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Speaker 1: We need feel good Friday.

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Speaker 2: Seventy years after starting her studies, Marriette McFarland from Londonderry

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Speaker 2: was finally able to graduate from university seventy years in

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Speaker 2: the making. She got a degree in English literature. She's

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Speaker 2: ninety years old.

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Speaker 3: Wow.

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Speaker 2: Her story is one of Determination's patients and a little.

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Speaker 4: Bit of help from her friends push us.

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Speaker 2: Started university in Dublin back in the nineteen sixties.

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Speaker 4: But then she got married.

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Speaker 2: Life got in the way and blah blahlah blah blah

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Speaker 2: blah jumped forward and she went back and at ninety

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Speaker 2: years old she's a graduate.

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Speaker 5: There you go.

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Speaker 1: That should be inspiration to us because we're learning something

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Speaker 1: later in life. Yes, you're learning golf. I'm learning to

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Speaker 1: speak Spanish. No excuses, no.

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Speaker 4: Soever. Brian in Linwood, what's your good news for the week?

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Speaker 6: Morning? Brian, Morning on Birchond like prent Points this morning, yesterday,

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Speaker 6: few days off work and yes, absolutely George standing here

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Speaker 6: this morning.

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Speaker 1: Nice he started his weekend early, right, We're a little envious.

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Speaker 6: I had a Wenesday off work as well as the

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Speaker 6: appointment and touched up to the bosom and could go

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Speaker 6: next days off and wrangle it, and so looks just

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Speaker 6: the afternoon and just came down, all his dog down,

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Speaker 6: and George same here this morning.

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Speaker 1: Oh good, Oh you just th stuff and I'm out

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Speaker 4: I'm pointing.

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Speaker 2: Brian. We'll have a good weekend, Brian, Brian, I hope you,

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Speaker 2: hope you catch turn.

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Speaker 4: It into a feel good weekend.

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Speaker 1: Absolutely, wretch it out, stretch it out.

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Speaker 2: Yes, you know when we started doing feel good Friday

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Speaker 2: is a wonderful way to wrap up the week.

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Speaker 4: A few weeks ago.

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Speaker 2: I think our very first contributor was Melon Woodridge, who

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Speaker 2: told us the sorry about how the night before she

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Speaker 2: had rescued a cat who was pregnant, rushed it off

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Speaker 2: to the vet to have its kittens.

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Speaker 4: And Mel's on the line now with.

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Speaker 2: A full circle moment to the story. Hi Mel, morning, Mel,

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Speaker 2: Hi rush, Hi Lisa. What's happened with the kittens?

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Speaker 5: Well, the vet took them off to the cat haven,

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Speaker 5: the wonderful people at the cat haven, and she had seven,

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Speaker 5: seven kittens and yeah they have like someone was fostering

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Speaker 5: them out because I was unable to do it because

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Speaker 5: I had to have two hourly feeds. Yes, yeah, in

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Speaker 5: case the mom couldn't keep up with it, and now

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Speaker 5: they've all been like sterilized and going out to good homes.

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Speaker 5: And my daughter and her best friend have gone and

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Speaker 2: And you've said through a photo, she's coious. You were

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Speaker 2: saying you think dad might have been a Russian blue

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Speaker 2: because she's definitely.

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Speaker 4: Got that look about her. Yeah.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, well like most of them.

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Speaker 3: I think five out of the seven were the same

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Speaker 1: Yeah, So the good news continues.

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Speaker 2: That's gorgeous. And did you say there's still three left?

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Speaker 2: I'm not allowed to have one, but yeah, there is

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Speaker 2: a limit. I've reached mine, but there are three lefts

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Speaker 2: still if anyone can adopt.

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Speaker 5: One, arel thinking about maybe Barrens.

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Speaker 3: Family might feel like getting a cat.

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Speaker 4: Might run past.

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Speaker 2: Yes for the suggestion to it, Mal, thanks for keeping

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Speaker 2: his stuff dated.

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Speaker 3: Worries.

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Speaker 2: Well, it's an extra feel good Friday because it's Telethon weekend.

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Speaker 1: It's a feel good weekend.

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Speaker 2: It is a feel good weekend, the most feel good

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Speaker 4: And we're very.

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Speaker 2: Support this morning because we've got last year's all Telethon start,

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Speaker 2: Nate joining us and his mum Kelly.

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Speaker 4: Good morning, Good morning, how are you, Nate.

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Speaker 2: You've got the headphones on, you've got your best radio

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Speaker 4: You're good to go.

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Speaker 7: I'm very excited to be on here.

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Speaker 4: We're excited to have you. So it's been a year.

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Speaker 2: How how was the experience for you at Telephone last year?

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Speaker 7: Yeah it was, Yeah, it was awesome. I got to

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Speaker 7: meet very cool people like Hamilton and uh I got

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Speaker 7: to meet Rob Palmer. Yes, I got to go on

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Speaker 7: the panel with Amilton and I I I got to

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Speaker 7: we got at the end of last year. We have

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Speaker 7: like concert and me and at Melton were dancing together and.

