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Speaker 5: again for coming out today. And I like to start

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Speaker 5: with something funny. And I heard about this man. Somebody

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Speaker 5: a beat, he said, tell the thief to keep it.

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Speaker 5: He spends less than my wife. All right, hold up

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Speaker 5: your Bible. Say it like you mean it. This is

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Speaker 5: my Bible. I am what it says I am. I

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Speaker 5: it says I can do. Today I will be taught

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Speaker 5: the word of God. I boldly confess. My mind is alert,

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Speaker 5: my heart is receptive. I will never be the same.

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Speaker 5: In Jesus' name, God bless you. I want to talk

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Speaker 5: to you today about enjoying the journey. Life is not

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Speaker 5: And it's easy to become so goal oriented and so

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Speaker 5: life is a journey. There's no such thing as the

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Speaker 5: finish line. Once you accomplish this dream, God will give

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Speaker 6: There'll be another challenge.

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Speaker 5: There's always another mountain to climb, And if we make

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Speaker 6: Because most of life is routine.

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Speaker 5: Most of us get up every morning, go to work,

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Speaker 5: way I heard Dion Sanders talking. He was a star

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Speaker 5: because after you savor them for a moment, God's going

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Speaker 5: to birth a new dream in your heart, something new

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Speaker 5: to look forward to. And I've talked to a lot

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Speaker 5: the people God's put in your life. They're not always

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Speaker 5: A while back, we were out of town holding services.

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Speaker 6: And I know she's faking it.

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Speaker 5: But at least she's faking it to make me feel good.

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Speaker 5: I don't take that for granted. Make sure the people

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Speaker 5: every service. When I'm up here, I can hear her

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Speaker 5: I say is good. I can say, you may be seated.

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Speaker 6: All that's excellent today, Joel.

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Speaker 5: But I realize I wouldn't be where I am today

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Speaker 6: They're working all the.

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Speaker 5: Don't take the stress from the office home to where

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Speaker 5: I don't know about you, but I would rather make

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Speaker 5: Expensive it is or how exciting.

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Speaker 6: It is. Life is all about what we make it.

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Speaker 5: When our children were younger, we took them to Disneyland,

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Speaker 5: and Alexandra was about five years old, I would guess,

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Speaker 6: Was very much a struggle getting there that day.

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Speaker 5: There was a lot of traffic and we were in

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Speaker 5: the rental car and hard finding a place to park,

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Speaker 5: and a long line to get on the tram to

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Speaker 5: catch it to the park, and by the time we

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Speaker 5: got in the park, I was very stressed out. We

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Speaker 5: weren't there fifteen minutes until little Alexandra said, Daddy, I

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Speaker 5: want to go back to the hotel and go swimming.

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Speaker 5: I said no, no, no, Alexandra.

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Speaker 6: We can swim anywhere. We can swim at home. We're

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Speaker 6: at Disneyland.

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Speaker 5: She said, Daddy, I don't want to be at Disneyland.

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Speaker 6: I want to go swimming.

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Speaker 5: I said no, Alexandra, we may see Mickey Mouse. We're

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Speaker 5: gonna go find snow White. We're gonna have so much fun.

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Speaker 5: She said, I don't want to.

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Speaker 6: Have fun here.

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Speaker 5: I finally had to say, listen, Alexandra, I pay fifty

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Speaker 5: bucks for your ticket. You're gonna have fun whether you

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Speaker 5: like it or not. What am I saying, it doesn't

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Speaker 5: take a lot of money to have fun. Many times

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Speaker 5: it's the.

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Speaker 6: Simple things that we remember the most.

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Speaker 5: I heard about this man that was a huge baseball fan.

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Speaker 5: For his son's eighth birthday, he bought him a baseball

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Speaker 5: that was autographed by all of the New York Yankees

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Speaker 5: they had just won the World Series. Paid a lot

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Speaker 5: of money for it, and he was sure his son

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Speaker 5: would treasure it for years to come. But when he

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Speaker 5: gave the ball to his son, his son wasn't excited

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Speaker 5: about it at all. In fact, he just looked at

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Speaker 5: it and put it off to the side. The dad

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Speaker 5: was so disappointed, he said, son, don't you like the ball?

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Speaker 5: His son said, yes, Dad, but I'd like it a

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Speaker 5: lot better if somebody hadn't written all these names on it. Friends,

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Speaker 5: we've got to learn to enjoy the simple things in life.

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Speaker 6: Today. Everything is so complicated.

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Speaker 5: We have five hundred channels on TV, the internet, cell phones, PDAs.

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Speaker 5: Everywhere you look there's something to do, some kind of entertainment,

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Speaker 5: and if we're not careful, we'll fall into the trap

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Speaker 5: of thinking that we've always got to be busy. We

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Speaker 5: can't have fun, we can't enjoy our life unless we're

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Speaker 5: doing something big and exciting, or slow down and enjoy

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Speaker 5: the simple things. Turn off the TV and spend more

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Speaker 5: time with your family. Take a walk, go for a

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Speaker 5: bike ride, play games together that doesn't cost anything. Growing up,

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Speaker 5: we used to play hide and go seek as a family.

