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Huntsman Mental Health Radiothon with Listener Experience from May 29th, 2026 · The Radio From Hell Show - Best Of

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  Speaker 1: Listen the Huntsman Mental Health Foundation, where this is the
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  Speaker 1: very first time I think we've ever done something like
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  Speaker 1: this with Huntsman. It's they we're trying to raise money
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  Speaker 1: for the Mental Health Foundation. You can make your donation
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  Speaker 1: right now called eight eight eight nine eight nine zero
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  Speaker 1: nine sixty three. Excuse me. Adam is here. He's the
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  Speaker 1: vice president, vice president of Awareness. I like that.
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  Speaker 2: What does that mean vice president of Awareness.
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  Speaker 3: Well, what that means is that we just make everybody
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  Speaker 3: aware of the fact that there is a cause for
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  Speaker 3: mental health. And so that's really our marketing and communications efforts.
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  Speaker 4: There's a cause for mental health.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, sir.
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  Speaker 3: A lot of people don't realize that they can actually
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  Speaker 3: donate to mental health cause. In fact, ninety seven percent
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  Speaker 3: of Americans can at least agree on one thing, and
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  Speaker 3: that's that we're in a mental health crisis. But fewer
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  Speaker 3: than two percent of philanthropic donations actually go.
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  Speaker 2: To mental health cause.
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  Speaker 3: Oh I see, and so we're trying to stop that,
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  Speaker 3: right and trying to help people see, hey, this is
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  Speaker 3: where you can fund all your money.
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  Speaker 2: So we think a lot of people want to help
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  Speaker 2: with mental health, but they just don't know where they
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  Speaker 2: don't know how where tell them where their money is going.
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  Speaker 3: So the money that we raise that Huntsman Mental Health
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  Speaker 3: Foundation directly supports the work of the Huntsman Mental Health Institute.
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  Speaker 3: And the institute is a hospital and they offer outpatient services.
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  Speaker 3: They have the Crisis Care Center which is down in
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  Speaker 3: South Salt Lake. It is the first of it's kind
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  Speaker 3: in Utah and really with what they offer, one of
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  Speaker 3: the very first in the country. Basically, it's like an
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  Speaker 3: emergency room for mental health.
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  Speaker 1: So if you're in crisis, so you can go there
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  Speaker 1: twenty four hours a day, seven days a week or
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  Speaker 1: and this is also I understand a place where you know,
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  Speaker 1: police often encounter people who are having mental health crisis.
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  Speaker 1: They're not really that equipped to deal with that kind
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  Speaker 1: of thing. They can take people.
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  Speaker 3: There, absolutely, Yeah, So a lot of times people that
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  Speaker 3: have law enforcement run ins are in a mental health situation,
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  Speaker 3: right and so typically officers rather to take them to
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  Speaker 3: the emergency room, and with laws, the officers raptured to
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  Speaker 3: stay in the emergency room for the duration with that person.
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  Speaker 3: For the duration of the time there, they couldn't leave.
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  Speaker 3: At the mental health crisis care center, they come in,
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  Speaker 3: there's a private entrance for that person, so they don't
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  Speaker 3: have to come in through the front.
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  Speaker 2: It's they maintain their dignity.
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  Speaker 3: The officers can bring them there, they get stabilized, and
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  Speaker 3: the officers can go about doing their work.
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  Speaker 2: It make things better for everybody across the board.
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  Speaker 1: Yah, And there is there's some inpatient facility there as well.
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  Speaker 2: Right if needed.
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  Speaker 3: Most people come in, they spend twenty three hours there
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  Speaker 3: at most, and then they can go out with a
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  Speaker 3: plan to how to keep their mental health strong. But
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  Speaker 3: if they need additional support, there is an impatient unit there.
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  Speaker 3: I think it's important to point out though, Bill, you
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  Speaker 3: mentioned the word crisis, but crisis can mean a lot
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  Speaker 3: of things to different people.
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  Speaker 4: Right.
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  Speaker 2: One thing that a clinician over there shared with me.
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  Speaker 3: Was that a crisis can look like, Oh, I'm going
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  Speaker 3: on vacation, I don't have my medication I need to
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  Speaker 3: get I need to get it filled quickly. They could
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  Speaker 3: help you with that.
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  Speaker 1: Oh that is good to know, and it's you know,
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  Speaker 1: and it's it's nice to know that there's a place
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  Speaker 1: if you have a family member that's just you just.
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  Speaker 4: You don't know what to do with them.
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  Speaker 1: It's it's so hard you can take them there and
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  Speaker 1: say please, please help my family member here, and.
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  Speaker 2: Yes and no questions asked, no questions asked.
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  Speaker 3: And what I always say to people is don't overthink it,
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  Speaker 3: just go Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And it's and all of this it costs money to do.
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  Speaker 1: I mean because you have you have social workers there,
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  Speaker 1: you have doctors there intake people. It's not and it's
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  Speaker 1: a I haven't been over there, but it's a beautiful
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  Speaker 1: I understand.
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  Speaker 4: It's just a beautiful facility. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Uh and and a place where you walk in and
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  Speaker 1: you might you feel a little bit calmed just by
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  Speaker 1: being there.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely, absolutely, So if.
