaker 3: will usually get done fasting blood sugars. If you're living
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  Speaker 3: with type one a lot of times. There's so much
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  Speaker 3: great technology. It's honestly changed my life that I can
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  Speaker 3: even get even more tight with my range and kind
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  Speaker 3: of like watching the trends of my blood siggers and
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  Speaker 3: trying to keep them like in range.
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  Speaker 1: You mentioned prediabetes. Yes, what are some signs that you know? People?
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  Speaker 1: You know, the symptoms are something that's some sort of
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  Speaker 1: reaction to people, so maybe they should get tested.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, So what's tricky is is that diabetes can sneak
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  Speaker 3: up on you, So you could be living in a
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  Speaker 3: pre diabetic state and not know. In fact, eighty percent
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  Speaker 3: of people with pre diabetes don't know, right, which is
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  Speaker 3: why we encourage to get an a one CEE or
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  Speaker 3: like a fasting glucose test. But if it does start
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  Speaker 3: to progress, like the textbook signs of diabetes are excessive thirst,
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  Speaker 3: frequent urination because at this point, once your body cannot
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  Speaker 3: use glucose for energy, it starts to break down fat.
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  Speaker 3: So weight loss is another part blurry vision. When it
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  Speaker 3: breaks down that fat, it creates something called ketones, and
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  Speaker 3: so the body is all you want to do is
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  Speaker 3: drink water and use the direction because you're just trying
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  Speaker 3: to flush all this stuff out of your body because
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  Speaker 3: you don't have the insulin to get it out. So
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  Speaker 3: but I would say, like excessive thirst and frequent urination
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  Speaker 3: are like very textbook. And I've heard a lot of
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  Speaker 3: people who start to have blurry vision as well.
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  Speaker 1: That happened to my daughter law. In fact, I have
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  Speaker 1: two daughter laws. Both of them have diabetes. One is
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  Speaker 1: type one, one is type two. And she was having
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  Speaker 1: vision problems one to the one to the doctor and
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  Speaker 1: found out she was diabetic. Yeah, and she has a
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  Speaker 1: family history of it as right, and so that's up.
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  Speaker 1: Let me go talk to Elizabeth, chief Development Officer with
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  Speaker 1: she's the she's one of the big wigs. Yeah, so
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  Speaker 1: what what's your story? What brought you to the ADA.
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  Speaker 4: You know, I came to the ADA because I feel
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  Speaker 4: so passionately about the fact that it's the fastest growing
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  Speaker 4: disease in the US and we need to do something
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  Speaker 4: to make a change in that. And so that's what
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  Speaker 4: drives me every day. I think one of the things
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  Speaker 4: that you and Chelsea are talking about is this disease
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  Speaker 4: is twenty four to seven. You can't put it down,
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  Speaker 4: you can't go away from it, and so when we
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  Speaker 4: think about the walk and everybody coming out to support
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  Speaker 4: each other, like you were saying with Pittsburgh, it's it
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  Speaker 4: doesn't matter if you have pre diabetes or type one
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  Speaker 4: or type two or gestational diabetes. I think it means
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  Speaker 4: a lot to the whole community to see everyone coming
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  Speaker 4: together to support.
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  Speaker 1: You know, this is my first walk. I've done thousands,
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  Speaker 1: and I've said this before and I'll say it right now.
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  Speaker 1: The Ada Walk that I participated last year was the
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  Speaker 1: best organized and the most fun walk that I ever
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  Speaker 1: participated in. Did you go last year at all?
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  Speaker 4: That's amazing. I did not go last year, but I'm
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  Speaker 4: really looking.
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  Speaker 1: At it should be a blueprint from all the other
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  Speaker 1: walks because it was amazing. It was so much fun,
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  Speaker 1: the perfect well, first of all, the weather was.
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  Speaker 2: The weather was perfect.
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  Speaker 1: But you're at P and C Park, so there's nothing
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  Speaker 1: you know, that's that's it's like countessential. Yes, yes, And
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  Speaker 1: of course there's so many things to see and do.
