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Speaker 1: So everybody, we're we're doing this new special series, Random

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Speaker 1: Acts of Kindness, short episodes where we're just going to

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Speaker 1: talk about people who do random acts of kindness that

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Speaker 1: are absolutely vital to growing this army of normal folks.

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Speaker 1: And we were brought a interesting story by our fen

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Speaker 1: Casey Clark about a guy named Aaron Shining in Atlanta

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Speaker 1: who happened to build a friendship with his UPS guy.

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Speaker 1: I guess is the story Aaron tell me about that?

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Speaker 2: You know?

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Speaker 1: That's that's absolutely right.

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Speaker 2: Tim has been our EPs guy for the I think

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Speaker 2: the fifteen years that we've lived in this neighborhood in Atlanta,

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Speaker 2: and I don't even really remember how it started.

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Speaker 1: Exactly a number of years ago.

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Speaker 2: I remember it must have been cold, because it was

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Speaker 2: dark outside early and he was wearing a Dallas Cowboys

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Speaker 1: You're not allowed to do that in Atlanta.

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Speaker 2: Yes, sir, well that's part of the problem. So I

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Speaker 2: started giving him grief. I'm like, Cowboys man, come on,

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Speaker 2: you're in Atlanta, and he said you a Falcons fan,

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Speaker 2: and YadA, YadA, YadA. One thing led to another, and

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Speaker 2: we just started talking about football. And so every time

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Speaker 2: he would come by we'd talk, you know, he'd show up,

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Speaker 2: he'd come by, knock on the door looking for me,

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Speaker 2: just to talk about the games from the day before

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Speaker 2: or something like that. And we became kind of friendly

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Speaker 2: that way. And then come to find out that his

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Speaker 2: kid went to the same school as my kids, and

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Speaker 2: we just you know, started I started keeping cold gatorades

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Speaker 2: in the fridge during the summertime and you know, hot

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Speaker 2: drinks in the wintertime if he wanted to stop by

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Speaker 1: And we found.

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Speaker 2: Out his birthdays a few days before my wife's, so

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Speaker 2: we would have him over for birthday parties. And I

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Speaker 2: knew a lot of people in the neighborhood liked him

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Speaker 2: because he's so likable. He could have just been us.

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Speaker 2: But then we just kind of, you know, swap numbers, texting,

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Speaker 2: talking trash about football. He's so mad about the Cowboys

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Speaker 2: keeping Dak Prescott and not making any more moves this offseason.

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Speaker 2: So yeah, he just became.

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Speaker 1: A good friend. That's that's that's awesome. I mean, yeah,

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Speaker 1: it used to be back in the day your your

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Speaker 1: postal worker walked and everybody kind of knew their postal worker,

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Speaker 1: And unfortunately, I think we've lost some of that inner connectivity.

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Speaker 1: But it sounds like Tim the ups guy. Tim Davies

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Speaker 1: was just an old school throwback I know, the people

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Speaker 1: in your neighborhood kind of guy. Yep. But I understand

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Speaker 1: as you got to know him and talk to him

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Speaker 1: that you notice he walked with a little bit of

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Speaker 1: a limp. It wasn't a little bit.

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Speaker 2: I mean, the man just limps period.

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Speaker 1: And you know, a job was a dude that's on

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Speaker 1: and off a big round truck. He packages all the time,

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Speaker 1: do that job.

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Speaker 2: I don't know. I had a smile and a smile

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Speaker 2: and a handshake and a fist bump whatever. And the

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Speaker 2: summertime you'd see him, you know, wearing shorts, and he'd

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Speaker 2: have these big braces on both of his knees, and

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Speaker 2: so we would start talking about that too, and he

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Speaker 2: would tell me, yeah, I gotta get him replace, get

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Speaker 2: my knees replaced. Gotta get my knees replaced. I was like, man,

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Speaker 2: you gotta do that. You know, time to do that,

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Speaker 2: and yeah, yeah, yeah, And he didn't do it.

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Speaker 1: He didn't do it.

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Speaker 2: And then finally he said, well, it turns out I

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Speaker 2: gotta get my hip fixed before I can do my knees.

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Speaker 2: So he finally scheduled that surgery for this earlier this

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Speaker 1: So Casey, where do you fit in all of this?

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Speaker 2: Well?