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  Speaker 1: You can help out to do this, support this work
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  Speaker 1: with the Huntsman Foundation. Now, the Huntsman Family Foundation is
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  Speaker 1: still matching every dollar.
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  Speaker 3: You're matching every dollar that comes in right now. So
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  Speaker 3: encourage everybody to double their donation. You mentioned build the
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  Speaker 3: cost that crisis care center. It cost them eighty thousand
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  Speaker 3: dollars a day just to keep the doors day day. Well,
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  Speaker 3: that's why donations are so critical.
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  Speaker 1: Eight eight eight nine eight nine zero nine six three
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  Speaker 1: is the number you can make a one time donation,
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  Speaker 1: or they would encourage you to become a monthly donor.
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  Speaker 5: That's kind of set it and forget it, which is
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  Speaker 5: kind of nice, like as little that you get this shirt,
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  Speaker 5: it's a cause that you that you care about, and
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  Speaker 5: you can just set it up and you don't have
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  Speaker 5: to think about it anymore.
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  Speaker 1: And you get your Brain is Beautiful t shirt, which
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  Speaker 1: is and you can go to your your Brain is
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  Speaker 1: Beautiful dot org. Always make a donation there as well.
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  Speaker 1: But Gina just donated via text super.
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  Speaker 2: Ea while we were doing all this.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I just picked up my phone and I text
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  Speaker 5: hope to three three nine eighty six. Immediately got a
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  Speaker 5: link back, and I just did my Google pay on
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  Speaker 5: my phone and you guys didn't even know I was
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  Speaker 5: doing that.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you, Gina.
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  Speaker 1: Gina, she's secretive for she doesn't she doesn't want anybody
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  Speaker 1: to know she makes these charitable donations until she talks
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  Speaker 1: about it on the radio.
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  Speaker 5: I just meant it's easy, Like if you're listening right
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  Speaker 5: now at work, like a lot of people do.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe you can't call.
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  Speaker 5: Maybe being on the phone and making a phone call
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  Speaker 5: is difficult for you to do.
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  Speaker 2: You can do what I just right there.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah eight eight nine eight nine zero nine sixty three.
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  Speaker 1: That's the phone bank. Out in our CANTEENA there, We've
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  Speaker 1: got Lacey on the phone. She has recently been to
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  Speaker 1: Huntsman for help.
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  Speaker 4: Nice finally are you there?
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  Speaker 6: Hey, guys, what's up?
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  Speaker 4: Hey?
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  Speaker 6: What? Let me listen?
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  Speaker 1: Thank Yeah, you're welcome. Listen, Lacy, you have used the
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  Speaker 1: services I have.
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  Speaker 6: At the end of last year, I found myself in
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  Speaker 6: a suicidal state, and I went to the crisis care
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  Speaker 6: center where I stayed less than twenty four hours, and
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  Speaker 6: then they found me a bed upstairs and I stayed
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  Speaker 6: in the intercent facilities.
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  Speaker 4: And what was your experience talking a little bit about it?
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, everyone was really professional, all of I had a
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  Speaker 6: full care team. There was besides the prescribing psychiatrist, there
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  Speaker 6: was a social worker and pure advocates. And the daily
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  Speaker 6: routine was really helpful. And it is a beautiful garden outside.
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  Speaker 6: He has a beautiful grounds and it's just the one
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  Speaker 6: of the windows faces east and you can watch the Sundays.
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  Speaker 4: And how long did you stay there, Lacey?
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  Speaker 6: I was there for two weeks and then insurance said
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  Speaker 6: I was well enough to leave, which I was.
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  Speaker 1: But it was I mean, it was it was a
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  Speaker 1: place where you could just get stable and you're and
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  Speaker 1: you're doing okay now.
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  Speaker 6: Absolutely great.
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  Speaker 4: All right, Lacey, Thank you lady, thanks for calling.
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  Speaker 5: You got a nice text here, Yeah, says my step
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  Speaker 5: son was feeling so lost last year and needed help.
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  Speaker 5: We didn't have the means or tools to properly handle
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  Speaker 5: his situation. Recommended he go to the hunts facility. He
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  Speaker 5: did and it literally saved his life.
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  Speaker 7: Thank you. Still, those are the kind of stories that
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  Speaker 7: people need to hear and realize how important this facility is.
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  Speaker 7: So call the phone bank. It's right out there. Eight
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  Speaker 7: eight eight nine eight nine zero nine sixty three. Text
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  Speaker 7: the word hope to three three nine eighty six, or
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  Speaker 7: go to your Brain is Beautiful dot org.
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  Speaker 1: It's great, great work that Huntsman does and the world
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  Speaker 1: class cancer research and now world class research and help
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  Speaker 1: for mental help. Thanks for coming in, Adam, and thank you.
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  Speaker 3: We're grateful to the Huntsman family when you think about them,
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  Speaker 3: that what they've done for cancer, they're.
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  Speaker 2: Doing with mental health.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, thank you, Adam. Thanks all right, go answer those phones.
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  Speaker 1: I'm sure they're ringing off the hook, right, Yes,