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Speaker 1: It's Nightside with Dan Ray. I'm telling you Boston's Knee Radio.

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Speaker 1: Thank you very much, Kyle, and you in my mind

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Speaker 1: are still you? Still are Kyle Ray? And I am

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Speaker 1: still Dan Ray. Here every Monday through Friday night from

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Speaker 1: eight until midnight for another exciting edition of Nightside. And

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Speaker 1: this week they will be exciting edishes all that is

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Speaker 1: of business back at the broadcast Central and beautiful Medford, Massachusetts,

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Speaker 1: of soldiers Field Road and getting close to ten years ago, folks,

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Speaker 1: we have been in Medford and that's where Rob works

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Speaker 1: his magic. He takes your phone calls. After nine o'clock.

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Speaker 1: During this hour, we'll be talking with four interesting guests.

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Speaker 1: At nine o'clock we'll be talking with Boston College professor

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Speaker 1: Ali Banoa is easy. He is a professor who was

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Speaker 1: born in Iran, came here and has been teaching in

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Speaker 1: America for well five or six decades, and he's a

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Speaker 1: great resource. That is at nine o'clock and then at

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Speaker 1: ten o'clock a really fascinating well not that doctor Badawazizi

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Speaker 1: as not but another fascinating guest, Nick Berg. Nick was

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Speaker 1: born in Iran in nineteen sixty seven. His dad, who

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Speaker 1: woman and the dad left in nineteen seventy five and

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Speaker 1: it took quite an effort. Took over thirty five years

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Speaker 1: interesting is that Nick himself left the country in nineteen

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Speaker 1: joined the US military Special Forces and has served in

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Speaker 1: several theaters along the way, the Desert Shield and Desert Storm,

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Speaker 1: Bosnian Sierra Leone, a bunch of places, and we're going

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Speaker 1: to get his perspective as to what he thinks is

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Speaker 1: going on in So we'll be talking a lot about

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Speaker 1: we're going to take you back to a different era,

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Speaker 1: but it's related to the Middle East. My guess is

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Speaker 1: Jeff Wise. He's a business executive, accomplished author, two time

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Speaker 1: iron Man in outra Marathon, which means the guy has

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Speaker 1: to be in shape. He and his brother have co

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Speaker 1: authored a book entitled Fighting Back Stan Andrews in the

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Speaker 1: Birth of the Israeli Air Force Israel, as I'm sure

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Speaker 1: I hope who listens in my program knows, was born

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Speaker 1: by the United Nations, created by the United Nations back

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Speaker 1: in May of nineteen forty eight, Jeff Weiss, how did

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Speaker 1: an American pilot, a World War Two fighter pilot, give

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Speaker 1: nice post war life in Los Angeles when Los Angeles

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Speaker 1: was really coming of age as a city to go

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Speaker 1: fight in Israel's War of Independence.

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Speaker 2: Well, thank you so much for having me, Dan. Thanks

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Speaker 2: so after that UN decision appeared. After that, on May fourteenth,

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Speaker 2: nineteen forty eight, Israeli independence was declared. In that very day,

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Speaker 2: Israel was confronted with an invasion across all of its borders,

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Speaker 2: and so basically the Israeli military was confronted with the

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Speaker 2: And so there were a number of pilots around the world,

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Speaker 2: that air force as it was getting literally off the ground. Basically,

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Speaker 1: So World War two, Stan, the hero of your book

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Speaker 1: Fighting Back, Stan Andrews had served as an American in

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Speaker 2: He did have quite a nice life there. He was

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Speaker 2: There was in a serious relationship that seemed headed toward marriage,

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Speaker 1: So he in effect joined the IDEF was with stand,

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Speaker 2: Well, that's part of what makes Stan's story so fascinating.

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Speaker 2: He was Jewish, but was a very assimilated Jew, very

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Speaker 2: I think, alienated from his background. He had changed his

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Speaker 2: he was and to fight. He joined what was at

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Speaker 2: and actually ended up designing the logo as an artist.

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Speaker 2: And it's a squadron logo that the Israeli Air Force

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Speaker 2: uses to this day. So it's quite in that sense,

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Speaker 2: left quite a lasting impression during his time here.

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Speaker 1: Give us just the and I don't want you to

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Speaker 1: we want people to read the book again. It's entitled

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Speaker 1: Fighting Back Stan Andrews in the Birth at the Israeli

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Speaker 1: the context of World War Two. And that's why this book,

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Speaker 2: Well, he did rise to a senior position within the

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Speaker 2: he did not. He did not survive the war, had

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Speaker 1: But about the War of nineteen forty eight.