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  Speaker 1: And it was one of these walks that you know
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  Speaker 1: sometimes they have these long introductions. It was very short
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  Speaker 1: and brief. It was to the point people about diabetes,
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  Speaker 1: and we got the work. We did what we had
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  Speaker 1: to do, and you raised a lot of money last year.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, we've been This will probably be our fourth
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  Speaker 3: year running. We've always been the largest eighty A walk
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  Speaker 3: in the country. Now we just set the bar even
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  Speaker 3: higher to try to shoot for the million. But I
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  Speaker 3: am very proud of the team, and we were like
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  Speaker 3: very intentional about going to PMC Park because to your point,
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  Speaker 3: and you know this better than anyone, you could probably
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  Speaker 3: pick twelve walks every weekend in Pittsburgh, you know, they're
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  Speaker 3: just especially in the fall, and so I just kept
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  Speaker 3: telling a team it was like, how can we make
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  Speaker 3: our event feel different?
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  Speaker 2: And that's why we chose to go to PMC Park.
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  Speaker 1: Now, a goal of a million dollars pretty lofty. You
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  Speaker 1: can't do that without some of the support that you
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  Speaker 1: get from the local companies. Yes. Now, obviously we talked
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  Speaker 1: to Mark Tamburry who is part of UPMC, so they're
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  Speaker 1: supporting your effort. But are there any other companies that
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  Speaker 1: you would like to mention?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, oh, there's so many. I mean UPMC obviously in
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  Speaker 3: Marx leadership has been Integrol GNC, who we've spoken to
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  Speaker 3: my across Sello in years past. Their CEO. He's also
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  Speaker 3: a member of our board, a former chair. He's been
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  Speaker 3: very instrumental and just not just with the walk, but
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  Speaker 3: G and C has supported us in all arms of
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  Speaker 3: our mission. They support Project Power and some of our
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  Speaker 3: other programming. Andy Max from Chicken of the Sea, They've
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  Speaker 3: been a phenomenal partner. And Andy's really trying to help
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  Speaker 3: us strategize around food and nutrition and kind of rallying
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  Speaker 3: like that CpG community here in Western Pa, kind of
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  Speaker 3: building off the backs of like Hines that was started
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  Speaker 3: here and we have Delmonte here and so Andy's really
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  Speaker 3: trying to help me kind of strategize and like that
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  Speaker 3: food nutrition.
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  Speaker 1: Sunday GANC and Chicken oft the Sea are both headquartered
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  Speaker 1: here and they are in Pittsburgh.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah they are, and they were like really proud to
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  Speaker 3: talk about that when they were doing their executive chair terms,
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  Speaker 3: Like they just really felt very proud that they wanted
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  Speaker 3: people to know that they are headquartered here in Pittsburgh.
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  Speaker 3: And then you know, like I said, Mark has really
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  Speaker 3: done a great job bringing law firms to the table.
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  Speaker 3: And two that stepped up in a big way from
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  Speaker 3: a sponsorship support would be Jones day Meyer Uncle Vic
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  Speaker 3: and Scott and Petri Gallo. They're all serving on our
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  Speaker 3: executive leadership team alongside Mark.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, we're going to talk a little bit more about diabetes,
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  Speaker 1: but let's talk about the walk specifically. This is the
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  Speaker 1: reason why we're here. We need because you have a
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  Speaker 1: lofty goal and obviously Mark and UPMC has you know,
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  Speaker 1: done really really well. But you've got a higher goal now, Yes,
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  Speaker 1: but you can't get to that goal unless you get
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  Speaker 1: people participants. Correct, So it's coming up. Tell us everything
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  Speaker 1: we need to know about this year's Step Out Walk.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, so we invite everyone to join us Saturday, September
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  Speaker 3: twenty six. It's an eight thirty am start. We're along
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  Speaker 3: the beautiful river Walk at P and C Park, So
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  Speaker 3: you kind of enter by that fat Heads bar. If
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  Speaker 3: you've been to a game as of late, it's so
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  Speaker 3: rich with community and resources and if you just recently
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  Speaker 3: were diagnosed or have had this disease for twenty years,
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  Speaker 3: Like I want people to come and to learn and
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  Speaker 3: to connect, and so it's just like a very rich,
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  Speaker 3: envibrant like start finish line experience, and then we take
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  Speaker 3: like a beautiful walk like you're on along the Riverfront
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  Speaker 3: trail in downtown Pittsburgh and start and end in PNC Park,
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  Speaker 3: which is just like our grand celebration. But I want
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  Speaker 3: people to just come and enjoy. There is no registration fee,
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  Speaker 3: there is no fundraising minimum.
