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Speaker 4: Welcome to America's Voice Live. I'm Steve grit Today is

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Speaker 4: the twenty eighth of November. Happy Thanksgiving everyone. Thank you

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Speaker 4: so much for spending part of it with me. We

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Speaker 4: start today as we do every year, talking about things

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Speaker 4: giving and look, let's be honest. This year, there's a

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Speaker 4: lot to be thankful for, especially if you're a conservative

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Speaker 4: or a Republican, frankly, just an American, someone who simply

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Speaker 4: loves the direction of this country is now going to

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Speaker 4: be heading under incoming President Donald Trump. After years of

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Speaker 4: struggle and division, we can finally take a moment to

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Speaker 4: pause and reflect on the tremendous progress we've made and

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Speaker 4: the bright future that lies ahead.

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Speaker 1: It truly is morning in America.

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Speaker 4: We are thankful this year because President Trump was re

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Speaker 4: elected to office and his leadership has reignited the American spirit.

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Speaker 1: I know some of you may have felt a little

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Speaker 1: bit hopeless.

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Speaker 4: Over the last few years, a lot of disappointment, a

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Speaker 4: lot of down days. What we've watched as the left

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Speaker 4: undermining our values, pushing a radical agenda that we didn't

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Speaker 4: even recognize. But here's the truth. With President Trump in office,

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Speaker 4: Republicans and Americans of all stripes, former Democrats, Democrats themselves

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Speaker 4: are feeling optimist stick again, are you. We've got a

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Speaker 4: leader who isn't afraid to stand up for what's right,

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Speaker 4: someone who is ready to fight every day to fight

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Speaker 4: for America so it remains a beacon of freedom and

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Speaker 4: opportunity for everyone.

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Speaker 1: You me. Everyone.

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Speaker 4: I'm not saying everything's perfect, but what I am saying

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Speaker 4: is that for the first time in a very long time,

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Speaker 4: we can actually see a path forward.

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Speaker 1: We can see a.

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Speaker 4: Vision for a future where America stays great, where our

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Speaker 4: As we sit down with our families this Thanksgiving, we

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Speaker 4: finally going. We can be thankful for the leadership of

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Speaker 4: a man who is putting America first. It's not just

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Speaker 4: about policies. It's about pride. It's about pride, pride in

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Speaker 4: being an American, pride and knowing that we're finally headed

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Speaker 4: And in the words of President Ronald Reagan, well fantasy

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Speaker 4: spoke about Thanksgiving on the future of America.

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Speaker 1: Here's what he said. Good morning everyone. You know, the

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Speaker 6: Liberty and this wonderful holiday called Thanksgiving go together naturally,

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Speaker 1: Americans we have many things.

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Speaker 6: For which to be thankful, none is more important than

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Speaker 6: our liberty. Liberty, that quality of government, that brightness of

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Speaker 1: My fellow Americans, let us keep.

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Speaker 6: This Thanksgiving Day sacred. Let us thank God for the

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Speaker 6: Happy Thanksgiving and God.

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Speaker 1: I want in America like that again, don't you.

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Speaker 4: Isn't that the America we've been fighting for for these

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Speaker 4: That was Thanksgiving Day nineteen eighty five.

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Speaker 4: Described thirty eight years ago. We've fallen far due to

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Speaker 4: notably Presidents Barack Obama and Joe Biden. But what President

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Speaker 1: The first day I have.

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Speaker 4: To address is the Thanksgiving holiday itself is completely tied

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Speaker 4: into the founding of this nation because it hearkens back

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Speaker 4: don't like that vision of America laid out by President

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Speaker 4: socialist utopia. In order to have that, you need to

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Speaker 4: of America's founding, including Thanksgiving, because Thanksgiving, somehow is now

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Speaker 4: considered evil by the woke mob. They're wrong, of course,

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Speaker 4: but we're bound to see countless stories eating up to

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Speaker 4: not celebrating Thanksgiving this year because I'm a moron. Oh

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Speaker 4: maybe that's not exactly what they're hope, but the writer

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Speaker 4: Indigenous community, the annual holiday actually serves as a harmful

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Speaker 4: reminder of how their land was stolen from them during colonization,

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Speaker 4: how many of their people were killed, and how their

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Speaker 4: Thanksgiving glorifies the abhorrent colonization of Indigenous peoples? Or this

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Speaker 4: And no one goes on with this and truth massacres

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Speaker 4: a bloody one, and some people say it's time to

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Speaker 7: Hell no.

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Speaker 4: We're also subjected to a constant barrage of videos, well,

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Speaker 8: I love the idea of Thanksgiving. I love the idea

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Speaker 8: of a day of gratitude and spending time with your family,

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Speaker 8: and I actually love the weird food. What I don't

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Speaker 8: like is the underlying tragedy and genocide that we ignore

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Speaker 8: on that day. Why do we put our children in

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Speaker 8: actually truly horrible. It's teaching appropriate from the very beginning,

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Speaker 8: So no wonder. You know, when they get to high

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Speaker 8: school they think it's fine to wear these headdresses, to wear,

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Speaker 8: you know, things they should not be wearing, and to

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Speaker 8: of two with these innocent, sweet Thanksgiving songs, but we

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Speaker 4: These folks need professional mental health. Is America perfect? No,

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Speaker 4: But all the lines of nations of the world today

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Speaker 4: if you will, two hundred and fifty years ago.

