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Talk Line 09-18-2026: Heather Grobe talks Dixon Family YMCA events & classes · WIXN AM 1460 - Shaw Local Radio

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  Speaker 1: It's just about 8 22 on your Friday morning. Welcome
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  Speaker 1: to the cusp of the weekend folks It's time for
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  Speaker 1: talk line and our good friends from the Dixon family
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  Speaker 1: YMCA joining us for talk line this morning Heather grope
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  Speaker 1: here in the studio. How are you today?
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  Speaker 2: I'm good. How are you?
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  Speaker 1: I'm fine. It's uh, it's always comfortable in the studio
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  Speaker 1: You brave folks are always coming in throughout the the weather.
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  Speaker 1: I'm glad it was a bit of a A dry period.
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  Speaker 1: Last few days it would have been just.
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  Speaker 2: Soaking right now. Oh, yesterday morning was a wet one,
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  Speaker 2: that's for sure.
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  Speaker 1: But that's, you know, that's all right. Things are drying out.
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  Speaker 1: Things going on as usual at the Y, including the
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  Speaker 1: completion of maintenance for the annual shutdown, right?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, we do. Every year we do an annual shutdown
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  Speaker 2: just to kind of spruce up some things, refinish the
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  Speaker 2: gym floor, the studio floor, drain the pool and fix
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  Speaker 2: any tiles, anything like that. And we actually around that
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  Speaker 2: same time encountered some maintenance things that we could take
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  Speaker 2: care of. So the pool heater had some maintenance done
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  Speaker 2: to it. So it's up and going and we're business
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  Speaker 2: as usual on that front.
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  Speaker 1: There you go. It's not spring, but it's spring cleaning
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  Speaker 1: in the sense and spring cleaning seems to happen a
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  Speaker 1: good twice a year. So fellas, if your wife's asking
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  Speaker 1: you to clean up a, everybody's out here doing it. The,
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  Speaker 1: the why did it for the entire building. So that's cool.
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  Speaker 1: Love hearing that. Um, and folks have a chance to
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  Speaker 1: register now for some, some classes, uh, some lessons in basketball, right? Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: We've got, um, swim lesson registration actually opened today. Uh,
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  Speaker 2: we took the month of August off from offering swim
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  Speaker 2: lessons in September, just with that shutdown kind of straddling
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  Speaker 2: the two months. Um, We weren't able to offer classes
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  Speaker 2: at that time, but we've got a session that will
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  Speaker 2: start the first weekend in October. So we've got some
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  Speaker 2: youth lessons going on, parent-child lessons, and those can, like
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  Speaker 2: I said, be registered today, either in person at the
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  Speaker 2: Y or online. And then same thing with boys basketball
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  Speaker 2: registration for second through fifth grade. That's going on right
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  Speaker 2: now online, in person. The deadline for that is October 10th.
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  Speaker 2: So you've got a couple more weeks to get your
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  Speaker 2: second through fifth grade boys signed up, and then the
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  Speaker 2: season will start a couple weeks after that.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, sports season's just in full swing around the Sauk Valley.
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  Speaker 1: Great time to get signed up, though. While you do
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  Speaker 1: have a little bit of time, earlier is always better.
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  Speaker 1: Best not to wait. Swim lessons, I mean, that's fantastic.
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  Speaker 1: The benefit of having an indoor pool at the Y
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  Speaker 1: means even as the temperatures start to drop, you know,
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  Speaker 1: that pool heater going, you can still have some wet
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  Speaker 1: fun at the Dixon Y.
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  Speaker 2: Yep, yep. It's nice to do the lessons through the
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  Speaker 2: winter because by the time summer comes around, then you've
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  Speaker 2: got some confident, safe swimmers.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely. And speaking of getting closer to the winter
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  Speaker 1: as this thing goes on, we'd be remiss not to
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  Speaker 1: talk about Halloween because there's always Halloween events happening at
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  Speaker 1: the Y.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, we've got our annual Halloween family party coming up
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  Speaker 2: on October 17th. That's an indoor event, 6 to 8 p.m.
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  Speaker 2: on that Saturday night. We do ask for advanced registration
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  Speaker 2: because there's a small registration fee for the family, and
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  Speaker 2: we provide snacks and games and a haunted maze and
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  Speaker 2: some music and just fun for the whole family. Like
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  Speaker 2: I said, inside, weather can be fickle this time of year,
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  Speaker 2: so having an indoor event for that is great. And
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  Speaker 2: then the following weekend will be downtown Dixon with Discover
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  Speaker 2: Dixon at their Treat Street Parade and Palooza event. I
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  Speaker 2: know the parade kicks off around 9 a.m., but then
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  Speaker 2: we'll be at Trunk or Treat at the OSF Circle
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  Speaker 2: Drive around 10 a.m. So all the downtown businesses open
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  Speaker 2: up and allow trick-or-treating, and several organizations come together in
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  Speaker 2: that parking lot. So we'll be there for that as well.
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  Speaker 2: And then we've got our trick-or-treat event at the YMCA.