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Speaker 2: Correct, and he was actually a bomber pilot in the Pacific,

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Speaker 2: he flew B twenty fives. Here in Israel, he served

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Speaker 1: Was he did he ever become an Israeli citizen. I

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Speaker 1: He went over as an American.

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Speaker 2: He went over as an American, and then doing that

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Speaker 2: so certainly did not become an Israeli citizen. They actually

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Speaker 2: created a special oath forolunteers from outside of the country

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Speaker 1: Citizenshipman, well, it sounds like a great book. Fighting Back

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Speaker 1: Stan Andrews and the Birth of the Israeli Air Force

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Speaker 1: by Jeff Wise and his brother. Did you, folks have

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Speaker 1: did you just did you and Craig your brother? Did

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Speaker 1: of connection with Stan or his family? Or how did

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Speaker 2: It's actually our second book. We back in nineteen ninety

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Speaker 2: and it was about the thousand or so North Americans,

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Speaker 2: primarily Americans, who came to Israel as volunteers during the

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Speaker 2: War of Independence, and in the course of that research

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Speaker 2: came across Stan's story and decided that after finishing that

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Speaker 2: first book, we would write a second one focused very

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Speaker 2: specif typically on Stan. It ended up taking quite a

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Speaker 2: tracking down his writings. So yeah, so this book actually

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Speaker 1: Well, Jeff, it sounds a good, great book. Looking forward

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Speaker 1: to reading it myself. Fighting back Stan Andrews in the

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Speaker 1: Birth of the Israeli Air Force. Thanks for being with

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Speaker 2: Thank you so much as well. I really appreciate it.

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Speaker 1: any where they can get this book other than Amazon?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, we have a website, Jeffreyweins author dot com and

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Speaker 2: it losto lists some other places where the books available,

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Speaker 2: but Amazon is probably the most convenient place for most

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Speaker 1: Perfect Okay, Jeff, thanks very much. Congratulations, Thank you, You're

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Speaker 1: very welcome. That sounds like a remarkable story as far

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Speaker 1: a great It looks like a great story. We get

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Speaker 1: back April's National Volunteer Month. We're going to talk with

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Speaker 1: American Red Cross. And there's a lot of benefits to

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Speaker 1: much more to it. April is National Volunteer Month. Volunteering

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Speaker 1: American Red Cross is launching there reimagining Volunteerism initiative, modernizing systems,

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Speaker 1: Good evening, Sir.

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Speaker 3: Good Evan, thanks for having me on this evening.

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Speaker 1: You're very welcome. So I've all I know the American

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Speaker 3: What we're really focused on with our reimagining volunteerism is

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Speaker 1: Well, that's again that will be exciting to people to

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Speaker 1: going to explain to you emotional intelligence. That sounds like

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Speaker 1: All right, I am a firm believer that all of

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Speaker 1: To Monique, I can I can break a dollar bill

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Speaker 4: Com Emotional Inteller EQ. Emotional inteller is often referred to

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Speaker 1: Right, Okay, that's good? So, uh what tell us first? Well,

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Speaker 4: Okay? Emotional intelligence, often referred to as EQ, is the

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Speaker 4: Absolutely absolutely? Because IQ right is a standardized testing What

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's a that's a great explanation. I assume that

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Speaker 1: a lot of people are going to probably not be

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Speaker 1: as critical of themselves or to put it another way,

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Speaker 1: as honest with themselves as as as they should be.

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Speaker 1: It certainly me included. I mean, someone cut you off

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Speaker 1: other person. If you happen to cut someone off in traffic.

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Speaker 1: You don't do it intentionally, but you do it because

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Speaker 1: you're daydreaming and you're inverting about it. And someone blasts

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Speaker 1: of people want to say, guy, blast on a hornet

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Speaker 1: before I mean, it's right, So the question is obvious.

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Speaker 1: Some indisha specific indisha that would suggest to individuals that

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Speaker 1: their emotional intelligence needs some work. So for example, if

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Speaker 1: you flare easily, if everything turns into an angry moment

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Speaker 1: where you're frustrated, I assume you've got to address that.

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Speaker 1: But that's an indication that your emotional intelligence is probably

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Speaker 1: not where you want it to be, right right.

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Speaker 4: The factor of your emotional regulation in that area another thing.