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Speaker 5: My mom and dad would chase us all through the house.

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Speaker 5: It's one of the highlights of my day. My favorite

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Speaker 5: memory is when my sister Lisa got stuck in the dryer.

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Speaker 5: Thank god we had it on permanent press. But it's

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Speaker 5: not about what we have or don't have. Life is

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Speaker 5: all about what we make it. You can have all

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Speaker 5: the money in the world and not be happy and

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Speaker 5: enjoying life. Plus you can have very little and be

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Speaker 5: just as satisfied and fulfilled as you can be. It's

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Speaker 5: all in our approach.

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Speaker 7: Now.

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Speaker 5: I read about this family that was very wealthy. The

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Speaker 5: father wanted to show his seven year old son how

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Speaker 5: the quote poor people live, and so he left the

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Speaker 5: big home in the city and they drove to a

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Speaker 5: little farm in the country where this family they knew

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Speaker 5: was and they spent the night with them. And it's

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Speaker 5: just a little frame wood house and didn't have any TV,

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Speaker 5: no fancy furniture, no carpet, and at night this family,

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Speaker 5: since there was no entertainment inside, they would go out

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Speaker 5: on the front porch and sing and laugh and tell

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Speaker 5: stories together. After being there a night or two, the

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Speaker 5: father and son headed back home, and the father was

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Speaker 5: very curious as to if his son had learned his lesson,

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Speaker 5: and he asked him how he liked it. Little boy said, oh, Dad,

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Speaker 5: I really loved it. He said, well, son, do you

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Speaker 5: see how poor people can be?

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Speaker 6: And the son said, yes, Dad, I did.

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Speaker 5: He said, well, son, tell me what exactly did you learn.

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Speaker 5: The little boy said, well, Dad, I learned that we

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Speaker 5: have one dog at home and they have four. We

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Speaker 5: have a swimming pool in the middle of our backyard,

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Speaker 5: but they have a stream with no end. We have

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Speaker 5: fancy lanterns on our house, but they have the stars.

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Speaker 5: We watched TV by ourselves at night, but they sit

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Speaker 5: around as.

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Speaker 6: A family and have fun. His dad was shaking his head.

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Speaker 6: He knew it had backfired.

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Speaker 5: About that time, the son said, Dad, thank you so

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Speaker 5: much for showing me how poor we really are.

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Speaker 6: Friends.

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Speaker 5: If you have people in your life to love, you're rich.

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Speaker 6: If you have your health, you're rich.

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Speaker 5: If you can hear your little girl's footsteps coming down

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Speaker 5: the stairs, you're rich. If you can talk with your

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Speaker 5: family about nothing, you're rich. Keep the right perspective, slow

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Speaker 5: down and enjoy the simple things in life. Take more

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Speaker 5: walks through the park, look at the stars at night.

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Speaker 5: Think about God's goodness when you get up in the morning.

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Speaker 5: Don't just drink your coffee, Sip it and say ah,

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Speaker 5: make a memory, ignite that moment. I'm asking us today

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Speaker 5: to slow down and enjoy the journey. There will always

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Speaker 5: be another dream, another goal, another challenge.

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Speaker 6: Take time for what matters most. Some of you are

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Speaker 6: so focused.

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Speaker 5: And driven, so busy with what you have to do

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Speaker 5: each day, you're missing the miracles all along the way.

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Speaker 5: You need to do like Frank Lloyd Wright and start zigzagging.

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Speaker 5: Start enjoying the different things that God has put in

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Speaker 5: your life. I heard somebody say, it's not that life

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Speaker 5: is so short, it's that we wait so long to begin.

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Speaker 5: Why don't you begin today? Take time to smell the roses,

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Speaker 5: appreciate the people in your life. Hug your children before

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Speaker 5: you leave each day, give your spouse a kiss, Call

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Speaker 5: your parents and tell them how much you love them.

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Speaker 5: Go visit those relatives you've been meaning to. Life is short,

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Speaker 5: We're not always going to be here, and it's good

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Speaker 5: to work hard, but you've got to learn how to

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Speaker 5: turn it off, stay in balance and play hard as well.

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Speaker 5: We're living in the good old days. If you'll make

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Speaker 5: this decision that you're going to slow down and enjoy

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Speaker 5: the journey, then you will experience the fullness of what

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Speaker 5: God has in store. When you come to the end

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Speaker 5: of your life, you'll have no regrets. You'll be able

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Speaker 5: to say I made the most of my life. I

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Speaker 5: enjoyed my family, I enjoyed my friends. I finished my

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Speaker 5: course with joy.

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Speaker 6: Amen. Do you receive that today?

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Speaker 5: We never like to close our broadcast without giving you

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