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  Speaker 2: It's an outdoor event on October 29th. It's a Thursday evening,
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  Speaker 2: so it's free to the community. In our north parking
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  Speaker 2: lot across the street, we just have different groups and
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  Speaker 2: organizations come together and supply some fun and goodies for
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  Speaker 2: the kids.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, always all fantastic events. It's nice to have somewhere
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  Speaker 1: to take your kids. It's going to be safe indoors
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  Speaker 1: being able to enjoy that activity. And then also a spot,
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  Speaker 1: those trunk retreats have really become popular because it's like
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  Speaker 1: kids getting to hit multiple stops, but all right there.
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  Speaker 1: in the safety of the parking lot and with everybody
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  Speaker 1: over there watching. So they've just become really cool, and
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  Speaker 1: I'm glad that that's something everyone continues to look forward
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  Speaker 1: to the Y doing that each year and knowing that'll
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  Speaker 1: be a spot to hit. So there you go. There's
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  Speaker 1: your confirmation. Not that there was any reason to worry anyways,
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  Speaker 1: but we've got it here. There's more programs you guys have. Always,
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  Speaker 1: you know, there's always a bevy of programs and classes
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  Speaker 1: going on there, and it seems like it just never stops.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, we've got... you know, aside from the current programs
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  Speaker 2: we've got going on, our land fitness classes that are
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  Speaker 2: always running, things like that, we do have coming up
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  Speaker 2: here after boys basketball kicks off and the season starts,
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  Speaker 2: then we open registration for girls basketball for the second
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  Speaker 2: through fifth graders. There'll be a registration window and then
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  Speaker 2: the season kicks off. And once, usually shortly after that
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  Speaker 2: season kicks off, then we open up our registration for
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  Speaker 2: the little ones for basketball. We call it our bitty
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  Speaker 2: ball program. So Both of those programs will run after Christmas,
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  Speaker 2: but before we know it, it'll be time to get
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  Speaker 2: those started. So we just want to keep that on
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  Speaker 2: everyone's radar that the registration for those programs will be
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  Speaker 2: coming up after our boys' season kicks off.
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  Speaker 1: There you go. Mark it on your calendars. Again, it's
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  Speaker 1: always better earlier than later. Put those things, and then
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  Speaker 1: you almost forget, and the deadline comes up, and you're like, ah!
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  Speaker 1: I've been there before when my kids were young. I've
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  Speaker 1: learned the hard way.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, we see about 50% of our registrations come in
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  Speaker 2: within about five days of that registration deadline. And that's fine.
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  Speaker 2: We'll take them when we can get them. But we
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  Speaker 2: don't want to cause panic for anyone or have anyone
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  Speaker 2: miss it. So try to spread the word as much
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  Speaker 2: as we can ahead of time.
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  Speaker 1: And that's why she's here now letting you know. But
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  Speaker 1: of course, if maybe you've missed this conversation, you're listening online,
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  Speaker 1: to it later today under the podcast, or you're wanting
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  Speaker 1: more details on anything we've talked about, and so much
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  Speaker 1: more when it comes to the Y, because I don't
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  Speaker 1: think Heather and I have enough time in TalkLine to
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  Speaker 1: talk about all the Y offers. Where can they go
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  Speaker 1: to do.
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  Speaker 2: That, Heather? Our website, dixonymca.org, has registration links, schedules, any
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  Speaker 2: of this information we're going over today. Our Facebook page
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  Speaker 2: also has all the flyers, and we post regularly. on
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  Speaker 2: there to kind of get the word out, remind people.
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  Speaker 2: So we'll share the flyers with the registration links, or
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  Speaker 2: you can just stop into the Y anytime that we're open,
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  Speaker 2: and the front desk is always there and willing to
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  Speaker 2: get people signed up.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely. Whether you're the shy type or the chatty kind,
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  Speaker 1: the YMCA has got you covered. Anything else you wanted
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  Speaker 1: to share this morning, Heather?
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  Speaker 2: I don't think so. I think we covered most everything
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  Speaker 2: I've got, so.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I appreciate you always coming on the show, giving
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  Speaker 1: us these updates so our listeners know what's going on
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  Speaker 1: with the Y and, of course, all the work that
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  Speaker 1: you and everyone do at the Y to make sure
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  Speaker 1: it's just such a great community organization. And I want
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  Speaker 1: to put it out there. Maybe you can tell me
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  Speaker 1: since you guys are always adding programs. But if anybody's interested,
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  Speaker 1: I think we need an adult dodgeball league.
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  Speaker 2: An adult dodgeball league. In August, we had a youth
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  Speaker 2: and family director start. and he oversees all of the
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  Speaker 2: sports programming and things like that. So I'll send that
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  Speaker 2: his way because he's looking for some new ideas to
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  Speaker 2: kind of change things up a little bit.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to spread the word, too. There's got to
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  Speaker 1: be somebody out there with me who's picturing Ben Stiller
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  Speaker 1: when I said that and getting very excited with me
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  Speaker 1: and feeling the grip of those old rubber dodgeballs. But
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  Speaker 1: all fun aside, Heather, thank you so much again for
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  Speaker 1: coming on the show, and we look forward to your
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  Speaker 1: future updates.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you.