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Speaker 4: Just look at your patterns. Like sometimes I have to

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Speaker 4: tell people. They'll say, well, you know, I've been married

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Speaker 4: a couple of times, how a few long term relationships,

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Speaker 4: maybe it adds up to five, And once I start

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Speaker 4: talking to them, right, there's a consistent issue and I

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Speaker 4: might have to say to them, no, you haven't had

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Speaker 4: five relationships. You've had the same relationship five times. So

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Speaker 4: what are the patterns in your life with money, with relationships?

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Speaker 4: You know, with anger? Issues with being a conflict avoidant, Like,

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Speaker 4: conflict is just a natural part of being a human, right,

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Speaker 4: there's nothing wrong with conflicts. It can be very healthy.

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Speaker 4: It's how you respond to it that is unhealthy. But

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Speaker 4: if you just go inward and you know, shut down,

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Speaker 4: that's dysfunctional. Obviously, then flaring and saying and doing things

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Speaker 4: that aren't appropriate is the opposite end. So the thing

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Speaker 4: is I always say, like, look at the repeated patterns.

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Speaker 4: You're everywhere you go, there you are. So you're a

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Speaker 4: part of that all the time.

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Speaker 1: Right, I love that concept. Everywhere you go, there you are.

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Speaker 1: You're the only person that spends their entire life with you,

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Speaker 1: with you? Oh right, you look, so where can people go?

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Speaker 1: It doesn't appear that you're practicing psychiatrist or psychologist. It

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Speaker 1: says that you're the creator of this this resource which

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Speaker 1: change management expert. Looks to me. If by your area code,

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Speaker 1: I'm guessing you're in Pittsburgh.

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Speaker 4: I am, I am.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. I memorized area codes a long time ago, so

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Speaker 1: I have pretty good guests, even on the one. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: well it's I have my head is a compendium of

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Speaker 1: useless information. As a talk show host, anyway I can

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Speaker 1: people reach out to you? Or do you have to

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Speaker 1: live in the great Pittsburgh area for people to seek

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Speaker 1: help from you? Are there people in your line of

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Speaker 1: work in my listening area which is New England and

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Speaker 1: up and down the East Coast, also in Pittsburgh, by

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Speaker 1: the way, we have a lot of listeners at Pittsburgh.

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Speaker 4: Good to know.

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Speaker 1: Well.

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Speaker 4: My first business is coach Mooneque and Associates, so you

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Speaker 4: can find me there at coachmone dot com. I work

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Speaker 4: with clients all over the world, so I have a

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Speaker 4: professional office in Pittsburgh. People who live locally often want

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Speaker 4: to come into the office. I have people who fly

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Speaker 4: in for meetings with me from other parts of the country.

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Speaker 4: But I've had clients in South Africa, Holland, I mean

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Speaker 4: really all over the world. So many clients I never

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Speaker 4: meet in person, and that's okay. We have the same outcomes.

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Speaker 4: And as an emotional, intelligent expert right coaching, I'm a

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Speaker 4: very tool driven coach and my tools are designed to

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Speaker 4: be easy to learn, easy to use, immediately relevant, and

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Speaker 4: that's what's in the EQUI courses. That's what I do

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Speaker 4: when I meet with clients, That's when I do what

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Speaker 4: I do when I do organizational and team training.

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Speaker 1: Okay, So if people want to get in touch with

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Speaker 1: you in whatever or man or they might choose. The

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Speaker 4: Correct, And at the top of the website there's a

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Speaker 4: tab there for courses, and if you click on that tab,

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Speaker 4: we offer personal development courses, which are similar to the

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Speaker 4: coaching training that the average person might want regardless of age.

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Speaker 4: And then there are resume ready courses. Those are the

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Speaker 4: courses that are for professional development. All the courses are

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Speaker 4: soft skills what Microsoft and Google are to hard scille.

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Speaker 4: So if you take our professional courses, they're meant to

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Speaker 4: be listed on your resume or on your CV with

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Speaker 4: any other certifications you might have.

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Speaker 1: All right, Monique Demonico EQW all caps eqw iz dot com.

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Speaker 1: Appreciate it really interesting and you have a great way

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Speaker 1: to present yourself. Bomb you obviously have a high emotional intelligence,

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Speaker 1: and I appreciate your time you spend with us. This evening.

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Speaker 1: Thank Thank you very much.

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Speaker 4: Thank you, and have a wonderful evening you too.

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Speaker 1: When we get back, we're going to talk about a

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Speaker 1: tough cancer, ocula melanoma. It's a rare cancer and they're

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Speaker 1: raising awareness for the fight against ocula melanoma for the

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Speaker 1: Mass iron Ear Boston Marathon team. I ear we're gonna

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Speaker 1: be talking with Megan Hathaway. She's a runner for the

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Speaker 1: team and she was treated for ocula melanoma. We'll talk

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Speaker 1: with Megan Hathaway right after this quick break on Nightside.