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  Speaker 5: You know.
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  Speaker 3: Of course my team and I will coach you and
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  Speaker 3: your team if that's a goal that you choose to set.
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  Speaker 3: But we really just want this to be, like I said,
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  Speaker 3: a door opener into the organization and just come out
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  Speaker 3: for a really fun morning.
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  Speaker 1: It's an amazing walk, it really is. You do a
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  Speaker 1: great job. So congratulations, Thank you friend.
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  Speaker 4: How do you sign up?
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  Speaker 3: Diabetes dot org backslash Pittsburgh step out?
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  Speaker 1: Okay, thank you Elizabeth. She was reluctant to be on
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  Speaker 1: the mic, and then she said the most important thing
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  Speaker 1: so far in the interview, Hallia, sign up. We forgot
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  Speaker 1: the talent you people, shame on us. Thank you, Elizabeth.
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  Speaker 1: You are vital to this conversation. Okay. So the reason
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  Speaker 1: why you have this walk is obviously you want to
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  Speaker 1: raise money. Yeah, funds, and so what is that money
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  Speaker 1: earmark for?
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  Speaker 3: It does so many things, so you know some of
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  Speaker 3: the pillars of the ADA. We really focus on our advocacy, education, programming,
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  Speaker 3: research and so we do that on a national scale
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  Speaker 3: with our organization, but some of that also comes back
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  Speaker 3: to our local communities. So you know, just here in Pittsburgh,
• 16:12
  Speaker 3: we have one point three million in research grants funds
• 16:15
  Speaker 3: right now at UPMC, so we have some of that
• 16:18
  Speaker 3: research funding that we see come back. We have a
• 16:21
  Speaker 3: robust programming we have you know, as Mark mentioned, we
• 16:24
  Speaker 3: meet a lot of volunteers through our Camp Courage. So
• 16:26
  Speaker 3: this is a camp for kids ages eight to sixteen
• 16:29
  Speaker 3: living with type one diabetes, fully staffed by UPMC Children's
• 16:32
  Speaker 3: Hospital for the health and wellbeing of the kids, and
• 16:34
  Speaker 3: they just get to go and be kids, but they
• 16:36
  Speaker 3: all have Type one. We're getting in the school systems
• 16:38
  Speaker 3: with Project Power, we're advocating for affordability. If you know
• 16:43
  Speaker 3: anything about diabetes, and if you pay attention to the news,
• 16:46
  Speaker 3: I mean, the cost of insulin has risen over three
• 16:48
  Speaker 3: hundred percent since it was patented. This is a life saving,
• 16:51
  Speaker 3: needed drug. And so Elizabeth and I were just talking
• 16:54
  Speaker 3: about this in the car, like we're even trying to
• 16:55
  Speaker 3: work to get an insulin copey cap here in Pennsylvania.
• 16:58
  Speaker 3: We're one of the few states that hasn't done it yet.
• 17:00
  Speaker 3: So it's it's really just trying to attack diabetes from
• 17:04
  Speaker 3: all angles. And if there's the word diabetes in a sentence, like,
• 17:08
  Speaker 3: the ADA is behind it. I mean even down to
• 17:11
  Speaker 3: the clinic, we write the standards of care for the
• 17:13
  Speaker 3: medical teams and physicians and how to practice diabetes. And
• 17:16
  Speaker 3: so you know, we've been at this for eighty five years,
• 17:19
  Speaker 3: and so the ADA has really built the foundation for
• 17:22
  Speaker 3: a vibrant, thriving diabetes community in all aspects of it.
• 17:26
  Speaker 1: We kind of started the conversation saying that diabetes almost
• 17:29
  Speaker 1: touches almost everybody. There's just just about every family, and
• 17:33
  Speaker 1: we hear it constantly through the media, diabetes, diabetes, diabetes,
• 17:37
  Speaker 1: It's almost become a punchline, and there's a stigma.
• 17:40
  Speaker 2: To that all them.
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: Yes, yes, but I think there's a disconnect in that
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: we hear about it, but we also don't understand it.
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: What's the reason why that disconnect?
