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Speaker 1: Today's Daily Highlight from Elvis Duran in the Morning show.

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Speaker 2: You know, all this week we're putting Saint Jude Children's

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Speaker 2: Research Hospital at the top of the list people that

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Speaker 2: we love. We've been friends with our friends at Saint

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Speaker 2: Jude for many, many years. We've visited the campus. Scary

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Speaker 2: was most recently there as well. As you know, and

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Speaker 2: maybe you don't know. Saint Jude Children's Research Hospital. It's

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Speaker 2: all about making life easy for the parents and the

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Speaker 2: family while they heal their child, they get rid of

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Speaker 2: cancer and help them live live a life, you know.

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Speaker 2: And it goes beyond just the curing of the cancer

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Speaker 2: and the kids. They are setting these kids up for

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Speaker 2: a lifetime of health.

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Speaker 3: And we love.

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Speaker 2: Saint Jude Children's Research Hospital. A lot of people do

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Speaker 2: so much so that a lot of kids who were

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Speaker 2: treated there for free now work there and get paid

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Speaker 2: to work there because they have this passion for Saint

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Speaker 2: Jude Children's Research Hospital.

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Speaker 1: And a lot of people don't realize that kids children's

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Speaker 1: cancer is a lot different than adult cancer. So people

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Speaker 1: are like, oh, oh, it's the same thing. Why don't

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Speaker 1: they know? And there wasn't enough research and there still

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Speaker 1: isn't they still need to do more for children's cancers

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Speaker 1: because there's so many different ones.

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Speaker 3: Right, so many different cancers. It's mind boggling.

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Speaker 2: That's why it takes the smartest, the smartest women and

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Speaker 2: men in the world to gather together at Saint Jude

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Speaker 2: to not only solve these problems, but to share their

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Speaker 2: results with other cancer patients around the world and their doctors. Hey,

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Speaker 2: online twenty, I want you to meet Ashley. Ashley was

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Speaker 2: a patient at St. Jude over forty years ago. Now,

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Speaker 2: you had cancer at five years old, Ashley, do you

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Speaker 2: remember much about what life was like for you at

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Speaker 4: Hey, good morning, guys. So glad to morning with you.

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Speaker 3: We're glad to have you.

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Speaker 4: I remember quite a bit. I remember different things than

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Speaker 4: my mom remembers. I remember the things like them bringing

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Speaker 4: Actually it will be December eighteenth, was the day that

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Speaker 4: But things like they allowed my mom and I to

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Speaker 4: come home after my initial treatment. Of the first six months,

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Speaker 4: they would fly us every week back and forth so

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Speaker 4: that we could spend time with family in between my rounds.

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Speaker 4: Of treatment and how.

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Speaker 3: Much of that did you did your parents have to

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Speaker 4: They paid for nothing. They put us in a hotel.

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Speaker 4: They put us in a hotel every week, provided food

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Speaker 4: and mill vouchers for our meals while we were there.

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Speaker 4: So it was it was I know, it took the

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Speaker 4: and my mom was allowed, you know, was able to

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Speaker 4: paying for the flights and us driving and and you know,

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Speaker 4: it's it's hard because you at the time there was

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Speaker 4: as opposed to, you know, just laying in a hospital bed.

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Speaker 4: They paid for those for us to have that.

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Speaker 2: And listen to this story from Ashley's. The story you've

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Speaker 2: told is a very complicated one, and that we're not

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Speaker 2: only talking about doctors and surgeons and scientists. We're also

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Speaker 2: talking about a massive army of people who were there

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Speaker 2: to go. It takes a lot to run this city,

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Speaker 2: this city of miracles, and you got to see at

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Speaker 2: firsthand what all did they do for you your Do

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Speaker 2: you remember what else they did for the family, for

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Speaker 2: you and your mom? I mean other than cure your cancer.

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Speaker 4: They did things like they would set up they had

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Speaker 4: a gift shop and I'm not sure if they still

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Speaker 4: out something. It didn't I mean, it wasn't huge, but

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Speaker 4: going in for treatments or not feeling well. They have

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Speaker 4: little carts that you can little wagons that kids can

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Speaker 4: as good of an experience as possible. And it's all

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Speaker 4: of joy into such you know, what could be a

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Speaker 2: Well look at this and I can hear you still

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Speaker 2: getting emotional forty years later. Yeah, Froggy, what are your

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Speaker 2: thoughts here for Ashley.