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Speaker 2: Night Side with Dan Ray.

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Speaker 3: I'm Boston's news radio.

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Speaker 1: I'm delighted to welcome Megan Hathaway. She's a runner for

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Speaker 1: Team iron Ear and patient with Mass iron Air being

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Speaker 1: treated for ocular melanoma. Megan, welcome to Nightside. First of all,

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Speaker 1: thanks for having the coverage to come on. How are

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Speaker 1: you this evening?

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Speaker 4: Good?

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Speaker 5: How are you Dan? Thanks for having me on tonight.

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Speaker 1: I'm doing great. I'm doing great. I know a lot

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Speaker 1: about the eyes, had my share of problems and have

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Speaker 1: had good treatment here in the Boston area with eye issues,

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Speaker 1: and I certainly know about melanoma, but I had never

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Speaker 1: heard of ocular melanoma. Can you describe that to us,

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Speaker 1: I mean, we always think of melanoma as a skinned

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Speaker 1: skin cancer.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, of course. So it's a pretty rare cancer that

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Speaker 5: happens in the iris of an eye. And so I

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Speaker 5: had a small tumor that occurred, and it's very different

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Speaker 5: from traditional melanoma. Actually, it has nothing to really do

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Speaker 5: with sun or skin damage. It really is kind of

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Speaker 5: an anomaly. They weren't really sure how I exactly got it.

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Speaker 5: I was known to possibly have the tumor since I

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Speaker 5: was about five years old actually, but we didn't really

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Speaker 5: know what it was until I was seventy at the time,

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Speaker 5: and that diagnosis and everything happened at Mass Pioneer. So

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Speaker 5: incredibly grateful for that, but definitely as a super rare cancer,

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Speaker 5: and that led to it being undiagnosed in me for

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Speaker 1: What was the was the discomfort associated with is or noel?

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Speaker 5: No, not at all. We thought it was just kind

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Speaker 5: of a discoloration of my eye. Actually, I had perfect

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Speaker 5: twenty twenty vision, didn't really need to go to the

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Speaker 5: eye doctor for anything else otherwise, So it was really

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Speaker 5: actually identified by just my primary care doctor, and then

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Speaker 5: I went to a normal eye doctor and no one

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Speaker 5: was really able to identify it until I went to

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Speaker 5: mass Pioneer and actually had a biopsy to identify the cancer.

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Speaker 1: Okay, so so so essentially it sounds to me like

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Speaker 1: you're saying it's a genetic anomaly.

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Speaker 4: Yeah.

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Speaker 5: There really was nothing that they could point to to

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Speaker 5: why I was exactly diagnosed with it, but it is

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Speaker 5: very different from traditional melanoma, so it wasn't known to

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Speaker 5: be really linked to any sort of sun exposure.

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Speaker 1: How difficult was the treatment did they have to do?

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Speaker 1: I assume surgery in the eye.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, So I had a first surgery, which was a

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Speaker 5: biopsy to actually test if the cells were cancerous, and

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Speaker 5: then once we diagnosed that it was ocular melanoma, I

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Speaker 5: went to radiation treatment. So I had five radiation treatments

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Speaker 5: at mass Ioneer and that kind of concluded the initial treatment.

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Speaker 5: But I've been going to mass Ioneer now for the

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Speaker 5: last eight years for subsequent treatments of the eye for

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Speaker 5: various you know, side effects and basically just trying to

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Speaker 5: preserve what's left of the eye and keep it as

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Speaker 5: healthy as possible.

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Speaker 1: How how is your vision and how is your field

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Speaker 1: of vision?

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Speaker 4: Yeah?

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Speaker 5: So I'm super lucky that I still am able to

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Speaker 5: keep my eye. It happened in my left eye, and

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Speaker 5: you know, I can't say the same for many other patients. Unfortunately,

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Speaker 5: when I was diagnosed, my options were either to go

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Speaker 5: through radiation or remove the eye, and naturally, as one does,

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Speaker 5: I chose radiation. And there were definitely some risks but

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Speaker 5: that we weren't sure if my vision was going to

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Speaker 5: be able to stay at twenty twenty. And unfortunately, now

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Speaker 5: eight years later, I don't have any vision left in

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Speaker 5: that eye, but very lucky to still have it and

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Speaker 5: keeping it intact. And I do have twenty twenty in

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Speaker 5: my right eye, so it's definitely been able to be

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Speaker 5: a huge help and being able to maintain my daily

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Speaker 5: life and overall a good visual field.

