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Speaker 1: We thought you were voting the release. They're honored with

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Speaker 1: the the MVP Award and codex file upon that when

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Speaker 1: you heard lose, how you heard what you feel? Just shocked,

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Speaker 1: shocked and uh, just truly honor and blessed, thankful, um

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Speaker 1: that God has put me in this position to have

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Speaker 1: the resources, the platform to to give back and love

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Speaker 1: and serve others. And I just hope this encourages everybody

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Speaker 1: no matter what position they're in. UM, whatever role they're in,

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Speaker 1: gifts that God has given you. It kind of nice

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Speaker 1: to be able to do community work while we're playing

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Speaker 1: video games, for sure, I mean video games. So it's

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Speaker 1: been a joy to always play video games, but to

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Speaker 1: was going on. M still going on, but the lockdowns

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Speaker 1: within the hospitals, so being able to use that technology

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Speaker 1: to still visit the kids, it's just been amazing. Who

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Speaker 1: came up with that idea. So it was kind of

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Speaker 1: a process whenever I came here during the pandemic, you know,

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Speaker 1: everything was locked down. I really wanted to do some

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Speaker 1: make a difference coming in here to New England. So

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Speaker 1: I had gotten involved in the dad gaming community just

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Speaker 1: charity work with them, and it all kind of came

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Speaker 1: to fruition and I was like, hey, we can get

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Speaker 1: an attend to switch into Boston Children's Hospital and play

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Speaker 1: some games and have some fun. So it's all about

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Speaker 1: bringing joy to the kids. What's it like when you

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Speaker 1: screen and I see you. What is that emotion like you?

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Speaker 1: It's awesome. I mean there's a there's a few tiers

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Speaker 1: of joy. I think whenever I had heard about the award,

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Speaker 1: mean Darryl, Donna, Katie at Boston Children. I mean they're

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Speaker 1: all the ones who really saw this vision too for

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Speaker 1: wishing and um, it's just a huge blessing to be

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Speaker 1: I see it as that which which games do you

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Speaker 1: play with them? So it's all on Nintendo Switch. So

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Speaker 1: we do Mario Kart Rocket League, which is kind of

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Speaker 1: my favorite game, NBA two k Um Splatoon, we have

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Speaker 1: choose from. It's up to them, and they usually, uh,

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Speaker 1: they usually bring the heat. You know. They're pretty good

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Speaker 1: players and it's all good fun. We're the first games

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Speaker 1: who played. Oh we're talking about original Nintendo. I was

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Speaker 1: a big Mike Tyson knockout, Um, Ninja Turtles, Let's see

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Speaker 1: what else? Top Gun, all the good classics, Super Mario

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Speaker 1: of course, and um so old school Nintendo. You get

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Speaker 1: a game with anyone in the locker room. Um, a

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Speaker 1: little bit, but not as much as we want to. Uh.

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Speaker 1: I was a big proponent of JJ Taylor, you know,

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Speaker 1: getting signed did Rocket League. That's my main game. Um.

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Speaker 1: So I've gained games with him some and super fumped

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Speaker 1: to see him with Oxygen, So that was really cool experience.

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Speaker 1: Nintendo console has always been your console of choice. Or

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Speaker 1: do you do Xbox PlayStation too? So I'm a PC Gamerum,

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Speaker 1: Nintendo was just an easy choice for the kids and

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Speaker 1: being able to use that technology in the hospital. So

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Speaker 1: kid friendly games and Nintendo's perfect for that. How did

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Speaker 1: you get good at Rocket League? Because I tried it,

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Speaker 1: and I wouldn't say I'm good at it. I mean

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Speaker 1: I've played that's just the one game that I that

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Speaker 1: I kind of gravitate to. It's truly unique, and once

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Speaker 1: you pick it up, it's it takes forever to get

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Speaker 1: a decent at it because there's no other game like it.

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Speaker 1: But uh so, such a cool game and and fun

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Speaker 1: and exciting game from a sports standpoint, it's entertaining to

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Speaker 1: me into that game. I'm not good at it by far,

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Speaker 1: but getting there Like genres of games that you're like

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Speaker 1: particularly big on, like RPG, shooters, sports games, or you

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Speaker 1: kind of all over the place, a little bit all

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Speaker 1: to Rocky League, but kind of my free time if

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Speaker 1: program and obviously it's gonna bring some some good photosy

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Speaker 1: for it. Sure, I Mean my hope is that other

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Speaker 1: teams and other players would duplicate this. You know, I'm

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Speaker 1: not looking to copyright this idea or anything like that.

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Speaker 1: It's it's an idea that's easily with a little bit

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Speaker 1: of effort, and their home market could make it happen anywhere.

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Speaker 1: So I think we've just kind of tip of the

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Speaker 1: iceberg right now with one hospital and one switch and

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Speaker 1: just me. But I'm open to any idea is of

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Speaker 1: expanding this and making it bigger, um than just myself.

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Speaker 1: Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you.