• 17:52
  Speaker 3: I mean, I can take I'd be curious like your
• 17:54
  Speaker 3: perspective on it, and like I can too. I mean,
• 17:56
  Speaker 3: I think there's definitely a stigma that like, you did
• 17:58
  Speaker 3: this to yourself, you know, it was something that you did,
• 18:02
  Speaker 3: You're at fault for this and number one, that's not
• 18:05
  Speaker 3: always the case. First of all, there's an extremely strong
• 18:07
  Speaker 3: familial history to this. And on the counter, like, are
• 18:12
  Speaker 3: we in totality creating healthy communities for people to thrive
• 18:16
  Speaker 3: beyond the ADA? Like we just think about food in
• 18:18
  Speaker 3: this country and activity creating healthy vibrance spaces with green
• 18:22
  Speaker 3: and people's ability to exercise, and so I just think that,
• 18:24
  Speaker 3: like I personally, we sometimes we just need to zoom
• 18:27
  Speaker 3: out and just look at the environments that we've created
• 18:29
  Speaker 3: for people too, Like are we providing healthy enough food options?
• 18:32
  Speaker 4: Yeah, we don't want people to feel isolated, and we're
• 18:35
  Speaker 4: not going to overcome this with all of the shame
• 18:38
  Speaker 4: to your point and the isolation, and so we want
• 18:42
  Speaker 4: to be a community for people to come together and
• 18:45
  Speaker 4: be able to live and thrive.
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: What is your number one challenge at the ADA?
• 18:53
  Speaker 3: Oh my gosh, that's a really good question. I think
• 18:59
  Speaker 3: that like for me and she might have a different
• 19:01
  Speaker 3: point of view, because Elizabeth has like a broader view.
• 19:04
  Speaker 3: I think for me as the executive director in the market,
• 19:06
  Speaker 3: like kind of piggybacking on what she just said, like
• 19:09
  Speaker 3: just getting people to come like don't feel ashamed, Like
• 19:12
  Speaker 3: for as prevalent as this disease is very unfortunately, we
• 19:15
  Speaker 3: could have thousands and thousands of people at this walk,
• 19:18
  Speaker 3: but I sometimes feel like there is a hesitancy for
• 19:20
  Speaker 3: people to raise their hand and say like I'm experiencing that,
• 19:22
  Speaker 3: And I don't want people to feel that way, Like
• 19:24
  Speaker 3: to her point, like we are the safe space, we
• 19:27
  Speaker 3: are the community that you want to be a part of,
• 19:29
  Speaker 3: and I don't want people to feel judged. And the
• 19:31
  Speaker 3: sooner that you can take ownership in your diabetes, the
• 19:34
  Speaker 3: healthier you will be because the problem with this disease
• 19:37
  Speaker 3: is that and what my team and I try to
• 19:39
  Speaker 3: do is really create a sense of urgency around it
• 19:41
  Speaker 3: because the complications of diabetes are slow, and they're quiet,
• 19:45
  Speaker 3: and they're invasive. So if you know, if you don't
• 19:49
  Speaker 3: take care of yourself now, you will pay for it,
• 19:51
  Speaker 3: you know in five, ten, fifteen years, which people are like,
• 19:54
  Speaker 3: oh whatever, but when you get to that point in
• 19:56
  Speaker 3: how serious it can be. So I think it's just
• 19:58
  Speaker 3: like giving people in power, people to take control of
• 20:01
  Speaker 3: their diabetes now. So like for me, just going back
• 20:03
  Speaker 3: to your question, like it's just getting people to come
• 20:05
  Speaker 3: out and want to take ownership of it.
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: I think Elizabeth from the you know, a national standpoint, Yeah,
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: I think.
• 20:11
  Speaker 4: It's about our fundraising matching the pace of the epidemic.
• 20:17
  Speaker 4: I said that this is the fastest growing chronic disease
• 20:20
  Speaker 4: in the world, and we need funds.
• 20:23
  Speaker 2: To match that.
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: You know. I think that's one thing you brought up
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: a good point because it is a chronic disease. Yes,
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: So it's an expensive disease. You know, when we talk
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: about health issues, people usually talk about cancer. Well, unfortunately
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: people pass away from cancer. With diabetes, it's usually decades
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: that people will have to live with it, So it
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: can be very expensive, especially when insulin prices of insulin
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: go up. So when you talk about the price of healthcare, correct,
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: getting control of diabetes from a national standpoint should be
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: a priority.