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Speaker 3: I had seen him around my neighborhood when I'm walking

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Speaker 3: my dog or when he's dropping off a package, and

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Speaker 3: he is just the friendliest person. I mean, he just

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Speaker 3: makes my day, you know. And after like several interactions

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Speaker 3: was like, We're so lucky to have him, have somebody

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Speaker 3: whatever's going on in your life. And so yeah, I

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Speaker 3: just I opened Facebook one day and I saw a

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Speaker 3: picture of Tim. I didn't even know Tim's name, but

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Speaker 1: Do to help him?

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Speaker 3: And then I read Aaron's post and I was like,

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Speaker 3: oh my gosh, I got to let Tim know that

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Speaker 1: And so yeah, you know, we talk about on an

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Speaker 1: army of normal folks all the time to make your

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Speaker 1: part of some big five OHO one C three. You

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Speaker 1: don't have to be part of some massive organization to

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Speaker 1: actually make a difference in the world. And it sounds

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Speaker 1: like this tim guy, just through his kindness in doing

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Speaker 1: people that he served literally packages to, but served with

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Speaker 1: a smile and a simple hello and yeah, Aaron, I

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Speaker 1: think I read that even when he didn't have a package,

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Speaker 1: when he put by your house, he'd honk his horn

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Speaker 2: Kitchen faces the front of the street, in the front

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Speaker 2: And sure enough, around six point thirty you'd hear the

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Speaker 2: at us and driving down in. The lads became that

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Speaker 2: we sort of were used to it. In fact, I

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Speaker 2: texted him last week because somebody drove by with exact

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Speaker 2: same honk and honked and I reflectively looked and waved,

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Speaker 2: thinking it was him, But of course it's not so yeah,

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Speaker 2: it's the sound of the evening to us as Tim's

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Speaker 2: truck and that honk pretty phenomenal.

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Speaker 1: So he has to get his hip fixed before he

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Speaker 1: some time off. And you had an idea. Did there?

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Speaker 2: Another abor of ours who's friends with him, also we

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Speaker 2: decided to uh try and raise a little bit of

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Speaker 2: delivery gift card, an uber eats gift cards, something while

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Speaker 2: he's laid up, you know, so he didn't have to

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Speaker 2: worry about that kind of stuff. So I put this

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Speaker 2: post on our neighborhood facebook page with his picture and

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Speaker 2: to raise a little bit of money. Here's my Venmo

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Speaker 2: and uh, you know, if you're able to, you know,

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Speaker 1: And that was it. I did not.

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Speaker 2: Think much more of it than that. We were thinking

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Speaker 2: we could raise a couple hundred dollars to feed him.

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Speaker 2: And you know, I'm one of those people with my phone,

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Speaker 2: I've got all the notifications turned on. My wife hates it,

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Speaker 2: so my Venmo. If someone Venmo's be I got a

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Speaker 1: I don't really I need to go in and fix it,

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Speaker 1: but I don't. But so my life.

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Speaker 2: And I was just sitting there watching television that night

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Speaker 2: after I posted it, and then Venmoth and just starts

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Speaker 2: running like it's on fire. I mean, it's like the

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Speaker 2: bell going off, yes, sir, like a constant. And at

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Speaker 2: some point finally I looked and within an hour we'd

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Speaker 2: raised five hundred dollars, which was more than I ever

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Speaker 2: raised a thousand dollars. And I was so incredibly touched.

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Speaker 2: And then it also made me reflect a little bit. Well,

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Speaker 2: of course Tim's not just mine. Of course Tim's not

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Speaker 1: So did you have your feelings hurt that you found

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Speaker 1: out that them wasn't just your best friend, he said,

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Speaker 2: I definitely did not. I actually felt kind of selfish

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Speaker 1: I was I was.

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Speaker 2: I was like, heyah, of course, of course. So I

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Speaker 2: By the time I woke up the next morning, it

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Speaker 2: that point, you're like, nobody can use that much Uber

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Speaker 2: Eats in Atlanta, right, this is not just a gift

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Speaker 2: So and then by the end, Billy was I think

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Speaker 2: he ended up transferring five six hundred dollars to him. Wow,

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Speaker 1: But it speaks to the power of random acts of

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Speaker 1: acts of kindness here on this story, Casey, it's both.