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Speaker 1: Was it perfect?

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Speaker 4: No, But it is most perfect nation in the history

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Speaker 4: of nations. Never mind, by the way, the fact that

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Speaker 1: And look again, not to say America is completely blameless.

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Speaker 4: No country on the face of the earth is, or

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Speaker 1: It was not stolen. They'll say that Manhattan was stolen.

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Speaker 4: you know that. Now, this does not absolve the nation

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Speaker 4: just a moment ago. I'm not saying there's a war

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Speaker 4: on Thanksgiving, but there is certainly a war on American

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Speaker 1: They're trying to undermine everything about America.

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Speaker 4: And if they say something nice about America and undermines

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Speaker 1: And that's why.

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Speaker 4: nineteen eighties, because these leftist ideas about the country have

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Speaker 4: this insidious poison being fed to our children in.

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Speaker 1: Elementary school, middle school, high school, and college and beyond.

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Speaker 4: Let's go back to President Ronald Reagan's nineteen eighty five message.

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Speaker 4: Here is a reminder of how he starts.

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Speaker 6: Because although as Americans we have many things for which

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Speaker 1: Than our liberty.

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Speaker 6: Liberty, that quality of government, that brightness of mind and

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Speaker 1: The yoke of tyranny. We are free.

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Speaker 6: To speak our minds, to enjoy an unfettered and vigorous press, and.

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Speaker 1: To make government abide. But the limits we deem just.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, so we deem just free speech by many of

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Speaker 4: A danger to the country to allow President Donald Trump

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Speaker 1: Well for a moment.

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Speaker 4: They are dedicated to making those dreams or reality for

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Speaker 1: Take a look that the magic they create here it is.

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Speaker 9: We are a five oh one c three charity. Here

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Speaker 1: Welcome to the program. Nice to see you, my friend.

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Speaker 5: It's good seeing you against Steve.

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Speaker 1: You and I have talked in the past.

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Speaker 4: I mean, you do deliver hope, optimism and you bring

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Speaker 10: Correct. You know that's what it's all about. And when

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Speaker 1: So brave young hearts, tell the folks why you decided

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Speaker 10: Really, we lost our first granddaughter, Bethany, when she was

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Speaker 4: Kind of sad actually, my friend, that there are organizations

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Speaker 1: Or we'll do this, but we won't take you out

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Speaker 1: hunting because we don't like it. That's sad. But you

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Speaker 10: That's it, and that's those organizations have their place. That's awesome.

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Speaker 10: But you know, for the kids who are laying in

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Speaker 4: Uh, you got more OUK in Colorado than any state

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Speaker 1: You know there were you live right.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, we just said a couple of the adventures.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I love that, said I took an out from

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Speaker 10: K Okay, well, we just finished an adventure for a

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Speaker 10: But you got to learn that hunting isn't about just killing,

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Speaker 5: So that was a great experience for him.

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Speaker 1: So what are your goals?

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Speaker 1: It really took a pounding during COVID.

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Speaker 4: Donations fell off smaller charities really, you know, the big

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Speaker 1: Is that true for you? I mean, do you need help?

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Speaker 5: Absolutely, we do need help.

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Speaker 10: So far this year we've only raised about thirty thousand dollars,

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Speaker 10: If we could, especially you know as Christmas is coming

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Speaker 10: well as you know, if you happen to be anywhere

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Speaker 10: then recommend them to us because and they want to

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I think that's a great goal.

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Speaker 1: Fifty thousand dollars.

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Speaker 4: Look, it's always listening right now, Papa Bear. And they

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Speaker 1: It's tax deductible, as he said, he'll send you to

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Speaker 1: tax papers. It's all fine, but it's bigger than that.

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Speaker 1: Tell them where they can find you.

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Speaker 5: You can find us at Brave Ownhearts dot net.

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Speaker 10: And if you want to donate, you just go to

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, in this season of Thanksgiving, be thankful

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Speaker 1: Papa Bear, I give you so much credit, Terry Slavin.

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Speaker 1: I do. I appreciate what you do, and so do

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Speaker 10: Well, Steve, thank you for giving me this opportunity because

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Speaker 10: it's people like you who let the whole country know

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Speaker 10: I just pray for blessings over you and Thank you

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Speaker 10: so much.

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Speaker 1: Terry, Thank you, Brave Young Hearts, and Papa Bear. Happy Thanksgiving,

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Speaker 1: Happy Thanksgiving, My friendly There you have it.

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Speaker 4: So when you sit down and you wonder about the

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Speaker 1: I'll be right all right.