• 21:03
  Speaker 2: Oh, yes, and that's what we yeah.
• 21:05
  Speaker 4: Yeah, And it's how it impacts all the different parts
• 21:08
  Speaker 4: of your body. So it's not just the diabetes, but
• 21:12
  Speaker 4: the most reason for death is cardiac issues, right, and
• 21:16
  Speaker 4: then it'll start to impact your liver and your kidney.
• 21:20
  Speaker 4: And so to your point, those are long term health
• 21:22
  Speaker 4: issues that have a lot of not only health complications,
• 21:26
  Speaker 4: but costs associated with medications and care and all sorts
• 21:31
  Speaker 4: of things.
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: And a problem with mobility and things like that. It's just,
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: you know, it doesn't you know, if you don't get
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: it out of control, it's snowballs.
• 21:39
  Speaker 2: Yes, that's correct.
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: Okay, let's let's not forget that. We need to talk
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: about the Step Out Walk. Their goal is one million dollars,
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: which is crazy.
• 21:49
  Speaker 2: It is crazy.
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: You know your goal last year was what six hundred
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: five dollars?
• 21:53
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean when we first moved to P and
• 21:55
  Speaker 3: Z Park in twenty twenty four, we did four hundred
• 21:58
  Speaker 3: and twelve thousand four when you.
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: Were probably a static. Yeah, we were like, lett us
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: go look at Pittsburgh. We rock. Yeah, And now it's
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: the goal is a million dollars. This walk is September
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: twenty sixth the P and C Park. Can you tell
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: us how people can sign up?
• 22:17
  Speaker 2: Yes, Diabetes vacine.
• 22:21
  Speaker 3: See you glad you're here at slash Pittsburgh Step Out Walk.
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: Okay, and kind of for those who aren't familiar with
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: the walk, kind of describe what they might experience when
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: they go.
• 22:32
  Speaker 3: Yes, So it's just it's a very welcoming and exciting environment.
• 22:36
  Speaker 3: So it's at PNC Park along the River Walk. So
• 22:39
  Speaker 3: this is kind of that outfield area. So we have
• 22:42
  Speaker 3: that whole space between from the entrance of the Clemente
• 22:45
  Speaker 3: statue all the way to their side where the playground is,
• 22:48
  Speaker 3: and it's just filled with rich information in our sponsors
• 22:52
  Speaker 3: and different vendors from diabetes technology companies.
• 22:55
  Speaker 2: So if you're wearing a CGM or you're kind of trying.
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: To understand GM, what's a CG.
• 23:00
  Speaker 3: Thank you for continuous glucose monitors. So instead of you know,
• 23:05
  Speaker 3: back in the day when I was first diagnosed, you
• 23:06
  Speaker 3: do like a fingerstick, you know, every few hours. But now, like,
• 23:10
  Speaker 3: to me, what's changed my life the most is wearing
• 23:13
  Speaker 3: a continuous glucose monitor, which essentially talks to my phone,
• 23:16
  Speaker 3: talks to my pump. It's a twenty four to seven
• 23:17
  Speaker 3: feed of my blood sugar.
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: It tells you exactly what's going on.
• 23:21
  Speaker 2: Exactly what's going on.
• 23:22
  Speaker 3: Yeah, So there's all just this information and all of
• 23:25
  Speaker 3: our sponsor there, janc chicking in the sea, you know,
• 23:28
  Speaker 3: and he's given out samples of his tuna, and it's
• 23:31
  Speaker 3: just it's just really fun. And then we take like
• 23:33
  Speaker 3: a beautiful walk along the riverfront and just really bring
• 23:36
  Speaker 3: everyone together.
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: You're promoting exercise, which is yes, vital, big heart correct.
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: And when it comes to education, what are some of
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: the things that you want people to know about diabetes
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: or dealing with diabetes, or something that people may not
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: understand or a misconception about diabetes.
• 23:55
  Speaker 2: I mean, I think that there's a lot.