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Speaker 5: I was on the Saint Jude campus last year and

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Speaker 5: we met a family and they said that they got

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Speaker 5: there and their daughter had a blastema. I forget exactly

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Speaker 5: what the cancer was. And they get in there and

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Speaker 5: the first thing she said was after they had had

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Speaker 5: the building department. And they looked at her and said,

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Speaker 5: there is no building department here. We are here to

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Speaker 5: make sure that we do everything we can to get

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Speaker 5: And that's what Saint Jude is. There are angels working there,

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Speaker 5: and when you go there, you feel it. You feel

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Speaker 5: such a sense of hope for these children, and you

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Speaker 5: feel what a wonderful place it is that they have

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Speaker 4: Actually do everything they can. I mean, I work, I

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Speaker 4: a I'm a therapist, and i work in a hospital setting,

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Speaker 4: and I've worked with oncology patients and you know, and

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Speaker 4: able to now do with some of the patients that

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Speaker 4: What they do for families never leaves you. It may

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Speaker 4: made me who I am today. I mean it really,

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Speaker 4: uh you know, from getting I mean they help provide

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Speaker 4: a wig. I mean I ended up just going with

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Speaker 3: I see, we love a good wig.

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Speaker 2: Well, you know, actually just hearing you gushing over something

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Speaker 2: that did that journey and that story began, like I said,

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Speaker 2: over forty years ago, it's still in you and it's

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Speaker 2: still a part of your story and journey. We love

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Speaker 2: of things that are important. And uh, you know, it's

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Speaker 2: easy to make a very very very thrifty donation if

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Speaker 2: you want. I like using the word thrifty because it

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Speaker 2: gets my attention. You can actually text my name Elvis

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Speaker 2: to six two six two sixty two. That's Elvis to

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Speaker 2: sixty two sixty two sixty two. You follow the prompts

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Speaker 2: and you can donate as little or as much per

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Speaker 2: month or once, whatever you want to do. They're open

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Speaker 3: That's uh.

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Speaker 2: Text the word Elvis to sixty two sixty two sixty two.

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Speaker 2: You could, let's say, do nineteen dollars a month, and

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Speaker 2: you can actually do it in honor of someone or

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Speaker 2: a memory of someone.

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Speaker 3: Whatever.

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Speaker 2: Just text the name Elvis to sixty two sixty two

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Speaker 2: sixty two, and let's let's help Saint Jude continue to

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Speaker 2: help kids and their families. Ashley, thank you so much

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Speaker 2: for your time today.

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Speaker 4: Thank you so much. I will listen to you guys

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Speaker 4: every morning. And I love your stories, Danielle, I'll love

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Speaker 4: your laugh Froggy. I love your journey that you've you've

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Speaker 4: been on and to the support that you you give

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Speaker 4: the Aneurysm Foundation, and I mean just you guys do

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Speaker 4: more than you realize on an on a daily basis,

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Speaker 4: to bring to bring lasker, to bring lights. So thank

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Speaker 4: you so much, well.

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Speaker 3: Thank you, thank you.

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Speaker 2: And just like Saint Jude, we don't have a building

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Speaker 2: department either, we should get one of those.

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Speaker 3: Sounds like a good idea, Ashley.

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Speaker 2: Uh. Free, by the way, let me say one more time,

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Speaker 2: if you text the word Elvis to sixty two sixty

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Speaker 2: two sixty two, you're making your donation. You're also uh,

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Speaker 2: if you start at nineteen a month, you get the

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Speaker 2: this Shirt Saves Lives t shirt and the top secret

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Speaker 2: All between Us Exclusive Elvis Drane Morning Shows. Saint Jude Beanie. Hello, lady,

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Speaker 2: you got you gotta have this in your your your

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Speaker 2: beanie drawer. And uh, Ashley, when we're going off there,

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Speaker 2: I'm gonna get your last name off the air, and uh,

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Speaker 2: we're gonna make We're gonna today make a ten thousand

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Speaker 2: dollars donation to Saint Jude in your honor, in your honor.

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Speaker 4: Wow, thank you Russia.

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Speaker 2: Get this building department started. Yeah, it's an in your honor.

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Speaker 2: We'll make a ten thousand dollars donation on behalf of

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Speaker 2: the show. And thank you so much for sharing your

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Speaker 4: Ashley, thank you, thank you, hold on, thank you.

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Speaker 3: There you go. Another reason we love it.

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Speaker 2: We love what we do. And thanks thanks for talking

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Speaker 2: about that. Froggy, I know you have a huge couple

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Speaker 2: of days you're gonna spend with Saint Jude on the radio.

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Speaker 5: Right.

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Speaker 3: Don't you have your radiothon coming up.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, we're doing radio fon here WQIK and Jacksonville the

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Speaker 5: country station here. We will shut the radio station down

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Speaker 5: for two days and do nothing but raise money for

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Speaker 5: Saint Jude. On Thursday and Friday of this week, we

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Speaker 5: will have Patience on. We will talk to them and

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Speaker 5: have them tell their story. We have story songs, and

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Speaker 5: we have just all kinds of stuff We're doing to

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Speaker 5: do what we can to help Saint Jude continue to

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Speaker 5: save lives, because once again, they don't keep the information

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Speaker 5: for themselves. They share it across anybody who needs it.

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Speaker 5: They are more than willing to share to just do

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Speaker 5: nothing but save children from this awful disease of cancer.

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Speaker 3: Excellent, Great job, guys, excellent