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Good morning, good morning, good
morning, and welcome, welcome, welcome,

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and it's time now for our community
connection right here on King one,

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though one you trust, and we've
got Lighthouse Outreach Center. Errol, how

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are you doing today? I'm doing
great. Well, You're always doing great.

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You got the power of the Lord
behind you, man, and you

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brought friends right all right. We
got John in here today. We're gonna

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hear from him in a little bit. How you doing today, young man?

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Doing well? Thank you? Well, of course you are. It's

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a great day to be around,
isn't it. It's a plus day.

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Oh boy, I tell you what. We've got a great concert coming up.

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I don't know how you pulled this, saw, Errol, but you

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spotted a nice duo when you were
away at a conference that you believe.

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Tell us a little bit about this
dynamic duo. Our first heard Blake and

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Jenna at Gideon's annuals Say convention in
Oklahoma City a couple of years ago,

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and I went up and visit with
them afterwards at their booth and just really

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connected with them, and I thought, man, it'd be great to tell

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them to come to Bartlesville sometime.
And then first Baptist Church scheduled them here.

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They were here about a year ago
at the First Baptists here in town,

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and then they were scheduled in Pahaska. And I didn't get to go

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to the concert in Bartlesville, but
they were in Pasca about six months ago

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at the Constant Theater. And went
over there and heard them, and their

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performance was wonderful. Again. And
there's two things. Their musical ability is

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amazing and yet their spiritual depth it's
also it's a beautiful blend of talent and

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inspiration. Wow, it all came
from one place straight above. Now,

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this is great. This is going
to be a benefit concert for Lighthouse.

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I understand correct right. It'll be
this Friday night at seven o'clock at the

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Oklahoma Wesleyan Lions Chapel. That's a
smaller chapel there. And the purpose there's

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threefold purpose, and I want to
make it very clear to people. First

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of all, it's a wonderful spiritual
concert, wonderful and inspiring concert. Secondly,

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to showcase to the community what God
is doing in the lives of people

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with the light. We have two
people that will give their testimony of how

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God has worked in life. There
and then the third thing, it's a

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fundraiser. We don't apologize for that. We want to raise money where our

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goal is twenty five thousand dollars after
everything's paid, so that will be used

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to help operating expences. We get
grants for building and buying vehicles and equipment,

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but we don't get grants for operating
expenses, so we have to raise

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that other ways. And we just
want to get people part with the chance

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to be blessed by helping out.
Also. Now, last time your year,

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you had some astonishing statistics that came
from a Lighthouse outreach, And by

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any measure, that is success.
When you have people who are turning their

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lives around, giving their lives to
Christ and going out and becoming productive people

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in the world, not only for
society, but for themselves and their own

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families. That's a turnaround that words
just can't quite describe, very very encouraging.

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As I go through the community and
I see former residents, I recognize

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some of them. They come up
to me and they identify themselves sometimes because

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they're so different from what they were
at the lighthouse, and it's wonderful to

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see this transformation from being in a
state of desperation to a place of flourishing

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and really being a productive citizen and
living for the Lord. Indeed, the

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attitude changes, the gratitude changes,
the heart changes, the mind changes,

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the behavior changes. And it didn't
happen overnight. It takes a while to

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do that. And that's something that
we've learned over the years. We're not

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going to have a lot of overnight
successes. In fact, somebody once said

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it takes twenty years become an overnight
success. It does. It does to

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tell you it does. But the
thing is with the changes in the lifestyle.

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I once you're brought into the lighthouse
and just the different way of living

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that you might have not been,
you know, sharing when you were living

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elsewhere or maybe just kind of you
know, living outside. It's a completely

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different ballgame. As they say,
it's got a lot of structure, right.

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That's one thing that a lot of
them have colimented later on. The

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thing that helped them was structure.
We have scheduled meal times and curve few

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to get in classes at a certain
time, and if you sign up to

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go for a ride to the doctors
over that you've got to be there on

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time. And just things that just
teach us. The life's got some things

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we have to keep up with.
Indeed, let's get back to the concert

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here. The bull Lingers, right, Bulta Jacks. I'm sorry, sorry,

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golly, there are two different groups
that they're very similar. Yeah,

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but anyway, the show is coming
up on Friday, and we do have

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a few seats left. How do
we go about getting our ticket? We

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have a few tickets left. You
can get them at Fresh Start boutique here

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in town. Oh good, or
you can get them at the lighthouse.

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Just give us a call and come
by and pick up some. We are

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getting down to a few, laugh, but we do have some available steel

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and they're twenty five dollars a piece. And this is a relatively inexpensive concert

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for the quality for sure. Oh
indeed. I mean you're going to get

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a top national act here, and
it's going to be right here in your

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own backyard, and it's going to
go for a great cause too. Not

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only are you going to get some
enjoyment out of it, but there will

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be a benefit here for a lighthouse
to keep on going and keep on reaching

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souls that may have been lost.
Now, tell us a little bit about

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it. We got started here.
We had a young lady that started lighthouse.

