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Speaker 1: Let's say good morning now to the founder and director

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Speaker 1: of Big Sunday. It's David Levinson.

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Speaker 2: Good morning, David morning.

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Speaker 1: So, David, you have a Big Sunday planned this Sunday

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Speaker 1: for hundreds of kids in LA. Please tell us about

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Speaker 1: Spooky Sunday.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Well, this is a Big Sunday's annual Halloween event

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Speaker 2: where we just bring out all the creepy crawlers and

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Speaker 2: spooks and scares for underserved kids and their families throughout

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Speaker 2: Los Angeles and we're excited to do it. It's always

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Speaker 2: loads of fun. This year's is full and the response

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Speaker 2: has been amazing. But people can still get involved if

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Speaker 2: they want to help by donating candy. They can go

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Speaker 2: on our website Bigsunday dot org and press on to

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Speaker 2: the donate now button and just specify Spooky Sunday and

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Speaker 2: there'll be more candy and more costumes for those kids.

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Speaker 1: I love that, so we can help them out. So

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Speaker 1: tell us about like, where where are these kids coming from?

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Speaker 1: How many kids are there that are going to get

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Speaker 1: to participate in this hell ween event?

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Speaker 2: They come from all the time. We work with all

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Speaker 2: sorts of social service agencies around towns and say you

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Speaker 2: know what families, what kids are in your program that

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Speaker 2: would really enjoy this. We work with groups like this

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Speaker 2: all over town in all kinds of ways throughout the year.

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Speaker 2: You know, our mission is to connect people through helping,

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Speaker 2: and we really believe a big Sunday that absolutely everybody

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Speaker 2: has some way they can help somebody else. Absolutely everyone

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Speaker 2: has some time they need help, and then we all

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Speaker 2: have to look out for one another.

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Speaker 1: Absolutely. So what do the kids get to do on Sunday?

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Speaker 1: I know that there's going to be trick or treating,

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Speaker 1: but you've got some other stuff going on too.

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Speaker 2: Oh sure, we have magic shows and we have face painting,

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Speaker 2: and we have photographs, and we have games, and we

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Speaker 2: have dances. We have a haunted house and we have

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Speaker 2: all this. We have an endangered Animals show, some of

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Speaker 2: them are a little scary animals, and we just have

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Speaker 2: all the things that you associate with Halloween. Kids come

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Speaker 2: in their costumes and it's really a ball to get

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Speaker 2: ready to get my costume on too.

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Speaker 1: What are you going as?

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Speaker 2: I'm going as Waldough? Oh so I get a lot

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Speaker 2: of whar's Waldo jokes? But it works okay.

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Speaker 1: And then let's talk about the costumes. Too, because we're

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Speaker 1: talking about kids who are maybe coming from underserved communities,

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Speaker 1: so they don't have a lot of extra money and

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Speaker 1: costumes might be a problem. But this year, the kids

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Speaker 1: are going to get costumes.

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Speaker 2: Yes, our great friends that Disguise have donated tons of

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Speaker 2: costumes that we have then distributed to all kinds of

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Speaker 2: nonprofits and schools around town that in turn gave them

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Speaker 2: to their family. And Disguise has been a great support

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Speaker 2: of this event for a long time and we're very

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Speaker 2: grateful to them.

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Speaker 1: Okay, and then David to remind us again, you're all

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Speaker 1: full and you've got everybody you need for this event,

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Speaker 1: but if you want to donate some candy to help out,

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Speaker 1: we can make the Halloween a little sweeter for the kids.

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Speaker 1: Where do they go and how do they do it?

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Speaker 2: They can just go onto Big Sunday dot org and

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Speaker 2: press on the donate now button and donate you know,

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Speaker 2: whatever you would like to do it. Just specify it's

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Speaker 2: for Halloween and we'll take it from there. And just

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Speaker 2: so your listeners knowing me, this doesn't end with Halloween.

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Speaker 2: We go jump right into our Thanksgiving event. This year,

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Speaker 2: we're going to be feeding eighteen thousand hungry and grateful

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Speaker 2: people throughout the Greater LA area. And this has been

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Speaker 2: such a challenging year for all of us in Los Angeles,

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Speaker 2: and we think it's a great time. She got it together,

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Speaker 2: whether share the scares of Halloween and just share some

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Speaker 2: gratitude of Thanksgiving, or enjoy the holidays in December, brig

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Speaker 2: Sundays here for all of it.

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Speaker 1: I love it, and we're going to be talking to

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Speaker 1: you more as we approach the holidays because I know

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Speaker 1: that we want to share more about how you're going

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Speaker 1: to feed those eighteen thousand people. I think it's wonderful.

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Speaker 1: David Levinson, thank you so much, director and founder of

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Speaker 1: Big Sunday, getting ready for a big spooky Sunday for

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Speaker 1: a whole lot of kids, making them happy this Halloween.

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Speaker 1: Thank you so much.

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Speaker 2: Thanks for having me. Amil A. S.