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Speaker 1: Okay, and you're also a runner, so this is your

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Speaker 1: first marathon, it is not.

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Speaker 5: I ran with Team I in any year last year actually,

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Speaker 5: and that was my first marathon. So actually these two

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Speaker 5: marathons will be the only running races I've ever done.

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Speaker 5: So very lucky to be a part of Mass Pioneer

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Speaker 5: and have this incredible opportunity. It's a great team and

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Speaker 5: I'm very happy to be running for such an incredible institution.

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Speaker 1: How big a team do you have? How many people

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Speaker 1: are running?

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Speaker 5: We have just over fifty runners, so we're definitely one

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Speaker 5: of the smaller charity teams. But I think that that

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Speaker 5: just makes it more special because everyone has a really

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Speaker 5: strong tie to mass Irooneer in some way and a

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Speaker 5: story to tell. So it's really awesome to run for

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Speaker 5: a group that has a.

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Speaker 1: Shared caps So how come I listen to support you

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Speaker 1: or support Team Ioneer. What's the best way to do that?

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Speaker 5: Yeah, So we have a team given game page where

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Speaker 5: our charity runners all have their individual pages that you

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Speaker 5: can contribute to to donate. Every charity or excuse me runner

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Speaker 5: has a ten thousand dollars goal and we've raised over

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Speaker 5: five hund or k this year so far, and we've

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Speaker 5: still got a week and a half till the race.

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Speaker 5: So if you're interested in donating, you can certainly go

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Speaker 5: to that page and donate to any of our individual

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Speaker 5: runners and it will go towards the team goal.

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Speaker 1: Will you sound like a remarkable human being? Megan? Oh,

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Speaker 1: thank you, No, I'm serious to you sound like you're

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Speaker 1: still very young and you have a lot of life

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Speaker 1: left in front of you and with the great care

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Speaker 1: you've had. I'm sure that there are developments down the

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Speaker 1: line that that maybe with some good fortune, that that

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Speaker 1: your vision can be restored in some way. I'm sure

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Speaker 1: that that everyone is going to be hopeful of that,

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Speaker 1: and we hope you have a very successful day. Again,

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Speaker 1: give us the web page so people can get there

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Speaker 1: and look for your name, Megan Hathaway. Give us the

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Speaker 1: web page one more time.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, of course it's It's on a website called Give

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Speaker 5: and Gain, which is basically just a charity website where

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Speaker 5: you can donate directly to that page. So I'm sure

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Speaker 5: if you want the link, I'm happy to send it

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Speaker 5: over and we can we can put it out there

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Speaker 5: to anyone who wants it.

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Speaker 1: Well, we're just going to it out there right now.

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Speaker 1: So Give and games G I V E A N B.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I am right, yeah, Give and Gain dot com

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Speaker 5: or uh, do you want the exact U R L

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Speaker 5: or No?

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Speaker 1: I think I think if we if we work with

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Speaker 1: that and then do they look then for the team irooneer?

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Speaker 1: Is that is that the yeah that they find you?

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Speaker 5: Yeah? Thank you? You can go do I believe in

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Speaker 5: search charities and if you click on Team Iioneer you

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Speaker 5: should be able to see all of our teammates and

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Speaker 5: their donation pages.

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Speaker 1: Perfect mega, best of luck on the twentieth. I'm sure

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Speaker 1: you'll have a wonderful day. And thank you for having

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Speaker 1: the courage to deal with this issue and to overcome

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Speaker 1: this issue, and it has it has to be difficult.

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Speaker 1: I'm sure you have a great family support and you

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Speaker 1: have a lot of support I hope from my listeners

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Speaker 1: on night side during the race. Thanks so much, Megan. Okay,

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Speaker 1: we'll talk again.

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Speaker 2: Thank you so much.

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Speaker 1: Dan, You're welcome. When we get back. We are going

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Speaker 1: to talk about the shaky ceasefire in Iran or in

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Speaker 1: the Middle East, I should say, we're going to break

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Speaker 1: it down with Professor Ali Banawazizi. He is at Boston College,

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Speaker 1: has been there for many years, grew up in Iran,

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Speaker 1: has not been back since before the revolution. But he

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Speaker 1: will give us some insights as to what the people

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Speaker 1: in Iran are undergoing and what they are thinking, and

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Speaker 1: where this whole situation may end up. Let's hope it

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Speaker 1: ends up in a better place than it's been. Coming

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Speaker 1: back on night Side right after the nine o'clock news,

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Speaker 1: my name is Dan Ray,