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Todd Shapiro | 06-19-26 · Sid & Friends In The Morning

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  Speaker 1: Some health insurance providers in Ireland waste your time leaving
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  Speaker 1: you waiting to be seen by a doctor at Level Health.
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  Speaker 1: We're fed up with all the waiting around. It's about
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  Speaker 1: time you had twenty four to seven instant access to doctors.
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  Speaker 1: by Aviva Insurance Ireland AK Level Health Ireland Limited, trading
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  Speaker 1: as Level Health, is regulated by the Central Bank of Ireland.
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  Speaker 2: That is, in Ukraine, they're correct, Taichapiros in the Ukraine too.
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  Speaker 3: Tad Shapiro, tell us what's going on? You guys led
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  Speaker 3: a delegation to the Ukraine.
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  Speaker 4: Well, I'm only you know.
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  Speaker 5: Part of the delegation, but you know, I guess I'm.
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  Speaker 6: The media part of it. But it's an incredible experience
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  Speaker 6: to go to go to Ukraine. It takes you know,
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  Speaker 6: eight hours to you know, you have to go from
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  Speaker 6: either from Hungary or you have to go from Poland
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  Speaker 6: there's no airspace. You can't just fly in and go
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  Speaker 6: through humanitarian in other words.
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  Speaker 3: They won't they won't let you land in Ukraine. You
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  Speaker 3: went to hungering Land and then driven to the Ukraine.
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  Speaker 4: Exactly.
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  Speaker 6: It's it's easy to take capital airlines today which doesn't
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  Speaker 6: exist as you know.
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  Speaker 5: But but you know, if there's no way to there's
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  Speaker 5: no way.
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  Speaker 6: To get there right now other than other than you
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  Speaker 6: driven in there. They have like navy, a Navy CEO,
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  Speaker 6: a scientist and this is a it's called Heroes for Heroes.
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  Speaker 4: For football and this is foundation.
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  Speaker 6: The Attacking Foundation started this a few years ago. It's
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  Speaker 6: really a brilliant thing now in the United States.
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  Speaker 3: Again, all the Europeans coming to the United States playing
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  Speaker 3: soccer and you guys went to Ukraine to play football,
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  Speaker 3: American football.
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  Speaker 4: It sounds like a Polish joke, right, but it's not.
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  Speaker 6: It's actually it's not really uh, I'm kidding, it's it's
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  Speaker 6: it's really an amazing well heroes here a football for
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  Speaker 6: heroes program and he did and George the governor, former
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  Speaker 6: governor did this with the with Roger you know Rogers
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  Speaker 6: Dell from the NFL, where they set up a program
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  Speaker 6: bringing footballs. A lot of the troops in you know,
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  Speaker 6: in Ukraine, have children. Their children are restless as that
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  Speaker 6: as their fathers are out you know, fighting and away
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  Speaker 6: there sitting in these small villages and homes. So they
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  Speaker 6: brought American football into the Ukraine where they actually have
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  Speaker 6: soldiers as coaches, Ukrainian soldiers.
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  Speaker 5: Not American.
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  Speaker 4: So imagine American.
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  Speaker 6: Football, you know, touchdown, not the one you kick like
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  Speaker 6: they're doing here in and you know it at Meadowlands
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  Speaker 6: or whatever you want to call it.
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  Speaker 4: Today over in East.
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  Speaker 6: Rudford, it's a whole it's a whole different kind of thing,
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  Speaker 6: you know, a whole different kind of thing, and it's
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  Speaker 6: doing really well. It's we're excited. They'll expect about five
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  Speaker 6: hundred kids that will be you know, that will be
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  Speaker 6: that will be there. And I'm I'm just blessed to
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  Speaker 6: be part of this program, fall for Heroes program.
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  Speaker 4: Now, how many.
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  Speaker 3: People are on you how many people in delegation?
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  Speaker 6: We have ten people, and it's I'm excited. It's one
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  Speaker 6: of the you know, the greatest experience in my life.
