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Speaker 1: Here we go. Guys, Wow, I can't where's your tissues?

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Speaker 2: Oh God, get them ready, get them right, ready, here

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Speaker 2: we go.

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Speaker 3: The Military Christmas Bonus is something that we created gosh,

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Speaker 3: I want to say almost fifteen years ago. It's been

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Speaker 3: a long time. We were looking for something to do

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Speaker 3: over for the holidays, some sort of charitable thing that

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Speaker 3: we wanted to do, and you know, we thought about

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Speaker 3: a lot of different things, but when we really landed

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Speaker 3: on the military, this was kind of a no brainer.

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Speaker 3: We're a military town, and then we were hearing the

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Speaker 3: stories that these military members have that are just so crazy,

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Speaker 3: and so you know, they were incredibly set. We want

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Speaker 3: to help everybody, obviously, but if you are in the

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Speaker 3: military and you serve our country and you sacrifice, and

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Speaker 3: then you're gonna go without for Christmas, like come on,

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Speaker 3: that was a no brainer.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: Some of these stories they're heartbreaking and you go, well,

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Speaker 3: what the heck is going on. Well, it turns out,

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Speaker 3: you know, you serve our country, you don't get paid

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Speaker 3: a lot, which is insane. It's so backwards, and you

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Speaker 3: just go, well, that's crazy. And so if any kind

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Speaker 3: of life thing happens, yeah, that's where the money goes

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Speaker 3: and so are your families going to go without for Christmas? Well,

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Speaker 3: we can't have that happen, and so that's why we

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Speaker 3: started our Military Christmas Bonus many many moons ago, and

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Speaker 3: we're thrilled to continue to do our Military Christmas Bonus.

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Speaker 3: So let's talk to Veronica, who wrote us. How's it going, Veronica?

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Speaker 3: Good morning, Hi, good morning, good morning. So you have

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Speaker 3: nominated who.

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Speaker 2: Sorry, I'm gonna try not to get choked up, nominated

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Speaker 2: my husband Alex.

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Speaker 3: And what branch does Alex.

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Speaker 2: Serve in the Navy?

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Speaker 3: Okay, so tell us a little bit about Alex and

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Speaker 3: why you decided to nominate him for the Military Christmas Bonus.

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Speaker 2: I decided to nominate him because our years started out

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Speaker 2: pretty rocky. In the beginning of the year. He started

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Speaker 2: getting like flashing lights and losing his vision, and we

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Speaker 2: quickly seeked out, you know, medical attention, and they thought

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Speaker 2: that he had like inflammation in his eye, and so

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Speaker 2: for months he was on steroids and different medications to

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Speaker 2: bring down the inflammation and it wasn't working. And then

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Speaker 2: they referred us to another specialist in the end of August,

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Speaker 2: and they told us right away that he had cancer.

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Speaker 2: And so he had crittal melanoma, which is a very

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Speaker 2: rare cancer. And then in September he went through treatment.

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Speaker 2: He had something called black racky therapy, really had a

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Speaker 2: gold plate sow and on the back of his eye

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Speaker 2: that had radiation seeds and that that was the radiation treatment.

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Speaker 2: And so that kind of like slipped our whole world

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Speaker 2: upside down and we weren't expecting that kind of news.

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Speaker 2: We have three children, nine year old and eight year

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Speaker 2: old and a two year old, and then like almost

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Speaker 2: right after his treatment, we found out that we were

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Speaker 2: expecting our fourth and so we've been, uh, his treatment

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Speaker 2: is like three hours away, so we've been having to

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Speaker 2: with the kids, you know, drive uh three hours away

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Speaker 2: for treatment and scans. And the scary part about the

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Speaker 2: cancer that he has is it has a very high

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Speaker 2: chance of spreading, and usually it spreads to like the lungs,

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Speaker 2: deliver brain, the blood. And so yeah, that's that's kind

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Speaker 2: of rocked our world.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I can't imagine. I mean, it's it's devastating that

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Speaker 3: kind of news. And we're pulling for Alex obviously and

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Speaker 3: hope for the best, and you know, it's it's tough

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Speaker 3: on the whole family. When something like that happens. You

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Speaker 3: that's going on right now with all your.

