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Speaker 1: It's the John Jay and Rich Christmas Wish. What oh

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Speaker 1: four to seven kiss f I met John Jay and Rich.

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Speaker 2: Uh.

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Speaker 1: This is Christmas Wish, first one of twenty twenty five. Jody,

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Speaker 1: good morning, Good morning.

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Speaker 2: Tell us a little bit about the people that we're

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Speaker 2: going to grant this wish for.

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Speaker 3: They are wonderful people. It's Josh and Mandy and they

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Speaker 3: have four kids. Mandy actually just gave birth on December

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Speaker 3: first with a newborn baby, and she was six pounds

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Speaker 3: two ounces. They've got a two year old boy, Nate.

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Speaker 3: They have Charlotte and Violet, violets eight and Charlotte's eleven.

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Speaker 2: But what are they going through? So you don't, I mean,

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Speaker 2: don't read the letter. Just tell us like just I mean,

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Speaker 2: you read the letter to them, But I just wanted

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Speaker 2: to talk to you about them.

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Speaker 3: They are so Josh was on family medical leave for

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Speaker 3: about six or seven months, so his pay was cut drastically.

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Speaker 3: Mandy had lost her job for a little bit and

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Speaker 3: then started working weekends only sometimes Thursdays or Fridays.

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Speaker 1: How do you know them?

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Speaker 3: I've known them a long time. My kids grew up

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Speaker 3: with their family. I've known them for a long time,

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Speaker 3: Like literally, my son was best friends with Mandy's brother Cody.

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Speaker 1: So we're gonna call Mandy. Where's she right now?

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Speaker 3: She's had her mom's she went to her moms because

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Speaker 3: of the scyrian that she had.

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Speaker 1: She's still recovering.

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Speaker 3: She's still in December for only a couple of days ago. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: and she's got the four kids, so.

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Speaker 2: Okay, and she has no idea when you call her. Okay,

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Speaker 2: all right, we're gonna get her. We're gonna call her

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Speaker 2: right now.

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Speaker 4: Okay, Hi, if you record your name and reason for calling,

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Speaker 4: I'll see if this person is available.

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Speaker 1: It's John Jay and Rich from iHeartRadio.

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Speaker 4: Thanks John Jay, please stay on the line.

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Speaker 1: Hello Mandy. Yes, Hey, it's John Jay and Rich. Can

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Speaker 1: we put you on the radio with us for just

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Speaker 1: a minute please? Oh yeah, sure? Hey you know Jody.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, she wrote us a letter about you, okay, and

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Speaker 2: we asked her to come in.

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Speaker 1: The studio and read the letter to you live on

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Speaker 1: the air.

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Speaker 4: Okay.

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Speaker 1: Do you have a second, Yeah, okay, Jody, whenever you're ready.

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Speaker 3: Dare John Jay and Rich. I'm nominating Josh and Mandy.

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Speaker 3: They've been having some very difficult times with no light

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Speaker 3: at the end of the tunnel. Josh had to take

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Speaker 3: Family Medical Leave ACT time off for months due to

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Speaker 3: medical issues, and Mandy was working weekends sometimes Thursdays and

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Speaker 3: Fridays as a beer cart girl up until the day

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Speaker 3: she gave birth. They fell behind on all their bills

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Speaker 3: and payments. They have a beautiful family, four kids ages

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Speaker 3: on December first. Their months on their rent electric and

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Speaker 3: must get sometimes food from food banks weekly. Josh is

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Speaker 3: being on leave and is over and it's very overwhelming

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Speaker 3: for them. They also have major problems with both of

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Speaker 3: their vehicles. They're trying to stay afloat and are worried

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Speaker 3: they're never going to dig themselves out of this hole

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Speaker 3: they are in. Not to mention, Christmas will be so

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Speaker 3: very hard on them. I'm praying for them. It would

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Speaker 3: be so grateful if you could grant this very much

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Speaker 3: needed Christmas wish.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, we'd like to grant you a Christmas wish.

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Speaker 3: Thank you, Joy, You're welcome, I love you girls.

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Speaker 2: Thank our friends at United Food Bank are going to

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Speaker 2: make sure you have all you need for hot a meal,

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Speaker 2: so You're gonna get turkey, rolls, stuffing, canned goods, all

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Speaker 2: the fixes for the whole family. You're also to get

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Speaker 2: Agritopia farm in Gilbert, courtesy the Arizona Urban Agricultural Foundation.

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Speaker 2: Our friends at Kroger they've donated for you a two

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Speaker 4: Uh huh good.

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Speaker 2: And for you and Josh one hundred dollars gift card

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Speaker 2: just supercuts because your hairs needs your hair needs some work.

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Speaker 2: We're also going to give you a bunch of Pampers, Huggies,

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Speaker 2: white bourbon cloth, security blankets, teethirsts, everything.

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Speaker 1: For the new baby.

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Speaker 4: Oh so cool, thank you.

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Speaker 2: We got some stuff for Charlotte. We got our a

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Speaker 2: seven piece comforter set that's so cool, pony beads, bracelet kit,

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Speaker 2: Betty Boop dance collection, figuring mannequin artist, wooden doll set, roadblocks,

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Speaker 4: Wow, she's gonna be so excited.