• 23:56
  Speaker 3: I think, you know, we covered one a little bit earlier,
• 23:59
  Speaker 3: just in the understanding the differences of the types. I
• 24:02
  Speaker 3: think there's a misunderstanding there. I think that and we've
• 24:05
  Speaker 3: all kind of touched upon this, but just the chronic
• 24:09
  Speaker 3: nature of it, and then it doesn't stop. They say
• 24:11
  Speaker 3: someone living with diabetes makes an additional one hundred and
• 24:14
  Speaker 3: eighty decisions in a single day. So like, even if
• 24:17
  Speaker 3: I think about my day today, you know, I had
• 24:19
  Speaker 3: a board meeting and then I'm coming here, I'm just
• 24:21
  Speaker 3: like like, it's just this constant narrative of like where's
• 24:25
  Speaker 3: my bludger at?
• 24:25
  Speaker 2: Well should I eat.
• 24:26
  Speaker 3: Before I go to the board meeting? But my bloodgig
• 24:27
  Speaker 3: is already this Like it's just this noise. And so
• 24:30
  Speaker 3: like I always think of us as like helping people.
• 24:33
  Speaker 3: The eightya can empower people to turn down that noise,
• 24:35
  Speaker 3: you know what I mean, Like we got you, and
• 24:37
  Speaker 3: like if Mark always describes it as like walking on
• 24:39
  Speaker 3: a tightrope, and like if you go too low, it's
• 24:42
  Speaker 3: really dangerous, and if you go too high, it's too
• 24:44
  Speaker 3: dangerous as well. And like the ada is that net
• 24:47
  Speaker 3: below the tightrope that like catches people. And so I
• 24:49
  Speaker 3: just think that you know, just knowing the difference between
• 24:53
  Speaker 3: the types, the chronic nature of this, it does not
• 24:55
  Speaker 3: go away, and that there should be no shame associated
• 24:59
  Speaker 3: with it, those would.
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: Be overcoming this stigma.
• 25:02
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: But you know one thing that I want to bring
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: up is you know Mark's son is type one, So
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: you're educating not only the people who are who immediately
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: are affected by diabetes the link as his son, but
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: you're educating Mark and a family. Yes, because you know
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: you had you were diagnosed with diabetes at two years old.
• 25:23
  Speaker 2: That's correct.
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: You didn't know what was going on, so it was
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: very important that your caregivers, your parents or whatever were
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: educated on the effects of diabetes as well.
• 25:32
  Speaker 4: Yes, yes, I would encourage people after they go to
• 25:36
  Speaker 4: the link to sign up for the walk, to go
• 25:38
  Speaker 4: to diabetes dot org and take a look at the
• 25:41
  Speaker 4: incredible education that exists. We have a consumer guide that
• 25:46
  Speaker 4: talks about all the different medications and technology that's out
• 25:50
  Speaker 4: there that lets people compare them against each each other.
• 25:53
  Speaker 4: We have a Diabetes Food Hub with thousands of recipes
• 25:57
  Speaker 4: that are created specifically for people living with diabetes that
• 26:01
  Speaker 4: you can get recipes on. There's an enormous amount of
• 26:05
  Speaker 4: education and video format or how you want to read
• 26:08
  Speaker 4: to help you navigate during this time.
• 26:12
  Speaker 3: And there's just like I would just add to that too,
• 26:14
  Speaker 3: there's like just such a culture of misinformation now and
• 26:18
  Speaker 3: people you know, getting information from various sources. But like
• 26:21
  Speaker 3: I'm just always most proud that, like you know, if
• 26:23
  Speaker 3: you go to diabetes dot org that it is a
• 26:26
  Speaker 3: trusted resource. If you see that ada red triangle, like
• 26:29
  Speaker 3: you know you're in good hands. You know, it's backed
• 26:31
  Speaker 3: by science and research and very well vetted and the.
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: Economists for misinformation and what and what misinformation would you
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: like people, you know to correct.
• 26:41
  Speaker 2: I don't know if I have.
• 26:42
  Speaker 3: Like a specific example per se, but like I just
• 26:46
  Speaker 3: think of like the culture that we're in with like
• 26:48
  Speaker 3: social media or like TikTok or like there's just this
• 26:51
  Speaker 3: sometimes there's this like running joke and the diabetes those
• 26:53
  Speaker 3: of us that have diabetes that there was this old
• 26:55
  Speaker 3: legend for a long time that like if you if
• 26:57
  Speaker 3: you ate cinnamon, like a table speed of cinnamon, it
• 26:59
  Speaker 3: would like right, you know, like things like that that
• 27:02
  Speaker 3: like I knew I could, I could take all.