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There's a kind of a cool little
history here and the way it's just

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been propelling and moving forward, it's
just been incredible. We had a nice

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little sorry for a couple of years
ago, right Naomi Lanier came from Idaho,

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fell to call from God to start
a homs shelter in Bartlesville in nineteen

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well, actually the opened up in
nineteen ninety one, so thirty about thirty

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two to thirty three years ago the
lighthouse was founded, and it was a

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very modest beginning, three or four
rooms at one time. After the first

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year, so the maximum capacity for
men it was about thirteen men and maybe

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four or five women in families,
and it's gone to where now we have

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seventy five adults there. We have
about twelve children there, and we have

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expanded the facility. Several years back
they built a men's dorm which moved us

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from thirteen men to thirty five men, and then we've just continued to expand

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and we're getting ready to do some
more expansion in the near future. It's

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amazing. And I remember as a
resident here in town getting a letter from

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the lighthouse during the summer with an
appeal just to have enough money to keep

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the lights to paate like to be
paid. And it's moved from that to

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where God has blessed us. We're
not rolling in cash, but God provides

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the money as we need it for
the things that. It costs a lot

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more to run things now too,
and it costs about two thousand dollars a

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month for electricity. Gas for the
vehicles is way up there. Last year

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it costs one thousand and six and
fifty eight dollars a day to run the

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lighthouse, so that's more they were
spending a month when they first started out.

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So, oh my gosh, it's
amazing how God's provided. My goodness

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sakes, John, how has this
been for you? I mean, this

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is you know, Errol's been with
us a long while here and he's dedicated

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his heart and soul, life and
everything else to help in others. You're

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one that's been helped. Yes,
te us a little bit about your story.

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Oh then the area that took it
took me in. Like I repeat

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what Errol said, it gives you
structure. I've sent somely the staff,

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I've got more responsibilities, some accountability, walking closer to God than ever right

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now. I can't thank the lighthouse
enough. Honestly, it's it's a blessing

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and there's there's nowhere else around it
in this area like it. You know

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what I see when I look at
you, I see confidence. Yes,

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it's a very yes, they said, I've done on one eighties since I've

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walked in the doors in October,
and I have a I feel it and

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I feel confident because it was pretty
pretty desperate and back in the day.

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I can only imagine a lot of
folks have different kind of levels of desperation,

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but they felt desperation before, and
sometimes it can go to an extreme.

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But when you came in here,
I'm saying, well, there's a

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fine young man. I would have
never known that you ever needed help by

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the way you carry yourself these days
and the way your confidence is kind of

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procedure. Yes, And I had
a lot to do with the White House,

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Like I said, provide everything for
you if you just take it and

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and just learn from it and learn
from it. And and like there's rules,

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there's structures, there's things. I
call it like the boot camper Christ

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it's I mean, funny, it's
a it's a it's a very special place.

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What what kind of led you to
believe that this was catching on with

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you? What what was the first
thing that the first aha moment you had

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to think, Oh this is good. Actually, the staff in an arrow,

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he cares. He's not in it. It's you're not sitting in a

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chair somewhere, is not doing it
like it's like other outreach centers. It's

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like he cares. He wants everybody
to do well, and he wants to

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see everybody in heaven. And that
did it. Huh Well, he talks

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to talk and he walks the walk. It's a leadership by example exactly.

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It's a it's a very and he's
humbling. Oh wow, he don't want

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to thank you for sharing the story. It is an amazing place, all

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right, But this is just one
of probably a thousand stories that were folks

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of done as you say, the
one eighty. Yeah, it's what keeps

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us going, is this seeing people
and some people don't make it, and

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that's sad and it's tragic. And
there's some people still walk in the streets

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that we weren't able to meet their
needs at that time, and maybe they'll

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come back and maybe they won't.
But so it's not all success all the

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time, don't We aren't guaranteed to
do everything. But for those that we

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connect with and those who let God
work in the life, it does make

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a difference. And this is one
of the examples of many that are at

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the Lighthouse now but out in the
community also, And I want to just

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say something to the community. Almost
every day somebody comes up to me and

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thanks us for what we're doing at
the Lighthouse, whether it's a policeman or

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a clerk in a store or somebody
that we're dealing with. They almost always

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wondering when I would to vote.
The lady said there, said, I

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just appreciate what the Lighthouse does for
people, and that that keeps us going

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knowing that you appreciate and you're supporting
us. We couldn't do it by ourselves,

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and we don't want to do it
by ourselves. We want you to

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be involved because you get the credit
and the glory also and the red satisfaction

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of seeing lives transformed. You know, when you see John walking around,

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you sit there and you say,
well, there's John, and yeah,

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you'd have to ask John if you'd
ever been someplace like the Lighthouse because you

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wouldn't know it, but that smile
and that confidence tells me that something happened,

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something really good happened to you.
Yeah so, and you wear it

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well. By the way, thank
you, And once again, how do

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we get our tickets here for the
big benefit concert coming up Friday night?

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You can get him at the Lighthouse
one for fourteen eleven West Hensley Boulevard.

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We're also a fresh start boutique over
here on third Street, okay, and

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you got him right there, and
they're only twenty five dollars and you're gonna

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see a great show. And this
duo will just knock your socks off.

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It'll uplift your heart, raise your
spirits. And of course we're gonna raise

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a little bit of money here for
the Lighthouse so they can keep the outreach

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center going and going strong for a
good long time to come. Gentlemen,

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didn't we miss anything, did we? I think you covered it. I

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think you covered it. See how
humble he is. I can learn from

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him? All right, gentlemen,
thank you for being with us here on

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our community connection right here on K
one