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Speaker 4: Today we're focusing on another powerful organization making a significant

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Speaker 4: impact of the lives of our nation's wounded veterans nothing

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Speaker 4: more important. Helping a Hero is a nonprofit dedicated to

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Speaker 4: providing specially adapted homes to injured veterans, enabling them to

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Speaker 1: Of course, watch this.

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Speaker 7: Helping your Hero build specially adapted homes for a most

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Speaker 2: Having a home build for me that's fully adaptive, knowing

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Speaker 11: These houses help our quality of love so much and

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Speaker 11: help us be successful. So we can focus on other

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Speaker 11: things instead of how am I going to get in

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Speaker 11: to focus on how can we spend time with our family,

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Speaker 11: how can we improve our quality of love?

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Speaker 4: Now, beyond building homes, Helping a Hero offers a range

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Speaker 1: Support veterans in their transition.

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Speaker 4: To civilian life, financial assistance, to mentorship and community connections.

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Speaker 4: This organization has committed to ensuring that our heroes receive

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Speaker 4: now is the founder of Helping a Hero program Helping

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Speaker 4: Hero Home that is Meredith Eyler.

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Speaker 1: Meredith, thanks to see you, Thank you for being here.

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Speaker 2: Well, thanks so much, Steve. It's great to be with

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Speaker 2: you on this pre Thanksgiving.

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Speaker 1: Well, you know, to.

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Speaker 4: Have somebody in their home, gathered around by friends and family,

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Speaker 4: that's what Thanksgiving is. And you're giving a home to

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Speaker 4: some American veterans that would otherwise not have that opportunity.

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Speaker 4: What else could I be thankful for over that good grief?

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Speaker 4: But that's really what you're doing, isn't it?

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Speaker 2: It really is. Last year was a really amazing year

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Speaker 2: in that we had seven move ins just before Thanksgiving.

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Speaker 2: And this year, you know, there's apply chain has been

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Speaker 2: a little bit more challenging, but we're gonna have a

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Speaker 2: lot in before Christmas.

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Speaker 1: So when did this start?

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Speaker 4: When did you have the fire come under you that said, Hey,

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Speaker 4: this is what I'm going to do.

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Speaker 1: When did that happen? Why did that happen?

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Speaker 2: You know, Helping a Hero started as a rotary club

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Speaker 2: program that I stumbled into, and we grew into Helping

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Speaker 2: the Hero dot org and then recently we have partnered

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Speaker 2: with Johnny Morris and Bass Pro Shops on a one

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Speaker 2: hundred homes challenge, and so we are at house number

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Speaker 2: fifty and we definitely look forward to identifying those next

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Speaker 2: fifty heroes and would certainly invite your listeners to and

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Speaker 2: not only help us by nominating a hero at helping

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Speaker 2: ahro dot org. That Johnny Morris from Bass Pro Shops

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Speaker 2: has committed to fund twenty five percent of the cost

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Speaker 2: of our next one hundred home, and so we need

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Speaker 2: America to step up and fund the other seventy five percent.

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Speaker 4: You know, if you're going to have a partner, Johnny's

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Speaker 4: a good one to have. There's no question. Absolutely, I

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Speaker 4: can buy Cabella's. If I can buy Cabella's, He's got

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Speaker 4: a few extra quarters.

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Speaker 1: In his pocket, so that's a good thing. And he's

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Speaker 1: always given back.

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Speaker 4: Johnny Morris has always been a guy who gives back,

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Speaker 4: and so a great partner for you, but like you said,

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Speaker 4: he's taking it part of the way. And as I

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Speaker 4: talked about with a previous guest here, during the pandemic,

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Speaker 4: a lot of charities, I don't know how you feared,

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Speaker 4: but a lot of charities really saw a drop in

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Speaker 4: donations and commitment from people. And so now we're starting

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Speaker 4: to build back for charities and especially important ones like

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Speaker 4: this one.

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Speaker 1: Where are you in the fundraising effort?

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Speaker 2: Well, you're exactly right, Steve. The fundraising didn't necessarily drop

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Speaker 2: off for us. But what happened where the costs escalated

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Speaker 2: because under the Biden Harris administration there were so many

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Speaker 2: just increases in price, mainly from transfer rotation, you know,

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Speaker 2: just even access to supply chain items. We interesting you

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Speaker 2: mentioned Cabela's, but we're going to move in an incredible

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Speaker 2: hero in Nebraska on December the ninth, and just yesterday

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Speaker 2: they were pulling in with Nebraska Furniture, Marde Appliances because

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Speaker 2: we had some specialty items like a Dutch oven that

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Speaker 2: opened sideways so a wheelchair can roll in and safely

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Speaker 2: be able to cook. And we have things like a

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Speaker 2: dishwasher drawer and a microwave drawer. So anyway, those are

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Speaker 2: kind of hard to get during the pandemic.

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Speaker 4: So they're accessible to somebody in a wheelchair, right, they're

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Speaker 4: lower appliances, so you don't have to reach up obviously,

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Speaker 4: because that doesn't work with us.

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Speaker 1: How does somebody find out more about helping a hero home?