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Speaker 2: No, they definitely don't understand at all. They I mean,

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Speaker 2: they get, you know that he's he has something wrong

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Speaker 2: with his eye, but they don't get like the heaviness

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Speaker 2: of it. And he's been, you know, working two jobs

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Speaker 2: and serving at church on the weekends, and so it's been.

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Speaker 2: It's been pretty tough.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I can imagine. Well, let's talk to Alex. Alex

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Speaker 3: is joining us as well this morning. How's it going,

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Speaker 3: Alex good Man, Hey, listen, I'm very sorry to hear

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Speaker 3: about the condition. That's terrible. Thank you for all that

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Speaker 3: you've done for us, for serving. We appreciate you no

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Speaker 3: matter what. Alex. You know this, this seems like a

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Speaker 3: really difficult situation, but every everybody that I know that

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Speaker 3: it serves served doesn't complain. I can't even imagine you

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Speaker 3: know what you're going through, but you know you're you're

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Speaker 3: dealing with it. I'm assuming.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely. I had to take about a month off

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Speaker 1: work for the for the therapy and everything, and it

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Speaker 1: put us behind a little bit. But you know, I

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Speaker 1: try to keep keep on pushing. Got to give the

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Speaker 1: kids a good Christmas.

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Speaker 3: I love that man, and I hear that you're a

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Speaker 3: big Christmas guy like me.

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Speaker 1: Oh absolutely, absolutely, best a year.

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Speaker 3: I love it. Well. Your your wife, Veronica wrote us,

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Speaker 3: told us your guys story and it really touched us.

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Speaker 3: And I got to let you know that you are

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Speaker 3: a winner of today's Military Christmas bonus. And listen, I

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Speaker 3: know what you're going through is tough, but hopefully this

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Speaker 3: makes the holidays a little bit better for you and

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Speaker 3: your family and your kids. Coming to tell you all

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Speaker 3: that you've won today, because it's a lot, so it's

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Speaker 3: gonna take me a minute here, but but this is

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Speaker 3: pretty cool. You're gonna you guys have won all of this.

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Speaker 3: You've won a two hundred dollars OG's Pizza and brew

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Speaker 3: House gift card, a four pack of San Diego Goals tickets,

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Speaker 3: two hundred dollars gift card from Sidono Auto Group, a

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Speaker 3: gift card at Windmill Farms, a one hundred dollars Sombrero's

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Speaker 3: Mexican Food gift card, a one hundred dollars gift card

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Speaker 3: from AIS Insurance, a four pack of San Diego Seals tickets,

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Speaker 3: a four pack of SeaWorld San Diego tickets, a four

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Speaker 3: pack of Legoland California tickets, a four pack of tickets

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Speaker 3: to Disney on Ice, a three hundred dollars gift card

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Speaker 3: at Minikey Care Carcare in Oceanside and Escondido, a gift

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Speaker 3: card at Oceanside Gymnastics, one hundred dollars Curbside Eatery and

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Speaker 3: Drinkery gift card Family Portraits at Cosma Studios, gift card

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Speaker 3: from Nothing Bunt Cakes in Mission Valley. Yeall, a one

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Speaker 3: hundred dollars Amazon gift card from Gray Coca and Family,

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Speaker 3: a two hundred dollars Visa gift card from p One

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Speaker 3: Ryan Lewis, and a pair of Padres tickets to a

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Speaker 3: military Sunday game. You've won all that, congratulations, Alex Oh. Yes, absolutely, listen.

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Speaker 3: I know that this is kind of a difficult time,

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Speaker 3: but hopefully some of that stuff is going to really

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Speaker 3: make the holidays, make it a little bit better for you.

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Speaker 1: Okay, definitely, thank you very much.

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Speaker 3: Absolutely, there you go. That is today's winner of our

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Speaker 3: Military Christmas Bonus