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Speaker 4: Clearly and has had a bit of an impression on you.

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Speaker 2: You're a bit of a super fan of man typed

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Speaker 4: It, and uh I was.

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Speaker 7: I went to see the bloom Fat Cat.

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Speaker 4: Oh okay.

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Speaker 2: And also of course you, with a little bit of

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Speaker 2: help from the others, raised eighty three million dollars, so

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Speaker 2: that was a pretty impressive amount of.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, it was. I've never seen that much money.

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Speaker 4: That much money.

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Speaker 1: I hear a rumor that you might be hanging out

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Speaker 1: with Dr Chris Brown this Sunday? Is that true?

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Speaker 4: Yeah? Can you?

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Speaker 1: Can you get Lisa a meet and great because Lisa

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Speaker 1: is like a big fan Brown friend.

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Speaker 7: I'm sitting on the couch with my dog Roxy from

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Speaker 7: telsone and Kelpies for Kids. Okay, okay owner Austin.

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Speaker 4: Yeah and.

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Speaker 7: Wait, and I'm going to be sitting on the casual

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Speaker 7: Doctor Chris Brown.

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Speaker 2: Okay, Well, if there's any more room on the couch,

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Speaker 2: I can bring my dog to Kelly.

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Speaker 4: Tell us how Telethon has helped your family.

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Speaker 8: We've had a long journey with Nate medically. So originally

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Speaker 8: we had a lot of in hospital supports from a

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Speaker 8: lot of the Telethon beneficiaries, and then as our hospital

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Speaker 8: stays finally became less and we moved down into the community,

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Speaker 8: we now get the help of a lot of the

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Speaker 8: Telethon beneficiaries to help Nate with his sort of physical

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Speaker 8: side of it, which has been amazing just to see

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Speaker 8: the development from where we've come from to where he's

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Speaker 4: Yeah. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: What are some of the goals and dreams you know

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Speaker 1: that you have for the next few years now that

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Speaker 1: you've been the little Telethon star and well let's place

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Speaker 1: it still are.

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Speaker 4: Dreams.

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Speaker 8: What would you like to do?

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Speaker 7: I'd like to get out of my wheelchair and walk

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Speaker 7: physical stuff for a bit.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, a bit of a break.

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Speaker 7: Yeah yeah, and just act like a normal person.

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Speaker 2: You are, Like you're the most normal person I've met today.

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Speaker 4: Look at these people I work with.

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Speaker 7: Like as in like no, no, no, no disabilitings.

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Speaker 4: No, no wheelchair. And that's why that's a drag.

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Speaker 1: That's why people donate to Telethon to help make that

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Speaker 1: dream come true.

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Speaker 4: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and you do lots of I mean the being

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Speaker 2: a Telethon star was just the beginning. You do lots

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Speaker 2: of work, don't you, with different groups like Healthy Strides

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Speaker 2: and hard kids.

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Speaker 4: You're very busy.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, i am. I'm just breathing.

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Speaker 1: It's taking a deep breath.

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Speaker 7: When you pointed out how swimming, Yes exactly, I'm just

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Speaker 7: I've been I've been working to swim and stuff and

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Speaker 7: at swim swimming.

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Speaker 4: Yeah. Yeah, well that's good Nate.

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Speaker 1: I hear you're an Eagles man. Oh yeah, you're doing

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Speaker 1: something with them later today, Is that true?

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Speaker 7: Yeah, I'm getting to uh, I'm going to see them again,

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Speaker 7: spend some time with them, and yeah.

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Speaker 4: Could you give them a little pep talk? Mate?

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Speaker 2: They need a little need a little boost, they need

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Speaker 2: a motivation, Come on, Eagles.

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Speaker 4: Exactly. I think they need some words from you.

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Speaker 1: They need they need a pep talk from you. Note Hey, Nate,

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Speaker 1: thank you so much and Kelly for coming in this morning.

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Speaker 1: It is a big weekend, as it has been for

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Speaker 1: so many years in Perth, the telethon weekend. Let's see

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Speaker 1: if we can beat that eighty three point three million

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Speaker 1: dollars that we heard last week. Do you reckon we

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Speaker 4: Yeah? More than that, I reckon.

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Speaker 7: I know what you get to one hundred and ninety

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Speaker 7: three dollars.

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Speaker 4: That would be amaz That is a goal.

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Speaker 2: Well, one three hundred and seven three seven five o

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Speaker 2: seven is the number to call anytime over the telethon

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Speaker 2: a weekend.

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Speaker 4: You know, from from seven o'clock and through toll whatever.

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Speaker 4: However late they are.

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Speaker 1: They say, eight thirty. But you know they keep it going,

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Speaker 1: don't they.

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Speaker 4: Really nice of you to join us, Nate.

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Speaker 1: It's over to you wa to raise that one hundred

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Speaker 1: and ninety million dollars.

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Speaker 2: Yes, exactly, big expectations and we're there for it.

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Speaker 7: Thank you for having me

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Speaker 1: Welcome, thanks for coming in, and thank you Kelly and

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Speaker 1: everybody this weekend for telethone, please give