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Speaker 4: How do they find out more about you know, supporting

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Speaker 4: you and partnering with Johnny Morris and bass Pro and

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Speaker 4: Cabella's and all the things that are going out there

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Speaker 4: to make this possible.

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Speaker 2: Well, they can go to our website at Helping a

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Speaker 2: Hero dot org, or they can send us an email

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Speaker 2: at patriots at helpingehro dot org. We'd love to answer

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Speaker 2: your questions, love to get you involved, and we certainly

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Speaker 2: appreciate your support Helping a Hero dot org.

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Speaker 4: Look, I've mentioned before you're celebrating Thanksgiving. The majority of

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Speaker 4: you watching the program today because somebody stood watch for you,

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Speaker 4: and some of those folks need a helping hand today,

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Speaker 4: and that's what Helping a Hero dot org is all about.

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Speaker 4: Meredith Eiler will be there to help you make a

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Speaker 4: difference in your community, in your state, in your country.

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Speaker 1: Meredith, thank you.

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Speaker 2: So much, Thanks so much, Steve have a great and

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Speaker 2: happy Thanksgiving.

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Speaker 4: Happy Thanksgiving to you. You see a theme here, helping

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Speaker 4: people out and being thankful. All right, alrighty, what a

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Speaker 4: great day it is today we're focusing on so much

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Speaker 4: if we have to be thankful for Yes, we're thankful

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Speaker 4: for everything. And that's why you're here. I'm real America's vice.

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Speaker 4: We're thankful to have you here today. Right now, we're

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Speaker 4: going to dive into one of the most controversial, impressing

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Speaker 4: topics of our time.

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Speaker 1: Cancel culture.

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Speaker 4: Whether you're ford against it or somewhere in between, it's

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Speaker 4: impact on society, politics, and free speech, it cannot be ignored.

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Speaker 4: Watch what happened to this American business owner.

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Speaker 12: We were your average American family living in California, working hard,

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Speaker 12: just like everyone else. And then one day, while watching

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Speaker 12: a UFC event in our garage with some friends, my

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Speaker 12: son rode up on his bicycle to tell me that

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Speaker 12: he had a great idea. Yeah, you're a carpenter and

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Speaker 12: mom's and artists, we should make wooden American flags for

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Speaker 12: families all across America and sell them.

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Speaker 1: I sat back and thought, Wow, what a great idea.

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Speaker 1: Things started off going great.

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Speaker 12: We were making custom flags for military family, our first responders,

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Speaker 12: and so much more. After two years, we decided to

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Speaker 12: move to Tennessee.

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Speaker 1: Where we could have a bigger workshop.

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Speaker 12: This is my son's dream, and he loves to tell

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Speaker 12: people that my wife and I work for him now

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Speaker 12: at just eight years old, his idea delivered our family.

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Speaker 1: The American dream.

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Speaker 12: Until he took it all away. Our money was frozen

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Speaker 12: and he makes works of art based on the flag

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Speaker 12: of the United States. And somehow this is offensive to

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Speaker 12: our big tech overlords.

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Speaker 2: A business owner is at war with PayPal.

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Speaker 11: This is the new form of political oppression.

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Speaker 13: If thousands of companies like Mile were demonetized and kind attacked,

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Speaker 13: PayPal offered as a zero notification and held roughly one

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Speaker 13: hundred thousand dollars of our money and offered to give

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Speaker 13: it back only if we signed a non.

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Speaker 12: Disclosure agreement, effectively attempting to buy our silence with our

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Speaker 12: own money.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's right, trying to shut them down. They made

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Speaker 1: the American flag.

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Speaker 4: Join me today is someone who is truly an expert

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Speaker 4: on the subject, who has extensive experience and understanding the

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Speaker 4: nuances and consequences of cancel culture from its influence on

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Speaker 4: politics and what means for freedom of expression.

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Speaker 1: To the ongoing battle against big text rule and silencing voices.

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Speaker 4: The CEO of your American flagstore dot com, Your American

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Speaker 4: Flag store dot com, write that down, James Stockey joining

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Speaker 4: me now, James, nice to see you again.

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Speaker 1: Thanks for having me back, Steve.

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Speaker 4: Look, the first moment of the United States Constitution is

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Speaker 4: the envy of the world. Even so called free countries

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Speaker 4: aren't as free.

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Speaker 1: As we are. It is the gold standard, James. It

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Speaker 1: is what this entire country is built on.

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Speaker 4: The freedom speech, the freedom, religion of expression, to assemble,

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Speaker 4: to address grievances, all of it right.

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Speaker 1: And freedom of the press. Throw that in there too

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Speaker 1: for number five.

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Speaker 4: I mean, gosh, don and thank you for doing the

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Speaker 4: right thing and standing up for this country.

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Speaker 12: Actually is our pleasure. You know, we really didn't have

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Speaker 12: much of a choice. It was either give up our

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Speaker 12: American dream or fight.

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Speaker 1: Right, and so you decided to fight.

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Speaker 4: I mean, how embarrassing they come after you make the

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Speaker 4: American flag right?

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Speaker 5: Game on?