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Speaker 2: We got her a six color temporary hair color wax

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Speaker 2: Crayola Artists Series color book and a fifty dollars gift

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Speaker 2: card to DSW.

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Speaker 1: Was cool for Violet.

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Speaker 2: A five piece purple microfiber bedding, Hello Kitty, Squish Mollow Mollow,

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Speaker 2: Hello Kitty lip Bombs, nail art, polished kit Roadblocks gift card,

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Speaker 2: one hundred and forty Krayola inspiration art case, a girl's

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Speaker 2: diary with lock and stationary set of Friendship bracelet set

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Speaker 4: So cool.

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Speaker 1: She's gonna be excited, you see, Jody. Okay.

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Speaker 2: For Nate, we got him a Max Action Construction toy set,

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Speaker 2: a pillowfort soft blanket, Miss Rachel, Big Feelings, Wooden puzzles,

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Speaker 2: a fifty nine piece Stem Construction Kids tool set, a

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Speaker 5: So cool. Thank you.

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Speaker 2: You got it all right, So Merry Christmas to you guys.

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Speaker 3: Thank you so much.

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Speaker 1: You guys have some car issues too.

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Speaker 4: Right, yeah, big time?

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Speaker 1: Like what you got some? Do you need tires? Oh gosh,

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Speaker 1: there's check ins and life on and both vehicles and

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Speaker 3: Is shutting off every time I'm driving it.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, all right, so let me walk you through a

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Speaker 2: couple things to do for your car. Oh, we have

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Speaker 1: He owns Big O' tires.

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Speaker 2: He has offered to give you two sets of new

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Speaker 4: That's awesome.

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Speaker 1: Does that help, Jody?

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Speaker 1: Also, car Life out of Repairs? Car Life out of Repair.

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Speaker 2: Scott Still has graciously donate one thousand dollars to diagnose

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Speaker 2: and fix the issues with your twenty fourteen Chevy Tahoe.

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Speaker 4: Awesome, thank you, that's great.

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Speaker 2: The Love Up Foundation is going to cover one month

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Speaker 2: of your electric bill.

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Speaker 1: How much is that electric?

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Speaker 3: Jeez, I don't know.

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Speaker 2: The electric just shut off this morning.

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Speaker 4: Actually, oh my gosh.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, we'll get that back on for you.

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Speaker 1: How much is your rent? Just over two thousand dollars?

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Speaker 2: Okay, Love Up will pay one month's rent for you

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Speaker 1: All right.

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Speaker 2: So Merry Christmas, Thank you, Mary, Christmas, Love you guys.

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Speaker 1: You.

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Speaker 2: If you open your door, we have a little Christmas elf.

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Speaker 2: Her name is Jess. Jess is outside right now. With

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Speaker 2: everything we just talked about, Oh great, if you open

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Speaker 2: those door. Jesse, are you there outside the house?

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Speaker 3: I'm here.

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Speaker 1: We've got Hi everybody.

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Speaker 3: Miranda's with us, Reunited Food Bank, and we've got Lashonda

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Speaker 4: Ry Christmas, Happy always.

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Speaker 3: Oh, we're so happy to do this for you and

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Speaker 3: your family. We have all of the goodies for you

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Speaker 3: as far.

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Speaker 1: We've got some coming via Amazon.

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Speaker 3: The Amazon elves are already working hard this year. Oh

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Speaker 3: my gosh.

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Speaker 4: Of course, we're so happy to.

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Speaker 1: Do this for you, Mandy. Mandy.

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Speaker 2: One more thing we haven't This is unexpected, but have

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Speaker 2: you ever heard of a learner in Row.

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Speaker 1: The law firm. That's the way to go. Yeah. Uh,

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Speaker 1: if you ever get to a car accident. No, Kevin Row.

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Speaker 2: Kevin Row is actually here in the studio and he

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Speaker 2: was He's just walked into our studio.

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Speaker 1: He was listening. What's up, Kevin? Hi?

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Speaker 5: John Jay him, Mandy. I wanted to say happy holidays

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Speaker 5: and congratulations.

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Speaker 3: Yeh, thank you, thank you.

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Speaker 1: So on behalf of learning Row gives back.

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Speaker 5: I would like to help you and your family out

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Speaker 5: and give you one thousand dollars in Target gift cards.

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Speaker 1: That's awesome, Thank you, I know.

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Speaker 5: There's a lot of needs with baby and new baby,

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Speaker 5: and obviously a lot.

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Speaker 1: Of your kids.

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Speaker 5: You can get gifts there as well too, so hopefully

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Speaker 4: Appreciate that very much.

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Speaker 1: Thank you, Mandy.

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Speaker 2: Jody said you were a If I heard this correctly,

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Speaker 2: you're nine months pregidant and a beer card girl.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean that should have been awesome. I think

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Speaker 1: holy smokes. Wow.

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Speaker 2: Well, Learner Row would like to invite you to the

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Speaker 2: next Learner Row golf cart golf turn.

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Speaker 1: Twenty four. Put you to work. I would love to

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Speaker 1: Merry Christmas Mandy from all less.

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Speaker 2: Thank you so much. Note I love you too.

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