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Speaker 1: It's Tim's random act of kindness while doing his job

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it was incredible. Like Aaron said, I wasn't surprised

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Speaker 3: to see how many people had such nice things to

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Speaker 3: how they had been impacted by him. But it it

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Speaker 3: that Facebook post, but was it one hundred people?

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Speaker 2: Well, I actually printed it out yesterday because yeah, I

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Speaker 2: can't I certainly don't have time to read them all.

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Speaker 1: But it's oh, it's picture of list after list after

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Speaker 1: Georgia that just wouldn't shut up about Tim and continue

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Speaker 1: to give little bits of money to have fifty five

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Speaker 1: the surgeries. You know this, this isn't something that's raised

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Speaker 1: ten million dollars and affecting people all over the world.

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Speaker 1: But if we're going to make a difference where we are,

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Speaker 1: this is Tim making a difference where he is, and

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Speaker 1: all these people making a small difference where Tim is

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Speaker 1: and little itty bitty random acts of kindness. And if

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Speaker 1: you look at the smile on Aaron's face in Casey's

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Speaker 1: face when talking about this, you can and see how

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Speaker 1: restorative it is to your very soulce Amen, it really is.

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Speaker 2: It's just astonishing, you know, Casey said, it's easy to

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Speaker 2: the number of people who were then willing to put

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Speaker 2: their own dollars behind it. That was what was truly

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Speaker 2: astonishing to me. I mean, some people sent hundred and

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Speaker 2: fifty dollars, some people spent ten, you.

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Speaker 1: Know, And.

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Speaker 2: Fan, if I have time to share. The Cowboys played

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Speaker 1: you guys a high ho And Hello, Alex, where's Russell?

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Speaker 1: What up? Dude? My man, How you doings?

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Speaker 6: I'm doing great, Bill?

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Speaker 1: How you doing? How do you feel when you find

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Speaker 6: Hey, Tim, Man, I just I just heard your whole story, Dude,

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Speaker 1: Man.

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Speaker 6: My brother and Brown keep doing the thing.

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Speaker 1: Man looking Brown do for you.

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Speaker 6: That's right, that's right, man, I tell you, my my

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Speaker 6: You know again, I'm I'm proud to be your brother

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Speaker 1: Yes, sir, yes, sir ac. Have you have you seen

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Speaker 1: Russell's moves? I'm not well. I'm hoping to Yeah, all right,

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Speaker 1: But that cat is lean and clean. And Tim with

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Speaker 1: When I get the needs that they it is on

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Speaker 1: Let me. Let me let me tell you something. We've

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Speaker 1: If that is not the power of what we try

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Speaker 1: And all four of you simply make my weak.

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Speaker 6: Hey and Bill and Alex, thank y'all for doing this.

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Speaker 6: Aaron Casey, thank y'all. Seriously, that's a pretty special deal

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Speaker 3: Anything you do to get ten back on the route.

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Speaker 1: Said, I love eating her one, y'all. I love that.

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Speaker 1: In fact, Alex, Alex, you got anything to say about

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Speaker 5: The only thing I failed at is I tried asking

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Speaker 5: forgot this. I wanted to surprise you, Tim with ruffle

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Speaker 5: So I don't know if you got one on this

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Speaker 1: Well, now boots on the ground with the fans, I

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Speaker 5: I got Tim song called up.

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Speaker 1: Would you be game to dance or wrestle? Yeah?

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Speaker 6: Hey, I'm ready, dude, just give me, just give me

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Speaker 1: All right, let me pull it up here. God, I cheating?

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Speaker 4: Got them?

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Speaker 1: I didn't. Damn.

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Speaker 7: You're ready with them fans with fans, with fans any

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Speaker 1: Oh my god, I got my boo. Where the friends

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Speaker 2: That's awesome.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I never heard of Yeah, that's tremendous. Yeah so so, uh, Tim,

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Speaker 1: thank you so much for thinking enough about Tim to

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Speaker 1: are inspiring. You're a member of the army of normal folks.

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Speaker 1: You're random. Acts of kindness are no smaller feat than

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Speaker 1: It all counts, at all matters that we do what

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Speaker 1: our culture. And it's all walks of life. And you

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Speaker 1: guys are the absolute illustration of what that looks like.

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Speaker 1: And I salute all of you, and I thank all

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Speaker 1: of you for what you do and for joining us today.

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Speaker 4: Thanks, thank you, Bill, thank you, thank you