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Speaker 12: Yeah, And it wasn't just the American flag. It's very

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Speaker 12: telling when you look at the exact flags that they canceled.

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Speaker 12: They canceled our Christian flags, canceled our military flags, our

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Speaker 12: first responders that have like the badges of our of

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Speaker 12: our police officers hand painted.

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Speaker 1: On them by my wife.

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Speaker 12: I mean, when you look at what they canceled, it's

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Speaker 12: very telling on why they canceled it. They don't like

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Speaker 12: law enforcement, they don't like our military, they don't like freedom,

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Speaker 12: they don't like religion, they don't like God. So they

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Speaker 12: literally just took all that off of our website and

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Speaker 12: said we weren't allowed to advertise it anymore.

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Speaker 4: Right, And you responded appropriately. They were saying, of course

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Speaker 4: we do. But here we are in a country that

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Speaker 4: was trying to do Maybe we.

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Speaker 1: Were past that, James. Maybe we can fly old glory.

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Speaker 4: Maybe we can have a flag and say what we

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Speaker 4: think and speak our minds again, do you feel optimistic

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Speaker 4: looking at the future.

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Speaker 12: I feel very optimistic. And here's why is when we

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Speaker 12: started our company, and the idea came late twenty seventeen,

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Speaker 12: we actually started twenty eighteen, and right away the business

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Speaker 12: took off. Within a couple within about a year, we

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Speaker 12: got ourselves out of debt, We fixed our credit within

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Speaker 12: two years. The business where we were renting in California,

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Speaker 12: paycheck to paycheck putting groceries on credit cards, just going

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Speaker 12: in debt like so many people were at the time.

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Speaker 12: This business absolutely blew up. And when it blew up,

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Speaker 12: it allowed us to live the American dream.

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Speaker 1: We bought.

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Speaker 12: We moved out of California and we moved to Tennessee

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Speaker 12: on our first home, our dream home, on our dream property,

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Speaker 12: on our dream state. And everything was going good. It

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Speaker 12: wasn't until right after the election in twenty twenty that

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Speaker 12: everything fell apart. Literally right after the election on a

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Speaker 12: beginning part of January is when we were canceled.

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Speaker 4: But now you look forward, you look forward, freedom was

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Speaker 4: out of the horizon. Let let me ask you this

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Speaker 4: one last question, James, Is it morning in America again?

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Speaker 1: Is it morning in America? Yeah?

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Speaker 12: I think I think we're onto a new and better day.

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Speaker 12: I think Donald Trump is going to do exactly what

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Speaker 12: he promised, and we're gonna have a new golden age

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Speaker 12: of the American way of life.

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Speaker 4: And on Thanksgiving, I can find nothing more thankful than

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Speaker 4: to be thankful for the first time I'm in the

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Speaker 4: United States Constitution. You can find out more, my friends,

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Speaker 4: go check this out. American Flagstore dot com, American Flagstore

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Speaker 4: dot com support real patriots and real Americans. James Stockey, James,

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Speaker 4: thank you so much. God bless you.

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Speaker 12: Thank you so much for having me back on Steve.

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Speaker 12: I appreciate it. Oh, good to see you, my friend.

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Speaker 12: There you have it. Be thankful that you live in

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Speaker 12: the freest nation on earth in the.

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Speaker 4: History of nations. God bless America. Ah, thanksgivings fun.

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Speaker 1: I'll be back.

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Speaker 14: Ah.

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Speaker 4: Yes, lots of inspiration today about things that make this

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Speaker 4: country wonderful. And today we're spotlighting another inspiring organization that's

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Speaker 4: making a real difference in the lives of young people.

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Speaker 4: Love Heals Youth. This incredible nonprofit is dedicated to empowering

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Speaker 4: youth through mentorship, emotional support, and community building programs, with

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Speaker 4: a mission to help at risk youth navigate challenges, develop

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Speaker 4: leadership skills, and find a sense of belonging. Love Heals

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Speaker 4: Youth's creating lasting change in communities all across Texas and

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Speaker 4: maybe soon farther. More recently, this organization is inside of

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Speaker 4: the sponsor the Sound of Hope Bill, which will cover

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Speaker 4: the entire state of Texas. Join out to discuss what

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Speaker 4: this is all about. The CEO and founder of Love

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Speaker 4: Heals youth. Rebecca Smith Nash Rebecca, nice to see you today.

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Speaker 3: Hi there, nice to see you. Thank you for having me.

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Speaker 4: So tell us Love heels Youth sounds wonderful, but what

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Speaker 4: is it?

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Speaker 3: Well, love heels Youth.

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Speaker 14: We are a bunch of counselors that provide services for

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Speaker 14: the foster youth that live in group homes or what

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Speaker 14: are now called or recognized as modern day orphanages.

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Speaker 3: We go in to provide.

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Speaker 14: Individual services, group services, and then in addition to that,

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Speaker 14: we also offer an opportunity for the kids to stop

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Speaker 14: on our mobile clothes closet, and we also bring welcome

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Speaker 14: home bags and the bags have it's a brand new

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Speaker 14: Duffel bag and it has full size hygiene products, a blanket, a.

