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Speaker 4: Well, first of all, I love your mom and dad.

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Speaker 4: My god, do I thank you, know, because that was

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Speaker 4: We'll talk about that learner.

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Speaker 2: But at least it's convenient you live.

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Speaker 4: And then he gave me a specialist named come Rava.

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Speaker 4: So I went through radiation for nine weeks in a row,

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Speaker 4: You know, he used to she loved blue bottle coffee.

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Speaker 4: So it's Nurse Marian, Nurse Kylie, Mary, another receptionist, the receptionist.

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Speaker 2: And by the way, way, she's the gatekeeper.

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Speaker 1: If she doesn't want to take a call or put

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you get through the gatekeeper and she sneaks it

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Speaker 4: Anna was mine. She was the perceptionist at Cedars. So

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Speaker 4: Six months for the doctors to sort of see that

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Speaker 4: it's thank you guys, but God, I love you all.

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Speaker 4: I mean, Ryan, I was so good to hug you

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Speaker 4: And every story is in that waiting room, you know,

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Speaker 4: You have to you have to be the only way, right, Yeah,

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Speaker 4: And I made it so they were excited to see me,

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Speaker 1: And I think the other thing is, you know, when

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Speaker 4: You know, I have Eric, you have, I mean your

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Speaker 2: How have you have?

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Speaker 4: You?

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Speaker 2: Are you looking at anything differently now?

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Speaker 4: Life? Everything?

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Speaker 4: I'm overbooked, you know, I am overbooked with vacations, you know.

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Speaker 4: Matter of fact, I went to a part of Italy

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Speaker 2: You know what we do is a lot of fun.

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Speaker 1: And the idea of what we do is to try

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Speaker 2: And just like you got a friend here.

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Speaker 1: I mean, that's what we were in the business of

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Speaker 1: do that when you're going through tough stuff. Listening Dennis Clark,

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Speaker 1: we love to appreciate your kind of love you too.

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Speaker 4: Don't give love to your parents.

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Speaker 2: Please, thank you.

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Speaker 4: You know, We'll just Conne and Gary, I love you.

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Speaker 2: I mean, this is why I'm not married.

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Speaker 1: They've got such a successful marriage for fifty six years.

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Speaker 2: Okay, we'll talk later. This is very good news.

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Speaker 1: I love you, Dennis, gonna come back here, shift gears,

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Speaker 1: Jenner's brothers tickets and kiss FM and say hi to Eric.

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Speaker 2: Okay, thank you Jennis.

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