• 27:04
  Speaker 2: The cimon in the world. I'm not making any more insulin.
• 27:06
  Speaker 3: So it's just like making sure that people are understand
• 27:09
  Speaker 3: you know, this disease and you know they're getting it
• 27:11
  Speaker 3: from a trusted source.
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: Okay, we only have two minutes left, so let's kind
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: of zero in on the American Diabetes Association or the
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: ADA and their Step Out Walk, which is coming up
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: at panc Park September twenty sixth. It starts early now,
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: the walk is roughly probably after ten o'clock.
• 27:29
  Speaker 3: Yeah, so the gates open at eight thirty, and we
• 27:31
  Speaker 3: encourage people to come early and enjoy everything in the
• 27:33
  Speaker 3: walk itself. Usually do our opening ceremony around ten to fifteen.
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: All right, And their goal this year is a million
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: dollars now, Pittsburgh. Now we've we've punched above our weight
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: open we can do it, but this one is this
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: is a lofty goal, and so we really encourage you
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: to sign up and you can sign up.
• 27:50
  Speaker 3: At diabetes dot org backslash Pittsburgh, step out walk, oh yeah, or.
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: You can just googogle google the good old American Diabetes
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: to say eighty Pittsburgh. So anyway, uh so, yeah, you're
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: encouraging people to put Yeah, it really is. It'll be
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: really fun, it really is.
• 28:10
  Speaker 3: And it'll take all of us. Like, who doesn't want
• 28:12
  Speaker 3: to see Pittsburgh, Wynn, We're the city of champions.
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: That's right. You're all right, Elizabeth out of towner. But
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: I welcome you to Pittsburgh.
• 28:20
  Speaker 4: Thank you, and thank you for your hospitality.
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: Now, is there anything that that you we didn't cover
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: that you think people ought to know about either diabetes
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: or the ADA?
• 28:33
  Speaker 4: Just to come out and introduce yourself and meet us,
• 28:37
  Speaker 4: and I think it'll be an incredible time.
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: All right. You want to mention some of your sponsors
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: real quick, so because they're they're.
• 28:45
  Speaker 2: So wonderful them.
• 28:46
  Speaker 3: So we were just talking around the car because I
• 28:48
  Speaker 3: saw a lot of them this morning, I mean UPMC.
• 28:51
  Speaker 3: Obviously under Mark Timbore's leadership has been instrumental. GNC, who's
• 28:55
  Speaker 3: been one of our largest partners now for multiple years,
• 28:58
  Speaker 3: have been phenomenal. Like I said, under Andy's leadership with
• 29:01
  Speaker 3: Chicken of the Sea. They've been great and I just
• 29:03
  Speaker 3: want to thank the entire legal community and really how
• 29:06
  Speaker 3: they've rallied around Mark and our cause.
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: Oh Mark is still here?
• 29:09
  Speaker 3: Hi?
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: Mark, you've been listening the whole talk.
• 29:12
  Speaker 2: Have you been there the whole time?
• 29:14
  Speaker 5: I'm still here?
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: Oh, bless your heart, mister UPMC executive has the time
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: to listen to all this.
• 29:22
  Speaker 2: Thank you babbling Marks.
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: Mark, thank you so much for your time. And I
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: can't believe he stayed with us this whole time.
• 29:31
  Speaker 3: You're here, Mark, will you give us you give us
• 29:33
  Speaker 3: the parting words because we're going to run.
• 29:36
  Speaker 5: Through the tape or walk through the tape.
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: Yes, all right, Mark, thank you, Chelsea, Elizabeth, thank you
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: for your time. Good luck with a Step Out Walk again.
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: If somebody wants to sign up, what's the.
• 29:46
  Speaker 3: Website diabetes dot org backslash Pittsburgh Step Out Walk. We'll
• 29:50
  Speaker 3: see you there September twenty six.
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: As always, if you have any comments, a concern, or
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: an idea for a future program, please email us from
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: this radio station's website. I'm Johnny. Thank you so much
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: for listening. As always, if you have any comments, a concern,
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: or an idea for our future program. Please email us
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: from this radio station's website. I'm Johnny Heartwell, thank you
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: so much for listening.