682
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Speaker 3: Towel, a book, a journal, a water bottle, and.

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Speaker 14: A few other various items to really help the kids

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Speaker 14: feel welcomed into their new placement whenever they are a

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Speaker 14: placed in the orphanages. And our idea was that we're

686
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Speaker 14: really trying to address this from a masl's hierpie needs standpoint.

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Speaker 14: In order for the kids to be able to receive

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Speaker 14: the therapeutic services, we found that they needed a little

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Speaker 14: bit more stability and a little bit more TLC in

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Speaker 14: regards to clothing needs and the hygiene needs, and so

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Speaker 14: that's where we kind of launched those two missions after

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Speaker 14: we started with the counseling services. But we're really blessed

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Speaker 14: and so honored to be able to do this and

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Speaker 14: make these kids feel like a priority, which is something

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Speaker 14: they don't often get to feel, and to also make

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Speaker 14: sure they know that they're real.

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Speaker 1: So where does this all start?

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Speaker 4: I mean, obviously it's Thanksgiving and these young people should

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Speaker 4: be thankful for having an angel like you honestly overseeing

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Speaker 4: them and the people in your organization. You know, people

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Speaker 4: need that, they need to know that they're valued every day.

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Speaker 1: But how did this start?

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Speaker 14: Well, I started my private practice almost twenty years ago,

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Speaker 14: and so I've been doing this for a very long time,

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Speaker 14: all on my own with my team of counselors. Since then,

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Speaker 14: I realized that the need, the problem was so much

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Speaker 14: bigger than what I could even fathom, and so I

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Speaker 14: turned this into a nonprofit just a couple.

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Speaker 3: Of years ago, and we have just exploded.

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Speaker 14: We serve twenty three different organizations and we have several

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Speaker 14: more that are waiting in the queue to get on board.

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Speaker 14: We are just super excited and very very blessed to

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Speaker 14: do this.

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Speaker 4: So when you talk about some of these things, you

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Speaker 4: talk about closed bags, hygiene probably critical. What are these

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Speaker 4: where these young people come from? How do they end

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Speaker 4: up in these places? I know the word orphanage is

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Speaker 4: kind of out of date, but that's what it is.

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Speaker 4: I think most people understand that what kind of ages

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Speaker 4: are we talking about here?

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Speaker 1: How young? How old? What's the range here?

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Speaker 14: So the kids that we serve, they're the ones that

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Speaker 14: are between the ages of twelve to eighteen for they

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Speaker 14: turn eighteen actually, and they're the ones that are difficult

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Speaker 14: to place. They have a history of some rough behaviors,

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Speaker 14: they come from a rough background, They've gone through an

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Speaker 14: unbelievable amount of trauma throughout their short little lives, and

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Speaker 14: then they are moved around and put in these different placements.

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Speaker 14: Sometimes I've worked with kids that have been moved sometimes

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Speaker 14: twenty thirty, forty times, So imagining like as an adult,

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Speaker 14: I don't like to move at all, so I can

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Speaker 14: only imagine what it's like to have to move as

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Speaker 14: a child anywhere from twenty to forty times in that

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Speaker 14: short little timeframe.

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Speaker 3: So our kids are.

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Speaker 14: Unique and they are not with families, and it's a

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Speaker 14: real struggle, and so being able to help them feel

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Speaker 14: like a priority to know that they can have more

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Speaker 14: than one outfit. And we've had kids that have transitioned

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Speaker 14: before into a placement that we are blessed to serve

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Speaker 14: with one shoe. And so they'll call and say, we

742
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Speaker 14: just got a kiddo and they only have one one shoe.

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Speaker 3: Can you help us?

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Speaker 14: And so we bring a bag of clothes, the goodies

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Speaker 14: and shoes.

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Speaker 4: Well, that's obviously very important. Man, it is remarkable, Rebecca.

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Speaker 4: You look at that age group twelve to eighteen, and

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Speaker 4: these are the kids that are more difficult because they're

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Speaker 4: certain ways or they've had challenges. So when you said

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Speaker 4: about finding a place for them to go before you

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Speaker 4: hand them, you know, the Duffel bag with their supplies

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Speaker 4: and them and so forth, I mean there's got to

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Speaker 4: be a process, right because these kids have already been

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Speaker 4: passed aund as you said twenty thirty forty times.

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Speaker 1: You know that has to be hard on the child.

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Speaker 4: But it also takes probably a pretty special person to say,

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Speaker 4: you know what, I'm gonna take a chance here, I'm

758
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Speaker 4: going to give you a shot at this, you know,

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Speaker 4: just's have some pretty special people around you.

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Speaker 1: I do.

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Speaker 14: Our counselors are amazing, and they're so full of love,

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Speaker 14: and well we might often think that we're so we're

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Speaker 14: bringing blessings to these kids, and we're doing so much

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Speaker 14: for these kids, they're really doing so much for us.