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  Speaker 6: The only thing that scares me is that, you know,
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  Speaker 6: thirty thousand Russians get killed every month in Ukraine, you know,
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  Speaker 6: but they but they have apps. They give you an
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  Speaker 6: app that tells you when the drone is coming. So
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  Speaker 6: you know, I feel good, you know, I feel lucky.
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  Speaker 3: Now you have an app on your cell phone and
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  Speaker 3: it goes off when the drone is coming for you.
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  Speaker 6: Okay, okay, yeah, go It goes off and tells you
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  Speaker 6: when and when when a drone is getting close to here.
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  Speaker 3: How do you have you can't get on the phone
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  Speaker 3: with us.
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  Speaker 5: He's not he's you know, they're wrestling. They're in a
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  Speaker 5: different different area right now.
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  Speaker 6: But Owen Pataki, the governor's son, who's leading the delegation,
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  Speaker 6: because you know, he's a battacking and there's nothing better
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  Speaker 6: than the Bataki Foundation to have this happen. He's a
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  Speaker 6: former military right he was in the army. He served
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  Speaker 6: in Afghanistan. So it's really uh, I'm sorry, it's really
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  Speaker 6: nice to have him, you know, doing what he's doing,
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  Speaker 6: having his father, you know, put this together for us.
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  Speaker 6: I mean, he's been doing this for several years. They
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  Speaker 6: were bringing they were bringing heaters, they were bringing you know,
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  Speaker 6: you know, humanitarian foods the last several years when his
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  Speaker 6: first war started. It's not just doing this now, they've
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  Speaker 6: been providing millions of dollars in humanitarian aid. And listen
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  Speaker 6: to governor at eight years old, could be sitting there,
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  Speaker 6: you know, thinking about you know, you know, the beach.
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  Speaker 6: He cares about people. He cares about helping people and
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  Speaker 6: doing the right thing. And that's what the Battacki Foundation
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  Speaker 6: is all about. That's what he started. They get a
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  Speaker 6: million dollar grant from the US State Department, So the
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  Speaker 6: US State Department is involved in this program and then
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  Speaker 6: providing you know, listen what people think we're not. You know,
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  Speaker 6: we're paying attention to one war over in the Middle East.
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  Speaker 6: You know, we really have compassion for the Ukraine and
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  Speaker 6: for the people over him more more of the families, and.
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  Speaker 3: In the State Department gave a million dollar grant to
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  Speaker 3: do this football UH for the UH for the Ukraine
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  Speaker 3: people or is it for United States soldiers?
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  Speaker 6: It was for the for this program that was set
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  Speaker 6: up by the by the governor.
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  Speaker 2: He tied us to Jake Novak speaking. You know, it
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  Speaker 2: speaks to the popularity by the way you American football
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  Speaker 2: connected to US military bases and then also bleeding over
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  Speaker 2: to the local populations. It's nothing new. There have been
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  Speaker 2: American NFL stars who grew up playing in Europe and
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  Speaker 2: then came to the United States either you know, maybe
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  Speaker 2: did a year or two of college and then went
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  Speaker 2: to the NFL. You know, as John mentioned, we're we're
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  Speaker 2: in the midst of this World Cup thing where it's
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  Speaker 2: being jammed down our throat soccer soccer, soccer, soccer. Uh,
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  Speaker 2: it's nice to see the United States promoting our number
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  Speaker 2: one American sport, which is American football, over there. And
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  Speaker 2: they love it there. I mean, you know, Roger Goodell,
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  Speaker 2: you mentioned his name. You know, the NFL has got
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  Speaker 2: to be loving the response to those NFL games that
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  Speaker 2: have been going on in Europe. They are playing more
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  Speaker 2: and more games in Europe every year, including this coming season.
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  Speaker 3: Uh.
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  Speaker 2: This is an investment in the future for the NFL.
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  Speaker 2: And it's they love it, don't they.
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  Speaker 4: The deal with the kids.
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  Speaker 6: If you see the kids' faces in the Ukraine, how wonderful.
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  Speaker 5: Its just it makes a difference.
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  Speaker 4: In the lives of people.
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  Speaker 6: And you know what what you know what what Governor
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  Speaker 6: Battacki's foundation is doing. You know, in it, in it,
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  Speaker 6: in the in the Greek word it's called mitzvah. Is
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  Speaker 6: that Greek or Jewish?
