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Speaker 1: brought to you by me, Andy's and the l A Clippers,

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Speaker 1: So I'm gonna give it to you. Explain what this is.

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Speaker 1: We have Blake Griffin on this episode. L A Clipper

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Speaker 1: uh supports the Children's Hospital of l A. Okay, I've

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Speaker 1: been there myself. The Children's Hospital like does God's work

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Speaker 1: he got to design them with Blake Griffin, and um,

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Speaker 1: it's all in correspondence with a program that they do

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Speaker 1: from the Children's Hospital of l A. Make March matters

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Speaker 1: dot org. Okay, make March matters, and what that is

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Speaker 1: is the month where they're they're raising money for the

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Speaker 1: On top of that. Um, you could check it out

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Speaker 1: or you could text and don't. It doesn't matter. If

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Speaker 1: you do. You donate five bucks bucks. It's all going

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Speaker 1: to a good course to hell kids. You can text

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Speaker 1: It doesn't matter if it's five dollars, dollars, fifty dollars,

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Speaker 1: Justice Griffith, got to work with Blake Griffin. We were

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Speaker 1: You could also find information at www dot Clippers dot com.

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Speaker 1: Forward slash auction the sneakers an hour for auction until April.

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Speaker 1: We'll be right back with more I Am Wrappers stereo podcast.

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Speaker 1: I'm here with Justice Griffin, who helped design Blake Griffin

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Speaker 1: the sneakers that he made for the Make March Matter. Um,

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Speaker 1: how old do you? Justice? I am even years old? Okay,

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Speaker 1: So tell me why and what it is about Blake

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Speaker 1: met him? Is he cool? Yeah? He's cool. He's low key. Right,

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Speaker 1: I want to say low key. But okay, tell me

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Speaker 1: Why those colors? Well? I would have picked other colors,

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Speaker 1: So tell me about the program. Tell me what you

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