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Speaker 14: And I tell everybody that gets involved that once you

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Speaker 14: start getting to know these.

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Speaker 3: Kids, they change your life.

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Speaker 14: And they're really they're really blessing us in ways that

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Speaker 14: we can't even compare it to anything else in this world.

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Speaker 3: So the counselors that I have, oh.

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Speaker 14: My goodness, they just pour their heart and soul into

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Speaker 14: taking care of these kids and doing anything that they

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Speaker 14: can to make sure that the kids.

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Speaker 3: Have what they need.

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Speaker 1: And how long have you been doing this?

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Speaker 14: I've been a licensed professional counselor for twenty years.

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Speaker 4: And how long is this Love Heals Youth? How long

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Speaker 4: has your nonprofit been up and running?

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Speaker 14: So we've been providing the services for almost twenty years,

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Speaker 14: but I just turned it into a nonprofit in twenty twenty,

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Speaker 14: and it's set pretty dormant for a while due to COVID,

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Speaker 14: So we've really only been operating under this nonprofit for

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Speaker 14: two and a half years.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, you touched on something really important.

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Speaker 4: That's what I'm trying to get to here, Rebecca, because

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Speaker 4: a lot of folks don't realize, you know, the big,

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Speaker 4: the big charities, they do fine, They grind down and

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Speaker 4: they do great work, and I applaud them for it. It's

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Speaker 4: the smaller charities that have had real challenges because of COVID.

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Speaker 4: You just mentioned it, and therefore fundraising has been difficult

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Speaker 4: because people would ordinarily fund you, they withdrew during COVID.

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Speaker 4: There's still a little shell shocks of them are starting

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Speaker 4: to blossom now.

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Speaker 1: But for small charities like your own.

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Speaker 4: From everything that I understand, it's a much bigger challenge

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Speaker 4: many days, isn't it.

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Speaker 3: It is?

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Speaker 14: And most of it is self funded. But I've absolutely

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Speaker 14: reached my capacity of what I can afford to find

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Speaker 14: out on my own pocket. But we operate on a

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Speaker 14: very conservative budget, so we don't have any paid staff.

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Speaker 14: I volunteer my time as the CEO to run the organization,

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Speaker 14: and so really our big expense, our main expense, would

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Speaker 14: just be the counseling services that the counselor's render. Other

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Speaker 14: than that, we don't have any space that is paid.

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Speaker 14: We have spaces donated to help us run the organization,

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Speaker 14: so we're a minimal spence organization. But we do have

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Speaker 14: other organizations that are asking for our services. But due

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Speaker 14: to funding difficulties, it has been a little bit of

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Speaker 14: a barrier, but we hang in there.

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Speaker 1: Well, right, I mean the factor better is Rebecca. You

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Speaker 1: can't do it all by yourself.

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Speaker 4: And that's why we're here today on this great day

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Speaker 4: to say, look, folks, here's a woman who's doing it all.

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Speaker 4: She rolled for seeds, she saw a need for youth

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Speaker 4: American kids that don't have many alternatives left. So I

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Speaker 4: ask you, can you make a difference, Rebecca? Where would

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Speaker 4: somebody go to say, look, I saw Rebecca, liked what

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Speaker 4: she had to say. Maybe I was adopted. Maybe I

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Speaker 4: know kids who are adopted. Maybe they want to help

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Speaker 4: you in some way, to help you pay for the

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Speaker 4: bags or the hygiene products, or the clothes, of the

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Speaker 4: books or whatever it might be.

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Speaker 1: How would they help you?

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Speaker 14: If you go to our website Levehills Youth dot com,

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Speaker 14: you can find a place to donate on there, or

827
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Speaker 14: you can scroll to the very bottom and on the

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Speaker 14: footer there's a button you can click to donate, and

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Speaker 14: that'll take you to our page to be.

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Speaker 3: Able to donate.

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Speaker 14: And every penny really makes a difference, and so we

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Speaker 14: are very grateful for any help we can get.

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Speaker 4: And because she's a nonprofit, every penny you donate, there's

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Speaker 4: also tax deductible if that helps you in any way.

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Speaker 1: Doing the right thing should.

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Speaker 4: Be payment enough for a lot of folks. If you're

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Speaker 4: enjoying a Thanksgiving and you're saying, maybe I can help

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Speaker 4: her back.

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Speaker 1: At the day, I think you should do that. Love

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Speaker 1: heeals youth dot com.

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Speaker 4: Rebecca, give me one story, one kid that you could

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Speaker 4: share with everybody here that you think that kind of

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Speaker 4: is reflective of your organization.

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Speaker 14: So one kiddo that I worked with many years ago

845
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Speaker 14: before I had the nonprofit, but still doing the work,

846
00:43:37,960 --> 00:43:40,640
Speaker 14: she came into care and on the night that she

847
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Speaker 14: was transitioned into the placement, all of her things were

848
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Speaker 14: dumped onto the ground and it gone through and then

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Speaker 14: it was a little bit of an uncomfortable experience, a

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Speaker 14: little bit of an uncomfortable experience.