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  Speaker 2: I don't even know that's a Hebrew word, but I'm
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  Speaker 2: sure there's a Greek word. It has a Greek origin.
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  Speaker 6: As town I think John has one one percent of
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  Speaker 6: every everything there is anyway, So bottom bottom line, the
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  Speaker 6: word mits for you know, he's doing a misfit for
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  Speaker 6: the people here, He's doing a mis for the children.
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  Speaker 6: I mean, these troops are you know, is a fighting,
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  Speaker 6: you know, to try to survive and keep their nationalism,
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  Speaker 6: keep their country alive. Imagine if Russians came into your
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  Speaker 6: country trying to take your home and all of a sudden,
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  Speaker 6: I mean I remember going here last year. I mean
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  Speaker 6: I saw buildings that are blown up when we were
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  Speaker 6: giving heaters, giant industrial heaters, the size of you know,
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  Speaker 6: the size of cars to keep people warm in the
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  Speaker 6: middle of the cold, because there's nothing worse than being
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  Speaker 6: in the Ukraine or being in that some of these weathers,
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  Speaker 6: some of the weather and not having heat to keep
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  Speaker 6: your family warm. And sometimes when you look at things,
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  Speaker 6: you know, we complain about little things, you really forget
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  Speaker 6: about the big picture of life, about the things that.
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  Speaker 4: When people don't have a place to live and they.
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  Speaker 5: Go homeless, they don't have food on their things.
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  Speaker 6: You really look at life and it takes a different turn.
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  Speaker 6: So is it worth risking your life to come to
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  Speaker 6: a thing to help people one hundred percent because you know,
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  Speaker 6: these people needed needed, need, a need, a blessing, and
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  Speaker 6: the BATTACKI Foundation is providing that blessing for them. And
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  Speaker 6: it's you know, it's just you see the smile on
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  Speaker 6: these kids' faces by just touching a football, I mean
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  Speaker 6: American football. I mean I went to the you know,
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  Speaker 6: the the what do you call it, the the the
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  Speaker 6: World Cup a few days ago, and that was it
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  Speaker 6: was great, It was amazing.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, you know, quest your two hundred dollars for lunch.
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  Speaker 6: But when you see you know, a five dollar you know,
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  Speaker 6: a five dollar hot dog being given, you know, and
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  Speaker 6: I gotta tell you that great great hot dogs there
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  Speaker 6: by the way. But when you see a hot dog
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  Speaker 6: being given, you know, to uh with footballs and its
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  Speaker 6: just it brings American back home and it makes you
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  Speaker 6: look at the big picture in life. And John does
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  Speaker 6: does mixers every day, so he knows what that's like.
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  Speaker 3: Well, Todd, stay in touch with us from the Ukraine,
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  Speaker 3: and if owen Pack is available later on, we'd love
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  Speaker 3: to talk to him and get his perspective on things
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  Speaker 3: and and we'll stay safe and we'll talk to you
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  Speaker 3: again soon.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and tell Owen. Maybe the State Department can help
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  Speaker 2: his old Cornell football team because they haven't had a
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  Speaker 2: winning season in time.
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  Speaker 6: Well a person, Okay, I got I gotta tell you,
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  Speaker 6: tell you one quick, funny story, real quick. So last
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  Speaker 6: year I was there and my wife, you know, I
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  Speaker 6: called my wife and I was sitting at McDonald's and
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  Speaker 6: Kiev and they had two mercenaries sitting next to me
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  Speaker 6: with guns. I FaceTime, I what are you doing? I said,
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  Speaker 6: I'm having launch a McDonald's. God be careful, so you
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  Speaker 6: know it's just whatever.
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  Speaker 3: Today saved day safe. I hope you got that app
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  Speaker 3: on your telephone so if if drone is coming for.
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  Speaker 4: You, you know it's the throne phone.
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  Speaker 3: We gotta go. We got Rod on the other line
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  Speaker 3: last night.
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  Speaker 4: I love you all. Thank you, thank you.
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