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Speaker 3: She finally gets to bed.

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Speaker 14: Around three or four o'clock in the morning, only to

853
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Speaker 14: have to wake up the next morning.

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Speaker 3: To go to school.

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Speaker 14: She was put in a room with three other strangers.

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00:44:02,960 --> 00:44:06,279
Speaker 14: They were also children. We work together for quite some

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Speaker 14: time and we stayed in touch. Today she is an

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Speaker 14: adult that's married and now has three children of her own.

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Speaker 14: She beat the odds, She overcame the statistics and managed

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Speaker 14: to complete a bachelor's degree and is now working for

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Speaker 14: a government agency giving back to children herself. So there

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Speaker 14: are ways for these kids to overcome the daunting backgrounds

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Speaker 14: that they have. They just need that help. They need

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Speaker 14: to feel like a priority. They need to know that

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Speaker 14: they're loved, and they need to know that there's value

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Speaker 14: in who they are.

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Speaker 4: They certainly do. People need to be valued. You're exactly right, Rebecca.

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Speaker 4: I tipped my hat to you. I'm thankful for you

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Speaker 4: today again real quickly that website loveheels youth dot com,

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Speaker 4: loveheels youth dot com.

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Speaker 1: Rebecca Smith Nash, thank you so much.

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Speaker 3: Yes, their thank you. I appreciate it.

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Speaker 1: Thank you. We'll be right back now.

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Speaker 4: Every day we want to leave you with something that

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Speaker 4: makes you feel good about this country, meaning you must

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Speaker 4: feel pretty good about things giving. I'm glad you're here.

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00:45:08,960 --> 00:45:11,600
Speaker 4: The football game must not have been much today. What

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00:45:11,680 --> 00:45:14,480
Speaker 4: makes America wonderful we look at the groundbreaking moment for

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Speaker 4: environmental conservation salmon returning to the historic spawning grounds of

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Speaker 4: the Klamath River after the completion of the nation's largest

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Speaker 4: dam removal project.

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Speaker 1: It's in Oregon. By the way, the river, once blocked, is.

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Speaker 4: Now flowing freely for the most part, giving the resilient

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Speaker 4: fish access areas they hadn't reached in decades. The dam,

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Speaker 4: which had stood in the way of salmon migration for

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Speaker 4: over a century, removed as part of an ambitious restoration

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Speaker 4: effort at revitalizing the ecosystem. With the river now restored

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Speaker 4: to its natural flow, the salmon had begun their journey upstream,

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Speaker 4: marking a monumental success for both conservationists and some of

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Speaker 1: Listen to this. These streams or tributaries to the Klamath

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Speaker 1: River haven't had fish spawning in them, or even migrat

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Speaker 1: into them for at least sixty years.

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Speaker 4: Well families and local residents they gathered along the river

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Speaker 4: banks watching in oz as salmon leapt through the water,

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Speaker 4: a symbol of hope for the future of the river's ecosystem.

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Speaker 4: Return of the fish is expected to have long term

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Speaker 4: benefits for the river's biodiversity, supporting not only salmon, but

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Speaker 4: the many.

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Speaker 1: Other species that rely on healthy, free flowing waters. With

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Speaker 1: this historic.

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Speaker 4: Milestone, the community celebrates not only the return of the salmon,

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Speaker 4: but also the ongoing efforts to protect and restore the

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Speaker 4: natural world for generations to come.

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Speaker 1: America is a great place. We do great things. We'll

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Speaker 1: see how that plays out.

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Speaker 4: So how will you be spending your Thanksgiving? That is

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Speaker 4: the America's Voice question of the day. Wendy Logan says,

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Speaker 4: at home with her immediate household, no company this year,

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Speaker 4: full turkey dinner with all the.

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Speaker 1: Trimmings that we love.

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Speaker 4: Winston Wilson writes this with my family, that's the best

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Speaker 4: place to be. Winston met your family, but I'm gonna

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Speaker 4: trust it's.

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Speaker 1: The best place to be.

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Speaker 4: Robert Gentry celebrating Trump's win and enjoying life more with

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Speaker 4: less stress.

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Speaker 1: Isn't that so true? Though? It really is? Robert.

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Speaker 4: Jenna Crumbley writes, going to see my daughter and grand babies.

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Speaker 4: Happy Thanksgiving all. George Minnick shares this in a Turkey coma.

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Speaker 4: He's not sharing much, just snorting and mumbling a little bit.

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Speaker 4: Shan Casser says, with my family. Baron Hayn says he'll

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Speaker 4: be working well. Baron hopefully get some overtime next year.

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Speaker 4: No tax on overtime if you're lucky. Alberta Kosakowski watching

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Speaker 4: my daughter's dogs while she gets to see her marine. Well,

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Speaker 4: God bless America. Thank you for the service of that marine.

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Speaker 4: All right, Happy Thanksgiving, my friends greatly appreciate you being

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Speaker 4: here and celebrating with us here on America's Voice Live.

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Speaker 1: I hope you have the perfect day. We'll see you soon.

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